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Extremely late to respond but the most simple example that comes to mind is Chess. Chess is all gameplay and does not rely on fancy graphics/art and there is no real story. It's pure gameplay.

I like games with great core mechanics, balance, etc. Hell I actually value soundtracks over graphics or story.
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I wrote a little FRP library in Ruby: https://github.com/steveklabnik/frappuccino
It turns out to be right, often enough.

In the 19th century, for instance, there was a class of physical laborers whose numbers in the USA reached the tens of millions. But as technology--particular the combustion engine and fossil fuel refining--took off, they became surplus unusable labor that literally was more valuable being turned into glue, or letting them starve to death.

Yeah, horses.

"But it's different this time! Horses aren't people!" you say. Sure, things are always different. But you're burying the actual argument into the assumptions you're making: that people are infinitely moldable and infinitely trainable, and every person is capable of creating value in modern economies.

It's not some logical contradiction for "people want more stuff" and for "the most useless, marginal workers can't provide value by participating in the economy" to both be true. Dismissing the second idea requires a bit more than a pat answer.

Even excluding government policies like a minimum wage and required healthcare benefits, lots of people are simply too expensive to employ. Anytime you hire someone, it adds administrative costs. It adds management costs. And the more marginal the worker, the more they need to be managed and administered. At some point any value they could hypothetically provide is outweighed by the cost of employing and managing them and the risk that something they do could expose you to substantial costs, and it's simply cheaper to replace that labor with capital.

In a capital rich environment, and in economies where complex organizations can fail catastrophically because of a single node failure, it's simply far too risky to employ a certain class of people. We already do that with many of criminal backgrounds, the physically disabled, and people with substantially reduced mental capabilities. New technology has simply expanded that unemployable class to include lots of people who just don't have much going for them, at least in terms of providing economic value that's legible to corporations and the State.
Something to consider is the difference between debt denominated in a countries' own currency verse that of another country.

In 2010 Germany finally repaid debt it had raised to pay its World War I reparations. The reparations never were paid in full but you damn bet the US dollar denominated debt was.

If a country borrows money in a foreign currency they may have bills due for an incredibly long time unless the creditors says "ok, you can pay less than you owe us." The EU members are in this position because the bills they owe are not in their own currency.

Generally this seems to have the biggest impact on tiny countries. One of the most interesting opinions I've heard recently is from James Rickards who was a negotiator for the Long Term Capital Management bailout in 1998. His opinion is the risks in the banking system have increased, not decreased, and when the next failure happens the US government will not be capable of a bailout largely due to the Federal Reserve's balance sheet leverage (which puts Lehman's leverage to shame) and a lack of political will to write a multi-trillion dollar check. What will happen is debt issued and denominated by the IMF, the only bank in the world left with a good balance sheet.
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Night-owl here, and that's not the problem. I will keep myself awake until 3AM whether I'm on my computer or not. I'll often read until 3AM because that's when my body seems to want to go to sleep.

edit: and I don't drink caffeine after 5.
I think the list mr_luc is referencing is in the second answer on this page:
http://www.paulgraham.com/raq.html

EDIT: Here's the whole list, for completeness:
Clark, Civilisation
White, Medieval Technology and Social Change
McEvedy, Penguin Atlases of Ancient and Medieval History
Laslett, The World We Have Lost
Bernal, The Extension of Man
Franklin, Autobiography
Girouard, Life in the English Country House
Pirenne, Mohammed and Charlemagne
Runciman, The Fall of Constantinople
Cipolla, Guns, Sails and Empires
Hadas, A History of Rome
Oman, The Art of War in the Middle Ages
Vasari, Lives of the Artists
Bovill, The Golden Trade of the Moors
Caesar, Gallic Wars
Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution
Yes. And yet, still a better tech story than Yo.
Sometimes it's the chipset vendors holding things up, but I agree - it's getting frustrating.

I'm holding out hope for http://www.securifi.com/almondplus
As the primary author of RxJS, I take exception to that characterization. Anyways, you should look at the performance differences between RxJS and Bacon.js. They are quite significant! https://github.com/pozadi/kefir/blob/master/test/perf/memory...
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The new emoji-only social network is probably a hoax, but we want it to be real
If you think about this in a more general context it's easier to see that "Debt-to-GDP" ratio alone isn't enough to determine that there is a problem. You need a combination of debt level and interest rate.

For example, I personally could have $100 Trillion in debt but with an infinitesimally small interest rate and an infinitely long repayment period, I would not be concerned.

