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The article itself mentions the gambletron website several times, even right at the start:

> Introducing Gambletron2000.com, a tool that uses live in-game gambling data to quantify excitement in sports, ...

So I think it's just that the two websites are related, not blogspam.
Something like this[1] didn't work for you?

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15039913/android-how-to-m...
Ok, lets go back first IBM standard graphics mode ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter ) had a limited palette which was black, light cyan, light magenta and white. maybe they were being backwards compatible.

Seems as logical as any other theory
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Didn't woodmann.com host a mirror of searchlores and +orc cracking tutz back in the day? Maybe that's why it's blocked. They want to prevent the spread of knowledge!

puts on a tin foil hat
That is my wife's argument. She says that a college degree means that you were smart enough to get a college degree.
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So they just need to articulate that they see this as a problem with the way the 4th Amendment is written and interpreted? Along with much of the associated law of course.

I guess a right to conduct day to day affairs without 3rd and 4th party institutional intervention is harder to reason about.
Like a complex computer and software system, government needs to be refactored.

Besides revolution, I don't know how to force that refactoring.
This isn't new, really. It was already possible to book a taxi / van; elderly people often use services like this.

Second, some bus lines get so little used you need to call ahead two hours in advance before they send a bus to the bus stop.
Why not just use a piece (an old play for example) that is already in the commons? Or they could request permission from a short story writer that would probably love the exposure.

There is no reason to try to be completely original. There are plenty of great stories out there.
Y'know, it's becoming increasingly common in patent law, and the trend is disturbingly closely related to the rise of patent trolling.

The oversupply of lawyers in the USA has become so great that many attorneys will take on anything at this point, including patent cases on contingency. And that makes it easy for businesses to hop on board, since the cost to them is so low.
It's a great idea but mandating it won't make it happen. You have to get people in office who actually care about not making bit rot in the law. Most of the folks making laws right now at a Federal level like the bit rot because it gives their donors loopholes to drive their armored cars through.

For example a large chunk of what the Federal government is doing right now isn't specifically authorized by the Constitution, but the Congress doesn't care. "Necessary and proper clause" they say, nevermind that running well over half the Federal government on the necessary and proper clause defeats the whole idea of limited enumerated powers.

I don't have any good suggestions on how to fix the problem with the officials not really caring to do their jobs, though.
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> I assume the goal here is to get young, uninsured people to buy health insurance

The goal here is to get young, HEALTHY people to buy health insurance in order to pay for those with preexisting conditions who can no longer be denied coverage.
Nothing stops us from doing this. We issue Freedom Of Information Act requests to agencies via https://www.muckrock.com, and then we integrate it into OpenStreetMap.

It's just a matter of someone taking the time to do it.
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Yeah, ft.com paywall. Just copy the link, paste it to google and then click on the result.
I was a bit perplex after reading this article. Would the consumer care? I mean, it is novel that it is a different, but I don't care.

It may be harsh, but I would say that it is almost economically irresponsible.
I concur. Besides, who believes what HuffPo says, anyway?
I agree with much of what you've said, but I have to pick on this remark:

"And yes there were teams that did this before Agile became popular, but it certainly wasn't the norm."

And there are now lots of teams not doing it but calling what they do "agile" because they're engaging in cargo cult practices. A whole bunch of stupidity is simply painted with agile terminology (e.g. unfocused daily meetings that are referred to as "standups").

I'm sure "healthcare.gov" was "agile".
>I really don't understand this fetishization of the US for business.

You don't understand because of the following idiotic strawman.

"If you want to be sued into utter oblivion and live on the streets with a nonexistent social safety net I guess it's all right."

Rather than whining about your impression of the US on HN, maybe you could do some research on your own to find out why it's such a strongly preferred place to start a business.

>(not some rinkydink app that mysteriously needs €30 million in funding so you can fail more spectacularly)

This further illustrates your lack of understanding of investing. To get that kind of capital, you need to have a good business plan or a really good app to start with. Investors don't intentionally lose money.

If you just meant that Ireland doesn't have any money to invest in software, then you should already see why nobody is interested in starting a business there. The capital pool is not as deep so your borrowing costs will be hire and it will take significantly more effort to get investments.
Two of us went on the premise of a long weekend. We liked it so much we stayed on the trail for the whole week, and only returned home due to a prior appointment (which proved useless, drat). So we had clothes for three days and we did washing in the basin each evening. We had a small laptop, snacks, and not much else.

