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Eve is one of the best and worst games ever made. I joined Eve years ago as a newbie from a friend invite, within months I had mastered small gang combat. My mentor put me into tackling ships at day 1 and I was a pirate -10 by 5 days into it with over 100 kills.

This whole idea that you can't play unless you have invested years is complete nonsense the most important role in the game is tackling and scouting, which you can do on a day old character.

Eve is a game where you make your own game goals. If you want to be a billionare and give away stuff and be e-famous you can do that. If you want to be one of the best solo pilots out there you can do that. If you want to be a spy and steal massive amounts of information or take down an alliance through meta gaming you can do that. Eve is basically a softer version of real life because you can change who you are within a few clicks of a button by buying and selling characters.

If you wanted to learn how to manipulate people and companies, then Eve is your training ground. It is basically the best sandbox game in the world. The spaceship part has nothing to do with it. If you want something to express every part of yourself you can do that in Eve.

I played for 3 years as a 10 man pirate corp. We set our goal to be the best PvPers in our area, we would constantly fight gangs 2-3 times our size and loose nothing and kill most of them using cunning tactics and game mechanics that most didn't know. It was fantastic, but also terrible, because once you become known, people only bring stuff to kill you, and being smart and scouting 8 systems out you know your not going to fight that. So at times there would be months with no good fights.

Eve is wonderful, I miss her, but I dont.
> a single credible anecdote is adequate to counter a universal statement.

What constitutes a credible anecdote?
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Honest question: are people surprised at the wealth distribution?

It seems quite a few HNers are familiar with Pareto's principle & 80/20 and the current wealth distribution reflects that almost perfectly (Top 20% = 84% of wealth).[1]

I'm not saying that being in that top 20% doesn't bear certain responsibilities, but it shouldn't necessarily be surprising.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/06/t...
Elitism doesn't need to carry any sort of value judgment. You don't allow homeless people in your house, do you? That makes you elitist for a slightly broader definition -- you share the company of employed/housed people only. What else do you call a policy of only allowing hand-chosen authors to use a platform you've publicly touted? Selective, I suppose.

There's also the matter of Dustin Curtis' negative reaction to the creation of WP themes and other Svbtle lookalikes, which many people felt was undue/misplaced.
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I guess: -2 % 6 = -2, but -2 %% 6 = 4.
Unfortunately, the word 'elitist' has pretty strong negative connotations. It's definitely enough calling someone an elitist to be considered personal invective, though I recognise that this was not your intent.
Martin and I crossed paths a few times, at first jousting and later as friends. He was truly a character.

Someday I'll tell the story of how one of his unwelcome SEO explorations led to us setting a creative snare. But that story will keep for a few more years.
The article is vague on the "is" versus "feels", but keep in mind that there is no objective notion of fairness.

Every discussion of fairness or - on this topic - distributive justice must acknowledge the different starting points / moral axioms that people might bring to the table. There are the egalitarians, often of a Rawls-type background, there are the procedural justice people (most internet libertarians, though usually not consistently so), there are just deserts (also typically applied inconsistently) and probably more that I am missing right now.
That's a great thought on endorsements vs. check-ins. I'll have to think about including more metrics.
If you are talking solely about Reddit tips, the reason you see more Doge is because the bitcointip bot has been banned from basically every subreddit. And Bitcoin tips were worth real money, not imaginary points (the usual tip is 20 doge. Seriously? I could tip with Bitcoin every comment I read if I'm going to be such a cheap bastard), and usually spawned long threads explaining what Bitcoin is, the blockchain, etc. Doge tips are accompanied with dog talking and funny pictures. And then we have to withstand the "technical" arguments for how Doge will surpase Bitcoin, oh god, please kill me.
Other internal ranges: Agreed. We should probably put a formal list somewhere (maybe on webhooks.org) that all developers can refer to. Of course, there may be times when you do want internal targets to work as well. I want to say the problem should be something that people in charge of operations need to be aware of, and webhook-sending apps need configuration options to specify ranges. Then it's up to the expertise of the operator to make the right decisions. This doesn't feel very satisfactory though.

IPv6: Good question. I don't know enough about how it handles address spaces.
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At this level of accuracy things are pretty strange. It used to bug me when you had to tune RF circuits at a distance with non-conductive tools because your body capacitance would throw the tuning off. Having a clock that just being near it will change what time it reads, well that is a whole different ballgame of weird is it not?

On a science note, why isn't this a gravity wave detector anyway?
Food is not dirt cheap for someone on minimum wage.
I generally agree with this, my only input would be to this:

"Technology makes wealth inequality worse by giving people leverage and compounding differences in ability and amount of work."

to "differences in ability, amount of work, and utilizing existing wealth and assets."

Technology helps the rich get richer, so it's naive to chalk its benefits up to only hard work and ability.
Apple is missing big time in the smart watch camp.

