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I've always enjoyed roguelikes and probably spent dozens of hours playing them. My current favourites include more modern takes on the genre like "Caves of Qud" and "FTL".

I sort of casually develop one in golang these days, progress is not quick since this is just a small side project I do for the fun of it:

https://gitlab.com/ibiscybernetics/go_roguelike

Feel free to mess around with my code if it helps anyone develop their own game.
What did you use after trello?
are you kidding. I know tons of asian parents who want blue eyed babies and would pay thousands for it.
decreasing spending is not the only way to gut the NHS. Increased bureacratic oversight, unionisation of the labour force, realigning the focus and core competencies, increasing demand for consultants over doctors, you name it. The NHS was in a terrible place when David Cameron came into power, and granted it's gotten worse since, but making out that the conservatives are the only ones who have pushed the NHS to breaking is ridiculous and fallacious.
If anyone's interested on Free Will and Bell's Theorem, I recommend taking a look at this fine group's experiments:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gnEjOAn...

Basically, they try to use cosmic "particle selection generators" to try and circumvent the free-will loophole.

There is also a series of recent experiments on using quantum random number generators to circumvent the free-will loophole.
I think it would apply to foreign currency ETFs, since the foreign exchange markets aren't exchanged-based. Foreign currencies aren't commodities though, so apparently it's completely different situation to a commodity like bitcoin.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13829925

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Another key thing is to open your legs soon after entering the water to slow your decent. Don't stay in that pencil position or you're likely to go deeper than you really want to.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll add HSLa as an option.
Injuries?
For the past couple of years I’ve been researching ways to write software that make it easier for newcomers to understand rather than for insiders to maintain. (https://lobste.rs/c/rue8pf)

Currently as part of that larger project, I've been improving my zoomable UI for browsing program traces: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/9be4a67f42/100trace_brow.... I plan to turn this into a self-contained tool. All it requires is for logging frameworks to start each log line with a number indicating depth. When you open it on such a log file it shows just the highest-level information, allowing you to drill down into details in specific parts of the log.

I think such a UI can be a strong alternative to a debugger. Instead of running the program at interaction time you first collect a trace of the program's execution. You get time-travel debugging for a fraction of the infrastructural cost if you require manual program changes to add logging.
Not harsh, I completely agree with you. Everything the mother did would have just made her daughter's life harder.
Bias is clearly visible that this blog is written by Windows developer and not Mac/iOS developer. Windows platform is years behind iOS development both in terms of developer experience and what matters the most - success of paid apps.
It makes more sense to ask "does an object moving 20m/s have more energy than the same object moving 10m/s?" The answer is obviously yes; so how much more?
Working on a productivity startup, https://www.60secondseveryday.com
That's nothing. The Buy More in Burbank has a joint CIA/NSA lair hidden beneath it and the Nerd Herd are operatives. There's even this one guy with some kind of Database (possibly NoSQL) installed in his brain.
"free will" is not a quantum computing term.
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A/B testing prices. Never heard of that before, seems interesting. I have heard of people creating landing pages to get a mailing list of people interested.

Are you collecting their email's, sending them to a page or social page to check back when your product is available?

Someone picking a higher price, and you end up pricing it lower that sounds like a plus. If someone picked lower then you actually price it, wouldn't they have been false advertised to? Unless they actually knew it was a survey up front then that seems more fair.
Seen its name in web pages (in View Source), but don't remember what it looks like. Also, IIRC, had first come across it in the HTML of a Java / J2EE web app I worked on much earlier. Will check it out, thanks.
Culpability is a happy illusion outside of a social context. Why are we trying to define this in quantum physics terms? It only makes sense in a Kantian universe, where there is an ideal of rationalism. Given how ambiguous human language (let alone human thought) is, do you seriously think that there is an objective culpability for arbitrary concepts when people won't even interpret the arbitrary concepts the same way?

All of this smacks of scientists trying to weigh in on ontological problems. Science is only relevant so far as to show us the limits of what we can claim—in this case, science shows us free will doesn't map neatly into our known universe, hence the article above trying to argue for ways to preserve this abstract concept in a world that doesn't care.

Look at: The Emperor's New Mind. It's the best attempt so far at actually fleshing out the problem, and it hinges entirely on the (fallacious) idea that because humans can innovate they aren't bound by turing completeness. Of course, this is hogwash, because what you'd have to demonstrate was that a single consciousness can prove everything given a finite set of axioms, which is of course an impossible proposition. Penrose sidesteps this by focusing on the magnification of quantum effects to human-level.

