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DF isn't a rogulike. It has a roguelike in it, though.

DF is (primarily) a fortress management game, akin to something like SimCity. But with vastly more depth.

The first time you play DF, the game will generate a world. It will attempt realistic simulations of a variety of properties to try to create realistic landmasses, and randomly generate wars between random civilizations, create random historical figures, and generally wreak havoc on your CPU.

Then you embark with a party of Dwarfs (yes, dwarfs), and journey into the wilderness to start a new colony. Each of your dwarfs has specialties, a personality, opinions, and an incredibly complex body model, keeping track of everything from broken bones to strained tendons (I'm not exaggerating). But it goes further because everything else in the game is just as elaborately simulated, down to waterflow, the densities of various woods.

There is no win condition: Your fortress will collapse. The unofficial motto of the game is "losing is fun"

The game is still in alpha (0.42, meaning it's 42% feature complete), it's programmed by one guy, and the eventual goal is to simulate existance (or at least, the narratively interesting parts), and allow people to create their own stories. At least, better than it already is.
Cattle is easy to control. It does not pollinate across a fence. If it happens to escape, it is relatively easy to find it. Neither of these points apply to plants. So I think that part your comparison is entirely invalid.
Cool. I'll check it out.
In America they use laid off as a synonym for redundancy and I have seen people made redundant and comeback as a contractor on 3x pay
Seriously? You'd suggest one keeps 70% of their liquid asset in _cash_ at home?

Yes, if you're living during the Great Depression perhaps but your suggest is ludicrous. Maybe a few percentage points in crypto and cash, but most of it should be in your bank/investment accounts.
Cycles is definitely the way to go for most projects. Although I've found the blender internal engine can be significantly faster for simple renders. It's nice to have for those rare occasions when cycles is overkill but you still need actual reflections or sss (ruling out OpenGL).
Note that I said "with reasonable efficiency", not "with some huge number of inputs".

That's because we don't need to represent any function; we need to represent the class of functions that can be efficiently represented in a human brain as well, which is pretty much the same. Note that we can also implement any boolean component with only a few neurons in an NN, and using an RNN gives us working memory as well, so we can implement any sort of digital processor with reasonable efficiency in an RNN (where "reasonable efficiency" means "a linear multiple of the number of components in the original circuit").
I learned basic 16 bit x86 assembly by making simple COM executables and boot sectors with MASM. I don't know if its still possible run COM on modern Windows (this was in the 32 bit XP days), but getting started with boot sectors using BIOS interrupt service routines for IO should be an interesting project. You should be able to use the assembler output directly in a VM as a disk image this way, or dd it to something and watch it run on bare metal.
Indeed: I wonder how many of those friends would have loved to play Fallen London, or Papers Please.
Just as a head up, most of the people who write answers to "Should I accept a counteroffer?" are recruiters who next mortgage payment is contingent on you not accepting the counteroffer.
Dwarf Fortress doesn't have a "set in stone" story either but there is a ton of emergent behavior which makes stories so fun that there is a whole community of players who are not playing the game but just reading the stories (myself included).
Two sides of the same process: force markets to exist where they didn't or shouldn't.
The Brexit ballot paper illustrates the exact opposite of that: unlike the confusing Austin example, the Brexit ballot paper makes it absolutely clear to the voter what they're voting for.
There is a lot more than just codecs and formats in a media player. :D

Also, porting ffmpeg might be hard, while VLC has some simpler codecs to port for a start (libmpeg2 for example).
Goodbye style dilemma, hello StyleCheck
You speak highly of pragmatic decision making yet claim roughly 50% of the nation is suffering from anti-intellectualism?

Sounds like you yourself are dismissing reality just so you can feel comfortable supporting a particular candidate or political view. I find it very disconcerting that a small violent leftist sect of the democratic party has been able to gain such a voice by bullying and character assassinations.
The whole point of the Zumwalt and her sister ships is that they are stealthy and can do pinpoint strikes, especially in support of special forces. They're suppose to operate alone. Getting them closer to shore makes it that much easier to detect and fire on. If the rounds are as precise as they claim, then $800,000 / round is a bargain. For reference, a Tomahawk costs $1.4 million and has a much slower reaction time.
It happens enough to have a name though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis
I wonder how much of this could have been avoided if they defaulted to a different, user created folder.
Anecdotally, my state school had an "on-campus" policy for 2/4 years, which appears to be the norm in schools attempting the liberal arts model. The housing is truly part of what they're trying to sell you in the "college" experience.

