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> I could see how taxing standard of living rather than a high income could be a good thing.

That certainly seems like an argument that could be made, but I don't see that ownership of real property alone is a better proxy for "standard of living" than income is, so I don't see how any such argument would be relevant to the claim made with regard to property taxes. (Consumption -- as is the focus of sales and use taxes -- is probably a better proxy for "standard of living" than real estate ownership is and might be better than income, but I still don't think flat consumption taxes are more progressive against standard of living than progressive income taxes are.)
Well put. If I went 5 months off schedule and 750% over budget and then asked the bosses to finance my next project without having delivered anything... I mean... well I'd probably just have been fired at 400% over budget.
Why isn't it the central limit theorem? It is taking random results and building a distribution which looks normal.
Just like with gas cars, not everyone wants the same thing from an electric car. I wouldn't buy a gas Fit, what makes you think I'd buy an EV one?
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From what I understand, they won't go after a tourist posting to Flickr, but they will go after anyone trying to sell images or use those images in a commercial way.
good idea! i'll try and add this when have time.
I'm pretty sure the supercharges are hooked up to solar panels for power generation as well as the grid. I'm sure without the grid they won't be able to charge at full output but they should still work.
KickStarter is not for buying products. Hence, the concept of a "promised product" doesn't exist within KickStarter backed projects. That people confuse KickStarter with a store does not make KickStarter a store.

People that are upset at the project "being late" completely are people that are treating KickStarter merely as a pre-ordering system. It's not.
It is the distribution of the average of n binomial distributions (taking on values x±1)†, which according to the CLT converges to a Gaussian as n→∞.

[†] x is where it is centered.
Don't they only need to make one really good printer that can print other printers? That should bring margins down.

Seriously though, as someone very interested in 3D printing this is awfully tempting to back. The best option for me though seems still to be to use a service that will allow you to send your model to a third party that will print it on a professional 3D printer and send it back to you. Internet + professional grade printing + next day delivery = just about as good.
I have always been a proponent of a more vocationally-oriented system like we have in Germany, it was outragous for me to see how much money people spend on "monterily worthless" degrees. Yet, I point out America's college system as the single best competitive advantage over the rest of the world. I so far couldn't find the words for it, but he put it soo greatly:

"Plus, I was graduating with a degree in English and history, which, though valuable to me, is more or less monetarily worthless."

"I have little patience for critics who don’t see the value in a liberal arts education. We don’t mock people who have children -- and there’s no practical value to having children."
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Don't forget large-chain grocery stores, movie theaters, and shopping malls. You spend at least 20 mins just buying one item in those places.
> You don't necessarily have to install DRM-free software; you can often copy it into a directory of your choosing and run the binary.

If game is playable after simple copying with no installation - that can be really considered DRM free (given there are no other forms DRM in the game). But probably not all games from that list are copyable like that.

> Steam also provides the ability to generate installable backups (though IIRC you do need to sign into an account that owns the game to restore a backup), and to run in offline mode.

If your account is closed, or Steam is closed altogether - the game becomes nontransferable. Therefore since you have no clear option for completely independent backup, the game can't be called DRM free.
Similarly if Valve decides to ban your account, all 118 games become permanently unavailable to you.

Has this happened often?
If you going to think up worse case scenarios then I could think of few for gas-powered cars too. You can't be always prepared for every highly unlikely corner cases.
The liberal transplants are called locusts. They vote for big government, and a huge welfare state. As a result, the government then hikes taxes, and institutes all kinds of nanny-state regulations, strangling business. Eventually (sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly) the state begins to fail, all of the resources have been exploited, and Liberals move on to the next state.
Hmm, metacomment:

What is the relevance of Dunning-Kruger? I've always taken the practical meaning of Dunning-Kruger to be that there's always room for self-doubt, though certainty may be increased the more external validation you get. The GP's comment does not seem any more certain than the average comment here.
Many of the major car companies are building electric cars, but often in low volumes, and only in select markets. Building electric vehicles is a way for them to satisfy clean air requirements in California and other states.

For the Honda EV Fit in particular, they are making just 1,100 of them [1].

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-autos-honda-f...
Is this the same as plugging in headphones?
Have you ever worked with someone that really gets the way you think? It's refreshing. The communication overhead is very low.

It seems I spend a great deal of my time trying to communicate things I already know with people of "diverse" thinking styles.

Don't worry about people being robotic clones of each other. It almost never happens. There is diversity enough without seeking out more blatant diversity.
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2 pieces of gross misinformation:

> They requested $400k in their last Kickstarter and received over $3.3 million, but that project (now called Broken Age) is STILL overbudget

They learned from this, and have restructured what they are asking for this time around, as well as where they are offering bonuses.

