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Rescape: FPS games on mobile should be more, not less
Alibaba picks US for IPO; 6 banks in contention
Bee v1.5 is out – Mac issue tracker for FogBugz, JIRA and GitHub
I remember reading an interesting hypothesis of adhd being an evolutionary trait/advantage, anyone know anything about this? I have not been able to find it.
Tax evasion hurts society as a whole because you're free loading off the system and stealing from your fellow citizens who are paying their taxes.

This argument is valid regardless of whether taxes benefit society or not.
I was unclear, but I didn't necessarily agree with those examples, so I added scare quotes. My point was that there should be some crimes that result in fines but not jail time.

Better examples? Practicing medicine without a license (assuming good medicine otherwise). Trespassing (assuming no other damages). Criminal endangerment (assuming no actual harms). Production of controlled substances. Ownership (not use) of unlicensed firearms.

Again, I don't necessarily agree that those are all victimless. The point is that they are arguably benign crimes that shouldn't necessarily require jail time.
> I think simplicity is undervalued in the programmer world in general.

I imagine every programmer will claim to value simplicity. Trouble is, they're all talking past each other because their working definition is "the way I personally do things".
Awesome, had not heard of this project before! Thanks for sharing.
I've put a lot of work into a compile-to-JS evaluation for my day job. It's not suitable for public consumption, but of our top 5 choices:

- both Kotlin and ClojureScript don't compile code written in their "native" language (java) to JavaScript, limiting the ability to leverage existing libraries.
- ScalaJS is still experimental.
- Haskell looked promising, I asked a haskell programmer to run that evaluation for me, but fay/haste aren't complete enough for serious (non-ui) JavaScript work and GHCJS generates 5mb JS files.
- OCaml had a viable project in about half the time I estimated it would take.

And on a personal note, Scala seemed great at first but after SML/OCaml I find the number of times that I have to tell the type checker what I'm doing immensely frustrating :)
who dreams in code and speaks with a Lisp.
Yes but there is so much more information in audio like tone of voice, timing and cadence. (Most) humans are good at deciphering this information and plying out the true meaning.
Reading my body: tattoo-programmed electronic synthesizer
> No, I meant what I said. Victimeless, and no it's not at all hard to define. Drugs, sex, gambling, bigamy, etc; basically laws based on Christian morality that try and tell you it's wrong to do things that only involve consenting adults.

I generally agree with you, and do not at all believe Christian morality is a good basis for laws. That said, I have to play devil's advocate

> Drugs

In a world where the government provides health care as a service (which is where we're trending, eventually), abusing your own health does have a victim: the taxpayer. Granted, we don't like to think about it this way, and when we do it's usually for political showmanship instead of a real reason. But in the same way, building/living in a house that isn't up to fire or earthquake standards is a 'victimless' crime..... until my house catches on fire and burns down the whole block

> gambling

Gambling is often predatory to the poorer classes of society. Depending on how you're defining victim, low-income-earners could be seen as victims of gambling

> bigamy

Bigamy is historically correlated with misogyny. Also, ironically, bigamy is not a violation of christian morality; there are myriad examples of one-man-many-woman relationships in the Bible
They measured the tensor-to-scalar ratio of the inflation field, r, to be nonzero at 5 sigma significance. The measured value is 0.2.
Given the choice between Govcoin and Bitcoin, I'd imagine most people will choose Bitcoin. I can't see the state launching a coin successfully. Lack of central authority is one of the killer features of crypto.
Start with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. You and an opponent taking turns picking numbers, each time a number that has not been picked before. The winner is the first person to have picked three numbers that sum to exactly 15.

Try it out with a friend. You will gradually realize that it it seems surprisingly familiar...
Isn't folder structuring a subset of tagging? How can it 'give you so much more control'?
Not saying that the extra freedom from tagging is only good, but it sure is more flexible than folders and tabs.
Microsoft makes its Evernote competitor OneNote free
I think this is a non-issue for the bulk of any business that does this. An Microsoft or Apple is going to sue a business that upgrades documents in old formats to their newer formats? Maybe, but I'd be surprised. If anything there'd probably be licensing.
Well if anything, we are certainly doing a good job of telling future whack jobs just what to do if they want to try it.

