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This is every rural county in the US, more or less.

Seriously, it seems like 90% of the HN crowd has was born in SV. You don't even have to go very far inland, from either coast.
> As Franck says, it just seems like they had no idea where to go after the first one.

That seems to be the case. Drew Karpyshyn, the lead writer of ME1 and ME2, admitted that his original planned ending wasn't "super fleshed out"

http://www.pcgamer.com/mass-effect-3-series-former-lead-writ...

Karpyshyn left BioWare shortly before the conclusion of Mass Effect 2, with Mac Walters taking over as lead writer for Mass Effect 3. Even so, Karpyshyn defended series' real ending, pointing out that his planned version was just as likely to disappoint.
Also: all the stuff we haven't seen yet... who knows what they are doing with the vast amount of video data piped to their servers every second.
They started on App Engine, I believe?

Interesting that just having one startup like Snapchat start on their platform made all the other little startups that came and went worth it.
In my opinion the only flaw in ME1 was the broken relationship between weapons and classes.

I played with engineer class, and it kinda sucked, none of the engineer powers were that useful, and engineers couldn't use any decent weapon, in the end I finished the entire game with the starting pistol (yes, even the final boss I killed with the starting pistol).

Oh... and those elevators... but in a way I missed them in ME2 too.
Quite so. Most twin studies on the subject turn up similar findings: https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/time-preferen...

"The best fitting model for 41 key studies (58 independent samples from 14 month old infants to adults; N=27,147) included equal proportions of variance due to genetic (0.50) and non-shared environmental (0.50) influences, with genetic effects being both additive (0.38) and non-additive (0.12). Shared environmental effects were unimportant in explaining individual differences in impulsivity."

So impulsivity (which is obviously closely related to your propensity to betray the trust of your fellow-man for a short-term gain) appears to be a combination of genetics and random luck (non-shared environment).
"the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" -- Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto.
Why the government let Boeing and Lockheed form the ULA is beyond me. The US used to have 3 solid launch providers and went to 1. I'm glad we're back to 2 with SpaceX. We were handing lots of business to Arianespace.
Everyone thinks that way, but it turns out the science says otherwise.
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If you are doing just one or two things at a massive scale (Dropbox storing files), it makes sense. But, we are talking about Snap Inc, the infrastructure, and services it needs. A single high-speed intercontinental fiber cable costs 400 Million $ (https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/12/google-and-facebook-are-bu...). To build a service like CLoudML (Hosted TensorFlow), you need to write software (TensorFlow), build the ASIC Chips by manufacturing / by partnering with a chip manufacturing company like Intel / Samsung / Qualcomm, you need custom networking software and hardware to scale massively for data workloads (Andromeda), years of research to build these tools, you need to create your own programming language (Go and Dart) to be able to scale your development to these levels, you need to build data centers in multiple regions, you need to build DeeLearning models for cooling your data centers (https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-ce...), ...
Hey! I have been following Counsyl for quite a long time, and it is very impressive what you guys are doing. I am a python guy, and have done few open source contributions; if not many. Are you guys very strict about 5 years of work ex if one has Masters?
Sure it can, but mechanical drives are just comparitively glacially slow agianst SSDs and 'general OS snappiness' is one of the major real-world examples of where you feel it.
they just locked up

That wording implies that this "just" happened, even perhaps during the current administration. The court order was 18 months ago, and he's been "locked up" for the past 16 months.
Trusts are able to move as well - so if a state passes unfavorable trust laws, trusts can (and will) re-domicile into friendlier jurisdictions.
I think your perception of HN membership is way off. I'd frankly be surprised if 50% of HN members live in the SF/SV area. Not sure how either of us can be proven correct, however, at least not without mod assistance. Perhaps user IPs?
I'll back this up with a related case - my 12 year old Prius still gets 50mpg+ though its battery pack was upgraded after 5 years (covered under warranty and free). Overprovisioning and paranoid charging profile are probably what resulted in this.
Convert to BTC in small increments and head to a non-Interpol country. ;)
You're nitpicking.
You and the folks who down-voted the parent comment agree on that point. That doesn't make it true.
Ffs, reply to the comments replying to you, that's what the feature is there for. Don't preempt them by editing your comment so people see your response first.
I find it useful to speed up the default Arduino PWM by changing the clock source. There are some useful details at http://www.righto.com/2009/07/secrets-of-arduino-pwm.html . Basically you should be able to drive it up to tens of KHz. I'm not sure how far up it remains linear but works well enough for lighting.