What matters is Debt-Payment-to-GDP ratio. There is certainly some level of that ratio at which I would be concerned.
Why is it an app? It sounds like a regular compilation of stories by topic, are they exclusive stories and you're trying to protect the content or ...?
its unfortunate that it repeats the same mistakes that underscore and lodash does (imo) and makes it very hard to do composition (data comes in first instead of the predicate/function)
Make sure to subtract the extra labor cost of doing all these measurements and the loss of customers in implementing this policy.
> By my calculations you lose money if approximately 1 ticket holder in 1000 doesn't return their $250 iPad intact

Why not install the iPads in the seat backs? It doesn't have to look any different than another IFE, so long as it saves on weight. I'm not sure that it would be worth the cost of retrofitting, but for a new plane it would definitely be worth looking into, provided that the upfront investment is comparable.
Beautiful. That makes it very simple to understand. Cheers mate.
I can imagine supporters of homeopathy would have a great time drawing unfounded conclusions from the bit in that article that talks about fluids exhibiting a "path memory".
If we didn't have cheap petrol, we'd use nuclear, solar, wind, or hydro to produce somewhat-less-cheap ethanol.

It might be twice as expensive, but most people would still be able to fly.
steveklabnik, still working on the Ruby port of Rx. It will get there but needs more community support.
It also means you can't print up nice inserts listing what is in the box, or have a page on the site listing what is in each month.
I'm not sure how science can expect to answer questions of the form "What is really happening when... ?", since that is entirely unknowable.

Science looks at results and provides useful models. Whether those models are representations of the 'real', or whether the entire universe is actually a bunch of magic pixies who just happen to arrange the universe to look as if it follows a particular theory, or whether the whole thing is a simulation embedded in the real universe which is entirely different are questions not actually accessible to science.
What about wheelchairs, service dogs and baby carriers brought on board?
Ginsburg: 'Radical' Hobby Lobby Ruling May Create 'Havoc'
Judge order ISPs in Argentina to block The Pirate Bay [ES]
Amazing, thank you for making this!
"Things won't get interesting until B approaches D."

I'd say things would get pretty interesting well before that point. B=D is just the point at which a default is inevitable (unless much higher tax revenue is achievable without causing other problems).

But the problem is that the interest rates are so low now that large increases are not outlandish. 7 years ago, the rate was more than double what it is now. Looking at the graph in the article, in the 80's it was over 10%, more than 4X the current rate (which would imply 1.6 trillion in debt service).

It seems like we're making a big bet that interest rates are down permanently. That may be true, but it seems like a fragile assumption to me.
I'm not making an argument about the legality or ethics of it one way or another - although as far as i'm aware, it's not actually illegal to ignore robots.txt. I was just pointing out that robots.txt doesn't actually do anything but ask nicely.
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E-commerce is big business, and has been for a long time. While e-commerce sites were once treated with suspicion by many internet users, it’s become as common as checking email. While I’m sure there are some internet users out there who have never made an online purchase, they’re getting rarer by the day.
Sources on that?
I'm not trying to be snide but imo hoping the economy will improve by someone finding a growth engine is wishful thinking. I would like to see tax policy and government spending formulated for sustainability based on domestic consumption and have any potential innovation income as windfalls.

Hinging the economy on the creation of new grown engines is a risky strategy and I don't think the government should be in the business of making bets, at least at the macro economic scale (hell yeah on research spending).
Hate this stuff, Swift != Javascript.
Is that a troll post by Forbes? I am confused.
I don't think our statements are incompatible (there's plenty of room for optimizing capex, even if opex has clear physical limits), but that reminds me of one of my favorite Simpsons quotes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vxHkAQRQUQ
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Your inadequate credit score prevented you from being able to get a form of debt. Nobody is arguing thats not true.

And yes, cell phone subsidies are a form of debt because you are paying back the price of the phone built into the 2 year contract. If you buy the phone upfront then you can go month to month without needing to be tied into a contract.

So my point is consistent, if you plan on living debt free, the FICO score is being given way to much attention.
I wish everyone (or at least Sam Altman) would read "The Seven Deadly Innocent Frauds": http://goo.gl/6a22pX less than 2 hour read. read it with an open mind and your worldview may change.

watch Stephanie Kelton and Warren Mosler talk about gov debt and deficits:
(2 hours!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba8XdDqZ-Jg

Randall Wray on Job Guarantee vs Basic Income:
http://www.economonitor.com/lrwray/2014/01/27/lets-compare-t...

