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I don't know if I'll have any useful perspectives since my day-to-day work has me developing/researching/writing about/testing games, but here's how I do things.

I do find myself steering clear of particular games (particularly big scale turn based stuff like Civ) to avoid losing vast swaths of time, but I also feel like I don't spend enough recreation time when I've got big projects and contracts on the go.

To combat the latter a little bit, I started making playing "daily challenges" a part of my daily routine a year or so ago. Even though it's still screen time and no substitute for going for a ride or something, it's been a good way of making sure that I step back and unwind a bit for at least an hour a day and give time to a bunch of games that I love.

If it's helpful at all, I usually play Assault Android Cactus, Crypt of the NecroDancer and Nuclear Throne, then fire up Wine to play Spelunky and Battle Chef Brigade (which will be getting a Linux version \o/). On days where I want a bit more, I'll sometimes try a run at Sublevel Zero, or play some Distance.

I keep a "To Finish" list, which has all the games I've started, but not finished. I aim to make that at least 6 games shorter every year. If I can't manage that, then I feel like it's hard to justify buying new stuff. It also gives me a short list to jump onto when I do have time and am not sure what I want to play. The last thing I finished was "XCOM 2", and Quadrilateral Cowboy is what I'm currently working through.

Back when I used to run SteamLUG, we had at least two community game events every week, and the opportunity to play socially with other Linux gamers was a big draw. At one point we had a fairly active Guns of Icarus Online clan of Linux users that played twice weekly. I stopped that when I ported Day of the Tentacle to Linux, but I'd like to get back into it again soon!

Most importantly though, I play games with my family. My girlfriend and I game together (sometimes we play single player games and take turn at being co-pilot, and other times we play multiplayer games together). My Dad drops by at least once a week and we'll often poke around with some game or another. I put him in a couple of VR games yesterday and I think he had a blast. Baking game stuff into your normal recreation/family life makes it hard to feel guilty about that stuff.

All that said, I definitely feel like I don't have time to play all the games I'd like to play, but I feel like maybe there are so many games out there these days that even if I dedicated 24 hours a day to gaming, it wouldn't be possible to get through everything :)
I mean, it launched less than a month ago. Only wanting a single game so far is not that crazy. I'm sure they'll release a few more ;)
There really aren't any good trick to it-- it's just a matter of finding a good vantage point and watching each driver go by. You're supposed to note the color of the belt (black) and the color of the driver's shirt before pulling the car over. As you'd imagine, fatigue comes quickly-- I never did more than an hour or two at a time. (I still have no idea how the highway patrollmen can it all day, every day without losing their minds.)

NHTSA provides substantial grant funding for traffic-safety enforcement, conditional on the department's enforcement statistics for a particular set of safety-oriented violations, especially seatbelts. The brass encouraged us to take a minimum number of enforcement actions to maximize the chances of having the grant expanded. (It paid a for substantial chunk of our salaries and offered regular 1 1/2 overtime.)
It's no longer necessarily true that providers make money every time you get sick. Insurers have shifted risk to providers in some areas in the form of accountable care organizations (ACOs) which receive a flat fee per patient. So in theory the ACOs have a financial incentive to prevent you from getting sick.

Kaiser Permanente uses the same Epic EMR software as many other large provider organizations.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_%28finance%29

First line: Potential loss on a short sale is theoretically unlimited.
Comparing the inconvince of having to switch schools, not being able to volunteer and depending on healtcare/insurance to slavery is a massive insult to people that where and are actual slaves.

Actual slaves did not legally own themselves or their children. Their owners can did take children, parents, and spouse and sell them to different slaveholders so they would never see each other again. A slave could not say fuck this my master is rapping and beating me daily so I'm just going to leave.

If you want to a simple question to determine if someone is slave or not ask what happens if punch your boss in the face. An employe will be fired and never work their ever again, a slave will have to continue to work their for the rest of their life.
I think the difficulty with self education often boils down to nobody telling me, "here is what you will learn over the next three months on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10."

It seems to me that those difficulties are more psychological than structural in that learning on one's own is a bit scary, but Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 probably aren't going to work well for me because, like life, you know.

But it turns out that not having a timetable for completing the work and taking the test means I am free to take on learning mathematics or Lisp or Linux as long-term projects like learning architecture and the further in the rearview mirror college becomes the less all those years of habits in response to academic calendars seem like the natural order of the way things are learned. I'm by no means the smartest person to suggest this. [1]

Not knowing what to learn next has two issues, one is that outside of academia knowledge is not an iterable. There is no 'next' or rather there are infinitely many and photography is a next of Python and Linear Algebra is a next of FIFA 17 and all four can be learned concurrently. The second is that 'you will probably never use that after you get out of school' applies to things that are learned after getting out of school too.

