skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, weapon base damage translated differently depending on the armor type. In particular, in Fallout 2, the advanced power armor had slightly lower damage resistance to normal damage than it did to plasma and electrical (the latter mattered for pulse rifle). On top of that, gauss ammo had a very high AC modifier (making critical hits easier), and also a high DR modifier (reducing effect of enemy armor). So it was much more efficient against e.g. Enclave soldiers in power suits than its base damage would suggest.

In practice, with a build that maximized small arms from the get go (which also made the early-to-mid game easy), and invested stat points into Perception for those crits, by the end of the game you would be killing Enclave patrolmen with one-shot eye criticals more often than not, making any extra damage kinda moot.

(As I recall, gauss vs pulse is a long standing holy war in Fallout 2 community.)
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Most useless thing ever created for functional programming anything.

It's not even biased towards Haskell; it's biased towards working at Slamdata, where they abuse free monads for everything.

When you write Javascript and use first class functions (ideally without side-effects, but who the fuck really cares), that's functional programming.

Tired of this elitism.
That doesn't change the same basic engine connected to the transmission design though.
It's not a requirement. It's common decency. Accusing someone of sockpuppetry is no different than calling him a liar. Doing it from behind a pseudonym without offering any evidence is irresponsible and cowardly, as it gives that person no way to defend his reputation.
"rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads."

If true, this would be killer, esp on mobile
Yes we do. But good luck getting a poor white in Appalachia (who probably didn't even vote) to realize that he has far more in common with a poor black in Chicago than a Yankee carpetbagger from New York. While we are playing the wishing game let's bump everyone's IQ up to the current equivalent of 140, that might help a bit, oh, and throw in a good liberal education and solid home life as well.
Intelligence experts urge Obama to end Edward Snowden's 'untenable exile'
Hapi is so good. I don't have any problems with it. Eran does a great job maintaining it.
Cymmetria (YC S15) provides $1M warranty on APT solution
My three priorities when I was a CEO: Team, Vision, Cash.

Easier said than done.
Also: He is also the director of the substance-abuse division at Bellevue, and he told me that he had known little about psychedelics [..] until a colleague happened to mention that, in the nineteen-sixties, LSD had been used successfully to treat alcoholics. Ross did some research and was astounded at what he found.

How do you get to be director of a drug abuse program at one of the nation's top hospitals while being so ignorant about the field you supervise?! I'm not saying he should have been a fan of psychedelics all along, but he should at least have had some awareness of their history and how they came to be controlled substances.
This is from 2015 and has been discussed before with some very interesting comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8991025
I agree with the point about the grindy nature of Fallout 4. They seemed to think I would get excited to run through randomly generated side quests from unnamed NPCs that they couldn't even be bothered to create unique dialogue for.

Then they put in a little sting of failing some of these side quests if you don't play by their rules and jump on them before an undisclosed amount of time elapses. At that point, if you want go back to avoid the quest failure you need to revert to earlier save and lose some of your progress.
https://sysdig.com/
In 3rd world countries leaders exploit their people. In developed countries leaders exploit 3rd world countries because it's not possible to exploit your own people... Too many damn rules and ways of controlling people. War in that sense is corruption. And corruption should be stopped. It's a completely unfair way of enriching yourself and your friends. Bush and Cheney being great examples. But it happens in many other cases as well. Industries that depend on war push for war. Countries like Saudi Arabia that benefit from war push for war and so on.
I never understood why porn has a +1 button on it. Why would you want anyone to know that you actually use Google+?
Yeah, I was considering building something that would require more than 50 (100?) S3 buckets. The thought of trying to do it by managing a bunch of independent accounts didn't appeal. I was also wary of infringing some policy by doing that.

For what it's worth, it turns out that GCP doesn't have per account bucket limits.
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In 1933, someone associated with the Du Pont interests tried to hire Butler to organize a coup to overthrow Roosevelt. It's never been clear how serious a plot this was, but Butler didn't go along and the plot died.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
Predicting the U.S. election without polls
Ah, thanks for information. So, border adjustments are possible there as well (India and Bangladesh are on friendly terms, unlike India and Pakistan).
> Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

I think our big clue was when you said "after we released Nearline". ;)
Supposedly, Prescott Bush was one of the people behind it.
Maybe. But they could have open-sourced the Play Services.
This is pretty awesome-looking. I was thinking today about how to create a dashboard to which I could send data and easily add new widgets on it: graphs or lists or urgent notices.

The examples for sending from django, python, rails, etc are really neat! I wouldn't have thought of directly sending querysets, but the simple example made it seem obvious.