Imagine all the NFC possibilities, like the article about hotel check in and stuff like that. PC activation. Car activation. Passcode integration. Lights on/off on enter/leave, etc.

People may react with disdain about the idea, but once smart people start building cool apps, they undoubtedly will follow.

Just do it Apple, damnit, we will build the apps, they will surely come.
Right! I wasn't aware that the editing process is quite easy once you can target a specific gene. Awesome! :)
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Publicly Funded Schools That Are Allowed to Teach Creationism.
False frame. Wealth--meaning a state-granted monopoly to some amount of capital, and a government promise to perform violence on anyone who disregards that monopoly--is a social contract. People are only talking about renegotiating the exact terms of that contract.
After being on a team that was launching cube sats with old ICBMs this reusable launch platform for science excites me!
It's true I had used bulletin boards before, but I hadn't done much programming before that outside of a high school classroom.

In any case, I could pose a litany of other examples where I started in a subject precisely by "resolving" some common problems. For instance, when starting with machine learning, I implemented a simple naive Bayes text classifier myself. It was fun and illuminating.

Yes, this is definitely a learning style. Yes, people's tastes differ. But, I think that's my point...
> I’m broke and it’s not fair to my wife to go any longer without pay... I can’t imagine working for somebody else.

In such circumstances one might need to do what's required, and not what one would like to. I hope his wife will explain that to him.
There is a good Milton Friedman video wherein he explains why tax reform won't happen in the United States. The key is that the ideal goals of a tax system (e.g. generate lots of revenue with little inefficiency and little impact on taxpayers' personal financial situation and few unequally distributed loopholes like corporate tax avoidance) are not the goals of lawmakers who define the tax system.

In the video, he focuses on a theoretical tax system just like our current progressive income tax, but with all brackets >25% limited to 25%, and argues that it would be an improvement (according to ideal goals). But I think the argument could be extended to basic income or negative income tax, the latter of which Friedman also advocated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TruCIPy79w8
Down for me, too (and others according to twitter): https://twitter.com/search?q=facebook%20down&f=realtime
The real question you need to ask yourself though is, how likely are you to get your story in the email?
"just deserts" -> "just desserts"?

"ss" for super sweet!
game console + apple tv competitor could be interesting - especially if its running android and you can put your own apps on it - do we have any other tv connected devices running android currently?

We cut the cable cord almost two years ago and have an apple tv that we love and a roku thats a bit meh; give me something with a real app store and plenty of content and id probably switch.
If 'disposable income' includes those at the top of the wealth scale, this chart indicates no such thing.
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It came back for for a minute for me, too, but now it wont load...again. Seems to be spotty, hence the "ish". FWIW, a friend of mine is experiencing the same behavior.
map (format "The %s thing with Haskell is that it can be extremely compact") ["nice thing", "problem"]

(disclaimer: that probably isn't actual Haskell syntax.)
It's closer to 16% for the lowest quintile.
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I love 2FA as well, and always set it up when I can. But if you are going to argue that it is "tremendously inconvenient" to have users fetch a token from email or some other channel, I don't see how 2FA does any better.

The argument is that if you are not implementing full 2FA, at least implement your single factor as "something you have" rather than "something you know".

Adding a password as an optional second factor instead of vice versa seems preferable to me.
I'm in my 40's and have this problem with any system that attempts to use this method to identify me. My father has the same name as me. (I'm a II not a JR)This seems to be too much for these systems to handle. I've never managed to authenticate successfully with this sort of system.
Curt - perhaps I could have written out explicitly "you still have to pay yourself a salary" but that was what I was trying to infer with my comment of "...because you are now an employee of the S corp..." I see you are also in Oregon, you might have better local advice for the parent poster. At a minimum, since you are both local to Portland you should meet up for a beer. ;-)
My corporation quit when we became so good that no one would fight our small gang unless they outnumbered us 3-1. Eventually the lack of fights and the general laziness of moving to a new area led us to quit. So I guess yea, if we were just ok, we would still be playing.
That's a story I'd like to hear. I have this inherent expectation that the "best" SEO's are super technical and figure out effectively doing SEO utililizing tech mere marketers can't reverse engineer easily, but given the rangenius episode, I wonder if it's really true.
Friedman did have some role in pushing EITC forward, although it still falls short of his negative income tax idea.
I understand from Milton Friedman that if there was no basic income, unemployment should approach zero. What is the catch?
> In short, individuals see fairness on a scale -- from "what people receive should be proportional to what they contribute" to "from each according to his ability, to each according their means".