China isn't exactly a country I would mess with, I think they would be about as restrained as Russia. Terrorist would expect a big response from them, or do they see them the same as pre-Bush US?

Even if they got the plane for later use, just trying to use it would be amazingly difficult. However we did tell them how we knew it flew so they do know what to knock out to fly it again.

As for claiming responsibility, disappearing a plane and not claiming it is simply amazing, do it twice and aviation will shut down in that part of the world, do it three times, well hell.
> The Supreme Court already ruled against software patents in Gottschalk v. Benson.

That's not accurate; the statement is too categorical. (All categorical statements are bad, including this one.)

The 1972 Gottschalk v. Benson case [1] involved claims to a particular type of software, namely a machine-executed mathematical algorithm for converting binary-coded decimal into pure binary. The Supreme Court ruled that those particular claims were unpatentable. Much the same thing happened in 1978's Parker v. Flook case, involving claims to a method of updating an alarm limit.

As often happens, however, the Court later refined its analysis as new cases provided new fact patterns. In 1981 the Court ruled, in Diamond v. Diehr [3], that a claim to controlling an otherwise-conventional physical process by software was indeed patentable. More recently, in Bilski v. Kappos [4], the Court affirmed a rejection of claims to a particular software-implemented method of hedging against the risk of price changes in commodities trading, but it refused to impose a categorical exclusion of patentability for such claims.

For what it's worth, I seldom if ever read IP Watchdog anymore (the source of the parent comment's long italicized quote).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottschalk_v._Benson

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_v._Flook

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_v._Diehr

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilski_v._Kappos
Awful intimidation, my sympathies if true. But why is sexism even in the headline? As far as I can tell, 1. a coworker made advances outside work and acted weird/hostile when rejected, and 2. impromptu sexy hula hoop revue. Incidents 1. and 2. did warrant correction. If HR/founder wouldn't help when asked then I guess you could win a hostile work env. claim w/ a sexist flavor.
RockThePost Becomes Leading Crowdfunding Site For Startups
Since this is pure Python performance you might want to give the different algorithms a try on PyPy
Criminals and the IRS. But I repeat myself.
Immersive Summer Programming Courses for High School Students
Hello,

I am hoping to find a summer programming course for my younger brother. He is interested in applying to colleges mainly based on the quality of the computer science programs. I think that he should really be familiar with computer science before he makes that decision (possibly getting stuck at a technical institute). So far the best thing I've found is the flatiron school, but they do not have any information available yet for 2014 admissions. Other schools like the iD Programming Academy look like the programs are good, but I doubt that the courses can be that great if they are aimed at such a larger age range (13-18 year olds). Does anyone have suggestions for programs or reviews of the previously mentioned?

Ultimately, my brother needs more of an encouraging environment. He is not interested in precollege programs. He doesn't need any more academic pressure.

Thank you for your help,
Daniel
Should Bernie Madoff have gone to jail? I think so. There's no way he would have worked off his debt.
I'm actually working on an org-mode onenote sync tool right now and the files are stored in an xml format of some kind. With very little knowldge of the format I was easily able to parse out all todo lists from the blob (which is a zip file btw).
YouTube has an elite group that hunts and kills content
One was started 10 days ago, almost at $30,000 USD:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ztjmg/andreas_im_f...
Is your system open source? Would love to take a look at how it works.
Tried it, and yeah, lack of export features is a deal breaker for me. I'm sticking with Org-mode. Well, I know this is a different animal, but then most I'd use something like this for structured outlines... (and I can export the contents to files that other people can use...)
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Our team will be hanging out on StackOverflow to answer any questions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/onenote

You can also DM me @jmslau if you like.
I guess I've mainly worked in environments where it's "operations manager" and an entire ops team, and where they handle things related to revenue or technology (logistics, travel, facilities, equipment, security, etc.), but I've never really seen the operations role as female. Probably less female than any other department with the possible exception of some parts of engineering.

