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I saw this a while ago and thought that I would love to try playing this game as a human, so I could explore different strategies, or just have fun. Well, that is finally possible.

I just created LiveHumanBot – a “bot” that really just lets you, a human, type in directions to control your character. Here is its code, with instructions: https://github.com/roryokane/vindinium-live-human-bot. I fare pretty well against other bots: http://vindinium.org/ai/p20qptiv.
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One comment about frame rates: the only reason 120hz looks better (and exists at all in our current TVs, even up to 600hz) is LCD panel response time and ghosting.

A standard movie, shot at 24 or 30fps, looks better in a 120hz screen vs a 60hz one, even thought there are still only 24 different images to be displayed per second, and both refresh rates are much higher than the available frames. A higher refresh rate means the screen can switch between frames faster, so it's actually displaying repeat frames, but the reduced ghosting makes everything look sharper and smoother.

In addition to that - ignoring the snarky paragraph underneath the picture - the example given where you have more intermediate states only applies up to 60-66fps; after this point humans are unable to detect any difference, due to ~15ms of visual delay and afterimages (ghosting!). People often mention studies where someone was able to detect an image displayed for 1/200th of a second or similar durations, but that doesn't mean that person can tell apart a moving image at 60fps vs 200fps. Our eyes have no shutter; we can capture light that was visible for way less than 1/60 of a second, but as soon as it starts moving our hardware limitations show up.
I heard a rule of thumb that fab costs go up about 40% with each reduction in size. Is that accurate?
You are absolutely right, take a look at their expensive marketing at work. https://i.imgur.com/rZ6pQU5.png
Reminds me of Every Dot, an ambitious project to shoot every dot on the map of one state: http://afiler.com/everydot/

The books that came from the kick starter are nice, too.
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AFAIK Ionic isn't specifically engineered for performance. Famo.us is more low-level.
thanks, that was a good post to read, i also like the comments about the fact that you should really actually pay your debt when it is legitimate. I'm all for going after the unscrupulous collectors, but if you owe the debt.. pay it off...
Thanks for the help eh. Great thoughts. I would love to eventually dive into gems but I think thats easily a later date thing as I am still getting the foundation.
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I'm not sure what the fact that one house is not democratically elected has to do with anything?

The point of an upper house is that it is supposed to be impartial to the whims of the voters. In the USA we originally had an appointed Senate and still to this day have an appointed Judicial system. Should supreme court judges be elected?

I have to say as a quasi-outsider (English raised in the USA) that more often than not I'm extremely impressed by what comes out of the House of Lords. For example their recent statement on the EU's right to be forgotten.
Why not? At least one person is: http://videos.venturebeat.com/turning-the-tesla-model-s-into...
Interesting idea. I think personal projects are fine, as long as I can make it look slick really.

Thanks for the help!
It's weird to see a shopping cart powered by Squarespace at n-o-r-t-h.com

http://www.n-o-r-t-h.com/commerce/show-cart
Every Dot: project to take pictures of every dot on the map
That's why I suggested a queue, so you'd only ever need to have a maximum of <total number of accounts> pending. I missed the part about using this for login as well as recovery though (but also, note that numbers are for 5 billion accounts, an scales linearly with accounts -- so divide by 2000 for half a million accounts).
If you think that quote refutes my point then I clearly need to clarify what my point was.

1) Joel believes that pointers and recursion are concepts that require a way of thinking about higher order abstractions that correlates well with being a good programming hire. So it would make sense if we agreed with him to ask questions about pointers & recursion in interviews, even if we don't believe that pointers or recursion are used often in the settings we are hiring for.
2) Many people have built long careers without using recursion, but that doesn't refute the premise because it doesn't speak to the higher order abstractions assumption. Further, in the modern world recursion is no more or less likely to be used than pointers (which would be shocking at one point in the industry) as pointers also are not common.
3) The central assumption Joel basis his argument on is that pointers and recursion are interesting because reasoning well about them requires a higher level of abstraction. That higher level of abstraction simply does not exist with Java style references. So asking about references, while maybe useful in other contexts, doesn't have the benefits Joel is arguing for in the same way as pointers.
4) To relate this back to the article, A) is understanding dynamic programming indicative of some central mental type that will correlate with a good programmer? B) Does asking questions about the Knapsack problem suss out that understanding. I suspect, but can't prove that the answers are A) not like pointer/recursion understand and B) absolutely not.
> "Because humans have unlimited storage capacity..."

this is patently untrue, unless human brains defy the known laws of physics. this makes it hard to believe everything that he mentions.
"- Don't worry about making anything look like "cool" websites. Honestly most trendy designs are simply terrible to use. Design should make the products more enjoyable to use and easier to use. Anything else is intellectual arrogance."