> and delayed [1]

It's only delayed if you assumed you were making a pre-order on KickStarter, which is not what KickStarter does in anyway. It's been clear from the beginning. Imagining it's a unicorn does not make it a unicorn, however.
Is that secondary value best given by a college experience or finding it yourself then?
That is correct yes. UDP doesnt have ports either.
> It just doesn't make sense to duplicate the garbage collection

This is reinventing the wheel so that you have the ability to ensure the wheels you are using are actually round.

While there are potential performance benefits in using a provided-system, something like Garbage Collection is a pillar upon which most of the program rests. I wouldn't trust the behaviour of all of the existing implementations to seamlessly work the same way reliably. If you discover a flaw in the system, being able to fix it can allow you to continue working. That is much better than filing a bug-report and waiting for the development cycle to churn out a released fix.
Ya, I shouldn't have included them. Can't edit that post now.

I had an post crowd funding order with them at some point in Q1 2013 and canceled it after not seeing much progress.
I'd forgotten that this was a kickstarter page for a second, and just saw a G4 Cube (there's a real one sitting on my desk too).
What do you mean by basic services? We have roads in Austin, We have a city-owned electric company. We have hospitals. We have police and fire departments. The idea that Texas is some lawless place without services for anyone is just wrong. They might not have full salary pensions for retired government workers (the horror!), but Texas has provided plenty for its citizens.
>> patients will no longer be able to pay out of pocket for medical care

Untrue. Patients can still buy supplemental care in addition to Obamacare if they desire it.
Fair enough.

I was close to moving down to Montrose but decided to head to San Antonio instead. Geekdom[1] has some great things go for it over here.

[1] http://geekdom.com/san-antonio/
Shapeways.com is probably the exception, their glazed 3D models are specifically designed to be eaten out of.
Here's a galton box. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUSKTk9ENzg)

It's a meatspace demonstration of the CLT.
Yea I definitely believe that's the # of searches. I, for one, bookmarked backbone's API and never had to search for it
Opera slow and bloated? Excuse me, but did you look at the download size? Opera 12 is tiny compared to Chrome and the new version, and it has a much smaller footprint. Opera runs on old hardware Chrome couldn't even dream of running on.
while i have the attention of HN, does anyone have suggestions on any other types of statistic visualizations?
> I dunno. Ask Ken Ilgunas.

Or to be a bit less of a dick, I think this is a cross between the ancient philosophical question, "how does one know anything to be true?" and the cliché, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." It only holds this kind of value to an individual if the individual thinks it does. [Edit: And just to avoid the bigger philosophical question let's just say that the individual is or isn't confident that it holds this value, not that they know that it does or doesn't. ;-)]

Either way, there's always the risk that you aren't getting what you pay for.
there is still a general "flair" inside a state. And living in San Francisco doesn't mean I don't spent any time outside of it. Napa, Carmel, LA, San Diego, etc. these are all places I've experience over weekend trips and of course they are all different and I take all those experiences to paint myself a picture of the state of california. Also Europe != California in size ;)
I have no idea what you are talking about. The fact that you can ignore the error, including doing so by accident, is the problem. Sum types solved this problem a very long time ago, and there is simply no reason for a language created in the last decade not to have them. It is very simple conceptually, the function should not return a value and an error, because only one of those actually is valid. So it should return a value or an error.
> "The whole school thing strikes me as weird though."

Weren't Levchin and Thiel both just out of school themselves? Who else would they really know?
n = 4.
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Yet another reason for living in your van (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5794592)
And hookworm is trivially treated with antibiotics.
A large part of it is because Texas had extraordinarily strict lending standards, enacted after the oil bust of the 1980's. That, plus our already affordable housing, meant that Texas didn't have a property bubble burst in 2008.
What is paypay? Am I the only one that noticed that?
While you're partially right in terms of house property value, high property taxes encourage efficient use of land. They prevent wealthy landowners from just sitting on valuable land.
I think existing gas stations rely on customers only spending 5-10 mins to keep quantity high, to compensate for lower fuel pricing. Perhaps, in another 5 years, an advance in battery technology will push it down that low, but otherwise I would want to spend the 20 mins someplace with better service, like a grocery store, movie theater, or restaurant.
Irrelevant. The project is not complete; that has nothing to do with Kickstarter's purported use case or anybody's expectations, it's simply a fact.

Five months delayed.
Millions of dollars over budget.
No product.