I hope you find the right paying niche for it. I personally wouldn't pay $20/month for it unless I had an active startup project. For me, a couple dollars a month maybe since my use would be pretty limited and occasional.
But the binaries I want this on aren't services.
>Empathy suggests something more technical — a dispassionate approach to understanding the emotions of others. And these days, it often seems to mean understanding their pain just enough to get something out of it — to manipulate political, technological and consumerist outcomes in our own favor.

Suggestion for a new title: "How I Redefined the Meaning of Empathy and Wrote an Article About It"
and supply
the necessary materials
to let it work.

That is the key.
Isn't the limit on the number of S3 buckets simply a "send us an email and we'll change it" limit?
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"But the soldier pays the biggest part of the bill"

I'm not sure how it was in Butler's time, but I've read that the overwhelming
majority of casualties in modern warfare are civilians. It would seem to me that
they are the ones who pay "the biggest part of the bill".

Not that I would deny that the people doing the mass murder can themselves become
the victims of war. But I'd personally have more sympathy for civilians who are not
trying to murder others but are themselves murdered.
Pointing out drawbacks of a platform is different than blaming the authors of the software.

Using the trackpad on my Mac with Linux installed will probably always be worse than with macOS. Obviously that's not the fault of Linux. Still a drawback.
One way to process this list is to see it as an elitist construct intended to put you down or degrade you or extract money from you for training etc.(which might even be true, but generally it is better, ime, to assume that people are genuinely trying to provide what they see as value)

The other is to ignore any insult, intended, perceived, or a mix of both, ignore all the hierarchy labeling - 'beginner', 'advanced beginner', "standard ladder" etc who tf cares? - and just see if there are skills you can pick up or explore on your own.

That said, I laughed at 'equational reasoning' being considered an 'expert skill'. It is considered an advanced technique but imo the basics are trivial to pick up, and I had a lecture/demo on this at a local fp conf. Sure it can get very hard if you tackle a hard problem, but that is true for everything.
1 second ... enough time to swear out loud too.
The best news in weeks - I've been shuttling my Jupyter notebooks between my work-provided Windows m/c and personal macbook just to be able to work on Tensorflow/keras.

Like others have pointed out already, the virtual machine route is just too laggy, even on high-memory machines.
Fair point about the grade (given right-of-ways for dedicated track). However, it's over 700 miles as the crow flies. It's academic in any case. This would be a project in the $10s of billions and isn't going to happen in the foreseeable future.
My slack hovers at only around 920 real mem and 1.6GB total.
The Ascent of Authoritarianism
Blackmail would be completely against their own interests. They make a lot more money selling information about you to other parties.

However.....

Extremist and oppressive governments, like the United States under the guises of intelligence organizations like the FBI, CIA & NSA, can, have and do use information like this to blackmail private individuals. And they buy the information from private corporations that track individual users. [1] [2]

Outside of our own country's influence, there are many nations around the world, and states therein, where things like homosexuality are outlawed, sometimes to the point of the death penalty. It's certainly likely that information like this, if collected by a severe enough regime, could use it to repress its citizens.

Speaking of which - during the "Lavender Scare" of the 1950s , a massive witch hunt and firings of suspected homosexuals in the private and public sectors chilled the rights of individuals with a particular sexual orientation. It's doubtless that Joseph McCarthy would have relied on J. Edgar Hoover's illegal methods of information gathering and intimidation to harass and persecute those seen as a threat to moral or political righteousness.

--

But like I said originally, none of that makes any sense in a capitalist fashion, because blackmail isn't sustainable. It's much more profitable and less messy to simply sell the pictures to the blackmailer.

[1] Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit ‘Radicalizers’ (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_...)

[2] FBI's "Suicide Letter" to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr...)
The police in the border region in both countries is currently being trained for patrolling in the other country (there are some differences in legislation and operational procedures). So not just pass-through but actual law enforcement work.

After WW II, when Finnish Lapland's roads were largely destroyed by retreating Germans, Finns used the roads on the Swedish side of the river to get up north. Today it is perhaps the other way round; the Finnish side has more population and the roads up river are bigger so it might be feasible for the Swedish to use Finnish roads even if the destination is again across river on Swedish side.

