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I chose path b. Never did homework. I always forgot it. If you passively deflect enough, people will eventually just give up. Especially when you get good to excellent grades in the exams. The same worked at university. Dont go to lectures, dont do coursework or go to practicals. Get the past exam papers and learn to solve them over a month to two months before the exams. Solid 2.1, job done. Except I was utterly miserible through out that whole time. Lol. I could have been working in theoretical physics had my childhood not been a car wreck. Nope, doing web development, so dull :(
Really great game!
This isn't true at all, in fact, the opposite is true. Compilers are often better than naive micro optimizations, but they do not always have every optimization programmed for every architecture. An expert can absolutely beat the compiler in some cases.
I looked. I actually don't see that art pushing many of the fantasy art sex trope buttons:

1. Wearing what looks like not-outrageous closes.
2. There is no obvious cleavage.
3. There is no willing-come-hither smile at the PoV
4. Indeed, they are ignoring the PoV.

Look, that whole Male-Gaze thing is not about erasing all aspects of feminine form in art. That'd actually be a worse outcome if our goal is better and fairer representation. It's about pointing out that Cindy from FFXV is a pretty manipulative and somewhat denigrating trope in fantasy art.

Think about how many _male_ body types have become acceptable in fantasy art over time. Old men, fat men, emaciated men, short men, slouchy men, skinny men. We're getting progressively more comfortable with men of color in fantasy art as well (although still a long way to go here in many ways). Healthy or sick, brown or pale, native or imperialist, writers find a way to make identifiable and enjoyable protagonists out of a lot of male archetypes, and for what it's worth most of that is great.

But when it comes to women, we see WAY fewer allowable templates and they tend to skew towards what the male consensus finds desirable. When we really sit down and see what's fair game for these genders, obviously that's not terribly fair.

That's the principle complaint people are trying to redress. By locking every female archetype to what a 25-year old man fantasizes about, we create fewer opportunities for a real and textured world and create a sensation of isolation, distance and difference among those ignored groups.
There's a huge amount of lag just now, but I've been playing intermittently over the last few weeks, and typically there is no noticeable lag.

So new players, please do check back when the devs have had a chance to add capacity.

I am not affiliated, I just think it's a fun game.
Yeah, I agree, my bad on the phrasing.
Just wanted to say excellent work. This is some convenient wizardy!
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Well, thanks, but some downvotes were quite foreseeable as there are those who believe every right is limitless and that a functional society on that base is possible. I suggest those to go up to someone on the street and try using their right to free speech to the extent they believe it's okay, and see if that person gives them a punch or calls for help.
To be honest, this oversight makes the rest of his analysis somewhat suspect.
I'm pretty surprised he had trouble getting 10,000 condoms.

I once helped organize a student conference and asked a manufacturer to donate 5,000 condoms, about one per day per participant. Yes, we were aiming high.

I noticed something was wrong when the truck driver started unloaded three pallets worth of condoms. They had sent us 5,000 boxes with 25 condoms each = 125,000.

During the next two years, we did manage to find a few events that gratefully took most of the load of our hands. But a few thousand remained in my basement and I learnt: there's nothing sadder than a thousand expired condoms.
Last.Backend develops an open source PaaS built on top of Kubernetes
I could pay for a native iOS version of this.
> Unfortunately the actual paper at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022096516.... is paywalled in the usual way.

Searching for

"title of article" PDF

is usually pretty effective (and is in this case ;-) ). In CS you'll find a PDF hosted on the author's home page like 99% percent of the time. Other fields are more spotty, but this approach is still pretty effective.
Still in progress.

Keep=>Trello
Mail=>self, postfix

It's really a long post, maybe I'll do a write up
This was an original Nexus 7, in 2012, a week after launch. It was the worst return policy I'd ever seen.
But at some point an actual company with an actual reputation on the line would have to be involved. Those are the people that would ban you.
Actually, it is clear the author didn't because he gives the shell commands that are used to compile.
> most comments about his post concern his quirks of using bolding in overabundance

This is a widespread problem with Indians and generally foreigners on the Internet.

People: learn to write like a real person, or shut up. Please, just shut up until you've read enough that your comments resemble those from a native speaker. It worked for me.

We're not Japanese. The Latin alphabet is not for decoration.

Capitalize proper names. DON'T SCREAM. One question/exclamation mark is plenty. Use emphasis sparingly.

In general, when in doubt, don't.
Have you considered undiagnised ADHD as a possible factor? Intelligent kids with the inattentive type can get overlooked because the only measures schools care about is not disrupting things and good grades.

