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I'm surprised more contestants don't use more strategy. It seems foolish.

It seems obvious that if you want a Daily Double don't pick the first row. Yet so few players ump right to the higher valued questions.

I caught a bit of an NPR show which had some interview snippets from Arthur Chu. He's clearly thought this out.

In particular was the realization that making decisions under pressure would be sub-optimal, so he worked out in advance what to do under various circumstances (tight game or big lead, early/late in the game, etc) and sticks to the plan.
Why is f(i = -1, i = -1) undefined behavior?
I'm also fascinated by this space. Have you seen http://www.interactivestory.net/ ?
incredibly tight work:

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I am currently running on Comcast Business with 5 static IPs, and while I do have to use their modem to terminate the coax connection, I have my TomatoUSB'd Asus RT-66u router playing just fine with it. Their modem has some sort of weird 'automatic bridge mode'; I configured the external IPs on my Asus router and plugged the WAN port on the Asus into one of the four internal ports on their modem, everything works just fine.

Granted I still think Comcast is the scum of the universe for myriad and sundry reasons, but at least this aspect of their service was fairly easy to set up. I still miss the FiOS I had back in Boston though :-(
In languages I know formal version of "you" (local version of singular second person) is plural form of the same word.
Historical explanation is rather simple. Remember history lessons: kings used to say "we, the king, think..." meaning that the king is a representative of some group. Due to this language quirk when addressing such a person formally you actually address whole group the person represents, hence the plural form of "you". In informal environment one usually addresses the same person directly, hence the singular form being not so much formal.
Simple as that :)
That dude is a bit of an ass, but I'll make two concessions...

Bad adventure games are really bad, true. Pixel hunting and verb guessing and odd sequences...

So really I mourn the death of good writing in games, especially comedy. Adventure games aren't the only source of good writing though, nor were all adventure games well written.

But there is still a dichotomy, because you cant have an adventure game without at least trying to write a story, but an FPS can just be quake.
Specifically: ways to tie a neck tie
I think there's an inevitability to his eventual hatching of superpowers. Whether or not he's good, bad, or indifferent to people, all he has to do is wait it out —til they're all dead — and he hatches into super universe monster. Pretty sweet.
What an outstanding article.

The "Identify one or two simple reasons..." point reminds me of the grand master of turnarounds: Gerstner. When he got the job I called him "the cookie guy" because what the hell did he know about computers (not much). But what he did know was how to turn the supertanker around.

Everybody expected a grand plan and after he did a walkabout and met everybody and learned what the company was doing his decision was: don't change much, just keep at it. (general derision from the press ensued).

He then went and fixed a bunch of widespread problems that fucked EVERYTHING up and so almost everything started to work properly.

Rather amazing.
If you don't owe your employer anything, why should he give you any money?
If the group being spoken to is exceptionally large, or it's clearly a group made of smaller groups (a group of groups), in some places "Alls y'all" is used. It's fascinating to note it when you hear it.

edit also, if there's a possessive it gets pretty crazy, for example a tour guide, assembling several groups for a tour might say "Let's get together for alls y'all's tour".
Whats the barrier to an RFC? Can just anyone submit one? I'll try a writeup if anyone thinks it's worth putting out there.
I kind of hope these protestors get their way and eliminate the buses, because that's when the law of unintended consequences will step in and teach that that they are going about it all wrong, and that they really need to resolve the extremely constrained supply of housing.

Eliminating the busses eliminates supply, but not demand. However it only eliminates supply for one possible solution. Employees will still need to get to work and Google and other companies will still be willing to find ways to make their employees happy.

This leaves room for a company like Uber or Google themselves to introduce a corporate carpool service and app where employees could leave their house roughly when they want and not have to walk to a bus stop. Employees would use a special version of Uber (or similar app), where they ping for a driver. Uber automatically groups three employees who are leaving from approximately the same time and region and picks them up in front of their home and shuttles those ~3 employees to Mountain View.

Attacking busses is easy. Attacking a corporate limo service is nigh on impossible without attacking every San Franciscan who makes a living from driving (taxis, lyft, uber, sidecar, etc.).

Under this scenario, Google would have to foot a marginally higher transportation bill, but employees will be happier since they will get picked up in front of their homes, get to come and go when they want and they will spend less time commuting since the vehicle only needs to stop for three people in quick succession and then proceed to Mountain View directly with no additional stops.

I reckon this service would cost Google approximately $50 per employee per day at scale with 3 people per vehicle, which is about $13000 a year per employee. With larger vehicles like suburbans, this would be even cheaper. When the average revenue per employee is about 7 figures, this is a no-brainer to implement.