(In my experience, HR is the vastly-female role, and always-useless to employee; sometimes useful to companies for compliance reasons, but rarely. HR's worthlessness has nothing to do with female employees; in dev and product roles where some companies have 20-30% females, they're generally in the upper half of contributors, and in design, which is often somewhat majority female, they're often the key to a company's success. Actual receptionists are also usually female, but rarely do I see those in <100 person tech companies, unless provided by the building management.)

Generally I've just seen founders handle most of these things (taking out trash, ordering lunch, etc.) at the early stage, and then contract it out entirely (use a meal delivery service, office cleaners, etc.) This might be specific to silicon valley tech startups; the other environment I know about, USG/DOD/DOE, has 10x as many people for any role in general, and a clear hierarchy for who does what, but it's based on overt rank or grade, and not gender, age, whatever.
All the places your healthcare data may go
I do not like your nginx puppet modules
DHH would probably ping-pong some code on this!
I think I renamed the game to 8192
http://imgur.com/2to7bWm
Awesome! Finally :-) Project Tango has some serious competition now.
I use the workman keyboard layout. This was a complete mindfuck until I realised what was happening.
You are arguing that what happened to her is not sexism, and you really miss the bigger picture, which is that it's a hostile work environment, which is equally bad.

I'm really disappointed at the amount of victim blaming going on. Just so you are aware, what happened to her is more than just "treated poorly". Workers should be (and are) legally protected from that.
> In a world where the government provides health care as a service (which is where we're trending, eventually), abusing your own health does have a victim: the taxpayer.

An almost fair point... if and only if we get there, I'm not yet convinced we will, however drug use is not drug abuse. To call it a health issue it'd first have to affect your health negatively. If it does, that can be seen by the doctor and noted and then maybe you can be taxed higher to compensate, but use is not abuse.

Also, serious abuse could save tax payers money by killing you. So just because something affects your health negatively doesn't mean it costs more over your lifetime.

> Gambling is often predatory to the poorer classes of society. Depending on how you're defining victim, low-income-earners could be seen as victims of gambling

I reject the notion that you can be your own victim. If you choose to make decisions that hurt you, you must suffer the consequences; it is not the state's place to protect you from yourself. Jumping out of a perfectly good air plane is legal, and has a very high chance of killing you compared to other hobbies but we don't outlaw that.

> Bigamy is historically correlated with misogyny.

Not a reason to make it a crime. I'm allowed to hate things.

> Also, ironically, bigamy is not a violation of christian morality; there are myriad examples of one-man-many-woman relationships in the Bible

It's a violation of modern Christian morality; times change and so do the church's sense of morals.
Multiple ways. First off, Clarity costs money and AwesomeHours are free. Second, Clarity has a very specific focus around business advice. The point of AwesomeHours is that any expert can host for any topic. For instance, people have contacted me to host hours for personal finance, content strategy, and fitness. There will of course be business-focused hours as well, but that's by far not the focus.
Here's a tool assisted speedrun of a gamer playing Mega Man 3, 4, 5 & 6 all with the same button inputs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5pz6waED0w It's kind of chaotic, and not quite what you described, but similar and still pretty impressive.
Would also be cool to be able to include more detailed data. There's some useful data points exposed at http://madness.io including Tempo-free stats and (not advertised) json endpoints, http://madness.io/teams/uaa.json

Full disclosure: I released this site a few weeks ago, mostly as a side project. I submitted to Show HN but it didn't get much traction. Might be of use though.
It's really horrible that happened to this guy. It's not really AirBNB's fault but I am happy to hear they are helping him out regardless.

