skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Tricks of the Mac Game Programming Gurus [http://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Mac-Game-Programming-Gurus/dp/1... actually dedicated about a paragraph or two to the topic, driving home the point that a game that cannot be paused is leaving N% of potential players on the table right out of the starting gate (and I believe they even had a hypothetical about "little Jimmy" not being able to pause to take out the trash and therefore his parents uninstall the game).

These days of MMOs and other coordinated time-sinks make me miss the simplicity of pausable single-player and turn-based multiplayer sometimes.
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What about free tier users? Are you going to send them packing and cause another Reader-esque outcry among developers? There is currently no free tier for Managed VMs.

As much as you may hate supporting them, they will cause a PR headache if you stop.
Maybe I missed it, but it doesn't work with water. They're using ferrofluid.
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Furthermore, the software industry solves all sorts of problems. The problems focused on in that statement are the types of problems publicized in the tech press. It is more a complaint about tech journalism than the tech industry. There are so many companies solving really interesting problems that aren't considered sexy by tech journalists.
Shouldn't an economist be able to figure out when such a phenomenon is happening? It seems like this should be quantifiable. It seems like a 21st century government should be looking for these situations to be arising with some regularity now, and that a "template" program for helping mentoring/apprenticeship practices to come about faster might make sense.

(Modulo one's faith in the (in)competence of government interventions and its degree. obLibertarian objection noted -- so please expand and not just repeat if you are commenting in that direction.)
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Google Docs is using what's called EventSourcing, in case you aren't aware of that. It's one way to make collaborative editing possible (probably the easiest?).

http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html
Appropriately ADP responds with a PDF: www.adp.com/zenefits/downloads/The-Facts-About-ADP-and-Zenefits.pdf
The manner that SK evoked CY's politics has not only been rude but literally dismissive - resulting in the cancellation of an interesting technical talk.

This boils down to personal politics - I only see one camp forcibly silencing another.
> Raise my taxes enough (only to "redistribute" to those opting to not work) and I'll switch to untaxable yet satisfying "off the grid" living.

That's actually not a harm, and its exactly why you aren't tearing out the incentive for productive activity; when you devote more of your time to that because you've hit a high-enough marginal tax rate that the marginal benefit post-tax from additional gain through taxable activity is not sufficient to meet your marginal opportunity cost from that activity, simple supply and demand increases the incentive for others for whom that balance works out differently -- perhaps because they are lower on the progressive tax scale so that the marginal realized net monetary return is greater, or perhaps because they are at a similar place to where you are but weigh the costs differently -- to engage in the activity you are forgoing. In fact, a net upward (on the wealth/income) scale shift in tax burden increases the incentive for productive activity at the lower end of the scale.
Seriously? You honestly think that the political landscape is anywhere closer to accepting that kind of socialism? I'm gonna tell you right now that it's not. And even if that automation happens, it's not going to change anything regarding UBI.

Here's the problem: If the automation happens before UBI gets into place, you are condemning those people to incredibly poor lives, and possibly homelessness and starvation.
I find AutoIt's BASIC-like syntax is a little nicer for complex tasks than AutoHotKey, although AutoItX (usable from C++, VB, C#, F#, and other managed languages) is the nicest to use of all.
I suppose we are both technologists. Did you think that giving poor kids in India an ipad would solve some of their problems? I didn't think that, and I still don't. You can find credulous dopes that do, but this implicates dopes and not technologists or does it?
They weren't too busy to fire off the initial complaint over social media though? Supposedly that's what prompted ADP's response, though I can't find a link to Zenefits complaint.
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> When your firm can't hire anyone with experience, and there's no entry-level jobs, it will discover the same solution to that problem that has been discovered any number of times in any number of other situations already

Yes, hire a temporary worker with an H-1B visa or outsource it outright.
This is simply fantastic. I always thought operational transformation was pretty difficult to implement robustly, but looking at Google's implementation lets you build interesting experiments without getting all those details right -- like building the world's best writing time machine. It reminds me of Cory Doctorow's approximation built on git: http://craphound.com/news/2009/02/13/flashbake-free-version-...

I think there are great possibilities for building on this idea...
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"when you've got a much better language in C#"

That's subjective.
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That's assuming there's any incentive to pursue that free education. A large segment of the population has no interest in working save for the fact that if they don't they'll starve; these are not self-motivated people who seek out academic pursuits in their spare time.

Entry-level jobs are absolutely necessary, first for learning to get to work on time daily, then for the job-specific education needed to work up to something actually productive and which cannot be simply taught by an independent "expert".