The South West Coast Path is dotted with B&Bs, inns, pubs with accommodation, etc. These are often placed at convenient distances apart, 10 or 20 km at most usually. Accommodation prices ranged from 50 GBP at a simple golf course (the room had no proper heat, but the lounge/restaurant was charming) to 95 GBP at the Tinners Arms in Zennor (population 217 as of this writing), a spotless room above a pub from the thirteenth century. The chef there was from afar and cooked spectacular food in this, the middle of nowhere.

You can camp instead, and in the high season you may even need to. We went in autumn when there were few distance walkers (downsides: not warm, some rain, quite a bit of mud in spots, every sleeping place in Porthcurno closed for the winter, but a B&B took us in and the local Elvis impersonator invited us to stay with him but he drove a camper van so...).
I don't know if the irony was intended, but this sounds like another level of regulation (likely requiring additional levels of auditing, etc)... potentially yielding the exact opposite what it intends.

I briefly worked for the Federal Government, and I recall an immense amount of paperwork being generated by the regulations of the "Paperwork Reduction Act."
They've had this in the Philippines since forever (minus the smartphone part) with Jeepneys/jitneys. It's not a totally new idea.
Prime only recently (late February iirc) added the streaming stuff in Germany (after they bought the German streaming site "Lovefilm") and increased the prices (you're grandfathered in until early 2015 though iirc). I installed the app on my Xbox and counted...a whopping 81 films/videos were available in English. So basically I get close to 0 extra value from it.

Seems like a coordinated price increase. I use Amazon a lot and think the increase is still reasonable so I won't cancel.
My game developer friends mentioned something similar–that expansion packs were much more profitable than building new games. Because the expansion could take ~10% of the time but would generate 50% of the sales of the original.

This was in the 90s but similar principles are probably true in a lot of fields.
I'd be too busy trying to fly the now-gliding plane to worry about anything like that. I'd certainly curse my stupid luck while riding the escalator up to heaven though.
I cycled, hitch-hiked, and walked a rough perimeter of ireland.

I was with a friend, though. It was a lot of fun and really interesting.

Had a bivy sack and sleeping bag so most nights we just walked off the road and slept wherever seemed hidden enough. We took about five weeks or so. Stayed in random towns and such for different durations, but the walking part was always my favorite.

I'd like to do more trips like that, except try a few by myself. I get to and from work walking pretty often. Right now that's only about two miles, but even if it's five to ten, it can be nice. It takes awhile, but it's always been therapeutic to me. Walking home today, actually. Love it.

Roadside bivy sack: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yxfmxk7qk0mmhx7/_MG_6280.JPG
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Solving a problem would be worth a great deal. Thinking about how to solve a problem is not worth a great deal. Attacking problems that have been unsolved for decades, despite lots of work, seems like a poor idea when compared to smaller problems that can actually be solved today.
You're treating these like they're exclusive goals. There's no reason you can't give to more than one cause.
Luxembourg is a magnet because the UK government is stupid and creates taxes that are easily avoidable.
It's useless until you get the ability to deflect blaster fire with it. Then it become free armor and eventually you can reflect most of the weapons back at the person who shot them.
Yeah, I agree. I just wanted to mention it, since that article does get dragged out quite often.
Makes me want to move the denmark :)
Good tips but the 3-month claims create unrealistic expectations. It likely results in higher book sales but means most people will give up before they actually become fluent in a foreign language.

Fluency, also, is difficult to define. I listened to a couple minutes of Benny stammering his way through a Mandarin language interview. His level seems on par for 3 months of study, so perhaps he equates basic communication as "fluency." If I can talk to a stranger on the bus for 10 minutes, does that mean I'm fluent? Not according to most language rating scales, though they are admittedly very subjective.

The Foreign Service Institute of the US State Dept sorts foreign languages into three groups, based upon how long it takes a typical student to reach professional competency (CEFR C1, IFL 3/3+):

http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/lang...

Professional competency means: can you perform office functions in that language? Most non-Latin languages take a year of dedicated study (1000 hrs) to reach fluency. Exceptionally difficult languages, such as Arabic or Mandarin, take 2 years. Also, it's debatable whether even the 3/3+ moniker equates to fluency. I scored a 3+ in Russian and there are many, many situations that I cannot navigate in that language.

So could you, for instance, learn Arabic to a C1 level within 3 months? It's highly doubtful and shame on the author for giving people that impression.
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You forgot to include state and local government expenditures, which perhaps almost double the number.

And maybe he was thinking of a China GDP number from a year or two ago. When I google "China GDP" it gives me $7.3 billion from 2011.

And "nearly" is subjective.

And most military spending is welfare, either to defense contractors or otherwise.
As of yesterday, PD-1 drugs are now available for compassionate use, too: http://smh.com.au/national/bittersweet-victory-for-save-lock...

