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> That's still a terrible argument.

It was one of three points made, the last point being the most significant. Our humanity should take priority over negligible costs.

> there's absolutely no reason to expect this hugely premature baby to have >14% increase of value

Without a standard deviation on the average, there is no way to say whether or not 14% is reasonable. Regardless, I was simply pointing out that it's a small fraction rather than orders of magnitude greater. Even if the child winds up providing 50% of the value of an average person, it can still be a net gain.

Economic reasoning is just one (minor) aspect to this situation though. There is very real value in simply helping a fellow human survive.

> as a premature baby with massive expensive health problems, wouldn't we expect the opposite?

The stats you cite are for extreme cases on the edge of viability and the odds still slightly favor normal or near-normal development.

This particular baby was born with a 66% chance of living and deserves more than a quick dismissal.

> If babies could be born months premature with no negative effects, why aren't they being born that way already so they can start growing up quicker?

That's horrible reasoning. The human body has evolved over millions of years for birth. It is the optimal gestation machine. We're working on approximating this optimal machine with artificial machines and continue to rapidly make progress. In the rare situation where the human body fails for some reason, we attempt to augment it with the best artificial machines we've got. Nobody claims that premature births are better, but a hiccup during pregnancy shouldn't mean the end of a life if we can avoid it.

Humanity progresses when a society looks out for each other. In particular, without bias. That starts at birth.

What you're proposing is barbaric and borderline infantcide.
Well, you'll be happy to learn that logind is a separate process entirely.
Take a look at Project Lombok: http://projectlombok.org/

A bit hacky, but it works.
Anyone seen some recent numbers?
An article on Forbes estimated an average of $4k, and I've seen a survey where the median was a bit less than $1k.
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Starbucks is already waay more top of mind than this, does plenty of other advertising, and this project is way out of line from their carefully managed brand image of warm/comfort/happy/love
What do you mean by "iOS7 physics engine"? I can't imagine a game physics engine being included with the OS. Is this referring to a creative abuse of iOS UI widget animations?
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Maybe he doesn't care about money first and foremost? If nothing else, this move demonstrates it.

Granted, he probably made about a million by now, which will presumably last quite long where he lives. Still, he could have just kept it online and would probably never have to worry about money again.
I must not be cool because I find this Flappy Bird issue to be utter nonsense. This whole thing (everything relating to Flappy Bird) is asinine and unworthy of anyone's attention.
On my system, those units do have unit files, and they're provided by the Plymouth package. I couldn't find any reference to "plymouth-quit-wait" in the systemd source code, so those strings have to be coming from somewhere. Are you sure you don't have a unit file at /usr/lib/systemd/systemd/plymouth-quit-wait.service ?
Should anything be done when a recruiter emails your work email address?
Another way to look at "sprawl" is: Enough space to have privacy, enough space to pursue your own interests, enough space to have the kids enjoy the backyard as opposed to a 4'x3' balcony on the 20th floor of an apartment building. Enough space to design your own home or addition, perhaps, if you have the inclination. And enough space to have a car that gives you more independence (when you want it) than being at the mercy of public transportation schedules concocted by central planners.

You also might enjoy sports cars, as I do, and enjoy owning a very well-designed vehicle that does 0-60 in under four seconds and is a joy to drive on the windy roads near my house -- though it would be nice to add a self-driving car to the garage too. (HN trivia: I had lunch with Steve Jobs in 1989, and he drove up in a black Porsche 911. Larry Page bought a Tesla roadster. I recall Cypress Semiconductor CEO TJ Rodgers telling me about his Mercedes; you can probably track down the interview if you're interested.)

Also: I don't live in a downtown area. Nor do I live in suburban sprawl. But "sprawl is just a subsidy for cars" is a weak argument that gets the facts wrong: car commuters are subsidizing public transportation via gas and other taxes, not the other way around.

Here's Randal O'Toole on single-family homes in the SF Bay area:
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/do-single-family...
"The vast majority of population growth continues to be in low-density suburbs. Surveys of millennials show that more than three out of four aspire to live in a single-family home with a yard. The data also show that crowding people together isn’t really effective at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions or addressing other urban concerns. Population densities in the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose urban areas have already grown by nearly 60 percent since 1990, yet per-capita driving still has increased."

I do apologize in advance for injecting facts into a religious argument about that loathsome invention known as the automobile. :)
> fundraising is about “searching for true believers, not convincing skeptics.”