I mean, come on—if that's your hope at understanding your own brain, just give up and imagine fairies in it. Is that really more comforting (...let alone rational) than accepting you're driven more by your circumstances than by some ineffable thing about yourself you can't even define? Might as well accept that you're inherently an observer to phenomena outside your immediate ability to understand completely—you know, the basis of the scientific theory.

When people talk about free will in terms of quantum effects, all they reveal is how poorly read they are. It's a binary concept that doesn't map at all into a world where things-are—-—of-predictatable-but-you-can't-predict-the-unpredictable. It's nonsensical except at levels that are meaningless to human thought OR meaningless to physics.
Subsect http://subsect.net . I am developing a web server running on Android 5.0+ using WebRTC for transport. A server in every pocket.
Says you... According to their ruling, they're doing this exactly to protect investors.
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The society of Gattaca not only embraced germ-line modification, it also created a caste system around genetic viability. The main character was unable to pursue his chosen field because the society decided that people in that field needed to be genetically tailored for that field.

I think our moves toward creating a more pluralized society, where people that have been historically deemed "genetically inferior" (the disabled, non-white people, trans people, women) have made slow and steady gains, are such that erasing that progress would require more changes to society than simply allowing genetic modification.

Genetic engineering an easy scapegoat, a slippery-slope argument that lets us jump too fast to the dystopic ending of our choice. A storyline that reduces societal, intra-personal progress to individual genetic choices is missing a big chunk of the puzzle.
So journalists are still going through the stages of grief after the last presidential election.
Not "all" of the exchanges - I think the key is the term "significant markets". You need to have most people who do significant amounts of BTC transactions on regulated exchanges as opposed to everyone.
> You could have a disgruntled or mentally unbalanced employee.

The recent S3 outage was caused by a typo. You can plan around natural disasters and all sorts of things, but the vast majority of the time, data loss is caused by humans. Diversify where that data lives. We would never recommend that you should ONLY keep your backup in Backblaze. We should be part of your solution.
More details please. This sounds like a good story.
The lack of transformation semigroup coverage astounds me. Most interesting endofunctions are not permutations.
I had some trouble understanding the exact procedure described above, but then I read the patent[1] for the technique, which was very helpful.

[1] - http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3837124.pdf
They cause extra tiles of that type to be generated, according to the message at the start of the game.
It would be awesome to see pglogical in the list of supported extensions, which can help to deal with replication for now.
This is perhaps not the place for this, but as a user of a password manager, here's and idea in this area that I've had for a while.

I'd like the various password manager vendors to get together and produce a standard/specification to take us (users) out of the process of registering and rotating passwords as much as possible in much the same way that they have the login process. Among other things, the spec should define a format for expressing password validation rules, a password rotation endpoint/policy, common registration fields and a url handler for triggering the registration process.

So then site operators could add a "Register with a Password Manager" link that, perhaps, looked like: "register://example.com/path/to/registration/policy.json" The various browser extensions could easily recognize that and change to "Register with 1Password" or "Register with LastPass" or whatever is appropriate. That policy document would have the registration endpoint, rotation endpoint, rotation period, password rules, required registration fields, what sort of identifier is used (username, email, etc), terms of service and possibly and endpoint for determining the uniqueness of potential usernames. Clicking the link would open up the password manager where the user would agree to the terms of service, enter any missing fields, approve the sending of fields the password manager already knows about and select a username, if necessary. Once completed, the password manager would generate a legal password of maximum length/complexity, send everything to the registration endpoint and save the login details, terms of service and rotation endpoint for future use/reference. Over time, the password manager could update the password in the background to limit the danger should the password be compromised.

I'm curious whether others think this could work. I realize there's an http://xkcd.com/927 problem in it, but it seems like if all the password manager applications could agree to work together, enough site operators would be willing to implement it that it could be useful. And if enough people saw "Register with a Password Manager" links during the registration process, they might get curious enough to start using one. But most of all, I'd like to stop having to care about what a site's password policy is...just let sites make the decision and offload the responsibility for adapting to it to my password manager.
Ah yes, everyone wrestling with endless questions while the front gate is deserted.
I remember when the first version of this text came out. It was tested out on myself and two other students in Beezer's class. It's a solid text.
Also, people who make a lot of money, especially in a given field (like tech) tend to want to live with each other, which really exacerbates the problem in markets that resist change (like SF).