They have pretty absurdly high success rates.
I believe that Rolls-Royce doesn't sell it's engines; it leases them instead. So engine telemetry data from many airlines is transmitted to the engine's owner, which happens to be a central organisation.

(Of course, it is a business, rather than branch of a government, and not the only manufacturer of jet engines).
I think it's price discrimination. As I understand it hardcover books have much higher profit margins. The major fans want to buy a book ASAP and if hardcover is the only option they'll buy that. But if all editions are available from day 1 then a lot of customers will buy the cheapest one.
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I always thought people gave netflix a pass when they increased price because the film/TV industry was basically holding them hostage when they realized how popular netflix was getting. Netflix's contracts were about to expire and when they went to renew the movie/TV guys increased what they were charging to show content so netflix basically passed along the bill. What was nice is that they split up the digital/DVD content in order to keep the price pretty much unchanged for most (most people only did one or the other anyway (I think)).

So basically Netflix's hands were tied and they did the best they could for the customers. Is that right? Or am I misinformed?
Dear oh dear. You really are a sad case, aren't you?
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I believe jitneys are different: they have a fixed route. This , by gathering pickup and drop-off points optimizes routes and passengers. The end result is much shorter trips.
A question about insurance. If you join a new job, typically you can have yourself insured without answering medical questions upto 2-3x your salary. I don't know how your health is right now, but it might be something to keep in your mind.
First, developers give terrible estimates because of pride. They don't think through the problem, they don't consider complexity, and they want to look awesome so they ALWAYS over promise and under deliver.

This sounds like bullshit. More often than not, bad estimates are a result of built-in bias in the overall estimation system that gets blamed on the people.

For example, I routinely see people underestimating larger tasks when the cost of splitting them is prohibitively high, while the cost of being late with a task is largely imaginary.
Yes of course. I've seen it, but not walked it. Also known as the Way of St. James, the typical route seems to be about 500 miles (800 km), which is certainly substantial. And if you're into the religious aspects, there are probably few better places to spend a few weeks going slowly. But you probably won't find the sort of isolation that you would on less popular/accessible paths.
One day, there will be a Danish startup on "Who's hiring".
There have been studies that have shown that the number of businesses started after people qualify for Medicaid goes up. There's a little blip the year of qualification, as you no longer need to be tied to a job to get healthcare.

"Risk averse" isn't an on/off switch. It's a range, and removing "What happens if I get sick?" widens the range.
I also use it for my businesses. I am easily willing to pay the premium in Amazon prices and Prime membership to avoid going to stores. It doesn't even make sense if you include time, effort, and the possibility of the item not being in stock.
A lot of this isn't actually the CBO's fault... because they're totally non-political, or need to appear to be, they score things according to the letter of the law. The thing is, the letter of the law is never followed, as whenever the painful (cost reduction) parts start to apply, Congress votes to nullify the pain, which makes them more expensive.

See the 'doc fix'.
I may come across as a callous bastard, but this occurred to me as well.

Cheap cremation or donating my body to a medical school (there's one at the U across the lake). I'd much rather not give money to some funeral parlour shyster -- one of my uncles ran one of those things, and while I like to think he was one of the honest ones, that industry is all about taking advantage of vulnerable people, worse than being in used car / camel / spacecraft sales.
The study publication in PLOS ONE is "Detecting Emotional Contagion in Massive Social Networks."

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090315

Abstract:

"Happiness and other emotions spread between people in direct contact, but it is unclear whether massive online social networks also contribute to this spread. Here, we elaborate a novel method for measuring the contagion of emotional expression. With data from millions of Facebook users, we show that rainfall directly influences the emotional content of their status messages, and it also affects the status messages of friends in other cities who are not experiencing rainfall. For every one person affected directly, rainfall alters the emotional expression of about one to two other people, suggesting that online social networks may magnify the intensity of global emotional synchrony."
This is excellent, thanks! Has anyone got similar resources for iOS devs looking to try out Android?
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Well I found it quite useful. I've been doing small updates to my book [1], (mainly adding additional links, small examples and tidying text) since it launched late last year. I'm currently working on a larger update (adding a new section on Raspberry Pi programming, and some bigger code exaples, plus an enhanced HTML version), and I was wondering on how best to position the updated version. My choice was to continue with my current marketing, or to do a relaunch like Nathan. The information he gave is quite enlightening.

