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Considering Threes! is a failure compared to 2048's usage amounts, it would be more interesting to hear what they did wrong. E.g. wasted over a year working on something they should have pushed out immediately. Spent money on design that wasn't needed. Etc..
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From the People that Brought You Aaron Swartz' Death!

See, I can be sensationalist, too.
I'm pretty sure that eating less / intermittent fasting will help with Diabetes Type 2 (insulin resistance). Probably not with Type 1 though (inability to produce insulin), but that quite obviously isn't a healthy person.
After you have boosted the power got some decent yagi or parabolic antennas.

one neat hack for PTP is run two bonded wifi links with directional antennas out of phase with each other.
I'm aware that my example isn't possible, which is why I said, "if they wanted to, they (presumably) could allow for..."

My point being that Rust restricts what one can do with higher-order types, but those types still exist and are expressible in the language. From a theoretical point of view, there doesn't seem to be any reason that they couldn't allow for traits on higher-kinded types -- they simply choose not to. Perhaps for performance reasons, or for simplicity, or for syntax or whatever, but I haven't seen any reason why they couldn't. That was the point that I was making.
Seems similar to http://www.bromium.com/
I know I shouldn't, but I have to think of that bit in HGttG when Ford and Zaphod are looking for a spaceship to steal:

FORD: No. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute! That one there.

ZAPHOD: Hey-yeah! Now that is really bad for the eyes!

FORD: I mean it’s so black! You can hardly even make out its shape. Light just falls into it.
"I still try to adhere to a low carb diet, eating mainly meat and vegetables and severely limiting my intake of bread, pasta, rice and potatoes." - I think this is a much larger player in his weight loss success than he may realize.
Do we really need health advice from random unqualified people on the internet on Hacker News?
The danger is that you wind up with another AppleScript - something that might read more easily for the non-initiated, but is no easier to write, because it only accepts one particular finicky subset of natural language while dishonestly implying that it'll magically understand all of it.
We really don't. I hope you don't sincerely believe your fellow HNers are stupid enough to think that copying an artistic artifact somehow removes it from the possession of the original creator. We aren't and we don't. Which means this is just a matter of word choice. I can't think of much I'm less interested in reading than "You used this word in a way I don't agree with."

Besides, this usage of "theft" is not dissimilar from the already well established usage of "stole" as in "he stole my idea." If an idea can be stolen, it can certainly be theft to take the product of an idea, at least colloquially.
I work at a startup and we do CRM and we aren't on there!
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They're very different games. With 2048, you make several moves per second. With Threes, you take many seconds per move. I just prefer that style of play more in my casual games.

Threes occupies that awkward middle ground between casual and 'real' games. If I want to play a real game, I'll pick up a 4X or something. If I want a casual game, I play 2048 or sudoku or something similar.
Shifting the blame for low scores onto the teachers SUCKS.

Teachers are in no position at all to help their students when their parents are too damn poor or high to ensure an environment in which their children can actually learn.
I have faced this attitude a lot in the US. "I suffer, so you must too!" It is sad really.
It really depends on your social circle. When pricing private schools, you need to realize that the very top will always be crazy expensive, because the very richest parents are paying whatever it takes to make sure their kids only interact with the kids of other rich parents. Whether this is effective is debatable, but enough do it that you have to slice them out of any analysis.

Private schooling doesn't have to be crazy expensive. 15 students in a room paying $500 a month is $7500 in revenue, and with roughly half going to overhead that still leaves $3750 going to the teacher, which over 10 months is a little less than the average US wage. If you make the workplace pleasant enough (such as not requiring teachers to have co-workers who cannot be fired) you can fill the roles.

That's about 5K a year. We can probably go down a huge rat-hole of whether a middle-class family can "afford" 5K, but I don't think it crosses into the lines of "prohibitively expensive."

There are also Catholic schools, which used to be much more prevalent, but they still exist.
Are you familiar with the oft-quoted phrase in programmer circles "It's a poor craftsman who complains about their tools."? It's often badly misunderstood to mean that craftsman should never complain about their tools and just make do with whatever they have, a perversion of the quote I've only ever seen in the programmer community.

What it really means is that it is a poor craftsman who acquires or puts up with bad tools.

It's an even poorer craftsman who celebrates their poor tools.
of which the OP is automatically not in the demographic of, seeing as how we're talking about a sexual encounter he had.

It isn't that difficult to avoid accidentally raping someone. Seriously. Why is this something that needs to be argued? 19 is not 15, period.
I think the problem with Threes is that it is slightly too hard, which leads to too much frustration. We all love a challenge, but at least its possible to eventually beat 2048.
Let's not call then "anonymous". An IP address isn't anonymous. A throwaway account is actually far more anonymous.
If it's not in the text of the Bill: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-data-retentio... then it's at best a sketchy promise and at worst an outright lie. I remember the "promise" to end tuition fees.