Exactly, and fairness keeps getting shifted along this scale. Here's an example that comes to mind when I think of taxation: let's say you have a country of 1 million people, and with total government expenses of $1 billion/year. The first taxation idea that comes to mind (and perhaps the fairest) is that every citizen pays exactly $1000 each in taxes. Now some people are going to scream "that's no fair, some people don't make that much per year, you want them to starve?" So then the next idea is "how about everyone pays 10% instead, so rich people pay more in raw dollars, but everyone still pays the same percentage?" The reply becomes "but that's still not right, rich people can afford to pay much more". Eventually, you wind up with a progressive tax that tops at around 90%, and nobody thinks this is fair (all in the name of fairness).
Oops, fixed! "Just desserts" would be a great cafe to have in an econ department building :-)
Fortunately, formally listing all of the internal IP ranges is a solved problem:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1918.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4193.txt

I have a feeling that IPv6 is going to be a lot more complex than simply blocking FC00::/7. I seem to recall that one of the benefits of IPv6 was that NAT-ing would be a thing of the past and every system would have a public address.
The claim was that you're prone to making mistakes if you judge software by the traits of the authors. How do you know that you haven't made a mistake?

Disregarding that, strictly speaking, the onus is on pg to show that you made a mistake (if this were a debate)

In general, statements and actions of the authors do seem to be extremely irrelevant components of software quality.
Not sure how this could be interpreted in any other way whatsoever.

This is unfair, and lacks imagination.

CEO X can run a company with an "elitist" strategy or not. And he can be critiqued for that strategy, or not. It is a giant leap (of bad logic) to jump to personal conclusions about CEO X based on his strategy. You are making that poor leap. The poster was trying to not due this, to his credit.
So excited about the prospects but I just can't get past this sentence:

Rounding out the SoCs, they'll also include dedicated engines for cryptography and compression.

"They" have ruined it for me...
> The key is that the ideal goals of a tax system (e.g. generate lots of revenue with little inefficiency and little impact on taxpayers' personal financial situation and few unequally distributed loopholes like corporate tax avoidance) are not the goals of lawmakers who define the tax system.

There are actually lots of viewpoints from which that set of "ideal goals" are not ideal.

And, of course, tax reform can happen with a different set of goals than Milton Friedman's ideals.

> In the video, he focuses on a theoretical tax system just like our current progressive income tax, but with all brackets >25% limited to 25%, and argues that it would be an improvement (according to ideal goals).

Well, if its just like our current system but for that change, the main difference will be a tax cut for high income earners and reduced revenue. That doesn't seem consistent with the so-called "ideal goals" set out earlier.
The question is, do people usually keep large areas of random data on their hard disks?
As I understand it, reasonable though your claimed salary might be, if you're making money on the difference between distros and salary (which stops being an issue at around the 100k point), you're filing returns with a big red audit flag on them. The tax savings probably aren't worth the heartache for a lot of people.

Not for nothing, but as an entrepreneur who has been in exactly the situation contemplated by this scheme: avoiding taxes by structuring your income as a "distribution" rather than salary is shady. I think it's unethical. People that don't happen to run S Corps don't get to do it. I'm prepared to lose the argument, so let me concede it in advance and avoid polluting the thread.
Not paying yourself is bad since it constantly makes you worry - which in turn is really bad for your company. Figure out a fair and low salary you can pay yourself and be 100% emotionally invested in your company without worrying.
I think I have lived here since these started and have officially managed to miss all 47 previous opportunities to attend, all while living less than 5 miles from them.

Do guests normally bring their computers or anything with them? Or are we just going to shoot the shit for the night?
"Shitty credit is not that big of a deal."

You realize that your credit record effects more than just your ability to get credit and other financial services right? Insurance companies will sometimes deny coverage based on information in your credit record. ie: health insurance.

[0] http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0152-how-credit-scores-...
The fitness industry is already an arena of terrible misinformation. If anyone actually wanted to help people, creating a social network based around superficiality (photos) rather than any real progression towards acquiring health is not the way to go.

Even if it works financially, it will still add to the ocean of misinformation that is the modern health and fitness industry.
Great idea. A simple HTTP proxy with filter would be useful in isolating the logic and keeping clients simple.

The effect would be similar to what we do with Zurl (also described in the article), but more generalized.
Initially, these new genome editing techniques are going to be (and already are becoming) extremely useful to more efficiently set up genome-wide screens and do basic science to discover new targets and understand the biology of cancer.

Applying genome editing directly as a therapy is a more speculative proposition for the time being.
I wonder why people think "The most suitable games for the console are likely to be similar to those currently taking tablet devices by storm"; the completely different control scheme makes me think that console games would be most suitable for a console.
Because I said I would
What does high risk mean?” Garth asked. His oncologist looked him in the eyes and responded… “You are going to die of this.” Garth is 44 years old and has been diagnosed with cancer three times since November 2011. Prostate cancer once. Kidney cancer twice. Although he appears healthy today, statistics say he has an 8% chance of living past 5 years.
Yep yep. The John Rawls's theory of justice should be a required topic in school.

