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Is that the point though: how does that make you reflect on your own existence outside the game?

I've been playing Civ5 recently: first run I played warrior-like, then realised I could have played differently, then realise that the diplomacy mechanic was really lacking that it made the game too one-dimensional, then realised that diplomacy is harder to model because it's harder to do.
Nothing special yet; those are still implemented in a blocking way, and so should be put into a threadpool.
This is not just a US thing. See http://www.infoplease.com/world/statistics/obesity.html and http://www.who.int/gho/ncd/risk_factors/overweight/en/
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By no means am I an expert in this stuff, but don't you need the axiom of choice (or maybe something just a little bit weaker) to construct the reals?

I don't think it's fair to say the reals 'most certainly exist' without being misleading to a layman. They exist given some axioms that are used overwhelmingly often in mathematics, but you can still do some interesting stuff without those axioms, or with their negation.
Ideally, it would be financed using a mix of fiat currency and taxes. Then it could take the place of debt growth for building the monetary base. If inflation becomes too rapid, the mix would be tilted more towards taxes. If deflation hits, the mix would be heavily tilted towards fiat.
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/select.2.html
Man these guys are not playing the same game I am. I come to a new planet, I wander around looking at how pretty it is, I scan animals and give them names that amuse me. Visit artifacts and outposts, learn some words. Move on.

I feed the animals. I don't shoot them. If one comes after me I run. Shoot a bird from the sky to identify it? Hell no. How about accepting that you'll never name that, or trying to find a way to get close enough to peacefully lock the scanner onto it?

I run from space pirates. I'm not here for combat. I paid $50 for a giant, endless painting of a cool alien world that I can wander through for as long as I LIFE SUPPORT GETTING LOW crap I guess I should pick some zinc fruits.

No Man's Sky is at its best when it embraces being bored. There's nothing to do for vast stretches. Detach from the need to be Interacting with something, to be Engaged by a Game Mechanic, and enjoy the world's most expansive walking simulator ever built, with a side dish of Alien Petting Simulator.

And then go outside and sit under a tree for a half hour, lying on your back and watching the sun move over the insane complexity of just that one tree. And think about nothing.
I hope that mainstream/casual gamers are pointed to Dwarf Fortress which is a good counterpoint to his fourth and final tweet.
I started using this recently. Initial page loads are kinda slow, searches are fast and so is clicking links after the initial page load (seems to be a SPA). Did you encounter this at all? If so, know any fixes?
What do you mean by "got out of sync"? That's a fairly strange issue with physical streaming replication.
The difference between NMS and a game like Minecraft is, that although the latter also has the same resource-consuming and animal-killing type of exploration and exploitation, it also allows for sustainable practices like planting trees and breeding animals, and doing other things that increase utility and lowers in-game entropy. Even Spore has this. There's nothing wrong with expressing a wish for a game to go beyond some perceived harsh reality of invasive consumption with just minimizing harm. Reality and the human condition is more than just that.
and for people who arent physically capable of doing these jobs? if we're dismantling welfare system then how are these people surviving?

what about people who get illnesses that take them away from work for extended periods? people needed multiple surgeries, months of physical therapy, assistance of medical devices, etc.

is healthcare included in this government job? if so, what isnt covered? if not, how are people expected to stay healthy enough to continue working?

mental health care?

how are these people expected to save for retirement?

are people over the age of, say, 75 expected to work as construction workers if they didnt save enough for retirement?

How and when would these workers have the time and money to become trained for better paying careers? does this job come with some tuition programs also?

you mention trash pickers, why wouldnt that be automated, or is this a scheme by which we outlaw the automation of sectors of the economy in order to protect these government jobs?

would these workers/companies compete on the open marketplace with others, or would this be a government monopoly?

if its not a monopoly, say im hired as a child carer. what do i do when one day theres no child to take care of because people dont want the shitty government child caretakers, they want to private ones? do i get fired? do i get paid to sit in the government office and wait? can i go home? is this an economically efficient use of a persons time?

if im to sit and wait in an office until the end of the day, how is that different than a UBI other than i have to sit in an office all day?
I'd say it's quite high. However, I'd echo that if one is coming at building a boilerplate while simultaneously wanting to learn and understand all of the concepts in the stack, I could see the boilerplate taking more than an hour or two.

(For example, I've seen some that implement some custom Redux middleware simply so that there's a conceptual reference right in the boilerplate as to how one would be done).

Are you thinking of getting into it? I heavily advise checking React out. I think it's fantastic!
> . . . fast food is cheaper than anything else.