With respect to Google specifically, this also gives them access to a large fleet of vehicles commuting daily. Since they are in the self driving car market, it's an obvious group which which to rack up hundreds of thousands of miles. This would could be the basis of the largest case study for allowing driverless cars on the road.
Leaving science
Are these pictures of water flowing on Mars, right now?
don't BTC-e or even Mt.Gox has 2FA auth now ?
Yeah, for some reason I read this as tie a knot, not knot a tie :)
The author is talking about engineering not cs classes. That being said, I would completely agree with you, having been through a cs degree myself. Version control and working in a group with it would have been very beneficial in school. Although, when I was in school that would have meant svn not git which I have grown to love, but felt the pain of having to learn the hard way.
You know what else is interesting? If you pay per click then your ad gets shown to accounts that click on everything, but if you pay per impression (CPM) then your ad gets shown to people who almost never click on anything.
This relates well to one of the fascinating things I realized while learning German: the fact that so many English and German words and sounds have phonetic connections, coming from their common Germanic ancestry.

For example, the letter "d" in German corresponding to "th" in English:

die/der/das -> the
drei -> three
Donner -> thunder
Ding -> thing
daher -> therefore

and, most relevant to this discussion:

du -> thou

I'm sure this connection can be better explained than I'm able to, but it was a mini-epiphany for me while studying the language.
This dude has a good channel. This video blows my mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcrBqCFLHIY
I wish we are sufficiently close to a time, when automated comment-comprehending and comment-curating software - like browser extensions and plugins - are widely available, thanks to advances made in the areas of (textual) Deep Learning and (textual) Artificial Intelligence.

Perhaps then, clumsy comments like the one made by joe_the_user:

One guess would be that click-farm people like stuff at
random to "seem legitimate".

could be neatly redacted by the extension, without affecting the rest of the comment.

I surely hope so.

Some of the comments that surface to the top of the heap, are head-achingly dreadful.
Awesome! I really like the introduction.
PS1="$(hr -) $PS1"

Beautiful.

Now I need a way to make this happen in SBT too.
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Follow your heart, your company doesn't have feelings to be hurt. Business is business, a better work environment with double the salary is the wiser decision.
FWIW, the author's school has tens of gigabits per seconds (and it may even be 100 Gbps by now) to a facility in which Netflix has a presence. Comcast, AIUI, doesn't.
I live in a suburb of Los Angeles where every kid in the school district has been issued a chromebook. this is the kind of market share Google will capture. For better or worse.
Imho it lacks good types. Python with the clojure collections as default types would be awesome.
Hi, if you email contact@bradjasper.com I would be happy to help you set it up.
Oklahoman here. We say "y'all" as plural. We also say "you all."
An LBO of a retail bank by Andreessen Horowitz would be most awesome.

Once they own a bank they could make every finance startups they invest in the primary customers of that bank and EOL the retail side of the bank, pushing existing customers to the services offered by the companies they've invested in instead.

To ensure cooperation between all the startups in the portfolio, this could be arranged as a keiretsu, in which in a later round of funding each startup would be given a percentage ownership of the bank that is earned out like equity. Make it a 1 year cliff with 4 years vesting.
Are you honestly saying that only the US does [significant] pharma research?
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I still see a problem with his testing in that he might be connecting to a server in a different area which is less congested when he connects through his school's VPN.

A proper conclusive test would ensure connection to the same Netflix IP somehow over a VPN as his home connection.
That's how the words are typically understood among modern English speakers...
I did in fact only just sit down after leaving that comment ~12 hours ago. Hope to have something up by tomorrow or Wednesday.
>So.. your argument is that because insurance companies can profit, it's not so bad?

His/her argument is, AFAICT: "Because insurance companies can profit, that shows that less than a majority of people die after a prolonged, expensive illness.

Therefore the earlier statement that "it is 100% certain you will have a long, expensive illness at some point in life" is not true.

Plenty of people die of sudden stroke or heart attack in their 70s after a relatively healthy life up to that point.
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I don't understand why anybody would think Apple would keep the older Macbook Airs if they were to squeeze a size in the middle, improve the performance and the screen.

No customer is going to go for the size of either the 11" or 13" if they can get a better screen at 12" or better screen and more power at 13". I think the weight/size has become so small as to be negligible to most people. I personally have an 11" air and a 12.5" lenovo (of comparable size to a MBPro I suspect) and the difference in size and weight is so minor as to barely be a purchasing decision between the two.

Assuming a next generation 12" retina MBAir would match the weight of the current 11" model, you have a nice even distribution of 1 pound increase per model.

Now, if somebody could explain why they still sell a non-retina version of a 13" macbook, everything I wrote above might be trash.
This makes me wonder if there is the fish equivalent of a treadmill where a circular bowl has a water flow from one side pumped through to the other side based on the direction the fish is pointing and how quickly it is attempting to swim in that direction.
They had pretty major controversies. They were
burning through an enormous amount of money on marketing
and
then silently inviting friends on Facebook controversy.