My explicit advice: when you find the right thing to learn next you will look at high school and college and post-doc level resources with the similarly high levels of enthusiasm because you cannot get enough of the subject. You will also discard and skim resources at all those levels when the learning becomes smally incremental and later, perhaps several years, some you will circle around to because you did not understand them the first time or because you understand them differently now that you have learned more.

Good luck.

[1]: http://norvig.com/21-days.html
Were you already security saavy before or did you learn on the spot ? It's as exciting as scary, and I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole :)

(thanks for the answer btw)
There's also a nice gallery of online pgfplot examples at http://pgfplots.net
It's the capitalist system. If you want to set the objective, then get to work and create the means for yourself to do so. It's so easy to blame the boomers, but in my day job, all I see are younger people who expect a promotion after 6 months, while the boomers are happy to have a job, come in, do what's expected, and don't complain.
Though trade offer (list of products and their prices) may not be an intellectual property.
Are guns that essential to everyday life in the US that you have to carefully consider exactly how incapacitated someone is? I would think that even the slightest hint of incapacitation should be enough for someone to be denied a gun.
A treasure trove of amazing books Art Garfunkel (of Simon and Garfunkel) has been reading since 1968. He has lists that span thousands of books now.
They are all available here-> http://www.artgarfunkel.com/books.html
Did the article claim the Japanese invented the snow-blower?
He didn't say if it's per month or per year.
It wasn't infinitely bad for James Clapper to have lied under oath about NSA's data collection. It wasn't infinitely bad for the US to have been caught spying on Merkel. Etc. etc.

Everybody spies on everybody, everybody accuses everybody, everybody lies about both, gets caught and mostly doesn't care. The allegations prove just as much as the denials - nothing. Eventually one side will be caught lying, and nothing will happen to them.
I wonder the private plane had to be written off...was the damage that bad? It's like the plane broke apart ..maybe the probems were mostly internal
Equity podcast: The return of IPOs and Tesla’s billion-dollar bet
Random reads don't care how long it takes to read an entire disk.

Very few things do, really. It's pretty much just rebuilding a RAID or reorganizing your data storage hardware that care about full-disk transfer speed, and in those cases two days isn't a big deal.
Dito for CentOS.

Wow, this is really cool! Wish I had known about this sooner!
changed the landing page a bit to include a signup form instead of email. Email is ross@hireross.com.
Baidu Goes All in on AI
I don't know the volume of transactions they have, but in my past experience with SAP it was extremely hard and expensive to implement and make it scale (1~2 years for the initial implementation and migration and 10M+ USD spent), and we weren't even that big (~3M sales orders per year). Debugging it was also a nightmare, and they still had frequent data integrity issues, even just between SAP modules.
I think that's one for "Ask HN" :-)
This is happening for me in the US East Coast and disabling QUIC fixed the issue.
Researchers in China One Step Closer to Parallel Turing Machine
The article said the plane had been subject to very intense g forces, so I would imagine substantial structural damage. They should feel lucky that it didn't fall apart.
Would you be ok with a mandatory helmet law for car drivers and passengers? The risk of a head injury that a helmet would prevent is much higher in a car, and carrying a helmet around in your car is more convenient than on your bike (e.g. it's much less likely to get stolen). Nevertheless, we don't have mandatory helmet laws for people in cars; why is that?
Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs Down
They won't do it, they stopped the production. But they are working on a SNES version.
I agree with him and I still love the game. I feel like they could have made it so much better without too much effort by simply making a couple different decisions in terms of gamplay.
I feel like the gun debate has been so muddied here in the United States. The Constitution allows us to have guns so we can overthrow a tyrannical government. Evidence from other countries shows us that if we decreased the amount of guns, we would probably expect less violence/murder. So then the question is, how much violence do we put up with in society so that we can preserve our ability to make a meaningful stand against the government?

If we can settle that we can have a better guide when trying to draw these lines in the sand.
Let's put it this way: I wrote my diploma thesis in LyX, but went back to emacs+latex for my PhD. I did not regret it.
Matplotlib is close, but I get results with gnuplot quicker.

My students all started out using root/matlab/whatever for plots. Except for the matlab guy, sooner or later, they all switched to gnuplot. Not forced by me.
That's just the zombie apocalypse regardless of what brings down modern society.
"Going short on one market" = "I can expose myself to losing a sum of money that I don't have if it goes tits up"
We take our rights seriously.

