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I totally wouldn't be intimidated. We all just love what we do. The best way to get a job is often to get to know the folks on the team, hack with them on projects. I'd really hate to work at a place that I felt was exclusive.
Its a MOBA/aRTS (depending on what category you want to call it), where 2 teams of 5 players control characters trying to destroy the opposing team's buildings. (more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota_2)

There is an official Linux client but I wouldn't recommend it unless you want to lose a lot of free time as the game takes over your life. ;)
I don't get why there is this tendency to try and avoid giving the government the credit it's due. It seems to me to be a distinctly West Coast "we pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps, which we made ourselves" attitude. It's foreign to me, as someone who grew up in the DC area, in a climate where innovators and the government had a comfortable relationship.

There is a ton of fundamental innovation that is coming out of what's often derisively called the "Military Industrial Educational Complex." MIT gets about a billion dollars a year in DOD funding. Apple's Siri came out of SRI, a major defense contractor, and is derived from a DARPA-funded project. My friend just finished his PhD in robotics from Stanford. From high school, where our robotics team was funded by the Navel Surface Warfare Center, through college, where he worked on DARPA's Grand Challenge on Autonomous vehicles, the government has played an enormous role in his development as an expert in the field.

This is good. Not everything is something you can hack out in your basement with no capital. There's a lot of hard problems where you need big teams of PhD's with a lot of resources, and the MIEC does that better than anyone.
Games scare me because of their addictiveness, especially for people who need an escape from crappy things in their lives. I enjoy them occasionally as much as the next person, but it makes me sad to see how high the play numbers are for some games. A good friend of mine in college pretty much ruined his life by using Team Fortress 2 as his "coping" mechanism for depression: he logged 2000+ hours on the game in 6 months before he was asked to leave the institute only one class shy of his degree.
This tech startup uses a formula to decide how much stock to give employees
Customer Success Blueprint [video]
The government's goal isn't to turn a profit: It's to bring a better life to its citizens, improve its ability to defend itself, etc. Basic research being financially self-sustaining is a benefit, but it's not necessary or sufficient for the success of the programs.

But putting that aside, if the government owns the basic research that it funds, why would any (self-interested) researcher or institution choose to work for the government vs. private industry, which can offer a share of future revenue? How does the government set prices for its licensing? Don't we benefit that Jobs and Wozniak didn't have to have a large amount of capital to invest in licensing in order to take advantage of all that basic research?
I'm aware that there's modules you can add to do those things. Are there public instances that have those installed? It's been a while since I used Piratepad et al.
Can someone write it up in plain language? I grok that reducing entropy is bad, is this just one in a set of attacks for attacking entropy leaks?
Another Credit Card Data Breach – Michaels Stores
Is the entanglement "process" theoretically reversible in the same way that classical physics is theoretically reversible? Is it possible to describe the idea without using words that implicitly include the arrow of time?

It's possible that I'm simply not understanding the concepts well enough, but I don't see how the "process" of entanglement is any less dependent on temporal ordering. Why wouldn't running it backwards make physical sense as a "disentanglement" phenomenon?

For that matter, why is it right to conclude that the coffee cup has only become entangled with its exterior after it has cooled down? Is this only because the matter in the cup is supposedly the result of disentangled quantum fluctuations from the distant past? I realize that the coffee cup example is an imperfect one, but can someone explain why the process of entanglement is special in this regard where the process of increasing entropy is not?

I'm sure that many smart people have been thinking about these questions, but the interpretations of QM still seem to be stuck in the realm of philosophy.
This spec is total overkill. First, you don't need to conflate a pubsub interface with async streams. Two totally different problems. Second, async streams are easy:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21143996/asynchronous-ite...
Google also match anyone who donates their bounty to charity.
I still don't get why DB hasn't come up with a business model to let people just self-host content out of their accounts. They basically offer an instant web-server experience for non-tech folks, but they cap bandwidth for downloads.

- How awesome would it be if I could dump a bunch of mp3 files and an html page or index file or something, get a URL from the service and suddenly my band has a website. Then if I go to www.dropbox.com under some "music" category see my band listed there next to a bunch of other bands. Voila, instant promotion. Now the entire independent music industry has a promotion venue. Setup some kind of friendly payment processor and now bands can sell their music direct. (and oh yeah, you get automagic copyright protection since they can scan all other user's accounts for illegal copies of your music).

- How about letting my Dad dump some word documents in a folder called Chapter 01.docx Chapter 02.docx etc. get a URL and people can come check out his book's site with automatic conversion to various ebook formats (and a payment processor to handle the transactions)?