What matters is how well the poorest in society are doing, not the income distribution. If a system creates a mega rich class but ends up with the poorest in society being better off - then that's a better system.

I'd also qualify that "poverty" is flexible and always changing. I live on 10K/yr in college (2 years ago). I had to share a room with a roommate, ate a lot of rice and beans. I was a pain in the ass - though not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. However not being able to afford a cellphone or a car, having an ancient computer and not being able to afford a lot of social activities (movies, restaurants, etc.) had a noticeable negative affect on my life. If I had grown up my whole life on 10K/yr it probably would have had a major impact.

20 years ago, a car and a phone and internet were a luxury, in Africa or South America it's still a luxury. In modern america, it's poverty.
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When talking about normal people, the answer to that question is, "No". TCHunt was written in 2007 (7 years ago) and demonstrates that random data that is modulo 512 and larger than X bytes is very unique when looking at files that typically reside on the filesystems of end use computers. Forensic IT examiners use that to find disguised TC volumes.
that means you are using truecrypt and now please give us the private key or...
When it comes to debating ideas the supporters of big-government/Communism/Socialism has lost the battle long back.

In modern times I see that these people have changed skins and they are not talking about "inequality" and "environment" as tools to counter mostly free market enterprise and small government arguments.

Eventually it all boils down to which policy would fetch more votes. Number of unproductive freeloaders in American society is probably increasing, there is tendency to look down upon the legal temporary job seekers in USA as job thieves depriving Americans of their jobs and we are told to be compassionate about the illegal migrants.

The vote bank in favor of taxing the productive and paying the unproductive is increasing at a rapid pace. Yes, it will bring equality where everyone will be poorer and no hope for future. (Note: Big ships take longer to sink, I have no doubt USA will continue to be a leader over next 20 years or so but the decline after that will be catastrophic).
I gotta give AMD massive credit...while I have mainly used intel in my setups, AMD has really pushed their offerings.

First I remember everyone driving the price up of an AMD video card just because bitcoin mining.

Second they got the backing in PS4 and Xbox One hardware.

Now an Arm 8-core CPU...although I find the clock speed (2GHz) kinda underwhelming, still AMD's pricing would entice me to buy 2 for the price of 1 Intel i7
Yep. Other HN thread on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7140969
Cool. I bought a couple of HP Z3801A recently for home lab use. Also have an Arbiter GPS disciplined clock at work as a frequency standard for my RF equipment; they use one of the Wenzel OCXOs that has the lowest phase noise you can buy.
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Most trades never touch the blockchain until a user transfer the coins out of their exchange account into a different wallet.

Even if they did, see my other comments about how the volume across Dogecoin exchanges is only about $1M/day.
Yeah, but the console subsystem is ancient. It's much easier to diagnose problems with the console always up, but I'm happy to settle for a log file.

Also happy to not be writing servers for Windows anymore. :)
So, what should I use as my blogging platform? I mean, right now I'm using a platform that uses Dropbox and I fear it might go away anytime soon.

There are a lot of options right now... Any ideas or suggestions?
I sympathize with most of this post, but the one thing that I don't get is this line:

"I can’t go much longer without a paycheck. But, I can’t imagine working for somebody else. I wish my wife understood that."

If the author really is as down and out as he claims to be, I think somebody offering him good money to get his life back on track might be something that is welcome. He can always work for himself once things straighten out.
In addition to strength training exercises, also consider joint mobility exercises. There are numerous joint mobility movements for fingers and wrists, and all good joint mobility workouts include at least a few of them.

Leading joint mobility experts include Scott Sonnon, Steve Maxwell, and Eric Cobb. Maxwell and Cobb studied under Sonnon.

Last time I checked, Sonnon's most popular joint mobility resource was Intu-Flow. In this DVD, Sonnon comes across as a bit of a New Agey weirdo, but he really knows his stuff.

Maxwell produced the Encyclopedia of Joint Mobility DVD and he has downloadable follow-along joint mobility videos at his site. His instruction isn't as deep as Sonnon's, but some people find Maxwell more likeable.

Cobb's company is named Z-Health, and his resources are overpriced.

Unrelated to joint mobility, Kinesis has announced plans to release a new version of their Contoured ergonomic keyboard. I can't wait.
> The problem is not inequality, the problem is poverty.

In terms of experienced disutility, the two are largely the same; relative deprivation is a very significant source of disutility.
QR code payments phone to phone are even easier. I'm seeing street fair vendors who started taking square last year taking bitcoin now with QR codes on phones without much resistance. I don't know what their volumes are like.
Zero issues here from San Francisco. These types of threads on HN would be far more useful with specific location and diagnostic information included.

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