A car is much more dangerous than a gun and I doubt you'd suggest that the "slightest hint of incapacitation" should be enough for someone to be denied a driver's license.
Interesting. I wonder if the etcd API would survive being implemented this way?
> A guardian makes legal decisions for them, and their names go on an FBI list so they can't purchase guns.

That about sums it up in my view. Gun ownership is a serious responsibility and if the mental health challenges of an individual prevent them from being able to make their own legal decisions, it seems reasonable to limit their access to deadly weapons.
Indeed, the depth of storytelling and characters is really special. Visual helps too. I just started Hearts of Stone addition, and it's consistently better than any RPG I played is last 24 years... for me.
Looking for Blood and Wine!
Base on that, why Google (apart from being Google) and DuckDuckGo are able to legally list links (with images and small descriptions) to products in their shopping/products sections of search.
Agreed, consulting is more than just lowering the bill once.

That doesn't change that they don't have the funds to pay the fees though.
I'm not going that far. What I read implied it was either a mental slip or illegible writing. Some of the drug names look similar when they're written in chicken scratch.
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Except we've had multiple nutjobs go on massive killing sprees in schools, movie theaters, and every open space you can think of, yet so far we have failed to get anything banned.
I'm confused. You're suggesting the republican-controlled US house of representatives is engaged in some kind of conspiracy to ban firearm ownership, by making it easier to get firearms?
> This can also bring back collosiums where unwanted die for the pleasure of ruling class.

Not dying, but the abundant talent shows where a whole generation seems to sacrifice all regular career ambition for a nonexistent fairy tale already comes close. On the other hand, maybe the kids somehow have a very prophetic hunch that taking a crapshot at becoming the nation's "next top model" or whatever will eventually turn out to be a less terrible bet than fighting for scraps in an environment of increasingly automation-driven capitalism that simply does not need them anymore.

The Black Mirror episode (spoilers!) with the training bikes nailed that quite well. When I watched it I was disappointed with the implausibility of a high tech society powered by the meagre 2 kWh you might realistically extract from a human per day. But this could actually be a subtle point made by the authors: the bikes are not really powering their economy, they are just a semi-plausible bullshit job made up in-world to make handouts look like a hard-earned wage, probably intended to fool those spinning the bikes as much as the elite who enjoys having the plebs nicely boxed up out of sight in underground caverns.
The liability from short-selling on exchange A is balanced by the buy order on exchange B. The failures you described in LTCM and Bear Sterns bear no relation whatsoever to what the OP is describing. I suggest reading more on long-short arbitrage before disparaging someone's ideas with such condescension.
Of course, general aviation is much more dangerous. As a general rule, the smaller the plane, the riskier it is, partially due to the corresponding increase in regulatory scrutiny as the size of the aircraft grows. Private pilots need a minimum of ~50 hours for their license. Most newly-hired jet pilots, private and commercial, have at least 1500 hours, and many have more than that.
Not sure if I'm reading this right, but it appears that the legislation adds a requirement that veterans deemed unfit require a court hearing before being blocked access to a firearm. If so, this seems like due process.

People who don't like guns want to prevent people from owning them. Those people usually go for the low hanging fruit that appeals to most people like preventing the mentally ill to buy firearms. However it is important to note some unpleasant facts like the fact that 11% of Americans are on some antidepressant and probably many more were on some anti depression medication in the past [0]. Preventing access to those seemed mentally unfit (by some standards) would prevent a significant portion of the us population from owning a firearm. Whether that's right or wrong, I can't say.

http://www.medicaldaily.com/antidepressants-arent-taken-depr...
We all do this, but how legal is it? If people end up in prison for pen testing without permission, how safe is to intentionally alter the user-agent, circumvent captchas, javascript and other protections? Can that be considered as hacking a site and stealing the data?
I found matlabl2tikz to be superior to plot2latex. I did my honours thesis with plot2LaTeX+inkscape and my PhD one with a matlab2tikz, so I've had a fair experience with both.

I have created some high quality, complex plots out through matlabl2tikz with no problem. I haven't had the issues the author notes and I'd suggest they file a bug report. The m2t community is active and friendly.

The other bonus of m2t is you can edit the files in PGFplots, which is a powerful and complete language/library. For my use case, it was important that my plots be repeatable, so manually doing it with Inkscape would be tedious. Having easily editable source code allowed me to write scripts to filter the output to what I needed.

The one problem I did find is that pgfplots can be quite slow. This isn't m2t's fault though and can be overcome with TikZ's cache system.

Disclosure: I wrote the path simplification in matlab2tikz, but nothing else.
>That's ok. 6 Billion dollars will buy 24 new fighter jets. Or one aircraft carrier. Or a lot of congress persons. Or 4 years of trips to a florida golf course on weekends.

