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> Sonic is incorrect game design

Roguelike also require repetition to learn and master, in conjunction with skillful assessment. Games are the exploration of a fixed environment to discover and exploit linear optimizations for abstract goals.

Historically, this has been a training tool for children and students, to prepare for life challenges. e.g. Wargames are for those who are students of war. There's nothing inherently wrong about the game design of Sonic, which is why the conclusion does not fit the stated premise.
EagleTree Acquires Majority Stake in Corsair for $525M
Don't be fooled into thinking a soft-fork is the "same chain". It simply tricks nodes that don't know about SegWit into validating transactions that they don't really know how to validate.

It's possible for a non-SegWit miner to accidentally mine an invalid block after the soft-fork. Here is how.

The "backwards-compatibility" of SegWit comes from the fact that it looks like an anyone-can-spend transaction. Meaning, on the old blockchain, those coins would be up for grabs.

Nodes that support SegWit know that it is not really an anyone-can-spend transaction, because they have extra data not included in the blockchain.

But a node that doesn't upgrade doesn't know about this. So here's what could happen:

1) Bob sends sends a SegWit transaction to Alice

2) The non-SegWit node sees it as an anyone-can-spend transaction where Bob is basically giving up his coins

3) Eve wants to mess with the non-SegWit node, so she sends it a (valid!) transaction which spends Bob's coins and sends them to Eve

4) The non-SegWit miner mines a block with that transaction, and the block is consequently rejected by the SegWit nodes

So SegWit needs 51% of hashing power in order to work, just like a hard fork. Without it, they wouldn't be able to reject the block with Eve's transaction, which would've been valid on the old blockchain.

The only difference is that the above edge-case exists for a soft fork, whereas for a hard fork, non-upgraded nodes would simply be split into a smaller network instead of being tricked.
Why is this such a big deal? You're using an adblocker which interferes with the site. The requests are blocked immediately and don't hit the network so its not wasting any resources. Is there really a complaint about requests being made in the first place now?
College Football on the other hand...
A lot of people here seem to be advocating the superior experience that native apps provide, but forgetting how saturated the app market is and what a poor job Apple does to help its users discover new apps.

Further, the majority of US smartphone users download zero apps in a typical month. What's the point of making a "superior" app, if no one is ever going to see it?
https://qz.com/253618/most-smartphone-users-download-zero-ap...

From a user perspective, I care less about whether the app is a PWA or native, and more about the "goal" I'm trying to achieve. If my goal is to find a new house, a PWA allows me to instantly see results (without first having to download an app), then use native-like features such as being notified when new properties are available. I can use these features after I visit a given website and am prompted to save the app to my homescreen.

Compare this to the random native apps that people accumulate on their phone until it slows down so much that they have to perform an "app purge".
Not an endorsement or evaluation, was simply summarizing the article. The tone was my way to indicate my disappointment with an article that failed to life up to the headline. For someone with years of experience he/she didnt share any of the details that would have made this interesting.
I used to like them a lot with the iAudio X5. That was a great device. However, I had issues with their flash line i7 so I gave up on them.
Apologies for the slow reply.

I've used Lazarus when I've had small GUI apps I wanted to make. Other times, I'll just use Turbo Pascal in DOSBox when I'm just trying to have some fun and make simple little games.
Thanks for the kind words! The complexity of traditional wikis inspired us to build Nuclino. We definitely plan to keep the experience as smooth and simple as possible :)
The quotation "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means"?

"Conservative" in the political spectrum doesn't mean conservative in all areas, like eating habits or personal finance. It just means they prefer government to maintain the traditions, values, and customs that were in place before. My turn for a quote:

"When I use a word ... it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.

When discussing politics or law, you have to be aware of the context of words. They don't always abide by their definition in the vernacular.
> However, I don't think a laptop and an iPad will fit into one bin without overlapping each other.