Largely disagree with the above statement. Consumer psychology is largely irrational, therefore frivolous attributes like the "look" and "feel" of a site that have nothing to do with functionality can influence what you perceive to be "easy to use."

A good example of this irrationality in action is how the taste of food can be influenced by how it looked visually prior to the act of tasting.
Will he? What about the tens of thousands of other people that can run that tool? What about people that can type queries into SHODAN? Why are they not problems?

If you don't think that you government should spy, that's fine, a lot of very respectable people have had this opinion over the course of human history. I just don't buy the remediation story, at all.
Thanks for the thoughtful post. I agree we could use other reforms other than cut spelling. I have posted the source code on GitHub and anyone can modify it to any spelling reform you like. While I agree that cut spelling has its problems, I do like it is simple and that it results in shorter words. Something like cutspel is the start of the journey, not the end :)
The first one sounds interesting. I think thats something I can probably do since its pretty basic but I can make it look nice.

Cheers!
Stackless Python isn't a simple out of the box framework, it's a basic set of primitives. New users have to overcome many of the same problems. Using a framework above Stackless, is a huge aid in gaining the benefits which the Stackless primitives provides. Only in the later years, has 'stacklesslib' been created to formalise some of the standard practises in a higher level framework.

The benefits to new frameworks based on Stackless are obvious if you use Stackless.
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The less money newspapers have, the less independent work they can do.

When you're a newspaper hemorrhaging revenue, what do you cut? Not sports. Not style. Not the stuff people read. Not the ability to report rumors faster than the next guy. That's your bread and butter.

Editors. Fact-checking. You can clean up your balance sheet without threatening business continuity by "improving efficiency" and getting all those layers out of the way.

Validating claims about Hussein and Al Qaeda basically amounts to foreign intelligence work. That costs expensive people's expensive time with a very high risk that they won't be able to arrive at any conclusions. Do you expect a manager to authorize a sat-phone when he can't even make payroll?

Newspapers in general do the best they can afford to. They're not the world's advertising platform anymore, so what they can afford to do is of course declining.
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Gwern wrote a good overview of spaced repetition and how to apply it [1]. If you're interested in going deeper, it serves as a good starting point as he provides all kinds of references.

[1] http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition
a) solve a problem you have or people you know have, the closer you are to the problem the better

b) find more people with the same problem

There's lots of ways to get traffic -

- if you're lucky industry communities and forums you can post on, people asking on twitter, that kind of stuff

- get press, and not particularly press because you're a startup, go to the news sites and blogs that specifically cover your industry

- adwords, facebook etc advertising

- content marketing like Digital Ocean's giant archive of everything you will ever need to do or install on a web server, that is going to send high quality traffic to their website for years but takes a long time to do

- content marketing about being a startup or developer, I dislike this because the traffic's usually untargeted and it's specifically exploiting us
There isn't a line. We're talking about the human brain, these things are fuzzy. Some things will work better than others, and it'll surely vary between people, and you'll have no idea which are which until you try it. But it seems like the theme is association: Find the common information between the things you're studying.
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NASA uses Newtonian mechanics to send spacecraft to the outer planets and beyond. Everybody knows that Newtonian mechanics stop being accurate in certain conditions, but that does not prevent it being an incredibly useful model outside those conditions.

The best experimentally-verified cosmological models we have point to the fact that the Universe was in a hot and dense state a few microseconds after a specific point of time about 13.7 billion years ago. Extrapolating those few microseconds back in time we get an unphysical result from our current models, but that simply means those models are inaccurate if applied to the beginning of time.

Contrary to the popular belief, The Big Bang model simply does not concern itself with what happened at the exact moment of Big Bang; what it does is describe the evolution of the Universe after that, and does it well.
I searched for "patent reform" and the results weren't that interesting.
Oh, neat to see this here! This was part of a local competition I participated in several months ago. Nice to see it has improved quite a bit since.

I'm far from knowledgable on AI stuff, but I found this a great way to learn about some very basics, like pathfinding.
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They are something new. They're a solid more approachable packaged solution which includes them in a form more available to the general programmer. And popularised by Google.

Yes, these things have been used in the past. No-one denies that, and there are copious references where Stackless was based on Limbo. Every time something new comes up which uses old technology, there's always those who have to assume it means that it insults the old adopters in some way. Or that fealty has to be paid to the old adopters. At some level this becomes tiresome and unhelpful.
For each native platform, there actually aren't many (viable) choices. Android has Android (framework) and Java. iOS has iOS (framework), and a choice between two very similar and interoperable languages, Objective-C and Swift.

