skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of things that make videogames special with respect to all sorts of stress relief and recreational activities. I think games are special in ways exercise is not, and we should really appreciate why.

Games are uniquely a tremendous exercise of the mind and body. When compared to a laboratory game designed without violence, Medal of Honor improved the vision of congenitally-handicapped children while the laboratory game did not. The author of the study speculated that the violence in Medal of Honor put kids into more of a neuro-plastic mood, while its emphasis on hand-eye coordination exercised the brain, the eyes and the hands in a way that improved senses.[0]

The game trains your strategic and tactical planning and it helps you socialize through teamwork, but that wasn't tested. Suffice it to say, the same features cannot be said to exist in yoga, television, or cooking.

Games are also universal. Girls and boys, young and old, physically fit and physically infirm, poor and rich: pretty much everyone can enjoy a game.[1] It is a form of entertainment that is capable of demanding zero to full emotional, financial and intellectual engagement.

Compare to sports, where we can barely figure out how to have men compete fairly against women. Or playing music, where an instrument represents a minimum investment that immediately makes it inaccessible to many kids. As the most successful games favor a viral, free, multiplayer and social design, games have evolved in a Darwinian way to be as accessible and entertaining as possible.

I don't think it's bad to exercise or to be outside. I just don't think it's substitutable, and I think it's trivializing just how different Civilization is from canoeing. Without a doubt we ought to do both, but you can't learn diplomacy from an oar.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/science/how-video-games-co...

[1] http://www.theesa.com/facts/gameplayer.asp
Can we have side-by-side diffs of code first, please?
And Dell, announced only a few days ago.
All edges derive their value from the other participants not having them also. Handheld programmable calculators once made Thomas Petterfy, Steve Fossett, Joe Ritchie and others very rich men. When people saw their success with black scholes in the options pits and followed them into the pits with calculators, the pits died and all of the trading volume moved off the floors.

When everyone got computers that were faster than calculators, hedge funds and bank trading desks bought mainframes and colocated them next to or with the exchanges' servers and all of the trading volume moved to high-frequency trading-friendly dark pools and the exchanges...

In the context of political influence, what does everyone think all of the campaign money goes toward these days? A lot of angry people start revolutions and there is nothing technology can do to placate someone(s)who is being abused for any reason and certainly not at scale!

All of these marketing firms are chasing the mass market consumers/voters that have had diminishing spending power for over a decade now. Here's a tip: build something really expensive and desirable for someone really rich because they have lots of spending power and few things to do with the money.
Sorry to be that guy, but I can't help but think of the excitement that surrounded the Leap Motion sensor, and the disappointment that turned out to be. I really hope this turns out to be even better than it's promo video!
Fair enough. I ask you forgive me for my incorrect interpretation. Here's what you wrote:

>"You can't trust your intuitions. I'm going to give you a set of rules here that will get you through this process if anything will. At certain moments you'll be tempted to ignore them. So rule number zero is: these rules exist for a reason. You wouldn't need a rule to keep you going in one direction if there weren't powerful forces pushing you in another."

> What this seems to be saying (to young people) is "it's ok to ignore what other older more experienced people say (or what established practices are) and try to disrupt in those situations because the guidelines and experience they have is bogus but I am telling you that my rules are right so just trust me".

In particular, I took the "this" in "What this seems to be saying" to mean preceding paragraph you quoted from pg's essay and the quote following it to be a restatement of an argument pg was making in this essay or elsewhere. Since pg's essay didn't talk about the "disruption meme", include the words "disruption" or "meme", or have anything to do with advice outside a fundraising context, I had assumed you were referencing previous essays.

So, either the "this" in "What this seems to be saying" is referencing something else or you're responding to a position nobody in this conversation, including pg, has taken. Wanting to be charitable, I assumed you misread the essay or over-generalized its argument.

Now, I'm just confused. C'est la vie.
My point is: It's absurd to be paying over half of your income in taxes, regardless of whether you are living in the United States or Sweden.

What is the incentive for someone to get a higher paying job then? Just to pay higher taxes? What is the point then? With that being the case, we should all just earn the lowest possible income then.
Totally not ideal... but if you are looking to hack together a simple client side webapp that uses api's that do not support cors or jsonp you are not left with much of a choice without having a server side solution
I no longer think "hey! awesome the government is trying to help us out" anymore when I read articles like this. I only think "I wonder what sort of benefits the government and associated business get because of this."
> limiting the time I spend on reddit/facebook/hn/etc to 10 minutes a day

For anyone who struggles with limiting the time -- not necessarily for lack of self control, but simply losing track of the time spent, [this plugin for Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankej...) is a life saver!

I set it for exactly 10 minutes on sites, and once I cross that threshold, it redirects whatever page you're currently browsing to one that simply says "Shouldn't you be working?".