- Or in my "podcasts" directory dump an mp3 of my latest podcast and have it automatically publish out to iTunes and various other podcast search engines?

- Completely annihilate flickr and other services by letting me dump a bunch of photos into a folder, get an admin URL so I can type up descriptions and other metadata (and geolocate stuff on a map) and a publish URL to give out to people. Let me do that with with both a personal folder and a "pro" folder. Let people go to my publish URL and buy photos from me (auto watermarked by DB) or partner with a photo print service so people can buy prints at various sizes.

the list goes on and on and on and I'd bet people would pay a little money to be able to do some of this. It seems so obvious and the little bit that DB supports (like photo albums) is so lackluster its almost not worth using. It would get people to start filling their spaces up with stuff further upselling them on the need to buy more space. With a little finagling they could even wrap a social network on top of all this content and back door into Facebook's space.

I just don't get it.
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Very true! It's not like it defies the laws of physics ... but, it also shows how much effort is needed to get to something with hackpad's usability on the etherpad core: years worth of work from very smart devs.

If collaborative editing were the main focus of what I was working on, I'd say "yay, market opportunity!" But as it is, I just want to be able to plug in (and contribute to) a good open-source option. Which may wind up being Etherpad, but I'd like to do better ...
Because confusing, there's a parallel discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7603647
> Better to stick to their bi-annual schedule, even if it means shipping a usable but not-quite-polished release, then polishing it in subsequent months.

Better for whom? Not for the people who take the LTS moniker seriously, I think.
I believe these laws target human cloning experimentation, rather than cloning as "twin manufacturing". The fact is, we don't know how to make fully viable clones yet (see the fate of our most advanced animal experiments for reference).

As such, it would be unethical to attempt to create a possibly failed human clone.
I don't think it's accurate to refer to the way "literal" is used today as purely "modern" or a recent "evolution". Most sources say the word has been used this way since at least the 1700s.
Are you, by any chance, terrified by the concept of having a child?
It's a five on five game where you are trying to destroy your opponents base. Each player selects a character to control, those characters grow stronger over time. The game is won by properly anticipating your opponents strategy and preventing them from anticipating yours. There is also a high skill ceiling for controlling individual units, so individual players can be a major help or hindrance to their team.
This is a neat little optimization which can help you avoid needing to convert everything into utf-8 underneath the hood - leaving things in their raw/encoded forms. This may help in certain cases but would probably also make the C-api slightly more complex.

The real problem with Python2 is that it attempts to auto-decode bytes into unicode by guessing the encoding. This actually works most of the time, but not always. Unfortunately the fact that it works at all causes people to ship code that they think is fine... until later when a byte-string comes along with a non-standard encoding and it blows up. Python3 fixed this by making it blow up every time.
DoTA (or Defense of the Ancients) is a game belonging to the MoBA genre (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena). The games starts with 5 players on a side, each player controlling one character. Also, every team has an "ancient" which is a structure which is heavily guarded. The aim is to destroy the other teams ancient and the team doing so wins the game. However, it is not so easy to just go ahead and destroy the ancient. There is line of towers that will deal heavy damage to you on your way to their base, where the guarded ancient is. You need to level up your hero and get more gold, with which you can buy items which will give your hero damage, survivability or simply an advantage in team battles. Killing your opponents heroes from time to time is also important because if their character becomes overpowered, it'll later on be impossible for you to advance to their base or to guard your own base.

DoTA is a highly strategic game wherein you don't just take the most overpowered heroes and go ahead with the game. If everyone did that, your team is going to lose. You always pick a hero who will keep on collecting gold and levels most of the early game only to come in late game dealing a crazy amount of damage and be more or less invincible. This is called the "carry" of your team (you may have more than one carry, or a mix of carries and semi-carries). Then you have supports, whose job is to help the carry become overpowered. Their job is to give their team a strategic advantage by planting wards across the map which gives vision of certain areas of the map and buying support items, items which can heal, or disable a person of the other team, or simple give a boost to all other players within an area, which is extremely crucial in team battles. Supports are expected to not collect gold from kills or last hits, but instead give it to their carry if he is around. Each battle lasts for no more than 12-15 seconds in the extreme case and the winner is determined on a lot of factors including how the order in which the skills were used, how did a combination overpower the other heroes (for instance a skill that increases magic damage combined with a skill that deals a lot of magic damage), your knowledge of where the heroes are on the map, how you entered into the battle, etc. The items you buy also greatly depend on the heroes in your team and the heroes in another team (for ex., if the other team has a lot of people with a lot of magical skills, go ahead and buy an item that gives you magic immunity). There is no "one-size-fits-all" inventory in DoTA 2.

