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Consider the opportunity costs involved. The huge amount of time and energy usually 'spent' on games like this could have been used for something else, possibly boosting mental flexibility and other things equally or more than Starcraft.

I would expect the purported positive effects of gaming should be way more pronounced, given the many hours many people play each day. It seems that someone who spends the same time honing a real skill (e.g. programming) would come out way ahead!

Tangentially, speaking of the "costs" of gaming:

A game like Starcraft combines

- a competitive 1 vs 1 mode, forcing a maximum effort each game

- is using a wide range of motoric and cognitive skills, requiring not only quick reactions and multitasking, but also several levels of higher level thinking (analyzing the ongoing game, analyzing build orders and metagame between matches, reading up on things on forums).

To me this seems to lead to a complete exhaustion of the player, instead of giving a challange combined with relaxation and distraction.

I would rather recommend casual games ("let take my mind off work for a few minutes"), 3D shooters (positive stress, excitement, but resting cognitive brain functions) or "thinking games", be it chess, or a civilization style building game (giving a mental challenge that one might have missed in today's work). And avoid a super competitive environment that gives you a negative feedback if you're giving 100% all the time.

Would you agree?
You are equating higher cost with better quality. There usually is a correlation, but with US healthcare's opaqueness with prices, I wouldn't make that correlation.

Leaving aside that, people do in fact make medical decisions based on cost. For example, for angioplasty there are two options - a medicated stent and a non-medicated, regular stent. The medicated stent is more expensive than the normal one. When it came to choosing one for my father, I chose a medicated one only because I was paying through insurance. But many of the patients out here in India don't have insurance. In that case there is a definite probability that a lower cost one will be chosen. Another example is dialysis. The frequency at which people perform dialysis is directly related to cost and affordability.

It is not always a given that patients would go for the absolute best.
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Probably the best way would be to only route HTTPS traffic (with certificate pinning & checking) through tor. Plain HTTP traffic would go through your regular ISP.

That avoids the "password collection"/MITM attack?
But Microsoft Research has always been largely experimental and ships few products. It would ship more if Windows was open source of course as much is Windows based...
Isn't the data taken from expatistan.com ? Are they affiliated somehow? Expatistan has been collecting data for a very long time now using crowdsourcing with expats.
Title is worded as if we dont want to and currently dont already.
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I don't think it requires that. The system can keep track of which subreddit the karma points were received in and display them accordingly.
I think that a good, incremental first step would be adding ToR into Firefox with support for the .onion domain. This offsets the problem that there could be potentially dangerous exits sniffing your traffic. Additionally, this makes ToR space much more accessible. The (slight) problem of this is that it'll probably put significantly higher load on the ToR relays, and considering that they're already over capacity, it could hurt ToR badly.

Maybe, the relay code could be bundled into Firefox, and there could be a toggle for "make me into a relay"
My dad always tells me any apartments look glossy only in their first year of construction. After that, things start to degrade pretty quickly. Start with paint, then window glasses and then leaks and then what not. All the best trying to get every one to pay up to fix the issues related to the general apartment building. It never happens.

Unless you are living in a super luxury apartment, I see high rise residential buildings as nothing more than modern day slums and ghettos.

The biggest annoyances you come across are the ones related to privacy and hygiene.
Many people like their devices entirely preconfigured.

A lot of people are well aware that e.g. their cell phone is bound to a provider and that this is a significant drawback.

Let's not mingle that.
Maybe we can prevent password reuse by the browser taking a hash of the password being entered in a form and comparing it against other password hashes locally?

Won't work. People have too many accounts to be able to remember unique passwords. A large percentage of mundane users won't understand these things and will just be nagged all the time that they cannot log into their accounts with this new Firething.
Tor has no specific features that make it useful for child pornography or money laundering, so it sounds like you just object to anonymity for TCP clients in general.

You're certainly free to continue telling every server your client machine's location and your ISP about every server to which you connect. But that's not going to help children or fight any crime.

To me, possibly the best thing we can do to protect our children today is to enable them to grow up with a shred of privacy, without the baggage of an unknowable amount of juvenile internet browsing history following them into adulthood to be sold and traded by evil men who would be their masters. That's the industrial scale child exploitation, that is.
Sorry, I didn't notice the paper was basing it off the reference of Mars atmospheric pressure...
" were unable to find male participants who played computer games for less than two hours a day."