If you decide to go HTML5 cross-platform you have Phonegap vs. other web wrappers (wrappers); Ionic, Famo.us, Sencha, hand-rolling-your-own (frameworks); and finally just JavaScript (language).

This is ignoring other cross-platform things like Xamarin (which consists of Xamarin the framework, C#, and still also the iOS or Android frameworks, depending on your targets), Titanium, etc.
The big bang, unlike theology, tells us why distant objects are more red than close objects, why we can't see anything further than ~13bil light years away, why there is microwave noise everywhere, etc. The mathematics that describe all those things imply certain things about earlier cosmological history.
But I would have thought the rationale was that lenders accepted some risk (that borrower would default) for a chance to realize some profit (when the borrower pays). What the NYT article sketches out is a system where debts are created seemingly without the intention that they be repaid; the only way I can wrap my head around it is that those losses are calculated, and that overall lending and selling on is profitable. But it does seem like turtles all the way down - real people used imaginary money to buy real things (or services from other real people), and then the imaginary money (mostly) disappeared. All that's solid melts to air.
TL;DR "The City of London" is an ancient city founded by the Romans who's been continuously governed by an embarrassingly complicated government that nearly puts the Catholic Church to shame, and is nearly as old. It to this day involves guilds.

The short version is that companies get the right to vote in this system. And do the high price properties are nearly the entire government.

This leads to an incredibly business friendly government.
In regards holy and holly in my accent they both have two l sounds - hol-lee and hole-lee.

CutSpel just implements a subset of cut spelling (this is for performance reasons and to avoid cutting proper nouns). This is one of the features of cut spelling is that it is not an all or nothing reform - it can be mixed with tradition spelling without issue.
On the ground, a large portion of (consumer) debt collection is based on pulling fast ones. The people in debt are not aware of their rights and protects, and the debt collectors deceive, sometimes stretching the truth and sometimes outright lying. Threatening with prison sentences and even posing as cops are mentioned in the linked article, even though one is a fiction and the other an outright felony.

So really, your question "why should a debtor pay...?" is always answered by "the collector convinces them to." Giving the consumer rights and protections is, at this point, insufficient. Their current rights and protections are not being exercised, due to ignorance. That's something that needs to be fixed.
"Heinous tools"? They're literally running nmap.
That's not actually how it works. Money is not a thing. Money is a decision and a means of social punishment/reward.

Lending is either an executive function based on (supposed) faith in the future, or it's gambling, or it's client patronage, or it's extortion.

There is no financial business model which does not reduce to these relationships.

In your example, the factory gets built if someone important decides it should be built. They charge 'interest' based on justifications assembled from some combination of gambling, extortion, or patronage.

It's an entirely imaginary and delusional system, and completely faith-based.
The source code is on GitHub so you are free to use it to propose any reform you like.
Direct link to YouTube as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vI_7os2V_o
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Fast-flux or generated DNS are both pretty crap C&C bootstrapping infrastructures, and relatively traceable.

I won't describe the really good ones, because I don't want to proliferate them.
I cannot tell if you're for real here? I had to check your LinkedIn since it sounded a lot like you worked for them.

First you essentially say "they shouldn't make their own, as this $350 tool's business might be impacted" and then when people raise legitimate concerns (e.g. that it doesn't support their platform) you suggest even more expensive ways to mitigate it (an additional $300+).

So essentially your argument is: "They shouldn't make a free GUI, there is $350 of commercial software that might lose business, that runs on all systems if you spend $350 for a VM+licence."

I'm struggling to take you even a tiny bit seriously here.
The problem with your comment is that it has nothing to do with this story. It involves a different intelligence agency, doesn't involve routers, doesn't involve attacks of any sort, and could not have brought down the Internet in Asmara Eritrea, let alone Syria.
Yeah the Cisco layoffs have nothing to do with loss of trust.
I had a similar issue using Mnemosyne. Then I read "Moonwalking with Einstein" and I'm pretty convinced that spaced repetition is a solution to an adjacent problem. More important is the vividness of the memory, and the use of spatial memory (memory palace technique), along with some other techniques, for engaging many parts of the brain. These make the memory stick much more clearly and for a longer time.

