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As a non-expert English speaker with 41 years or so of experience, I feel that "addicting" is just fine in this context.

But that's just my opinion.
Or maybe DC - Baltimore is the best place for the first phase of a DC - Boston high speed corridor, since it's short.
If you think you're going to drive 60mph the entire way from DC to Baltimore, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
Exactly, been like that for years. Also, it works because it's true to a significant degree.
Los Angeles and Las Vegas makes a great deal of sense too, and would be a shorter (and MUCH cheaper) route.
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On OSDC '08 there was a lightning talk being held about depression and burnout. As a later step, the Bluehackers.org Group has been established.

This cannot replace the help from a professional but they provide good reads / resources on the subject.

HTH - You're not alone!

http://bluehackers.org/howto
Congrats on finishing and publishing a side project. I know how hard that is!

Some quick feedback.

First the Play Store listing. I installed Tiny Words on a Nexus 7, and it shows the first 3 screenshots for a 7 inch tablet. Then it shows the same screenshots but on a phone. It is only by scrolling to see the other screenshots that you finally see the 4th and following screenshots "The best score after 3 rounds wins!", etc.

After installing I chose the FB option, but it opened a FB login web page which would require typing in username+login. I have the FB app installed and logged in, so this shouldn't happen. You'll lose a lot of users at this stage unless you fix this.
Wow, $35K just for graphics work, and cheaper than the actual development. Definitely something I couldn't afford hah
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Eh I don't know, I've been on HN for years and feel like people have stopped posting articles like this. The look-at-my-app-I-built-in-24hrs is definitely past it's heyday. The programming languages, design frameworks, and PaaS infrastructure that allowed people to start making apps quickly has been around for a very long time now (2007?).
Thanks for the feedback. I wasn't aware of this Facebook login issue. I'll take a look at it. Thanks!
My first close contact with Objective-C was in 1998, as I had to port an particle visualization framework from NeXT to Windows 95/C++, as my final project.

The teacher had a dead Cube on his office and NeXT was considered dead by the department.

I tried long to replicate some of the experience with WindowMaker/AfterStep and GNUStep but it never felt like what I could see from the NeXT manuals.
You view was heard in the design of GNU Parallel: It defaults to newline separation, escapes the argument, and is for most cases a drop-in replacement of xargs.

This does what you would expect:

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I think the following should be considerations:

What phone do you have? What phone do you think your testers and users will have?

Do you have a Mac? You will need on for writing an iOS app.

What languages do you favor? For iOS, mainstream ones are Objective-C and Swift (arguably not yet, but it likely will be fairly shortly). For Android, Java. You can use C++ on both, but you will need something else for the UI on iOS and, I would guess, on Android.

Did you google for libraries you would want to use? AFAIK, iOS doesn't that overly parse QR codes; Android may or may not.
I don't believe the faces they showed in the article were from actual people, but an attempt to take neutral averaged faces and digitally perturb certain characteristics that have been identified as being relevant to trustworthiness or extroversion.
If you have a Mac then iOS is practical. Otherwise, only Android is practical. Android is also practical of course if you have a Mac. Having an Android device is another reason to look at Android programming.

In my opinion, a web app is probably easier to write than a mobile app because:

+ Web apps have a longer history and therefore more information about their design and construction.

+ There is more choice of frameworks and more choice of language e.g. something as simple as Bottle for Python [1]

+ Basic web apps can be written without learning a framework, just some library calls.

Of course, getting GPS and QR codes directly isn't really possible for a web app. Though processing them is.

[1] http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/index.html
Dosen´t seem very legit. According to reddit it´s sluggish not really working and presumingly stealing information. Can anyone back this information? or counter it? I don´t feel like using this software it´s way too fishy.
Game author here. Honestly, I had the same concern when I started out. But Haskell turned out to be a surprisingly good fit. I made a short video explaining the code: http://vimeo.com/109663514

It skips a little in the beginning, but I think you might find it interesting.
You forgot the required $62/year for a PO Box since your address is published on your Play store page ready for easy Swatting, Pizzering, or other harassment from strangers you upset.

Also the $35 is one off, the $99 is per year. The $62 is per year also however.
I agree, it is much easier. The problem comes when "every workstation is configured exactly the same way and has the exact same software" hurts the productivity of certain parts of the organization because certain groups need a different configuration to do their jobs properly.
Full disclosure: I'm biased as I'm primarily an Android engineer. But, I've led teams and developed extensively for both platforms, so I'll tell you a couple things I've observed.

1. If you already own an iOS or Android as your primary device, that should play big into your decision. You'll have a much easier time maintaining interest in your project as well as being more likely to create a more compelling product if you live on the platform.