I tried modadinil a couple times (it's very easy to get online) and realized my reaction to it was not like others told be about, there was no high or buzz, but I was suddenly very aware of the world around me and it was easy to funnel attention and interest exclusively into one thing at a time and the results of doing so was amazing. Adderall is even better to me, and somehow even socializing becomes more appealing and interesting after taking it. You'll still be smart as hell, but it's different. worth experimenting if you're stuck, assuming the risk of harm can be minimized sufficiently (ie, you don't have a heart condition or seizure disorder)
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Yep. That's "caveat emptor capitalism" at its finest.
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Usually does not mean unconditionally and always, so we agree. Also, you should back your claim with proofs. I back mine with Trump, various European right-wing parties, Hitler, Israel, Putin, etc.
Voting is the way it is specifically to combat this problem. Your solution tries to fight against a problem that is basically impossible without systematic widespread corruption by opening it up to localized corruption which is historically common. You're solution doesn't make the situation better it makes it worse.

Anyhow if you can't understand why secret ballots exist after all that explanation I'm never going to be able to explain it in a way you understand so I think we're done here.
I think you are presuming a method of implementation and routing with some location in mind where this would not be that applicable.

I disagree most strongly about the need to dig up and destroy walkways. We have 3 dimensions to work with - to go up, or, down. In any case I would see this analogous to a public urban rail system such as a metro or a tram.

I don't see it as a big issue to dig a tunnel for this - lots of cities implement rails and such that go wherever public transportation is needed.

The only argument which I agree is the biggest hurdle - which is actually an unknown - is how to make the system sufficiently robust so you don't need an army of engineers to maintain it. The fact that there are no known robust systems is not a good enough argument. Lots of mechanical systems were in the development over a century after someone figured out how to make them as practical to make a major impact(steam engines, automatic weapons).

How robust is the most robust implementation possible and how expensive it is are the two major questions to my mind. If it's too expensive to maintain - then it's too expensive to maintain.
Yeah, took me until early 20s to realise this. I just always thought everyone else had the same contempt for seeking praise from authority that I did. I just thought they were all just really good actors. It simply did not occur to me that anyone would want to recieve praise from a "superior", let alone be annoyed with those who waste the opportunity to gather that praise.
> So, here's Google accusing a guy --who is doing 7 figures a year with his real business-- of clicking some ads to earn, what, twenty-three cents?

The first problem here is that it's the automation/AI in Google doing these calls. The second one is the question where the fuck are the humans monitoring automation/AI actions ?

So no thanks Google, you can't convince me getting into your AI fairy-tale fueled products in the future.
Sounds like this author needs a hug.
> It is foolhardy to trust the automated RC design in these software

Do you mind if I ask why? I'm working on a sort of general approach toward designing trustworthy engineering software, and I'm trying to collect as many reasons as possible for "can't trust the software".
How so? The darknet markets (e.g. Silk Road) seem to be doing great without "actual companies", but they do have an actual reputation.

You don't need an actual company to accept Bitcoins. You don't even need a PO box or a telephone number. Just a computer connected to the internet.
Why shouldn't they exist?
Well to be fair, it could take 10 years to go from prototype to full scale production. People are too impatient these days.
Very informative! I especially liked the animations and comedic delivery. Both of these methods really made the information relatable and memorable. Excellent stuff. Thanks for the post.
One of the issues is it tends to make boring games

Eve would be a data point supporting this. I had some adrenaline rushes playing Eve, but I also could use it as a sleep aid, depending on precisely what I was doing.

I think that one of the problems is a poor conception of what it means for players to create content. The most compelling content for me in Eve was simply the most exciting stuff that happened during nullsec alliance PvP.

In the end it's different largely because they are not trying to be a 'successful' company, instead of kind of a profitable hobby.

This also fits with my current goals.
I don't disagree. But it suggests an extremely low opinion of the intelligence of the audience to point it out. There's no need to point out to a civilized adult, especially professional, educated adults prevalent on a site like this, that freedom doesn't include violating others. And it's a strawman, because nobody is ever arguing that freedom includes violating others. What's usually being argued is whether a specific action should be considered a violation of others' rights, as opposed to those others being e.g. oversensitive, controlling, or intolerant.
The future used to be much more interesting.

Check out Whale Bus:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Fr...
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I agree with your opinion on effective writing style. I know I have a bias against shorthand, all-caps, excessive profanity, bad spelling, and I try to work against it if I'm interested in reading what they have to say. And people aren't going to be able to improve their writing to without practice, and effective practice is writing about things you care about.

This is a widespread problem with Indians and generally foreigners on the Internet.

