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PixelRoboton Show HN: I made an HTML5 game (not anoter 2048 clone)

That happens sometimes. Not sure why. Reloading the page usually solves it.

PixelRoboton Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

PixelRoboton Twilio now enables messaging to over 150 countries worldwide

Check western Europe:

Spain: 7.7 cents; Germany: 7 cents; France: 7 cents; Portugal: 5.6 cents; United Kingdom: 4 cents

The highest I've found so far is Mexico with 8.3 cents.

PixelRoboton EU: Possession/distribution of hacking tools to be made a criminal offence

OK. I feel better now thinking it's just a useless law that will change nothing.

PixelRoboton EU: Possession/distribution of hacking tools to be made a criminal offence

Then why don't they just make the use of hacking tools for criminal purposes a criminal offence and not the possession and distribution of said tools?

PixelRoboton EU: Possession/distribution of hacking tools to be made a criminal offence

If you outlaw hacking tools only criminals will have hacking tools.

This would make the EU less safe, since security experts will not be able to know what they're facing or check the security of their own systems against real attacks until they're really being attacked. Another clueless law that does the opposite of what it's supposed to do. Either that or it will be completely ignored.

PixelRoboton Show HN: my weekend project, Good Old Google Reader

I added a little preview of how the output looks like.

PixelRoboton Show HN: my weekend project, Good Old Google Reader

Yes, It's a known bug. Thanks for reporting it anyway.

PixelRoboton Show HN: my weekend project, Good Old Google Reader

I thought some people would be interested in a way to get the data out of all those ugly JSON files where Google put all your old social data from Google Reader, so here's Good Old Google Reader. Still alpha, but this is what I've got so far. Any thoughts? I made most of it yesterday, so there's still a lot of room for improvement.

PixelRoboton FaqMe? FaqYou

Hey, I was working on something similar as a side project. I was even using a similar name for it.

The approach is different though. Well, FAQ it, I think I'll keep on working on it.

PixelRoboton Myths About Introverts

I've noticed that most extroverts think like this. People who are extroverted usually have problems understanding what being introverted is like, and usually just see it as a different label to give social anxiety a more socially acceptable image, since it seems it's easier to understand for them. They assume everybody is an extrovert, just like them, but some people just feel social anxiety and call themselves extroverts. What you call "the traditional use" seems to me like the traditional misconception about introverts.

I'm an introvert myself, and I don't feel social anxiety. I grew up thinking I was shy, since my introversion seemed to be traditionally and socially identified with shyness, but at one point I realized I didn't feel social anxiety at all. It actually seemed to me that extrovert were much more worried about social situations and how they were perceived socially than me.

I don't try to explain my introversion to extroverts because I've noticed most of them don't get it. This makes it hard to use as an excuse, or even as a reasonable reason for your behaviour. I get dragged to social situations sometimes because extroverted people just assume I'll have fun if I just relax a bit, and sometimes I accept because I don't want to be rude. The result is I don't feel anxious or anything like that, I just get bored fast and want to go home soon. If I were actually interested in some activity being an introvert wouldn't get in the way, because being interested in it would keep my interest. It's just that social activities don't usually keep my interest for too long. They just feel like a boring waste of time to me, not something that makes me anxious.

This doesn't mean I don't enjoy social situations sometimes. I enjoy parties and concerts and stuff like that. I'm just the kind of guy who leaves the party early with some kind of excuse, not because of social anxiety, but because I'm starting to get tired and bored with the whole thing. I don't ever use "I'm an introvert" as an excuse, since I know people will not get it. I don't use it and I don't see other people use it to explain why they do certain things or don't do other things.

PixelRoboton Three Arrested over Sony Hack

The title is not true.

I watched the press conference the police gave and they didn't mention Sony at all until a journalist asked about the Sony hack and the police officer answered the arrested could be related to it, maybe, but that they didn't know if they were, and that they weren't going to charge them with anything related to it unless they found out they were involved. So no, they didn't get "arrested over Sony Hack".

This three guys were arrested because they were the administrators of a chat Anonymous used for their online meetings. They could be related to some DDoS attacks in Spain, though it's not clear how, and that's why they got arrested. They're not being charged with data stealing so far, just regular DDoS attacks against banks, political parties, foreign governments and similar organizations. Not confirmed relation with the Sony hack so far.

PixelRoboton Why so little looting in Japan? It's not just about honesty

No problem.

