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Yes, but no. Quake and especially Quake II multiplayer back in the day was a crazy and super intense experience that still hasn't entirely been replicated in the modern era. Everyone running around in their custom skins on custom maps, like threewave, grappling everywhere, leaving grenades and trip mines everywhere, trying desperately to get the flag back to base. It was delicious chaos, and it was so incredibly fun.

A lot of modern games are still fun, TF2 still captures a good bit of what the old times were like, but many modern multiplayer games have a lot of MMO and leveling mechanics added to them which introduce a fair amount of "grinding" into the game which makes it a bit too much like work and not enough like just raw fun.
I know the feeling. I have a few things I'd like to work on myself.

But the bit about your family? Sounds like a red flag to me.

Do things for yourself on a regular basis. Make time to exercise and spend with quality people. Talk about this issue. It's very tough to fix by yourself; you effectively been mentally rooted for now. Understand it will take time to fix, and the process of recovering will feel strange. I'm convinced half of it is showing up and resisting the temptation to do just one more thing.

Optimize for happiness, and trust productivity will flow out of that.
Oh, this just so pisses me off:

> a lot of people on these sites don’t think of authors as actual human beings

Maybe author's that peddle vendor locked-in DRM crippled stuff via Amazon to an audience unable to understand how they are getting shafted should try seeing their readers as actual human beings first.
Reason: they can assimilate bit and become the major exchange because they are already a mane brand.

While with nfc the phone manufacturers have full control and they will be dead in the water while Apple/Google process all the transactions.
There are really no "Bitcoins", there are only a very long series of inputs and outputs to various Bitcoin addresses, all recorded on the shared block chain. Inputs (Bitcoins) come in to the system through mining, and then they are traded out via outputs and in via inputs.

The smallest value for an input/output is 1 Satoshi. 1 Bitcoin equals 100,000,000 Satoshi. So a Bitcoin is just a convenient measurement of inputs minus outputs.

When you make a purchase from an address, the client adds up your inputs and outputs at that address, and if you have a positive balance, you can send any portion of it as an output to another address (as long as you have the private key to verify that you own the sending address). It is recorded on the block chain as an input to that receiving address records, and the miners (eventually) confirm that transaction by including it in a block -- each time that happens is 1 confirmation (mining is another whole can of worms).

When you make a purchase that is less than the total number of inputs minus outputs at the address you're spending from, you can receive the difference via an input to either the same address or another, new address, depending on the Bitcoin client used.

Does that make sense? It's all just a shared accounting system.

EDIT: Clarified role of block chain.
> Surely, only those with expenses for attending hacker school can ask for a grant that repays expenses for attending hacker school.

They aren't repaying. They're paying. The grant is given so that they don't have to pay.

Do you understand exactly what the grant is doing? It's giving money to women who already qualify for the school but can't afford the expenses of living in NYC during their time there. This has nothing to do with chocolate factories or whatever you're talking about.
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Cost of switching is definitely high if you were to rewrite from scratch, but the transition to single-page can also be evolutionary. That's exactly the approach we're taking for the Wordpress admin panel for example.
I have an idea! Let's make broad statements based off the actions of a company with massive amounts of Cash on Hand.

Consider that most merchants don't have much of any cash. I know it's hard to believe because your world revolves around Starbucks and Apple, but put the iDevice down for a second and join the rest of reality. Merchants don't want risk. I know of merchants that do reasonably well, and a single chargeback is a real piss off. They (chargebacks) don't just cost money (you are out the money and the product), they also cost time if you try to dispute it.
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Super helpful, thanks dude!
By definition, not many people use any particular minimal-activity subreddit. There are a lot of subreddits. It's certainly possible many people use at least one minimal-activity subreddit.
Seconded. It's very popular these days to bash congress for not getting anything done, but it has its upsides. I'm pretty far left, and I wish the far-right wasn't quite so powerful, but I am glad the republican party is there, still powerful, waiting to pounce on any and every mistake made on the left. It helps keep us honest (c.f. obamacare - which I like, but the rollout, eh...). And when the roles are switched, say, 50 years, we'll do you the same "favor" :)
Yeah, super curious as to what Apple is cooking in that department, I'm sure they are thinking about it a lot. For now their policy is just to OPT-IN by downloading relevant app and giving it permissions, you will not get spammed by beacons for which you didn't download relevant app.
> It feels deceptive, in some way.