Actually, you're wrong about the aircraft carrier, assuming you mean a Ford-class nuclear carrier. Those are up to $15B now!
Show HN: AWS Lambda without cold starts
Given the amount of money the government has for defense and domestic intelligence spending, its utterly ridiculous to think just having the right to bear arms would give us the ways and means to forcefully abolish the state.
On the other hand, discouraging people who own guns from seeking help for mental health issues is not ideal either.
I have just determined that you are mentally incapacitated by my very own definition and judgement. Sorry.
Now extrapolate that to the general population.
True, but there are different levels/types of slavery.
Ask HN: Where do you guys get logo work done?
I've worked on a zillion projects, never paid anyone to do anything design related. But for a couple recent that seem to be getting traction, I want to get something proper done for logo work. But I'm not apt to spend a bazillion dollars on a simple logo.

Have you found decent success with something like Fiverr for ~$100 or less?
Wow, think you bolded enough words there Sethbot?
Ask HN: TED talk about full stack, what would you talk about?
Let's say you would give a TED talk about how the modern web and modern web applications work. The talk has the title "Full Stack For Beginners". What would be your (say 5) main topics?
It was the same with Czeslaw Miłosz (poet Nobel laureate) - he wrote that, if he tried to live off his writing, he'd had to resort to writing commercial novels, which for him was dreadful. He chose to be a Slavic literature professor at Berkeley instead, and wrote poetry in spare time.
MAGIC – Clojure Compiler for the CLR
Cloud Foundry Advisory Board Meeting, Mar 2017: Mantra, Dingo PostgreSQL, Etc
Something like that: https://github.com/rystsov/perseus/blob/master/gryadka/src/e...
You can't get a drivers license if your vision falls below 20/40. That's a "slight hint of incapacitation".

Edit to clarify: ...without also requiring eye correction. Of course you can wear glasses to drive, but it becomes mandatory, and without that eye correction you cannot get a license.
Let's say 1 Rack of 42 * 1U servers.

That's about the upfront costs of servers ONLY.

Ignoring cooling, all personal costs, electricity, networking gear, network storage and future maintenance.
Was HN built today? :) In both cases, you are talking about websites were there's minimal interaction with the website and all you do is read. While that's ok for certain kinds of products, it's not for all of them. So I think we agree that design doesn't make the software, but most devs are used to having weird interfaces and interactions that aren't always clear to normal users. (I'm saying this as a full stack dev myself while looking at the colleagues that I've worked with in the past/present)
Given how powerful the US military is, doesn't it mean that only a coup by the army could overthrow the government? And if that happens, well, they already have all the weapons they need, don't they? If the army remains loyal to the government I can't see how a bunch of civilians could overthrow anything, no matter how many guns they own.

That being said I've never been to the USA in my life so I won't pretend I understand the culture over there.
"Gun ownership is a serious responsibility…”

In the US it is a civil right guaranteed in the Constitution, too. This makes limiting that right a serious step and, in this case, it’s the reasonable-ness of the rule that’s in question.
>heat death of the universe

Off topic here, but there is no such thing as the heat death of the Universe. The second princile of thermodynamics (entropy cannot decrease in a closed system) does not hold at cosmic scales. That's because that principle assumes the gravity is negligible compared to the other forces that move the molecules around, which is a perfectly valid approximation for all human-scale systems (such as engines). At cosmic scales gravity becomes dominant and the entropy of closed systems can and does spontaneously decrease. For example a giant gas cloud evolves to become a spinning disc and then a planetary system.
I'm no Github expert however, I have contributed to other repos without having write access. Could the software fork a repo and submit a PR rather than giving it write access?

I guess I answered my own question. A person could fork a repo and give write access to the fork, preserving their initial copy.
What a ridiculous comment, a gun's only purpose is to kill, and yes, incapacitated people should not be driving if they present a danger to other road users.
Rationing was still in place when my parents were children (they are early boomers), even after that material goods and many foods weren't readily available, you can see how they developed the attitude that accumulation is important.

Unfortunately they haven't been able to turn it off and their constant pursuit of comfort hasn't done them any good in the longer term.
Isn't the whole point of a gun to kill people though, unlike a car?
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This process has been abused by anti-gun localities to strip people of their gun collections for the most MINOR of prescription drug use.

http://reason.com/blog/2013/04/11/take-xanax-lose-your-guns
I'm looking at the vertical sides of the cut, and I'm really surprised it doesn't collapse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_repose
If your audience like/expect/demand pie charts I find donut charts to be a nice alternative. They do essentially the same thing but prevent people from trying to interpret the area of wedges.

http://www.datavizcatalogue.com/methods/donut_chart.html