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>>Thanks, so you propose that every player starts with a stack of points.

Isn't that essential to the ELO system?

Let's say you have a game with four players with these levels: a=1, b=2, c=2, d=3

Player b wins. So player a loses 1 point, player c loses 2 points and player d loses 3 points. Player b gets 6 points. If you add a tax, 1 point gets lost and Player b gets 5 points.

Well, you are not responsible for the inflation. The inflation is created through new players, who get their starting value.

If you do not want to decay the points of inactive players, you could add the mentioned tax, so that the new points added to the system each day are equal to the points eaten by the tax on each game of a day.
I'm sure the creator meant for the vowel-disembowelled name to mean "drop", but I keep reading it as "derp" - which in no way makes it worse!
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In his Culture novels, Iain M Banks likens technological progression to a rockface rather than a ladder. There are many routes to get up.
Your original point was that the layers served no value, but you are agreeing that they do serve value, just not the value that you particularly appreciate.

Worse is better. At least better than nothing.
How is it that Spain/UK with active terrorist movement did not have those laws before ?

They (the UK) did. They had the Prevention of Terrorism Acts in the 1980s. They had interment without trial. They had aggressive police on the streets. They had police shooting at protesters. They had the head of government (Thatcher) saying "We don't negotiate with terrorists". They had secret service spying on people of the wrong ethnicity.

I remember going to Northern Ireland in the 90s and being questioned by military with machine guns at the border. These things did exist.
True. But for a lot of people they don't want to manage the additional overhead. Sure at £400/day could roughly equate to £100,000/yr but that's as optimistic as you can get (assuming you work 5 days a week and only take two weeks off a year). The reality could be much less if you take into account sick days and days you just were not able to sell. Some people would rather just have a sure bet even if its much less than they could potentially take home if they were on their own.
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Job security? Don't want to do sales? Comfort?
Sorry about that, I would update the submission if it wasn't too late.
Thanks - really helpful for me as I am "finishing up" my PhD. It never occurred to me that I need to see it as a more mundane task than I do currently! (Probably also wouldn't hurt to stop reading HN :)
Actually I think this could be a good thing: we could put every politician in jail
Allowing direct linking to binary files is a recipe for malware disaster. It's not going to take long for malware uploaders to start using the site to host drive-by malware payloads.
It will if it ends up being an internal transfer.
Ask HN: My industry's becoming commoditised and I'm scared
For the last 12 years I've worked as a web developer, first solo, then part of a couple of firms, then solo again. I've always prided myself on inquisitiveness and giving businesses what they want, but more and more the budgets - and industry expectation - is to roll out a piece of off-the-shelf software (Wordpress, Drupal, Magento), stick some Bootstrap code on it, apply a layer of design and push it out. I'm not getting job satisfaction and I don't feel I'm doing good work.

I've built large custom business systems (integrated sales/crm/accounting/order management), but the demand for these has dried up as SaaS integrated with other SaaS works out much cheaper.

I watched it happen to my uncle (a chartered accountant) - it's gone from a well-respected, well-paid profession to being data-entry using low-qualified staff and a few highly-qualified advisors.

Designers seem to have it even worse: no need to create, just assemble ready designed components and use off-the-shelf themes). I look at the 'enterprise software' firms that I've had as clients and their staff have become 'integrators', gluing together Oracle/Microsoft systems to give the client (something of) what they want.

I was aware of jobs becoming commoditised; naively I didn't expect it to happen to me. And I'm scared. I never wanted to be an assembler, to see all the fun stuff automated; I chose my career in the heady early days of the web, when there was so much to figure out.

What do you recommend, and are there any industries or services which aren't/aren't yet/can't be commoditised?
Similar to http://chromatic.io
Nicely done.
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I wonder if this was how people felt about C in early days. ASM was the low level frailty, and C the oh-so-clean one-make-away world to create, extend, modify your system.
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The IRA were called "terrorist" by the UK Government at the time. They had the "Prevention of Terrorism Acts"[1], and the then head of Government (Thatcher), said they wouldn't negotiate with terrorists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevention_of_Terrorism_Acts
The IRA in the UK?
Something that could be used with Tweetbot would be great! I'm not particularly happy with any of the options I'm aware of (imgur is not one of them).

I've attached their spec for quick reference:

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HTTP POST which includes the Twitter OAuth Echo headers (described http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_echo)

POST includes the following fields:

- message: text of the tweet
- source: "Tweetbot for iPhone"
- media: JPEG or MP4 data with a mime type of image/jpeg or video/mp4 and a file name of either image.jpg or movie.mp4

response should be in one of the following formats:

- <mediaurl>URL</mediaurl>
- { url: URL }
- { mediaurl: URL }

Their cited example: https://mlkshk.com/upload
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings
Exactly. A consultant's job is to deliver results from day one. If not, they're quickly out the door. The same can't be said for staff because they are considered an investment by their employer and therefore kept around much longer despite how much the drop off in "performance" may be compared to a consultant.
It's funny, because before Bush, nobody knew that word. Nobody ever talked about such a thing.