It's a great book but I understand there are others that are more focused specifically on techniques, with much less story.
You'd have to first define what constitutes "ethical" as distinct from "legal". If you're of the opinion that the very practice of collecting debt is scummy or unethical, then no. Assuming you will allow for at least SOME form of "ethical" debt collection, we'd have to narrow down what kinds. For instance, just off the top of my head, you've got:
- Commercial Debt
- Medical Debt
- Student Loans
- Bad Checks

Within that you conceivably have debts whose collection is perhaps ethical by nature but not ethical in practice. For instance, as I said earlier, collection on bad checks circumvent many normal collection laws, and you can thus have interest rates of 200% or higher. Another example would be Student Loans, which have their own set of ridiculous loopholes that allow the debt to persist past bankruptcy, past retirement, etc. As someone who was still in college myself only a few years ago, the idea of the financial burden imposed on me for the rest of my life simply for doing the thing that society practically strong-armed me into doing seems, to me, ridiculous; for that reason I am hesitant to call any form of Student Debt collection "ethical" simply because the laws which govern it are atrocious.

With that said, I have dealt with many agencies who at least tried to operate on an "ethical" model (usually they collected on medical debt), and they seemed polite and reasonable in their collection efforts. Remember, they're in the business to make money. Some agencies will go for the "Make the debtor's life as miserable as possible to make them pay up" tactic, which includes harassment, lawsuits, garnishments, etc. I deal with them frequently, and I think they're the scum of the Earth (primarily because they talk to me in what I imagine is the same tone as they talk to debtors). Others, however, will simply try to get what they can, and if they CAN'T--i.e. they realize that continuing to call a guy about a debt when he's already stated that he has no job and no savings would be like squeezing blood from a stone--they'll stop wasting their time and move on to an account that would be more profitable.

Much of the work done by agencies these days is not only getting people to pay, but finding out who is more LIKELY to pay so that the agency can focus its efforts accordingly. This analysis might include things like the line of business, their credit score, their location (they usually figure that areas with a higher average income are more likely to pay), etc.

To answer your question succinctly: probably. It would center primarily on whether the percentage of the portfolio that actually pays can sustain the percentage that you're willing to let go when pursuing them further would entail questionable tactics.
"Tesla, like its Silicon Valley cohort Apple, often goes above and beyond the call of duty when carrying out repairs, swapping out entire components to keep customers happy."

Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft.

My experience with Apple failures/replacements has been worse than any other customer service / quality assurance experience I've had. Products owned: Nano first gen (replaced with nano eighth gen), Video first gen, MBP 2007. Also a 5s but that can be an exception because my Mom brought it in the pool while I was lending it to her and we were trying to figure out random shutdowns on her 5, which were due to the battery.
Titanium is probably safer, but a lot more expensive.
Not so idiotic. I ran up a modest amount of debt in my early twenties, never paid any of it. Fast forward ten years. Found a decent job, look to buy a car, come to find out my credit report is mostly empty. Most everything had dropped off. Capital One gave me a credit card, I've been building up credit and savings over the last year.

If you have the discipline to say, "no new debt," which isn't that hard to do after you've already fucked up your score, then you can hit thirty with a clean slate.
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This is a domain where Unconventional Computing seems to work well, e.g., "DNA computing" through its massively parallel processing capabilities.
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Respectfully, the problem (I believe) is seeing it as a line.

Interleaving, isn't a "right" or "wrong", "black" or "white"... Think of it as, this topic is "less" or "more" effective.

What do I mean? Well, as someone else mentioned, studying "European Nation States" might be a good option for you. Certainly a better option than, say, Swan Diving. You should accept that "European Nation States" is the best you can do right now.

One of the hallmark traits of intelligence is the ability to "relate" unrelated things. In this way, you could - theoretically - interleave ANYTHING, you just need to think abstractly enough about it.

Good luck
1. Get loan

2. Don't pay it back

3. Ask debt collector friend to buy debt

4. Pay him off

Why would this not work?
Non-profit "debt counselors" is actually a huge scam industry that operates in the loopholes of nonprofit debt-counseling law.
No, he said that there should be an official GUI because the ecosystem of competitive GUIs, free and paid, might be affected. That is, a single official one might discourage people from making their own.
Everything you've described sounds like an awesome idea to me. It leads to quick price discovery. It's economically efficient.
Basically yes. It is a giant assumption with no actual science backing it up. Maybe there is some science that I am not aware of. So many evolutionary statements get a free pass in this regard. Someone says it, and now it is so. Where is the skepticism?
Here's quick demonstration that you can easily detect 60fps and that the referenced picture is valid - grab a window (or even your mouse cursor) and wiggle it around your screen. Unless your computer is ancient, it was probably updated at 60hz. Yet it's not very smooth - you can clearly see multiple steps with gaps in between.

Now do the same on a 144hz monitor - it is significantly different, but still not as smooth as it could be.
This is the idea. I have found that after a couple of hours using cutspel I forget that it is even on - I just read. The fact that the cut spelling forms are shorter and easier to type I find I often automatically use the cut spelling form without thought and it is my spell checker that picks up the "mistake". The browser is a powerful tool to reform spelling!
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