Letting someone into your home should be a rather big deal. Just because some website vouches for a person doesn't mean you shouldn't do some checking up of your own.

It's sort of like Craigslist. Beware and assess the risks carefully!
Some people would pay for something already set up for them. Microsoft might like the idea and support it, as it furthers their backwards compatibility story.
This should have NSFW in the title.
Well, I don't have SSD, but same machine Linux was a way better experience (at least for what I had) -- and then there was this culprit of it taking forever to scan datastore.edb, too after recovery.
Untrue. Leigh claims that Satoshi "tacitly" admitted his involvement, in the most ambiguous part of an extremely ambiguous writeup.
Running an office is hard to do and a good office manager or HR manager is incredibly valuable. I think you'd be foolish not to recognize that as a founder.

I'm sorry that they haven't captivated people the way a rogue engineer can, but an ops or HR person isn't likely to start a company from a dorm room, garage or basement that makes its way to a multi billion dollar IPO.

As to the office mom thing; I haven't encountered that much, maybe it varies from office to office. I don't doubt it exists, I've just never seen it personally. Anyone know if that's a really common thing?
I'm sorry micampe, but that's total crap. As the parent comment said, Leica cameras are very much designed to be used, they were the photojournalist's top choice for decades. Recessed dials is moronic. If Ive can't design a Leica that can actually be functional then it doesn't speak very highly for his product design skills.

If you had used a Leica M you wouldn't be spouting such nonsense about f/8 and hyperfocal.

the H5D? that bears not a single resemblance to a Leica M (non digital), it's a digital, autofocus medium format SLR, as opposed to a film, manual focus, 35mm rangefinder.

A competent photographer would get that shot using either an M or H5D, it's the amateurs with no idea that miss shots.
I think you'll have an increasingly hard time finding good examples. Most packages that aren't ready for Python 3 by now are just unmaintained. At best they're so bogged down in their own complexity that you should be wary of using them for anything new.

Sometimes you need to use unmaintained or legacy code, and that sucks. But there are lots of programmers who don't have such a burden, and they shouldn't be discouraged from Python 3.

networkx is Python 3 compatible, by the way.
Already discussed a couple of days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7407796

This article does however get into the followup between "victim" and AirBnB.
s/commander/captain/

s/drove/stalled/

s/sleeping at the time/had just retired to the crew cabin, taking a rest/

he was only out of the cockpit for 18 minutes.

http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601e3.en/pdf/f-cp0906...
> Drugs, sex, gambling, bigamy, etc; basically laws based on Christian morality

I'm curious what you say to the argument that manufacturing and profiting off extremely addictive and harmful drugs (ie meth or heroin) is a victumful crime?

Many people get "hooked" on drugs like this, and it often ruins them both physiologically and financially. How can you justify ignoring such people as victims? Especially if they were young or even children when they started?
Phil the Lewinsky affair (investigation/media sensation) went on literally for months and months (years?). Sit around long enough and the President of the US will do something that you can say "Look! A big decision. Clearly that's a distracting event!!" It's pretty intellectually weak buddy.
http://aws.amazon.com/iam/details/mfa/

amazon supports MFA, but the site seems to not know that...
> In a world where the government provides health care as a service (which is where we're trending, eventually), abusing your own health does have a victim: the taxpayer. Granted, we don't like to think about it this way, and when we do it's usually for political showmanship instead of a real reason.

This is a very dangerous line of thinking. You end up with a totalitarian nanny state that doesn't let anyone go outside or do anything with any degree of risk.

There have been science fiction stories written about that very future!
You really shouldn't use percentages to talk about trends if your sample size is less than 100 - it's misleading.

