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My 7 year old wants to make a video game. Where do we start?
Like many others, my kid loves playing video games. But my kid also has a lot of ideas for how to make the games better, or different versions of those games.

Before thinking about what I was getting into, I said, "why don't we make our own?"

Now he asks me every day!

I'm a designer, with some front-end knowledge, but I know nothing about creating apps or games.

As far as platforms, iOS is probably our easiest route, but let me know. Should we go with Unity?

If you have other tips outside of just making the thing, I'd lover to hear those as well.
3600 rpm, with 64 words per track, so reading a word took 260 µs. Minimum cycle time (the address is up next) was 9 × 260 µs = 2.34 ms. Worst case then (just missed it) was (9 + 63) × 260 = 18.75 ms.
Ask HN: Anyone had to repay big tech company their signing bonus?
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

5 months ago I started a programming job at a big tech firm in Silicon Valley before doing due diligence on the actual work I'd be doing. The project I'm on is way overdue, over budget and doomed due to risky technical decisions that haven't worked out. I've tried to make the case to start fresh to no avail. My day to day work is an exercise in futility. I spend nearly all day debugging on a 500K code base for a bug ridden project that will likely never ship.

I'd quit tomorrow if it weren't for the fact that I received a $35k signing bonus that I'd have to repay if I did so (my contract states I need to stay 1 year to "earn" the bonus or else pay it back).

I have $14k in the bank, $37k in student loan debt remaining so that's a big chunk of cash for me. Anyone been in a similar situation? Do big companies expect me to repay the full amount immediately or would they give me a year or two to pay it back?

I could stick it out another 7 months to claim the bonus but hate to stay at a place where I feel like things are hopeless and I'm making no contributions.
Telemedicine can potentially add value in many settings, like here http://nyti.ms/1fyWXeK. What I disagree with is their misleading marketing as an alternative to 911.

For regular people, this service is like a family doctor visit on Skype. Sometimes it can be handy, but it remains to be seen how this impacts outcomes statistically. (I wouldn't use this myself.)

For healthcare facilities, like nursing homes, this is like providing a doctor on call via telemedicine. Many hospitals already do this with radiologists or neurologists for example.

What is misleading is their marketing jump from these potentially useful scenarios to advertising as an alternative to 911 for the general public, and even claiming that they are faster than 911 when in fact they are a gatekeeper to 911.
wow yes, this is an issue with nearly every technical conference talk
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It's worth noting that each custom build includes a commented line with a URL to download the latest version with the same custom set of detects. A great timesaver!
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At the higher end of the market (let's call it SPG and up), I'm also paying for a certain conformity of experience and comfort-related services. I'm paying for a concierge who'll let me use the 4 hours of free time I have effectively. I'm paying for a bar and lobby.

When I travel privately, I'm willing to pay to avoid all that crap.
This is a good idea and a great opportunity for many people. And I think it's fantastic that YC is doing this. However, I can't help feeling it really is intended for young people recently out of school, who have no other immediate financial obligations.

I would really love to see an option for people who are not in this group. Let's imagine someone who is married, with a couple of kids and a mortgage. Right away, YC Fellowship is not feasible.

If you really want another ten-fold increase in the number of startups, tapping into an older demographic could do it -- just because it seems to be a largely untapped resource. We're talking about people with years of experience working in the real world, on real products. We're talking about years of domain expertise, in all kinds of domains. We're talking about people with ideas, and the expertise to execute on them. And all this potential is being left on the table because they typically can't afford to quit their jobs for 3k a month (based on a two-founder team in YC Fellowship).

But if each founder had enough funding to be able to handle their financial obligations, and work full time on their startups, for a year, I think that would break open the flood gates, and you'd see a huge increase in viable startups.

There must be a sweet spot in terms of funding/equity for this scenario, in order to make it beneficial to everyone involved.
For me that exaggerates the contrast. One of the things that makes at least some business travel worthwhile is that I have the opportunity to spend at least a little time on distractions in the local environment, whether taking a walk or eating a meal. I don't go out of my way to seek out Starbucks though I'll go there if that's what is convenient.

That said, I generally try to simplify with respect to the hotel stay. I may or may not stay with a familiar chain but I'll generally book with something that looks to be a reliable business hotel.
\>___> I'm going for a master of statistic and thought the premise in the beginning was weak at best.

And then toward the middle of it, it basically said data science is a marriage between stat and comp sci.

Congrats I have comp sci as an undergraduate.

I think it's weak at best. Data science is a jack of all trade and master of none.

I disagree that it's just cs and stats, I know it might be pedantic but it also ML which involve math that is a bit more than stats. Math it's either right or wrong. Stats you can kinda bend that in such that it's close enough.