Except for the IRA in the UK. You really need to read up on your modern UK history
I dispute that RIPA is actually an "anti-terror" law in any way aside from popular description.
Why would HP choose to do this? Is it really likely to increase revenue?
I can't imagine many customers without a support contract now getting one purely for firmware updates - they'll just ignore them.

So perhaps a few extra sales from people who really need the bug fixes. But at the expense of at least a loss of goodwill and increased hassle for legitimate customers.
No IPv6 support. ☹
Because nobody would have hired me for £400/day at the time, since I had no experience. The cachet of "Accenture" was what allowed them to sell me at that price. Without Accenture, I would not even have been considered for that role.

It's more true than it seems. The client I first worked at was UBS. While I was in Switzerland, I actually applied for a role at UBS - they rejected me outright. Accenture hired me, and then sold me to UBS for probably 5x what UBS would have paid if they'd hired me.

Whilst I felt a bit used in this, I do recognise that most of that 5x premium was due to Accenture's brand, nothing to do with my skills or experience.
We created this to cover situations where the presenter doesn't have AppleTV. And using AirServer or Reflector in addition to G+ seems to add unnecessary middleware to a process that should be streamlined and easy.

iOStream takes about 60 seconds to add to any existing iOS project and it makes your application accessible through any web browser, without having to install additional desktop software. And yup, we do highlight finger presses and taps as well!
Actually, it is done on purpose. It is a feature which allows you to drag and drop a new image on a file page... but I understand it might be disturbing !
The intention wasn't to make you look stupid but to point out the absurdity of the comparison between rails and OpenSSH.

I completely agree on speed and (perhaps more importantly) memory size, minimal golang apps far surpass rails. On security, I'm not convinced a home-grown solution in plain go or any of the extant frameworks will be significantly more secure than Rails, nor that Rails is becoming more insecure. If anything I think they're putting more effort and time into security than they did previously.
Imgur had a partnership with a CDN, this guy is just hosting it on an OVH box.
Looks like.

https://github.com/rogerdudler/git-guide/
"They see their relative place, and can aspire for levels greater, which before would never have occurred to them even existed."

Note this applies to UI design. A bad UI makes it impossible for the end users to "level up".

Typical example: Start with the corporate standard database system, Excel. You end up with secretaries doing the equivalent of a simple SQL "JOIN" by hand. Hopefully using copy-paste instead of hand typing. Sadly I only dream I was kidding. On the bright side technology has improved as in 2013 we use Excel for this task but in 1996 I worked at a big iron financial services corp where the master customer database was a word processor file.
A lot of this page dates back to a few years back when glibc had severe bugs in its maintainer, and the eglibc branch/fork was the better choice. Regardless, given the commonalities of the codebases, it's doubtful that the numbers between glibc and eglibc are going to be much different.
Dunno why you're being downvoted. That could well be the case. Back in my Accenture days, I recall senior managers going for over £2k a day, and that was 10 years ago. This is a very high-level executive, who can jump into the CIO role like this... they could well be paid more than £2k a day of net pay! (by Capita, not by the government)
Minister of Religion is the only job I can think of that is hard to commoditise...

Good luck!
I guess. Though I'd argue that the UK's media outlets are actually among the least consistently unusable. At least for bare-bones here-are-the-facts reporting, the BBC is pretty useful.

In any case, I don't know how feasible it is to have a "non-biased" newspaper that pushes actual journalism.
I completely agree, I was mostly pointing out nitpicking on what goes to the consulting company versus the actual employee is not relevant to the article.
I have a very similar hook in our apps for both sales demos as well as customer support. It's so much easier for our support people to help our customers (SaaS app dealing with lots of data, lots of views, etc) if they can see what they are looking at.
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This text is nothing more than an aspirational humblebrag: "Look at me, I am so intelligent and have so much access to intelligent, wealthy, attractive people that I don't have to care about intelligence, wealth and beauty any longer! I have become blind to such superficialities and am now closer to enlightenment than any of you!"

Furthermore, for someone with a "Bachelors [sic] of Science in Writing" her writing is remarkably poor (e.g., "A millennia ago", "Lamborghini’s").
Or, agree that each month you'll pay the Bitcoin equivalent of an amount in the local currency, using (say) Bitstamp's current exchange rate.

