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PlanetSide was by far the most unique shooter I've played. Easily my favorite game, to date.

The level of camaraderie, intensity, found in large outfit/platoon fights was unparalleled. PlanetSide 2 can't compare.

It's really a shame that the game had to go downhill like it did. SOE has a habit of killing incredible games.
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For outside, I use a 3M rubbery mask (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008MCUT86) along with P100 filters (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007STCT00).

You could also use any of 3M's N95 disposable filters. They look a bit better, but you have to be more careful about getting a good seal when you put them on.

For home, you need to ensure your windows and doors have good seals. Then you need an air purifier (and to regularly change its filters). If you are on a budget, consider this one: http://smartairfilters.com/in/en/product-category/diy/

If money is no object, then get the IQAir Healthpro 250.
Tangentially: does anyone know of any great server-side implementations of this? So that a regular server could be a WebRTC peer?
Perhaps artists will be advised in future to refuse to deny or confirm that they painted anything, to avoid such lawsuits.
It seems to me that this rule is beneficial to the companies, which I think is the right side for YC to err on.
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It's the only print magazine I subscribe to currently. Some people don't like it, but I think the art direction and design is great. Reminds me of Wired way back in the day (minus the dayglo color)
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Silicon Valley gets rave reviews, but a story plot based on a patented compression algorithm....
Seriously. Use Little Snitch, Hands Off, Privoxy, or something else that fits your infrastructure.
It still doesn't work that way though. The GP didn't describe immunotherapy, they described "take a substance, feel better in a few minutes" like an aspirin. That is just not how immunotherapy works.
Chaos monkey - http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...

Nope, not related.
It's relatively insignificant when compared against the rest of the mutual fund complex.
> but just had no clue as to their likelihood

Likelihood is probability based on factors, each of which has different weight and is again based on other factors. In hindsight, the likelihood seems obvious; when she was making the decision, not so much.
That's good to hear you've been having success with sand.

I'd love to hear how it's going after 12 months, because sand is certainly easier to work with than course gravel, which can be difficult to plant seedlings into, based on my own experience.
This whole thread was a walk down memory lane. It also consumed my life in late high school and college.

Thanks for tribalwar. It was my HN before HN, and my slashdot before slashdot. Lots of hours spent on that site. I was Zoidberg in the community.
I know who he is. What's your point?
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Looks impressive. What's the primary use case though? I couldn't tell from the about page.

Also, what tech are you using to display the documents/pdfs?
That is also true of Mike Church. Mike Church clearly has a mental illness as well. His level of paranoia is absolutely not normal. However, he's banned from HN for calling someone a "cunt" and various other things that are less bad than a typical Terry Davis post.
Sorry to disappoint, but we're remaining coy on exactly which tools we tested for now – the evaluation was to demonstrate the initial feasibility, rather than to pick on anyone. We'll be releasing the corpora from the paper soon so people can do their own comparisons. And the code for the bug injection itself should be released a bit after that, so that it can be extended and built upon.

So far some of the things you'd expect hold true: fuzzing doesn't tend to reach bugs deep in the program, symbolic execution has trouble with path explosion and one-way functions, etc. You can see those results in the tables in section VI.D of the paper.
I was thinking of the scene in Mary Poppins regarding the tuppence: https://youtu.be/lfP8__wl-_4
I read her book and believe it is life changing. Clutter stresses me and I never realized it. The only advice is your partner needs to read the book at the same time otherwise there will be fights when one starts to throw out stuff. After my girlfriend finished reading the book, we threw out 30+ bags from a 1,200 sq ft condo. We weren't even pack rats. Now I can walk into my walk in closet. Feels good.

Here is a link to the book.
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too bad the article says Trap is "currently embodied by" Fetty Wap and Desiigner... that's some bullshit only a New Yorker could write.
As a devoted member of TribalWar (thanks so much!) / avid T1 player, its awesome to see you on HN!

My handle was Duhck :)

Tribes was... magical. Tight knit player community, active modding community, amazing map design and tournament play.

Team Rabbit, Arena, and 10v10 CTF consumed the majority of my time from '98-'06
I've edited my comment to make it clear that by "The Big Short" I had understood that we were discussing the movie of that name.

It's probably safe to say that the editors/director of the movie knew what they were doing when they omitted any explanation of the possible side-pocket situation. The overall impression given is in keeping with the passages you've quoted.
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I'm fairly confident of one but, of course, timing is difficult and carry costs of short positions are high (they nearly killed Scion) so I prefer to simply wait out the market.
Fractional reserve banking is a banking system in which only a fraction of bank deposits are backed by actual cash on hand and are available for withdrawal. This is done to expand the economy by freeing up capital that can be loaned out to other parties.

