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I'm thinking something that still has a meaningful dogfighting experience (like the original Elite - whereas EVE Online when I last played was more like an RTS?) and generally far more accessible.

But a 'casual' and accessible mix of Elite and EVE with a MMO persistent universe and retroish graphics is what I have in mind.

Whereas the new Elite: Dangerous as impressive as it looks (and I'd love to play it... just don't have a beefy PC or Mac at the moment) misses something I think by not having everyone flying in the same universe (I know the simulation is shared and that there is also a solo play mode available). I've wondered why they didn't adopt a monthly subscription approach to support the servers to make that possible?
> When a company attempts to hammer home the message that they are right and local officials are wrong, that's bullying.

The city officials making up nonsense about fingerprinting drivers, for safety, is the bullying. Implying that Uber and Lyft drivers are rapists and the companies don't care. And lying about the ability of fingerprint to save lives, even if.

Given that officials are managing perception, not fact, they are wrong, and deserve to be called out for it. That's not bullying, just the price of making unsupportable claims.

> Public officials hold positions as both representatives and leaders. Their voice holds sway.

Unless that magically makes them right, it's irrelevant.

> these parties would be better off calmly stating their positions to the public via their official mediums, or doing it at the negotiation table.

How would negotiating for the same rights as any other business help Uber and Lyft? Please sir, may I have the right to buy gas, serve passengers, etc?

When you deal with people for whom perception is more important than facts, you're never going to win by discussing facts.
I wasn't even aware of this leak. Is this one of the first mentions?
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In this one case someone else is paying the bill as charity so clearly there is no problem at all...
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I'm participating in an hackathon and had this idea: users of open source github repos can contribute $X for every commit the developer contributes, with a monthly cap. It's a recurring donation based on development activity.

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What do you guys think?
I don't agree on the assumption that the total number of hours is a given. If you're working on something 70+ days per week for an entire year, your productivity is going to drop. If you work less, but are refreshed when you start working, you'll be way more productive. Especially if it requires any amount of thinking.
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$4 a month (billed monthly) for 5 GB storage.

Gotta be cheaper than digital ocean.
We've been using Waffle.io which provides a nice Kanban style board and lets you tag and order the issues in Github. I'd be interested to hear what others are using?
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Or they could let users specify their own certs.
Not MMO, OOlite can be "retro" with the right options on.

Extensions (aka "OXP" or "OXZ" in Oolite lingo) can give you in-station text based activities (the extension is named "Life in the Frontier" IIRC) and planet descriptions, among other things (there are about 400 extensions available from the integrated package manager, not counting older ones that haven't been ported).

Extensions are written mostly in Javascript and the community is very friendly and helpful. Last but not least, it's free and open source.
I'm not sure that logically follows. What %age of Python users actually know the underlying C well enough to make changes to the language? Even the number who know how to write bindings is tiny overall.
The employee who was fired received a very generous severance package. So it's not like Netflix doesn't care about its employees.
It seems like companies like Netflix don't want to train loyal capable employees in new skills.
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>What does it mean? I'm curious as to what the subtext of something like that really is.

Means he'd very much like for you to have it on Tuesday:-) He also does not want to make you unhappy and possibly lose you as a customer by saying it will probably be Wednesday. After all it could be Tuesday so why not have a try? It's a little frustrating for non-Chinese.

>Will it also mean that local manufacturers there would be more likely to try and pass off something non-genuine to westerners?

I think Westerners are more likely to get fake money since we assume they won't know how to check. Most Chinese think Westerner engineers are more technically competent so while they might sell fakes I don't think it's a lot more likely? I can't really say though I don't do sourcing. Also it's about risk. Rip off another Chinese person he will tell others and it will hurt your reputation. Maybe he will tell someone and make trouble for you. This is less likely with Westerners.
To me that's broken because if I travel, change numbers, or have wifi but no cell coverage, I can't access my account.
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That is what I meant, thank you for clarifying. Too late to edit the post though, it won't let me.
I have found the easiest way for people to understand it is: Android runs a Linux kernel. The systems we often call "Linux" systems are really Linux + GNU + X to get to the same kind of place.
> A lot of farmers in the European Union who are in the cow-raising business (I'd say most) wouldn't make it without financial help from the EU and from their governments.

And heavy mechanization to automate a lot of the labour.

Which, as you might expect, is even more up-front cost.
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Fluff, like most articles on medium.
What is this reflects the reality?
I would still say that, to most people, a startup implies more than just a newly started business. I have never seen or heard someone who has just started a small brick and mortar business (without grandiose expansion plans) refer to it as a startup.