Not a problem in US, the X-ray devices show the operator a view X, Y and Z axis so sandwich isn't a problem. And if there is an uncertainty, it can be checked manually. A separate bin per bigger device would increase the queue length.
Log scales aren't intuitive to humans. I think it's a great example because that's sort of what it tricks you into doing.
There's obviously a bias, but the mentioned study claimed that even if the rate of CTE were 0% among brains not donated to the study, their sample would still be large enough to indicate a significant deviation from the general population.
The way I thought about it is that Bill Gates : Donald Trump :: Donald Trump : a wealthy-ish Silicon Valley employee. (This was after a NYTimes article on Trump's true wealth, which was several years before he ran for president.)

Say you have $1M. Then Donald Trump might have 200 times more than you, or $200 M (they were saying he's not really a billionaire). But Bill Gates has 200 times more than him -- $40 B. (And apparently now Bill Gates has $90 B).

And I guess you could extend it further say that an average young person working in retail might have $5K in savings, which is 200x less than the Silicon Valley employee.

So people think that there are three classes: poor, middle, class, rich (Donald Trump). But there is actually another full class above him: the super-rich like Bill Gates.
It might be what you say, but in many cases it might also be a necessity. I built my first array with 10x1TB disks (starting with 3) for my home server when I was a student/got my first job and could only afford one disk every now and then. Linux' expandable mdraid worked like a charm multiple times. I probably wouldn't have bothered (and would have lost data or limited my hoarding) if I had to save for a year just for a fileserver. I am not talking about precious data but data don't have to be irreplaceable to want to protect them.
Did you upgrade the BIOS? Maybe it was the RAM? I'm running an ASRock AB350 Pro4 with a 1700 and Linux without problems.
I was just watching Ender's Game ..
Ask HN: Converting Static website to Dynamic website
We have a set of static websites , we are trying to convert this static website to a dynamic website.
What would be the best way to do this? Specifically, can we do this in bulk i.e. convert multiple static websites in dynamic website.

Any suggestions can be of great help to us.
"A terrorist might as well detonate a bomb for all the people patiently queued to be inspected for bombs."

That is precisely what happened in the Brussels bombing. The Manchester bombing also happened at the general entrance of the arena, not inside.
Our 6 week product cycles
facebook lite is also super lite on data usage. They had a whole article a while back about how they got high-quality profile & banner pictures without sucking up the user's data.
The use of a bow and arrows is also unique to humans (as far as I know) but I don't see that as a compelling argument that humans have an innate, unique and specific bow n' arrow faculty.

Neither is the complexity of human language alone an argument for a specific and innate human faculty to support language - no more than the complexity of the human body is enough to support the theory of intelligent design.

In fact the whole debate reminds of the intelligent design argument. The theory itself is hardly falsifiable (or at least it keeps getting modified to avoid new found inconvenient facts - compare the original strong claims of a universal grammar with the vagueness of the current version of Chomsky's theory of language). It provides little or no predictive value as a theory; for example, you'd imagine it would explain the patterns of language acquisition in children but it doesn't[1]. And it seems it's difficult to debate the subject without the discussion becoming heated and politically charged.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-c...
for production. rewrites on your own time can be a great way to learn the ins and outs of a problem.
All of your arguments could apply to cosmetic surgery just as well.

I don't agree with your wholesale assertion that all of those who are unable to afford cosmetic surgery (larger breasts, hair implants...) are suffering, however.
His arguments are generally not hard to refute, they are infrequently grounded in empiricism. But when they are he is usually correct and insightful.
Does it provide 2FA? I'm looking for a tool like this, but my company handles a lot of sensitive material and so having 2FA is a hard requirement.
That is a good point, but also a feature in my view. I see my chromebook as a mobile workstation, so more or less everything on it is backed up in a git repository, cloud storage, that sort of thing. ChromeOS automatically restores extensions and installed Android apps, and I usually keep builds of software I use in crouton on separate external flash storage; 16-32GB of internal storage isn't that much when you have to build from sources because ARM binaries are still fairly rare.