PixelRoboton Why so little looting in Japan? It's not just about honesty

I submitted the same link like 4 minutes ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347698

PixelRoboton Don't yell at waitresses. You look like a jerk and it blows investments.

It's more of a "don't go telling people" thing than a "now that it's on Hacker News everybody will know" thing.

PixelRoboton Don't yell at waitresses. You look like a jerk and it blows investments.

Don't tell everybody. It's a great way to identify people I want to avoid, and you ruin it by telling everybody.

PixelRoboton Show HN: A few weeks ago, I started prototyping the Circles concept.

I need to see the execution before answering that question. So, maybe?

PixelRoboton Ask HN: Do you meditate? How/Why?

I do it whenever it feels like my brain needs a reboot, that is, when my mental processes seem to be frozen and don't flow properly. That's like a pair of times every day. Some days more, some other less.

Nothing fancy, I just sit there breathing and take everything else out of my mind.

Since I do it when I feel I need it doesn't feel like a waste of time or anything like that. I know I'll be more focused after meditating and will do a better job.

PixelRoboton Wolfram Alpha's take on the Drake Equation

I think there is little wrong with assuming that the probability of appearance of life given right condition and time to develop is one

Fair enough. It's a bit like the infinite monkeys in infinite typewriters scenario. Given enough time, sure, you'll have life. It's a question of how much time. Still, assuming all Eart-like planets will actually develop life given the time lapse of the existence of the Milky Way does still seems like a bold assumption.

PixelRoboton Wolfram Alpha's take on the Drake Equation

That one seems to be the most unreasonable assumption of the set to me. Specially if you consider life seems to have happened just once on Earth.

PixelRoboton Wolfram Alpha's take on the Drake Equation

I assume "Earth like" in this context means planets that resemble the only planet known to hold life at least enough to be capable of holding life themselves. The problem is we don't even know what that means exactly. It's also assuming that life can only exist in "Earth like" conditions.

Also, if Fraction of Earth‐like planets that develop life = 1 and Mars is an "Earth like" planet, are they assuming life evolved in Mars too or something?

PixelRoboton Wolfram Alpha's take on the Drake Equation

It seems to be just speculation. There's not much data you can use to guess those numbers with the current scientific knowledge.

PixelRoboton Wolfram Alpha's take on the Drake Equation

That's some optimistic data there.

PixelRoboton In Spanish, It's Not Your Fault

I think the author is taking Spanish too literally here. Just because the literal translation doesn't imply blame or seems to take it away for an English speaker doesn't mean that Spanish speakers don't see it there.

"Se han perdido las llaves" is not going to make you look less guilty than "I lost the keys" when used in context.

PixelRoboton Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising

Marketing people say the darndest things.

It reminds me to this youtube video somebody posted recently on Twitter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRDhx8Lo37E It's totally viral!

No, I'm not related to the video or whoever made it.

PixelRoboton Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?)

Well, you're more likely to know the sociable people with Asperger's than the antisocial ones, right? What you describe is not the case with all the people who have Asperger's. Some avoid social interaction because they know they don't understand the norms and prefer to avoid potential conflicts. You can't make a generalization there.

Shyness is all about anxiety about social interaction. Oversensitivity to social norms can cause it, yes, but also bad experiences or low self-esteem.

Introversion/Extroversion is about where you focus your mind. Introverted people are more focused on their own thoughts and mental processes, and extroverted people are more focused on interacting with the mental processes of other people. If something, introversion would imply caring less about social interaction and social norms, not oversensitivity. That doesn't mean introverted people don't care or follow social norms, or that they're not sociable. They just need more time with their own thoughts and feel less stimulated by petty social interaction like small talk. That doesn't mean introverted people are not sociable. Some introverts are very sociable and good at conversations, because they try to make their conversations interesting and stimulating. Some other are not interested in being sociable at all.

PixelRoboton Placebo buttons: 'door-close' buttons, others, don't do anything

People like to feel in control, but not the responsibility that comes with the power. This looks like a (dishonest) way to combine both tendencies.

PixelRoboton Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?)

I'm also extremely introverted, and I got a 34. Asperger's and introversion are very different.

A lot of people get Asperger's, introversion and shyness mixed, but they are three completely different things.

PixelRoboton GOG hoax: “we could not miss a chance to generate some buzz”

Faking your own death for fun and profit. Classy.

I don't think looking dishonest and irresponsible is a good marketing strategy in the long run.

PixelRoboton Europeans are more interested in science than sport

Europeans lie to pollsters