Of course, allowing huge office towers to go up but refusing residential development doesn't help.
Default remote access off is perfectly fine, we don't need the mongo style security problems.

However the rest just seems to be a overbuilt mess. Why not start simple with barely and options and work up from there instead of trying to build in so many different configurations and features?

90% of use cases would be satisfied with a simple async replica on a different server started with any user that has read access to that database and a single command, along with the ability to become a standalone master anytime.

Redis (yes its a different database) has another nice and easy setup with a simple "slaveof" command.
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Oh yeah, that makes sense now. Cool mechanic.
Relativity and quantum mechanics means that clocks interfere with each other
I am not sure why you put the word currency in quotes. There have also been many state issued currencies that have done similar - see Thai Baht, Argentine Peso, Russian Ruble, Venezuelan Bolivar etc.
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function generateBitcoinSkepticism(oldPrice, newPrice) {
if (oldPrice > newPrice) {
return "It was a bubble all along.";
} else if (oldPrice < newPrice) {
return "Deflationary currencies can't work";
} else {
return "The market cap is too low to support a stable currency";
}
}
I experienced this a few years ago descending a hill on my MTB I hit a patch of black ice and crashed I can clearly remember looking at the car close behind and having time to think is he going to hit me
sorry, the punctuation was unclear. I meant to imply that B5 was successful. I'm not personally a huge fan of B5 (just kind of like it so-so), but the series did spin off several telefilms and at least one series. The series was also not too expensive to make because of heavy use of CGI.
The analogy is fatally flawed because, as GP points out, it's trivial to copy illicit material onto the medium in question. You can't copy blood, and I don't see how you can find and plant blood of a known murder victim.
On 2001-09-11 gasoline tripled, food doubled, and bottled water as much as quadrupled or quintupled in dollar pricing in parts of the US in less than a day.

Yes, there were in fact $4/gallon, $5/gallon, and even $8/gallon gasoline and diesel prices posted, many by noon. This also increased the price of everything shipped by truck for a while, too.

Prices came off that peak quickly, but took months to years to revert completely.
> would you say "most tech stocks aren't worth anything"?

On the base rate for tech: very little.

On the base rate for any business: a little.

https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/Business-Survival.pd...
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In the 'top 25 most common passwords' bit, what are the patterns behind '18atcskd2w' and '3rjs1la7qe'?
Agree. My experience in pricing was that we were locked in to the initial price we set. (And the CEO did it by accident. Oops.) No one could stomach raising it.

Then again, we didn't actually try raising it and face backlash. It's possible we were just too cowardly to try and fail.
Side question: the last time I watched broadcasts coming out of my unassociated iPhone, it was specifically asking for certain SSIDs. The set seemed somewhat random (I've joined all of them, but not recently), and I don't think any of them had ever been hidden networks.

Are these broadcasts viable for tracking (it seems like they would be)? Is there anything I can do as a user to mitigate the effects (other than turning off WiFi)?
And I'm arguing that his proof of mere existence has holes in it. At a minimum, step 3 is not a mechanistic step that can be simply asserted.

Or, rather, I assert that step 3 posits a degree of self-knowledge that no human actually possesses. Now you have to choose which unproven assertion you're going to believe, his or mine, or else you have to find a way to prove one or the other.
React is obvious, it's included with nearly every front-end posting these days whether the company uses it or not.

But other than that it looks like it is a good time to be a data engineer or a Gopher. I'm surprised that Go is the only high growth language, but I guess it coincides with Docker/DevOps/Sysadmin growth.
You need to hold it by at least three points, otherwise it will simply flop upwards like a flag. Your toes can't curl hard enough to hold onto a piece of fabric being pulled by a 120 mph wind, so the only way to make a sail is with your hands and your teeth. If you have a button-down, you can hold the corners at your sides to make a shitty wingsuit. I suppose there is a small advantage if you get to put your legs below you ("crumple zone") while still maximizing your cross-sectional area.