Wonder where they will go from here.
I know a guy who got to meet Queen Elizabeth. He was required to go through a royal customs seminar before meeting her. Apparently, you NEVER use "you" when talking to the queen. You can't say "Would you like some tea?". You must say "Would Your Majesty like some tea?". Hows that for formal.
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So, the privacy concerns, contact stealing and phone spamming rumours were all, well, rumours?

I mean there's a reason behind their non-existent user base. I stopped using it when all my friends got an email from them. All! Even my professors, and company managers, my MD. Then they received those emails all over again.
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The author points out that netflix cannot see what is going on over the tunnel: Actually, if Comcast wanted to they could tell what you are doing by using deep packet inspection. Certain firewall vendors have found ways to figure out what you are doing over encrypted tunnels based on protocol pattern/finger printing.
yes, that completely explains a phenomenon that arose in the early middle ages.
While comcast sucks for its price and monopoly, i think netflix is at fault here. I did a similar test a while back using my company cisco vpn which i personally administer :) and found netflix sucked big time with or without vpn around 9pm any day. Could never get even DVD quality on my 1080p despite being in San Jose, CA with 25Mbps+ crapcast
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Ask HN: How persistent and smart do you have to be to learn to program?
I'm a beginner trying to learn Ruby on Rails. Most tutorials show who to .reverse strings of text. I want to create user logins not reverse text!

I usually go through the course and never understand how I am going to use them when buildings apps. Learn how to print 1+1 is boring and demotivates me. When am I going to learn the good stuff?

Has anyone else had this problem?

original question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/How-persistent-do-you-have-to-be-to-learn-to-program
I am not sure you can draw the conclusion off of your post. They are knuckling down and focusing, very different from being a 1 trick pony or not being adaptable. They are forging full steam ahead on what they know best.
Swedish has du (singular) and ni (plural). Prior to the "du-reform" in the late 1960's however, ni was also used as a formal singular form, but for the last 40 or so years the formal form has been dropped, leaving ni for plural only. In fact many older people would find it mildly insulting to be addressed singular ni today.

Of course there are a few exceptions, most notably when addressing members of the royal family. If you ever get to speak with one of them, the correct way is to address them by title, in third person ("would her majesty like fries with that?").

Around 8 or 10 years ago I started to notice a trend, particularly among younger people (in their late teens maybe), typically working in shops and cafes, who started once again to use singular ni with customers, but I haven't lived in Sweden for several years now and don't know if that's continued. I hope not!
I'm curious - what do the remaining 70% do?
Du isn't formal though?
It's not there yet, but we're working hard to make it happen at gootechnologies.com. Main focus is 3D games for now, but we're going to attack 2d in early summer.

Right now you can prepare your scenes and do some basic interaction, but to make a full game you'd export the scenes and code javascript directly against our goo engine.

It's still in private beta, but if you PM I might be able to speed things up.
I'm not certain that either of your points are relevant? I'm not arguing efficacy, more legality and morality: If it is not plausible to bring someone to custody, and if the US is at war with them, then it seems reasonable that assassination would be perfectly legal and moral.
Right, and neither is thou.
This kind of test has been discussed at Ars Technica in the last few days. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/verizo... It doesn't conclusively prove anything since the Netflix and VPN traffic take different paths, only one of which may be congested. In particular, I suspect the encryption has nothing to do with it. Ultimately I think this is the same old problem: http://www.internap.com/2010/12/02/peering-disputes-comcast-... but as Netflix increases bitrate and number of subscribers it gets worse.
Either I have (good or bad?) luck or I've got some zeitgeist hunch or something, but first I had a convincing WIP of implementing Ruby in RPython when Topaz went out, and now while I'm working on a Lisp[0] — again in RPython — comes Hy.

Well at least Hy is markedly different, as my goal is not to compile to Python AST/bytecode, but "merely" be implemented in (R)Python (and C for LLVM) with no access to the Python runtime.

[0]: https://github.com/lloeki/wasp
They could probably guess he was watching streaming video. It'd be tough for deep packet inspection to tell that it's netflix though.
This is the result of the High German Consonant Shift [1]. English - many accents, at least - retain the dental fricatives (th-sounds) that were shifted to alveolar stops (d and t sounds) in High German. Dental fricatives are relatively rare sounds among the world's languages. Icelandic and European Spanish are the only languages I can think of that have dental fricative phonemes.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_German_consonant_shift
I thought they found a way to use mbox format to sandbox execution
Regarding entering a code: would it be possible to use the google two factor Auth app somehow for that?
Regarding the comment on the Chinese character 您 at the bottom of that page: it's still very much in use (formal letters, ceremony speeches, etc).

