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The game was dark. These (doom, quake) were 256-color games which needed to burn substantial portions of the available palette just to facilitate shading and shadows atop colored textures. The dreary look of the game is somewhat forced by the limitations of VGA.
Let me guess "We are sorry that you went public with our unlawful request"?
Either way the interface is not even close to being as useful as it was, and he has removed languages and implementations that were already up and running.
So a guy all of a sudden sees strangers in his neighbors house. Nevermind their color - wouldn't you be suspicious if you all of a sudden saw 2 20-something dudes in your neighbors house? I know I would - I wouldn't even think twice about their color.

This is the example the article is holding up as the example of racism and it isn't even racist.

The trans example: I'm 100% for property owners deciding what they will and won't use their private property for. Get over it. You can't go through life getting offended at every opinion different from yours, even if you think it's irrational.
Compared to everyone else here, my impression of quake back in the day was quite different. Back then I honestly couldn't appreciate the added 3D, but I found the art direction beyond boring, especially compared to the vibrant, changing and funny environments in Duke Nukem 3D. I found quake incredibly uninspiring and stuck with Duke for a long time.

Today I can appreciate how much more advanced quake is.

Does anybody know why it was called quake instead of doom 3?
It's tempting as a host to reject people of a certain type, but the line that I draw isn't on race, gender or religion — it's age.

I've come to find out that older folks — somewhere around 50+ — have been the worst possible guests, with no exceptions so far. They tend to be stingy with their star ratings and leave poor reviews even if they had a perfect experience. They also tend to be much more high-maintenance and not self-sufficient, acting as if they think the Airbnb is a hotel and the host is their concierge or room service.

The cost-benefit ratio doesn't work for me in these cases, so I've been intentionally passing on older people recently and trying to fill my Airbnb with younger folks. I never see age mentioned as a factor for discrimination in articles like these, and it seems that it may not be legislated in the same way that the other factors are.

But it feels like it's the exact same issue, and I'm willingly becoming more and more guilty of it.
I think the bigger problem is enforcement. If someone says "I'm not accepting your request because you're X" that's easy to detect and punish.

But if it's more subtle and no explicit reason, it's going to be way harder to detect and adds a lot of judgement calls to the mix.. which puts it up the whims of whoever is doing support at that moment.

I wrote on this last year on how it could be totally transparent and devastating as a result: http://caseysoftware.com/blog/social-apis-for-social-evil
I don't think it's shitty. Firstly nobody knows who seafile is, so it's just clearer. Secondly, by comparing them to Dropbox they are also acknowledging that seafile is a "legit" file sharing company.
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Then why have any anti-discrimination laws at all?

Very easy to enforce: if airbnb investigates and finds you discriminate, you are out of the platform.
I'm left-liberal British and am therefore expected to support the BBC I guess, but why in heaven this publicly-funded organisation has one recipe site, let alone two, baffles me.
For 1 and 4, is not for runtime exceptions (div by 0, out of memory, etc) that you need to bubble up to the top, is for "logic"/checked exceptions where you want to use code to deal with the failure case.
For 3, that totally defeats the purpose, the whole point is to have a single error type (it can capture the details of the error anyway) then you can have

Foo -> Result<Foo1,Error>
Foo1 -> Result<Foo2,Error>
Foo2 -> Result<Foo3,Error>

And use bind to compose them easily.

I think the confusing part is the word "exception" as it mixes concepts.
Internet is absurdly expensive in the US for what you're getting. For instance I pay $15/month for 2mbps.
That was the worst about the article anyway, its a mum with a 13yo boy in puperty, it should be understandable that she does not want "special situations" IN HER HOME. That is nobodies business.
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This is why the government steps in and creates fairness laws (though not for felons). It's entirely plausible that an AirBnB renter unfamiliar with evaluating evidence might just look up US crime stats and come to an unfair conclusion on risk.

AirBnB is sort of stuck though, since they want to maintain this "sharing economy" fiction, where it's just friendly homeowners sharing their places. They don't want to admit they are encouraging unlicensed hotels that don't follow the law.
Enlightened self-interest.
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Do you have an example app written with some benchmarks?

It says that we can utilize npm, so, how is the compatibility with node? Native (C++) modules?

Is it used already in production somewhere?

(I am asking a lot of questions because I'm very interested, not anything else)
There was a previous article about them here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11944011
Hi this is Jan2 from ArangoDB... my team mate Jan1 wrote a blogpost: You can already handle binary data with ArangoDB Foxx framework... here is how http://jsteemann.github.io/blog/2016/06/22/handling-binary-d...
The event is from 1997, this article is dated June 22 2016.
It appears this story has been flagged. It's dropped off the homepage rather suddenly. I can't find it ten pages deep.

Blackernews anyone . . .