BUT THE DOCUMENT S1 DAYS

"Participants who reported 2 hours or less of video games per week qualified for inclusion in this study"

Week != Day

This is some bad reporting, Riva Gold.
It's a wonder he decided to stop publishing...
Thing is most of us didn't come there for the prize. Personally I already had an idea in the back of my head, just went in to do an MVP(which I did) and in the process maybe meet some new people. But then ... the cleanberlin guy wins. Felt like ikea winning a furniture design and quality competition.
Also... wasn't it a bit weird how the guy had his wife and his kid just "around"? If I came in with his "idea", I wouldn't expect to win so I wouldn't bring in my wife and kid to witness it.
This is hardly original, but "proves" in the title is not correct, for an additional reason -- it's not a test of Pi, only a subset.
If you like numbers, try the ECRYPT II Yearly Report on Algorithms and Key Lengths (2012) http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/documents/D.SPA.20.pdf
Is'nt it the logical transition, at least in some schools it was, and i was thought the same way, begin with BASIC, and then as our curiosity increased we moved onto c and 8051 hardware/assembly.
Well, you can make gas-powered quadcopters at the DIY level, and as far as satellite-guided is concerned, umm: yes.

We have that in the DIY/FOSS drone-builder world. Start here: http://ardupilot.org/
You need more "nodes" not "users". Tor isn't peer-to-peer amoung "users". You'd need more people to run nodes, which is a service/server you run.
WiFi reflection across the bay and the fog is murder. It basically makes all but high-power links useless...
One of the reasons for such high housing costs is the influx of investment money. For example, this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beverly_Hills apartment complex is mostly empty. Most of the houses bought up by rich mainlanders looking to park their money somewhere that would still grow their investment.

Secondly, there are cheaper alternatives. Living in teh New Territories can be tremendously more cash efficient. I live in the hills in a house, 2 floors, 3 bedroom, with a garden, and pay less than $2500 USD per month.
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When you were living in a cozy apartment, did it happen to be in a city where free, public conveniences (like greenery, shaded benches, water fountains, etc.) were rare to nonexistent, situated in a region where the climate was extremely hot and humid year-round?

I ask because I live in such a city and socializing seems to take the form (for the affluent) of, for example, sweaty people buying overpriced iced coffees so that they have an excuse to sit in an air conditioned cafe and (for the less well-off) of people, especially the elderly, sitting on ledges, steps, the rare bench or two, etc. in air conditioned shopping malls, libraries, and government buildings all day.
"In Europe pretty much any old house is made out of brick."

Depends on what is the most easily available building material - here in Scotland pretty much all old buildings are made of stone (everything from small houses up).

NB Speaking of making things from stone - the 5000 year old village of Skara Brae even has remaining furniture made of stone:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skara_Brae
Read the paper. They determine necessary sample size based on statistical power.
Your father is wise.
I have a corded electric one and it's quieter than a petrol model but probably not much. You still have to wear ear protection.
The first figure he shows is from Colin Percivals SCrypt paper, he should have cited his source.

http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf
We could warn "this is the same as site X which is HTTP". If it's a throw away, that is fine. If it's not, that might matter.
If all you have in mind is personal development, than that might be true but most gamers just want to have fun playing. If it has any positive side-effects thats a nice bonus, so atleast you dont waste away all your time just for fun.

Just for personal developments sake, your right, gaming is probably not the perfect activity, but its also not the worst.
The point of "just use" in this case is the implied, but often unstated, first part: don't learn crypto, just use _____. Because when you think you've learned "enough" crypto to know what to do (whether writing a library or just picking one), is exactly when you're the most dangerous. Either really learn crypto (i.e. the 10000 hours way)--and don't build any cryptosystems until you have--or just avoid the problem-space altogether, and do exactly what the experts tell you. Which, in this case, is "use bcrypt."

The experts don't say "use bcrypt" because it's the best pluggable key derivation function. They say it because it's a satisfactory key derivation function, with viable APIs for every language you can think of. It's the McDonalds of crypto packages: a known quantity, anywhere you want it. Which is exactly what you want to point at if you want people doing as they're told ("just use...") instead of trying to learn what a "pluggable key derivation function" is... and following that path until, inevitably, they become dangerous.