It does violate expectations, in part because it violates the stated rules of the .edu registrar, and therefore what people expect to find under .edu. But prior to 2001 there was no formal enforcement, and a grandfather clause applies to domains registered up through late 2001. Academia.edu seems to fall in that category, even though the company and site themselves weren't started until after the rule change. Presumably someone was sitting on the domain for a future use. Not sure if they bought it, or the founder was sitting on it for years. Since 2006, transferring grandfathered .edu domains is also prohibited, but it could've been sold in the 2001-06 window.
Not just that. With guaranteed basic income, in effect everyone has f-you money. No employer could easily coerce employees to do what they don't think is right: the employees could more easily walk away.

We could eliminate copyrights. After all, with basic income, artists and creators are getting paid. Some might release their work to the public domain right away. Others might pursue different publishing options.

All sorts of corporate (not just individual) welfare benefits could be eliminated; after all, everyone is getting a basic income.

Basic income would greatly shift power from the most wealthy back to ordinary people. It could be that the effects would be profoundly democratic.
The processor can also just write whatever it wants into the memory containing the entropy pool even if you never call the RDRAND instruction.
These sound like really basic security measures any startup that isn't about sharing cat pictures should take. I disagree completely with the strategy of using security@ as a cheap way to get other people to do your homework. When somebody finds an XSS flaw in your system that's a big deal! It can be easily used to take over entire accounts. Not something you shrug at and put on your TODO list until a new XSS error is found 2 minutes later. Besides, good abstractions deal with XSS problems nearly completely, so that vulnerable code looks wrong.

I also find the view that smaller startups should just get a product out the door and neglect security completely abhorrent. Waiting until you're at 10 employees before you start hashing passwords? Are you kidding me? Are we professionals or what?

So based on those observations my confidence in the security of Evernote has decreased substantially. Their philosophy represents much of what's wrong with VC-style startups. Imagine a restaurant saying "just forget about hygiene until you're profitable"!
> The vast majority of growers are decent and moral.

Really? I think a lot of these decent/moral farmers are getting replaced by huge corporations that are only interested in profit.

>Drop two people on an island.

Sigh This point is taking it to an extreme. Yes, I'm a veggie/vegan becz of the environment I'm in. Put people on an island and most likely everyone will turn into a raving beast (aka Lord of the Flies).

>The omnivore could easily ingest all the energy and nutrients needed to function

Are you some crazy survivalist? I would guess not. Also most of the (let's say US) population couldn't survive. Most people get their meat from fast food restaurants or else packaged in a supermarket.

Scenario, you land on a desert island. You don't have a gun or a knife.
You think the mass population could trap and kill a wild pig? You need training to do something like that. Even something smaller like a wild bird or some sort of rodent is not easy.

Then there's the question of having to cook it. Do you think most of the population can start a fire without matches?
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Why did you marry someone like that?
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Thats exactly what he said.
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I suppose I worry that if I dismiss this stuff out of hand, one day I'll be blind to the one for which there is proof, or I'll ignore someone else who with hindsight shouldn't have been ignored. Like rms.

But you're probably right, this kind of thinking is largely self-indulgent.

EDIT: a little understanding of that kind of political history definitely gives useful context to discourse on current affairs, I think. It is helpful to consider how the events of the present might be seen in 30 or 50 years time, even without knowledge of what occurs between now and then.
Relevant: http://youtu.be/9C_HReR_McQ
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It's much more than that. Any estimate I've seen regarding staffing has always been way off. I can't give specifics, but trust me, it's no where near 4 people even if we exclude contractors and facility support staff.
Cultures in which this was acceptable did not generally do it to members of their own tribe (in-group). It was only something to be done to rival tribe members (out-group) who were defeated in battle. It was an expression of domination and disrespect to opponents.

(At least in Papua New Guinea - other regions YMMV)
Two corrections:

1. OP says: Once you’ve cliffed, you have the right to buy shares in the company.

"Cliffing", when used as a verb, refers to firing someone just before the cliff-- not an employee achieving it. It's something you'd rather avoid.

2. If the company isn't publicly traded, you should ask to see the cap table. If you're employee #30 and your share is 0.05%, that might be fair if it's a biotech that has already taken a $100M infusion from the venture capitalists (who'll typically take 90%, in that case). For a web startup, it's terrible. You need to know how much equity the investors, executives, and employees at various levels have, so you can evaluate your likelihood of getting an improvement if you perform well. Without the cap table, you don't know enough about the startup to decide whether to take a job there.
Great stuff guys, this is awesome!