That said, I'm not a native english speaker and I don't live in US - maybe it's more common than I think.
Most programming these days is more like learning a language than doing maths. Most jobs in the programming world don't require much knowledge of maths at all. However, learning maths will improve your problem solving skills and will broaden the horizon of things you can do.
End result being that it's no different from current model (free/pay-if-you-want), but now there is a somewhat high anchor for the donation price, and a more polished presentation to a broader audience. The catch--without correct marketing (along the lines of "losing is fun") for their obfuscatory UX, they will catch endless amounts of flak and backlash. People who search out DF are predisposed to, or learn how to, enjoy the UX. Once you start selling DF and foisting it onto broader audiences, the expectations shift.
Sikulix is great and comes with a Python IDE where you drag and drop screen captures - so a command to click on an icon has the icon itself written into the code.

Robotic process automation (e.g. Blue Prism) is coming to the fore in commercial settings - a mixture of API and computer vision (probably a horrible mix) so there's a market out there for developing something commercially.
Npm 3 has a bug installing dependencies, when one dep is from devDependencies and dependencies (lodash).
This forced me to move all dependencies into one "dependencies" section.

This is a long living bug since first release of npm 3, and it's not fixed today.

No, thanks, npm, I will continue to use bower in 2016.
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That only works in places like the US or Australia, where land is cheap and safe. In Europe you wouldn't find enough land for that, and in many other places you couldn't keep cows unsupervised for a day.
The cool thing is that by gifting buffers to the kernel as policy, the gets to make that choice.

In Linux, you don't, and userspace and kernelspace both end up doing unnecessary copying, and it means with shared buffers, something might poll and not-block, but actually block by the time you get around to using the buffer.

This is annoying, and it generally means you need more than two system calls on average for every IO operation in performance servers.

As a rule, you can generally detect "design faults" by the number of competing and overlapping designs (select, poll, epoll, kevent, /dev/poll, aio, sigio, etc, etc, etc). I personally would have preferred a more fleshed out SIGIO model, but we got what we got...

One specific fault of epoll (compared to near-relatives) is that the epoll_data_t is very small. In Kqueue you can store both the file descriptor with activity (ident) as well as a few bytes of user data. As a result, people use a heap pointer which causes an extra stall to memory. Memory is so slow...
Might have to revisit KiCad, for the nth time. Last few times I ran away screaming after a few minutes!
That mouse-position-dependent-keypress mode just drives me completely crazy. It feels like Autocad from the early 90's.

On the other hand, the push/pull router that has been contributed to the board editor looks too interesting to ignore!
For the downvoters: the original submission was titled "DNS: the Good Parts", which doesn't fit the content.
According to some guy on reddit you are correct: https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/3et3va/why_does_tot...

The post also gives a justification for using symmetric encryption, it lets the tokens users enter be shorter.
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I agree that Facebook should try to prevent private information from leaking out. Even if they are indirectly involved.

But I also think sites should never use personally identifiable information in the URL. There are much more sites that cause issues when sharing these kinds of URLs. To name a few: bit.ly, twitter, Comments in Hacker News.
For a time neural networks seemed dead and SVMs were sucking the oxygen out of other parts of the field. Then someone figured out how to train deep networks and the tides turned.
To be honest I think Tarn isn't wanting to release the source for a couple of reasons:

A - He wants complete control of the direction that the game is heading,

B - He's not proud of the source code, from interviews and such and the length of the project I think it's rather a mess, and due to the fact that the game gets new features all the time, it's not getting refactored any time soon.

In a way it's a shame - the dwarf fortress community has been fighting "FPS death" of fortresses, when the simulation of all the stuff on your fortress reaches the point where the game crawls along so slowly it's unplayable. And this happens sooner than you'd think. People have been pushing to get the game multithreaded for years but unfortunately it's just not happening. Yet on the other hand I respect Tarns decision to want complete control over the direction of the game - yet there are already mods out there that completely change that anyway.
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What I don't like about Rimworld (and Gnomoria, to lesser degree Banished) is early game difficulty. In DF all you have to do is build farm + still, after that all is up to player to decide. In other games missing a single element( like cooling in Rimworld) ends with almost everyone dead in single season.
This also baffles me. Here are the times converted to AEST:

Sun July 5th
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4:42 PM -- Instance launching in unaffected AZ's restored
4:46 PM -- Power Restored
6:00 PM -- 80% of instances recovered
7:49 PM -- DNS recovered

Mon July 6th
1:00 AM -- Almost all instances recovered
I'm saying finding such jobs is hard even if it sounds like heaven to you. It's not like the only significant issue is willpower.
An i7 laptop. But even if you use an 18 cores server, it doesn't really change the point. It might take a month instead of a year. But it still doesn't scale, even to only check the most common passwords.
> Probably most of the papers i read during the previous 5 years were small little epsilon papers that added no real value. I did some work in other fields and noticed a similar trend there. I always attributed it to the trend of PhDs being pumped through the system

No, the reason for this is that all the easy stuff has already been discovered. 20 years ago it was still kind of easy for a single PhD student to make enormous progress in his field, but after a dozen of PhD generstions there is just not much left which can be discovered by a si gle student.