At default clock rates (clock/256) I can definitely see the flicker, especially through the lowest duty cycles.
Installing out of distro Rust on Linux in custom location became rather difficult, and it's not a well documented process. Previous installer was much neater, since it was installing Rust globally.
> you can't really pinpoint any other one

Yeah the heatmap only really shines when it's sparse, as the noise can be too much. The heatmap is intended to be used as a secondary visual aid. What I normally recommend, is for people to use the line chart first, to help select larger swaths of time. And if you need to, use the heatmap to help you drill further. Below is an example of what I mean.

https://gitsense.com/search.mp4

There are still a lot of ways to improve the heatmap by using animation and other tricks, but I don't have the time to experiment with these ideas.
Is there a Ubuntu PPA or docker image of SQLite + JSON extension enabled?

I can't get the compiled json1.so to load on Ubuntu 14.04 lts with stock SQLite.
By the time the other company builds infrastructure, some other company would have built the product that Snap wants to build.
If I had said "No they maintain 100% at 500 cycles." Then I would also be making a claim. I made no claim, I just said his claim is an internet meme that is bullshit. There's a big difference. I'm not sure why this is so hard for you to understand.

I don't save a folder full of links to answer skeptical people on the internet and I'm not going to Google for you. If you're interested in reading articles, go look for yourself.

Anyway whatever. This has been a colossal waste of time.
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which part of Allwinner A64 SoC is open? Do you mean the open source code Allwinner packaged into their binary blobs loaded into black boxes on the chip (like image coprocessor)?

Meanwhile I have full X220 schematic + boardview, EC (system management controller) source code (dissembled, but still), full bios source, and the best build quality money can buy right now (1).

(1) some might argue Apple, but those people dont repair laptops ;-)
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Really step 2 isn't necessary at all beyond transparency and a voracious curiosity about SpaceX from some circles. NASA would simply not qualify SpaceXs' rockets for manned flight without these fixes.
25th Amendment impairment (though technically he'd still be President, just without the powers of the office.)
Yet windows 7 ran fine with them, performing the same functions.
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This sounds very much like the plot of Gurren Lagann.
Right, but VS Code's depth into other languages and stacks is quite extensive, as well. If I were promoting a new text editor (hell, or any piece of software), I would certainly set the most-visible defaults to hit the most common use case, which at the moment is web front-end oriented tasks. To get a fairly full featured C++ experience, VS Code is up and running in three mouse clicks and two text fields from the splash screen -- this includes automated downloads and installs of major pieces of Clang tooling. I also write a fair amount of more data-centric Python, and the experience is similarly painless (I haven't tried Rust or Go, but if f*ing C++ is this easy I can't imagine other stacks are worse), so I don't think I'd call it web centric at all!
> a racist terrorist group

a racist terrorist group that lets you recruit aliens? that let's you protect human colonies when the council don't bother allocating any resources to their protection? this is about survival, like Shepard says himself.
>primitives that are difficult to reproduce on your own at another provider (witness how terrible Open Stack is; no one wants to do that if they don't have to).

I don't understand this statement. I have built systems that work with openstack and then scale up to public cloud. The primitive is the same as EC2, which is a virtual machine. What did you have difficulty with?
Which reminds me: there are of course plenty of foreign jurisdictions that allow you to create multi-generational trusts (or trust-like devices) without any problem.