An analogy, to take that last idea further: imagine if there was a universe like that of Harry Potter, with young witches and wizards capable of learning powerful, dangerous magics. But these magics require no wands, nor any other implement or component that could be taken away from the magician; once the spells are learned, they are irrevocably in the magician's possession, even if the corresponding safety lessons for use of that spell are never absorbed. And then, imagine that most learning of magic occurred through autodidacty...
> Both Clojure and Common Lisp have type systems that can do most things ml and haskell can do.

Except they let you do MORE, which is often bad. For example, in Haskell STM you have a static guarantee that you don't have mutation or IO inside of a transaction. How are you going to guarantee that with Clojure STM?
It adds a great amount of fingerprintability.
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/cpi_explained.jsp
Totally correct.

Now, if you told HN the net floor area of your $USD 2.5k-a-month village house and the dimensions of your 3 bedrooms, you'd probably shock many posters here.
Any particular reason against Common Lisp?
Thanks for this!

I'm using BCrypt at the moment and am looking at others like SCrypt so it's great to see actual reports about this.
> Should I ask for permission?

That depends. If you use the entire comment or a substantial percentage of it, and if the use isn't accompanied by your own comments as part of an analysis or critical essay, then yes -- because that's not "fair use".

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

> Is there a general copyright (CC or something like that) guideline for HN comments?

The general copyright rules apply, nothing special for HN.
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As far as I know, they have been around for a long time too, and have been collecting their own data. I have never heard of Expatistan, thanks for the tip!
Or even better, hire people to do the heaving lifting for you.
All things written which include non-trivial expressive content are copyright of their original writers, absent some other factors not present here. You have a legal right to quote judiciously for the purpose of commentary. Many individuals on the Internet consider it good netiquette to provide a link to the source of quotes, both for attribution and to allow your readers to examine the quote in context.

The general practice of news media outlets when citing HN threads (this happens!) is "A user named $USERNAME commented on [Hacker News|an Internet forum|an Internet forum for hackers] that ..." I have yet to see one provide a link.
No reader macros, though.
Nothing new really. There have been alot of studies that show that games train reflexes and other mental abilities [1]

If engaging in a very strategic game for a couple of hours each week wouldnt lead to any positive mental improvements, i would be suprised. Human ability is based upon experience, training and talent in almost any field.

[1] http://www.wate.com/story/3684503/study-video-games-help-qui...
> As governor Christie pointed out so eloquently, it's not about principles, it's about winning.

This is, of course, the same Chris Christie who has recently abandoned his own purported principles in order to court his party's base in preparation for a run at the presidency in 2016. He's also wasting millions of taxpayers' dollars in order to hold a special election a few weeks before the general this November in order to ensure that his reelection bid is as successful as possible.
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Don't make too much peace with it. A lot of my muslim friends have been reluctant to stir the pot about their treatment by the authorities and society in general, saying things like "it is in god's hands." The problem with that attitude is that in the US the system is designed such that the squeaky wheel is the only one that gets the oil.

The civil rights movement happened because blacks organized, the japanese were really passive about the whole interment camp thing. I knew families that had lost everything -- houses, farmland -- because it was basically stolen from them while they were interred. When they were released they preferred to avoid talking about it, as if it were a great shame on them rather than a shame on the rest of the country for doing it to them. So practically no legal action occurred their property was never recovered, depriving their children of opportunities that were rightly theirs.

You have to do whatever it takes to live without completely losing your marbles over the situation, so I'm not judging - just saying that it is important to talk about it as much as you can stomach with as many people as will listen so they can start to understand what your experiences are.
fair point, erkose. But why didn't the JSON-ified successor to BEEP come about?

As someone who has spent the last 15 years basically trying to plumb bandwidth aware/adaptive chatty AND bulk-data-transfer applications, I always look at the RFC's and see a ton of good ideas.

No fan of XML... but that's a personal bias.
Thanks. But I believe that it would be more beneficial to de-gamify politics than to get elected to any particular position. One person can only do so much. The ideal situation would be to reboot the entire government, elect new people in every position, all at once. I think it's possible, actually. But it would take a ground swell movement. I've shared the idea on how to do this with some friends, and they like the idea, but it's not quite ready for public consumption. If you like I might write about it here.

It's not just about elections. Hackers have a much bigger role to play in modern civics, in my opinion, than they currently have. We need to be writing open-source software platforms for city, state and even federal governments and putting them on github. It's time for software to eat the bureaucracy. We need to have software that's ready to use, free, and with all the features we, as technologically enlightened citizens, know that it needs. Good technology would lessen the leverage bureaucrats wield over elected officials, because it would make them easier to hold accountable and to replace.