Mosler's current prescription:
1) A full FICA suspension, which raises take home pay by 7.6%, and, for businesses that are competitive, lowers prices as well, restoring sales/output/employment in short order
2) A $10/hr federally funded transition job for anyone willing and able to work to promote the transition from unemployment to private sector employment
...
Good luck with that. What if it is your back garden that get tarmacked over?

In the UK we tried this under the Thatcher government. Margaret Thatcher was allergic to trains and wanted to encourage private ownership of cars as much as possible. Vast swathes of South East England were turned to roads so that happy motorists could get around a few minutes quicker.

Ultimately the Conservatives had to give up on the road-building schemes. It was too expensive to do and the roads really were only encouraging motorists.

The crux of your argument has been tried and tested in the UK. Despite the vast resources and ideology that went into it, it was a battle that was lost.

So what now for the UK? Cycling and buses. It is now socially acceptable to cycle and the government are encouraging it as much as they can in London. Soon it will be 20 mph everywhere in London's boroughs (average speed for cars is ~ 10mph though). There is congestion charging to keep cars out of the capital. With only so many roads, for the commuter, cycling is actually pretty quick. You can also get a bike tax-free with payments spread out over a year.

Buses have been quite transformed in London. The night bus service means that people in service sector jobs can get in or out of the capital at odd hours. Years ago night buses were a nightmare. Now they are clean, safe and quite comfortable if you have some phone/book/tablet for entertainment. The cost is not bad either. People that used to not consider a bus will nowadays take them without hesitation. You can check the times online so you never have to wait an aeon.

Even though we have Conservatives in power - the sworn enemies of public transport - transport in the London area is better than it was. There have been 1/2 million extra Londoners arrive in the last decade or so, no new trains and no new roads. People do spend far too long on the commute - two hours each way is common, but, what do you do when a city gets to be huge?

Personally I wish that the cycle routes were more like 'motorways for bikes' with it possible to go ten miles or so from the suburbs to the centre without having to stop for any lights. Such routes would make commutes by bike all the way a lot more viable. For instance, according to the maps I have 13 miles by bike. I could do that in an hour if there was no start/stop + danger. As it is I cycle for 20 minutes to the train and then get a 35 minute train journey. Those figures sound good, however, I also spend some money on the journey (time=money) plus I have a 10 minute walk at the other end and I like to get to the station ten minutes before the train departs. Therefore I actually spend 1 hour 25 minutes door to door, with a little longer on the reverse journey. So that is 5 hours a week that I could save if I wanted to. What stops me? Those crazy idiots that set out every day to add to the congestion they know is on the roads. I have a quiet ride through the park and some quality time with my phone on the train, thereby avoiding the nutters that are in the dark ages of driving everywhere, single-occupancy style.
That doesn't really seem to follow, to me. The worst a single creditor could do is not bid, or bid for higher rates in future treasury auctions. The terms of existing debt are fixed. The impact of this wouldn't be large unless other creditors followed suit - there are many parties interested in buying up US debt.

Furthermore, if a holder of US debt declared war on the US, I wonder if that wouldn't be viewed as a credible reason to default on that outstanding debt - certainly doesn't make much sense to be sending interest coupon payments to someone invading your country.
Using Rx, you can certainly do CEP as we have buffer and window operators, and the ability to so groupBy and other complex operators. For example we have one that analyzes stock streams https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/NDC-Oslo-2014/blob/ma...
The article talks about way of improving the tools that would make better chefs from ordinary people and that's, in general, what good tools are about.

I'm sure there people who develop intuition about cooking food properly after decades of doing so but the part of cooking that the article talks about is really simple: how to apply a consistent amount of energy to a piece of food.

Everybody would benefit from a tool that allows for a precise control of temperature, and the less experienced people could achieve the same results as the best chefs.
While we're giving suggestions, I'd again point to Scott Aaronson's http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/default.html (also available in book form) and his blog in general (especially when quantum computers are in the news). His approach is unique to me in that it's a strongly computer science point of view.

Edit: Another link I remembered that's strongly in the vein of QM for programmers is (suitably titled) here: http://oyhus.no/QuantumMechanicsForProgrammers.html
Always take legal advice from a non-lawyer with heaping grains of salt, because they almost always get it wrong.

If you really are too shortsighted to pay for necessary legal advice for fundamental aspects of your business and want a DIY guide, check out the NOLO series, which is written and vetted by practicing lawyers and includes business-operational perspectives and considerations.
I think the difference between that hearing generally 'negative newsposts' is direction.