This actually isn't remotely true. It's far cheaper to buy more nutritious foods from the grocery store (especially in bulk) and then cook your own meals: http://www.leannebrown.ca/good-and-cheap.pdf

You can't have organic beef every night, but you can nutritionally and calorically out-gun fast food for the same (or a smaller) amount of money.
Or compiled and side-loaded it yourself.
The problem with an optimization like this is that the current approach always gives you a guarantee on runtime cost. Heuristic based optimizations make performance harder to ensure, not to mention recovering performance when you fall outside the valid subset much more difficult. You can obviously provide another static analysis to warn you about violations, but this seems is more complex, and less flexible then the current approach.
Addiction comes in many forms, as does willpower. Not understanding it means you are probably fortunate to not be susceptible or predisposed to addictions.

There have been studies in animal populations where certain members of the population are observed to keep returning to opium fields while others will come just once and then never return.

Many of us can think back to our own childhoods and recall that, depending on your geography, the choices of what you could buy at the store were fairly limited in terms of fruits, vegetables, and produce. Getting fat wasn't something people used to worry about.
There are so many bad lifestyle choices our society accepts as normal so people get overwhelmed by all the changes they should make

- Long work hours, mostly sitting

- Long commutes

- Portion sizes way too large (in restaurants I am often full after appetizers)

- Eating at the desk, eating late at night, skipping meals

- TV watching

- Nothing reachable by walking

- Not enough sleep

- Not enough vacation

- Most foods in stores that are labeled "healthy" are not healthy

You need a certain level of stubbornness to realize that the generally accepted lifestyle is so far away from reasonable that almost everything that's considered "normal" needs to be changed.
Oh, come on. I was expecting to see something related to the procedural generation, how it made for artificial and boring worlds or somesuch (which I disagree, btw).

Instead, I read some diatribe about consumption. There are 18 quintillion planets! Surely one can find a way to grab whatever resources are needed and not bother the locals much.

This new political correctness trend is bothersome. It is just a game.

Now, just out of spite, I want to make a game where you are a sentient AI and can use organics (sentient or otherwise) in whichever way appeals to you. Friends, food, fuel, building materials. Looking forward for the reviews.
Relatedly, I'm hyper impressed by Lyft's partnership-based approach to working with governments. As a transportation person, the work Emily Castor and her crew have done is pretty remarkable. Lyft has been super scrappy in seeking these kinds of mutually beneficial agreements.
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It's hard to be smart/make conscious decisions when you're stressed out, and you're probably going to be even more stressed out if you're poor and/or uneducated.
Sounds like RedHat is after https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
Who looks at lat-lng anyhow? Prefixes have proper fields for addresses, or even comments. There are no objects for individual IP addresses anyhow. MaxMind is good for a quick country of origin assignment, and that's it. Their city level DB is just smoke and mirrors.
Strip mining planets once you're in space is pretty wasteful given gravity well overhead. Just harvest Asteroids, Moons, and comets, and planets are mostly for tourism.
...set it to a police headquarters.

This sounds like the setup for a cop-v-cop shoot-em-up movie.
Interesting, thanks for the link. Further research led me to this wiki article [0] containing a partial hypothesis:

> Reasons for this issue include mining operations that have left not much arable land; as a result, much of the local diet is of processed, calorie-dense, imported food such as Spam or corned beef, rather than fresh fish, fruit and vegetables

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_Pacific
The camera's mechanics aren't as restrictive of what or how you can take pictures as NMS is of what you can do with its simulated universe.
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Not surprising at all. It is a standard pattern when programming for performance (which is what 99.9% of programmers are going for 99.9% of the time). Once you are sure the answer's wrong, don't bother testing any more of it. And for performance, this is correct, because you don't execute useless unneeded instructions.

The problem, of course, is that in the security realm, coding to break the loop as soon as the answer is known wrong is what provides these types of side channel attacks. But since 99.9% of programmers also do not write code for these environments when tasked to do so they just do what they are used to doing everywhere else (break early, when you know you are done with the checks) without realizing they are leaving an unlocked backdoor as a result.
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Ask HN: Is it a good time to buy a new Macbook Pro?
Current laptop is getting old and Im in a market for a replacement.
My top pick so far is a new MBP but Im having my doubts.
I'll list my reasons and concerns and maybe HN can help me decide

-Must be a laptop since I don't have place for a desktop setup

-Looking to buy the least expensive option

-I want to do iOS development

-Want to be able to hook up a external monitor later, hence the MBP and not air

-Why new: 3 year old MBP is still over 1000$ and no guarantee

-Biggest concern: new MBP expected in December according to some rumors and I don't want to miss out on new upgrades for the same price and lose some value of the "old" MBP
I'd argue Minecraft even encourages sustainability. I remember creating farms, because it was easier/safer than exploring and stripping.
A result of "the USA" may not be an error, just the best data available, not all IPs are in the US.
Where is this documented officially ? There's very little mention of Websockets in the guides, and none at all in the ALB creation wizard, which I didn't find reassuring.
Does it really? If I remember correctly I got a point and some abstract indicator for the level of accuracy.
Most governments have a greater interest in economic development, rather than the GPL's idea of freedom.
I use it all the time. Life without it would be intolerable. I'm not sure why the others don't have something similar.
Studies of the form article mentioned helped solidify the link between smoking and cancer also.