Those advocating "basic income" need to go look up the phrase "going Galt" (upshot: given enough unproductive leeching off the productive, the latter are apt to say "screw this" and disappear from society).
I think the point (in the context of this discussion) is that we don't need everyone to be maximally productive - machines and automation can do so much that we could all enjoy a very nice standard of living if everyone worked ~2 hours/day.

I'm a little skeptical of basic income as well, just like I'd be skeptical of any untested widespread social policy, but the orthodox reasons why it doesn't work are based on a model of reality that's ~3 generations and 70+ years old. I suspect that if it doesn't work, it'll be because of some problem we haven't thought of yet, not the old "tax on the productive". The top candidate, IMHO, is that we're outcompeted by some other society that doesn't have basic income.
Hint: The vast majority of Americans are immigrants.
I've added a pull request which reduces nesting a bit: https://github.com/ryanries/UniversalPauseButton/pull/2
> Rather than work hard only to see most of his earnings confiscated, he'd make just a few movies and then enjoy those profits instead of spending time on diminishing returns.

Sounds good to me. More actors, more variety. Maybe we wouldn't see every single sci-fi/action movie star Tom Cruise.
I agree, plus they haven't been able to bring memristors to market as they promised again and again in 2008, 2012, 2014 and even now.
I disagree with your conclusion there. Having your clients violate the ADP TOS (and then subsequently violating it yourself while scraping data) is clearly not a smart move as illustrated by ADP's response.
So, when we came up with agriculture some millenia ago, all those jobless people, those hunters/explorers/etc., did not stay jobless, did they? What about when we came up with machines in the 19th century? All those people in agriculture would still be jobless, but they are not, are they?

Point is, every technological innovation will be absorbed in the long term. It's been historically this way for millennia, at least. People are very good at reinventing themselves as long as they have an incentive (food, money) to do so.
Yeah I'm really trying to think. It's tough to think of something where a computer can't just process and then have some output that changes physical matter after or even during the process. So it would need to be something that requires the object that is doing the calculation to change while calculating?

I'm trying to view it in a good way.
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Lucky you, my sinuses are still plugged.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but your example seems to imply the existence of a marginal propensity to consume. I don't think this is commonly accepted in light of work by Friedman and others on the permanent income hypothesis, which puts to question relatively simplistic supply-side and "Going Galt" scenarios.
Ah, fair enough, I was really thinking about shared, deployable images. I suppose this use case makes sense.
I was able to bottle feed my daughter when she woke up at night and simultaneous play through and finish Braid over the course of a few days/weeks. Through some sort of weird pavlovian conditioning I started looking forward to her waking up in the middle of the night (I restricted my playing to night-time feedings to give myself something to do during those times).
That's not what backward compatibility means at all.

Of course new versions of Windows introduce new features! If you want to use those new features, you need the new version.

Backward compatibility means that once they introduce a feature in one version of Windows, they go to great lengths to keep that feature working in subsequent versions.

It doesn't mean they have to backport every new feature into old versions of the OS.

Also, Windows 8.1 doesn't have to be a terrible experience. Just get Start8 for $5, or whatever Start menu replacement you like, and you essentially have a much-improved Windows 7.
acts_as_enterprisey gives you a similar effect for Rails.

https://github.com/airblade/acts_as_enterprisey
"Recycle your Android Phone"

Well, that's quite petty insinuating that the Android device is essentially garbage.
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Why not handle the configurations with git? Handling dotfiles with git is pretty common nowadays, and you can roll back/forward as you please.

Plus, the overhead is a lot less.
One of the most popular questions I hear being asked about MOOC is, "Will employers recognize this as a standard university education". I think, in a way, it's telling that question gets asked so frequently, as if looking for an assurance that MOOC will not be a waste of time, or just as good as traditional education.

When employers use education as a minimum bar, it may often be the case that the actual bar is the history as qualification, rather than the actual content of the information. It's similar to how a degree in theory would prove the employer that the person has some discipline to finish a degree.
Doesn't mention WebRTC in the upcoming version of Safari. The info is not mean't for a technical audience so i imagine this is still an unknown for now.
Interesting anecdote: at a devbootcamp event, I ran into two high school graduates who skipped a traditional bachelor's in favor of three months of intensive web development training followed by a year of unpaid internships. They evaluated this as considerably less expensive than a university education while providing a comparable level of experience.

