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Ask HN: Can anyone solve this puzzle without an algorithm?
I made this game called Ten Large.

From my limited understanding of theoretical computer science, it's considered a Non-deterministic Polynomial-time hard problem (someone please correct me if I am wrong in this assessment).

I am wondering if anyone can solve it without the use of an algorithm?

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I met Chris Kemp two years ago along with my ACIO at a midwest compute conference. We explained that between Piston and Nebula we chose Piston. When Chris asked why, I explained that it was due to price.

He replied "You mean to tell me the only reason you didn't buy my product, is because of the price?!?!"

To which I replied "That's the only reason I don't drive a Lambo."

Even with a heavy discount, Nebula was too expensive. With that being said, I am equally worried about Piston's future. With the two OpenStack creators moving on from their first OpenStack entrepreneurial efforts, it definitely indicates a new phase of this OpenStack thing.
So much marketing, so little time for people to get reasonable answers to questions such as:
Why exactly do I need an overpriced watch that I need to charge every day and replace every few years? A watch which does much less than my phone. To send taps and heartbeats? Seriously?

Call me a whiner but I really think there are much bigger problems to solve and it's kinda sad to watch Apple do something... because growth and expectations.

Anyway, I hope they find the problem for their solution.
would "realtime battery management software company" be a better fit?
Diatomic.
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I would. Doing that without any follow-up erodes your credibility. And the US is not going to go to war with China.
Thanks for the link. I could not find the part where it said that rehabilitative approaches significantly reduce the risk of reoffense, but I'll assume it's in there somewhere. Nonetheless, I don't see anything in the document suggesting that, even with rehabilitative approaches, the risk is low and it is safe for private citizens to engage with ex-cons as they do with non-ex-cons.
You either didn't read my entire comment or chose to talk past it. I said that the result of your calculation (LV = PV - K) actually still includes the value of improvements adjacent to or near the property. The value of some improvements bleed across property lines.

As such, that result still represents the improved value of land.

Roads increase the value of lands adjacent to the road, even if they are not on the land itself. Parks and greenways increase the value of land within a certain distance. Schools increase value. Shopping centers increase value. Police stations, fire protection stations, restaurants, theaters, museums, public transportation, and other improvements all affect the value of living near those improvements. There is even some value in living next door to an expensive-looking house rather than a shabby one, or an abandoned, empty lot.

I contend that if you factor out all those improvements-by-proximity--if you erect a magical barrier that prevents all human influence from passing it--the inherent value of a hectare in a city or suburb is about the same, or perhaps less, than a hectare in the middle of a cornfield--a field without an irrigation system, and far from any roads.

For the most part, the inherent value in land is as a place to put the improvements.

A location tax does not encourage efficient land use (by discouraging inefficient use). It discourages living closer to other people, which itself is a more efficient use of land. When home is where you hang your hat, people gather around the hatracks. As long as you are taxing desirable location rather than land area, you are addressing the movement of the people rather than the use of the limited resource.

If high-density housing is a more efficient use of land than low-density housing (a rhetorical conditional), then it is counterproductive to tax people for being closer together in more efficient cities, rather than less-efficient suburbs.
Are you sure the stupidity of flimsy housing in a hurricane hotspot wasn't a huge part of it? Shots of decimated trailer parks are usually the first things to hit the national news when a big hurricane hits you all.
What if we merge it with React and use its virtual Dom management?
> [The] German admissions process [...] is vastly different than it is in the United States [...] It's much more transparent, and it is entirely academic based [...] There are no recommendations or extensive resumes.

This is exactly the way University admission should be handled. It's much the same throughout Europe and the UK. I would hate to have had to go through the hoop jumping exercise of the US college admission process with all of the emphasis on extracurricular activities and proving that I'm the 'right kind of person' for them.

To apply in the UK, I sent a form with my exam results, and that was it. I could have added a 'personal essay' but didn't even bother. Not sure if this has changed much, but I hope it hasn't...
Really very little ?

The biggest benefit for me to get an Apple Watch is so that I don't have to check my phone during meetings, lunches etc when I get a phone call or email. In fact I can see myself using my phone a lot less.

Throw in other benefits e.g. tracking fitness, playing music wirelessly whilst running, opening my car door, navigating whilst in the car (and having it display maps on my head unit using AirPlay), being able to make payments etc and it's definitely useful.