Interesting and well said. Makes sense, but I hadn't thought of it in those terms.
eBay listing for iPhone with "Flappy Bird" installed. At $90,000 and counting...
According to codinghorror,
Dumb Starbucks in LA is Banksy level art project.

http://t.co/zNKKe1S57x
Seems too short. Maybe you could split it into 5 files? You don't even have a factory. Much less a factory factory. This code will never cut it in the enterprise world.
> This comparison is so erroneous that it's embarrassing

Not disagreeing with you, but it would be nice if you could elaborate on that, rather than just stating that you disagree with the article.
There are two physics engines in iOS 7.

SpriteKit - Contains a 2D physics engine similar to Box 2D but not as full featured (joints, rigid bodies, shapes, polygons). The whole engine is similar to Cocos2D but ships with iOS 7. A particle editor and texture atlas generator is now built-in to Xcode because of it.

UI Dynamics - Contains a set of constraints and joints which can be used to flip and throw views around the screen. Lots of API hooks for responding to / taking user interaction into account. This is used for effects like when you scroll the messages list (the message bubbles bounce and collide) or when you drop notification center down (it bounces).

Edit: from a brief look at the source code, this example uses the UIDynamicAnimator API, so it is simulated entirely with the UI dynamics stuff.
Well, at least in the (indie) gaming industry, it seems to be generally admitted. It's called "app store lottery" for a reason. And there's certainly not much survivorship bias going on.
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People have a sort of natural baseline level of happiness, different for each person. When bad or good things happen you move the needle a bit, but when you get into a steady state it moves right back to your baseline. Unless you live in a situation of genuine poverty it's highly unlikely that having more money will make you happier. I know all sorts of income classes and i don't know of a difference in self-perceived happiness among those classes. You can mock rich people for the silly worries they have (like how best to invest their money) but that doesn't mean those worries aren't just as real to them.

(Incidentally, the book The Happiness Hypothesis covers this subject as well as how to actually become happier.)
(Because you said so)

(Don't worry about, you know, backing up your point or anything silly like that. That might require that you know what you're talking about.)
Nice...Create an app, build demand, make money, restrict supply creating secondary market for developing a replacement, make more money - Like it.
Even then, I'm pretty sure his revenues from this will be insignificant in a short time. This certainly seems like it lives from new users trying it and accidentally touching ads. The few power users that will still be around one day after it's taken off the stores probably won't matter revenue-wise.

And I can imagine that he'd lose all his money if he killed the account.
It looks pretty neat. I'm leery about their custom scripting language, but it at least sounds pretty bulletproofed. I'm interested in how much (if any) of the lower layers of their system are separated out from the higher ones; I'm more interested in how those layers could be used with my own engine than theirs itself.
You're assuming that we're at capacity on spending, but we're not. Instead, we can afford to bring 11 individuals into the world. The absolute gain to society is still greater than simply bringing 10 into the world.

Maximizing number of total person years is not sufficient because a population 100x as large but living 1/5 as long would be superior to a population of the current size but living twice as long.

I'd argue in favor of maximizing population size and average lifespan. Of course this ultimately leads to the requirement that humanity moves off of this little rock of ours.
Is 25 really when most women are hoping to starting a family by?
If I was a good Android programmer, I don't know if I would feel good about releasing a game clone. But if someone is paying me to simply code it, I'd just take it as an assignment and get it done for a decent amount of cash.
A similar idea was done by silicon graphics using a lava lamp - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand
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Parking is a huge subsidy for people that drive. It's basically giving away public land to motorists, land that could be used for much better purposes. If you're living in a city and parking is a major concern, perhaps the suburbs are more suited for you. More stress inducing than having to drive in narrow areas, is having to walk around in cities with motorists constantly on their phones, almost running you down in the street, and not facing any repercussions[1]
I wish there were more car-free areas in the US like in a lot of metro areas in Europe.

1. http://cironline.org/reports/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedes...
Also, reading "obvious" as "obvious to the general public" rather than "obvious to the person I'm speaking to right now: a journalist specifically asking for comment because they already believe it's not a Starbucks" and expecting that interpretation to hold up anywhere that matters is the kind of thing you only see in Internet lawyering.
I'd say : follow the money. Without immigrants, the population of the EU would be dropping, and quite quickly. That would destroy Europe, affecting a hell of a lot of politics. None of the people who think like this live in the cities. Well either they live in the very expensive neighbourhoods, the "reserved" neighbourhoods (e.g. the EU commission "reserves" certain houses/apartments only for it's employees), or the countryside (which is more like suburbs than like countryside).

On the other hand, there are also people who actually live there. They wouldn't mind the population dropping and the violence, exclusion and crime matters a whole lot more if you can't escape it. Walking around the north station in Brussels with an iPad, for example, is impossible. Walking around alone if you're female, just don't risk it.