People are looking for smaller effects than before, and the incentive to publish any and all significant results is just so great that you get tons of noise.
"Reality Check: You are a lifeform that feeds on the transition of matter from low entropy to high entropy states. We very literally consume worlds. We should try and do that in a way that doesn't undermine our own survival chances, and, as long as that doesn't interfer with the previous point in a way that minimises harm to other lifeforms that we consider useful or beautiful. No amount of virtue signalling and related posturing is going to change that fundamental reality."

Joseph Campbell said it most succinctly:

"(All) life lives on life".[1]

[1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/801710-life-lives-on-life-th...
What the... ? what are they smoking up there? Jokes aside, i think the author has done some great work there, and a pull request must be raised by anyone finding these travesties.
I think that will really help some people who are in denial about their eating habits. They complain that they can't lose weight even though they "count calories" and "hardly eat". Yet in reality they underestimate portions and don't count snacks, condiments, or beverages.
Maybe, but even then you have the Gabrielle Giffords, Malala Yousefzais, not to mention Phinneas Gages of the world.
I always tell people to start with Player of Games. Haven't missed yet.
There are two core issues with nutrition science.

The first issue is that it's extremely difficult to run a long term controlled study on nutrition. Adherence to diet interventions is difficult to measure and it drops off over time. As a result most nutrition studies are epidemiological cohort studies which are not particularly good at determining causality.

The second issue is a question of funding. Diet and exercise interventions are not something that are typically monetized be the pharmaceutical industry. As such there is little private sector funding going into nutrition studies. Couple that with the fact that they're extremely expensive and you have a serious deficit in studies.
I wouldn't right now. There are lots of rumors about a refresh coming soon, and their MBP sales are reportedly declining and inventory getting thinner which points to them bringing an updated line out.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/2016-macbook-pro-retina-r...
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I can buy 10 pounds of potatoes for $5. Ten pounds of french fries at a fast food place are going to cost me much more than that. Yeah, I know, I need to buy some cooking oil and some salt, too, but it's still clearly a financial win to cook it myself.
Having made a similar game over the last decade [1], i suspect that if NMS didn't have all the marketing and polish, no one would have known what to do in it.

The most asked question about Spaceway i got is what to do in this infinite universe with no goals and challenges. Most feature requests and feedback were along the lines of making this or that gameplay mechanics or story that would use up a few stars in one galaxy, and leave the remaining quadrillions of them unused.

I've thought for years about what to make of it, but there is simply no ideas for an infinite world better than what NMS did - explore and consume.

Might just be a genre failure.

[1] http://www.thespaceway.org/
I think that it was clear from the beginning that the basic architecture of the universe -- the generated planets and landscapes -- would completely prohibit the enjoyment that is found in Minecraft: that of making and changing.

You can't build huge monoliths to yourself for others to find, you can't make things together, you can't leave your mark on the universe in any way except for meaningless additions to a catalog of species.

You can't even meet each other, and has been made clear now despite hemming and hawing from the developer.

This should have been clear from the mechanics of the universe, but I think players are just now starting to realize how empty that might make the game.

I grant that there is probably still a lot of fun just gathering materials, and gawking and beautiful landscapes, but I don't see how that will maintain people's attention the way games that allow you to make and change the universe do.
Because we are constantly taught that grand gestures are a solution to all your problems.

Since lack of discipline is a character flaw, the confirmation bias is that since I can't follow through on my grand gestures that I'm a bad person and I should just give up. My fate is sealed, better luck next life.

The minority's view is that discipline is a lot like a muscle, and that you need to be able to identify ways to exercise it without injuring yourself. Start small, work up, be aware of your limits. And yes, you're going to feel ridiculous at first because what kind of a baby can't safely do X and Y?
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You mean to say his point is meaningless?
"A mix of fiat currency and taxes" is somewhere between poorly described and downright incoherent. Fiat currency is a thing you can use for money, taxes is a way of gathering money (whether its fiat currency or not) for the government.