It just plays in well with this notifications based world we live in. It means you can very quickly check a notification and be done with it. With your phone it's a lot more effort and often you can miss the notification anywhere.
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First of all, I want to say that this industry could do with a much higher level of mathematical rigor, and that a lot of the systemic problems are owing to the lack of it. But to me, this:

> It was a good discussion, that highlighted the distinction between the currently accepted view of mathematics as primarily about properties and relations, and the pre-nineteenth century view that it was at heart procedural.

...does not follow. Programmers don't view mathematics as procedural because they studied mathematical history, but because the Von Neumann architecture, from which the semantics of almost all programming languages derive, is highly stateful and procedural.

As I see it, this is the core problem that must be solved before many of the tools of mathematics which would really help us today can be meaningfully exploited.
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On the other hand, it's pretty amazing that a ~2MB application can be downloaded over the network and executed to a state of responsiveness within 2 seconds. Some of us remember when the MS Word binary was roughly that size and took ~20-30 seconds to start up (with a splash screen, etc).

It's trivial to get a single static HTML hello world page with no assets to load in 100ms.
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Don't underestimate the power of green space. Having small homes in the middle of lawn, trees, and plants is much better than having small apartments in a dense apartment building.

There's still the problem of services / jobs, of course. But that's a bit separate.
>That's an official statistic (US Bureau of labor statistics) that is, in all reality, fiction.

and the Swedish one is 100% honest? Oh okay. If you bothered to understand this topic you would know that there are different categories of unemployment (U6, etc). I chose the one that best fir the comparision with Sweden.

>You seem to be woefully glib about topics you haven't been following. G

and you're yet another anti-US HN "expert" unwilling to accept the facts or understand how national economies work. That attitude will get you precious upvotes here (I see you got your token anti-fed comment in, so on HN bingo you're doing pretty good), but its not remotely tied to reality.
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How does it handle things like schools that can afford dedicated SAT (or German equivalent) prep classes compared to those that can't?
Make it feature complete and you'll get the same speed the browser has.

If we're going to build a new rendering engine for the web, maybe we could try to create something nicer than HTML and CSS, whose only advantage at the present is the number of developers familiar with it. I know I wouldn't miss them.
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For me, and I hate all sorts of smart objects with a passion, a smartphone's killer apps (that is, what makes me own the hateful thing) are:

* GPS navigation (when I drive - or walk somewhere abroad)

* Camera

* WhatsApp (glorified SMSes, yeah, with the drawback of those damned groups - but, well, it works much better for messaging)

* Email (occasionally, not happy occasions since it sucks for email)

* Web (same reservations as email)

* The hateful parking app that still beats pushing coins into parking ticket machines

That's a lot of stuff for someone not really liking these things.

Since a smart watch is too small to do all these things and a tablet does nothing I really need on top of these things, and none of these things sufficiently better to justify its larger size, I hope there won't be a compelling reason to own either. A phone however has just the right form factor because I can now not have all those other things (a camera, a GPS navigator, a tablet/laptop, small change for bloody parking machines, etc.) without having to carry a bag with some device (and I used to walk around with a small bag but things get stolen from such bags unfortunately; so now I walk around with a wallet in one pocket and a smartphone in another like an idiot.)
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Given the U.S. Government's laughable ability to properly classify "hackers" apart from script kiddies, security experts, programmers, I.T. admins and any other computer "expert" where does that leave anyone in the I.T. industry that a politically influential corporation [i.e. Sony et al.] takes a dislike to? A software engineer posts a politically embarrassing YouTube video and is arrested as a hacker and thus a cyber terrorist under the guise of "national security"?
Nice job, very clean. I currently use a notepad to track my ideas. I am an android user though...
We are considering Aerospike because apparently a lot of our competitors are using it and I really would love to see those tests.
Probably something like this: https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain
Is there a good place to find good html5 desktop games (non-demos, full games)? I know they exist but I have a hard time tracking them down.
It absolutely was not hard to understand the iPhone until you held it in your hand. I mean, obviously you didn't get the full experience until you... got the full experience.

But my experience was that everyone I met was like, "Oh, yeah, obviously that would be a great phone to have." They may have followed up with, "But I can't cope with AT&T," or "But it's too expensive for me," or "But I want a physical keyboard," but nobody doubted that there was a fundamental value proposition there.
Neat!

I realize that this was developed in-house by Pusher, but what I'd really like to see is floobits-atom reach maturity since their service is already editor-agnostic.

https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-atom
I found two errors, so I did the one which was a more obvious flub, rather than the first one I found. But it made me worry about the rest of the code.