Team battles often become deciders of a game because their always is a huge shift of gold and exp whenever a team battle occurs. Team battles aren't pre-announced or pre-determined by the game. You are just roaming around the map, find someone and there might be a team battle, or you may strategically be roaming around the map looking for the other team to hunt them down and kill them.

PS: The last tournament which happened for this game, conducted by Valve, was 'The International 3', which had a total prize pool of 2.7 million USD.
Chrome on Android uses OpenSSL, FWIW. I have no idea whether it supported the Heartbeat extension though.
Describing it as a MOBA is probably not super helpful as its predecessor (DoTA in War3) was the predominant definer of the genre.

It's a tug of war game where there are two teams that have automated weak NPC units (creep), and the players on each team control a hero character with abilities and spells. The goal is to push the opposing team back to their base and destroy the base.
serious question: is this your sole decision to make? what about investors/other owners? I respect that may be your personal opinion, but the company's opinion may not necessarily match it. just being real.
btw, did you go along with the sale of omgpop?
nice nice,ultimatly languages dont die,unless they are closed source and used for a single purpose ( AS3 ). In 2035,people will still be writing Javascript. I wonder what the language will look like though. Will it get type hinting like PHP? or type coercion? will it enforce strict encapsulation and message passing like Ruby ? will I be able to create adhoc functions just by implementing call/apply on an object? or subclass Array? Anyway , i guess we'll still be writing a lot of ES5 in the 5 years to come.
You're too good then ;) Haven't beaten it yet! Been playing for 30min now...
JavaScript Closures for Beginners
Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez Dies At 87
That vast resources were confiscated from the public at large and spent with some notable successes (waste & failures are conspicuously absent), does not trump the conspicuously absent analysis of what that money would have been used for outside of confiscation.
Kickstarter's biggest hits: why crowdfunding now sets the trends
Rather, ask a Scandinavian friend.
Heroku Launches Bug Bounty Program
> QEMU on its own is not a virtualization system, just an emulator.

Thanks. That's an important distinction I had gotten wrong.

The QEMU wikipedia page describes it as "a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware virtualization." [1]. In the context of the entire article, that description is slightly misleading.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qemu
Not bad! Any plans to open source some of the underlying libraries? Could be interesting to see more games made in this style with these visual mechanics.
This is a great variant. I wonder if it would be possible to conceive a chemistry version that can could potentially teach people about atomic bonding?

A bit easy though, I had no trouble beating it after a couple tries.
I like it too, because it's the first explanation of QM I've heard that isn't just about minuscule systems floating in a void.

I did the double slit experiment in uni, and it involved a real screen and a real divider with real slits, made out of 10^n atoms. Feynman's line integrals say that particles explore all possible paths. This would seem to include possibly interacting with all those atoms that are nearby. Yet we pretended none of that mattered and could just talk about the photons.

QIT seems entirely unsurprising to me. Especially the idea about measurement and two opposite interference patterns.

This also isn't the first time I've heard software guys take to it. I think it's because programmers deal with much larger scale than most occupations. We do not delegate to junior aides, we construct our own robot aides, and then deploy them on a massive scale.

It always surprises me when mathematicians and physicists are crappy programmers who fail at making basic complex systems work. If you can't handle complexity, how can you handle the universe?
"make some downvotes more powerful."

Yes this will be great. Any comment that has personal attacks,abusive language, racial slurs, trolling, off-topic self-promotion/marketing etc. should allow downvotes to be more powerful. Usually, comments like these get a lot of downvotes pretty quickly but I am sure there are a few who upvote those comments as well for their own reasons.

May be comments like those should not be allowed upvotes once it reaches a number of downvotes ? Also, not sure if you guys already do this but really bad comments should be killed automatically once downvoted a certain number of times within a short time span ?

Now, when it comes to unpopular comments which are not necessarily outright bad, I am sure those are tough to program because how do you handle the sudden upvotes and downvotes at the same time ?
Sounds like a cool idea. Why don't you build it?
If I recall correctly, ACM is a branch of IEEE which famously stored 100k user names and passwords in plain text on an FTP server.

http://ieeelog.dragusin.ro/init/default/log
While on the subject of HN comments, I have a request: could the "avg" score for a user be readdressed?