If you were establishing a multi-generational trust you'd want to put it in a politically, economically, and legally stable jurisdiction. Historically those options were limited to the U.S., U.K., and maybe a couple of other European nations. That's less the case now. But who knows what the world will look like in a 100 years. There's plenty of reason to want to keep money in the U.S. So I wouldn't argue that U.S. law is inconsequential in the face of foreign options. I just don't see us returning to an earlier time wrt restraints on generational wealth transfers. The viability of foreign options makes it even more difficult to reverse the trend.
Chromebooks are successful as school computers, children's laptops and literally nothing else. If that was the goal then great but I've never seen someone who wasn't under 14 or a student using one.
I'd not compare Nix to other three. Yes, you are right, it is kind of "distro-agnostic/sandboxed/multiple-versions", it "need to install to a root directory" and does not "need a runtime daemon", but otherwise it is totally different and much more than others.
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There is no such thing as good or bad company culture. The culture either supports the strategy or does not. Warm, fluffy and nice is an option, but there are others. A real pity the huge body of literature on this has been ignored.
That was my point. That deflation is good not inflation.
Wow and it still didn't work out, eh? I currently have a two year old and my wife and I have 0 time with just the two of us. I think we went on one "date" in the last two years so things have been real tough (and only one child).
Google. I can half imagine a scenario where Snap fails to meet growth expectations and is bought on the cheap by google.
I actively try to avoid discussing status. The 1:1 is primarily a meeting for them, whether or not they realize it. The goal in a 1:1 is primarily to get them talking about whatever it is that they want to talk about. Sometimes this just turns into chatting about non-work stuff. Sometimes we'll discuss problems they're having on the team. Sometimes they'll talk about work they want to do but haven't been given. Sometimes they'll have questions about "how the system works" (these are usually pretty interesting conversations). I try to tell stories from my own work history (frequently embarrassing ones) both because they're funny, and because it makes it easier for them to talk about their own potentially embarrassing problems. Sometimes I try to lead the conversation toward something that I want to talk about - like if I need to give them some feedback, or if I want to discuss their career development, or a new opportunity. Sometimes you can tell that they're circling around something they don't know how to bring up, and you can gently nudge them in the right direction.

Sometimes it's useful, and sometimes it isn't. Ultimately, if it helps to deepen trust and understanding, then that's a good result.
> Keep most of your crew alive through the three games and you can do it

I did that.

I just Googled it and the general opinion seems to be that in the original release with no DLC, no multiplayer, and no messing around with phone apps (?) it was at best extremely difficult to do (scan every single planet, that sort of thing) and at worst impossible. People seem to disagree on the exact degree of impossibility, but it seems that some early DLC brought the threshold down into a more reasonable range.

I guess my mistake was being so excited to play it that I finished it before they "fixed" the ending.
Is it too late for them to try such a strategy? It seems Google has proven there's a market for this sort of product. Or is Google Docs (etc.) an additional part of the appeal of Chromebooks? I know there's been backlash regarding student usage tracking with ChromeOS; seems like a point of differentiation for Mozilla. It also would seem to have more synergy with improving the desktop Firefox client.
But how are you going to do this if you are constantly changing models? Like every other day?
I was pleasantly surprised at this the other day. I was about to jump in to some Friday night games with some buddies when my tower died, dusted off a gen2 i5 laptop running ubuntu and I was playing Payday2 with them within an hour; that Linux filter on my steam library returned a shockingly large list.
Underflow is when a nonzero floating point number is too small to be represented.
Also, searhc digikey and sort by quantity in stock, descending. The popular parts are the ones to use (if you don't have special requirements of course).
Well, it helps that compilers and tools are free and bundled in already, available right there from the command line.
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> A linode vm's cost is not measured in its price tag but in how much effort it takes to maintain. Updates, security advisories, hypervisor crashes, crashes under sudden unexpected load, crashes because you're on vacation and you are having too much uninterrupted fun, ...

If I had a choice between that and ~$1800/year?

If you don't want to do sysadmin work at the rate of ~$300/hr, that is your business.
I've never heard of anyone buying excess cloud capacity from a private party. Is this a thing? Is there a market for this? Sounds like a security nightmare.
$2,500 and would not do it again.
Those seem like normal things to say. He's obviously being facetious.
I think the default would be has no effect.
Snaps (and Flatpaks) are awesome for publishers of apps and laypersons though. There's a reason the average person sees the macOS style of installation (and removal) as the gold standard.
Not to mention all the dark patterns around pushing the Win10 "upgrade" in the first place.
> Also them starting the project along with the knowledge they have internally scaling containers helps.

FWIW, Most of this are advertising gimmicks though and Google has a pretty different internal infrastructure for orchestrating containers that has hardly much to do with K8s.
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Facebook reported $27 billion in revenue in 2016. Snap reported $400 million. You're talking two orders of magnitude lower than Facebook and almost three lower than Google. Snap simply does not have the resources to pour into custom data centers, even if they can raise $2 billion for infra over 5 years. Unless they have serious talent already, they're not going to match Google's massive 15 year investments by a long shot, even if you only consider the services they actually need to use.
> Doing that with philosophy is far more difficult because so much of it is subjective and relies on criticism and analysis.

Any education in a topic worth it's salt should include that once you get passed the intro courses (because the intro courses are often necessary to provide context for your analysis). Whether curricula succeed in doing so, or students engage themselves enough to do so, is another matter.
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I'm still fairly new to HN but I love the quality of posts and expertise in almost every technical thread.
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Do people just browse Imgur or what is there to do? I've never gone to the site other than to upload or through a link (mostly from Reddit).
More people would probably be surprised to discover Adobe Lightroom catalogues are sqlite databases (which means you can pull all sorts of info out of your catalogue, should you so desire, or fiddle with it in unsupported ways).

