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I have never been able to get good at using analog sticks with FPSs. I'm so bad at it that if the game doesn't have auto-aim, I basically can't enjoy the game because I am sucking so badly.

The problem for me is that the analog sticks are velocity-based; ie. you don't get to control the position directly, you can only control the first derivative of the position, the velocity. That means instead of just moving the controller where you want to go, you have to move in the direction you want to go and hold it there for just the right amount of time.

I'm amazed that so many people can do this so well, because no matter how much time I play I still suck at it. It just feels so clumsy.

So the idea of being able to use a handheld controller that isn't velocity-based really appeals to me, though I do worry a bit that the active area is so small.
That is what I always think of when someone mentions the book "Javascript: The Good Parts".
If artists see streaming only as a way to promote themselves, because they don't get an appreciable amount of money from it, why should I pay for it?
How TV finally returned to Afghanistan after 30 years of censorship
California files suit against for-profit college
So, in the end, do you get all the feature of Devise back with Clojure (and its library, of course). Do you have to reimplement CSRF correctly yourself?

What you describe about Rails is a problem with using third party library/framework in any languages. I don't know how you can avoid that in Clojure.
> Statistically, more men have won Nobel prizes than women (by a large margin). Most Nobel laureates are Caucasian. Most are from the western hemisphere. Other than gender, it may be interpreted to mean that if a group which makes a small fraction of the total world population, they must be better/smarter.

Consider your magnitudes though.

For example, men win

0.961/0.5 = 1.9

times the Nobel Prizes you would expect based on representation alone, whereas Jews win

0.202/0.002 = 101

times the Nobel Prizes you would expect based on representation alone.
Creating a formal spec, while not trivial, is not nearly as hard as writing strict tests that validate an implementation against the spec.

If you've just played with TDD and never used it in a serious capacity, you're in no position to comment and your ignorance is almost so bad as to be offensive, especially your seeming delight at this strategy being perceived as having failed.

Code without tests is code that cannot be trusted.
HTML is great for declaring static documents, but it
falters when we try to use it for declaring dynamic
views in web-applications. AngularJS lets you
extend HTML vocabulary for your application. The
resulting environment is extraordinarily
expressive, readable, and quick to develop.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/08/jewish-lite...
There would be two disadvantages compared to traditional mouse-and-keyboard: 1) a low number of total possible bindings, and 2) a lower range of possible movements compared to a mouse.

1) is straightforward, if you don't have enough input buttons you're out of luck. A problem for games like SC2 and WoW.

2) this problem forces you to use acceleration for input, which is commonly accepted to ruin precision (reproducibility) because you lose the easy mapping between inches and pixels.

I'll use Team Fortress 2 (an FPS) as an example for this. First, if 180 degrees takes more than 1 swipe, the controls are effectively unusable. The demonstration indicates this may be the case.

You need to be able to flip 180 degrees to check your back, as well as make other large and fast movements like those required by rocket jumping. At the same time, you also need the ability to make very small aim adjustments. It's guaranteed that the trackpad will be weak somewhere along this variety of movements.

It's unsurprising that it will be a poor replacement for mouse and keyboard, but existing controllers have demonstrated that people are fine with sacrificing resolution of controls for other advantages like relative simplicity and easily playing with friends.
I think this is more about the control you lose with a phone conversation vs. a text conversation.
Interestingly all Abrahamic religions begin with a warning about the tree of knowledge...

I still can't believe what a fucked up parable that is.
How do you decide who's noble and who's not?
seriously? are you just trolling or just not understanding?
Cousin, not sister.
At launch, an unsubsidized 32GB iPhone 4 cost $599, let's be pessimistic and say you get two years of use out of it and are unable to sell it for anything, that's $25/month. Not exactly an extravagant business expense.
Is the problem with the comment the tone or the content?
Sorry, you're not allowed to assign average IQs to racial groups anymore. Not since black Americans were found to be lower than whites. You have to attribute the anomalous test scores to the biases in the tests to be politically correct.
I can empathize here but at the same time she is calling this person publically (in the Journal!) a sexist without a whole lot of hard evidence (or if she has more, she didn't present it here.) I'm sure it won't take long for the internet detectives to figure out who this person is. That's pretty harsh.
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There is no way this is common and if it is, must only be common to iPhones.

I remember reading a thread on r/Android about smartphone use in Korea and someone mentioned people tend to carry around an extra battery when their main battery runs out. I presume Samsung dominates the market over there and their phones have removable batteries.
I don't reckon we here in the U.S. would ever cotton to such a pro-shiftless social policy. Smacks of intellectualism to me. Even of Communism, and you know down what slippery path that "ism" can lead: It was Joe Stalin's money what gave us the Cato Institute.
How To Build Your Own Situation Room
The Jewish culture has valued certain types of intelligence for centuries, and probably as a result their average IQ is measurably higher due to selection effects. If you assume it is outliers on the IQ spectrum that will win the prize, this isn't surprising at all.