People who are sharing tips to stay thin, (or tips on football, or living a 'moral' life, etc.) have a stated goal in mind, so it shouldn't be surprising if they succeed in it.
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Seems like HN's "dup detector" should only check posts in the last month or so? I have the same thing, I release new features on my site and have to direct them to different pages when I want to announce. I guess I should start to keep some sort of blog section on my site to announce updates. But still, fixing the dup detector would be cool too.
Foreign debtors have zero leverage over the United States. What would happen if China decided to stop buying US debt? Their currency would appreciate, their exports would collapse, and their economy would go into recession. Our currency would depreciate, our exports would increase, and our economy would get a much desired boost.
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You're stacking the deck. Physical keyboards are ancient technology ;)
Notice that there is no difference to the programmer. Whether the problem lies in the library or language itself is irrelevant.
If for some reason I wasn't up-vote banned, I'd give this +1. I cannot stress how nice this UI looks. Had not really looked into hype-machine prior to this, but I really like it so far.
This is an example of what this looks like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OlDm3akbqg#t=547

I had a nice discussion with the author of doitlive who was inspired by my own ad-hoc and personal hacky version of this code to rewrite it in a better way for the masses.
haha voted down for saying suicide is not normal.

Stay classy HN :-)
A much better thing to look at is how much GDP growth do you get for each additional dollar/currency of debt?

If we borrow $1 and get $2 of GDP growth, great. If we borrow $1 and get 10 cents of GDP growth, big fucking problems ahead. Considering that the debt is going cost more than we borrowed, that benefit red line is pretty far ahead of $1.

Demographics are another trend to look at. Shrinking population generally means the GDP is going to end up going the same direction. On a micro-level we could examine Detroit, on a macro-level Japan. Both are returning developed land to farmland; quite a paradigm shift for someone who grew up watching fields turn in to suburbs. A country, or city, with a rapidly growing population needs to borrow money to build infrastructure. One that is shrinking may face a crises even with a much smaller debt load.

Thinking about recessions or perhaps even depressions is a bit simplistic. Both are bumps in the road. A more valuable idea is to look at the multi-decade trends where countries fall in and out of power or even cease to exist.
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BTW some people have asked how we're doing our article parsing. We're using the Diffbot article API which has been great for us so far. Recommended if you need similar functionality.
Atheros AR7010/AR9271 has open drivers and firmware, which is the closest you'll get to "fully open" WiFi hardware today. Performance is decent, although I don't think PCIe is supported by the open firmware (only USB).
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easydrum[1] is a similar student project dedicated to drums. As far as I know it uses MIDI and the flash plugin to connect to electronic drums.

[1] http://easydrum.binsofrei.at/
Oh it's got highcharts too. Thanks.
The statement was that you needed fancy hardware to get < 1 sec accuracy to UTC which is patently false, network availability or not you can easily (without an atomic clock) get that level of accuracy.
This has been possible for a while with Shellcast: http://tty.tv/
Perfectly stated. We need to get to where we truly reject the whole GDP concept. It is corrupt, manipulable, and destructive.
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That. I think a combination is the way to go, for no other reason than the fact that some desirable services have huge scale gains (transportation), and some services have huge positive externalities (health). It would be unwise not to incentive people to use those.
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If you wait an extra hour before commuting home because of the cost, I don't call that "lose less time".
No, you do NOT have the right to pound my site with requests and serve data that I decided to pull down.
You're right, but if you follow the recomendation, it wont hurt the startup company. Because it's better than nothing.
It sounds like you may in fact be "bigfoot". I just saw an out for Scott in slight ambiguity in your earlier comment, and wanted it clarified.
Are you talking about http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/llc-corporations-part... ?
The D-Wave devices that you are referencing are actually quantum annealing machines, not universal quantum computers. A quantum annealing machine is to a universal quantum computer what a mechanical computer is to a digital processor.
This is such a hard place to be...but, we've all been there. First off, it's a lot like dating. What do you have to offer a mentor? Why should they give you their time, which is often their most precious resource.

With me, I like brazen audacity, intellect and a bias for action. If you are smart, doing things, bold and generally have infectious energy, come talk to me. If there's anything I can do to help, I probably will.

If you are at a low, it's kinda depressing. I will probably listen to you, give some advice and move on. If you start making progress, I might re-engage, but maybe not.

Work on you and you'll attract people to you. It's a vicious cycle, but start taking small steps to improve your low and good things will happen.

Good luck!
Sleep inertia (sleep drunkeness), disorientation and waking hallucinations are all signs of a sleep disorder.
Is testimonial writing your profession? But, seriously, this is a pretty nifty app.