That said, the generalizations of Indians and foreigners are cringeworthy at best and wholly unnecessary in making your point.
That could enable collusion between remaining players and defeated players, possibly defeated on purpose.
Nobody is a very vague term. Bootstrapping is great in the beginning, but it is extremely hard to run a company off of your savings. Using other people's money to make money is not a new concept.
I do a lot of fiddling around in the console for things like these, and the advent of ES2016 for..of loops makes this quite a lot simpler nowadays:

for (let a of document.querySelectorAll('a')) { a.style.fontWeight = 'normal' }

Alternatively, you can use the more functional:

Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('a')).map(a => a.style.fontWeight = 'bold')

If your browser supports the spread operator you could equivalently do:

[...document.querySelectorAll('a')].map(a => a.style.fontWeight = 'bold')
Specifically, every link is strongly anti-Trump.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12575020
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Ask HN: Large brand wants to buy my side project, what should I do?
(this is a throw away account for an obvious reason)

I have a very small personal side project, ~1k+ UVs/day. A few days ago, one large company (think Alexa top 1000) got in touch with me with a proposal to acquire my project for for a small price of $10k.

I have never dealt with things like this before and I'm not sure what to do. I don't want to sell the project, but instead would like to grow it (which is quite hard to do on my own).

Would it be smart to suggest them some sort of a partnership, as it seems like they are ready to talk?
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There was recently a review critical of this book: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/16/blitzed-drugs-...
As a german that sounds like old news.
My understanding is that "Panzerschokolade" is common knowledge.
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I don't have any experience in this. I simply hear less fear about getting sued when you're in the right (I don't know how it is with side projects, I was more reacting to the issue of getting sued when you're right). I think the legal costs of defending yourself aren't so extreme in Europe. Also, I think there's less suing culture in Europe than in the US. All those stories of people suing the microwave manufacturer for failing to warn about drying cats in it or cafés not writing "Warning! Hot!" on the cup etc. In such cases people can get extreme amounts of money in the US that is less usual in here I think.
Wish more people were thinking like Bret Victor. I 've been working with visualisation systems for more than 16 years and never seen anything like his software. The tool that he uses to easily construct charting within a few minutes is genius
All the user's data is stored on the machine, too, and that doesn't help either.

I think they encrypt the files with an AES key, which is then encrypted with a public key received from the botnet herder.
Could always run in a 3M respirator. The reduced airflow would make it extra intense, if not untenable. On the other hand, frequent breaks due to being stopped by police would probably balance that out.
Right.. our codebase is already unicode all over the place because otherwise we could not i18n properly. So we basically have py2 unicode-correct code with encode/decode in the proper places for interfacing witg stdlib. I didn't consider people might use str and not unicode for text..
As a different person who made the same choice for the same reason at the same time I think I was very right then to avoid the whole mess.

It seems fine now, but there is nothing, as far as server side application coding is concerned, that would make me want to switch from Ruby/Rails.
I am not sure I buy that this is related to the intelligence of the children involved. To match those two stories, I can probably identify a half dozen others with the same rough trajectory, minus the comments about how bright they are and how they could pass at school without trying. The problem isn't that they're screwed by the system, educational or otherwise. The problem is that they never figured out how to interact with other people, for whatever reason.

I have considerable sympathy because I, too, have difficulties interacting with other people. But there's much more to it than "he's so smart that he's frustrated and bored with everyone and everything."

Then there's this:

"Finally, a platform for those extraordinarily gifted people who failed to find a
place in life could be helpful. Of course, high-IQ societies exist, but then most of
their members appear to be rather successful and hence limited in their understanding of people who never achieved much, if anything, in life. Of course, sympathy and understanding is also present in many who did better, and exchange
with those can also be very helpful."

Successful, intelligent people, particularly those who join "high iq societies", tend, in my experience, to have little empathy with those who they see as less intelligent, which is partially defined as less successful.
+1 me too. I would love to here how you put it all together.
For what it's worth, I'm aware that the reason I'm generalising Indians is because there's more of them, so there will be more that can't write properly, and they will be more visible.

See StackOverflow as a prominent example.
Thanks.

I've never been the best at getting consulting gigs. Do you have any advise beyond just browsing various boards for contract positions? I tried cold emails before without before too.

I'm actually looking for remote positions at the moment as I agree with the consensus here that would be preferable for me. However, I live outside the US so opportunities are much fewer. And even with remote jobs there is still an interview. My anxiety remains noticeably severe even over Skype, and my speech problems are also very obvious.
I recently bought an AMD card for the first time, because I was annoyed with nVidia jerk behaviour.

And... I am not sure AMD has resources to design good GPUs either, the GPU I own, the 380X, is hot, power-hungry and buggy.

The RX480 launched recently to replace it, draws too much power from PCI-E slot and can damage people motherboards and raiser cards/cables.

