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The game can take a while, but the version by Ketchapp (on iPhone), which was the first knockoff to hit the app store, gives goals based on what you've solved so far. Right now my display says "Your next goal is to get to the 16384 tile", whereas the Gabriele Cirulli version has the downside of interrupting me every time I hit 2048, which, as you point out, is quite common once you're used to the game mechanic.

Nonetheless, hitting 8192 remains a challenge, and I feel like I've been tantalizingly close to 16384, but have never quite managed it. So as far as I'm concerned 2048 (or, I guess, 16384) remains quite challenging.

In Threes, 768 is the furthest I've gotten. I've found that when things get tight in Threes, you can easily be stymied not just by new tile placement (the only real wildcard in 2048), but also by the "+", "1", and "2"'s that can result in the position being unplayable, thus adding in my mind a greater degree of chance to the game.
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Correct, I meant the rooms.
Is there an end to Threes? The highest tile I reached is 768 which isn't that high (but it was quite hard to achieve).
This was a fascinating look not only into the modern newsroom, but into the mind of Jeff Bezos:

The origin of many of the hires could be traced to a phrase Bezos had used several times during his visit to the Post in September, when he said that the newsroom needed to "take advantage of the gifts the internet gives us."

...explaining that he was comfortable simultaneously running a secretive company and owning a newspaper, because he believed that "powerful minds can contain powerful inconsistencies."

"All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s"

This guys is full of gems. I'm not sure if that insight will be enough to save the Washington Post. It doesn't seem like any number of gadgets and no reasonable amount of money will be enough to save the newspaper industry. Jeff Bezos is one of the few people who could do it, but it's not clear whether he's fully committed to the challenge. I'll miss newspapers, but I bet they'll be replaced by something cooler.
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So it's the speed? I've heard that argument before, just curious. People don't seem to argue design or rules or something else like that, just that the tiles move faster.
I hear this a lot, but I'm not convinced that most successful companies pivot. Is there any data to back this up?
As a Ruby developer, the iPython Notebook left me with a deep seated feeling of envy. Every programmer should be so fortunate as to have something like iPython Notebook at their disposal. It's like a REPL on steroids. I have piles of Ruby source code that is intended specifically for "replaying" in an IRB console.
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Sure...but that isn't an OS.
So instead listening to my doctor, I should follow the advice of a Belgian entrepreneur with no medical training, based on his experiment with a sample size of one.
There is empirical evidence that your experience is an outlier.
Shoot me an email at dchurchill at localytics dot com and we'll set something up to walk through our Query Builder tool. It enables you to query all apps while in the dashboard.

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But the point is these aren't parts of 2048, they're just things you're putting on it.

It may be, in effect, a customisable game but that feels accidental rather than anything the designer intended. I could make any game harder by drinking heavily before playing it but that external factor making the game more difficult hasn't really improved it as a game.

Worth saying, I'm not wild about either game. For me they're simply not rewarding and I found myself resenting rather than enjoying the time I spent on them.
then why is it Flappy bird was a hit!?
"Messsage queue - a queue that receives the messages that represent the HTTP request. the acceptor accepts HTTP requests and converts the requests into messages that goes into the message queue. The messages then gets picked up by the next component, the responder. The implementation of the message queue is a RabbitMQ server."

Alrighty then. Someone has never scaled RabbitMQ vs. a basic HTTP service. If raw scalability is what you're looking for w/ a polyglot backend, an edge service that accepts HTTP and turns those requests into Thrift structs (or similar) to RPC to various polyglot services might be better for you. This is the model most use.

However, I'm unsure how this'll be more 'performant' than picking the right technology from the start and architecting wisely. Generally, the more performant you want something to be the simpler you build it and only compromise where necessary. Thrift/RabbitMQ are definitely complexity compromises.

Complexity is the bane of scalability.

Additionally, if you needed pure scalability, you generally have purpose-built services for each "responder" which is load balanced over. Pretty similar to this, minus the message queue.

I imagine having a message queue in the middle of your HTTP response path could lead to some nasty latency spikes too. Much better to drop a request with a 503 than have the next N spin for minutes while workers chug through it. Especially if you're taking in 10K req/s.