I didn't intend to comment on your broader implications.
I think you'd use VLC's modular architecture to your advantage. Maybe you'd start with an Emscripten port, but then replace parts with a "native" JS implementation of tracker music support.

That's the first time I've heard of MediaSource being able to play from archives, though - do you have any more info?
OTOH, until NLP is a thing, social mechanics will always feel lacking. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try: there are plenty of interesting mechanics left unexplored.

Besides, sometimes you just want to shoot sombody with an absurd weapon.
It's not setting off your Segway detectors?
Sabotaging a billionaire's agenda isn't that easy, really.
> However, if you just bought a device, it seems a bit less likely the unlock page will disappear before you manage to unlock your device. And once unlocked, it'll stay unlocked?

What if I buy it from eBay 5 years later?
the quality of light from your average energy bulb is typically terrible. I like warm light and whilst I know I can't see infra-red frequencies I want to see a concentration of light towards that end of the spectrum. It just makes for a much more relaxed feeling.

I stockpiled too. and I have dimmers on pretty much every lamp (including the toilet), so the bulbs last for a very long time. when you don't burn them on full wattage they last much much longer.
Maybe it is? It's hard to say, because it depends on what kind of question you're asking.

Are you saying that the statement "games are made for guys" requires you to first believe that there are qualities of games that men inherently like more than women?

Or are you asking about an observational statement that games seem to be designed to target men as buyers by catering to traditionally male interests?

I think you could make a case that the implied belief in the first statement is itself sexist, but I don't think that's what the parent poster meant. We could probably have an interesting discussion on the subject, and I'd be curious if there is any rigorous research on the topic.

But I think the parent poster made the second observation, which can be true or false independent of any judgement of sexism.

Certain free-to-play MMORPG's with fantastically revealing female armors and very well endowed female characters are very clearly catering to a predominantly male audience. It doesn't take too much interpretation to call them sexist by the "I wouldn't want my daughter to grow up in a world that looked like that" standard. You can disagree with me on whether that actually constitutes "sexist," but I think we'd generally agree that those portrayals of women are problematic.

It's more subtle in most games, but I think there's still a point there about designing games for the existing hugely predominantly male gamer demographic.
To be fair you probably don't ""need"" the money. I know of plenty of women with two+ children working for <$13 an hour.
That's a pretty good idea. I've had a few people ask over the years how it's done, and I uploaded the original source code a few years ago. Although I could probably fix up the site faster than I could properly move it over to Github...
I think you could run ffmpeg through emscripten… slowly. Should be fine for SD and retro video though!

Would be really surprised to see threading working. Would be REALLY surprised to see SIMD working.
You probably have already seen this, but I just found this ffmpeg library compiled with emscripten and thought it was pretty cool

http://bgrins.github.io/videoconverter.js/demo
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I've been playing XCom2 a lot recently, and it occurred to me that I was caring waaay too much about my soldiers. Then it occurred to me that actually the part of the game I was enjoying most was looking after my soldiers.

I have a sniper that never hits anything, ever, and I've started having little pep talk with her before each mission, trying to get her to buck her game up and be a useful member of the team.

Shooting aliens in the head isn't the fun bit. Caring for my little gang of incompetents and nursing them through each mission is the fun bit.
A few years ago I co-started http://www.bitcoinpulse.com. I had to take it down last year after running out of time to deal with it, but I've recently brought back a simplified version.

While the traffic is insignificant at the moment, I'd like to believe that the brand is still strong and a small push could revive the traffic.

The twitter account https://twitter.com/bitcoinpulse has a small following - there are a few known people from the bitcoin community (but the vast majority seem like "bot" accounts).

It's written in clojure/script and hosted on heroku.

I'll take offers in bitcoin (obviously).
Any interested parties can email me at info@bitcoinpulse.com
Argon2 is slow in the browser, but isn't an inherently slow algorithm.