So I am not entirely sure they have resources for their hardware division either, in fact the recent card launches from them all looked "rushed" in some way, and undertested. Some bugs are haunting their cards for 3 years now, and they don't even bother in putting in the "known issues" list anymore, because they have no idea how to fix it, despite having a 300-page+ thread on their support forums about it with people contributing lots of information.
I can relate somewhat. Good student, got good grades with about zero effort, did good in extracurriculars, but found most academic-related things to be very boring (it was mostly memorization of facts with zero critical thinking). Most of my friends worked menial jobs or sold drugs, and while I did graduate high school and stay out of serious trouble, instead of university I got a restaurant job and partied, abused alcohol and drugs and lived a pretty interesting life. Excelled at work, rising to the top of the local food scene very quick, then got married and went to university at the behest of my wife who didn't like the restaurant lifestyle. Well, married life was boring, got restless, eventually we fell out and split (she wanted the white picket fence and everything, I wanted to just experience life with a fun partner), now I travel, gamble, trade stocks and sometimes will do a stint at restaurants my friends own just because it's fun. Oh, and programming, the wife hated that, she didn't see the point in creating programs and scripts that didn't 'make money' (never mind all the stock-picking and economic-analyzing scripts that kind of did make me money...).

Guess the point is that a 'typical' life isn't for everyone. I can finish my degree rather easily and get a permanent office job, but why? I'd rather be in Paris one day, the Caribbean the next, abusing substances and partying with a bunch of hot girls than slaving away for a boss at a job that is comically easy, where I have to slow down just to avoid the onslaught of extra work there'd be if I were to actually give a shit and try.

And honestly, I have friends who have money and things. I have money, less things, and I don't really feel like I miss out. No house? No stress. My car is a 4 door compact and not a BMW with leather seats? It still drives, is warm in the winter, and has less problems. I didn't finish my degree? Half my friends with degrees are unemployed now anyhow thanks to the shit local economy. With more debt. Speaking of which, I live in a place where, to be honest, all the 'good' jobs which once existed for educated people are never coming back (the degree which I'm a semester away from completing is in Economics fyi).

People need to change their idea of what success is. The robots are coming for all your jobs anyway, we'll need to deal with it. In the future, either we'll all be engaging in intellectual pursuits living on a guaranteed income, or living in dystopian future where the holders of capital lord over the rest of us who scrounge for scraps in an alternative economy (look at Brazil to see how massive inequality manifests itself).

Anyhow, just the musings of someone who others say has under-achieved, but has stopped giving a fuck. We all die, 'success' is overrated. We need to get back to having relationships and living life.
I find it interesting that the license is mentioned in the title, and prominently on the project page. Is that because of a perception of close association with BSD via Berkeley?

There's obviously precedent for copyleft software coming out of the institution (e.g. Sleepycat).
For me, the main thing is to read a lot. I mean, just surfing HN and Reddit help a lot. But a lot of my "ideas" aren't necessarily "cut from whole cloth" so to speak, but they're more along the lines of "I could build a better version of X" or "Oh, hey, here's this new thing Z... what if I combined Z with Y, and added a sprinkle of Q"? Ya know, that sort of thing.

Another thing that helps is hanging out at the local hackerspace and just listening to other people talk about their projects, and batting ideas around with them.

I also make it a point to read a modest amount of non-techie stuff... I read books on history, physics, business strategy, marketing, economics, politics, etc., as well as plenty of fiction. For me, I think it's the synthesis of lots of disparate ideas, absorbed over a period of time, that fuels whatever creativity I have.

One last point... when you do have an idea, make sure to write it down, before you forget it. It may be that you have more good ideas than you realize, but just aren't capturing them. I've scribbled stuff down on a notepad before, and then gone back to it a year later and thought "shit, that's good stuff, and I had totally forgotten about it".
Just read his blog.
https://voat.co/v/news/1477442
I do not understand how can he beat you if you started playing as a kid. Granted, I don't know what I'm talking about but unless you are going senile I don't see how he can beat you while he's still a kid.
What I was hoping for was a sane migration path to prevent the split you talk about in 2020...somebody made a superset of both py2 and py3 that lets one move gradually. If support ends/project dies one would bite the bullet and move all the way to py3 I guess.

My py2 code uses unicode properly which may color my view a bit...

But I don't really disagree with what you say.
>C is also not based on solid foundations

C is based on the solidest possible foundation: the actual hardware CPU.
> The cost of that would be roughly 1/1000 of Google's annual income.

I don't own Google stock but 0.1% of revenue would be a huge number that you just can't blink away. Especially when it is not a one-off whim I mean spectacular moonshot but rather an ongoing business obligation.

I hate that the service sucks but I'd rather they don't waste money like this.
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