[This xkcd comic](http://xkcd.com/386/) unfortunately describes my personality to a tee. I've spent literally hours in a single day simply arguing with people on reddit over trivial things that don't matter. Having the abrupt redirect to a page that tells me to question how I'm spending my time is just the kick I needed to realize that, yeah, I should be doing something else other than arguing with strangers on the internet.
Semi-unrelated: To me, this page of screenshots did a better job of helping me discover new iPhone apps -- than any other attempt I've seen. And it's unintentional.
> Specifically, it was not designed in the sense that megaprojects requiring planning and estimation are designed.

Right. Some systems can't be designed that way. But that doesn't mean that no system can be designed. And it doesn't mean that all systems are better off being designed or not-designed.

The reason megaprojects tend to be planned, controlled etc is because they haven't spontaneously emerged on their own. Somebody somewhere wishes to make a positive effort over and above the current baseline.

> I agree that some projects can be estimated. I'm saying a lot of them shouldn't be, because there are more effective ways to get results.

Agreed. A lot of the time a formal estimate isn't necessary. But a "lot of the time" is not the same as "always".

> An instructional contrast is the OSI protocol suite, a top-down alternative to the Internet. Now dead, of course.

There was a good history article on OSI in a recent IEEE or ACM magazine. The two major problems were an irreconcilable fight between circuit-oriented and packet-oriented designers (so they did both) and then lashings and lashings of vendor politics. The author of the piece argued that TCP/IP worked because it was driven by a small group of designers who just went ahead and cut code.

Generally the IETF model has worked because it's done by small groups focusing on a narrow problem in an environment of independent, interacting agents. Some systems work really well that way. Some don't.

> You can read more about that, and about the 3M example, in Mary Poppendieck's books. I think the specific one I have in mind Leading Lean Software Development.

I'll pick it up, thanks for the reference.
Would this not be much more easily solved by reverse geocoding each coordinate and seeing if google gives you a valid address for it?
Thanks for pointing that out! When I was researching the topic of API management earlier this year, Apiary.io was in beta. If you'd like, I can take it out of the list.
Stop telling parents how to parent.
Well sure, if you're sticking with the one car per person model, you still need enough cars for the peak concurrent usage. The difference with automated cars is that you theoretically only need exactly enough cars for the peak concurrent usage, whereas we currently (presumably) have many more cars than that.
Yes. With maybe support for viewing full files instead of just the diffs. None of the Chrome/Browser Extensions really do this.
I was completely unaware of the legal issues surrounding cell phone network unlocking. I remember that, in the past, all you had to do was ask your cell carrier to unlock your device and they would comply.

That the present legislation has been enacted shows how some of the people involved in enacting this travesty are as clueless as I am.

http://www.eweek.com/mobile/fcc-suggests-congress-create-a-b...

http://www.ibtimes.com/phone-unlocking-more-popular-ever-bec...
This makes me want to chop down the other toes; and no, I'm not ashamed to admit it.

'Douchebaggery' should become a felony in my opinion. What a bunch of crybabies. They'd sue if there were a "No trespassing" sign and they hit their head on it.

They'd drown in the dead sea. I'm out. I don't like people in the bodies of grown men, and the physical and mental abilities and survival skills of a new-born.
Sure there is; while Apple no longer produces it or sells it directly, it's still in the channel, e.g., from Amazon[1].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Logic-Studio-Old-Version/dp/B002...
NTIA appeals to FCC to let consumers unlock their own mobile devices
Tesla leads the electric car market in technology, but not in volume; there are many more LEAFs on the road today than there are Teslas. Total sales for the LEAF are about 65,000.
Every human interaction is just analogous to dating, because human interactions are based on interest and the whole thing is called social dynamics. Be high value and wanted and everybody wants you, be desperate and low value and nobody wants you.

In dating, it is sexual interest, in business, it is monetary interest , the underlying principles are the exact same.
cites two most relevant papers, one of which is specifically about the strategy to replace the chemotherapeutically depleted T cells with in vitro expanded ones, post chemotherapy. It's certainly possible, though, not enough studies have been conducted, and will probably depend on which chemotherapeutic compound is administering (small molecules tend to have differential spectra of activities). Doxycycline, in mice in at least one study was shown to have no particular effect on immunotherapeutic effect. Gemcitabine, which does do some immunosuppression but doesn't activate BER - so it only affects a subset of immune cells, does potentiate immunotherapies.
toss a proxy past your exit and you can restrict it any way you want.
Le sigh. All of the comments are on the UX of the site, and not the content of the article. Come on guys.