That way you pay with Bitcoin, but don't have to worr about price fluctuations so much.
>>not sure I'd want to ask a client to go to 'fuckitstreamit.com'.

>We registered this second domain for this exact reason.

Why would you register a second domain to make people hesitant about showing your product to a client?
Even if we can't define the "UNIX philosophy" exactly, I think we can still look at a given software system and see whether or not it generally approaches that set of ideals as a whole.

When compared to UNIX-oriented software of the past several decades, I think it's clear that modern GNOME is very different. Systemd is also very different. Being so different in so many core ways means that they inherently don't adhere to the practices and ideals we can consider to be typical of software adopting the "UNIX philosophy".
Yeah, because lack of competition makes best stuff float to the top.
I don't think he/she is referring to Miranda, but GCHQ's arbitrary espionage on citizens, interception of communications, etc., borderline legal, if not illegal. Although the Miranda detention is the story here, the real story is the NSA/GCHQ massive surveillance revelation.
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Really great image host workflow.

I'd love to see the source of this (or something similar) so I could implement it privately. Any ideas?
The article precisely says that "It is understood that Ferguson is on a short-term contract".. And the fact that she has prior top-end contracts with RM and TfL proves that she will not be there forever.

It's too easy to assume situations like this are 'at cost' to the taxpayer, it's probable that it is a net saving to the taxpayer.
To be fair, he was the commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe which carried out bombings, torture and killings. By anyone's standards he was no peacenik.
Very cool. We definitely wanted to create a useful platform for developers and clients to interact with each other. A cool feature we added was the ability for users to screenshot the stream and annotate it with drawings or text. The user could then save the screenshot or email it.
The article is dated Friday, 4 June 2004 :

"This Trojan horse got through my defenses despite the fact that I was running the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) with the firewall turned on."
My post wasn't a criticism. Just that saying that Erlang is side effect free (per the OP), is misplaced. Erlang is an insanely pragmatic language that I use daily, but it very intentionally does not bend over backwards to avoid side effects, instead allowing them in cases where they make sense.
The BBC however have very selective reporting.

It probably isn't. I was hoping WikiNews would end up being that to be honest.
They would presumably present in their defence that they don't care about ideology or any political cause at all, but is just in it for the money and power.
I've been constantly looking for that progression. I'm a very poor programmer, but I would love to get better. I know C, C++, C#, Python, Java, Bash, and Lua all at a basic level just from having been introduced to them in classes or at work, but I've never found a good path to take one of them and become good at it. I've tried books and tutorials, but I can't find a progression of "Read this book, then this book, then this book, then watch this Youtube series." I can't figure out how to actually write programs once I've finished the first class, the first book, the first tutorial. I feel like the second book that people recommend to me is always two levels above me and makes no sense at all. Especially when people recommend the programming practice sites where the problems are all about solving math puzzles. I'm not that good at math, either.

I really wish that every profession came with a tutorial (outside of a four-year college program) saying "here's exactly what you need to learn, in exact order, to get started."
> hit by a truly huge attack that averaged 200-400 Gbps

I take it he's talking about that[1] DDoS attack? So whoever it was launched the biggest attack in history to to get at one guy?

[1]: http://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-details-behind-a-400gbp...
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It's unfortunate that you feel every second of your day need be used to be productive. It's also unfortunate that you feel the need to manipulate others through condescension in order to feel superior. If someone wants to feed some real fish, virtual fish, or simply play a game when bored to blow off some steam, then more power to them. How I choose to spend my time is both none of your concern, and entirely up to me.
I think that's built on a massive assumption about the nature of academic papers tbh. I'm a political scientist doing theoretical work on assemblages of governance and policy - part of my research is trying to come up with an explanation as to how this stuff works, it doesn't boil down to formulae or (many) metrics, although I'm doing methodological work to address that. Accessible, sure, just don't solve a problem that doesn't apply to ~75% of academia!
I get the impression that you think I am trying to argue, if so: it is not the case, I'm trying to understand and at the same time to explain. I often explain the same thing various times because I follow lots of mailing list and try to give explanations where I can. So in case my answer is sometimes long is not regarding starting an argument, it is because I gave similar explanations various times before and I want to be thorough.

I've followed eudev quite a bit. The initial email and following discussion was very confusing. The LWN link you give is based on various misunderstandings. Eventually 3 eudev developers gave the reasoning I gave before. That's why I find it quite interesting.

Those misunderstandings and assumptions is is also why I try to explain things like "portability" as good as possible: To avoid anyone getting bad impressions. E.g. if you'd just read any news site casually you'd assume we're totally pushing systemd, while it is far more nuanced.

Also, I am not the author of the blog / blogpost!
>>the linking process is a complex task, especially if it's to be performed with any efficiency.