In other words, you have two algorithms that will each take 1 year on an attacker's machine. Option A takes 1 second on your machine, Option B takes 2 seconds. Option B isn't any better. In fact, it's worse, because it only compromises user experience and potentially leads people down the path of assuming it's more secure than it is.
Something cool: The Shamir here is the Shamir of RSA fame.
Ask HN: Most overhyped technology of 2016?
What do you folks think is the most over-hyped technology out there today. Is that self-driving cards, video chat apps, VR, bots? The barrier to entry into tech has dropped quite a bit lately, and a lot of "stuff" is being pumped out from every corner of the net. I am oversaturated and wondering how others are feeling.
I have the Chromebook Flip C100
What does HTTP have to do with canvas or anything else you listed? What does your misapprehension of what HTTP is meant to be have to do with the limited codec support in popular browsers? Do you just hate that the web stopped being static text 20 years ago?
I have to agree - a big incentive of changing jobs is how much you learn in those first 1-2 years with any new company. Another reason I have found for leaving recently is that the company makes a change that adversely affects your conditons. I am currently working for a company that when I started offered great pay for weekend work. Then new management came in with a mandate to cut costs and this was then removed which has significantly lowered my pay. The company is making record profits and is hugely profitable already so it wasnt done because of hard times. Either way, the way I see it is that its not my company and they can choose to do this - but then I can also choose to work somewhere else where I will earn more now that this source of extra $ has dried up.
Yes. It doesn't even come close. Every time I see Western corruption scandals I can't gelp but envy how much attention gets grabbed by such little things. Flint water and Clinton foundation scandals are perfect examples: for a whole nation to give a crap about such things is an unprecedented achievement of western democracy.
Zumwalt can fire the Tomahawk (ironically enough) which has a range of 2,500 km.
It is de-facto Java.

It uses java syntax, java libraries.

To say it is 'not Java' is borderline disingenuous.

Technically, there are differences which are real, and it's very fair to point them out.

But - Java syntax + java.lang/java.io/java.net/java.reflect/java.util + a vm, can use a JAVA IDE and java build chain, use 3rd party java libs ...

=> it's java.
what is patio11?
I've used Plex before, and while it is fancy and has a nice user experience for it's use cases, I've found it somewhat limited.

It is fundamentally locked into itself. You need to either have a device which can run the web client, or a Plex app for the platform. And that works fine if you're doing this just for yourself (I've run a Plex server in the past).

But sharing media is painful (or at least, more painful than simply sending a link to someone), and the overhead of compatibility was always annoying. Additionally, if you don't like the way the Plex app works on your device, tough, that's the only UI there is. However, there are a tremendous number of apps and applications with UIs galore that all support HTTP streaming.

Now, the last time I fully investigated Plex was about a year ago, but since then I've used friends instances and it always seemed lackluster, or at least not as straightforward as bare-bones HTTP streaming.
Gaming was an industry at the time, but the PC scene was much less industrialized, full of bedroom programmers and demoscene hackers who could compete with the big companies due to the limits of the platform.
The costs have escalated because the number of ships that would carry these guns and need this ammo has been reduced.

The R&D costs are fixed, and now those have to be amortized over fewer ships with fewer rounds.
Of the top five results Google gives me, all are by recruitment agencies who have a strong incentive not to loose candidates and their commission.

The notion that accepting counteroffers is always hurtful to your career is contested to say the least: See this [1] HN discussion from about a month ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12624112
It's QWERTY with Kana. You can see a couple images here:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAqh-TUpLh3/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGGFILmpLsn/
I don't have a particular summation of all humans. I just don't have any experience that leads me to believe sociable people are so because of fear.
> apparently the guy that replaced me wanted to prove his value by rewriting the whole architecture. So they spent a whole year doing that which I'm sure is much cleaner than the original under the hood, but to the end user, it is not apparent

Anecdote: We had a guy show up, he claimed that we had to do a rewrite. We spent 2 years catching up to the base product. Complete waste of time, had to fire him 1 year into the rewrite. Gained no value from it. He was simply too arrogant, vain, and/or unskilled to bother to read other people's code.
Misleading headline
Different people have different standards. All I ask for is a simple label on the food. I'm not asking to ban anything or add more rigor to the FDA process or for anyone to change their practices. A simple label. It is utterly bizarre to me that anyone finds this offensive.
As someone who has been a consultant for a software development environment, I've been inside a lot of companies, and I've been struck by how often they all seem to make the same mistakes. My former company had acquired 2 different implementations of the same language, and it was eerie how both former companies made the same mistakes -- down to even making the same corresponding in the same corresponding subsystems. I've also been observing video games since Pong was new, as well as other forms of media, such as music, books, and video/film. All forms of media seem to be following somewhat parallel paths. All media industry publishing seems to tend to make the same mistakes generally, and to tend to make the same mistakes in response to technological changes in distribution, like those brought about by internet downloads, streaming, and social media. (There are people who are thinking ahead and using forethought to navigate these changes as well.)

There also seem to be parallel missteps in the invention of new forms of media. It took generations for the industry to get a handle on all of new tools, techniques, and vocabulary of cinema. It took generational change for the field to give up old forms adapted from the theater. One generation's daring and pioneering work would also become the next generation's stultifying, overused tropes.