This article was really interesting to me (though obviously he doesn't get terribly into depth). I find data vis like this, whether it be super meaningful or not to be really cool. I'd like to see more analysis like this done with it.
So, imagine a violent crime; a robbery attempt goes awry, and a convenience store clerk is killed. The murderer (in a perfect incarceration system) is "rehabilitated" in a year. Should he be freed after 365 days?
a rewrite after reading the paper got lost in my noprocrast setting (no fault of server I just gave up).

anyway they use % base not absolute threshold (obviously really) but there are some lovely big questions coming out of this - if anyone is at PyCon UK this weekend and interested in throwing some thoughts around please shout.
With Metro I think that Microsoft did something really unique, it had a digital design language that spoke to a lot of UI designers. Thats not to say they executed it particularly well, because even if it looks good that doesn't mean it is particularly easy to navigate.

It didn't look like any UI that had come before it mostly because it striped everything out of the design, and it that way it was really interesting. Designers had still be struggling with the move from page design to digital design and flat seemed like a good answer.

Side note: Its interesting that everybody is shouting about it looking like Android when they should really be saying that everything looks like Metro
Well, no. That is a list of famous kidnappings, but I was asking for proof that children of celebrities are kidnapped on a regular basis. There's a difference.
Wow. I don't take it personally. I gather that your internal process requires all changes to have estimates, regardless of task.

Estimates can be performed multiple times. Conceptually what you've done here is performed 3/4s of the total work (study the change, identify change points, perform basic design) before proceeding to estimate.

You've come across the Cone of Uncertainty in miniature: all that extra work substantially reduced uncertainty and so the estimate range was tiny.

But because of the size of the task, you have a clearly pathological case where estimation had a net negative value. This is a good case of where proceeding directly to the work would have been more effective.

In your position I'd be pissed off too.
This is a very different kind of optimization than the other things you are talking about. This is something that is operating at a high level and potentially has implications that might not be obvious. You are changing the type of something and effecting the function overloads which are resolved. I think its important for what functions you are calling to be deterministic. My previous post was just touching on what possible value can be gained from allowing this and my conclusion is that it would be very little.

Also, your example of escape analysis is precisely because Java doesn't allow you to express what you are wanting to do, whereas C++ does allow you to express moves.

edit: I would compare this to C++'s copy elision, but that has a very high value and is much less intrusive.
Consider a non-violent, white collar crime. Bernie Madoff for instance. He bilked billions from people. Say instead of being sentenced to jail, he was merely barred from any type of financial dealings, and forced to repay his victims. Would justice have been served?
Forcing is not the right word. The arc of learning music is like any other. http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/03/the-startup-curve.html

There is initial novelty, then it wears off, and you hit the through of sorrow. Usually in the sixth year. It's important at this stage to recognize it for what it is. If you can guide your child to cross it, then it is the perfect analogy for other endeavors they may chose to tackle.
No problem. I already watched it. It's rare to see relevant documentaries. If there are others you know of, could you give titles ? Thanks for posting.
eve style?
> I just can't imagine a future where development tooling consists of subscription to a bunch of disparate services.

New Relic, Exceptional/Airbrake, SendGrid/Mandrill, Codeship/CircleCI, Github, etc. You can do all of those on your own, but we pay for all these services quite often. Apiary may not be your cup of tea, but I think people will pay for it.
>Some argue that making it legal to unlock cellphones could make it too easy for consumers to take copyrighted software between carriers

Eh, like what exactly? AT&T's crappy map software?
I think both approaches are necessary, and complement each other well. An incremental approach will be the best way to clear out the psychological obstacles to self-driving cars, people need to gradually get used to the idea or else it will just be met with fear. and google's approach is already proving to be an effective tool to clear out regulatory obstacles and get the public excited.

And for a company like Tesla, who will sell their own cars, an incremental approach can be self-funding. Google has a ton of money to dump into research and is unlikely to bring a car to market themselves, so building a finished product will make it easier to find customers to license individual components of their tech to.
Go's floating point support is sort of FUBAR. For example, these three equivalent snippets all produce different results:

1. fmt.Printf("%f", 1.0 / -0.0);

2. x := -0.0; fmt.Printf("%f", 1.0 / x);

3. x := 0.0; fmt.Printf("%f", 1.0 / -x);
CDDL has patent shielding. Oracle is on the hook for that patent, not users of Sun's (now Oracle's) CDDL licensed code.
>Some argue that making it legal to unlock cellphones could make it too easy for consumers to take copyrighted software between carriers.

My carrier does not have code on my phone, and my carrier does not need code on my phone.
I do believe this. Is claiming I don't believe the thing I just stated I believe some sort of brilliant rhetorical tool? Or are you just an arrogant idiot?

Just look at how the word "thug" is carefully used in rhetoric. The implication is that someone is a criminal simply for being who they are, not because of any particular infraction. Further implied is that people who are "thugs" deserve whatever "punishment" they end up getting, regardless of guilt or even whether they were accused of a crime. The Trayvon Martin controversy brought quite a bit of this to the surface for all to see.