[1] PHP Beyond the Web, http://www.leanpub.com/php
I haven't found the Kindle Lending Library to be very useful. It's a small subset of the books available, mostly ones you wouldn't want to buy, and they do seem to make it very hard to find on a Kindle.
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OS-9 was another of the non-terrible things about the CoCo. It probably wasn't running OS-9, though.
An important correction: Unlike iOS, Android does not come with a simulator. It has an emulator. That explains many of the differences in startup speed and performance. A simulator runs natively and does not have to emulate the ARM machine code on your x86 device. The Android emulator is theoretically more accurate and runs the entire Android OS, but the cost penalty is huge. Therefore, most Android developers test small changes initially on a device.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/134746/whats-...
If you read this article and you were surprised (dismayed, I hope), then you should examine your news sources. This problem has been floating around for years.

Worse, this is just the tip of the iceberg. A building that has been empty for decades is an obvious waste, but there are many wastes that far outstrip this one. There are hundreds of billions of dollars out there that could be put toward paying down our debt and securing programs that are going bankrupt like Medicare and Social Security.

That's why when I hear Pelosi and others say that they can't cut a dime out of the budget. She said, "The cupboard is bare." I feel disgusted.
My rule of thumb is insure for 10x your income. That makes it feasible for interest on the payout to replace your income.
And it doesn't glow in space.
you can disable their ability to do so.
I think in this service you order a short time(10 minutes) in advance, and you get optimized routes. That wasn't there before i believe.
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this reminds me of index.docker.io and vagrant boxes ... do they have their own social/sharing thing too? Maybe someone needs to me a meta sharing thing for all this, for fun.

geerlingguy: you should make another post that let's you provision puppet/chef/salt or cfengine3 via ansible :) I think that would be cool and generate even more attention to how cool ansible is.

I'm going to play this this later today it looks intriguing.
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Ask HN: Why such a high upper bound of starting salaries for IIT CS graduates?
Undergraduate Salary Ranges:

Georgia Tech CS [$24.960 - $125,000]

Stanford CS [$10,250 - $175,000]

IIT (Kanpur) [upper bound: $210,000]

[1] https://www.adors.gatech.edu/cfcampus/adors/commencement/salary_report_result.cfm?college=2&level=1&surveyid=77&Submit=Submit

[2] http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/cdc/jobs/salary-grads

[3] http://ibnlive.in.com/news/no-slowdown-at-placements-iitk-students-bag-210000-pay-package/437865-3-242.html

I'm curious what is the reason behind such an upper bound in the IIT salaries? Aren't there equally intelligent students at Stanford, Georgia Tech, other colleges in the US?
I was under the impression a great many of the buildings counted are on military bases. that in itself is an issue because as with post offices Congressmen step and dictate what is open and what isn't
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We are driven by our metric for value.

A great many of us feel we're being driven by someone else's metric for value.

I, for one, don't find that a good thing at all.
I used the PC version, enjoyed it but was disappointed at the battle scene (static image of enemies).

I tried to use Chipmunk Basic (http://sourceforge.net/projects/psxbasic/) with the Game Enhancer hooked up to a serial port on my computer...no dice

I wonder what would've happened to my career had that worked when I was 12.
I think what we need most is testing.

Currently, the system looks like this:

A bunch of salespeople (legislators), chosen mostly for the feature changes they say they want to make (or prevent) sit down in a room and negotiate. Developers (staffers), chosen by those salespeople, turn it into code - which, after some audit (but no testing) is pushed straight into production. It is then patched in the field by QA & tech support (judges and lawyers) - those patches never make it back into the source.

Also, revolution isn't refactoring - it's starting a complete rewrite after you turn off your production system, and is usually every bit as bad an idea as you'd expect.
Excellent point. Running the x86 images in the emulator is much faster (and Google recently released x86 images w/ Google APIs in them).

Genymotion is a decent alternative to the 1st party emulator, it runs significantly faster.
Is there a system on which vsnprintf doesn't NUL-terminate the string after a successful non-zero return?
It's hard because there isn't a reliable source of data to begin with. How do you solve a "simple problem" with an auditor and an app if you don't know where to send them?
Clickable link to sources:

[1] https://www.adors.gatech.edu/cfcampus/adors/commencement/sal...

[2] http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/cdc/jobs/salary-grads

[3] http://ibnlive.in.com/news/no-slowdown-at-placements-iitk-st...
I use this a lot for monitoring my home server, really nice tool, especially the colors.
With git you can experiment to your hearts content. Then, once you decide you have something ready to go, create the branch and commit to it. You don't have to create the branch first.
While talking to someone in NYC government a while ago, they were lamenting the fact that there wasn't a unified system to view all of the city properties, who was occupying them, and how much vacant space there was within the buildings. Fully vacant buildings are one problem, but if you have 100 10,000 sq. ft. office buildings and only 5,000 sq. ft. each is being used, that is a completely different problem -- but equally important in terms of eliminating waste or saving money.