2. Google's Android documentation and guides are on a completely different level than Apple's for iOS - Google's is just so much more extensive. It's really not even close IMHO. If you're a beginner I think this will make a very large difference.

3. The iOS developer program and provisioning system is a PITA, even for experienced developers. Often times when learning something new, all it takes is a small roadblock to become frustrated and lose interest. With Android, building apps for you and your friend's devices is very easy, and submitting to Google Play is much easier, with no review process and again just one guy's opinion, but despite a recent (and dearly needed) makeover, iTunes Connect is still inferior w.r.t usability compared to the Android Developer console.

4. I used Eclipse + the ADT plugin for years and while it wasn't terrible (I was come from J2ME development for BlackBerry so the bar was quite low), I was always jealous of Xcode. Google has now addressed this with Android Studio. It's still a bit of a moving target, but I now consider on par or better than Xcode.

5. Don't let the haters scare you away with the fragmentation arguments. "Fragmentation" is a feature :) Truthfully, if this is just a side project, I would set a minSdk for your app a minimum 14, or even 19 if you want to, and be amazed by how your app works so well on the 100s or 1000s of devices out there that it supports.

Couple words on iOS:

1. Whereas with the x86 emulator and Genymotion, the Android emulator has dramatically improved, the iOS simulator is still superior with respect to ease of use and pace of development.

2. If you go the iOS route, I would strongly suggest to go directly to Swift. It's where the puck is going and you've got a chance at this point to be a relative expert among a sea of objective-c developers, who will need to learn it as Apple increasingly shifts the platform.

3. This is very subjective and nebulous, but after using both platforms extensively, I've found the iOS APIs are simply better. You'll find things just work and you'll be continually surprised to find the puzzle pieces just fitting together. (ie "hey I wonder if there's a way I do X...oh perfect there's just a simple method call for it")

4. As others have noted, if you don't have a Mac then the point is moot, Android is your only option.

Hope this helps!
There already are some services, likes angieslist. One problem is the review/reputation system. Without purchase proof anyone can review/rate providers and this in time will make the rating system unreliable.
As an employee at another one of your generic bigCOs who at one time was a googler, it is very difficult to get e.g. another monitor in a reasonable size, or new hardware on short notice or without manager buy-in. You typically have to "steal one" from another employee who is moving/leaving. The process at G was a breath of fresh air.
Just poor practices on my part :) Here's another project of mine that has tests and gets run on travis-ci: https://github.com/egonSchiele/salmon
So are unnecessary complications, or trying to maintain a mystical shroud of fundamental complexity around what is essentially an extremely sophisticated structure of very simple parts.

I like your use of scare quotes around "reducing" cognition, as though it's irreducible. I'm not sure why people persist in claiming that their brains are the only things in the world that we can't come to understand as a system of simple parts.
35k? That seems like a big, risky investment considering he doesn't even have any developers or designers in-house and this is his 3rd app.

Although maybe he prefers doing one-offs? I'm not super-familiar with the game scene.
Great game, just a few silly nitpicks, the UI looks a lot like Etermax games, I hope you do ad free versions, I didn't liked so much the Spanish name (Apuraditos), also I don't know if that word is used in all the Spanish speaking word. Saludos desde México.
Ok you are right, most taxes are based on value, although alcohol and tobacco is taxed by unit. One could probably argue that certain information falls into this category.
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The problems posed here already been solved by the TGV model. Why Maryland needs a maglev system confuses me.
Hi HN! Author here. I made this game because I wanted to see what it was like to make video games with Haskell. It turned out to be a pretty good fit. If you are interested, here's an explanation of the code: http://vimeo.com/109663514

You might also be interested in this framework if you want to make games of your own: https://github.com/egonSchiele/actionkid
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No, as long as multi threading isn't involved and event streams are replayed in order, execution is generally deterministic.
Does google allow their employees installing any software they want. For Instance Dropbox or use Slack. Just curious.
No one should have to explain 18 year old conduct that resulted in absolutely no arrest or criminal charges and took place when they were 19 years old.

Depends on the conduct.

What's important is that (extreme) suffering was caused by his actions. Not that the victim chose not to deepen their suffering by asking for a criminal investigation. Or that the local statutes may have simply been too vague at the time to offer any further protection.

As to the other stuff you're saying: either you have some direct knowledge, which we do not, of both the event chronology behind the various journalistic investigations (several outlets were working on the story, not just Bloomberg) and the internal motivations of those involved -- or you're indulging in speculation, here.

