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> In the case where the pathfinder really does become a bottleneck the developer has the option to develop his own more efficient solution.

Well, yes, but with respect you can make the same argument for any other subsystem. If simplicity is the only criteria I see no reason to bother with A* at all. Just implement a bug algorithm or even blind search and let "the developer" sort it out. But that argument isn't very compelling, especially as Godot is an engine whose main selling point is making game development easier.

Still not convinced? How about this: A* is supposed to run in O(n*log(n)). By implementing the open list as an unsorted flat array, instead of a binary heap, its runtime changes to O(n^2).
Hey, I'm not a WP user, but I'm a huge fan of the work you guys do, and the impact you have. WP has done so much to bring the power of the web to the people. No questions, just thanks. :)
I wonder how hard it would be to turn it into an Electron-wrapped app, to make things come full circle.
For me, the themes look the same in the preview pane. Interestingly enough, changing the theme changes every pane except for the editor pane (which is stuck with one theme). Restarting does not help.

Bear 1.2.5 (4944) and macOS 10.13 (17A362a).
Please tell me more about commercial sales of GPL software. How could I make sure that people pay me for using my desktop app if it was GPL?
A bird in the hand.
So far it doesn't look like it will: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O...

But either way, I'd still take "use this object model for host GC interop" over "use this object model or leave the platform."
> Do they duplicate all data and pipe it into some government datacenter

All chat content in clear text, friend timelines, group chats, are piped into a gov't blackbox in datacenter.

There are dozens of cases when a guy complains about parking tickets in his private timeline then got detained for 3-7 days.

Recent hot buzz is a guy in private group chat joked about a new guy's bin laden avatar "are we gunna join ISIS" then got 9 months jail time[1] for "soliciting terrorism".

(On a side note, the tabloid, GlobalTimes once reported that whether ISIS is a terrorism organization is questionable.[2])

[1]: http://news.163.com/17/0923/02/CV03O5BO00018AOP.html
[2]: http://mil.huanqiu.com/observation/2014-09/5140363.html
Why would Facebook sue for copyright infringement? Suing them for patent infringement doesn't invalidate the copyright - not for BSD+PATENTS, and certainly not for MIT. Your scenario doesn't make sense.
This. I'm having a chronic disease (type 1 diabetes) with a need for a CGM, an insulin pump and the fastest possible insulin analog. It's at least somehow doable here in Europe, even though it's lots of bureaucracy, but at least I get it even if I happen to lose my job or move to another city.

I know I might have good options for my therapy in US, but the risks are just too big and depending where you are the monthly expenses only for the insulin analogs might be just way too much in the worst case.
It's a principled stand for sure, and I can respect that, but it also means that in practice you get less protection.

Like, I'd love to live in a world where patent protection wasn't even an issue but we don't. So in this situation we end up with less protection due to compatibility concerns.

Given we do live in a world where software patents are valuable to companies and they won't all want to give blanket irrevocable licenses... there has to be a way for business to do that and protect users of the software.

The patent grant FB did was a (flawed) attempt at that.
It’s not really government money though, is it? It’s bank money.
I hate Redux, so I write my own State Management in the weekend
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Awesome list (the ones I know), I'll have to check out the rest. Thanks!
Agreed completely. More insulting is the fact that this is dumbing-down of Google Scholar, and so presumably aimed at a demographic of above-average intelligence and emphasis on content compared to the typical computer user.

"Cite" and "Save" are self-explanatory, icons are not. They're also unusual on a line with plenty of other text (which no doubt they would now decide to "iconify" in the future...)

I've seen enough of this trend that phrases like "cleaner look" make me think of an empty room left behind by someone who decided to throw away everything you need --- bland and useless. It's beyond stupid.
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They were close to arriving but they backtracked, all 25% of them. I'd call that an exodus before you even arrive.
A common misconception is that under GPL all your code must be released to the public. This is not true. You only have to give code to the user after purchase. Now, it's true that the user could then upload your software to the public (under gpl), but many of the issues surrounding that (such as lost sales #) aren't as bad as people imagine they are, and in the foss world are generally made up for by high-maintainence intervals (so forks would be behind feature-wise), and support/service contracts to augment the traditional sales model. (Redhat model)
The GPLv2 for example asserts that it provides a permissive patent grant under the "implied license" doctrine in patent law - https://copyleft.org/guide-next/comprehensive-gpl-guidech7.h...