Most clothing fabrics are worse at stopping airflow than the tight nylon of a parachute, so the drag will be less than a chute of equal size. If you can somehow get it soaking wet it'll be more effective, as the fibers swell and make it less permeable to air; consequently, you might want to stick your shirt in your jeans before you piss yourself.
This looks super cool! How hard is it to run as a service on startup? I see code for speech interface - can it be run with a "wake word"?
This is ridiculous:

"the water needed to grow the tea leaves and the sugar cane"

I don't know much about tea growing, but I do know that sugar cane production is predominantly in areas where rainfall provides the water. If the fields weren't growing sugar cane, they'd be growing weeds and grasses - either way the water is gonna be used.
This is a really good native color picker http://sipapp.io
I think App Stores are a positive for consumers, so I do want the Windows store to succeed, but the downside of not being as pedantic as Apple about what is in there is that it's largely full of crap.
The whole theory of personal liberties collapses once you consider sufficiently powerful technology.

If there was a drug that gave the user unimaginable euphoria or was guaranteed to kill them with a 50/50 chance should we do everything in our power to stop that? Especially for the young and impressionable? Even as someone who thinks heroin should be legal that gives me pause.

Should knifes for personal use be legal to purchase? How about guns? How about artillery? Tanks? Nuclear weapons?

I don't know, but thinking about these issues in absolutes like "personal liberties" tends to bring you some bad places, just like any other absolute. I think it's more useful to think about the practical implications of our actions given existing data, which shows the current drug war clearly isn't working, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't ever have any sort of ban on substances purely intended for personal use for public health reasons.
Password managers suck as soon as you need to share a password - like the password for a SaaS admin panel used by several people at a business. Not all services support multiple users (or multiple admin) users.
of course, but I was thinking more towards the A/B testing approach to finding the demand curve that's commonly touted and follows reasonably scientific principles. My concern with customer-driven pricing is that customers will not be able to fully envisage what your offer will be and the effects it would have on their business, or might suggest a lower price than they would realistically pay. I'm glad it worked out well for you though :)
Do consider that, in many places in the U.S., anti-drug programs deliver the same ruinous message about all drugs, regardless of their actual dangerousness or potential to harm. When the children exposed to this rhetoric discover that drugs are not uniformly lethal - oftentimes through experimentation - this has the effect of undermining fundamentally the messaging they've heard (while also serving to discredit the person who warned them in the first place - often a police officer or other authority figure).
The barcodes are the same in the UK. Fun seeing people struggle with the idea of just putting your shopping back into your trolley and packing after paying.
Scraping Gwern's darknet market dataset (https://www.gwern.net/DNM%20archives) for my undergraduate thesis. Looking to see how police interventions affect costs of drugs on darknet markets and get a general sense of how the markets work (from an economic standpoint). I will publish a clean dataset along with my analysis once it is done.
It's been 10 years since the DARPA Urban Challenge. Maybe it's time for another self-driving car competition?

One possibility is an automaker that wants self-driving car technology would agree to acquire the winner for a certain price, but this would already exclude most of the big players (Waymo, Cruise, Argo, Delphi, Uber).

Another possibility is the competition is funded by the big auto corporations in order to advertise who has the best technology, similar to racing events.

The biggest benefit from a public competition like this would be to improve public perception of self-driving cars so they're more receptive to the technology (and more likely to buy it).
Losing my sight has always been one of my biggest fears. Reading this made that (slightly) less scary. It's amazing to see the progress we've made in accessibility as a society in the last decade alone!
Just finish my SaaS product pricing last week. Exit strategy plays here. You can set the price by % of the customer value or the cost + margin if you don't want to hack the business model.
The legs probably came from a sitting statue like this:

https://english-303-final.wikispaces.com/Historical+Content+...

While it is true that Shelley was motivated to write the poem by the imminent arrival in London of the Younger Memnon statue, the scene that the poem describes is not consistent with that particular statue (which consists of an upper torso) rather than a separate head and trunkless legs located in its original desert setting.
Guy Steele [1] sometimes mentions it. He gave an interesting Google Tech Talk called Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem [2], and at 1:59 [3] he said:

Also, algebraic properties are important. I've got a background in applied algebra, and I think that has informed my programming. And I think that making programmers aware of algebraic properties of their code, and communicating some of those properties to the compiler, may be worthwhile.

The language Fortress [4], which he was one of the language designers of, allowed one to explicitly provide the compiler with such information - you could say that a certain operation was distributive or associative for instance, and the compiler could then do some refactorings and optimizations taking this knowledge into account.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_L._Steele_Jr.

[2] https://youtu.be/ftcIcn8AmSY

[3] https://youtu.be/ftcIcn8AmSY?t=1m59s

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language...