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Travel Bingo for Kids app rejected for Intense Simulated Gambling
If you've ever played travel bingo as a kid, you know it simply involves looking out the window and spotting objects along the road. After submitting my app Travel Bingo for Kids, it was rejected because it apparently contains intense simulated gambling.

They required me to change the minimum age for the app before accepting it. I can see the point with regular bingo if awards like coins or jewels are given... but travel bingo, which is basically checking off boxes of what you see on the side of the road?

Anyways, with my next update I'll attempt to submit it at 4+ again and see what happens.

If you want to check out the app it is here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/travel-bingo-for-kids!/id733677465?mt=8
Yup it's possible. It doesn't appear to be here though, especially if the files have any sort of lifespan not dependant on the users browser staying open. Anyhow, I built something similar over at rtccopy.com which does use webrtc
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At my alma mater, we had a club named "Player's Club". Only the sketchiest of people ever went there, and thus the business suffered. One year, they made a single change - they renamed it "Indigo". Without changing a single thing besides the name, the club turned around and is now one of the most popular bars on campus.

Being a dance club, "Player's Club" might have been a more accurate name. Unfortunately, nobody wants to say to their friends "tonight I'm going to Player's Club". I'm sure you can make the connection here.
Lowride off Incunabula, first heard it off Mo'Wax Headz.

Them two look like hackers to me. I recently found out they've been around since '87 (according to Discogs).
This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. You would need a heck of a lot of sensors to cover all of the places where there could be potential problems which would cost hundreds of dollars. Additionally, these sensors need to be replaced roughly every 7 years while during this time maybe 1 spot in a home will be problematic and be sensed with this system if it's even working at all. If this sensor senses a problem, significant damage is most likely already done. Any cost savings of decreased home damages are outweighed by the cost of these sensors. Instead of buying a bunch of sensors, it would much much more sense to have a thorough home inspection conducted. Also, if there is a moisture problem, do these sensitive electronics even remain intact?
It's possible that genetic factors count for more than everything else for certain people.

The family history profiled here http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/health/seeking-clues-to-a-... sounds extremely similar.
For those interested in getting a much more comprehensive look at their blood, along with a consultation from a doctor to help you better understand the connections, check out http://www.wellnessfx.com/

(I haven't tried it out myself yet, but I'm planning to next year - I'm in no way affiliated with them, but definitely seems like a great idea)
One other thing to consider: Google is sitting on something like $56B (and growing) in cash and short term investments. They could set $4B on fire and it really wouldn't alter their balance sheet significantly. Given its big push into "social" over the past couple of years, I could make the case that it's worth spending some of its cash to try and acquire a bunch of (admittedly fickle) users.
Don't forget:
* Minecraft - Mushroom Biome
I think Snapchat are crazy if they don't put ads in there soon.

I see Snapchat as a faster Youtube. It's basically content that you want to see - Youtube from the masses, Snapchat from your friends.

The Youtube advertising model is clearly fantastic. From things I've read some time in the past I know they kill it on a $/user basis vs pretty much every social site on the web.

Putting a 2 second static 'brand flash' in front of every snap would probably not put people off using the service (in the same way that people still use Youtube - even though video hosting is a highly replicable thing). And from a brands point of view 2 seconds is probably all you need to get into someone's subconscious.

Bonuses for being an app:

1) Full screen take over.
2) No distractions from other tabs.
3) I'm sure they could find out age and sex quite easily if they wanted to. So they would have - age, sex and location. POWERFUL.

The sooner the better. Explain that the app needs to make money to it's users. People get used to things.
I wrote a small library a while ago to use Google spreadsheets like this: https://github.com/Stuk/gooss (although it appears some better, more maintained ones have appeared in the mean time).

You can see it working at http://stuartk.com/bundle/ (data from https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ar35F5WUAjXedDY... )

This is combined with with Google forms to allow people to submit new data, and the publish to RSS feature, although the content of the RSS feed isn't very pretty.
You can change the hotkey from the extension settings.
Very funny. Maybe useless but amusing.
This was quite an experience for us here at LastPass utilizing multiple UI/UX design firms, splitting them between products and attempting to land new UI/UX experiences all at the same time. If anyone has questions or thoughts on it we're all ears.
So the council basically killed it by negligence. Perfect move by ideological politicians - no way they can be blamed, they have to do nothing.

Meanwhile people suffer while profits soar.
I looked up Pandora... bollocks you can't access it England.

I'll have take your word for it that it's swish.
That was my thinking as well. All pools should behave selfishly. If they all behave this way, then there's no incentive for the miners to move towards a single pool, therefore avoiding centralization. Am I missing something?
Lovely is making it easier to get an apartment in SF
Soundtracks or instrumental stuff in general. Everything is ok for me if it has no lyrics/singer etc.
> Firstly, there isn't "a crime rate".