And of course, the racism charge is used against anyone who isn't happy. Note that racism, by itself, is a crime in Western Europe (this started out as a law against holocaust denial and now includes a hell of a lot more[1]). It's considered part of criminal law, which means that if you're suspected of racism you can be charged without any damages. This tends to happen to people who get in the way of the status-quo politics. In reality 35-45% of the population is extremely against immigration (including nearly all non-recent immigrants), but they're kept out of the political process through charges of racism or accusations of being nazis.

[1] Except of course, where convenient. Denying the Armenian genocide is sort-of OK by the socialist parties in Europe, because they want their power over Turkey too.
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I'm looking forward to a First-Person Flapper.

Or a Massively Multiplayer Online Bird-Flapping Game.
"This is our fifth mixer. People are like, 'Andrew, what could be next?' And it's like, 'Oh. Done.' We have a mechanical bull. Game-changer. Innovate."

Oh dear. Quickly reminds me of Vanity Fair's Dave Morin interview:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/my-phone/2013/03/dave-mori...
This is correct. It's all UIDynamicsAnimators using Pushes, Collisions, and Gravity.
Funny the lack of social justice warriors in this thread to save her from herself. (Which is to say: fantastic article, thanks).
Well it seems to have stifled your compasssion for lower life forms, most of which are harmless.
I think I could do it in 2 days tops, to the same level of polish, using only my personal iOS game library. I've been a game developer for more than 20 years, though.
Haha.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot

(P.S. not what, but who.)
Just playing around with this.... cross platform, doesn't try and be a "no programming required" environment, GDScript looks good enough. Whole env is intuitive. The live docs are decent. A couple of minutes in and I'm already making something. This is pretty damned cool!
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Learning to code is a prerequisite for learning computer science. You will not ever get interested in how to sort numbers in an efficient way until you've had to try to do it yourself because you needed it in some of your own projects. This practical need of yours will put everything else into a context and things will flow from there.

For example, I think I "invented" selection sort when I was maybe 10-11 years old because that was the obvious choice. Then few years later when I first read about quicksort, I kind of already had an intuition to why that just might be a heck a of a lot faster than what I had used before. And also to why selection sort might actually be really, really slow.

I also think that coding and computer science are so tightly connected that in practice you can't do one without the other even if you wanted to. I also think there's no easy path to coding: you need to start from the lowest level and build from there. Or start a bit above the lowest level but go for a dive down later, and only then continue upward.
Oh come on, most of those bids have got to fall through, right?

.edit: then again... I guess it only takes two ...
Is this real? I am hoping that this whole thing is an elaborate marketing campaign Dong Nguyen (Flappy Bird Dev).
Why don't you feel.empathy for the people whose suffering you saw?
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/births.htm

Mean age at first birth: 25.6
Because now you're excluding both classes. Two exclusions don't make a right, so to speak.
I think its near impossible he will be making as much selling the source on elance compared to the ad revenue he was pulling in.
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I think the difference is that nobody know you're rich. Everyone knows Nguyen is rich.

Lots of fake people out there.
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I mean, given your first paragraph I would say: yes. To like all of those. It IS basic. So yeah. It's been a basic feature since the 70s. I guess you can give a demerit to C++ for it being the one feature they didn't steal from elsewhere, but then again you can give C++ a black eye for a lot of things.

(And still: C++ managed to get lambdas before java did. How messed up is that? Extending Java is about 10x easier than trying to add something to the crufty minefield that is the C++ spec, and they still beat them to the punch.)
Yahoo might become competitive again:
http://readwrite.com/2014/01/31/yahoo-microsoft-search

If Yahoo gets serious about search, I think they could gain a lot more marketshare than Bing can. Bing has a lot of "Microsoft baggage". I think many people rule it out simply because they trust Google more than they trust Microsoft. Yahoo feels more like a clean slate.
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Interesting! I suppose hanging around people that spent that period in grad school skews my view of things.
Charging lower rent in urban areas wouldn't create more of them to live in. You'd have the exact same number of people living in suburbs.
Just because it's old school, doesn't mean it has to reference Nintendo! Don't forget computers and arcades had games too! Anyone remember that old 4 player monster truck arcade game? It had women dressed in a similar fashion when you won and I'm pretty sure a few other racing games did as well, it just went with that genre. They were even quite animated!

When I saw her pop up I instantly laughed and thought it was perfect because it's exactly what I'd expect based on my rough memory of old arcade games. If I actually viewed their site content first, I would have thought it was even more fitting, I mean look at their stuff! Regardless of what you think about the professionalism or sexism of it, they picked a reference and followed through on the full shebang perfectly, and that's what sells it, the complete well thought out package. They nailed the joke. The bonus that made it even funnier is the nostalgia surprise. I wasn't expecting the woman because I hadn't remembered those games in years, but when it popped up I went damn, that's SO how those games were! I can't believe they did that shit back then! My next thought was I gotta hire these guys and learn more. I hadn't even seen the rest of the site yet.