I can't think of a better example of unfinished.
This is great. I am glad Google is doing this. In fact everyone should do this. I know many companies discover security issues and do not disclose them or give the project too much time to fix them.
Yes, that is how all things work. If everyone wants to use the swimming pool or gym in an apartment complex at once, then there isn't enough room. Yet you rarely hear about this because the planners make pretty good calculations about peak use of the pool. Similarly, I just snatched the number 20 out of thin air. If you are putting together an apartment complex you would calculate how many you would need such that there are plenty of cars for almost all occasions. You would also probably have a more orderly system of filling out everyone's work time so they can be sure to have enough for that (especially because these time slots would be ideal for self-driving car pooling). May there be some time when someone wants a car but doesn't have one? Of course! But this is not unique to the apartment complex, this happens in families as well. There are plenty of times when a 2 car family needs to go three places at once. And they end up figuring it out, because its not like there's no recourse in that situation. The reality is that this is in not that hard of a problem.

Regarding NYC - I'm not sure what the point is. Most people don't have personal space on an airplane because there is no practical alternative there either (most people can't afford a private jet). So what? Would it be nice if everyone could? I don't know? Maybe. I honestly don't think about it. I value not paying millions of dollars over personal space on an airplane. Similarly, if you really care about personal space, then by all means buy your own car (autonomous or otherwise). I bet a lot of people would value not paying thousands of dollars (often going into debt and paying for gas etc etc) over personal space as well. In suburbia today, that option very much does not exist. For example, in Orange County where I used to live, you need a car to get around. And paying for a taxi to go to work every day is absurd there.
Its hard to accept that Scala + Akka is something similar to what Go has going, one just seems so heavy and the other so light. Probably FUD.
Well, not really. The fact that CLT applies to a wide variety of distributions is a much stronger, mysterious and astonishing fact than what is demonstrated here.

It would be like demonstrating that you've cracked RSA with p = 7, q = 11.
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I love this advice. While most commenters are addressing potential legal issues, you addressed a technical issue - the art of taking the photographs themselves. That's awesome of you. I hope to see more of this kind of advice on HN.
Correct, UDP doesn't ACK, but you also don't know if the packet reached the server for the same reason. UDP is great for streaming data that may arrive out of order or where packets can be lost and it isn't critical, such as streaming video, but it is awful if you need to be sure the data got to its destination.
And the phone's not even an iPhone 5. What is this, 2011?
You need more than a single datapoint to determine something like good governance. From what I've read a lot of Texas' growth can be attributed to its geology (They have lots of oil and gas), demography (They have lots of immigrants willing to take on various jobs), and its geography (They share a border with Mexico and have port access with the Gulf. They trade a ton with Latin America.) (1) Don't get me wrong it's still growth, but not really a recepie that can be applied to all States.

As a young person looking to start a business soon, Austin's downtown and cheap rent look very appealing. Though unfortunately I think the cheap rent thing is going to change soon, haha.

(1) http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/10/obama-and-perry-and-the...
Ah yes, but the end of that last quote leaves a bit more:

"Why should we mock people who want to learn about their world and learn about themselves?"

Because you don't need a damn Liberal Arts degree to do that. It didn't cost me 5 figures to learn about my ego and my id; It cost me 5 figures to get a CS degree while doing so.

I also mock those with children, but only because I currently don't know a single person in my circles that should be having kids now, if ever.

When I hear a friend is pregnant, I just get depressed about all the opportunities they'll never have.
You left the advertisement-as-a-blog-post tag in the URL.
What you are thinking of is gentrification, which does ruin communities over time.
This was one of the most "a-ha moment" videos I ever watched back in the day. Anyone with even a functional knowledge of statistics should watch this one.
Yeah. It's called conflict of interest and is very real.
Objective-C on android is awesome.
Supposedly Apple sold 23M iPads in Q1 2013, or 250K/day [1] but Google sold 4.6M Nexus 7s in 2012 [2].

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/23/apple13q1-iphone-ipad-ipod/

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/19/analyst-estimates-peg-total...
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A great example of convergence in the natural world I once saw was drops of water falling off a gutter from about 10 feet in the air. There was very little wind, and the drops fell on a line right under the gutter. It was immediately clear that the drops landed in a roughly normal distribution with their random fall through the air, and the pattern of wet pavement they produced was a perfect little compressed bell curve. It was quite beautiful.
Yes, in the hope that the bacteria from that poo will spread and start doing the job that you need done from poo.
> "I have little patience for critics who don’t see the value in a liberal arts education. We don’t mock people who have children -- and there’s no practical value to having children."