Meaning, rather than let the cash sit in a vault, the bank is allowed to loan that money out to other people. If everyone wanted their money back, the bank would not be able to fulfill the request until they have recalled all those loans or perhaps sold the loans to other banks.
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I'd rather comply then risk getting shot to death.
I'm not so sure - AppleScript being able to click a SecurityAgent dialog box seems like a bug.
Working Files panel is fine, but Tabs is really natural. One of the features that I'm used to in other text editors /IDEs.
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What would you like to see? I want this too. I decided not to spend time writing it, because of Virtual Desktop. Maybe I'll reconsider.
No, the movie also includes it (though the specific words "side pocket" are not mentioned, it is clear that it was a legal option available to the fund manager). It's directly in the text of the e-mail that Burry types out to his investors. From the screenplay text[1]:

> Mike types an email. He is alone in the office with empty desks outside.

> "As you may know, our agreement allows me to take extraordinary measures when markets aren't functioning properly. I currently have reason to believe the mortgage bond market is fraudulent. So in order to protect investors from this fraudulent market I've decided to restrict investors’ withdrawals until further notice.
Sincerely. Dr. Michael Burry."

> Mike breathes deep, and hits SEND.

[1]: http://www.paramountguilds.com/pdf/the-big-short.pdf
I'll let you know. But I hope to find/develop a better medium before then (http://blog.automicrofarm.com/post/142436464771/mushroom-med...).
I am a perfectionist, and so far this has been holding me back massively. To the point where it's getting frustrating. I am trying to enter the Open Source world and that's only making it worse. Showing off things you aren't entirely proud of.

I never considered quantity a worthwhile alternative goal, but maybe I should reconsider that. Thank you.
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It's really exciting that YC Fellowship is funding stuff like this (that is, stuff that is truly very early-stage and experimental).
Here are my impressions from having worked as a programer on an HFT system during 2009-2011.

When an HFT system makes money, some other person or system is loosing money i.e. it is a zero-sum game. And that person isn't going to sit idle; they are going to analyze their mistake and up their game. The industry parlance for this is, I think, that the "strategy dissipates into the market". This causes HFT systems to be always in active development.

Spotting a strategy and putting together a system to take advantage of it, and spotting where your system is losing money and fixing it - both these need to be done with quick turn around time.

Most strategies can be thought of as picking up nickels from in front of a on-coming train. Your best case "win" is a tiny amount of money; but your worst case "loss" is much much more money. The trick in HFT - the HF part - is to make these tiny wins over and over. But much actual money is involved, with very bad consequences should the program run into inopportune bugs.

All of these - constant development, time to market pressure, high reliability - give the impression that Java is a better language to code this HFT systems in than C or Fortran.
Different point. That's a discussion on whether material about TempleOS is appropriate for HN, not whether Terry Davis's personal account should be banned.
I still don't understand what makes banks special from any other institution that practices leveraging and fractional storage of their clients' assets? Like Comex or LBMA vaults.
> I don't think it's only British funds with this kind of language. It seems like standard boilerplate a lawyer would insert into the documents as a catch-all for anything unexpected (and misuse of it would be addressed with litigation)

Yes, this kind of clause can be found elsewhere. The ones I'm most familiar with are Brazilian funds, and randomly picking one from a major bank, the rest of the rule for it is: if the fund stays closed for more than 5 days, the manager has 15 days to do a vote among the holders, which can then replace the manager, reopen the fund, keep it closed, pay in assets instead of cash, split the fund, or even liquidate it. So any misuse of this clause would probably lead at least to the manager losing control over the fund.
So you think people dedicated to creating bugs in your app are going to do a worse job at creating all possible bug variations than people just looking at developing?
Except that Uber controls the relationship with the consumer.

For Facebook, using open source to increase internet density is really just a PR stunt, as they won't own anything with the customer.

That said, their WhatsApp investment is more relevant in the third world.
> If the average response is < 1 sec than a 60 second standard deviation means that many responses are being made before the query is sent.

Imagine if 99.99% of queries take 1 millisecond, and the remaining 0.01% of queries take 6000 seconds. Then the mean is 0.6010 seconds and the standard deviation is 59.997 seconds.