SWAT teams no, not without urgent need and/or official request, and people would rise eyebrows also for SWAT teams driving around in their own country for no reason.
In response only to the third point, there are some very nice examples of "advanced" equational reasoning in the work of Richard Bird. Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design [0] is a great book for exploring this and demonstrates a very "expert" nature.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Pearls-Functional-Algorithm-Design-Ri...
Analyzing pixels is something ML has gotten much better in the near history :) Even if you have a very simple recommendation engine running behind the scenes, you can throw in some convolutions to utilize your data to create a feature space just like word2vec, which would give you great power to generalize. Even putting in pre-trained networks like VGG16 (instead of training one from scratch) could give you a great headstart on this.
Actually a free plan will be announced in a day or two. This should capture your needs without paying a dollar :).
> not an ordered list but a graph of the concepts

I like this idea a lot
One would have thought such a role would require at least some formal study of the relevant subjects, which should expose you to the history of such things.

I like to imagine these people actually taking LSD. While watching Bill Hicks. What a blast they'd have.
There was a lot of fascination with Fascism and dictators around this time, a now creepy movie from this time is "Gabriel Over the Whitehouse", which promotes the idea of a Roosevelt-like president becoming dictator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivMiVQjGeyg
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And yet, sharks do it. Also, the skeleton is similarly long lasting and that gets renewed.

So why not? Say a finger, which isn't too "expensive in terms of biochemical resources", why not regrow that? Take the acorn worm mentioned, in proportion to the worm regrowing itself must be really expensive.

I don't think this too expensive argument explains it.
Is TLS actually needed for anything else than errno/GetLastError/SDL_GetError/etc. ?
Isn't mondash a "traditional" monitoring system? I see that you have to submit metrics individually, as JSON with a "value" attribute.
I'll add "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", by a less well known author, which is along similar lines.[1]

It's interesting that Eisenhower and Butler blew the whistle essentially after their careers were over rather than in the middle of their careers. I guess one generally does not attain great heights in one's respective career by being the sort that doesn't want to play the game. It still speaks volumes that those who are masters of their games would turn whistleblowers at all, though -- even if at a rather late stage.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...
The Russian government just confirmed Sailfish for all government mobile work going forward: https://cdn.jolla.com/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/Jol...
The real point behind this is so programmers who understand trivia like singletons and recursion schemes can walk around during conferences and feel good about themselves for being "experts".

Some of this stuff is cool and interesting, even to me -- but please don't rank people based on their inferiority of knowledge WRT to you, as you are explicitly doing
Keep in mind that Vue's funding success is based on the large donors, which are less than 10% of the volume of donors. Lose even a few of those and Evan may have to shift his time to consulting.
In its current form, the electoral college does not perform its original role of preventing mob rule. Electors vote in accordance with the popular vote of their state (this is only required by some states; but still almost never happens, as the parties pick their electors).

What ends up happening is that the electoral college just turns into a weird way of counting the popular votes, where some votes count more then others (specifically, voters in less populace states have a bigger vote; and voters in more divided states are more likely to have a meaningful vote).

Many (including myself) would argue that Donald Trump is precisly the failure mode that the electoral collage was designed to prevent.
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That's irrelevant; the issue isn't copyright, but the implementation of the Internet Archive, which applies robots.txt retroactively to archived versions of pages as well as respecting it currently.
Would any C-lovers recommend this book to people that already know programming (but not sys programming) wanting to learn C?

I personally know Java, (lil bit) Elixir, and Python.

EDIT: I'll also be reading K&R along side it.
Projecting leaked NSA docs on the side of AT&T's windowless NYC spy-center
Carefully, if you run around them then they won't work with you anymore and they are unfortunately the gatekeepers for much of the industry.
The same vulnerability apparently also exists in Firefox, which Tor Browser is based on.
Is it possible to run a private npm registry and to pull from multiple registries? (How Sidekiq works)
I've had better luck with these guys:

https://www.tailorbrands.com
$3500 in his first week after media publicity, not $15k per month consistently.
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Exit nodes will also steal any unencrypted passwords and put malware in any binaries you download. It's been happening for years.

In China the "regular internet" intercepts http and inserts javascript malware to create a DDOS botnet.
Did you notice the part where I worked at Amazon in-house for a year? I was a consultant for them for six month before that as well.

And my experience was pretty awesome. I did hear about PIP issues, though. That does suck. I'd probably just quit if it happened to me. I have a low tolerance for crap at work.

I like the "get severance pay" strategy someone mentioned. I was only working there at all because the money and people were great.
"This is far too valuable to limit to sick people"

Not a word about the major negative side effects including panic attacks, seizures, and death, or how some members of the population are at far greater risk of experiencing these side effects for reasons we do not yet know or fully understand.

Sure, if it helps someone near death why not, but I don't like the rosy picture this article portrays.
Do we know which governments throughout the world are more liberal in this regard?