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The problem with this approach is that it would be difficult to make handlers first-class. What if your post routes are a handler imported from another module?

Templates would allow for the syntax you present, but do not combine.
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100% agree with all of this. While I'm not saying I would personally deny a trans person staying at my Airbnb, at the end of the day, it's the owner's decision. This isn't a public service where people of different race/color/religion/background/etc. are getting denied. It's all private property. It's 100% up to the owner what he/she/they want to use their property for, regardless of how ignorant/racist/stupid/etc. that choice may be.
Against discrimination i assume. But not against people who dont want to share their privates with others because of prejudices. Honestly i cant see this as discrimination, thats real issues our society faces, but its more stupidity and fear based on shitty media than anything else, especially discrimination.
I'd rather see the internet as an extension of human life rather than a chance to have public and private groups regulate it.
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Torpedoes haven't generally been "fairly close-range weapons" since WWII (air-launched torpedoes notwithstanding).
Hard not to imagine a "buy our services!" hidden message in this piece; it's really aimed at budget spenders and not techies.
Layout is indeed hard.

I meant something simpler, like: The word 'computer' in English is 计算者 [jì suàn zhě] in Chinese, Компьютер in Russian, and حاسوب in Arabic."

Try that without Unicode.

It's of course possible with TeX, and no doubt other solutions. Which is why I added "and expect it to be readable and editable by many different tools".

(As a real-world use case, look at Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" and see how he credits people using their full names, in their own written language.)
Does it really matter if it's just PR? They're still doing it at the end of the day. Their reasoning doesn't really impact the user.
wow, at least the translated verion mentions seafile in the title. the fortine article doesn't mention it at all in the title, just dropbox alternative
It's unfortunate, California is such a beautiful place. But it's turning into somewhere to visit, and not live. See you soon Sierra's!
I still don't understand how anyone does business with Paypal. Their abuses and shitty business practices like this just continue, and will only continue to get more abhorrent. This is yet another tissue paper apology issued after the fact it's already cost someone business, and only offered after it made more bad press for Paypal.

There are alternatives now. You don't have to keep doing business with these colossal assholes.
There used to be an era in America where hotels could legally discriminate, making travel for minorities extremely difficult. This is not a matter of feeling offended, but a matter of having equal access to resources.
I remember reading it was supposed to be an RPG game where you run around with melee weapons. It turned into almost doom eventually.
Does AirBnB make it easy to view what ratings people have given? Certainly the history of an individual user provides much more useful, actionable information than any broad trait.

It should be easy for hosts to say they only want people with X reviews where most of them are 4-5 stars. Or a better score that weights it based on the host rating (i.e. if a user's hosts generally get 5 stars, but this user rates them all 3 stars, then it's probably a problem with the user, so avoid.) Perhaps AirBnB doesn't want do to this to avoid putting pressure on renters.
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I don't know anything about Seafile, but my little music startup was written up in Forbes once with "Spotify" in the title and we were quite pleased with that. Good SEO, great brand association. There are benefits to this situation.
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Laravel (PHP) has been a great experience.

Composer
Valet/Homestead (Local Development)
Forge (Builds Servers/Deploys Repos)
Envoyer (Zero Downtime Deployment)
Spark (SaaS Application Starting Point)

It keeps getting better and better.

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Totally agree. AirBnB couldn't wait for the opportunity to roll over, show their soft belly, and urinate all over themselves, instead of actually recognizing the false dichotomy.
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I agree. By adding "Dropbox alternative" everybody immediately knows what the company Seafile is doing...
Enthusiastically agreed. Doom has owned my free time since I bought it.

The art, the gameplay, and the music, sweet jesus the music...
Things run faster when not realistic and are cheaper to produce (Normally)

I personally prefer the art style approach over trying to make it realistic/technical approach by making realistic representation as if it was real life. TF 2 > Crisis

This is a BIG why the Indie Game movemnet
> or a company with history of malware/spyware allegations

I'm not familiar with Huawaei, what's the story behind this?
Samsung is allegedly doing the same thing with Tizen: http://9to5google.com/2016/06/13/report-claims-that-samsung-...

I don't think this is likely to happen, it would destroy both Samsung's and Huawei's markets in the West. Perhaps Korean and Chinese consumers might switch to the new platforms but I can't see those of us in the Americas and Europe giving up our Google services.
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Sure, an apology - because the negative PR is starting to hurt Paypal.