Yes, there is. There are purposes for which it may not be the most important metric, but it certainly exists.

> You can't aggregate "a crime rate" across all crimes.

Sure you can. And if you can measure the rates for individual crimes, its trivial to then aggregate them across crimes. Whether that's useful depends on the purpose you are applying it to, but it certain can be done.

> Different crimes have different rates - you can't fold a murder into a rape into an assault into a burglary into a failure to pay a debt.

you certainly can fold the rates of instances of a specific subtypes of the event "crime" into a general rate of occurrence of the whole class, though, to be fair, failure to pay a debt is generally not a crime, its a tort, and so it would be invalid to include it a measure of crime.

> The thing about murder is that it's fairly unambiguous and usually recorded.

Its fairly unambiguous -- assuming that there is not a missing body situation -- that someone has died. It is less unambiguous that they died through homicide, and even less unambiguous still that the homicide was criminal homicide, and even less unambiguous yet that the specific subtype of criminal homicide was murder.

> In the US, the stats are only published on aggravated assaults - those with a weapon or serious bodily harm.

This is true of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (and publications based on those reports), but not BJS's National Crime Victimization Survey (and publications based on that survey.)
Metro: Last Light (AAA FPS Title) Ported To Linux
Good for prototyping, thanks. I'd be wary of using this in a live system though: relying on Google's public APIs/services is risky enough (Checkout is one example, Reader, etc) let alone an undocumented feature like this which could change/disappear suddenly.

Edit: it has been pointed out that the criticism of their documented/public APIs may be unjustified. The issue here is that this particular feature is undocumented
Cool site. What's the development status? Seems well-polished in some regards but pretty broken in others (I can't get open/save/clear to work at all). [Edit: i'm using chrome latest release]
The URL has "public" in it; are you sure Google requires authentication at all for this?
Ask PG/YC: Have all YC W14 interview invitations been sent out?
Actually OS X 10.8 only has "limited support" by Valgrind 3.9.0. That was what they said about the previous version of Valgrind as well, but in the latest version the limited support has been "significantly improved".

In any case, several basic features of the previous version of Valgrind work on OSX 10.8/10.9, so I don't think it is correct to say Valgrind is useless on OS X.

It would be more useful if you explained the specific problems with Valgrind on OSX that force you to use Linux.
I went looking recently because I thought there were additional articles written as a series (eight maybe?), but couldn't find them.
It turns out smart people do dumb things all the time. The trick isn't being smart all the time, which is difficult.

Rather, you want to be smart at the right time and convince other incredibly smart people to do something incredibly dumb in that fleeting moment.

Last I checked, most of us have never created a messaging app that grew to 350M messages in two years. More importantly, most of us didn't also then convince smart investors to let us cash out at some ridiculous valuation.

Props to the Snapchat guys and I hope they figure out monetization but at the end of the day, they got their FU money and built something huge. That's a win in my book.
A&W is listed twice as well, by separate companies.
Thanks for the kind words and the bug report.

Have you created an issue on the GitHub repo? Can you give me a screenshot and the Browser/OS that you are using?
Yes, because secrets and forgetting can be important.

It's not our cultural tradition that every written work (train schedules, greeting cards, friendly notes, lolcats,etc.) must be archived at the Library of Congress. I'm not sure that it'd be a good idea.

Archive.org is a good idea.
Lots of nice pictures of why to get it (your kids, your beautiful home, etc) - pulling heart strings can be effective. However, the website didn't make the technology very clear which is immediately suspicious in my book - place a magic box somewhere in your home and get notifications if something goes wrong (water or temperature related). The dashboard and interface also looks nice, but the product seems to give the false implication that with a bunch of these you'll have something of a smart-home. I definitely believe that smart-home type products are usually a good investment, and with this you may be one (small) step closer. However, i'm of thinking that most homeowners are very familiar with the state of their home - not that there can't be surprises - but for 300$ the piece of mind may not be worth the carelessness that comes with it (thinking all is well so i don't need to check).
MacKenzie Bezos posts Amazon review of book about [her husband] Jeff Bezos
Its using it behind an abstraction layer that decouples the substantive work of the rest of the app from the Google Spreadsheet API and storage backend, for the express purpose of limiting the impact of any later need to move to a different backend service. Given that Checkout and Reader -- the Google examples you cite as reasons to be wary of it for a live system -- were terminated with extensive notice, that doesn't seem like it would pose any problem with this approach.
Zynga was/is just a glorified spamming enterprise built atop Facebook's platform to get cheap and massive volumes of traffic. They've never created anything even remotely original (have basically ripped every single Maxis title since Sim Farm) and their ex-CEO was/is a complete scumbag who defrauded the public markets and early employees from everything under the sun.