Some may say what's the difference. This article doesn't address the difference but from what I've gathered Neural Network will tell you or categorize stuff likewise with KNN, but you won't gain insight into the WHY it is categorized that way and this is where statistic can tell you why. From lurking in the subreddit /r/statistic, Bayesian will tell you why but NN will not.

You still need statistic. It's just that this is a new field and many people don't have the depth to grasp what's important.

It's like hyping up a nosql database and promising many things and get people to adopt it. Eventually they'll realized that it's just broken promises and they're stuck with it. In this case, the industry can just get smarter and have better idea of what they really need.
Passphrase.io Uses Bitcoin-Level Encryption to Create a Safe Online Notepad
OP wants a mesh network. But Wi-Fi is not a mesh network implementation.

Also, Xfinity is a terrible example. As far as I know, the publically-open side is a separate signal with separate bandwidth allocation. It does not use or effect your paid connection at all. Hence why one can set up a wireless router to bridge the the public network into the private one for extra free bandwidth. This also alleviates all of OP's concerns.

Bottom line is that people pay for internet access as a resource, and people are generally not in the habit of giving away paid resources for free. The only way this will happen, IMO, is a municipality or otherwise large funded entity taking it on to provide free access to a wide area.
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Take it easy fellow "extension of this universe"! We are all in this together.

Like Alan Watts said "You are something that the whole universe is doing .... in the same way that a wave is something the whole ocean is doing".

I can't remember anything before I was born. That wasn't painful at all. Why should I assume that it will be different after I'm dead?

I'm sure even Marcus Aurelius got tired of talking about death at some point and simply went out to get a beer or hug a warm body. Let's go do that. :-)
(2014)

New to me, though.
I think that comes down to personal preference at the end of the day. I tend to be very tidy/neat, especially when I travel, which negates the need for daily housekeeping.

I know some people who are not that way that need more regular housekeeping, and prefer hotels because they provide that service. (Even though there is little to no guarantee that the housekeeping in a business-rate hotel will be any good.)

I would say the bigger problem isn't whether or not it is necessary for most people, but rather about breaking expectations. Many people have become so accustomed to daily housekeeping services in hotels that expect it as the norm.
I've also been let off with a warning a few times myself, but in this case he made it quite clear that it was his "status" that got him out of it, which seemed to be a point of pride for him.

As I mention below, I could not provide a transcript for this incident, only my account.
Quora being invited into YC at a late stage was a single company experiment, so I don't see why your company couldn't be a new experiment as well.
I consider consistency a bargain at twice the price :-)
Seems like he's causing a lot of pollution
Thanks a bunch for this.
Curious: How much time do you spend shopping vs how much do you save on average?
https://scratch.mit.edu for an introduction to programming your young people.

For simple cross platform maybe gamesalad.com
Are you sure? I ask because the majority of US card issuers have opted to use chip&signature, not chip&pin cards. In my wallet I only have one chip&pin card (Well Fargo). The rest are chip&signature. Whether or not they send you a PIN is a good indicator of which auth method the card supports.
Sorry, I didn't look for other submissions here on HN. Just thought it was worth submitting. It's likely your submission also has not been the first.
There is some other edge cases like this also: the tel: URI protocol and the HTML5 offline cache.
I echo your sentiments. I felt that it was the music service that put its users' experience before all other concerns (which surely lead to its legal issues). When there was a song I wanted to listen to, I came back to it time and time again, rebuffing Spotify and its ilk.
Good question. Every time there's a font vulnerability, it gets asked, and for good reason. I like this answer the best: http://seenonslash.com/node/3658

Interesting quote on their mindset at the time: "Due to the modular design of Windows NT moving Window Manager and GDI to kernel mode will make no difference to the security subsystem or to the overall security of the operating system this will also have no effect on the C2 or E3 security certification evaluation, other than making it easier to document the internal architecture of Windows NT."

From: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc750820.aspx
> I'm not sure if I've ever heard of any such things in the US (other than those related to science research spin outs), so this seems to fill a needed gap.

Many universities have such programs, but they're usually limited to their students.
We only rent full flats when we travel with my GF and have been able to always get in under 50€ in Berlin and Barcelona (including a 2 room flat 400m from the beach for 43€/night). The one time I got a 60€/night hotel in Berlin it was literally in the middle of nowhere and the front desk staff didn't speak English.
A much better one.
Not even .io
No, that's not what I said. I'm saying that they are now going to be taken advantage of.
If you're "baking in" parts of Modernizr into your codebase, it seems to me you're still maintaining 90 forks, but it's more work and the provenance of the forked code is less clear.
MongoDB's random exception handling
I'm beginning to suspect that if I want to really drive a whack of traffic to my blog, I should write a post about how to implement Bloom filters using monads.
On several scuba and climbing sites I visit, there is a strict separation between mourning a death and speculating/analyzing the cause.