Last thought: The benchmarks are lacking detail, could use a more thorough job.
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How does Threes! get considered as a failure though? There are a lot of assumptions in this thread but little actual proof. What we can say for sure:
- Threes is currently higher on the paid app store lists than 2048 is on the free lists, and as best as I can tell it's hight in the combined free and paid lists.
- Threes won an Apple design award
- Threes continues to sell fairly well (top 30 on iOS and Android)

We have no real numbers on 2048 and if you view it via the HN echo chamber I'm sure it looks like 2048 is a more popular game but I'm not sure that's true in the larger outside market.
The whole point is that most people (especially the target market) have a spare USB charger hanging around. The Pi takes exactly the same connector as your mobile phone - it's one less bit of kit to buy.
Is it not "theft" because that word is pejorative and another word should be used?

Is it because it isn't taking something without permission?

Is it because intellectual property isn't property in some sense?

Is it because the original isn't really "owned"?

Is it be because the owner still has the original?

Given similar reasoning, "identify theft" isn't really theft. After all, if someone "stole" my identity I'd still have the original.
I don't understand why otherwise savvy techy people ate so Luddite about vertical video. Adding an extra 200% of worthless landscape to a video of a person is an ancient plague that smartphones provided a cure for.
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I think probably the only way to do it correctly is to divide the participants into two groups. In group A, they work 30 hour weeks for 3 months, then work 40 hour weeks for 3 months. In group B, they start with 40 hour weeks, then go to 30 hour weeks.

You can't actually hide control/experiment status from the test subjects, though. You usually know if you are working more or fewer hours in a week. There is some danger that people will intentionally slack off while doing 40s and bust their ass while doing 30s, just so the experimental results suggest shorter work weeks. To counter that, you have a huge number of people following the protocol, and the researchers and participants simply don't know exactly whose data will be randomly selected for inclusion in the study.
To expound a bit more on faet's reply, pick either the top or bottom row as your workspace. I'll assume bottom.

Generally speaking the beginning doesn't really matter all that much so just start building up numbers however you see fit (some people go left right left right multiple times before crunching downwards). But start building and pinning your largest number on either the left or right corner. So, for example, try to make a 32, and pin it in the bottom right. Then start working on a 16 to its left, and an 8 to the 16's left, and a 4 to the 8's left. Generally, I try to make sure the entire workspace row is locked as often as possible by making sure it's always filled. This minimizes the chance that you'll need to unpin the largest number from its corner.

Once you've got your workspace row locked, there are a few things you can do. I haven't decided which I really prefer yet, but I basically just start creating another workspace row above the first workspace row. I'll usually try to focus on creating row #2's largest number on the opposite side of row #1's pinned corner number so that I can start crunching downwards as numbers begin to vertically match.

That's the very general gist of it. There are a few minor special case tactics you can use, but I'll leave that for you. Oh, and as faet said, don't swipe up (if your workspace is at the bottom). It's a recoverable mistake, but can make things much more difficult if you get a 2 stuck below your workspace (but it does kind of add some more spark to the game trying to recover from it). Personally, once you start using this strategy, the biggest thing you need to look out for is to not create a scenario where the game will generate 3 locked rows, because that will force you to swipe up. You'll see what I mean. Good luck.
Switching from a monolithic framework like Rails to a number of independent communicating services that handle different responsibilities is a classic step in scaling. However, to the best of my knowledge that transition usually involves moving to a mostly-custom setup dependent on the app's specific needs.

It's not clear exactly what functionality Polyglot provides beyond, say, raw RabbitMQ, but if it can find a way to encode best practices in a service-oriented architecture it could be a handy tool for developers going through this process for the first time.
Same here. I treat Kickstarter like I do the Awesome Foundation grants I help fund (one of the original founding members)- I just give money away to make awesome stuff happen in the world. If I get a benefit in return that's nice, but really I just want the world to be a more interesting place.
When writing in C, usually you either know the function well enough (including having just written it) to have memorised the arguments, have another window containing the declarations, or else you'll be using an IDE that tells you what the arguments are (along with a lot of other information.)
(You could give everyone their own code. 4 digits still allows a few dozen people their own number while still leaving most of the search space open.)
Is there something wrong with making money? If we always settled for "good enough" we wouldn't have half of the nice things we have today, and the potential to make lots of money is a great way of motivating people to push beyond "good enough".
Notice how he pointed out that it is copied in clear violation of copyright law. Then he did NOT follow this up with a cease-and-desist letter, or a threat of legal action. Classy.