Seems like you have a nice handle on the 'selling for bitcoin' space. I'd love to chat and see if we can join forces in some way (I'm the founder of SellSimple.com).

Hit me up on twitter or via my blog if interested :)

- J
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The problem I have with light rail in Bellevue is that it isn't very useful unless you live within walking distance of a station. I consider it to be mostly a boondoggle.
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Nice response. I would probably be a shithead to people and be like "we just announced it, we can't have 100% of anything you ever imagined in there at launch". I'll have to remind myself to get a PR person when I launch a product...
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It's interesting you advertise the need for speed when your page is so heavy it's giving my machine a hard time
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The games don't look as good on the PS3. PS4 games are in their first generation and judging by history will get significantly better looking over time, but even now they have a crisp high-res look that makes them look better than PS3 games.

Having said that, "The Last of Us" on PS3 is a far better game than anything available on the PS4 currently -- crisp graphics aren't everything. And you can pick up a PS3 with that game bundled for like $200 now compared to $400 for the PS4 with no games.

The PS4 is lacking in the local video streaming department currently, as the article says, but it does have the usual assortment of media apps like netflix, hulu, amazon, vudu, etc. Personally the lack of local video streaming isn't a big deal for me because I have a dedicated htpc hooked up for that, xbmc on a cheap htpc (or even a raspberry pi) is always going to be a better, more codec-inclusive solution than whatever local videostreaming solution the consoles offer.
Ask HN: do you know any visual HTML editor which simplifies layout positioning?
I think I recently saw a link to something like this here on HN, but I can't remember the name and it was still closed beta if I remember good.<p>Do you remember what it was?
Are you aware of any other solutions?
The main feature I am looking for is something like a css layout-aware visual editing.<p>Something which will assist you in the placing of all elements (based on a grid or not) without pushing you into the bare metal of css proprieties so that for example you can visually design 3 columns, then two columns in the first one, and so on.<p>I know of online visual css grid layout designer tools and I can use Twitter Bootstrap, but I was searching for a comprehensive building visual tool which would fully cover HTML5, CSS3, visual layout editing and most common CSS3 and Javascript animations and effects.<p>I've seen some grid layout plugin for dreamweaver, but each time I think I need to set up such a mountain of bytes to design a webpage it makes me feel sick..<p>Are there any more or less known alternatives? Thank you!
This is spot on!

What they are doing, ironically, is the least engineering thing to do. Fixing one of the side effects, which may cause worse side effects, instead of analyzing and fixing the problem.
A bitcoin doesn't have a unique number at all. The unique number that you are thinking of is effectively an "account id". When bitcoins are mined, essentially a ledger gets created saying that "account id" #1234567343533 has 25.000000000 bitcoins in it. When you send someone money, you say "from #1234567343533, send 0.05000000 BTC to #111111111, and 24.95000000 BTC to #1234567343533"
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What utility is it?
Recently I was trying to find a new place to live in the suburbs where I could walk to a train. Time and time again, a nice short walk by the way the bird flies. Triple that if you don't want to walk through people's yards. I didn't even get so far as seeing if there were sidewalks.
Yes, this is why you'll see malls removing bike racks, and fighting against an extension of bus service to them in some areas.
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Google and Microsoft have local offices and funds in France and Germany. That makes them soft targets.

A troll is unlikely to go to the effort to chase a foreign company with no local presence. They'd probably have to go after your customers one by one if they could find some way to even identify them.
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> Not just that. With guaranteed basic income, in effect everyone has f-you money. No employer could easily coerce employees to do what they don't think is right: the employees could more easily walk away.

While a basic income guarantee would reduce the capacity for coercion, unless you have fantastic levels of productivity such that you can have very high output with very low labor input, its not going to be anything like what is usually considered "F-you" money.

> We could eliminate copyrights. After all, with basic income, artists and creators are getting paid.

The purpose of copyrights is to create a marginal incentive to create, which basic income does not do. OTOH, a well-established basic income guarantee would further weaken the case for very long term copyrights -- but the case for that has always been weak, anyway.
Why are the enforcers that are keeping the police in line so quick to go along with the despot?

Or do you really think that the police in the U.S. are equivalent to a disciplined, no-questions-asked unit of the Federal government?

