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Thanks for this.

I'll show this to my friend. My friend is waiting an HTML5 version of Swing Copters since it was released! It's because I showed him this[1] and is interested to do something like it for Swing Copters. Now that there is an HTML5 version, he can now proceed to his project.

One thing though, I think this version is easier than the original game. :)

[1] http://sarvagyavaish.github.io/FlappyBirdRL/
Pleco is definitely the #1 app for learning Chinese vocab. The OCR functionality makes it easy to scan the word lists in your Chinese textbook, and the example sentences in the free dictionary are pretty good.
Pleco doesn't really teach you Chinese in the way that Duolingo teaches languages, but I don't think that CleverDeck can do that, either :)
Yes, but another comment suggested it might've been Ghostery. I could see a bland header image, but no images within the story, just dense text.

After whitelisting the Brightcove widget in Ghostery, I can see the images.
That incessant repetition of error-handling boilerplate shown in the article is not an argument in favor of this approach.
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J O K E. It's a joke. Read the story and the author's gameography, they're filled with 'em.
I have given my iPad(s) away to family, even bought a few for family, but I never keep one. All I need is my phone and my kindle. I even take it when I take the bicycle out for a ride.

I have probably read more books in the few years I have owned a Kindle than in the forty preceding it.

Now I have found difficulty getting my niece and nephew to read on it, they seem very much at that stage of "its not color its old". So when they get e ink to color maybe that will help.

I am a little disappointed in the price jumps for the e ink models, it seems like there is a model missing.
My favourite example of why common sense is pretty useless in maths is an example of comparing averages;

There are two shops, each with 5 salespeople. One shop performs very well, each of the salespeople selling 50, 40, 40, 40 and 30 widgets respectively. The other performs very badly, as the staff selling 20, 10, 10, 10 and 0 widgets each.

The average monthly sales for the first shop is (50+40+40+40+30)/5 = 40 widgets.

The average monthly sales for the second shop is (20+10+10+10+0)/5 = 10 widgets.

As an experiment the worst salesperson from Shop 1 is moved to Shop 2.

The average monthly sales for the first shop is (50+40+40+40)/4 = 42.5 widgets.

The average monthly sales for the second shop is (30+20+10+10+10+0)/6 = 13.3 widgets.

Common sense says that both stores are now performing 'better', but quite obviously that is nonsense.
Couldn't see any of those. It was Ghostery blocking them Brightcove widgets.
Use a VPN service (see my comment elsewhere on this page), register for the American service, and then, on the VPN service's website, change your Netflix region to UK or another region.
I mostly like this. The only gripe I have with it is the stringly-typed way of triggering events. It seems like you might be able to better leverage the type system to ensure that spelling mistakes or fat-fingerings don't cause a runtime error sometime in the future. If the .Event() method took an object that satisfied the "Trigger" (or something) interface, instead of just a string, you might be able to catch those kinds of errors during compile-time instead.
Similar indeed. I have the fashion industry in mind for this as well but I'm thinking broader. The original inspiration for this came from interior design blog posts so that is also a target market. I was also thinking of hosting things for professionals like web design specifications.

Specipic is at an early stage and I'm really just trying to gauge interest from the feedback at this point. There are tons of features I've thought of to add but there has to be a need from real users.
Why didn't you create a single app with all card sets as in app purchases? I use Mental Case which allows you to share sets and download sets from other people.
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Not sure that's a good test either. When tasked to figure out something as part of a job, by a manager one knows and trusts, who takes feedback of "I don't know how to do this but I will investigate it", a person may act one way, whereas being tasked with someone's PhD thesis by a stranger on an interview may lead to a very different response.

I know I am far less tolerant of bullshit interviews than I once was, and would have far fewer qualms vocalizing what I'm thinking - "I don't know. If I saw this in real life I'd check Google, because it reads exactly like the sort of contrived problem used in interviews and thus is well documented, and likely solved quickly by those who have memorized it. I am not one of those. I'll take a stab at it now if you just want to see how I reason through it, but if coming up with an efficient, correct implementation is part of your criteria we can probably save both of us the trouble" - is that considered acting like an ass?
Yeah, we have the past two MakerBots, which work decently, and their 3D scanner which is unusable.
I don't think he is blaming Debian in any way.
That's more of a Lisp problem than a Clojure problem. All the Expert Lisp Programmers settled on Emacs many moons ago (as in decades past) and no one has bothered to write another (good) Lisp-friendly text editor since. And well, you can't really write Lisp without a suitable text editor, so all the Lisp neophytes either give up or learn to cope with emacs and eventually forget about replacing it.
>The only thing EP has going for it, on the other hand, is a bunch of surveys, small-N experiments, and beloved-by-Cosmopolitan stereotypes about the contemporary courting behavior of affluent, predominantly white college students.