Now I hope that Craft is classy in return, by contacting him and negotiating in good faith a reasonable fee for the use of the maze.
You are making two assumptions. First, everyone goes to their cottage every weekend. Second, none of those wouldn't own their own car.

I can see no reason to believe these two to be even remotely true, hence why I see no argument there. Of course, it's your own point of view, but I think you are exaggerating here by a large margin.
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It seems Wayland support for XBMC was merged last October[1]. Not sure if it will benefit on RPI.

1 - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ4NDE
Google+ already does something something similar, but not exactly. Ideas are obvious, implementation is everything. This product may or may not be a better implementation, and worth paying for. Inventors of advanced camera algorithms tend to get bought out or hired.
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The Ethernet speeds are limited by both the USB bus it's riding on, as well as the slow CPU processing power.

Although, for most of my projects so far, it's been plenty fast.
Suggest researching HK based startups that received funding in the last 6-24 months. Build a target list of interesting companies, reach out to the principals directly. Here's a good place for leads> http://www.startupshk.com/
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Quote at the end of that article contradicts your statement...?

"Current medical opinion is that the benefits of fasting are unproven and until there are more human studies it's better to eat at least 2000 calories a day. "
You'll note that this isn't presented as a medical study. It's presented exactly as you describe it - an experiment with a sample size of one.

No one is telling you to follow this advice. This is one guy saying "Hey, here's something that worked for me when I had this problem. Maybe if you have the same problem, it might work for you."

You are entirely free to ignore it. You should consider using that freedom.
I've never mass-sent emails outside of local domain, but I had set up various MTA/MDAs and from I've seen, proper A+MX+PTR records, configured SPF and DKIM, and having proper RFC-compliant emails (and, uh, obviously, not spamming anyone) should be enough to stay way below the threshold.
This is quite the impressive release. The additional USB ports are a welcome addition, as-is the additional GPIO. I have one project in particular that will benefit from the additional GPIO.

The microSD slot is also a big deal. microSD's are much more common now-days than SD's due to most people's phones having them. I own a slew of old mSD's from old phones and can re-purpose them into a Pi project now :)
It is, though pointing out that obesity is a high cost problem hardly suggests that it is we on Hacker News that need to make that money.

If we help people lose weight in any way, we're going to save the country a lot of money in healthcare costs that could be spent elsewhere. Put another way, if the US finds a way to lose weight effectively, the results will have a strong positive impact on a variety of other services that the government provides that will be able to help more people with more available funding.
Let us be honest, if the same work can be accomplished in less time then it suggest less people are needed that are currently employed.

The other issue here is that only in government could this suggestion float because they really don't have to show a profit, answer to share holders. Don't count to heavily on voters because if this does succeed; why wouldn't it when they set the criteria; they can market it so that anyone opposed is transformed into the guilty party.

It is also can cynically be viewed as a means to raise employment because if the work goes unfinished with fewer hours then more people working those fewer hours will be needed
I agree, its like the "algorithms and data structures" stuff I was taught at University. In real life, organization of large code bases, picking an appropriate abstraction, and general knowledge of OS's are far more important for most jobs. Never had to implement a linked list in 11+ years of coding.
This. I am completely aware of the problem of vertical videos, but constantly take them out of wrist/grip convenience.

I'm baffled as to why iPhone/Android doesn't offer a feature that allows you to toggle horizontal video from a vertical phone. I feel like that'd make 50% of smartphone videos infinitely more watchable.
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He claims to have been following this diet for three months whilst maintaining the same weight, and only started seeing a drop in his weight after starting to fast for one day a week (standard sample size disclaimer etc etc).
If you look closely, the path isn't exactly the same. There was some work involved. Perhaps they even attempted to re-implemented the algorithm? Are algorithms copyrightable?
Parent is talking about play speed (thinking consciously vs intuitinally/reflexively), not animation speed.
I am much more concerned about the volatility of small sample size. Sickdays inside a single building can be easy effected by single individuals. Imagine if either the control or test work place has an employe who is carrier for the flue but with limited symptoms. Such event would invalidate the experiment if one is simply looking at the number of sick days for data points.

At best, I think one should view this experiment as a preliminary test in order figure out how to do a real test with a larger sample size.
Living in NOVA it's hard to ignore the issues of DC public schools. A quick search gives this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/23/t...