I'd guess that a big reason why people of the Jewish faith have been persecuted over the centuries is that because of their IQ advantage they gain more wealth than other peoples they may be around. It is fascinating.
I came across this the other day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence
It's a common expression. [1] In this context it means: this guy's treatment by the customs & border officials was so reprehensible and abusive that his legal right to enter the US is beside the point, just like how the actual merits of the play were beside the point for Mrs. Lincoln.

[1] https://www.google.com/#q=other%20than%20that%20mrs.%20linco...
The Anglosphere miracle
Is this a well known text summarization tool? I hadn't heard of it before this post.
Are you then paying for the music or the service hosting the music? Spotify (or other service) puts the effort into making the a lot of music available which you can easily listen to at any time from almost any device. It is easy to see what your friends are listening to. It is easy to find new music. It is just easy.

If by not paying for music, you mean pirate, that is too much effort for me. I can give Rdio money and all the music is just there, ready for me to click play.

If by not paying for music, you mean the artist give it away for free on their website. I have to put effort into finding all the artist that I would care about and then finding their websites, and then try to figure out how to get the music on their website. Again, that is a lot of effort. I am paying to not expend that effort.

All that aside, I am not trying to say music services are better, just how I justify my money on them.
Any reasonable alternative, short of not telling the story?
Poll: What is your favorite way to share code snippets?
Your first question hit me right where it hurts. I'm not a writer, I'm not even social and I suck at telling stories. However, I've always wanted to "write a book". I have a story in mind, I feel like there's no way I couldn't do it. A while back I sat down and started writing... and I wrote a bit and stopped. Then I tried again. And I realized, I don't want to WRITE, I want to have a book.
I find it a little ironic that no-one's mentioned Arc yet:

http://arclanguage.org/

Personally, I've never quite "gotten started" with lisp (neither cl or scheme) -- and while I don't know if I'd recommend Arc -- the system on which it is built, which has evolved into racket:

http://www.racket-lang.org

Is as far as I can tell, really, really good. Both the implementation, the tooling, the documentation and the community.

For more on racket and web:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/

See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4285617/how-do-i-install-...

The hype definitely seems to be on the side of clojure, and clojure+leiningen (the build system) gains quite a few advantages from running on top of the jvm. My guess is that you'll find a lot more libraries and code for using clojure for web programming than probably any other lisp -- and code that people are invested in at that (code that people depend on for running their own projects/businesses etc).
I remember feeling like that. Sigh.
This is, by far, the most level-headed article on sexism in business and technology that I've ever read. The fight for equality didn't fail, we just haven't finished it yet. But the fight from here doesn't require anger or protests like it did in past decades. Now it requires leadership, and we need to switch gears.

As for anger, I'll be directing mine at the Wall Street Journal for making it so I couldn't scroll with arrow keys: I almost gave up reading (and I'm glad I didn't)
The knowledge of good and evil, if I recall correctly. That might apply to the peace prize but probably not to the prizes in physics or chemistry.
All Abrahamic religions? Islam does not call it the tree "of knowledge" and pursuit of knowledge is encouraged (at least in Islam).
Hi, I don't want to say it's well known. But it got in HN once in a while.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6498625

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6049873

In TC:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/06/textteaser-lets-developers-...
I'm guessing it's more the tone, but probably also the content a little. Sometimes it doesn't hurt to leave some things unsaid even if there could be some truth to them.
If they write a summary of the TOS for a user to read "instead" aren't they then legally bound to their summary?
Really interesting. I tried it with an article I wrote for Wired - both to see how it handled lengthy content with multiple points, and also how it handled my 'loose' writing style.

Really surprised with both the quality and succinctness of the result: http://www.textteaser.com/s/t1bNud

Well done.

(Also to the project owner - copying the link is borked in Firefox, I had to type it out manually)
In addition to micampe's point, he actually does commit, very specifically. A quote:

"To be clear, I’m saying we should ignore the workers’ welfare beyond what is necessary to (a) provide the best ridership experience and (b) to guarantee BART workers the safety and living standard we regulate, at minimum, for all workers. No more and no less."

That is, the Bay Area public should support BART's side in this dispute, because money spent on labor (benefiting the few) is money that can't be spent on system investment (benefiting the many).

If we want to ensure that BART workers can afford to live in the area, that's an important but separate question, and it's better to address the cost of living broadly* than to treat BART employment as a highly targeted Social Security scheme for train operators and mechanics.