Just look at physics, they had to build a multi-billion dollar research facility below the ground to advance our knowledge. Or the satelites for discovering gravity waves, ... All of this can not be done in the classic PhD model where a single PhD student works on a topic.

tldr: After 150+ years of science there is almost nothing left which can be discovered by a single PhD student
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They also just released "Getting work done" for vim
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Shameless self promotion, but not every package increases the price. We maintain a free (GPLv3) library for JS/SAS that lets you build nice user interfaces to your programs/workflows using modern frameworks like Angular or React.

Check out github.com/boemska/h54s. I wouldn't normally post it like this, but SAS comes up so rarely that I figured if you're on HN and you use SAS, then you'll probably be interested. The more the merrier.
It already exists:

https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends
Nice to see a way to do this without needing to install node inspector in the same container...
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I just checked my own site and noticed I was retargeted with a HyperDev ad; I guess they are agressively pushing this?

http://i.imgur.com/icNiRy1.png
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Well, this is certainly more advanced than the xmacro* utilities. Once I had to use xmacro to do stuff like this, it's a good idea to dedicate a separate X server in the background though so you don't have to leave your other tasks while it's running.
> I've always thought that chickens, the free ranging kind, make insect protein palatable to humans.

In many parts of the world, certain insect protein is already palatable. To mention a few palatable insects I know of: the caterpillar stage of a specific moth species (Gonimbrasia belina)[1], locusts, termites[2] and - believe it or not - stinkbugs![3]

1. Also known as mopane worms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonimbrasia_belina

2. capturing soldier termites is a fun, albeit occasionally painful experience for kids. Those giant mandibles can cut skin, and once closed, they never open

3. http://www.thestandard.co.zw/2013/09/08/bikita-villagers-sel...
"The way it works is useful?"! When was the last time you found it useful to delete something like /dev/null via command line? And how many poor people do you think have screwed up their systems and had to reboot because they deleted not-really-files by accident? Do you think the two numbers are even comparable if the first one isn't outright zero?

It literally doesn't make any sense whatsoever for many of these devices to behave like physical files, e.g. be deletable or whatnot. Yes there is an exception to every nonsense like this, so yes, some devices do make sense as files, but you completely miss the point when you ignore the widespread nonsense and justify it with the exceptions.
The main social media sites are getting more censored every day
The most censored subject is obviously the subject of censorship itself. The reader does not know that the list he sees in front of him has been censored. They are not open about this. They effectively hide this information from the reader. Since most readers do not submit anything, they are not aware of this. It creates a curated world in which they believe that they know what other people think. This is a wrong belief, because all other opinions have just been filtered away.
Thanks for the suggestion, I didn't knew about this before! So I've tried it, the lib is small (~9MB on OS X), it renders pretty fast and has python bindings which is quite great.

However it lacks in some areas, such as the scrolling which is quite bad, and it does not render the SVG files that I'd need it to render (tiny SVG spec, but lots of defs and rotations). I'm still going to look better into it since I can use Cairo and CairoSVG to convert my SVGs to PNGs, but I still do not know how well it renders some css rules, fonts, etc..
Are you too young to remember "the network is the computer"?

And of course this worked in reverse, when Netscape released their commercial webserver Microsoft rushed to give away IIS.
Deep learning may have become the flavor of the season now, but ironically its pioneers like LeCun and Hinton too faced similar problems when they tried to publish [1].

[1]: http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/a-brief-history-of-neu...
How can you say it doesn't scale? You just need to spin up a cluster that is powerful enough to get down to let's say a week. The cost of this would be a joke for a company / institution of a certain size.
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I didn't need another reason to dislike Twitter but this puts another nail in their coffin, for me at least.

It seems the two platforms I derive the least amount of value from (Twitter and Linked In) are the most vulnerable to hackers and leaked passwords.