(We could write open-source banking platforms too, while we're at it. The software could have a "transparency slider" that banks could set according to their whim. But more importantly, it would reduce the barrier to entry for new, small banks to arise and compete with the incumbents.)

There is one policy change I think is very important: put limits on the complexity of law, and end what I call "The Tyranny of Complexity" (a take on Mill's "Tyranny of the Majority"). Complexity lies at the heart of many of our political and societal ills, perhaps most directly expressed as the brutality of our justice system, a system that punishes you for years whether or not you are found guilty. But complexity is also the enemy of transparency, which hurts accountability and prevents the voting public from being informed. One simple measure, at the federal level, would be to put a hard upper-bound on the size of the United States Code - and require all new bills to be written out in longhand by the congressperson proposing the bill. The law of the land is too important to delegate the writing of them to underlings. Our laws should be short, to the point, and meaningful - and writing them out, pen on paper, helps to ensure that. Word-processing and hired help have made our body of law so unwieldy and impossible to comply with that hardly any law makers read the bills that they vote on. A similar rule can and should be instituted on the state and local level.
When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do.
Or by an off-by-one error in the programming they will want to too much, and skynet will evolve into a co-ed army of insatiable nymphomaniac terminators.
Everything is too expensive when it first comes out. The first cars were so expensive that building a car that the men on the assembly line could afford was an innovation (so was using an assembly line). Ballmer himself probably remembers when microcomputers were fairly expensive. Maybe he laughed at his college buddies for dropping out to write microcomputer software and start a company on that premise. But if he didn't learn his lesson in his decades in the tech industry, I don't know what he thought he was doing at Microsoft.
Be more like postwar (West) Germany,
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The conclusion would not surprise me. Competitive games with a high "skill cap" require as much mental activity as anything else. The cause and effect may not be clear, but gaming can, at the very least, increase confidence in one's decision-making capabilities, which will improve performance on other mental tasks.
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Can't you use RDS? It has Multi-AZ replication and failover. It may seem costly, but it means you don't need to manage all that stuff yourself.

I should mention that the system I'm building that uses it has yet to go into production, so others may have more experience on this than I do.
"I think the truth is that things are different now. It is much more difficult for the US to let a dictator get away with things like using chemical weapons because of the rapid dissemination of information from people on the ground."

I am not so sure that we wont read in 20 years that the gassing of civilians in Syria was done by the opposition forces with logistical and tactical support of the US to legitimate another US war.
yeah. I always find RFC 3117 (basically design notes) very interesting to read : http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3117
I really like it, it is very useful and accurate
Can I ask you one thing: why did you decide to write a stack-based programming language?

I'm really curious, as I personally see nothing good with them. The same kind of non-mathematical syntax as LISP (`1 2 +` as opposed to `+ 1 2`), without any of the goodness (code is data).
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That is absolutly possible with a static type system.
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Ah, it's you again. Do you actually know any Muslims? I've never met one who "hated [my] freedom."
Too much?!???
This reminded me of a great article about ear plugs:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...

The author Nicholson Baker has written about writing with earplugs:

"I’ve always been helped by sensory deprivation. I used to wear earplugs a lot. Sometimes I would write with my eyes closed. But writing in the early morning is different because you haven’t been able to see anything for hours. I would get up and feel my way around. The only help was the moonlight, if it was a moonlit night. You think differently if you can’t see."

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6097/the-art-of-fic...
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See things, like this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_%28programming_language%29
or
https://github.com/clojure/core.typed
Without respect (since you aren't big enough to apologise for your entirely incorrect slander, even when anonymous), I disagree.
Beautiful.

If this was located in the southwest of Germany, I would probably buy it.
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> This is how Microsoft is deprecating C on Windows nowadays, by leaving their C compiler at C90 level

Actually they've recently gone back on that and are implementing c99 language[1] and standard library[2] features in an apparent sudden realization that the rest of the C world has moved on (since they cite FFmpeg as a reason, my pet theory is that they were just that embarrassed by Ron Bultje's c99 to c89 translator[3])

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/06/28/cpp-con...

[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/07/19/c99-librar...

[3] http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2012/09/27/microsoft-visual-s...
UTF-8 is already much better than the legacy double-byte encodings (Big5, GB2312, Shift-JIS etc etc) because, at least you can tell from any byte whether it is supposed to be a part of a code sequence, without having to start all the way from the beginning of the string.