I'm not sure I agree, but it's interesting that very young people and their families are beginning to question the established educational model in such a bold fashion.
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I can relate to this a little bit:

A few years ago I was assigned to a small team to solve a hard problem. It took us months and months of 80-100hr weeks. We would leave long enough to shower and "sleep" before returning.

When I would get mentally exhausted, I would get cranky. I would take this crankiness out on whatever task I was currently preforming. This would lead me to go off on a verbal tangent. I would end up drawing the most absurd comparisons, painting an insane hilarious picture of what we were in the middle of doing, and by the end the entire room was usually in tears from laughing so hard.

Now, I'm sure one of the reasons it seemed funny is because we were tired, granted. But, I know a normal, rested me could not do the same things. I can actually look back on it now and wonder "how the hell did I come up with that nonsense?"
Thanks for this awesome analysis. I've been wanting to do a simulation of how much of Settlers of Catan is luck vs skill. Has anyone seen an analysis like this completed?
I didn't post it to HN. I built the site 2 years ago and somebody else just discovered it. :)
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Maybe in large academic publications. A middle school, high school, or even undergrad book report style document? You betcha copy/paste would be indicative of something, especially if a few students copy/pasted a lot more than the class average.

Also, this is just one signal and would be powerful as the preliminary one. There would probably be a few false positives, but nearly no false negatives. It's not like kids are going to be expelled for copy/pasting documents, but it certainly warrants more suspicion.
>A bit of a pain that there's no universal one for all languages, but I guess that would be just too convenient...

Nix and GNU Guix are capable of filling this role. Not only can they do the things that the typical system package managers (dpkg, yum) lack, but they also do many things that language-specific package managers lack. Transactional upgrades, rollbacks, unprivileged package installation, gracefully handling multiple versions of the same software, system-wide deduplication, full system configuration (if you want to use their associated distro), etc.

I have read several Nix + Haskell success stories on various blogs, so I would say it's worth checking out. Nix and Guix are the future of package management.
I for one welcome our robot overlords. As a member of the technical class, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.

But seriously, the Luddite argument has been debunked many times. There's no reason to think this time it's any different. (for example: http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/6717/economics/the-luddite...)

That doesn't mean there aren't real issues:

1. The inflexibility of the labor market makes it harder for those who have lost their jobs to find new ones. Further, if a company does not have the option to fire someone relatively easily (and cheaply), they will be less willing to take a chance on someone who may not exactly fit all of their criteria.

2. A monolithic, Prussian-inspired state educational system has not responded well to imparting new skills to people (or even basic competency, in some cases). Math and science curricula are notoriously weak in the U.S., yet that is where the growth and the high-paying jobs are. There are also opportunities in the trades, but these have been cut from most schools.
fn main() {
let x = ["a", "b", "c"];
for i in &x {
println!("{}", i);
}
}
> I also dislike putting "thank you" in an email, before they have agreed to do the favor or task. It feels very presumptuous.

You're thanking someone for taking the time to read your email, not for completing some other task. You can say "thank you for your time" or "thank you for your consideration" if that makes more sense.
This isn't socialism at all. The main tenants of socialism are ending profit and private property. UBI embraces the same kind of capitalism we have now with private property and profit. In order to say that UBI is socialist, you also have to be calling Social Security socialism, and you have to think that President Obama is a socialist.

I think you would find a lot more support among conservatives than you think (it seems like you have quite the caricature of them). It seems like there would opposition from left, and UBI would require a complete dismantling of all non-healthcare entitlement programs, a serious reduction of the tax code, and heavily clamping down on all immigration.
>which is probably why you're not a mortgage banker :).

If you take a look at just how well mortgage bankers have done over the past 50 years, I'm not convinced they create any value over the course of a cycle for their employers. Indeed they seem especially prone to blowing up said employers every 15 years or so.

Picking up nickels in front of steam roller doesn't seem like a great business model to me. In fact, it looks like a pretty reliable indicator of a principal-agent problem.
> Why can't I get an internship?

May I suggest an ultimately smarter investment of your time this summer; absorb the lessons of Dale Carnegie.

Warren Buffett on Dale Carnegie>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7gXaPY524I
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Fair enough; I was under the impression that the situation was far less serious.
Previously, related posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3386970

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6323427

The first of these is more sophisticated than the current post, because it calculates the distributions analytically using the fact that the move sequence is Markov and the transition matrix is known. So, exact probabilities can be found.
I thought Lemmings Revolution (2000) struck a pretty good compromise - it had the requisite 3D graphics that the industry demanded but the playing field was still basically 2D - just wrapped around a cylinder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sh72bZ5Dmg
1) Yes, eventually.
2) Yes, any json exported using the app will be understood in future versions.
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C# can accurately subtract decimal numbers without having to invoke a webservice or use a third-party library. I'd call that better.