Do you mean a mix of printing money and taxes -- e.g., just outright abandoning the idea of independent central banking and separation of monetary policy from fiscal policy and using a mix of directly printing money and regular taxation to fund the benefit?

If so, I think that's a poorly conceived idea that, in the best case, has no advantages from running monetary policy independently with similar priorities to those that drive it in principle now (managing inflation and unemployment), while paying UBI out of general government funds while funding the government through a mix of taxation and debt as now.
None of my kids watch traditional television at all, everything they are interested in is on YouTube, both for entertainment and education.
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I'm pretty sure you can attach an external monitor to an air or any other MacBook*.

The current MBP is a very nice machine.

The new MBP is rumored to have some questionable features: Thinner (what will do that do to the keyboard?); touch-sensitive OLED panel replacing real function keys.
For the public feeds? Possibly. That's not the entirety of the point though, just a note about a large corpus of public data that will likely be available in the near future.
I watched the first 30 min of No Man's Sky video. I think that the biggest problem is that the game seems boring as hell.
Even today something as basic as TCP can have interesting bugs.
I have a t420s also. In fact I bought a second as a spare. With 16gb ram and ssd it is a great machine.

The one thing I love about it that I can't find on any new laptops is that all the ports are on the back; power, Ethernet, displays USB etc. I can show up at a plant and plug in to the network and power and have a mousepad beside the laptop keyboard and binders and notebooks on the other side without getting tangled up in cords. For bigger stays at a site I bring a 27" monitor too but still no cords out the side. No new laptops have all ports on the back!!
My view is that freedom is the essential right, and that social justice can only follow, not precede it. Here is a clear example of a movement that values its perception of social justice over freedom of speech: https://www.google.com/search?q=university+of+toronto+mra+fi....

Now, is SJW politics of language? Arguably yes.
I bought one last month. It's fine. Not having to buy all new connectors was a selling point for me.
Considering that only 8 people survived, I'd imagine they would've thought they were the chosen ones and God smited the rest.
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There are multiple geo-ip databases. MaxMind's apparently does give an "accuracy radius" https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-demo but many others don't, and of course tools built on top of any particular geo-ip database might not present that information to users.
I know I can look those quotes up, but that endeavor will most likely end up ramifying into a lot more procrastination than I can afford right now. Could you post those quotes?
These people are asserting that 7 passes with random data is not necessary to irrecoverably wipe a drive.

At first glance, they seem to be making a credible point.

However, they say:

> You may not write any data to the drive or disassemble the drive.

I would think that those who are making 7 passes are assuming that an interested actor would be willing to disassemble the drive to recover the information.

Also, their incentives are rather weak:

> Should someone win, they get to keep the drive. They also will receive $40.00 USD and the title "King (or Queen) of Data Recovery".

I would like to find an authoritative source that users interested in irrecoverably wiping their data could use, but this seems to not be it.
Yeah, good point re: "grand gestures." I think we see this especially in tech or "millenial" circles, where people think that there's a life hack for everything. The many studies on dieting/weight loss/exercise only further perpetuate this myth, so that people spend more time looking for "the right way" to stay in shape than they do consistently practicing a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Sometimes, the simplest solution is the right one.
This adequately sums up my approach to the game, as well. It is absolutely stunning and beautiful and utterly serene. I feel calmed by my endless wandering, keeping my ship within a 10-minute walk away, and wondering what I'll find next.
I'm not so sure. "Social justice" often tramples free speech.
There are two completely separate fucked up things here:

a) Maxmind shouldn't be returning a location like this for "Anywhere in the USA". It should either be 0,0 for unknown or something totally obvious like the Washington Monument in WA DC.

b) The fact that clueless/ignorant law enforcement is blithely trusting and USING this spurious data. Someday a person is going to get SWATTed and shot dead over this sort of thing.
> But from an economic standpoint? It was a very
> effective way to accomplish a lot. As disgusting as it was.

As far as I can see, the only economic contribution was free labor. The presence of free labor makes the wealthy live very well while they are able to suppress resistance, but saying it somehow made us advance as a society - both in moral and physical terms - is the opposite of the truth, as far as I can see.

In ancient cultures they used slaves to build pyramids. I'm sure the ruling class told themselves that this was a symbol of how advanced they were - that they could build these huge things. I just see a colossal waste of time, with the only purpose being the ruling class having something to feel important about. Stacking rocks on top of each other is no more advantageous to a society than cheap cotton, at least not when the cheap cotton can't be purchased by those who need it the most: the people who produced it.
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Pretty simple, wait until the new one comes out and buy it. One will probably come out in September/October if not earlier:

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Retina_MacBook_Pro