I was caught up in the Linked In password debacle recently and now have my e-mail address in the haveIbeenpwned.com database - thanks Linked In. I wonder if I'll get caught up in this mess too.

I only keep my Twitter and Linked In accounts to avoid FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) but this is making me want to shut it all down and erase every trace of personal information I have on both sites.
I didn't need another reason to dislike Twitter but this puts another nail in the coffin.

It seems the two platforms I derive the least amount of value from (Twitter and Linked In) are the most vulnerable to hackers and leaked passwords.

I was caught up in the Linked In debacle recently and now have my e-mail address in the haveIbeenpwned.com database - thanks Linked In. I wonder if I'll get caught up in this mess too.

I only keep my Twitter and Linked In accounts to avoid FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) but this is making me want to shut it all down and erase every trace of personal information I have on both sites.
Fun fact: if you want to click() on something that appears more than once, Sikuli will choose it at random.

Some time ago I was demoing a script to my boss and the second time I run it, it clicked on a different place with the same text (and fortunately with the same destination).

We were shocked because the link wasn't where we expected to be (Ciscosecure ACS 3.x).
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Ha. Yep, I had a similar experience. Tossed a chick (they love getting air and get all excited when they land) at my most friendly cat once without thinking and he instinctively reached out and caught it, but immediately let go and gave me the "oops sorry" look. I suspect the domestic cat/chicken/human triangle goes way back.
You might find this 1996 Nature paper by Olshausen & Field interesting. In it, they describe how a coding strategy that maximizes spareness when representing natural scenes is enough to produce a family of localized, oriented, bandpass receptive fields, like those found in the early visual system of humans.

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse528/11sp/Olshau...
https://gratipay.com/ exists already, and it's mostly (all?) open-source as well.
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Well, once you've rewritten history to say that communism came up with it...
I'm glad I read this comment. After checking some of the docs I think I will have a go at Python for data wrangling. List comprehensions look... friendly.

R still rules for plotting and running canned statistical procedures but sometimes I feel like if I stop programming R for a week I forget how to use it effectively... E.g. Forgetting to add stringsAsFactor=FALSE to everything, forgetting rbind() can overwrite column names, forgetting I have to define my own string concatenation operator in every script.

If Python can save me some of the frustration involved in manipulating data frames that will be nice.
> When you deal with people for whom perception is more important than facts, you're never going to win by discussing facts.

I think you're missing my point about perception. The world runs on perception. When presented with the same facts, even two identical twins may come up with a different conclusion. They each lead different lives.

I understand where you're coming from because I used to believe in hard truths too. This is the main point of our disagreement, and it's not worth discussing the details of the situation in Austin further without first agreeing on this point. I know we'll disagree on Austin because of our disagreement about perception of facts. Perhaps the world's most famous diplomat, Henry Kissinger, discusses this frequently, for example here [1], here [2], and here [3]. I think [3] is the best example because it shows when Kissinger changed his point of view on the subject of facts vs. perception. This is a man who opened up China to trading with the rest of the world after 30 years of disconnect. He's not perfect but he knows how to work with people and make things happen.

> How would negotiating for the same rights as any other business help Uber and Lyft? Please sir, may I have the right to buy gas, serve passengers, etc?

I think you have to come to the table with a mindset other than "you're out to get us". You need to believe that there is some merit to the government or people's position, and that they might have reason to believe that the public perceive a government background check is more secure than a private one, and would vote accordingly (as they did). Whether the fingerprint-based background check is better or not becomes irrelevant at the negotiating table. One can't wave a magic wand and change public perception to align with what you believe. Politicians will negotiate based on the public's view. The facts about background checks are useful to present on U/L's website or in media, but the only thing that matters to the politician will be public perception. This is why you see some politicians flipping on things like gay marriage. They weren't necessarily ideologically against it in 1990, they just felt they didn't have the strength to change the voters' view on the topic. You can call that weakness but there are tons of issues like this and gauging public opinion is really hard. Politicians spend all their time at it. There's a pretty good podcast from This American Life on the subject [4]. Politicians spend all their time calling people asking for money, which is a way of connecting with people and hearing their views. Barney Frank says,

"If the voters have a position, the votes will kick money's rear end any time. I've never met a politician-- I've been in the legislative bodies for 40 years now-- who, choosing between a significant opinion in his or her district and a number of campaign contributors, doesn't go with the district." [4]

[1] https://youtu.be/wooGL__-OvA?t=10m06s

[2] https://youtu.be/wooGL__-OvA?t=57m24s

[3] https://youtu.be/_eM_z4vRxrA?t=5m52s

[4] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/t...