So an inadvertent wipe is really just an inconvenience of 30-60 minutes, and if it's a border patrol or TSA agent you can then have fun acting all indignant at how they broke your device and you lost so much work and your boss is gonna kill you and you want to talk to their supervisor right now.

The lack of hardware security is a consideration, but frankly if your device is handled by a malicious actor outside of your control, you're kinda screwed anyways.
Many people cannot visualize log scale.
Where do you get the ranking data? It would be nice to see a small summary of what the companies do. If you add a growth rate graph, that would help too.

Good job.
The problem is, there's too much they're trying to show you. They can't fit it all, and users would get bored quickly if they tried. If I saw everything my 300+ "friends" on Facebook did every day, plus everything every page I followed said, plus everything that's recommended, plus every ad they wanted to show all shown in the same order they were posted in, I'd be scrolling for five minutes and only be a few moments back in time.

And for other people, they'd look at it once a day, and the next day might be exactly the same. So what's the point in visiting constantly?

It's done to hide how active or inactive your social graph actually is.
Finally some info, but seems like they downplayed it a bit :

7:28 AM PDT Between 6:47 AM and 7:10 AM PDT we experienced increased launch failures for EC2 Instances, degraded EBS volume performance and connectivity issues for some instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.

https://status.aws.amazon.com/
Connecting one billion users everyday
> most users don't feel the need to run a node already.

That's a big part of the issue. Already people prefer to run lite clients for convenience. There are heavy systemic risks that get worse and worse as the number of full nodes decrease. Back room deals become a lot easier for those who do run full nodes, because there aren't enough people running full nodes to prevent unfavorable network changes.

One you have synced your node, an HDD isn't a big deal but if you only run your node every few weeks or months you have thousands of blocks to sync each time. Then it's a pain, and SSDs are nicer. (This is my personal situation). I typically only boot my node if I intend to spend or receive coins, the sync time is already frustrating to me on an SSD and i7.

You don't want an ecosystem where only enthusiasts are verifying transactions. That's abusable, and if it forms a significant part of the economy it absolutely will be abused.
That's exactly my point, yes. I often see people talking about the dangers of not having enough nodes but I think it's wildly overblown.

In practice as long as you have at least a few thousand nodes run by a variety of uncooperating users around the globe it should be enough to handle all the transactions and raise an alarm if anybody attempts something foul. The amount of coordination required to carry an attack by taking over the node network seems rather implausible.

For one thing you'd have to convince all the big exchanges and the miners to play along and then you'd have to hope that none of the people running the thousand of nodes would see the fork and raise the alarm publicly.

It might however make it easier to run "transaction malleability" attacks however but that's an other issue altogether and ought to be fixed in the short term.
that sounds like a very pragmatic separation. Well done! What are you doing with AI?
Apparently I was misremembering and it does continue booting after a few seconds without input. I didn't see any output because I needed to configure TTY settings.

Additionally, the manual tells you how to adjust the default boot settings.

After years of dealing with poor documentation, it takes some habit-building in order to check the openbsd manual every time you have a question. On Linux my first impulse is Google/StackOverflow.
Personal, usually C++, so that I keep my skills up to date. Now playing with C++17 features.

Professionally, Java or .NET based languages.

The exact one depends on the customer, but mostly Java or C#.

WPF, UWP, Android, JavaFX if I am able to suggest "native" based solutions.

JEE or ASP.NET if actually must be web based.

For web projects straight ES 6 on the browser side.

If talking with databases, Transact SQL, PL/SQL or pg/SQL as well.
Hill for the data scientist: an xkcd story
Priceline.com and their horrible service
A broad REIT, almost certainly Vanguards. You are going to sacrifice ROI for low cost/low headache diversification.
The actual proposal is here: http://aturon.github.io/blog/2017/07/26/revisiting-rusts-mod...
Termux is pretty awesome. I used it for most of my work when working on a Pixel C.