SnapChat isn't much different. Just another "trendy app" that VC's love to throw money at since their partners invested in a previous competitors.
They also must eat something... I still expect them to do some kind of photosynthesis, just like lichens, and that would explain their height.
An interesting statement, given that the problem that Snapchat addresses is that its users don't trust each other.

Otherwise they could send their embarrassing pictures by plain old e-mail with a request 'please do not forward'.

Instead they place proxy-trust in Snapchat to enforce that restriction; if that trust falters, so does Snapchat.
Number one leading cause of death: Heart Disease.

Yes, that is generally true throughout the developed world. On the other hand, heart disease death rates have been declining at all relevant ages across several decades throughout the developed world.[1]

Our understanding of what causes heart disease is very partial indeed. On the other hand, our understanding of how to treat heart disease has increased enormously in my lifetime. My mom, still alive and well at age eighty-one, was a surgical nurse who was described by my late dad as "one of a dozen people in the world who could disassemble and reassemble a heart-lung machine" early in her career. She has seen enormous progress in surgical treatment of heart conditions that used to be sure death sentences, and medical treatment for heart disease has improved greatly too. A CDC report on declining heart disease in the United States[2] suggests what more can be done.

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...

[2] http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2011/p1013_heart_disease.h...
I tend to think of doctors as mechanics. Often when something breaks on my car, the explanation is "it's an old car, that happens eventually." And when they talk about it after fixing it, it's usually "Toyota's a good brand. Take care of it and you'll get another 100k miles from that engine." If I took my car to my mechanic with nothing wrong and asked what I should be doing to make sure the transmission lasts as long as possible, they will give me some generic intuitive advice, but they have no real insight because they are not in the business of maximizing the lifetime of healthy cars.

Doctors are kind of the same way. They see patients who have problems and need them fixed. If you walk into a doctor's office and say your family has a history of heart disease and you're concerned, they'll run a standard diagnostic to see if there is a problem. If there isn't, they'll give you generic advice. Outside of that, they are not really likely to have much insight into how to prevent heart disease in your specific case. Maybe you'll get lucky and the doctor will have recently read a relevant paper.

This seems to me like a problem that you're better off having answered by a medical researcher rather than a physician in the trenches. Researchers are the ones who are taking the long view on outcomes in patients. Keeping with the same analogy, you're probably better off talking to a mechanical engineer at a car company about maximizing the life of your currently healthy transmission.

Also, I generally see this as a problem that will be best addressed by machine learning researchers collaborating with medical researchers. Then again, I'm an ML PhD student working on health applications, so I'm biased. :)
Hmm, I would think thrice, before I go his path again. Thought it was a clever idea to use the mixture of easy to maintain spreadsheets, the cron service and JSON to feed huge satellite images into a tiling service (zoom.it) and let Google autonomously update and serve the list of daily mosaics as JSON.

I got used to daily time out messages, but waiting 1 min for a (cached!) 10 kb JSON list is far too much. However, organizing and correcting data using an online spreadsheet saves a lot of time and is kinda fun.
Jargon and specialized notation is sometimes cryptic as an unintentional side effect of communicating efficiently between specialists. To suggest they should communicate findings in a less efficient way that's understandable by laymen who haven't put in the effort to learn the jargon / notation is silly.

But I think Bret's point isn't that every research paper should be as verbose as an introductory textbook, but rather that interactive widgets can express ideas which text and static images in published papers can't.
Yeah, and then all of the sudden it starts raining and the kids flock to another beach with a newer DJ and fresh faces.

End game.
Question for Google Glass users - do you foresee the Google Glass competing with GoPro as a viable action camera? Minimum viability: rugged, water-resistant (rain), 1080p@30FPS, wide FoV, enough stabilization that it isn't a blurry/bumpy mess on the road when cycling or running.

My use cases would be running and cycling.
If you are looking for Etherpad-like tools specifically for collaborating on code, check out https://coderpad.io

It's a tool I make that's geared around collaboratively editing and running code in the browser.
Well, even the Zuckerberg family is into the concept!http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/randi-zuckerberg-on-des...
This is like the Nest and the Nest-Smoke Detector - a beautiful solution with some high tech wizardry, but I could solve the problem just as easily by spending 10% of their solution. You can buy a 6-pack of devices on Amazon that make a noise like a smoke alarm when it detects water for $30.
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EBay President: "PayPal May Accept Bitcoin In The Future"
That's actually a really interesting analogy. I'm sure it's incomplete, but it instructs analysis.

Ownership of the beach is clearly valuable, even if it's unclear exactly how you will extract that value. And beach popularity can be subject to trends and other outside factors.

It's also easy to ruin a beach, and therefore its value by too aggressively trying to get the value out of it. For instance, I'd rather keep the beach free of ads and aggressive tourist sales people to make my money on hotels, condos, and restaurants near to the beach.