(Note: I spend most of my time writing JS, but am extremely familiar with C# and Java)
I have noticed that people LOVE to make the distinction between a programmer and a " software engineer", in every and any context/article. I am just waiting on one of those comments..
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> Raise my taxes enough (only to "redistribute" to those opting to not work) and I'll switch to untaxable yet satisfying "off the grid" living.

You're assuming what you do can't be automated. I want to automate what you do so you can live "off the grid" if you want.

Capitalism only entitles you to profits on your labor capital until it has no value.
What a beautiful piece of magic for rationalists!

Really. Go read 'The Camel Rides Again' with an open mind: http://thebaptistshead.co.uk/2007/09/16/the-camel-rides-agai... (it's short) and consider how this is any different from the methods described there.
Chutes and Ladders, like Candyland, isn't so much a "game" as an exercise in following a procedure involving random chance. That's useful, and can be fun; it also has the useful property that an adult and a kid can play together with an equal chance of either "winning", and it can teach good sportsmanship.

But yes, there are many kid-friendly games to replace it with for kids who understand basic game concepts.

> Also Animal Upon Animal is a fun game with my kid. It is a stacking game with animals and kids love it. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17329/animal-upon-animal

I had something like that as a kid and loved it.
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> they're either going to sit on an unsupported VM or upgrade.

No, they're going to just sit on an unsupported VM, which was my original point. All the theater about pretending that Oracle have any effect on these decisions is ludicrous, no matter how huge a majority you pretend to speak for, nor no matter how much ad hominem you ladle onto your replies.
my favorite distinction of the kind is "software developer" and "coder".
The same topic on: http://datagenetics.com/blog/november12011/ with more in depth explanations.
Those advocating "basic income" need to go look up the phrase "going Galt" (upshot: given enough unproductive leeching off the productive, the latter are apt to say "screw this" and disappear from society).

"Going Galt" appears to primarily be a fantasy scenario. People largely tend to consumption rates which are smoothed and that factor in long-term expectations of income as opposed to marginally increasing rates that follow short-term signals like a linear input-output device. So it seems that tax burdens alone are not enough to cause massive "dropping out of society", as rational actors have determined that participation in consumer society in light of regulations and other externalities is still preferable to the costs of off-the-grid living. Not that taxation can't cause disincentive, but it's more complicated than just that.
I made a simple and effectve extension for that, because none of the existing ones worked for me or were spoiled with analytics / phoning home.

Manage Tabs - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/manage-tabs/kijdih...
As a note for the quantative analysis aspect of the code, I strongly recommend looking into dplyr, especially since you have very many subset and column-wise operations: http://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/dplyr/vignettes/introdu...

I almost quit R due to the tedious verbosity of the default syntax, but dplyr made it simple and fast.
This is beautiful and I may have to start calling upon Placebo now an then.
Clearly, chefs and concert pianists.

Edit: journalists.
Answering my own question:

$ python --version
Python 2.7.6
Ask HN: What kind of standing desk do you use?
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Sorry I missed your edit—and thanks for editing to make your comment more civil—but what remains is still not ok, and there have been other examples recently. Language like that adds noise rather than signal, and causes harm even if the intention wasn't to.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Seems like React does (some of) the same stuff as d3, at least w/r/t mapping DOM objects onto data.

What does d3 add over React, other than some utilities for producing scales, etc?
Love it. I'm gonna do it. (I made the site a couple years back.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIFQUBQuq_E&t=102
I wonder if it would be legal/feasible to underwrite student loans based on major and GPA and how they correlate with loan risk rates.
Here in Portugal, almost everyone I know is paid monthly. Even the person who comes to my house weekly to clean asks to be paid once a month.

The only people I can think of who have a non-monthly regular pay schedule (not paid per job like freelancers) are door-to-door salespeople and mail ads deliverers.
I hate it when people ask "how are you." Because I don't want to drop whatever I'm thinking about and start thinking about what you've asked, which is something that doesn't require any urgent attention.

It's like asking someone to retie their shoes every time you talk to them. So you'll get "I'm fine" because the question is meant to be dismissed quickly, not dwelled upon.
I just typed cut your penis, and I hoped it works.
http://refactoring.com/catalog/replaceNestedConditionalWithG...
Can we pause the significant other too?