* E.g., substantial increases in the minimum wage, lessening restrictions on new housing, non-profit-oriented health care, and (shocker) effective public transit.
I think the article was not calling them out, so much as calling out the environment that caused her to be unable to lead.

Hopefully we don't get people trying to make it into something it's not (a vendetta)
> "you control the cursor with only your thumb rather than your full hand gently set down on your desktop."

exactly! This doesn't look very ergonomic. I can't imagine playing for hours with this controller.
So, a potential employee decides not to work with your startup and you immediately jump to the conclusion that it's because you're female?

It sounds to me like he found a better job and just needed to give you an excuse.

On top of this, this was not your boss, this is someone you were trying to hire. You can turn down a job for any reason and it has nothing to do with the "glass ceiling".

Aren't we allowed to have opinions these days? If I don't like you and you just happen to be black, a woman, gay, etc..does it always have to be because of these traits..and not because you're an asshole?
I think I do like using the headers to define fields better: http://jimkeener.com/posts/TDFrev3 That allows it to fall back to being a simple CSV if all the headers are removed.

It looks a lot better and just becomes more readable I think. I also simplified the types a bit (most noticeably removed the null-terminated and Pascal strings).
if you paste this thread into the demo you get not very encouraging results. I haven't looked at the code but I suspect they find the sentences with most (cosine) similarity to the title and bias towards early sentences.

results:

- Hacker Newsnew | threads | comments | ask | jobs | submit	hnriot (1618) | logout upvote TextTeaser – An automatic - summarization algorithm (github.com)
- If you leave the "Title" field empty and click "Summarize", nothing happens -- which I thought was very confusing.
- reply upvote downvote MojoJolo 1 hour ago | link I require the title because I need it for the algorithm.
- not a criticism of textteaser (which was behind this excellent project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6498625),
- reply upvote downvote wikiburner 3 minutes ago | link Is this a well known text summarization tool?
Jolo, this is great! What is the implication for your API now? I notice that it's still available on Mashape and you're still charging a fee for it.
A related article was "Muslim nobel laureates". Total:10. I did some quick meaningless math, and found that there's 1 nobel prize winner for every 160 million muslims, and 1 for every 70,000 jews.

I'm not going to try and interpret the data, but I do think that's interesting.
How were they displacing musicians? If I'm in a place and I go see $BAND, I would assume I'm going to see $BAND, not some random local band.
On the subject of clojure -- is my impression correct in that most (all?) web framework/templating frameworks for clojure insist on having the templates be some clojure dsl, rather than "just" "proper" templates (like: eg zope tal)?

All the (admittedly quick, todo-app style) clojure web code I've seen always seemed fragile in how the template code was interwoven with the rest of the app (rather than building up a set of values in an environment and compilling a template with that).

I prefer to have my templates as far separate from the application as makes sense...

edit: Looks like there's at least laser:
https://github.com/Raynes/laser

Which seems more like what I want than what I've seen elsewhere.
Google and NASA's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
A16Z sounds so much more .comy than Andreessen Horowitz...
Hi! I will still retain the API in Mashape. That is for the developers that do not want the hassle to deploy it in their own servers. On the other hand, the open source code is for devs to check out the algo, hopefully improve and contribute to TextTeaser. If they want to use it and deploy it on their own, they are free to do so. :)

Think MongoHQ for MongoDB.
Hahaha. It sucks. The algo is not meant for this kind of websites. Try out news articles! :)
Have you compared your business model to each state's ethics rules for advertising and splitting fees with non-lawyers? I don't think your system would be permissible in California, for example.
I'm pretty certain the story of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the expulsion from paradise is a parable about choosing between:

a) Happy but ignorant

b) Unhappy but well informed

and the fact that humans instinctively choose the second option. It's not a warning that knowledge is bad, it's just an acknowledgment that it's better to know the truth, even when the knowledge makes us feel worse.
If anyone has not heard, Zoe's cello performances are layered (built on a loop) and absolutely awesome, definitely worth listening to.
Thanks!

But I did not get what you mean by "copying the link is borked in Firefox". What link are you talking about? :)
Broadcasters petition Supreme Court in Aereo fight
The project has a different name, but it's not divergent from LT, it's an extension of it. JS, Python, and even Clojure are far from the ideal for what we could be doing if we took the ideas behind LT to a logical extreme. What I showed is a very early example of what that might look like.