I'd say the biggest problem with the analogy is that only part of a beach's value is derived from the other beachgoers - there is some intrinsic value to the combination of sand, sun, and waves. For snapchat, if there are no other users, there is no value at all.
Sorry, but that is not the point.

This is not just about simplifying scientific notation so it is easier to digest for an untrained audience: it is about using tools to remove as much cognitive "shit work" as possible, so that our minds (including those of experts) are free to think the "unthinkable thoughts" of the title.
The crucial point which you omitted is that the hash output is uniformly random.
Designing User Interfaces for your Mother
Viewed slightly differently, given that news is mostly soundbites, which is going to be more memorable?
Prezi scaling challenge on hackerrank
Classical - anyone from Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Chopin, Mahler, Mussorgsky, Gershwin, Tchaikovsky and others.

Eras are anything from Baroque, Classical to Romantic but not Contemporary.
There are >4000 known bugs in the kernel. They would be probably busy fixing just the significant ones until "4.0" when just doing bugfixing.

The easiest thing to do is to report to the bugtracker of your distro and see.
From personal experience, Google Apps Script is not ready for Enterprise / Production. It's simply too unreliable.

However I do enjoy the API. It's wonderful how easy it is to prototype an idea and get it off the ground with minimal effort.
Inability to hold educated conversation on Wittgenstein should not be taken to reflect badly on anyone's intellect.
Unfortunately, this is more of a feature request than a bug.

Right now, there is an interface where you can manually add repositories that you have contributed.

Did you see the interface? If not, how can I draw more attention to it?

There is no simple API call to fetch the repos you have contributed to, which means I would have to crawl through every fork to see if changes made it upstream.

I could do it as a short-term fix (the long-term fix is to crawl all GitHub data), but I have about 5~ish things on my queue that are definitely more pressing.

Of course, it's open source, so if you want to add that functionality, it would be awesome!
Well normally you get the offer only then do you give them your references - get knocked back the then you get your layer to get the papers from the section process.

Now Mr HR manager lets say 30k for a compromise agreement shall we and you fire the person that decided to accept the libelous statement for my ex employer - and when do I start :-)
Yelp, no way in hell. Uber, closer for sure. Uber is a valuable service at least in the Top-20 cities.
If you don't have enough time to watch the entire video, just watch the "Linked representations" which starts at 24 minutes (4 minutes long).

It's on a 2D graphing library but his visualizations are incredible.
This is actually a number theory problem. You want to have

input * A = output * B (1)

where

A = f1 * f2 (2)
B = r1 * r2 * q1 * q2 (3)

where q1, q2 are powers of two.

Any good elementary number theory book will tell you that the smallest solution to (1) is to let M = lcm(input, output) and set A = M / input, B = M / output. Given the further constraint that A <= 2^16, you can compute offline a 2^16 element lookup table which gives values of f1, f2 in the desired ranges for each possible value of A. You can re-use the same table to go from your B value to r1, r2 if you first pull out as many powers of two as you can and put them in q1, q2.
The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
The scientific method is a method to create and verify plausible explanations for phenomena.

Strategic thinking is a method to make decisions in face of uncertainty. There is nothing scientific about it, though there are tactics in which a commander might make probing attacks to gain intelligence and test the adversary. Ultimately though, you are making decisions and taking action with inherently incomplete information.

One of the things that happen in adversarial dynamics is to use misinformation to screw around with someone else's OODA loop.

So no, OODA and strategic thinking in general are not essentially just another name for the scientific method, though it may employ science, or a skeptical stance as one of many tools to make decisions and take action. That frame of thinking exposes a limited understanding of OODA and strategy, one that is exploitable by an adversary.
Milgram experiment clearly shows relative weights with which we perceive two alternatives : 1. a negative effect on ourselves vs. 2. a negative effect on somebody else.

In the experiment the 1. was practically non-existent, zero - some researcher telling you what to do, no real authority, no any chance of bad consequences, while 2. - electric shock, heart attack - hard to beat, yet people still chosen 2.

Now, in the torture situation we have the alternative 1. with reasonable perception of potential bad consequnces much higher than in the experiment, ie. pretty seriously sounding very plausible "or else..." from real authority while 2. is significantly lower because it is just terrorist, bad guy, and who will be tortured anyway. People making choice 2. when difference was higher (in the experiment) necessarily and obviously means that they would make such choice when difference is less, like in this case of torture.
Had a look at Cut Copy - Free Your Mind. Weird Video... it gets weirder.

Robben Ford must get some sore fingers.
The Recursive Internetwork Architecture
See the linked ML post: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2008/037150.html (search for Lout)
Buffer source code also breached in hack
I believe FB Poke tried to make it rain but look how that turned out