The only one of those that's actually in the text of the Bill is the termination clause.

Note that the previous regulations were not "shady interpenetration", they were fairly clear - the problem is that they violate Convention rights.
It is important to repeat "copying is not theft" because it's at the heart of the arguments that e.g. the MPAA make to the public in order to convince them of the evils of copyright infringement ("you wouldn't steal a car," etc). TFA seems to be trying to appeal to the evil of Kraft's deeds by suggesting that something has been stolen from him.

It seems clear to me that nothing of the sort of theft has happened, and at least some people would instead be flattered to have their work reproduced large scale instead of slinging accusations of theft. If it were me, I would use this to promote the value of my own work. Maybe I would try to talk to someone at Kraft before firing the lawyer cannons, perhaps just work out a deal where they give me some sort of recognition. Even recognising the copyright infringement, it seems to be on such small scale (one maze out of hundreds?) that it might be difficult to argue for damages incurred.

This person isn't flattered, but the language of "theft" indicates a graver damage than what actually has happened.
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Fork it, add your startup, and make a pull request :)
Threes is a wildly successful game in it's own right, an Apple design award winner, currently 21 on the top paid Overall app store list, and at one point was in the top 5 in the top paid list. A lot of those users that half bought likely have never heard of 2048. This a good example of selection basis in affect. 2048 was wildly popular on HN but I have rarely seen it mentioned on other media sites, even mobile gaming focused outlets.
But, but, political correctness. Everyone must be explicitly told what to do at all times.
Worth reading the link in that article to Kutsuplus:

https://kutsuplus.fi/home
http://www.wired.com/2013/10/on-demand-public-transit/

Didn't think we'd see this sort of algorithm-driven group transport until driverless cars took the labour cost away and made it more economical, but here it is.
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Minority use with expensive requirements => very unlikely to happen.
It is well understood that exercise does not generally lead to weight loss and can even be counter-productive. This has well documented by Gary Taubes.

Caloric restriction does work, but it is quite difficult to track and maintain. This weekly fasting approach is a new concept, at least to me, and worthy of serious consideration.
Well now that's like saying the generator generated mazes without any work on his part.
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I agree with the first part, but I've been pretty impressed by the security used and developed in iOS: http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_Feb14.p...

At the end of the day, as you said, phones are easier lost and stolen, but there is barely a difference now in the functionality of security between a phone, laptop, and desktop; they're all the same. Now, for convenience, many users don't bother having a password on their phone. That's not functionality though, that's just how a user has decided to protect their phone's content...
It's a bit concerning that https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=616915051&oldid=61... would be coming from someone in congress.
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I have a wordpress plugin that I'm looking to grow. We already have a few thousand paying users and looking for more. I keep hearing mixed messages on the web about sites like shareasale, clickbank, etc. Has anyone had any concrete luck with these kinds of sites -- particularly when it comes to digital goods that are not downloadable books and courses?
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That was the line that alarmed me. Advertising a shot of glucose as "removing a blockage" isn't about the wonders of fasting, it's about the fairly important problems that arise from deciding to just not eat.

Similarly, before adopting a super-low calorie diet on the basis of those "long lifespan" studies in mice, look into the part where it induces depression and agoraphobia.
I thought this looked less like an article and more like a paid shill piece. Seems that impression was correct.
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Honestly I still disagree, I can still easily hit 50,000 points multiple times in a row. The mechanic is broken, it's a literally solved game. Even moving extremely fast I rarely have a problem hitting 4096. Left down ldldldldrldldldldr nearly always works for an infinitely high score.
Ask HN: Attributes of a successful Open Source project?
I have a small Open Source project https://github.com/Sean-Der/fail2web and would love to see it succeed. For me that means the code is clean, users are not frustrated and contributors can easily improve it.

What are some things that you like to see in an Open Source either as user or contributor? On that same note what are the things that instantly make you avoid a project? I have also thought about

* A official IRC channel on Freenode, for support and people can ask me questions directly.

* Buy a domain and give some basic documentation and images (gh-pages)

* A public mailing list so I can have release announcements

I am getting to the point where the code is mature enough for me, so I want to assure that the project doesn't stagnate. Perhaps I am trying to artificially give the project more life than it warrants?

thanks
they were undocumented?

Of course they got deported, why does being smart give you special privileges that no one else gets?

If you're seriously that smart, then apply. You 'out-smarted MIT'. What do you think the chances are that you won't be accepted?
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You do know how car rental places are renowned for rip off's and scams?