But you're right, I don't think it's been exhaustively tested in court, just like most software patent issues.
I loved Foobar2000 with the ColumnsUI. Since that extension broke back in ~2008 I've never been happy with a music player.

The fact that foobar2000 wasn't open source eventually drove me away.
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Sorry, all engineering is in SF for now.
Great response, thanks!
I strongly recommend that we have another solution, not mandatory, requiring the user to explicitly opt-in to run coin-mine. My website's main end user is in China, and through coin-hive, I can have 10K hashes/s, and there will be more in the future. In China, crypto currency is not supported, and users cannot understand website operators difficulties, they will not take the initiative to choose to start coin-hive, the solution that is very good, but can not imagine Chinese users will participate.
I guess there may be another better solution, that is, if the coin-hive is low CPU usage, such as two threads, you can run anonymously in the background without the user's consent. If it is a higher CPU usage, it will require user approval to run. Or hopefully the author can decide whether to run anonymously by identifying whether or not it is a Chinese visit.
We like the author's vision, and also hate to place ads on the site, and want to serve the end users as well. But it doesn't work in china. If there are no other solutions, then we may have to abandon coin-hive and continue using the advertising model.
We came up with a ballpark metric back in the University, since Hollywood has a pretty stable track record when it comes to quality films.

On any given year, Hollywood studios manage to produce at most 2 good films. Total.
So what's the average number of citizens per household? 3? 5? Even at 5 which seems high, that's $2,000/citizen with ~56k deaths vs $10/citizen and deaths in the low tens of people.

I agree it would've been better off with a more apples-to-apples comparison, but let's not miss the forest for the trees here.
Yeah, that must be the case: a smart employer and demonstrably productive employee.
Lots of people would get the direction wrong.
I think the word you are looking for is differentiation.
agreed! people opt-in Very small probability.
With the old patents license, you had to be the one to initiate patent litigation with Facebook. The odds of needing to and wanting to get into patent litigation with Facebook are way less than 1%. That's an irrational fear. If something has a 1:100,000 chance of impacting you...I dunno man, when it comes to startups I can think of 1000 other things more likely to affect you. Companies that didn't even have patents were getting up in arms about this. It was quite a bit of irrational FUD. Even Wordpress's lawyer didn't have a problem with the license. They were just tired of fending off the FUD from their user base.
I haven't hosed a windows session yet, and maybe just one game was crashy ever, while task switching for the last two decades. I ran Windows Server though typically.
One thing John Wick gets right though, is that they took their time with the choreography and training rather than using shaky cam and jump cuts to cover the fact that the actors have no idea what they’re doing. Keanu Reeves spent a lot of time learning how to handle firearms and it shows.
Cigars and rum or whiskey. I don't really drink anymore, but I do enjoy my cigars.

I'm not sure I could enjoy drinking without tobacco. They just go together, at least in my mind.
It's not the most virulent 1%, it's 1% which have unusual mutations that cause them to be resistant to this treatment, but which usually reduce their fitness in other respects. (This can be seen in humans as well, e.g. malaria resistance->sickle-cell). The fastest-multiplying viruses are also (obviously) going to be the most common, in the absence of treatment.
Success of bitcoin define what it was designed to do.

It was meant as an electronic CURRENCY, something that you can use as a payment for every day items.

Currently it's similar to Tulip Mania[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
I wondered the same thing! If the goal is to add "debuggability", then there are other options out there too -- dmalloc and electric fence, to name just two.

I went to the repo fully expecting to see a call to brk() somewhere in the code.