And googling "DC public school spending" gives a figure closer to 29K per student.
I would argue the speed of gameplay is a fundamental part of a game's design. The fact that 2048 plays faster and the games are short is better design in a mobile game in my opinion.
I would hope that Microsoft is smarter and has learned from those mistakes. It does seem to be their intention to do it with full natural language processing. We'll have to wait and see.
what do you mean diabetics aren't healthy? I'm diabetic and I am healthy. I'm not going to Hagen Daz on lunch...
It's been proven for mice and Rhesus monkeys, but as far as humans go there's no reason to believe the same holds true.
The free web app has loads of players that haven't bought a native app
I think you might have seen a higher CTR if you made your ad less about you and more about the viewer.
People are more likely to click something that they think will help them.

Maybe something along the loose lines of: "Hey how can we better help you ___ ?"
I would want to rotate simply to get more resolution.. but then i'd wonder why i wasn't using the highest resolution from the start.. and then bam, i'm back to using the a normal camera app and holding it sidebars haha.

Though, i think i'd prefer this style app if it just picked portrait or landscape, and adjusted between just those two states dynamically. That would be nice if you accidentally shoot in one, and decided you wanted the other. Which happens quite frequently for me.
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brilliant! thanks for this.
It appears to be based on Chibi scheme which is Alex Shinn's embeddable scheme that was chosen as the reference for R7RS small.

https://code.google.com/p/chibi-scheme/
Did you read the threemail post? It wasn't how you describe.
Exactly, there shouldn't be any trouble getting a vendors attention now.
Do they ever admit to an influence from Zepto's Pudding Monsters and/or Triple Town? Seems a bit hypocritical if they don't.
I'm sorry, but this is something a non-overweight person would say.

I've been overweight my whole life. I talked to my doctor. One said (yes he literally said this) Follow the SELAP diet. When I asked what he meant he said "Stop Eating Like a Pig". That was his advice. Another doctor said to get surgery.

I finally found another doctor that helped. He put me on a 1,000 calorie a day diet. Tons of people told me it was unhealthy, but I lost weight - 50 lbs. The information out there for dieting is so bad. I had people tell me that if I ate 1,000 calories a day, I would gain weight because of a slow metabolism. These were "professional" people. I've never heard of people who stop eating in food strikes in prisons get to the point where they weighed so much they can't leave their cell!

Unfortunately I couldn't keep that extremely low calorie diet up for the long term and when trying to increase it, I've now gained 25 of it back but it's been a year so I consider it somewhat of a success.

I'm glad to read about something that works for someone. The doctors you mention are pretty clueless in my opinion.
Or just hold the phone horizontally?
With maze generation, you need some way of deciding which subset of the possible walls you're going to keep. Usually you rely on some random or pseudorandom numbers to feed into the algorithm or use internally.

Having the maze verts in the same positions is possible and not too unlikely. Having the same walls is astronomically unlikely. Even if you had exactly the same algorithm (possible, but unlikely) and the implementations used the random values in exactly the same order, you'd also need exactly the same random seed. There are a lot of possibilities for that seed.
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Well, I'm not sure how well regulated my $3 powered usb hub is. I find myself having to do this weird ritual of plugging stuff in under the correct sequence otherwise I get some power from the hub and the pi won't boot fully (goes into a weird boot loop).
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"It tunes my mind to the station of my body. It makes me feel real hunger and lets me differentiate it from other cravings"

What he's describing is congruent with a stoic lifestyle. The core of stoicism is to not be a slave to your feelings and cravings. And this is achieved through mental and spiritual "exercise."

I have fasted for 3 days at a time, allowing myself nothing but water. Try six weeks without a drop of alcohol. And don't cheat. It's not a "detoxifying" process- it's a process of gaining mindfulness. You understand, as the author points out, what your body does and does not need, and that many of your feelings of "hunger" (for food, or more figuratively anything) are triggered by your officemate talking about nutella, or hearing some bad news that makes you anxious, or any number of things that you can control if you become aware of them.

Once you understand the true control you have over your body and your feelings and actions, you can really start to take it to the next level with what you actually want to accomplish, as opposed to what has been programmed by your social environment.
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Some people don't YET know that they're diabetic. A whole day without food could cause some major problems in those people.
This is not acceptable for something as critical as your front door.

You also usually can't tell exactly if the battery is too low for it to turn