There is other evidence also. EP for example would suggest males would tend to massacre their neighbours and grab their females as this would be a genetic benefit. To study that experimentally you could look at the historic record of conquests and the genetic results, study uncontacted human societies, the stuff ISIS is doing now, chimp studies such as those recently in the news (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/science/lethal-violence-in...)
and such like. You could also run MRIs on people brains to try to understand the mechanisms and so on. It's not college surveys and just so stories.

Indeed the fact that ISIS massacring the Yazidi's and rounding up women fits the evolutionary chimp style raiding hypothesis better than the loving God hypothesis is significant and might discourage the guys from doing if they realised that. Then maybe the massacres could stop through scientific enlightenment rather than us reluctantly having to go bomb them. Again it's more than Cosmo type stuff.
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It is a feature apple provides to beta test the apps but it requires registering users' udids. I have submitted it to the app store and put that there until they accept the app.
Yep it doesn't work on non-jailbroken devices because their udids aren't registered.
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The satellite view brings into question the assertion that the circles never overlap. They don't look all that regular or circular either.
I'm really impressed, PyPi only has about 37,000 packages[1] and it has been around for much longer. Really shows how far Node has come.

It would also be interesting to see the average number of lines each package has.

1. http://tomforb.es/how-much-code-is-there-in-the-python-packa...
As someone trying to use SR to learn new things, I'm always tempted to build my own software. Congrats for doing it!

The one gripe I have--about this and every other SRS--is that it seems geared ONLY for language learning. While SRS works very well for that, I suspect it works well for much more than that.
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You get used to that pattern ;-)

Also, the "I never need generics" made me smile. Sure, one can get by without them, but sometimes, as I said above, it would be really nice to have them.
Or maybe I'm unaware of romance novels dealing with game theory and metaethics.

You are right, you probably won't find romance novels dealing with those issues, but that is not something to be surprised or annoyed by.

Each genre has some things that it is, through the tropes of the genre, naturally good at exploring. Science fiction and cyberpunk are really good at speculating about the future (and, of course, by extension, the present: everything is a mirror), because of the setting that they take place in. On the other hand, Romance novels they tend to make good mediators for dealing with different issues, such as sexuality, taboos, class, etc. Just look at Jayne Eyre.
Or while traveling, unless you are in China, of course.
It's expensive, but Sony's digital paper product looks pretty sweet: https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/show-digitalpaper/resource.sol...
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I've found that Chrome's responsive view does a better job than Firefox - but I'll check it out. Thanks!
Don't leave your mind so open your brain falls out.
> Or maybe I'm unaware of romance novels dealing with game theory and metaethics.

I do like SciFi, but I think you are victim of the same bias you are accusing other people to have. There are lots and lots of works hat explore the ethics space. Game theory being newer isn't on the classics, but you'll find it in modern literature too.

> It's the Federation that was the hero in Star Trek.

Each epoch has the propaganda that suits it. Just as it's incredibly hard to make a show where everybody got together nowadays, it was hard to create a show with corrupt leadership back then.
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I learned 850 chinese characters over a 3 week period one summer using this technique. It's amazingly powerful.
It is still considered non-alcoholic. Many commercial soft drinks contain similar amounts of alcohol.
The Kindle Voyage[1] doesn't state whether it supports Amazon's etextbook format. As an example, the Kindle Probabilistic Graphical Models[2] textbook is only available on PC or Kindle Fire, which is a bummer if still true since the Voyage looks like it should be able to handle this now, but no actual mention of this in the product description nor in the pull-down hover label "Available only on these devices".

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IOY8XWQ/ref=fs_kv

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Probabilistic-Graphical-Models-Princip...
This is a blog post equivalent of qualitative user research, which, in addition to quantitative methods, is really useful to understand why people are using technologies the way they do. Research and understanding usually starts from small samples and anecdotes and expands from there via more rigorous methods towards the truth.
Did you run into any trouble with payment?