My end goal is to "fix" programming, that talk was me explaining that it will take far more than what I originally showed in those first videos of Light Table - we'll have to think about the problem differently. That doesn't detract from the value of LT in any way, and I still believe it's out to fill a very important gap in the programming world. But filling a gap is just the first step, not the end of the line. And since we have the opportunity to push some boundaries and try to find something "better", I fully intend to do so. :)

To be more explicit - LT is our focus and you'll see more and more of the thinking I expressed in my Strange Loop talk start to show in it over time.
You might find the book Twice as Less interesting, it offers an interesting and researched explanation for the validity of the effect you're mocking.
am i reading this on hn? what are your sources? and what does jewish culture mean anyway when jewish people live in all continents in very different environments and of various descents? the reason why jewish people have accumulated more wealth may as well have nothing to do with their intelligence but merely because they support each other when they are in position of power and therefore raise the status of their communities.

please keep your blanket statements for some other place.
While it doesn't change the argument, its important to note that Jewish carries a greater genetic specificity then Muslim.
Agreed. I see no evidence in this article of the writer being a woman having anything to do with it. It seems that she didn't herself make that connection until her "coach" suggested it.
Very impressive indeed. There is a disproportionate ratio of Jewish people serving as CEOs of large corporations as well. I heard on Freakanomics radio that parenting and nurturing does not contribute much to the later success in life. Its the nature not nurture, they concluded. They used adoption data to come to that conclusion, although one can always find some argument against that study because its only an inductive argument in the end.
Once I was at the screen showing me the summary, in the right hand 'Share' column - I can't copy the text in the link, image, or embed fields. (FF4.0 on OSX 10.8.5)
err. sure, but that's how it goes whenever you're questioning the rational behind someone's decision. What evidence could exist? There's no go back to state save and play it with the male character test. You can't find out what he was thinking, and he'd never tell you. He'd give you a perfectly rational line of thought. Humans are fantastic at rationalizing their decisions. This is why sexism is such an ugly subject. The only practical way we have to view it is from an objective distance with aggregate data. You can not personalize it. What frustrates me is how personal most sexism stories are.
Gee, she is pretty hard on herself in the post.

“Right, well, it’s because you’re young and female.”

But I don't think that was the reason...

"After lengthy negotiations including a bump to VP, an increase in salary and signing bonus, the rock star senior director re-joined"

There we go. Money talks and bullshit walks.
East asians have a higher average IQ,so it is not necessarily a straight iQ thing.
I have no idea what truly happened but it seems:

1. younger person finds *rock star* older person
2. older person says yes, then says no, and says
well I am not impressed enough with you
3. company says report to a higher up, and we will
vp'gold you
4. younger person says sexism!

It's an interesting claim but Occam also suggests it could be ageism + way better offer. Do we really know this older person would have accepted the same offer from the equivalent male younger person?

I think it's great she has a coach, honestly, I am not sure that's a privilege many of us have.

I don't know who this rock star was or where they ended up, but meebo, didn't that finish as an acqui-hire?
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I wonder if he would have reported to her if they offered him the same stuff they gave him after the negotiation ("a bump to VP, an increase in salary and signing bonus") but required him to report to her.
Great! You're a good man.
I have a hard time seeing why she thinks the problem is her gender.

What about her skills? Her personality? Her past achievements?

And while the other one says "Older men don’t want to report to young females!", why is it the gender that pops out? What about young?
Oh god, when I pressed the down arrow I nearly lost it! What the hell!?
This is very similar to the central idea of Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In". Having more and better women in leadership positions will help both men and women. I was skeptical, but I enjoyed the book more than I expected.
I'm using Amazon EC2, but just for small side projects at the moment.
"He outlined a few specifics — I’d taken two to three days to give feedback to his presentation. My energy level in our last meeting had given him pause. But even when I pressed for more detail, he reiterated that it wasn’t just one particular thing but rather a general sentiment that had accumulated with time. Despite our signed offer, he had already accepted another position. This was goodbye."

If that's the only evidence I'm allowed to read from the writer, then I'm missing how that could construed as sexism.
Thanks. Will check it out. :) Never tried it on Firefox.
Just curious, are you saying that if it wasn't "too much effort" for you then you would pirate music?
Agreed. I'm not sure why this belongs on HN. It seems very divisive and out of place in the context of the HN community. This list is very short in comparison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black_Nobel_Laureates . Should we be promoting all of the negative connotations associated with that when compared to the Jewish list?
Sorry, low-value comment incoming. Web designers, please, never capture keypresses of the up and down arrows and make them do anything but vertical scrolling.
At the risk of sounding insensitive, am I the only one who didn't find any real sexism in this article?

I was expecting this "rock star" to exhibit sexism by promptly joining after he was told he'd be reporting under a make. But...no. He joined after significant alterations to the deal, including a bump in position and salary.

It might be gratifying for the author, but it's kind of irresponsible for her coach (whatever that is...) to claim something without any evidence at all.

We can't just publicize articles claiming we're victims of emotionally loaded, cultural taboos without any hard evidence whatsoever. Consider that if she hadn't explicitly put it in the title or the story itself, this story would not have signalled sexism to readers.