The spec is also underspecified for what to do on duplicates. The behavior of last-wins is quite common, but I would prefer a comment that highlights the implementation-defined resolution of that ambiguity.

With experience, I've learned to be very distrustful about what goes in query strings. Users put in unexpected values, and there can be security holes when, say, the input verification code resolves ambiguities one way and the actual code resolves it another way.
They chose their words very carefully in that article. Saying that they're "working on" a design doesn't mean they're the only ones doing it locally. It's very common to choose a design from and then work with the manufacturer to customise it - which does count as "designing".

The OEM doesn't get credited, since it's all part of the contract and their reason for existing. After all, why would Beats "break the illusion" they created?
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And with no data caps: https://twitter.com/jlivingood/status/583576969188667392
I choose not to click or work with anything Apple related. Ignores Apple url. The previous sentence leads to a much more positive outlook of the future of Technology.
All IntelliJ products[1], vim[2], and emacs[3] support this. They call it "smart tabs". Sublime has a plugin that does something similar[4].

I don't have it installed and can't find documentation for it, but I believe NetBeans does this by default.

Again, this is something that usually happens naturally when you're indenting with tabs. Very few humans or programs are going to do alignment with tabs, even if they're indenting with them.

1. https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/code-style-java.html#d53...

2. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Indent_with_tabs,_align_with_space...

3. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmartTabs

4. http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/alignment
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> Compilers don't require much math.

It really depends what is meant by "math". Not everybody has the same perception of what maths are. I used to teach a language theory class where students had various backgrounds. CS students were bored because they don't like maths, and maths student were bored because it wasn't math to them.

Concerning compilers, they require non trivial maths. Parsing, type checking, code generation, register allocation and so on... The thing is that mostly you don't formally prove things like you would do in a maths class. But indirectly you use a lot of mathematical results.
I've had very good success with AirBnB as a traveler, both for advance-notice and short-notice bookings. We traveled around Italy for two weeks and mostly booked places a day or two in advance, with hardly any trouble.
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All of these criticisms could have been made about the iPhone (and were-- regarding the keyboard being virtual) or the iPad (I personally couldn't figure out what the compelling app was for the iPad).... but once the platform is out there, you find out what it is.

It turned out the iPhone's compelling app was the app itself. Previously people paid $4/month to carriers for crappy junk. For the iPad it was actually browsing, though a lot of other near computer type apps work great on it.

Here's the thing-- whatever the compelling reason is, Apple kept the product in gestation long enough to figure out what it was before releasing it.

All three of these products were in gestation for a long time. People lampooned the iPad before it was released with "why would anyone want a device just to brows the web while on the toilet???".

I don't know what the compelling app is for the watch--- I suspect it's actually being notified by your phone without having to pull your phone out.

But if there isn't a compelling app, then this would be a huge change from Apple. They've been pretty consistent in knowing the killer app, or category, before releasing the product-- even though it's often not obvious to us when we buy the first version.
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Sorry, I was too concise for my own good. I agree with you, all those things are essential on a smartphone. What I was trying to say, and this was unclear, was: if you look at stuff that wasn't on the phone from day one, that genuinely came as a third-party app, the one that I think is a killer app for, say, greater than 30% of everyone is Uber or Uber-alikes.

Messaging, navigation, and camera are all great to have. We knew that from day one.
I had great success in Italy with very short notice bookings (a day or two ahead of time). Most of the places we stayed were set up to be full time rentals, which may make that more feasible.
And according to a Comcast VP, no data caps: https://twitter.com/jlivingood/status/583576969188667392
It's not an internationally enforced document or anything, more of a "base code" that jurisdictions can choose to adopt (often with local modifications) to avoid writing their own from scratch.

Similar codes exist for electrical (NEC, which I guess is national because of voltage differences internationally?) and fire safety (IFC).
Flip the import/export and mercantilist attitude around and see what happens. Imports simply mean that you are getting what you want from external producers. There is nothing inherently bad or good about this. You could also just as easily say that the US has now offshored a lot of our (dirty/unpleasant/etc) manufacturing requirements to other countries and gets to reap the fruits of their labor.
Route 66 no longer exists as such. How about Franklin and Marshall?
https://github.com/Floobits/floobits-emacs