I can't add a reply though, because apparently I need 50 reputation. I can't upvote, because I need 10 reputation. You know what, StackExchange? I'll just stay away from your site with all the barriers to participation that you throw up.
Is there a native mobile equivalent for this? Identifying our FB ad cohort is a major problem when trying to calculate the effectiveness of our ad spend on FB.
If Lego Movie is any indication of the price of coffee it's around $37.
Pardon me prying, but what exactly is your experience?

I'm only asking because I've seen "in my experience" sermons delivered by fresh-out-of-college kids one too many times, and have become wary of the phrase.
It's still not cheap - Here in Seattle.

Companies like google cause a salary imbalance here - they pay Bay Wages - in seattle.
Somewhat true. Though intuition about the nature of the problem may give you a much better place to start looking than right in the middle.

If there's one particular module that is often at fault during a particular scenario, you can often start there rather than at the midpoint.
A big thing is whether you are using openjdk or Oracle's JDK(IIRC Oracle's makes IntelliJ look a lot better). OpenJDK generally makes interfaces look bad.
This app is awesome! I've tried out others, StayFocused, manually editing /etc/hosts, but I love the simplicity of this.

Would it be possible to add exceptions to sites? For example, certain subreddits allowed only?
> I'm a beginner trying to learn Ruby on Rails.

Really? That's like learning Calculus before addition and subtraction. I recommend that you learn basic computer programming before trying to learn how to manage a development scheme like Rails.

> When am I going to learn the good stuff?

Don't try to start at the top, you will crash and burn. Start at the bottom and work upward.

There are many ways to start, and reasonable people may differ. I personally recommend that you learn Python first -- it's very approachable and it teaches you the basics first.

https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide
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This makes me want to see a poll HN to see how many have read any amount of The KJV, and how much they've read.
The original asker made a minor error. Chinese isn't in the Proto-Indo-European language family. It is in the Sino-Tibetan family.
Uh, I don't think I was ever given the impression that it was "normal" for me (a guy) to like coding or math/science in general. It was definitely seen as a "nerdy" thing.
Feels like this list (and the original post) are problems caused by:

* lack of proper/default monitoring advocated for your tools (2), (4).

* Choosing poor (default/recommended) settings (1), (4).

* Keeping stateless server/instances when you don't need to (5), (6).

* Not tracking performance as part of monitoring (3), (4)

Albeit, I have made the same mistakes too.

edit: formatting
> (if you still are unsure about leaving) tell your current employer about the offer you've been made (you may not be allowed to give details, but you can give enough) and see if they counter offer.

Don't ever do this.

Leave or don't. If I'm your manager, the moment you expect me to counteroffer I'm planning on getting rid of you.

No offense, but you just told me, "Hey, I'm shopping around."

No offense, but that means, as a manager, I'd better start shopping around, too.

And, you want to leave a company on your own schedule rather than the company's schedule.
I've been desperately looking for an app with this feature.

Can you look at how "LeechBlock" for Firefox works? It's practically perfect but's only for Firefox.

:)
Comcast is still supposed to be bound by net neutrality rules, unlike other ISPs, because they agreed to follow them until 2018 as part of getting their merger with NBC approved.
I know, so do (head (second list)), or if you must, (head2 list) or even (head list 2) or something. Still much more readable than cadr
Recurly is something that I have heard rave reviews about. There is also a guide to using Rails with Recurly that is pretty sweet and speaks of an easy integration.
Its comes with caching built it to allow for fast fetching of huge amounts of data.
Plenty of people still use ant. It's the path of least resistance where I work since we have a lot of tooling and preexisting code that use it.
If you want to provide a redirected environment for a presumptively non-malicious process, fakeroot works fine. It's not a secure sandbox, though, because it's based on intercepting system calls with LD_PRELOAD, and a process that wishes to can avoid being intercepted in that manner, since it's just enforced by the shared-library loader. So processes that are statically linked, or that have direct syscalls compiled in, will bypass the LD_PRELOAD replacements. The seccomp mechanism, by contrast, is enforced by the kernel.
I think this reflects one of the fallacies that people from other languages bring to Lisp. They think that all languages are more or less immutable.

If something annoys you (like funky function names) you can alias them or add whatever you think is missing to the language.

E.g. You could define second as something like

(defun second (list) (nth 1 list))

and use it forever, just as if it were in the base language.

As an example I have a function L2HT which takes a list and returns a hash table:

(l2ht '((1 "one") (2 "two)))

(You can override the hash table type with various parameters if you like).
Isn't that what you do with most royalties and other archaic classes? Your Holy Grace for bishops, etc.?
I've got native IPv6 at home and we enabled IPv6 on all services at work (hosting web applications and services) and we have zero issues. IPv6 solves a staggering number of architecture problems for us compared to IPv4. For us IPv6 is a net positive.

See? no flame.