But how many other tens or hundreds of other companies experience the same kind of censorship from Paypal, but never get to cause the same level of outrage for Paypal to "apologize"?
The earliest concepts for the game were quite different than Doom. You were supposed to be playing a Thor-like character named Quake, who wielded a giant hammer.
Is there a Pythonic declarative programming language?
While there isn't much public information about the Type 53-58 (the Soviet torpedo in question), it was probably a straight-runner with a range of 11nm - 13nm. It was also intended for area effect, not direct impact. Considering these parameters, it was probably fused to trigger the warhead at the end of its run, i.e. when the engine ran out of fuel. It may have had a timer or "run to detonation" feature instead, but as I said public information is scant.
The astronaut looks 20 years older in the video than on Mir.

What would Sherlock Holmes deduce?
What can they do about it, though? AirBnB doesn't own the property being rented. If it did, an anti-discrimination policy would be easier to enforce. AirBnB is essentially a jazzed-up listing service, not an actual hotelier, that is gouging out a buck while revealing the worst of our society.
Legislation relating to mental illness already creates a subclass with no rights. Apparently Americans are fine with that so long as it doesn't specifically target their right to buy guns (so stripping them of all freedom is a-OK).
It is true for lots of characters (so I guess I was being a little hyperbolic when I said "all"), and you cannot rely on choosing the correct code points in order to have a text display Japanese or Chinese. You need to tell your rendering program (often through choice of font) if things are to be rendered with Japanese or Chinese forms.

I wouldn't know how to show you examples here, as 直 will 直 display the same since they have the same code point, but different number of strokes in japabese and chinese.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
> Can a submarine that is deep underwater launch torpedoes? I didn't think so.

Where did you get this idea from? Submarines can launch torpedoes at whatever depth the torpedo itself can operate at.
But posts about Airbnb being banned or being able to have bans rescinded are fair game? Coverage of tech companies shouldn't be restricted to only a certain narrative.
The request wasn't unlawful - it might not be legally required, but it's fine for any business to impose almost any requirement on any other business before doing business with them.
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Doesn't the large portion of people using unstable libraries / things depending on unstable internals mean that the versioning isn't covering a large enough API? I feel like blaming the user isn't really going to help make the ecosystem more stable.

(Context: I went through the tutorial at one point and got really fed up that it wasn't possible to do it without involving crates because there wasn't any random number generation in the standard library.)

I of course understand that you folks are still working hard on it and it'll come in time; it's just that all other recent languages (Go, Ruby, Python, heck even the . Net and JVM ones) come with a large and usable standard library.
The debris collision happened about 20km up, and the orbiter began to break up at an altitude of around 70km (on the way back down, of course), so teeechnically speaking neither event happened in space.

Man, my inner nitpicker really came out on that one.
Totally. Speaking as someone who lived in the bay area for 4 years and happily left after college, why live in CA when you can work remotely from anywhere else, live well, own a sizable property, and make decent bank? The bay area is great to visit, I was literally just there a couple months ago. But to live I would need to make 4x what I do now.
I felt the same way when grenades were removed from TF2. In TFC they were hard to learn, but very rewarding to players who did. Conc-jumping was severely OP and fun. I guess they remove advanced gameplay mechanics to make the games more appealing to noobs and lower-skilled players.

I think one of the reasons for CS' enduring popularity is even noobs can get lucky or trick a better player and kill them. In Q3? Nope.
Another thing is how pretty the game is. It's hard to get that out of a video, but when you're actually playing the game you realize just how beautiful it is. Part of the reason is they use a lot of colors. It's not just another dark color palette shooter.

Plus the frame rate is amazing.
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That is a terrible justification and sets a bad precedence
My puzzlement came from the fact that :

f(in -> out)(in') -> out
==
f((in -> out), in') -> out

and

f(in -> out) -> (in' -> out)

are similar. But thinking some more about it, I don't see a good reason for which this would be a problem. This simply means that any function defined to take [] elements is also able to take [:x] and return a function taking [x:]...

I hadn't thought about this particular thing until now, but this kind of halfway-through computation is interesting.
Name issues. E.g. Google: Coconut-Lang cookbook ...
Well, that's weird. Why would Google Translate make it a non-capital letter in the translation when it used a capital one in the original document? I don't think that should be happening in any scenario? Is this Google's "unsupervised" AI running amok?
I love the bit about Uber not knowing how to calculate driver costs. One of the most data driven companies in the world can't figure out how to create a lookup table of gas prices, mileage, and car deprecation?
A mushroom cloud is an artifact of air convection produced by any sufficiently large blast. Peculiar to nuclear weapons is a bright initial flash of light (actually two flashes, but they're close enough together to be very hard to distinguish by eye). If this video depicted a nuclear initiation, such a flash would appear around 0:15, but none does.
'Cloud backup' or 'cloud file storage' (whichever is appropriate) would work without namedropping a competitor.
>Did you read the article?...

Proof: out of 6,000+ availability request made (without checking actual availability which is known, but sending a request anyway) 50% of "white sounding names" were accepted, while only 42% of "black sounding names" where accepted.