Either way, I don't have an answer to it.
Wow, rsl7, you gave your dentist a new yacht! Tough break there. Fortunately, research is proceeding on modeling new teeth from stem cells that eventually may help us all have natural, whole teeth again. They'll probably still do fillings for the small stuff, though.
I think the bigger problem is that business people and managers expect security to just work the way they intend without them having to even think about what the correct security policy for X is. When you don't want to think about it and do want to share stuff the only tolerable security policy is public access, at least within the organisation.

Then they proceed to give a domain account to the janitor ... and then the customer list leaks.

Like most other problems at banks, the issue here is large amounts of stupid people, especially at the top.
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"Users surely realize that every gmail they send and every Facebook message is both mined for information and also accessible to hundreds of people at these companies."

You're kidding right? My expectations would be that the vast majority of people who use those services have no idea that is happening. The internet is a device now, just like all the other devices in their home that most people have absolutely no idea how they work, they only know how to use them.
I make the commute from Baltimore to DC every day, and I absolutely agree. The Northeast Regional averages about ~90 mph between Baltimore and Wilmington. If it did the same from Baltimore to DC, it'd be a sub-30 minute trip. The only reason it can't is the lack of capacity through tunnels in Baltimore, tunnels into DC, and at DC Union Station. Heck, the biggest bottleneck is probably the single escalator in Union Station leading down from the MARC/Amtrak concourse to the Metro station.
Faster trains can support more trips per day on the same track. Now, the problem is that people generally want to leave at the same time, but if the journey time was say 15 minutes, you could do 5 minute frequency during peak with a few trains.

There would have to be few stops...even point to point, for this to work though. Think Shinkansen.
You know what they always say, when something is free, you are the product.
> sometime I get frustrated with myself and want to end everything (for a man self is the world). But I don't.

Thoughts like this are very worrying. Ease reach out to a friend or family and talk to them. If it's possible please seek meic help for this.

In England you can call your GP. Or you can self refer to your local Mental Health services -- do a wh search for the name of your county and "IAPT" (improved access to psychological therapies).
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Sure. The app actually went through several iterations. The first thing I developed was the main board of the game and it was definitely the hardest part (at least at the development side) since it needs to detect valid words. If you play around with it, you'll notice that you can form combinations of words that are linked together, so you basically have paths of words that might be connected to one of the fixed words through this path, and are thus valid combinations (hard to explain, but I think it makes more sense when you see the gameplay). Getting this logic right involved a couple of weeks of trial and error. On the bright side, it increase my vocabulary skills :).

Most of the gameplay was developed locally, without any backend. By the game I was sure I could get the gameplay right, I asked my friend to join me and work on the backend. So for the past 3 months more or less, we've been working on getting all of the endpoints right, and testing, testing, testing and more testing to make sure we could catch as many bugs as possible.

In terms of hours, we probably put in about 2 hours per day on weekdays and about an average of 5-10 hours during the weekends. In hindsight it looks like a LOT of time, but if you've ever done Android development, you probably know that the amount of time and effort that goes into testing the app on several devices, probably surpasses the actual development time.
"Hurry up! You only have 1:30 minutes"?
During the NASA AMES open house this Sat (10/18) I came across Skytran http://www.skytran.us/ which is a maglev 2-person per shuttle personal rapid transport (PRT).

Per the person there they seem to have some plans to deploy in Israel in next 1-1.5 year.
Washington to Baltimore using something like this could make a lot more sense, and is much cheaper.

What is interesting is that almost no one seems to have heard of them when they seem to have some real technology. Elon's hyperloop theoritical proposal got more publicity.
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"Dirac: A Scientific Biography" provides a more technical overview than Farmelo's book (not to detract from Farmelo's book which is very well written and provides a great deal of depth about Dirac the individual).

http://www.amazon.com/Dirac-Scientific-Biography-Helge-Kragh...
How about a group of 4 friends who buy a game on steam together and want to download it and try it out together? That can easily be 30 gigabytes that has to be downloaded by 4 people, capping the connection over a sustained amount of time.
Turns out this breaks Xcode documentation and simulator updates, too. Nice job, Apple.
For whatever it's worth, I couldn't agree more.

My personal experience has been that privacy and data protection (not the same thing, but of course closely related in practice) are issues that are very hard to advocate for. This is mainly due to a combination of "it would never happen to me" (which it probably won't, if we consider only a limited range of "it" and what is happening right now, today) and the stable-door-horse-bolted nature of the problem.

Of course, this doesn't mean it's any less worth defending the principle and advocating for change. It just means it's sometimes hard to get past "I don't care what Facebook uses to advertise to me" or "If you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear" as the default response even from quite smart and rational people if they haven't spent much time thinking about the issue and/or don't fully understand the technology involved and its potential applications.
Probably we're programmed to love sweet stuff, because of the symbiotic relationship between plants and seed eaters. We eat the fruit and spread the seeds.