It may be a little different here, but the experience with risky sports is that a thread examining the cause may include suggestions that the person was somewhat at fault.

Many of the people mourning someones passing would prefer such discussions not be interleaved with celebrating their accomplishments or friends grieving the loss.

I certainly think both conversations should happen. But humans being human, it isn't always the best thing for them to happen in the same place at the same time.
> Currently we email each other when we change the table layout but this takes a lot of time and feels very backwards from regular Git commits. Does anyone have any advice to version controlling a database layout?

One method is to use pg_dump to produce the script to recreate the database, and keep that in version control with source. It may not be the best method, but its probably the one that requires the least changes to existing workflow of modifying the database and still gives something like what you want.
To those who will point to the incompatibility of AirBnB and business travel..... This is almost certainly something they are doing because people are already using AirBnB for business travel.

So, a front desk, loyalty points, instant bookings, avoiding the check-in/key issues, etc. These are all real. AirBnB will be disadvantaged in these areas.

But, in some cases its advantages outweigh these. Prices & Airbnb's stock of properties. I don't expect your average VP of Sales to be too excited about this, but I think business travellers are pretty diverse these days.
I think it's a reaction to Columbine. Didn't one of them make a Doom map?

I think some time after, the news got a hold of it and sort of blamed violent video games for the mass shooting.
Erm... like support a robust independent police review board?

Did you even read my post?
My point is more about how language evolves from common roots, and even if we all start with the same language, it will probably diverge over time we'll be back where we started. Though I suppose it could act as a temporary reprieve, assuming you ignored the costs of teaching it.
How about the choice of not having to live with those who think such sites are ok?
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Winforms is fairly windows centric, but iirc there is a Mono compatability for most of the interfaces... as to System.Web, I'm pretty sure this has been open since ASP.Net v3, which iirc is included with Mono.

I haven't tracked Mono & .Net as closely for the past few years as I've been doing far more node dev, and/or migrating away from .Net apps.
No one has ever accused me of being tidy/neat :-) but I also don't fling stuff all over the room and, I guess, I'm perfectly fine with the towels and sheets being no more rumpled than they are at home.

The fact that the SPG experiment was apparently short-lived however suggests that you're probably right that this isn't how most people want the hotel experience to be.
The SHA-3 backlash was because they cut second preimage resistance in half, and because the only reason for the change was due to Keccak performing very poorly in software.
You don't need a job offer to do OPT. I'm on an F-1 student visa in the US, and just finished a PhD, and will be starting a company on OPT. You even qualify for the STEM extension (you just have to register your business on e-verify). This gives a total of 29 months of runway, which is more time than I have money for.

You don't need any help from YC to do this - talk to your international student office, they process lots of OPT applications. Read the instructions on the USCIS website. They are very clear on this, you can start a company, you don't even need to incorporate to satisfy those requirements (although, this is not legal advice, talk to your international student office, and their lawyers).
That's not the only downside. There's a freaking enormous downside for large corporations, and that's their inability to centrally manage vendor relationships with large chains. For example, my company spends about 2500 nights/yr here: http://www.itchotels.in/hotels/itcgrandchola.aspx

As a result, we were able to negotiate a rate down from about 12,000INR/night to about 6500INR/night. The hotel is huge, has every amenity (in India, especially if you're flying solo, most business travelers are not likely to venture outside the hotel for dinner), is close to the office, and we're only paying about US$100/night.

I think Manhattan may be one of the few cities where this legitimately makes sense (due to general lack of hotels, or price gouging). SF, perhaps, but it depends where you're going to be for work and whether there are any huge conferences going on at the same time. One year at Dreamforce I booked late and ended up in a shared room at a craptastic rundown place near the Embarcadero. Perhaps not typical, but it does happen.
Announcing Oculus Connect 2 Registration and Call for Submissions
The application form was getting hit pretty hard -- it's temporarily offline while the Submittable team migrates it to its own server. Should just be a few minutes -- will update when it's back up!

Edit: The application servers are back up! Look forward to reading your apps :)
The body as you have described it is one node (an organization in my example) in the wider network. For that node to function it needs to have all of its components working in unison but if the node fails other nodes can adapt and the system keeps on chugging.
spellcheckers use them, any time you see a company with millions of users let you know your email address was already registered, domain name registrars use them -- basically anything with a large search space where you need to know if something is in (or not) the dataset. They are useful all over.
I wrote a modified version of bloom filters so the filter files are about 1/3rd the size (but with a slight cpu tradeoff) for a domain name registrar.
They are kind of a staple of computer science.
Right - but I've heard anecdotes (I know...) of companies requiring the use of their own loyalty cards (or special deals with vendors). If a company is paying for the trip, they will eventually try to capture all of the benefits.
Does Homejoy shutdown highlight Independent Contractor issue for startups?
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I'm fine with explaining the motivation first, but I struggle to see how you can explain bloom filters without eventually getting to hashing. Obviously you don't need to explain any actual real-world hash function, but you need to explain the concept of deterministically mapping X bits to Y bits where X > Y, which is essentially what a hash function does.
I've only skimmed the PDF so far.

