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Inside reviewhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a857cefa7514a2da8d2a3640f8ab73d&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.polygon.com%2f2016%2f6%2f28%2f12049410%2finside-review%2f&c=11366214248891968731&mkt=en-usInside is a better game than Limbo. I don't make that claim lightly. Limbo, the first (and, before now, only) game from Inside developer Playdead, stands as one of the first great triumphs of console ...Jun 28, 2016 5:00 AM
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Inside reviewhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a8574788e874b24804012938bb1613c&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.polygon.com%2f2016%2f6%2f28%2f12049410%2finside-review%2f&c=11366214248891968731&mkt=en-usInside is a better game than Limbo. I don't make that claim lightly. Limbo, the first (and, before now, only) game from Inside developer Playdead, stands as one of the first great triumphs of console ...Jun 28, 2016 5:00 AM
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The Science of the Storyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88d21e8e264a4aa23e791d3dc5788e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgreatergood.berkeley.edu%2Farticle%2Fitem%2Fscience_of_the_story&c=15124567939592166470&mkt=en-usStories are told in the body. It doesn’t seem that way. We tend to think of stories as emerging from consciousness—from dreams or fantasies—and traveling through words or images to other minds. We see ...Jun 7, 2016 5:00 PM
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The Science of the Storyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89dd543b024e28b9039a312d8b667a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgreatergood.berkeley.edu%2Farticle%2Fitem%2Fscience_of_the_story&c=15124567939592166470&mkt=en-usStories are told in the body. It doesn’t seem that way. We tend to think of stories as emerging from consciousness—from dreams or fantasies—and traveling through words or images to other minds. We see ...Jun 7, 2016 5:00 PM
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The Science of the Storyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88c520b3e143c6a8e0e57dafcee6a2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgreatergood.berkeley.edu%2Farticle%2Fitem%2Fscience_of_the_story&c=15124567939592166470&mkt=en-usStories are told in the body. It doesn’t seem that way. We tend to think of stories as emerging from consciousness—from dreams or fantasies—and traveling through words or images to other minds. We see ...Jun 7, 2016 5:00 PM
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Volaris looks to expand flights between Texas, Mexicohttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88f5376e124dcaafe0586ec0344c6f&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.houstonchronicle.com%2Fbusiness%2Farticle%2FVolaris-looks-to-expand-flights-between-Texas-6861037.php&c=17289367960738535546&mkt=en-usVolaris, a low-cost Mexican airline with flights between Houston and Guadalajara, is looking to expand in the United States. "As we look beyond 2015, we do see quite a lot of potential for us to open ...Feb 29, 2016 12:41 PM
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TakeGuru – New Active Hobby Global Marketplacehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11026671New powerful Internet start-up in the field of travelling and active outdoor and indoor activities, namely TakeGuru, has been launched at the end 2015. Presentation of the service took place at the Internet summit Fast Track Lisbon.TakeGuru (http://takeguru.com/) is the first online service which helps people who travel to other countries in getting a hobby or continuing to be engaged in active outdoor and indoor activities. Now people, who for certain reasons are going on a trip, can online reserve the air tickets, accommodation and excursions. They rent a car, effect an insurance in advance. However they should still look for the corresponding their interest activities upon arriving to the destination place or spend much time studying the sites among searching systems of Internet.Mean a particular active hobby? Arrive to a special spot? Previously to your landing at any place in the world TakeGuru takes over for the fast online matching and agreeing the short-term courses with the loFeb 3, 2016 2:45 PM
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I am a 21st century artist: I made an app to deal with a personal tragedyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10879700I created My Day Todos, as something that could help me in my recovery from a bad injury. I have summarised the background and my reasons to build this app here(http://goo.gl/PhtocQ). I have released both paid(https://goo.gl/zv3d6s) and a free version(https://goo.gl/j6pmOH) of the app. Give it a go and let me know if you have any feedback. Ohh and I also released an open-source repo, Html5StarterAppWithSwift(https://goo.gl/rVBzei) as a part of building this appJan 11, 2016 9:07 AM