But I wouldn't be surprised if a large amount of people who claim to be software developers can't refactor code. I've seen many of my peers (in a CS degree) become used to churning out code without looking back.
I tend to disbelieve the Newsweek article because I read it, and it stank.
Hi @Robadob, great suggestion, thanks for pointing this out! You can actually view the code for these functions in the Level Editor, but obviously it would be much more awesome to have a way to view them from inside the game. We have to strike a balance with the UI to make the learning curve less steep while at the same time providing a wide range of features. I'll bring this up and see what the rest of the team thinks.
There is no way to work off a debt that big. But adding 30k plus per year to that debt (probably much higher for his luxury suite) is even worse. His debt to society is being paid with more debt to society.

What Bernie should have to do is work for x amount of years at a lowly job, or some job that he'd never take in life to earn back as much as he can during his sentence outside of the prison (not talking about a debtors prison but fraud). Financial fraud would re-think if they needed to work at McDonalds for years after during their sentence rather than their comfy suite. It is not like they wouldn't also be marked just like a normal locked up criminal is.
Is doubly embarrassing when you realise that the side that is winning the war on drugs is totally wrecked all the time.
Tangent: I briefly worked in the "gaming" (gambling) industry. To cope with the proliferation of laws, the backing algorithms could be changed to match whatever games of chance which were legal in a given jurisdiction, then topologically transformed to look like the desired game. What looked like video poker might actually be bingo, hence legal in a "only bingo is legal" locale.

(ETA: Sorry, no how-to details. I didn't work on that part of the code.)
A few different police departments in California are trying out camera systems. I've only heard about Rialto, but I know they're being tried out in the Bay Area, and I think wider Los Angeles.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/california-poli...

These aren't "GoPro" systems, so I wouldn't expect stunning HD.

I'm not sure about access at all though.
uPad has been great for me for a couple of years worth of note taking.

I use the adonit Jot Pro stylus, retina ipad mini and the adonit Tote case to keep the pen with the tablet all the time. ( http://www.adonit.net/ )

Not too worried about the bit of extra bulk as I can now chuck it into my consulting bag without worrying about scratching it up.

The reason i like uPad is that it presents a large space on the screen for you to write into, and then takes what you put in there and places it on the page. It means you get all the benefits of writing 'big' with palm rejection on the non-writing areas, but then all your notes go where you want by placing where the text will appear on the page.
The New Era of Social Music Discovery
Look for new forks of 2048. $20 says someone's working on this now.
OK, first, leave children out of this discussion. That's a play on emotions and doesn't belong in a discussion about what consenting adults should or shouldn't be allowed to do. As with all things children related, we can have different laws for them; giving children drugs is victimizing them as they're not capable of making those choices legally or emotionally.

Now, to your point. No one forced anyone to try drugs; I reject any notion that you're your own victim. If you choose to put something in your body, that's a choice, you were not victimized by anyone. That it can and does often ruin people both physiologically and financially are called consequences of your actions. No one forced you, there is no victim here.
the "XXX Freak Fest Orgy" didn't clue you in??
Ok, it looks like subscriptions. Though it does not allow me to charge my customers who subscribed for Google Checkout.
And it's definitely not the same API as Google Checkout.

None of my customers missed Google Checkout. I got burned by losing subscriptions due to Google Checkout retirement.

I'm not going to touch Google Wallet.
I feel for you man. I really recommend you just try to build something, even if it's a little demo of some sort, with the assumption that you are going to have a build step.

I just found that the result of that assumption ends up with something that is a lot easier to work with and reason about, than trying to rail against it by using something like r.js.
Thanks Jado. It's a series of Google services: Google Drive, Google Analytics for webmasters or business owners. If you login with a Analytics enabled acc, you will be able to see your SEO performance in an easier format to understand than the technical version of Google. The Google Analytics version is done, I'm integrating the 2 together. It's a good question that not all accounts has Analytics data. I will minimize the scope of access for now
We disagree on the detail and metric used to define it but I agree we are locking up way to many people and the punishment is cruel and unusual if it goes beyond the crime i.e. non-violent crime resulting in being locked up with criminals who are violent to me is cruel and unusual punishment and a rights violation.
Hubcab: Exploring New York City taxi trails