Unfortunately, sugary drinks trigger the instinct but have no beneficial effects, and they lack the phytonutrients of fruit and honey. We should just never drink or eat anything that is sweetened with either sugar or non-sugar alternatives. Easy to say and hard to do, though; I love sweet coffee, cake, and ice cream.
Thanks, it means a lot for a developer to hear the the design looks part of the app looks good :)
Having been on both sides, one of the reasons is because your product is complicated, and you need to give a webinar/demo to them in order for them to utilize the product to its full potential.

Otherwise, if you just sign up and use it, you'll quickly stop using it after a few days because you don't know how to use it.
Free product, free support, no logs. They're either lying or trying to turn this into a freemium product at some point in the future. Everything else just seems unlikely.

Furthermore, their domain is protected by WhoisGuard (Panama). If they (the people involved, not the servers) were sitting in Sweden this would be unnecessary (compare IPredator). The IP address behind the website points to the same Swedish datacenter(s) that the services surrounding The Pirate Bay use as well (Portlane). IPredator itself seems to have moved to Cyprus though.

Uppercase and underlined "anonymous" next to plain text passwords via email is just unprofessional.
Pattern matching may be a distinctly computer science term, but that's just a using a familiar concept to approximate the foreign psychology concepts the poster is trying to reach for. It's pretty unfair to criticize "CS people" (or any field of knowledge) for leveraging existing knowledge when they engage in the very not-CS pursuit of breaking the components of the human mind, thought process or whatever you want to call it.

But overzealous simplifications are detrimental to knowledge.

Well then why not post the relevant pysch/sociology resources on the topic? When you say "I can't believe that..." you're engaging in exactly the sort of speculative simplifications you're criticizing.
It would make sense it would also be very diffuclt. Maglev's expect flat and straight.

The Baker Grade outside of Baker (small town with the Greek Resutrant and literally nothing else, you've ate their if you went to death valley). Is one of the stepest grades in the nation, rising ~6,000ft in ~19 miles. Overall the course will drop you as low as 100ft above sea level, and see you rise to 6,400ft. With minor peaks and vallies dropping as low as 500ft, rising back to 4,000ft.

Source: A lot of automakers vet transmission designs on that highway.
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I mean they own the majority of the track on the Northeast Corrider line including both the tunnel under the hudson river and the east river tunnel in Manhattan. This is their most heavily used line, and they have priority through those tunnels over LIRR, NJ Transit, and MetroNorth.
Parse actually seems pretty developer-focused. So does Syncano, except their free tier is limited. I believe they're changing that, though. Pubnub, Kinvey, etc. all seem to target more enterprise clients.
I use elastic search + Python scripts(running as bolt on Storm)+ Kibana (with better map) for analytics and its uber cool . Only things where Kibana miss out is 'unique counts' , multiple dashboards across different Document types etc. I hope these get addressed in near future .
Vim (Iterm2) is my favorite. I use Atom for analyzing log files.
How does POWER8 compare to x86, e.g. Haswell? Just skimming some of the architecture details...

* 4x hardware threads per core (8-way SMT vs. 2)

* 1/4th FP throughput per core (8 SP flops/cycle vs. 32)

* 3x bandwidth to RAM (230 GB/s vs. 68) [edit: updated for Haswell-EP]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER8#Specifications

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips1153.html

What is it good for?
In what way is it "ugly"?
Great idea, but the web demo isn't working at the moment. Definitely starring this one though :)
Haskell will do what? Automatic parallelization of code?

The big difference between Erlang and Haskell is that Erlang fundamentally encourages the programmer to think in terms of individual processes that communicate by message-passing. Programmers have also been taught that spawning processes is cheap so idiomatic Erlang code typically have tons of them.
Yeah, on the topic of [1], that's basically FRP in a different wrapper and using different terminology. Fundamentally there's little difference between the two approaches, you're just hiding some of the details that FRP normally exposes.
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I'm an IT lead at a much smaller company, and I run the same kind of setup. We're not the smartest people on the planet either.

But I do hold every hire to the standard of "will this person increase our average capability?" And I think smartness or motivation does have something to do with that. (We also have system administrator level people as our first level support)

However, most companies don't put that level of effort into their IT org. This article is worth reading because it says that your company can benefit by holding the front-line support to a high standard, and paying to attract talented people to that position. That is a radical proposition to most companies. The only thing that could shake up the industry more is if they said they required IT leadership to have technical ability and insight.