(Muphry's law strikes again...)
In general, loans are not able to be "recalled".
So what if I write a comment on someone's post, is that deleted?
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Thanks Jake! What helps is that our support team is also responding to all social channels https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/support/ (and that I'm spending too much time on HN since GitLab Inc. was born there https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4428278 )
https://github.com/google/boringssl/commit/e25775bcacb120f7f... seems to be the code, as agl described.
But the EPA can only exist in the context of a country that's relatively wealthy. In countries where hunger is a problem, you can't ask people to accept a lower standard of living in exchange for a better environment, because a lower standard of living means starvation.
Abstract:

"This article describes a household refrigerator that requires about 0.1 kWh per day to operate. The refrigerator offers excellent food-preserving performance, because temperature fluctuations in its interior are naturally minimized during everyday use. This fridge is 10 to 20 times more energy efficient than typical household fridges on the market today. It seems that the biggest obstacles in increasing the energy efficiency and food- preserving performance of household refrigerators are strange human habits and lack of understanding of Nature, not technology or cost."
Thanks! It was a very serious vulnerability, we regret shipping it, so we wanted to make sure we shipped the fix in the right way.
Or crashing, for that matter. If your C HFT program crashes, someone is on the hook for tens of thousands, minimum. (Not saying Java doesn't crash, but it's a bit more rare and gives you more opportunity to not lose $$$.)
Well done Sid and the rest of the GitLab team! This is how security fix announcements are done. Always impressed by your teams work.
That's a really interesting point, thanks :)

I'm tempted to try and argue for the sake of it but I'm not even conversational besides 'baby' and 'food' topics and nowhere close to literate. So thanks again for the comment.
Thanks! This process and the blogpost was coordinated by our VP of Engineering Stan Hu. Did you know he was 4 times MVP for a GitLab release https://about.gitlab.com/mvp/ before he joined us?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12051173
Right? I could see being sued for claiming you painted something that you didn't. I think that is pretty standard faire. But the reverse? That sounds crazy to me.

At any rate, my freedom of speech definitely covers both cases.
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I find google charts a nice balance between ease of use and good looking charts.
Yes they are. That is exactly what the Colony Collapse Disorder crisis is all about. The hives managed by beekeepers for the purpose of pollenating crops are mysteriously dying off, and they are having a hard time finding replacement swarms to manage.
Thanks for the three initial comments. There were all compliments and no questions. This reminded me of our policy to always try to give meaningful responses, so I made this thread an example https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/e5f912e7...
That it always has been some way does not mean that it cannot be otherwise.
Bad things can happen without kids. Life is full of risks and unknowns you just have to focus on the upside. Having kids is no different - except the upside can be phenomenal.
The Engineering mindset is to make the best possible thing while minimizing cost, time, and complexity. I find that somewhat freeing as perfection off the table.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j4Q_YBRJEI

It works for a huge number of things two. Hmm I wonder if I can do this in 15 minutes, or I wonder how compact I can get this, or whatever as long as it's not abstract like make it pretty.
Is there a signaling issue introduced at all?

1) can investors see that a startup is not at the venue or at a table all morning and get a feel for demand?

2) can investors gather any information from the matching results to get a feel for demand?

3) is there a chance for investors to send false signals by showing their interest in other startups artificially? Vice versa for startups at all (would require collusion so unlikely)

2 and 3 not so much but regarding number one, will physical observation of the meeting space introduce any signaling oppurtinities be it genuine or fraudulent by either party?
This article was written many years before 2015. I would guess 2007.

But I enjoy it every time.
Ever tried bitlbee? Not sure how well it's keeping up with the new protocols but years ago it was a way to consolidate at least a few of the older ones into a single application. Also not sure why this idea has not been replicated. Maybe it has.
Changing an array argument inside a C# function
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Could this be the future of Data storage?
I am curious if someone could shed some light on page 15 - "Illusion: Consistent Memory Models", specifically:

X86 is very conservative, so is Sparc
Power, MIPS less so
IA64 & Azul very aggressive

I dont't thing I've heard the term "conservative memory model" before, in what sense are x86 and SPARC conservative?

Also why is Azul mentioned as an ISA?
But men are much riskier drivers. That's has nothing to do with sexism or discrimination against men, it's just an empirical fact. Why should women have to subsidize the cost of men?
Struts was never decent.
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> Complete hyperbole. Nothing stops you from using a safe string library in C.

Nothing technically stops you, it's just really hard. When even djb has suffered a string-processing-related bug¹ you can't reasonably expect to get string processing right all the time. Everyone thinks they can safely handle strings in C. It's like programmer chunibyo² or something.

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¹ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.djbdns/13864

² “8th-grader syndrome”; the sort of overly high opinions middle schoolers have of themselves
Maybe I am wrong, but I have yet to see a modern browser take anywhere near as little memory of CPU as a modern terminal emulator.