The avg score is the average amount of points from the previous X comments a user has made. However, this disincentivizes user from posting in new threads which are unlikely to receive upvotes. I've lessened my own commenting in new threads because of this.
If your country has an assisted suicide clinic, it's probably more socially acceptable. When I get old and start forgetting people's names, I'll move to one of those countries in preparation.
I like the new openness.
"It's not pro- or anti-JavaScript;"

OK
OK, I thought those where annual rents. So still another fact of difference.

UK outer-inner city rent around £800 per month (£7200 per year) plus about £1k property taxes for two bed apartment in new development.
I don't understand why some feel the need to defend Apple on this count. They've evaded taxes to an outrageous degree and are sitting on a pile of cash so big it would take generations for the company to get anywhere near bankruptcy again. Had they been forced to pay the taxes any sane tax regime would say they owe, they'd still be the same company making the same products. They'd just have a smaller nest-egg.

Non sequitur or not, this actually cuts to the heart of the matter. Governments play a huge role in innovation, so we should stop using false claims to the contrary when rationalizing theft of revenues the government is owed for its work. Corporate tax evasion is a crime against innovation and theft from all of us who actually do pay our taxes.
In all of the examples given, government contributed funds toward the creative process.

At no point was the government itself the source of the creativity. Which makes sense, since those who create are scientists, artists, industrialists, etc. etc. ... not politicians and bureaucrats.

Politicians do not create. Well, that's not exactly right, there are political and legal works which can be considered great contributions, but they seem to come only every few decades.
Can a company legally send you a message asking you to resubscribe?
I just received this email from Microsoft:
"Did you know your current contact settings have cancelled all Microsoft email communications to your inbox? We'd like to encourage you to re-subscribe so you won't miss out on any of our great content and resources to help you and your organization realize its full potential. Opt-in to receive the latest information from Microsoft — all it takes is one click. If the content you receive is not to your liking, you can opt back out at any time."

Isn't that the kind of email that anti spam laws are supposed to protect against given that I already unsubscribed?
The "How to use Hackpad" page has an overview [1] -- unfortunately it's not responding right now :|

For me, three big ones are the checklists, @'s to refer to people and pads, and the much better display of who's changed things.

[1] https://hackpad.com/How-to-use-Hackpad-mlZvEsJykI5
"If you divide the population into separate age cohorts, you can see that improvements in life expectancy have been broad-based and ongoing."

Here, I claim "broad-based" depends heavily how you choose your cohorts. For example, the life span of the least educated whites in the US has shrunk (which might be relate to the increase in drug deaths mentioned by the article).

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/us/life-expectancy-for-les...
> As for the hackers, they didn’t make much profit -- Oprea, the ring leader, made only $40,000. He paid a steep price for the estimated $12.5 million in losses inflicted on financial institutions

The article doesn't explain the discrepancy between the tiny earnings of the hackers and the enormous loss of the banks. Which one of these is it?:

1) The hackers lied and have millions stashed away some place?

2) The middlemen who buy the card data from the hackers and get mules to make fraudulent charges and withdrawals are the ones raking it in?

3) The banks are puffing up their losses in order to get tax deductions or make insurance claims, or maybe just to get the Secret Service interested enough in the case to do an investigation?

The banks can exaggerate their loss in all kinds of ways: including in the loss payments that they were able to later reverse, or including losses that were eaten by the merchants and not the bank, or including the salary of every member of their security and fraud department, etc.
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Not sure what I did... but got 710...
For anyone looking for a host-your-own photo solution, I highly recommend taking a look at Koken. I've been using it for awhile, and it's phenomenal.

http://koken.me/
My scandinavian friends call it yay-va-script.
Arbitrary? While I can't speak for every taxi law in every country, I quite like knowing that the taxi I ride in has to maintain a standard of vehicle and that the driver isn't some chancer on day-release.
Real-time editing of documents might very well be in their vision.. and if they can get an incredible team, what's the problem?
For me personally, that's on par with gas prices as a reason not to drive. (I do it as little as possible, and rent a car when I do.)
Better than that.

Use a rope type that's entirely (modified) UTF-8 throughout, but with the wrinkle that every character in a node must take the same number of bytes per character. (Use overlong encodings internally where appropriate, namely where you have (for example) 1 one-byte character in the middle of a long run of two-byte characters.)

You can even combine that approach with this.
KVM can work with VMware vmdk-flat files natively without conversion. Just make sure you have the drivers and kernel support for KVM installed beforehand and you don't even need to convert them.
Stellar stuff. Hugely enjoyable. Very interesting thought experiment. I won't spoil it for any of you, just go and watch! Mr. Bernhardt, you have outdone yourself sir :)