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/working-on-android-2017/
https://nuxtjs.org/ I presume?
Customer Discovery: Getting to the Root of a Problem
And what kind of blow will decentralization take when no one wants to run a node that only serves the purpose of settlement for a few large players?

The BW calculations are misleading - that counts transmitting the blockchain to other nodes. To validate transactions and participate, you don't need to upload it, only download. Also, if we consider transaction history irrelevant since Lightning or other offchain solutions are OK, then all that is needed is the last few blocks and UTXO.

As Satoshi said, once client-only is in, it doesn't really matter, and the answer is to not care how big it gets. (Sure, quoting him isn't an end-all, but it shows the original design goals.)

Also, none of this explains why an increase to say, 2MB was never done, unless it's a game of chicken.
I was told that verbally by someone that lives in Dubai and sells to ultra high net worth individuals.

Here are some attempt at explanations:

https://www.quora.com/Why-arent-the-Arab-sheikhs-among-the-m...

The Forbes methodology rules ranks individuals rather than large, multi generational families who share fortunes.

A WikiLeaks document mentions lots of behind-the-scenes ways that the arab royals siphon money. So I guess it's impossible for Forbes or anyone to know their true net worth:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/28/wikileaks-saudi-roy...
Building a Responsive Timeline in CSS with Sass and BEM
Joel's anecdote was refreshing to read! Thanks for the share! Bill Gates is definitely remarkable
There isn't any, because its one of those evidence of absence things.

Until we understand Dolphins, parrots Uncommon ants and other communicators as well as we understand common ants we won't know if they do or do not grok recursion.
> physics programs are supposed to offer interactivity. Else whats the point?

To solve differential equations for which analytical solutions do not exist?

Edit: Differential inclusions, if inequality constraints are included in the system (as they would here).
The history of dual-pane file managers
You've just defined the real interest rate, as opposed to the nominal rate
"Given the Mendelian genetic lottery, the kids produced by any one couple typically differ by 5 to 15 IQ points. So this method of "preimplantation embryo selection" might allow IQ within every Chinese family to increase by 5 to 15 IQ points per generation. After a couple of generations, it would be game over for Western global competitiveness.

...."

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838
> It can't be as fast as native as long as there's still the browser underneath - non-native experience.

This is going to radically change with Webassembly, stay tuned.
The DeepMind debacle demands dialogue on data
Here's the primary piece:

> At BGI Shenzhen, scientists have collected DNA samples from 2,000 of the world’s smartest people and are sequencing their entire genomes in an attempt to identify the alleles which determine human intelligence. Apparently they’re not far from finding them, and when they do, embryo screening will allow parents to pick their brightest zygote and potentially bump up every generation's intelligence by five to 15 IQ points.

It's also interesting to note this was authored in 2013. I would be curious to know the kinds of things discovered in the ~4 year span.
Not entirely true. Anyone who's EARNED their PhD might very well have a brain worth preserving, but there's many PhDs out there who purchased their doctorate from degree mills, and are dumber than a box of rocks.
And you're likely not even considering the Fame and fortune parts as well as the ability to parlay that money and noteriety into something with the degree.
> I might try learning lenses too next time

It's difficult, but worth it. Lenses are super cool. They also play well with Aeson. There's a package lens-aeson that has a bunch of useful stuff. You can actually operate directly on Text values and treat them as JSON structures.
I second the plane idea. Though actually the seat doesn't matter since he'll want to look out both windows to see the drop in both ways. Else he can just say, "The plane was tilted."

The connection between height and distance that this shows is why old ships used to have a crows nest. I love that connection, and you know how to do the calculation for why it matters. But proving that it is right is harder, particularly if you don't live near a large body of water.