There was one great observation I couldn't resist repeating. The font renderer is performing various checks to validate 'n', the count of arguments passed on the stack, to a particular function. However:

Turns out, a negative value of n passes all the checks!

Oops. It's possible to use this bug to target memory well beyond the stack. It's game over!

The best bugs are the simplest bugs.
Any word on the whole "logjam patches still aren't out" thing?

It seems like Google's informal outlook is that they don't want Chrome to cut users off, so they're just going to work with vulnerable sites instead of patching.
Not really.
It has Scheme before Common Lisp which is fine but where is McCarthy's Lisp which was an ancestor of both of them? And Algol is not one language but several: Algol-60, Algol-68, Algol-W, ...
And where is Turbo Pascal?
There is so much mainstream stuff missing that it's hard to see any point in it; except perhaps an exercise in interactive grapics in which case the content is a kind of lorem ipsum.
SpaceX Releases Preliminary Analysis – Strut Failure Likely Cause [With Audio]
Which employee gets to sue in this case?
So lemme get this straight.

Your solution to an uptick of 48% more murders is to fire all the cops. Break the Police pride down, punish the cops. That's totally how you get people to risk their lives and patrol the West Districts of Baltimore.

Absolutely brilliant. I wonder why no one has implemented this outstanding idea before. /sarcasm

Let me give you a hint: If you Fire a Cop, they'll just work in another district. There are _plenty_ of safe districts looking for experienced officers, and there's almost no reason why an officer has to keep working in West Baltimore aside from pride.

They can very easily jump to another richer district, one with fewer murders and higher-educated populace. And frankly, the smarter cops tend to do that. I think officers prefer to work in safe places and hand out speeding tickets all day... rather than taking on armed drug dealers in the worst parts of Baltimore.
So sad to hear this, he was a very nice guy and extremely friendly.
Hi, my co-founder and I are currently working on our idea from Hawaii and Portland Or. Will separate remote locations be ok during the fellowship, or will you want us to both work from the same location?
>Except when you're the top country by economic standards the "everywhere else" has zero weight.

That's really ignorant. Bank card security sucks enough without mag stripes (I'm looking at you, online payment). Really, magstripes need to die.
I agree that $12K is not so small. I don't remember the exact numbers, but $12K was very close to the money in the first YC batch, IIRC $4K*(n+1), where n is the number of founders.
I think algolia might count soon given their last funding round.
I really wish Sam Altman et all would stop both encouraging and requiring teams they fund to move to the Bay Area, because it is distorting the life out of the economy here and ruining the lives of everyone not employed in the tech industry. And before you ask, no, the attendant increase in service industry jobs does not balance out the damage done by the software industry. There are other places that need the economic boost, and we're full. Thanks.
How much do you think you lose while exchanging currency?
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> So is sodomy

Well, on the face of the statutes, yes, but unlike statutes criminalizing adultery, those criminalizing consensual sodomy have been pretty clearly struck down as unconstitutional, so the fact that they remain "on the books" does not actually mean that they are criminal, since the law purporting to make them so is itself invalid.

(There's some debate about the Constitutional status of adultery statutes, but AFAIK no federal court has yet stuck them down for violating the federal Constitution.)
Article seems down. Here is a google cached version:

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Why the new iPod touch is awesome for Webdevelopers
May I ask how many mods are working on HN ? I naively thought you were the chosen one.
I thought Zenefits was started by the SigFig team.
> New language to learn. And it keeps evolving.

A lot of the “new language” parts is ES6, stuff that will be becoming more commonly used soon and which there is value in. The parts that are actually TypeScript itself are very much more restricted and really are just bits around the type system.
Oral sex is often prohibited [0] by sodomy laws.

[0] To the extent anything is prohibited by an unconstitutional "law" that cannot be enforced.
I got a new card (2 years early) to replace a card with an NFC chip. This was Wells Fargo, so bigger than a credit union. I got the replacement, but my wife didn't. I originally had an NFC card, whereas she didn't. I think that the fact that the first NFC translation in a long time was made a few weeks earlier at an airport may have had something to do with the timing.

Regardless, the changeover has already started. It may take a few years to be complete, but the writing is on the wall.