That's like 8%!!! That means people are racist!

Or it means that the randomness of actually available houses was skewed where "black sounding names" were assigned more unavailable houses.

I wonder how many times they tried this experiment to get the result they were looking for.
Because it's a tax writeoff and the more time workers are at the office, the more work is getting done. Or so the managerial thought process goes.
What's "pythonic" exactly?
"This creates a feeling that’s quite rare in modern FPS: that you are powerful because you are agile, not because you’re a tank."

Thanks. I lost interest in FPS and after reading that chapter now I know why.
Yes! Perhaps we should have some kind of district-invariant ("standardized") test to verify that students are learning vital technical knowledge before the school recognizes them as having achieved sufficient mastery for a diploma -- and the school as having accomplished one of its critical functions.

(Actually, that's exactly what we do, and when it fails, people complain about "teaching to the test" and suggest dropping the tests instead of the systematic failure to achieve core objectives of the educational infrastructure.)
100G fiber? I had no idea France was running 4x EDR Infiniband to their citizens' homes.
> If they track it for very long, then that is provocative.

Both sides spent the entire Cold War shadowing each other constantly. There was nothing provocative about it.
No interest to move to the Bay area. You could work literally anywhere else and live like a millionaire on their salaries but by the time you've paid for a house and car there you might as well live in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER.
>Youtube is a monopoly in a way Google is a monopoly.

So not at all unless you change what having a monopoly is.
Happens, I see the need to clarify a bit around #rust-community there :). No harm done.
"Capable of" means "can", and sounds a bit patronizing in this context. "Capable at" means "is good at", and sounds okay.
I guess it's cheaper than having two doctors full time.
Population density doesn't indicate anything about migration or wealth distribution.
It violated EU privacy law if my understanding is correct.
whoa. foxx looks awesome!
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Or a change to a more clear policy for that matter.
I googled it for you:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25011078/what-does-python...
Those discrimination laws don't apply to hosts' private homes or bedrooms.[1] Paraphrase of law: "All persons shall be entitled ..., and accommodations of any place of public accommodation,..., without discrimination ... other than ... a building which contains not more than five rooms for rent ... which is actually occupied by the proprietor ... as his residence"

If a homeowner has a spare bedroom across the hall from her 13-year-old son's room, and doesn't want to rent to transgender, black, or 65-year-old guests, it is legal for her to discriminate on those attributes.

On the other hand, if the AirBnb host is renting out a non-owner-occupied beach house, the discrimination laws would apply.

[1]https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000a:
Es heißt "unhöflich", und da fehlt ein "dass" (...gehe davon aus, dass wir alle...).

Stilistisch etwas besser wäre: "Es tut mir leid, wenn das unhöflich wirkt, aber ich gehe davon aus, dass wir alle unseren Schreibstil verbessern wollen." (I'd say the first comma should be left out, but I have the tendency to leave out vital commas as well, so...)

;)
Yep. It shows that Huawei, at least those UI developers, fundamentally do not understand how OSes work. EMUI, when you invoke the switch window function, has a single button to kill all running processes (or activities or whatever Android calls them). Hitting it by accident is easy. And once you do so, the UI proclaims with glee how much memory it freed up. Even when, on my phone, I've never seen free mem under 800MB.

Are there any non-US companies that do well in creating UIs?
Is this an Asian thing? Like Juche?
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I move around and travel a lot for work - I've lived in 4 states in the last 2 years (CO, WA, CA, TX) - and one of the universal things across all the midwest and west coast that I've found is that while most people like the weather/scenery in California EVERYONE hates people from California, except for the people in California.

I've heard the saying "California would be great if it wasn't for the people" in literally every state I've spent significant time in when they find out that I lived in the Bay.
"We're sorry you made us apologize over this."
Like something out of a Shakespeare comedy, I thought.
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Your second line, "Blackernews anyone...", is unnecessary.
You should learn the difference between what is impossible and what just has not happened yet. Much science-fiction that was in the realm of possibility is now science-reality. One should not need reminded they are communicating at the speed of light over a global communications network capable of reaching billions of people at a time. I'm sure at one point in the past that was science-fiction, now reality. I don't believe you can show me any science that points out why AI/AGI/ASI can be created, we simply are not at that level of sophistication.
Over $10 and people drop off rapidly, I expect.

Does Pando do print editions like NSFWCORP? Would make the most sense for corporate accounts...
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It really was a distinct shift, wasn't it? And you could feel it then too, it's not like you have to look back 20 years later and go "yeah you know what, that probably was a pivotal moment" – it was palpable right then and there. Quake, as it turns out, was a really great name in more was than one.

Me and some friends who played a lot together back in the day, some of us belonging to the same clans, are doing a re-union LAN later this summer as a kind of celebration. Can't wait! :o)