With a bit more trig and a map you should be able to figure out the angle above the horizontal that a mountain somewhere in the visible distance should be. That angle should not be the same as it would be if it was flat. Verify it. Go driving somewhere else, verify it again using the same mountain.

But honestly, I'm personally most convinced by the fact that a phone call to someone in a different time zone makes it easy to verify that you're pointing different directions relative to the Sun.

As much as people like to point to things like eclipses, that relies on knowledge that you cannot verify yourself. I prefer verifications that you can duplicate with direct observation, without relying on outside experts. Because flat Earthers do not trust experts.
Urschel at least has another passion and career that he can focus on. I expect for a lot of players the problem is also that, if they quit, then what? What do they do with themselves? How do they support themselves and their families when they're no longer on a pro's salary?
Download firefox if you are on android! chat works on m.facebook.com on firefox but not on chrome.
Yes, I was assuming a known blocker. I know none that removes DOM elements.
This article is a train wreck of nonsense, misunderstanding and predictions of the future. It is just talking about research of finding correlation in genomes and intelligence. Also Japan is the largest holder of US treasuries, followed closely by china.
Worth reading as usual and for the economic theory alone.
That's close to what happened.

The first relevant version of compiler tools were called PGE/TGE, written in PIR and based on the notion of attribute grammars and grammar engines. The first versions of NQP grew out of those.

I believe early versions of NQP were hosted in the Parrot repo, but they started to be developed out of tree and eventually were completely hosted out of the tree.

NQP was an improvement over PGE/TGE in many ways, so some of Parrot's internal tools were created in or ported to NQP.

Eventually (I believe with NQP-rx), NQP forked into an incompatible version out of tree. As you mention, when the next incompatible revision of NQP was being planned, it was no longer an attractive target for Parrot, because it was:

* developed out of tree
* developed out of Parrot's release cycle
* backwards incompatible
* "backend independent"

In particular, migrating existing, working Parrot tools to a new language which offered little beyond busywork to gain "backend independence" wasn't worth the effort. (Having NQP go unsupported for existing tools wasn't great either, especially given that one explanation for "backend independence" was that Parrot tools weren't evolving fast enough to support Rakudo features -- still feels like a circular argument.)

I still maintain that it made little sense for Parrot to depend on an external project, evolving rapidly, offering little stability, with the express intent to obviate Parrot.
And why the fuck should anyone care about this non issue?
Thanks!

If you signup you can get the list for free and get the updates that we are going to send later which will include things like you are talking about;

-Growth Rate Graph
-Has growth slowed in the past quarter
-Which ones took money, etc.

The ranking data is somewhat based on the # of employees a company has and how quickly it grows.
Elixir and Phoenix

It's incredibly productive, you get the benefits of microservices with the development and deployment style of monoliths thanks to umbrella apps and there's not a single performance based concern I can think of that it can't handle.

Plus it simplifies infrastructure significantly by removing the need for much outside of Postgres.
UX: Google Chrome’s and Apple Safari’s Prompt on a Touch Bar
> This is not a rejection of the first sale doctrine. This is about Birkenstock being free to choose their distributors.

Not so, the article says "He emphasized that the German shoemaker prohibits shop owners from selling, distributing or shipping its products to resellers". It doesn't distinguish resellers from distributors. What if I buy a pair, never open or wear them, then a year later want to get rid of them by selling them as "New"? Under this policy the store I purchased them from would be closed.
I used to pay for a subscription to Railscasts, and it was money well spent. It's too bad that Ryan stopped making new videos.

Railscasts was awesome. In particular, I really loved the ASCIIcast feature on each video. I can't say enough about how helpful that site was in terms of helping me learn Rails.
how is it the best knowledge exchange platform when most statements or arguments quickly end with "twitter isn't the best place for this convo"
That view is hugely annoying, even when you group unread and read, both are paginated separately. Perhaps there's some configuration I need to set..
i strongly second this need for a routine proceses, with whatever tool.