There is also the matter that no matter how much optimization you put into something you can't recoup the cost of the fundamental design choices you went with. Choosing something with less power can solve a lot of headaches.
https://github.com/lidgren/lidgren-network-gen3

This is a very mature library. Supports Unity despite not having an asset store package.

It's got the same sort of channels/reliability model that enet and RakNet have, just implemented in C#.
I'm not sure. We had a good conversation of the good and bad of working with groups like the DOD. He's happy to be with Google and recognizes the benefit of working with the DOD, but not exactly pro military.
It's worth noting that two of the example programs in K&R are a simple parser and "unparser" for (a subset of, but still quite complete) the declaration syntax, and it is only a few dozen lines.

IMHO the biggest difficulty that beginners face with the syntax is entirely because they attempt to parse it left-to-right and aren't following the precedence; once you realise that the operators (), [], and * in declarations have the exact same precedence they do in the rest of the language, and that expressions like 2 * (3 % foo(i + 4 / x[j])) - 1 are not read left-to-right either, it all comes together and makes perfect sense.

Starting at the identifier (or where it would go, if it was an abstract declarator) and reading outwards following the precedence rules (and recursively applying this to function calls) is the only correct way to parse these declarations, and it is basically what the example program in K&R illustrate.

Thus the "clockwise spiral rule" mentioned in the post is applicable only to certain cases and incorrect in general, as Linus Torvalds explains: https://plus.google.com/+gregkroahhartman/posts/1ZhdNwbjcYF

Edit: upon pondering the example

int f((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((()))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))));

I do not think it is legal in C89/90/99/11, since a parameter-declaration must begin with declaration-specifiers, and the declaration-specifiers cannot begin with an opening parenthesis. (Go to http://www.quut.com/c/ANSI-C-grammar-y.html and start following the rules via declaration->init_declarator_list->init_declarator->declarator->direct_declarator->parameter_type_list->parameter_list->parameter_declaration.)

On the other hand, I believe this:

int f(int(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((()))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))));

is legal and the type of the parameter is (pointer to) function returning int, with plenty of redundant parentheses around the abstract declarator.
Jane Street isn't an HFT firm, though I do agree that OCaml would be a much better language than Java (though the lack of manual GC tuning could be a dealbreaker).
Doig should paint a copy of Doige's work. Would go for millions from the publicity.
>Oh, and you wonder why I say, “he”? I never have this problem with female programmers.

Programmers need to stop virtual signaling with gender in absolutely everything or I will kill them all.
I think it could be argued that the behavior you ascribe to humans exists for the same reason that some dogs chase after cars. That is, it is an ingrained behavior that tends to enhance our survival and is sometimes expressed or triggered in contexts where it doesn't really make sense.

In truth, I believe that life has a spiritual dimension, that my life has purpose, blah blah blah, but I find it useful on occasion to temporarily 'forget' that I believe such things.
It's a bit like obesity.

For most of human existence the ability to find sweet and fatty things and eat them as much as possible and put on as much weight as possible kept you alive. Now it hurts you.

Similarly with stuff for most of human history stuff was expensive, you kept every good thing you could possibly get. Then in the past 60+ years stuff has dropped in price amazingly and keeping everything is no longer a good tactic.

Space has become more expensive that stuff in places where you can get good jobs.

A huge proportion of people reading this could go out and buy a caravan or a new car in cash. Few of us can afford a good place with much space in SV or NYC or Sydney or London.
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Sorry, I simply can't trust anything that comes out of the DPRK. Everything over there is a propaganda photo op.

>>> But we were able to show local people shorebirds through our telescopes.

North Korea regular issues propaganda about staying away from foreigners. The fact that these guys were 'mingling' with the locals tells me that the whole thing was staged.

For all we know these guys visited the one place in the country where there are birds, and they were then instructed to write how the 'great leader' is protecting the environment for animals elsewhere the country.

Notice how the kids in the photo seem well dressed and well feed....
interesting stuff. Could this be the future of Data storage? If yes, then where is Microsoft going with it's cloud first strategy?
Azul has their own hardware for facilitating pauseless garbage collection with their JVM.

I recall they have a pure software pauseless JVM now as well, but it's not nearly as high performing.
I find them fascinating as they advocate a lifestyle I really don't want to live. I've read 2/3 of one of this lady's two books. I found it full of blinding flashes of the obvious, a few interesting ideas and plenty of ridiculous tales (for instance something very lengthy about being thankful to a screwdriver?)

I find a cosiness in a study or office space that's lined with books and stuff - think Sherlock Holmes' study. That's not to say I want the same clutter everywhere in the house.

It's interesting people can live minimally as I would probably last a week in a nicely minimal space before it didn't look so any more!