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Ask HN: Moratorium on threads related to the culture wars and identity politicshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10659075The Hacker News guidelines permit "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".Now, even HN qualifies what isn't suitable for political stories: "Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Rest assured, most such stories do not satisfy this criterion, or wear off their novelty all too quickly.Be it the Millennials whose whining will immanentize the eschaton, the white heterosexual males and their original sin of mercantilism and colonialism, the feminists and Cultural Marxists who want to usurp Western values (whatever they are this month)... it is all grinding.The chief complaint, of course, is that threads on this subject are devoid of any value pertaining to debate. They instead serve as hubs for signaling normative dispositions. The inevitable result of such vacuous posturing is attrition. Discussions grow ever more primordial, threads on the subject increase and these elements spill over to other threadsDec 1, 2015 9:48 PM
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Ask HN: How good are the local startup scenes in Lisbon and Sofia?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10638815I'm a solo founder and my startup is beginning to get some momentum. To capitalise on this I've decided it's time to move ops out of my spare bedroom and in to a more dynamic environment. Main goal for moving: increase my chances of bumping in to like minded people and finding a co-founder / first hire.I've narrowed the choice down to Lisbon or Sofia (having started with London, Paris, Barcelona, Sofia and Lisbon) and would love to hear the experiences of any HNers who have spent time in either city - especially if it was while bootstrapping your own startup (or working for someone else's)!Things I'd love to know: quality, size and diversity of local talent; quality of local accelerators and investors; how easy/hard it is to find (good) people that want to take a risk and work for an early stage startup; friendliness of the local startup scene.My pros for Sofia:- Betahaus co-working space- Fantastic cost of living (~30% cheaper than Lisbon - which itself is already cheap)- Lovely city,Nov 27, 2015 9:01 PM
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Ask HN: Staying Happyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10104051I really remember it, back to the time when i was in college, i have so much tasks. I needed to attend campus club. Lots of assignment. But the fact i was happy still surprises me.It has been ~1.5 years since i graduated from my college and got to work as a software engineer. I got decent job with decent salary (at least pretty good in my area). The workplace itself considered as a "fun" environment: sleeping pod, ping pong table, coffee machine and no cubicles. Also, workload is lighter than class assignments. But it seems like i am not happy anymore -- i don't know why. (Btw, yes, i do love coding. I do some of my pet projects in weekend)I tried to do so much things (to try) making myself happier: Cycling around the city, playing some game with friends; but none of them seems to be working.After all, i want to create happiness, not to "do something" or "buy something" to make myself happy. I know happiness is intrinsic and subjective. Two persons doing a same thing may perceive that Aug 22, 2015 10:41 PM
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Ask HN: Blockchainshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10032099More and more noise seems to be appearing about blockchains. I see the small benefit of use in transactions between organisations, but am struggling for the case for private blockchains and some points of cryptocurrency in general. I don’t know if this is the best place to ask, but everything online is full of jargon and is inaccessible to me.I have a few questions:- What are the benefits of using a private blockchain (should I be thinking of it as a replacement to a General Ledger?)? Is this just another name for a ledger with auditable history?- Can a blockchain exist without mining or without a currency/coin? Will all private blockchains need a “coin”? (eg the Goldman Sachs coin or ABC plumbing coin?)And another couple of broader questions- What keeps people interested in a blockchain (and currency) once all of the easy mining is done eg, for people joining later?- I see that transaction costs for bitcoin keep rising, is that related to the size of the blockchain?- I thought bitcoinAug 10, 2015 12:27 AM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e7065ba14f36866e9bb12cec34f3&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dc6c58f54919a4c4434ccbb65d20&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dd8d3d714dc1aa0eef2f1e04f7e4&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e093f2194f3fbebc2002da0500da&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85de84dccd4cd6904986038ea2e4d4&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d0f3b20947a8aa122157f8dbf548&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d427a81d46c6b79c1ce05c12113e&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
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Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d5dbfb724b0b80ad1387e83469bb&url=https%3a%2f%2ftheconversation.com%2fweapons-of-maths-destruction-are-calculators-killing-our-ability-to-work-it-out-in-our-head-44900&c=17161250584496746377&mkt=en-usSince the 1980s we have had access to calculators of various types. Today, we can include computers and smartphones – which are attached to our hip 24/7. So does this ubiquitous access to calculators ...Aug 9, 2015 1:34 PM