I find that many of the pretensions of art in games are well meaning but misapplied things learned in film school. Higher budgets seem to result in more production with less interactivity and less intelligence credited to the players. There are leanings away from intellectually engaging interactivity and towards sensation and addiction through variable schedule of reward. There are also some of the same unjustified pretensions to "art" or intellectualism, as well as a few justified ones.

As always, the way forward is partly through the self honesty and self awareness required of art.
cfengine, though not due to merely automating a repetitive task, but because
it changed the way I think about servers and because it showed me a really
well thought out architecture of such system.
There are good quality studies on vegans showing pollutant free omega 3 algal source works extraordinarily well. [1]

Keeping the product vegan is an image choice that many similar companies take.

[1]: http://www.clinicalnutritionjournal.com/article/S0261-5614(1...
Yeah, sorry, my example sucks.

However, I am still believing a different operator would make more sense.
That's a very similar problem to the one in Neal Stephenson's 'Diamond Age'; the Primer that drives the story is narrated by paid 'ractors', but later the book is copied and mass-produced, and paying for all of those to be acted would be prohibitively expensive; so the voice parts are replaced by simpler, synthetic voices.

Me, I always thought the way this tech would pan out would be as voice-changing; you capture the actor's voice you want, then the writer speaks the lines and the computer restyles them as an imitation of the actor - this seemed a more natural way to input emotion and pacing.
>> That's because we don't need to represent any function; we need to represent
the class of functions that can be efficiently represented in a human brain as
well, which is pretty much the same.

The problem is that to learn a function from examples you need the right kind of
examples, and for human cognitive faculties it's very hard to get that.

For instance, take text- text is a staple in machine-learning models of
language... but it is not language. It's a bunch of symbols that are only
intelligible in the context of an already existing language faculty. In other
words, text means nothing unless you already understand language, which is why
although we can learn pretty good models of text, we haven't made much progress
in learning models of language. Computers can generate or recognise language
pretty damn well- but when it comes to understanding it... Well, we haven't even
convincingly defined that task, let alone being able to train anything, RNN or
whatever, to perform it.

You can see similar issues with speech or image processing, where btw RNNs have
performed much better than with language.

So, just because RNNs can learn functions in principle it doesn't mean that we
can really reproduce human behaviour in practice.
> It does not pollinate across a fence.

There is no wild corn or wild soybean or wild potatoes in the forest or meadow across the fence which the farmer's crop could pollinate.

Also it has never happened that a potato (or any crop plant) escaped into the wild and survived there.
What is ironic about the GMO debate, is that the people most worried about GMO foods don't seem to know or care about the many crops that were created by exposing seeds to high amounts of radiation or chemical mutagens:

>...Unlike genetically modified crops, which typically involve the insertion of one or two target genes, plants developed via mutagenic processes with random, multiple and unspecific genetic changes[17] have been discussed as a concern[18] but are not prohibited by any nation's organic standards. Reports from the US National Academy of Sciences state that there is no scientific justification for regulating genetic engineered crops while not doing so for mutation breeding crops.[5]

So, these crops with random genetic mutations are sold as organic and have been in the food supply since 1930:

>...From 1930 to 2014 more than 3200 mutagenic plant varietals have been released[1][2] that have been derived either as direct mutants (70%) or from their progeny (30%)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding
Even without patent issues, multiple codecs are a security, maintenance, and implementation quality nightmare that could only be sustained by the maniacs working on ffmpeg. And there's no use case, because almost everything only has historical value.

You need multiple implementations of something for it to be a standard, and just try reimplementing SSA subtitles in Matroska and getting any of it right.
If McDonald's sold food without food inspections, the same people defending here here - would riot.

She likely did do something wrong - you can't just go and cook food and sell it without the proper license = food inspection etc..

Obviously, she should be not facing any jail time, and a warning should suffice.

But let's not avoid the reality of this - we either have decent regulation or not.

The issue here 'proportionality' not 'culpability'.

Give her a 'speeding ticket' and it should be over.
>the hardware projects an image directly onto your retina through an optics system built into a piece of semitransparent glass

Isn't this exactly how every display works? Possibly sans glass even...
This is what I came here to say.

I only have Vice City, nowhere near as visually spectacular, but I get myself a car and just drive around with the radio on. It's the same for Assassin's Creed through to IV, I often just go for a walk and look at the scenery, immerse myself in a time and place that's long gone. Often enough, the missions get in the way.