And for country's like finland that have very cold winters having a 4x4 is not an affectation if you don't live in the centre of a small number of cities its a requirement.
2048 is a very accessible game, which is a large part of it's appeal. Rather than adding levels of difficulty, the better variants use achievements (like my 4096 and 50,000 goals, and your time limits) to keep it fun once you've got the basics mastered.
Have they fixed the stability issues when it is under high load with a lot of networking traffic? I have a RaspberryPi B and each time I start a large file transfer the entire board locks up.

Doesn't matter what version OS I am running either!
I don't think they were rotating it. I think they were trying to keep it stable.
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I feel for you. It seems that for each design decision, school systems are set up to be easy to administer. Slots students and teachers into classes and classes into periods and rotate them around.

But:

who are tired of being told how to do their jobs by politicians and loud-mouths in the media

If you are getting paid by the public, the public is going to have lots of opinions on your job performance. Everyone has to answer to someone, whether its bosses or customers or constituents, and no one is given a guarantee that these people will only judge you based on the "correct" things.
Weight loss is a market in need of disruption. 70% of American adults are overweight, and the solutions espoused by the establishment (eat less and exercise more) are technically correct but practically ineffective. Disrupting weight loss is potentially a hundred billion dollar industry, considering the huge medical expenditures and lost productivity that accrues from people being overweight.
The vast majority of patients get it well past retirement age.
Fasting has been tested for its health benefits. I advise you to check out this BBC documentary

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-19112549
I think it's because the typical car rental process can be so time consuming and pedantic. Choosing and booking, the pick-up and drop-off, checking for damage, signing a load of terrifying legal documents, avoiding the upsells, etc.

Once booked a car in Scotland, arrived and was stuck waiting for 1-2 hours for the car to be returned. When I returned that same car in London, I showed up and the guy in the office told me where to park it in the underground carpark. I was gone 5 minutes and by the time I got back, he'd closed for the night and they charged me a late fee.

Wish there was some sort of rental broker intermediary that knew you were reliable and signed general waivers, and vetted you for all the various rental companies.
Frankly, I would attribute this glucose deficiency to his diet that cut down on rice and the like. By reducing bodily supply of starch (and also lipids) they will interfere with their natural metabolic pathways such as glycogenoysis and gluconeogenesis which stabilize blood glucose levels, however without the underlying resources they cannot achieve their purpose.
I hesitate to rely on being able to rent a car to go to my cottage in the country on the weekend, because everyone else will be doing the very same thing at the same time. The possibility that I show up for my rental and there isn't one available is really discouraging.

The number of rental cars available in the fleet would approach the number of cars we have now.
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It's a great list, but I don't understand why it's limited to SaaS. Self hosted apps could definitely be considered "tools of the trade". Perhaps I'm just biased because I sell a self hosted project management app - http://duetapp.com, but it seems like an arbitrary distinction....
> Why can't people just stop being jerks?

While that's a noble question, you might as well ask why can't the universe simply not advance to its entropic heat death... or why cars and homes are still sold with locks on the doors.
What would be the point of that? It says "rotate-only", it's the mode where you rotate the phone and it stays horizontal.
Oh right, I misread the previous comment, thanks.
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I'm talking about color strictly from the human eye perspective, which I may not have spelled out but ought to be clear. Black body emissions into the visible spectrum at room temperature are insignificant. If that were not the case, nature would probably have chosen a different "visible spectrum".
>The appeal of 2048 is that you move so quickly

For you maybe, not me - not all the time anyway. Granted when I am bored and feeling lazy, or I have a quick subway ride, I'll spin up 2048, but if I want a challenge and some thinking, I'll spin up Threes. In some sense, 2048 for me now serves as a less twitchy, less exciting Tetris substitute.

Moving the goal posts back on behalf of a game makes the goal more difficult, sure, but it doesn't necessarily mean the difficulty of the actual gameplay increases at the same rate, i.e. it can lag behind the difficulty of the goal, which in my opinion is very much the case for 2048.
Managing by numbers is bad. I once had a boss look over the commit count to the source code repo to measure effectiveness.

However, software bosses have another avenue: they can just hire and fire based on how well they think people are performing. They don't need to set up spreadsheets or anything to "prove" who isn't doing their job. And the engineer who has been told to move on can move on, because there isn't just one employer in town, even outside of the top-5 cities. And the manager has a reason to care about properly evaluating his reports.

