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bmcfeeleyon The ‘Preserving American Privacy Act’ would ban weaponizing of drones

It will be interesting, should this pass, to see how broadly the phrase “collect information that can identify individuals in a private area” will be interpreted. Wishful thinking to hope for it to be applicable to our activities on social media, etc?

bmcfeeleyon Computer science students successfully boycott class final

Are you from Northern NJ? My 10th grade Bio teacher did the same!

bmcfeeleyon Computer science students successfully boycott class final

> I definitely would have acted rationally, because I place very little value on getting to skip an exam or on proving a point about the grading system, and much more value on actually getting the education I paid for.

Do you mind explaining the thought process behind this? I find it to be quite a stretch to suggest that a 50 minute evaluation at the end of the semester would be such an integral component of the learning that occurs during a semester that foregoing it would jeopardize "getting the education I paid for."

bmcfeeleyon Open source html5 roguelike 'Wayward' goes beta

<nit>Wayward</nit>

Looks awesome. As someone who loved tinkering with WoW's UI in my high school days, I love Unlok's approach to UI customization here. I only wish more big budget titles would do the same.

bmcfeeleyon I'm teaching an introductory 12-week class on Haskell

Was just hit with the desire to learn more about Haskell this weekend, after stumbling on some notes from a Language Paradigms class in school...can't wait to check this out!

bmcfeeleyon Ask HN: Do MMO AI simulators exist?

Not sure if this is what you're looking for (or if this is the game you already mentioned,) but Scribd runs a challenge for developing a "robot" AI that can beat the in-house developers:

http://coding.scribd.com/2012/05/24/compete-against-our-deve...

There are leaderboards and fun things like that to compare yourself to prior submissions. GL!