I'd like to think if there was a place this sort of research could take place someone or some pharmaceutical company would be there doing it?
It obviously depends on background and goals. People who come to programming with only HS math would probably benefit most from studying (not just reading) an introductory discrete math text such as Biggs or Rosen. For calculus, linear algebra and so on one could look at MIT Opencourseware. For most people, actually learning the material requires a significant time investment, and one of the hardest things to fake is a knowledge of math.
The Federalist Papers are propaganda; the design of the electoral college -- like the per-state representation in the Senate, and the 3/5 compromise in apportionment of House seats, on top of both of which the EC rested -- was to protect slavery by overrepresenting slave states. But that's not the kind of thing you put in the marketing material.

Insofar as it was to prevent "mob rule", it was to prevent the values of the majority of voting citizens from overwhelming the particular minority that was keeping humans as chattels.

It's funny that people who have no problem treating modern campaign ads as self-serving propaganda that needs to be examined critically treat the 18th century equivalent as if it were something more noble.
Pretty much. I think it's infinitely more important than anything else on the internet. Yet probably the least used considering the amount of content available. But if in a thousand years you want a record of what happened here now, that's what you really really need. Everything else is superfluous.
There's also "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis, from 1935. It envisions a totalitarian dictatorship taking over the US.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here
The post mentions "VirtualAlloc" in "kernel32.dll". Does this exploit work on Mac/Linux or is it Win specific?
As the founder of a 100% bootstrapped company, I reached the point where revenue reached 2.7 million per year and I was ready to start moving on to the second responsibility.

We spent a year building a team of about 20. I systematically delegated all my engineering responsibilities, including management.

At that point, essentially all productivity went in reverse. We never released another product or major revision. I could write a book on the post-mortem, but the big lesson learned is that you should not expect to be able to completely remove yourself from the thing that you nurtured and built. Other people just don't care about it as much as you, or don't have the same talent level or vision.
Canada seems a weird choice for this sort of thing, if freedom of speech is a worry, given stuff like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Human_Rights_Commissi...
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On the subject of accents, in case you missed her viral video the first-time around, the absolutely astounding Saara from Finland.

"What Languages Sound Like To Foreigners"
https://youtu.be/ybcvlxivscw
> Evolution only requires that you get to reproduction, however that happens. It doesn't require that you're happy, sad, whatever, just that you reproduce.

It requires that your offspring actually survive as well. Humans are, at least historically, exceptionally well-equipped to influence the survival of their offspring.
Do you support the availability of the option to use chemotherapy against cancer? Yes? Then how can you possibly object to these drugs?
would appreciate a [2015]. Into this subject and thought it was a new result.
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Similar case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland
No it isn't
http://www.slideshare.net/yoozd/union-types-and-literal-sing...
Use Julia and deep learning to detect eye diseases
Is there a way to use it without giving you my data?
I'm sure USA armies have killed more people than Hitler's armies.
Nah it's not that cheap. This is not a normal price lowered by 291, though maybe half.
Wow. This is really hard. I like to play a Russian accent for fun and would like to improve it, but I guess I'll stay with YouTube channels to do that.
I'd like to give this comment a more thorough treatment but I don't have the gumption right now. So I'll just say:

One of the side-effects of antidepressants is increased risk of suicide.

So I don't really see your point.
>We too, but phrased like this makes it sounds like Amazon is a relaxed and laid-back company. Far from it.

Amazon is strict about a lot of things, but as far as workload -- well, I'm quite a fast developer, and I almost always was way ahead of the curve in getting things done. Very low stress for me.

Big reason I quit is that I was bored, in fact. Despite asking for more work. Despite taking on random extra team projects to create tooling to improve source control processes. And writing tools that were used elsewhere in the company. Etc. etc.
My recollection from history class was that the proportion of civilian:military deaths in war in the 2000s is basically the inverse of how it was in the early 1900s.
> Affordable access to these resources for businesses and individuals will make the world a better (aesthetically speaking) place.

Either that or it will turn "good typography" into the new "ComicSans". Already in the hip areas of big cities (say, "AirBnb city-trip cities on all continents") you're seeing neat type on Every. Friggin. Barbershop or corner cafe.

Still, that's can only drive the "true creatives" to discover and explore the next frontier of aesthetics to then, once again, help "high worth" clients set themselves apart from the crowd, once again. Not the worst dynamic in the world.
No but my girlfriend is. I study a bit further north. Why?
Not lonely. GCP is doing several good things. (disclosure: I worked at AWS for 6 years; I think I know the space a bit).
I've quit using TOR. It seems to have been targeted by law enforcement and now this.
This was AFAIK one the few hard limits, however this changed in 2015 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/08/amazon-s3... where you could request to get more buckets
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