This attempt to measure educational performance by numbers, for all that it is screwed up, has risen as a desperate attempt for the people paying the bills to feel like they have some kind of accountability into the system they are paying for.
Can you explain? I don't see the relevance.
Of course it's a common usage, but that alone shouldn't make it acceptable usage. Lots of disparaging language is common usage. When you use a word with a certain intent, it's the usage of that word with that specific intent that should be questioned.

I think we should all be grownup enough to recognise that ideas can't really be stolen either. We also recognise the value of copying ideas. If we recognise these things, then we should use corresponding language to reflect our intent.
I went through all the resources listed in the previous submission here: http://electronicsforu.com/electronicsforu/circuitarchives/v.... However, people had legit complaints about popups and broken links. So, I went through all resources manually, double checked links, and added more information about the resources.
the ethernet chip seems to just be the 4 usb-port version instead of the 2 usb-port version.
Have you tried another power supply? I used a "high quality" one from RS (I think) and had odd problems with disk corruption and crashes when pushing the limits. I switched to a old iPad charger and the crashing problems went away.
Very few people live in the center or South Helsinki. Everywhere else and outside the core peak of the rush hour the car is so much faster that it's like a superpower. Car is king, bicycle comes second and with public traffic you can get to places eventually.

It is frustrating to experience slightly broken public transport infrastructure all the time. Whereas if I drive my car, I have spent enough money that it just works. I don't get angry or sad when looking at my car. It is a good car. I do get angry when I sit in a thrashing tram or know to ignore the metro ETA signs. Or have to wait 30 minutes for an urban train. So psychologically, public transport feels like you just being there and having to passively take what is given. And it is not always very good. If they can't be arsed to fix a display that shows minutes to the next metro, do the passengers feel respected and cared about?

I blame bad procurement/manufacturers in case of the trams and metro. There have been atrocious design errors by international big companies. Luckily some have been avoided in later procurement.

Maybe its the case like with government web sites. A lot of money is spent and results are often meager.
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That's true, but the parent comment never claimed that, only that missing arguments are assigned the value 0 in the resultant struct.
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I remember reading this when 2048 came out and it came out as a huge whine from the developers. It completely turned me off of Threes.

Someone succeeded using a similar idea, and in many people's opinions, they did it better and it was free. The next step shouldn't be to write a smug blog post about how the other product is crap and people should be paying you instead.
For yet another possibly biased data point just like your own: some weeks ago I found myself sitting between two strangers playing 2048 in the subway.
Not necessarily. I can imagine it would be a remarkably useful trait for an organism to be able to see far infra-red, where everything is glowing. See in the dark!
Agreed, the broadband situation in the UK leaves a lot to be desired. Building mobile networks is still very much a national regulatory affair, with a lot of upfront capital costs, so even the big multinational service providers do not offer the same service in two different countries (often charging you for roaming when you go abroad, even within the same provider's network!).

I've been waiting for some big provider to offer true multinational mobile service at least within the EU, where the regulatory framework is similar and necessary agreements in place. But it looks like I will be waiting forever...
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Leave it to the HN crowd to see an epidemic as a money making opportunity.

Isn't it good enough just to help people?
I wish I could find the short story 'Absolute Ebony' by Felice Picano online. I always think of it when these breakthroughs happen.
How do you figure this at all? Threes has been incredibly successful, top 5 in the Apple app store, currently 21st, and an Apple design award. This thread assumes 2048 is more popular but we have no real proof of that. Beyond that 2048 was available as an App in the store and it has not even close to the kind of sales/buzz as Threes on iOS or Android. In fact right now Threes is 28th on Android paid games list and the top 2048 clone is 83rd in free. On iOS it's similar with Threes at 21 in paid and the top 2048 at 57th on the free list. I know 2048 is primarily a web app but the best comparison we have shows Threes in a pretty positive light.
I just tried and only got to 64 in two tries. Then tried the tumbler where you just press left-up-right-down in a loop and got to 256.
Tetris is a masterpiece and I don't think anyone is suggesting Threes is, that's not the level of success that's being suggested.

But that's not to say that you can't make money (and therefore successful investments) out of mobile games. Perhaps some of the valuations have been out (and massively out) in some cases but it's a market where there is money to be made.
It got me into computers as well. I vividly remember checking their message boards on my IBM PS1 to get me through King's Quest VI back in the day. More importantly, I was able to find information on how to navigate DOS so I could free up the 20 megs of Hard Drive space I needed to play it.
Call it "The Lovecraft experience: Beyond space time" and charge $10 per visit.
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It's an unusual body/brain hack...he seems to have done it methodically and observed the outcome...it worked for him and he wrote up something detailed...that's the spirit of hacking!

I don't think it's flagworthy but if it lacks quality vote accordingly!
Is there a lower bound on albedo caused by black body radiation? If so, what is it?