Uh, once Social Security goes bankrupt the practical value of having children will be the same as it always has been: someone to help take care of you when you're old and feeble. And on a macro scale, there is tremendous practical value in ensuring there are 18-25 year old consumers in a couple of decades. Facebook stock would tank if it ever became the case that it's primary demographic was a monotonically shrinking set.

Also, why are college kids today so bad at job hunting? "I applied to 25 paid newspaper internships and got rejected from every single one... So, I got a job at a work camp in Arctic Alaska..."

The only way to job search as a fresh graduate is to treat it like it's a job itself. When I was job hunting during law school, I'd bang out that many applications in a day. I know a lot of people who didn't operate that way: they'd apply to a job a week or so as they found something they thought was perfect (and take forever crafting the perfect application). Those people struggled. Hint: if you're a fresh graduate, and your job search strategy doesn't involve a spreadsheet to keep track of the huge volume of applications you're submitting, you're doing it wrong.

Yes, there aren't enough jobs for fresh graduates out there (outside software engineering anyway). So obviously if everybody treated job searching seriously it wouldn't help anyone. But as long as most grads are like this guy, you have a leg up by not being like this guy.
This just pisses me right off. You do one kickstarter, get huge support and then claim the rest of your company needs more. Get real, release the game and give more back to your fans with this game, stop asking us to fund your ideas! I develop games for a living and having the bloody luxury of a kickstarter because of who you were doesn't mean your going to make a great game. This has actually really annoyed me and I for one will not be supporting it but ill be supporting one of the many other indie devs who work there asses off on a single game because they love what they do!
HL7 V3 (including ISO 21090) has a good, flexible data model for addresses. Anyone can have zero or more addresses each of which has a use code (home, work, postal, etc). Each address has zero or more parts each of which has a type (line, street, city, postal code, direction, suffix, etc).
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Agreed. Unfortunately this site has many images and low traffic ( non-profit ), so it doesn't justify the cost of dedicated hardware.
I attended high school in TX and can verify that in biology class I had absolutely no exposure to creationism. For what it's worth, the Texas Legislature recently signed a bill vastly decreasing the number of high-stakes standardized tests required to graduate high school, which I hope is a sign of improvements to come for the public school system here.
ok... maybe "horrible" was too strong of a word. But 20 minutes even with a mini mart attached is too long. Next time you fill up your car, start a timer when you start filling. And then wander around the convenience store until the timer reaches 20 minutes before you can leave. I bet that feels like a life time. :)
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> If you want a language which requires an IDE

I didn't ask for a language which "requires" an IDE. I simply want to find a decent IDE for use when coding Go.
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Agreed, learned more, was wrong, deleted comment. Curious though—doesn't the CLT apply to this distribution too, technically? Isn't the binomial distribution being sampled and converging on a normal distribution, as per the CLT? Maybe some more explanation would enlighten us.
Yes, in the same sense that any language with first class functions can.

So, like:

var SomeFunc = RequireAuth(func(...) {
...
});

However, there's no language-level support, so you can't decorate methods as easily as you might in a language like Python.
Interesting idea. I'll have to give it a try. Thanks!
Thanks for putting the works into the public domain Mikael! You should link to the actual license though: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Thank you again and good luck with the effort!
Yeah, good observation... Anyone have any info on that?
Well, to be accurate, it's four binomial distributions, not just one. You need the sum of ~30 random variables before you're getting into the CLT, but it demonstrates the gist.
All of the comments here hating on the "only 10 photos on Apple" seem pretty ridiculous to me. Clearly, the author chose a theme for today and will add more non-Apple photos later.

Then again, the OP did release it right at the start, before it'll be useful to anyone, so I'm surprised it's hit the #1 spot.

Even if you do keep this pace, you'll have a grand total of 365 pictures after a year, covering something like 36 topics. Not exactly ground-breaking. It would be great if you could crowd-source and curate the best pictures.
Did Lua's use of setjmp and longjmp for error handling pose any particular challenge? I always thought that was an odd aspect of Lua's implementation.
Very detailed and useful write-up about how actual design work is done in complex web app projects. Makes me actually want to use Medium.
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (for GBA) is the spiritual successor. It has a similar job system and gameplay to an extent, but you might consider it easier or even toned down.

Regardless, I think it has a bunch of unique touches for a tactical RPG, and the whole atmosphere of it is really captivating. It's one of those games that come across as an experience beyond a stream of bits, which is something the genre benefits from. It does seem like Massive Chalice would be a similar breath of fresh air, if it ever gets finished.
It does illustrate a special case of the CLT, in the sense that as the number of bins increases, the distribution (the mean of a bunch of +1/-1 Bernoulli random variables) converges to a normal distribution.