I tried and was unable to use my credit because of some security restriction configuration. As I have never changed anything in that regard, I concluded that this must be a default setting.
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There is a fantastic dictionary app for Mandarin called Pleco that includes a SRS-based flashcards feature as an in-app purchase (around $10-15 if I recall). The base dictionary itself is free.

While of course you can just program your own cards into Anki or the like, being able to create new cards from dictionary definitions with one tap is very handy.
Thanks for the feedback! It's a good suggestion, and having something else than strings as events is something that I have analyzed. Currently different handlers depends on string operations as selectors, for example "before_<event>". Any ideas on how to move that to the static type world (preferably without using the reflect package)?
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I think we should add a third category, 'modeller', as in someone who runs experiments in silica. It's not really an experiment, and it's not really just theory.
In a world where a lot of people get up in the middle of the night to order a $800+ smartphone I think there's plenty of room for a $200 premium ebook reader from the market leader. They still have a very affordable model for sale, after all.

Seeing how attached many people seem to be to their Kindle reinforces that position. I might just have to buy one to see what that's all about.
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Which is frustrating for programmers, but pretty neat if you share AppleScript on web boards (which seems to happen a lot) :)
Saying that prison sentences are about "paying a debt to society" is laughable. Three-strikes laws can make three fairly minor individual offenses add up to life imprisonment. Keeping anti-racist literature in your cell can land you in solitary confinement for decades.

If there's anything the US prison terms are "about", it's kicking a whole class of people while they're down and unable to do anything about it. Any politician can promise to increase sentences and appear by doing so to support "law and order" or the appropriate amount of crypto-racism or whatever it is people support these days. Felons are stripped of their ability to vote in some states, so there's literally no chance for retaliation and thus literally nothing to lose, and potential to gain. As a result, prison sentences are huge and there's no way to reduce them politically.

American prison sentences betray the basic lack of empathy of American politicians.
>and I got an A..

Congrats!
Netflix support straight out told me to do this... and I wonder about it.

I'm sort of at the point where I don't see a whole lot of difference between just torrenting whatever it is I want to watch and using a VPN to circumvent copyright restrictions... except using bittorrent is cheaper and more amenable to my crappy unreliable Internet service.
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Can anyone with an account please check how much shipping to germany costs? I don't want to set up an account with another site just to check shipping costs. I can get the book from Amazon but the Bok + eBook bundle informit offers looks attractive, but it all depends on the shipping costs.
Your documentation needs images (or, you know, actual SVG).
Just combine the booleans in to an integer and then switch-case 0 to 7.
Agreed.

A good hacker is a lazy hacker.
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While I appreciate another look at React, I have to disagree with the article's conclusion that React is "objectively better" than other frameworks. The summary article of the story is basically "we completely re-architected our application and things are better now". There's nothing in Backbone that makes you construct the initial architecture on display, and you can use Backbone to build the final architecture as well. So, moral of the story: re-architecting an application you know more about than you did at the beginning is probably a good thing.
Also, using HN and its fads as a measure of motivation sounds a little elitist. There are really awesome and motivated coders out there who couldn't care less about politics, mainstream tech media news articles, gadgets, Apple-does-this, Google-does-that, cool new language or JS toy of the week... these coders are likely focused on their code instead.

Programming is a wide field, there's much more to it than the front page discussions on HN can cover.

Of course, if you're looking for a Web developer to make "cool new stuff" for the latest fadgets..
<spoiler-alert>They made a silly mistake on their question 13 (Geant4 and V517) implementation. Even though I clicked on the second sC0Min1Max, they marked my answer as incorrect -- it should be correct whether the first sC0Min1Max or the second sC0Min1Max is clicked.</spoiler-alert>
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JS does not have multidimensional arrays but it does have a comma operator. "o[true, true, true]" won't do what you want.
Its not because in Go you cannot reuse existing functions that you've written if you drop the types. In python, you can.
There is supposedly no way of duplicating the secure element which is what controls the encryption.
Ray Bradbury is just a luddite, though. For all he knows she was listening to a news broadcast or a play. If that happened now she might have been listening to Farenheit-451 on audiobook.

In general, anyone who needs to bring up how their preferred medium of information transmission smells is not going to give you useful information about what technologies to favor over others. Nostalgia is fun but not something you can reliably use to judge usefulness of technology.
Ruby is still my favorite programming language to use for a project. It doesn't have the immediate approachability of python but if you put in the effort to understand and accept it's quirkiness you fall in love. I hope it continues to move forward as far as performance goes so people will continue to use it, not just mostly for prototypes, but beyond. Ruby 2.2 is a great step.
I'd just use something like ProxMate, I use it from Argentina and it works wonders. I'd use a VPN por privacy reasons but for now i just enable the extension when I want to use it.
>Qualcomm doesn't need to scale up.