They know their audience and they seem to do a great deep dive appeal to them. These guys feel like they'd be polarizing, which is a better place to be then most the marketing companies out there. Use at your own risk. These guys seem awesome, and you seem to hate them, but here we are talking about them.

Doesn't a 1980s video game joke out date bro culture by like 25 years? I know what you are trying to say, but it just feels like a stretch given the context. The 1980s is kind of their thing. They have a match book with a naked women as a portfolio item for god's sake! Nothing here is screaming bro. Not all branding companies work for clean, tidy tech companies or insurance companies, some work for people who want attitude or character, you've found one of those. It's clear you are dealing with actual artists and creatives here, ones with an actual passion in what they create, that's a big damn plus.
My housemates were public transport fanatics, public transport "does everything we need, you just need to harden up a bit, there really is no need for a car", and one of them was a moderate cyclist. I went away for three months during which they had free use of my car. On return: "We're getting a car".
Are you still on an introductory rate? Wait until you see the 'real' prices and after that and you will start to being the path to hating your cable provider.
Humanity is entertaining. I wrote the beginnings of the game[1] in a few hours Today. I should have sold it... I still can sell it!

[1] - https://github.com/joeblau/FlappyBlock
They are called "DARK IGLOO"
Seems a bit wierd that does not have its own domain.

I mean, it does (theintercept.org) but that just redirects you to https://firstlook.org/theintercept/
I think I'm going to just release a game called "Push the Button". There's a big red button in the middle of the goddamned screen and the objective is to push it as many times as you can. As long as I don't kill a guy in Guam, I think I'll be set for life; I base this assumption on the H.L. Mencken conjecture.
Oh how the tables have turned. /putsonmicrosoftfoamhand go bing!
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Apparently they did more. On 8th Feb, I had these two IP addresses checking out my who.is page.

64.246.165.10

216.145.14.142

I was certainly only curious, because it was a unpublished website with deny-all for all robots., so tried a reverse-ip using Who.is; To my surprise, the who.is page for the above two I.P. didn't load, thought it was maybe my connection, but then, when I used Whois.net to end up with the same result, I knew something was going on.

It was only after I googled the I.P address I found some dutch reverse I.P sites that said it was from comcast servers. Though I have nothing worth hiding, and it was just a testing ground for me, this was apparently not nice. I only got to know about the hack yesterday.

Perhaps they bulk collected data, using comcast servers?
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In auctions like these the highest bidder will never follow through with payment. Unless this is some exceptional case. They are also fueled by shill bids. The bidder's account will be flagged for non-payment, and due to the priced nature of the breach of contract the account would then be closed permanently.
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>According to a former drone operator for the military’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) who also worked with the NSA, the agency often identifies targets based on controversial metadata analysis and cell-phone tracking technologies.

Well, it's not like they believe their targets are human, anyway. Their lives are worth nothing to those analysts, innocent or not.
No! You call a blocking rand function bound by available entropy.

If your random source is compromised, adding two numbers from the same broken source does nothing. What you can do though, is XOR numbers from independent random sources to improve the entropy of the final output. (not sure if that's what you meant by adding random numbers together)
Yes, but you'd have a more diverse mix in the urban center to run the place, more of the consumer surplus would be distributed more widely, and a strong pressure against class mobility, housing and transportation costs, would be reduced for those lucky enough to be selected for a high demand area.
>However, there are good reasons to prefer a reduce operation over a mutative accumulation such as the above. Not only is a reduction "more abstract" -- it operates on the stream as a whole rather than individual elements -- but a properly constructed reduce operation is inherently parallelizable, so long as the function(s) used to process the elements are associative and stateless.

I've read this kind of thing everywhere, but is there any language/runtime/compiler that DOES DO this, or is it mostly a case of "an adequately advanced compiler" syndrome?

Especially for examples as the simple accumulation (addition) above, it seems especially difficult for the runtime to judge how to break down, what the parallelization overhead would be etc.
People studying hard sciences, engineering, statistics and mathematics should study calculus, because they need it to understand and solve problems in their domain.

High school students would be much better served in life studying statistics instead. Far more important decisions in life and public policy are informed by statistics than by calculus.

There was a time when I thought more breadth - number and set theory, proofs, and so on - would be better in place of calculus. And while I think it would be an improvement on teaching calculus, it would not be nearly as useful for most students as a better understanding of statistics.
I've seen that the editor only runs on OpenGL 2.1 supported platforms, but can it compile games for OpenGLES platforms?