(I don't think a majority of the military could be encouraged to act directly against the citizens of the U.S., never mind the police (preempting snide replies, against the people in a nationally organized manner))
I agree with the goal of this site, however you're not going to open a good dialog with W3Schools if your opening volley is calling them fools.
The general attitude, and the implications of everyone having health care, are far better. The police in general have a far friendlier disposition. It's not all about authority and the "listen to me I'm the coach/sergeant" sports-talk/military-talk mentality. There is also no real race issue the way African Americans experience in the US (a systematic, paranoid, aggressive marginalization of a large section of society).

And there certainly isn't anything like the militarization of the police like there is in the US, which is the focus of this article.
IMHO - This is a similar project, albeit with more features, and much better code coverage on the tests: https://github.com/brighton36/CoinPost

Though, I am the author, so I get that I'm a bit biased ;)
There's nothing on the page but a few logos and JS. The page is just a bit of script that loads data from AWS. Even if you "view source", there's no text to see. So "graceful degradation" means you see everything on the page that isn't script :)
>I doubt that I am much smarter than the average person. If I can learn this stuff anyone can. Let me be super clear, there is nothing special about me or most other software developers, we just decided to show up and go for it.

Are you sure? You claim to be "not much smarter than the average person," but remember: if you're any smarter than a person with median intelligence, you're smarter than most people.

Also remember the really high failure rates in introductory programming classes: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/separating-programm...

>Despite the enormous changes which have taken place since electronic computing was invented in the 1950s, some things remain stubbornly the same. In particular, most people can't learn to program: between 30% and 60% of every university computer science department's intake fail the first programming course.

Maybe they're simply lacking in confidence, but these are students that chose to take the course in the first place.
It's not about intelligence--some people's brains just aren't wired in a way that would make them any good at software development. That doesn't mean that they couldn't ever learn how to write code given enough time, but not everyone has unlimited time and will power to do that. So in theory, yes, anyone could learn to code. In practice, it doesn't work out that way.
It would be interesting to see a breakdown of undergraduate degrees represented. I was accepted with a Computational Media major and have seen Mechanical Engineers also be accepted.
Would somebody please write a random "X Y of Z" generator already?
In about 10 minutes, you can have a full-featured POP/IMAP/SMTP/XMPP server with nice shared calendar features and a shitty looking web interface. apt-get install citadel-suite
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How often does this actually need to be done? I know beginner coders who struggle with this, esp when it comes to AJAX. I very much doubt that someone with no interest in coding who is forced to code because of some government initiative for one semester is going to fare any better at that task.

The point is, unless you have some self interest in the subject then there is no point in forcing you to learn it, it is going to be of no benefit to you in your future life.
Thank you for providing so much debt to the discussion.
> "pay for the game before it is done"

There is an upside to this, where some games will be released as partially complete, sell for a reasonably low price (none of that $60-80 USD nonsense), and get user feedback on gameplay and content as development continues for a few more years. Games like Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program both do this; they would probably be stuck in development hell of several years then become vaporware if they didn't sell before completion. (Incidentally, these are the only two games I currently own.)
The funny thing is that we're probably just a few decades away from doing that, too.
this could be interesting...

http://speeddemosarchive.com/Doom.html
Well they certainly should. It would also be great if a rule was introduced along the lines of "willfull patent abuse" so that since Microsoft was aware of the prior art while still attempting to collect fees they should pay back the money thrice over.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/russian-bisex...

> Russian bisexual activist Irina Putilova is released from detention and taken off fast-track asylum list

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/12/10/godzilla-trailer-i...

Headline 'Godzilla' Trailer Is Released

There are very many other examples of native English speakers using released like these two examples.
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>I saw another article for an elementary school programming course, and I can’t believe how far off-base we have gotten.

I don't understand this post at all. There were programming classes at elementary school 25-30 years ago teaching Logo and Basic on Apple IIs. If it weren't for those classes, I can't really be sure that I'd be programming now.

So we shouldn't have programming classes for children now because confidence? Am I missing something, or does confidence often come with experience, especially experience gained in childhood when you're too young and stupid to be properly terrified?

If you want to raise adult mountain climbers, does it make sense to start your children climbing hills, or to spend their childhoods giving them the confidence to attempt to climb mountains as adults, oblivious to their own incompetence? I don't think confidence-building to the exclusion of skill-building is the way to go.