It's a shame I don't see Adobe on the list of sponsors/contributers, I have to say. Lightroom makes a huge amount of money for them.
Network effects are massive, and they keep iterating on product successfully. You're focusing on the least interesting bit that's outsourced.
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The Expanse novels have picked up a little with the last two, Nemesis Games and Babylon's Ashes, but it's hard to beat those first two.

My favorite of all might be the novella The Churn, which explores the backstory of Amos, the Laconic muscle of the Expanse crew.
guys the word count is to short at least let it be about 14 characters.
That seems a bit too much storage, considering that Seagate only shipped around ~ 250 Exabytes worth of HDD in 2015[1]. Being extremely generous for world supply of Hard drive, we might have had only 1000 Exabytes of storage shipped in a year.

Assuming 2 Petabyte per user, mere 500,000 user will consume entire storage produced every year. May be they do, but 2 PB/user seems improbable. That's also $14k per person of data (assuming no discount from Google to this company).

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/10098/market-views-2015-hard-d...
Me too. Just traded in a 4yr old Model S with 52k miles and saw <10% degradation. Fully charged, it was 210 miles new, and about 192 after 4 years.
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Reminds me of Mark Cuban's experiment with VR to relieve a health problem:

http://blogmaverick.com/2016/07/16/virtual-reality-gave-me-m...
As a fellow California HPC admin I definitely like the idea of something like SNAP. But I would want full control over it, can't have production systems down because some infrastructure somewhere else in the world is down.

Of the ones I looked at NIX looks particularly promising, having dependencies based on checksums sounds pretty cool.
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Probably, or the poster also saw the noise and it led them to think about snaps.
Try https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox

or http://alternativeto.net/software/everything/ or https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/ or http://colibri.leetspeak.org/ or http://alternativeto.net/software/listary/?platform=windows or http://www.candylabs.com/approcket or http://www.launchy.net/download.php#windows

This was a popular thing ~10 years ago, not surprising that Windows didn't get it right. FWIW, MacOS also fails at this regularly with Spotlight, but Alfred is sometimes better. Wox seems to be the closest thing for Windows, and Launchy used to be the one the cool kids used.
For a sentence like 'ORANGE POTUS' or Intelligence'
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Nope, it provides only syntax highlight for my custom format, and wikiword jumps
But an "absentee" ballot and a conventional paper ballot are processed the same.

Could you instead mean to say a provisional ballot?
Many talking of software here, but at this scale I think we should be looking at the cost of energy. Suppose Google has a true edge on the rest of the market in terms of what the cost of a Watt is to them. Take that outlook over the horizon of 5 years; all software arguments are thereby moot. If Google can generate a Watt in 5 years at 10% the cost that AWS can, then this drastically changes the equation.
Is there no point (e.g. during transit) when ballots are out of sight and could be intercepted/replaced?
Hilarious indeed. Are you aware that people die? :D
I'm so glad he agrees with me and my wife on Mass Effect 3 ending, I don't get anyone who can play the first two games and then not be totally heart broken by ME3 ending. What's more disgusting is also how the studio didn't ever apologize, they totally blew off everything ever said about the direction of the story and blamed the fans.
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VR instead of sedatives, not instead of locals. This is vr mitigating mental stress not dulling actual pain. There have already been many studies linking vr to reduced requests for painkillers in childens hospitals, dulling real pain. That it too works to distract old people is no great leap.
This is the second article in a week I've seen on binary options. The earlier one I read called it a scam, but never described the scammy part. I mean, seems fair enough to me: financial instrument either hits the mark or it doesn't, if I think AAPL's going to hit $120 and my stock platform of choice says it did, pretty straight forward, right?

This articles takes pages to get to the point: the scammy part. But it gets there, and I'll save you the scrolling. That part above where I just look up AAPL on Yahoo! Finance? Yeah, that doesn't work because the "brokerage" has it's own algorithm, and (big surprise here) turns out NASDAQ might say AAPL hit $120, but the "brokerage"'s platform says, aw shucks, it only hit $119.84 that day. Tooooo bad.

That and, much like trying to unsubscribe from AOL, they'll block you on getting your money out of the account, complete with retention agents.