>Qualcomm is [...] scaling up.

So what? They don't need to do what they are doing? Then why are they doing that?
Kindlegen has worked great for me to convert ePubs to mobi, and it just takes a quick command line invocation.
That is right.

But an architecture that is newer and learned from other architectures is probably a good thing too.

And React / Backbone / or whatever will not be the last architecture.
Had a lot of fun with it! Props!
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So if we just legalized drugs, people who are so fully addicted to them that they'll burglarize houses to pay for them will, presumably because drugs will be so much cheaper, get a job at McDonalds instead?
You mean it's better than Sweet.js? http://sweetjs.org/
You also loose the ability to pass existing functions with your implementation of Map

Map([]string{"a", "b", "c", "d"}, ToUpper)
And now apple has promised not to just give all that information, and access to your phone, to people claiming to be cops without a warrant anymore.

This was such a good read until that last word. Including that last word it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and full of confidence in Apple's protection of my data.

A part of me wonders who in the PR department thought this was a good announcement to make and whether he/she still works at Apple.
Something like that, so you can find where your current SSD lives.
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All the clojure tutorials I've seen recently have been using LightTable. Which is just as well since Emacs is not my thing.
I have never owned a kindle before. Should I wait for the Kindle Voyage (wait about 6 weeks and pay $100 extra) or buy a Kindle Paperwhite now?

It appears the main improvement is the resolution but it's difficult for me to get a sense of how important this is without having used a Paperwhite.
I never understood the appeal of touchscreen son Kindles. They have a really nice screen, why get greasy finger marks all over it? These ones don't appear to have the side buttons that my basic kindle has, which implies that I would need to hands to switch page.
I usually come into these threads to say the same thing. From 2000-2003 I did IT support for a lab with SLA, FDM, SLS, LOM, and Z-Corp machines (and wrote some supporting software for many of them).

In addition to your list:

* parts often need some type of post processing to
be viable long term (it depends on the process,
support removal, sanding/bead blasting, resin
injection, curing, etc.) this can take many additional
hours.
* different machines have different tolerances

That said, I'm surprised overhang is an issue. This is a solved problem. Machines like FDM use a non-binding support material; support is intrinsic to SLS, Z-Corp, and LOM processes; SLA is the worst since the support material is the same as the building material. To the best of my memory, in these big commercial machines support creation was done as part of the slicing process (or some other solid model preparation) in software before the part was sent to the machine.

That said, this is the first home 3D printer that I've been excited about, and the price point is killer.

Also, if they haven't licensed tech from 3D Systems, how long before they are sued.
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Just because the real reasons wont be admitted, it will not automatically be considered a hate crime.
Fire HD 6 - Quad Core but they seem kinda silent about the memory. And for a good reason, it has 1GB of RAM. That is way too little for Android. Wouldn't buy, no matter the price. Note how they also call "storage" as "memory".
Hola Better Internet is a free extension for Chrome that lets you connect to any site via a proxy, I've used it with Netflix before. It's also handy for getting around YouTube's geoblocking.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hola-better-intern...
Hi, you can find a working demo on

http://andreaferretti.github.io/paths-js-demo/

It is mentioned in the README (How does it look like?) but maybe it is not apparent enough
> uses fixed space

I guess the "normal" way to write this is with a heap? For `min`, I guess the algorithm is something like,

min(items, k=1):
h = max_heap(items[:k])
for i in items[k:]:
h.push(i)
h.pop_max()
return sorted(h)

It isn't asymptotically slower than the normal algorithm for k=1, it doesn't need to make multiple passes over the data, and it doesn't mutate the original data structure, so it's a pretty sensible and natural extension to put in.
I used to think David Brin made good points when I first read him. Now I just think he cherry-picks to support his own political views, which I find fairly distasteful. He makes a large amount of totally far-off claims and doesn't cite them at all. There are only a handful of links in this entire thing and that speaks to how supported it is. If you rely on priming and the availability heuristic to make your point about cultural trends you've already lost.

I get that David Brin wants to live in a world full of competent people; I get that he wants to be able to trust every human with literally everything; but we aren't there yet and no amount of complaining about culture will make that happen.