You can find plenty of instances where there was resistance to letting an innocent person out of prison, start by Googling "innocence project".
as I recall, using a threat to criminally prosecute as part of civil suit negotiations by lawyers is a crime in and of itself.
Or at the very least it should lead to sanctions by the civil court judge.
IWAL
> A longer way to developing meaningful estimates (and I prefer meaningful over accurate, since a good estimate can still be very wrong), is to avoid estimating one's time as an end in itself.

Could you elaborate? What would one estimate on a book of sudoku problems?
Pedigree Is BS, You Must Work Harder And Smarter
Is social discovery dead?
no to mention BMW who has been launching self-driving prototypes for years, one was even racing around the TopGear track.
Sorry for the messed-up formatting, I don't see any edit link anywhere..
Don't have a link, but I recall research showing greater user satisfaction if you bias the progress bar to start artificially slow so that it can always be slightly accelerating. The acceleration of the bar helps to cancel the acceleration of the user's impatience.
It would be an interesting experiment to have a mass-market transit system priced based on demand. If a ride at 9am cost twice as much as a ride at 10am or 8am, would we start seeing a more companies offering flexible hours or varying their hours to take advantage of cheaper commutes?
The message I'm getting from these examples is that designers will need to invest a lot more effort into UX under iOS 7 compared to 6.

To me it seems obvious which teams have spent a lot of time reworking their app to fit the language and who have just slapped on a new coat of paint and hoped for the best. I think approaching my apps from the ground up rather than 'reskinning' the current designs will work best for me.

Unfortunately it seems finding ways to take elements away from the UI has stumped a few of these teams for the time being.

I'm predicting fairly large teething problems while we all adjust based on this group. There's definitely potential for growth for the guys that can nail it from day one though!
Finally, something more infuriating than accidentally clicking a scribd link.
Yeah. I looked at it from a "consumer education" perspective, but it is unrealistic to ask for that. Not everyone is interested in those things.

However, what does that thing actually do ? How does it work? Signatures ? Block "autorun" or something ? I didn't see any details.
0_o Focusing on the needs of the offenders? Really? Why?!

"Your Honor, I did burn down that orphanage, but I really need a new car. And prison is too punitive!"
Am I the only one that is glad to read this news?
Erlang Mini for Raspberry Pi and Parallella
The Unhinged, Hedonistic Saga Of Billionaire Stewart Rahr
Ideas like this seem to be the future. I specifically like the small container concept that this shares with Docker.
I guess considering a user defined move constructor could do something arbitrarily stupid you have to be consistent.
You give them far too much credit. They didn't formulate a problem, make some assumptions, and then come up with a solution based on it.

What they did figure out "slick approach to a well-known problem [in graph theory]" then sell it as something that viral marketers could actually use. I see no evidence that this graph theoretic problem, although it was motivated by various real world problems, is actually a computational problem that people try to solve in the real world.

In fact, I'm pretty sure viral marketers would simply target products at people with lots of facebook friends who pass some kind of "not fake" test.
If he were truly no longer a danger to society and this could somehow be proven, then yes.
They've never explicitly said "Yeah, we built to game to try to juice as much out of you through the RMAH" if that's what you're asking. It's pretty clear if you actually played the game, though. The game was tuned, both in terms of difficulty and drops, with the expectation that the player would be using the AH[1], and Blizzard built the RMAH in order to attempt to capitalize upon the sales that previously happened through D2JSP or whatnot.

It's exceptionally clear that Blizzard's idea was to control scarcity of desirable items so that people were incentivized to buy and sell these most desirable items for real money, giving Blizzard their 15% cut on every sale. We have a scenario in which the same entity that brokers sales (for a fee!) is the same entity that (arbitrarily) controls the production of items sold -- it doesn't take an MBA to connect the dots there.

No, I can't prove any of this. I would be exceptionally surprised if anyone could. But companies of Blizzard's scale don't do things like a real-money marketplace (from which they take broker's fees) just because "the community demands it" - that absolutely was the monetization strategy for the game. People don't pay a subscription fee, or purchase microtransaction items in the traditional sense. How else are you going to monetize it?

(They had a similar monetization strategy for Starcraft 2, IIRC. Something about a marketplace for community-created content that, again, they would take a cut of. Let the players do the work, take a cut of it. I don't play SC2, so I'm not sure how this shook out.)

[1] http://i48.tinypic.com/2cwsg3q.png (sorry, original thread is now gone)
Funny... i'm also thinking "What is he about to try to ream us from behind with now, that he's trying to make us look the other way for".

Yeah.. I admit, I voted for him in 2008..