I'm no kernel hacker, but doesn't that make the GP argument better?

It would be almost like static linking?

If code is compiled against a shared lib which always will be at the same address in virtual memory, a linking setup could be cached. (And redone if there is a new version of the library, of course.)

(I realize that caching this symbol table won't be a totally trivial change.)
And therefore doing it in a way that is NOT reproducible, easy to audit nor reliable.

How many times have we seen papers and science blown because someone made a mistake in the 50 steps they did to get their results?

CSV > Excel
I'm pretty sure that they both "considered Mandela to be a terrorist", and most of the rest of the Conservative party at the time did too. But at the time nobody cared what David Cameron thought.
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Who doesn't pay for food, transport costs, schooling, accommodation, nannys and other staff.... His/Her salary is a token gesture.
We initially registered 'fuckitstreamit.com' as a joke parody of the phrase 'fuck it ship it'. During demos at PennApps, the Venmo judges suggested we replace the domain with something more appropriate, so we registered 'iostream.io'
They did a lot of pair-coding, so I'd see a common development environment as acceptable.
Some Lexus vehicles I've been in featured a center console joystick that vibrated when the cursor moved over an element on the screen. I found it to be the most intuitive and the best at keeping my eyes on the road while still being able to navigate the various menus. Not perfect, but certainly better than a touch screen with no feedback requiring you to take your vision off the road.
The section on architecture support of dietlibc is too optimistic, IMHO. I stumbled upon quite a few function, esp. floating-point-related functions, that simply aren't implemented on x86_64 while they're available while they're available on x86.

But then one needs to understand the background of how and why dietlibc came to be: its original author used to work for a German company developing digital TV set-top boxes and receivers, based on Linux and technologies like DirectFB, so obviously supporting their requirements and optimizing for size aggressively, even if some functionality is non-conformant, has always been a priority.

Full disclosure: I contributed a few patches to dietlibc.
I disagree. It isn't reproducible AND people make mistakes and then present papers and other outcomes that later is shown to be false.

Spreadsheets are treated as Swiss Army Knifes. People believe all they need to do anything is Word and Excel.
All the feedback you would get would be inaccurate from those kind of beta testers.

Mainly because they will be there for the money, not for the utility the software brings to them.
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Nothing really, it works well... but a bit heavy for such a small website.
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I don't get why should I need an app like this.. Isn't it enough to use something like the Chrome console with jQuery.map?
What advice does anyone have for someone who wants to go up levels, in anything, but lacks the self-motivation to actually get started?

It's convenient that the OP is about higher maths education: I flunked my maths degree for various reasons. I managed to graduate, but not at the level I am capable of. In the intervening years, I've been tempted to get back in to it, however real life (and various other excuses) get in the way. It's a big mountain and climbing for the sake of it isn't overly inspirational... Small, achievable goals seem like a potential solution, but I'm at a loss when it comes to setting any and am blinded by lofty (futile?) ambition.
You're starting from the premise that there is a job that will not be commoditised for the remainder of your career. This is a faulty premise. It's up to you to learn the things you need to remain relevant, be that additional technical skills or "soft skills" like management.
Totally agree with you, the low margin x86 servers whose focus is SMB or even personal (in the case of N40L) are the ones who are most affected by.

Even most of the Proliant range comes with 3yrs service/support/warranty so its only really the microservers which are really affected.
This is nonsense. You just have to dev with Mono in mind from the start. Basically, don't use WPF and WCF and you're all set.

I'm currently in a web app team with a C# backend. Two devs run Windows, one has a Mac, and one runs Ubuntu. It works great. And yes, we deploy to Linux using Docker.
However NZ's anti-nuke stance and lack of military spend means that NZ will never get free trade agreement

Is this an official policy? Why is nuclear such a big deal, and how does the military factor in? Is it just that those are the major things the US would like to sell to NZ?
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Ask HN: Good math books / activities for children?
My 5 year old son knows a lot of math for his age. He seems very interested in exploring it further (e.g. making up his own math problem, asking questions, etc.) We gave him a few Kumon books, but they are quite repetitive (and I don't want to associate math with boring in his mind.) I'm trying to spend time with him and show him interesting things (e.g. geometry, negative numbers, fractions, roman numerals, playing board games, etc.) but I can't be with him 100% of the time. Do you know any good, interesting math books / workbooks for young children, that encourage problem solving, thinking, and the love of math? Ideas for home-made activities are welcome too.

Thank you!
It seems to me that git tutorials are the new monad tutorials. The concepts are simple, but the names are confusing (see "checkout" or "return", "reset" or "bind").

There are a lot of tutorials like this one, but I think that they mostly help the writer (not that it's a bad thing).