Or, screen/tmux.
The thing is, the plant agriculture, besides its main products also has byproducts. Let's say you grow corn. Besides the grains there is the rest of the plant that although consumes water to grow, does not have much use in the end but as fodder. You may protest about the meat and dairy when water is consumed on specialized fodder products, but otherwise that meat and dairy can simply contribute to increasing the efficiency of water use.
Actually, it is also sort of the opposite in Finland. The student grants are smaller than unemployment benefits etc. If you just stay at home doing nothing you are eligible for more money than if you enroll as a student.
What is there that's so much better?
Just updated the repo with multipass rendering including picking and lights. Might interest you.
Free links to the US (west coast, comcast) is utter crap at peak hours... :(
You can hardly get 200ko/s
Just chrome and Firefox canary I guess. But webgl is supports by all modern browsers. I can even see nicely rendered page on my windows phone with IE11 mobile installed.
I think the attack has proven that the government via the GFW can take down any web service they choose. There's not much infrastructure out there than can repel firepower of that magnitude.

Maybe not "destruction" in the permanent sense, but given the damage that a DDOS can do (financially, at least), it would make sense to treat one as an attack on infrastructure.
It is like the only tool the US government has to handle this problem is a hand grenade. No precision.

All it is going to take is one lazily worded law / executive order, and anyone in the security space could have the possibility to go to jail if enforced broadly.
That's not a patent. That's a patent grant.

crncosta indicated that there was an actual patent: "React is patented"

I'm curious to know what patents he is specifically referring to.
The tab character has been around since 1963. I have so far never in my life had a problem with using "smart tabs"[1][2]. For my purposes (web development), I don't expect that this will ever happen.

I'd be interested to know a real-world, recent example where tabs could have been a problem for someone.

1. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmartTabs

2. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Indent_with_tabs,_align_with_space...
The entry criteria aren't based on something like the SAT, although International Baccelaureate perhaps comes close in Europe? Not sure, maybe someone else can explain?

So there are no prep classes or anything like that in the UK. Everyone sits the same set of exams (modulo being Scottish or English/Welsh/NI, which have different types of qualification) and those results dictate whether you can go to University or not. I suppose you could study more if you wanted?
Because you could do something easier to understand in terms of 3D for a very simple use case and find a generic use for it.
Not all produce is subsidised.
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I'm assuming this is not in the right place because I don't understand how it answers my question.
Do they have to be profitable? Yes. Will they move to manufacturing hybrids? Probably. But they're definitely not a battery company. At least not yet.
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US educators are well aware of the German model. Like you said, we've opted not to go with serious tracking for students. The minimal tracking we already do is controversial as is. It would be a huge ruckus for us to do what the Germans do and start segregating students by ability soon after elementary school. We just value different things differently, and in this particular case we accept less optimal social outcomes in the name of greater quality.
Would you consider a RSS feed? I'd subscribe to that.
Can we also get the guys who keep leaving unsolicited advertising on my car at the station and also on my front doorstep despite a sign on my front door saying "No junk mail" classified the same?
Just choose a preparation that uses the peel.
Nearly all headphones and speakers intentionally boost some frequencies and suppress others. Some genres like hip-hop and electronic music sound really good with comically exaggerated bass like that offered by the Beats. Clearly that company is giving some music fans what they want.

They're not exactly producing a product I want, but I'm pretty okay with that. I don't feel the need to "expose" them or claim that they "have everybody over a barrel." I just... don't buy them.

> You have there a white guy, Jimmy Iovine, selling
> shit product to poor urban youth, and it's
> audiophiles who are at fault for exposing this fact?

Well, I'm not going to look inside your head and tell you what you're thinking. So maybe this doesn't apply to you but in general the negative feelings towards Beats seem to be best summarized as: "oh, we hate this product whose sound and looks are tailored to urban tastes."
The mention of LEDs had me checking for the date until I realised that the car was a rebuilt one. Should have known really given the size of lead/acid batteries from late 60s.
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Or people could develop the necessary skills to judge non-uniform produce? (They used to have them, after all. It's not magic.)
How do the commercial CA's verify customers before issuing certs?

Perhaps she does what they do.

I imagine for example she knows her banker, her lawyer, etc. and can contact them by phone or meet with them in person.

Maybe she also uses her friends to help her decide who to trust.

She only has to verify a relatively small number of hosts compared to a commercial CA.
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Agreed, to an extent, though you underestimate the hateful parking app :-)
How can, then, some of the smartest people on Earth be involved in something as stupid as this.

Isn't that what is happening now, with some of the bright people who work at the NSA?
I found reading The Well-Grounded Rubyist and completing the koans to be a good combination. You get an understanding of the underlying concepts of the language as well as experience with the syntax and core classes.

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