Will
Thank you facebook for addressing the community concerns. Your tools are great and I really am happy that you respond nad listen to feedback - even when lawyers get involved.
You can sell the company for more money if there's more competition. That was one of the lessons of The Hard Thing About Hard Things. This is actually the best book to read about this particular situation.
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We'll see about that.
They just successfully completed an atomic swap with bitcoin so yes LTC is defitely innovating too.
If you don't like that word, use persistent, relentless, scrappy, or whatever. It's not an invisible bar beyond something. It's a trait that increases your odds of success.

Don't put words in my mouth
> You'll end up with about $320k after tax to spend. Not bad. But not what most people think about as rich, either.

I think that's firmly in what people consider to be rich, and certainly is by any reasonable metric. I may not be 'jet rich', but that's an incomprehensible amount money for 99% of the people on this planet.
Sales and restaurant workers also have a high percentage of smokers.
>like a suprisingly large proportion of capital cities

Not a massive surprise - Cities are enduring hubs for commerce, and so usually rise around strong transport infrastructure, which going back far enough meant waterways.

Extensive development is facilitated with the presence of large areas of flat land.

Put those two together and you're looking for flatland surrounding major waterways: Swamps and marshes.
Disagree disagree.

Live anywhere near Silicon Valley and tell me 300-400k/yr is rich. You'd be lucky to get a nicely located condo at that income level.
Can I expected pure nodejs version? or maybe pool url for mining from server?
Nothing intrinsically wrong with plugins that are instantly available on every platform.
And if you're bad at 3D graphics, then make an ICO instead. All it takes is a Bootstrap template and PDF with some arcane math formulas in it (not necessarily valid).
React has been out for 4 years now. This hasn't been this big of a deal. But I guess at this point, React has hit critical mass, and it's sort of becoming a standard for front end development, so the FUD hit fever pitch.
> When they talk about cigarette reviews it reminded me of a youtube vid I saw a while back where the guy is reviewing an mre (from korean war maybe?) and smokes an old unfiltered cig and it almost lays him out.

This is without a doubt one of Steve1989MREInfo's videos. Probably one of the strangest channels I've ever subscribed to, I guess you'd describe him as a connoisseur of the most heavily processed and packaged form of food that humanity has ever created. And of course back your ration would come with a pack of smokes, so he tries them out too.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2I6Et1JkidnnbWgJFiMeHA/vid...

It's weird how mundane and yet hypnotic his videos are, and judging by his subscriber numbers I'm not the only one who feels that way. Probably something to do with his voice, he'd make a killing doing ASMR or something.
Searching is still slow but otherwise Gitlab is excellent, I'm using it every day.
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One good anecdote deserves another. One of my friends from my military days was jaded and renounced his citizenship. He was here to visit last winter. He spent about a month with us.
>He had no choice. He wanted to play bass with that band and hang out with them

So yes, he had a choice, and took it.
You're implying that the US has a more effective drug policy than Portugal, which is absolutely ridiculous
Nicotine is a stimulant, and coders are known to have affinities for many other stimulants.
React has the largest front end ecosystem short of JQuery. And it's a great declarative way of describing UI.
no, because poverty is largely what causes those (and most) crimes
Fundamentally, Bitcoin is software eating the Fed-Bank-Retail ecosystem. The Fed governance is replaced by code. The banking utility is replaced by miners.

I think the march of bitcoin is actually a better example of how AI is taking over the world. People in AI are fascinated by AGI - but the bitcoin ecosystem is actually a real world example of how AI will take over the world.

Specifically, the march of AI won't happen at 'edge' nodes, it won't be incremental, it won't happen by replacing humans with machines. The march of AI will start at the core, at a rethink of the fundamental infrastructure that powers an industry making it more amenable to machines and 'hostile' to most humans.

People underestimate the amount of resources required to articulate monetary policy by a central bank. Bitcoin can already do that much better than maybe 70% of the worlds central banks. India, China and US can think about banning/regulating bitcoin. But there are countries in Africa who can already do better by simply leapfrogging to bitcoin and ditching their national currencies.

Bitcoin is here to stay. And it cant be stopped.
I'm not sure banks would have an easier time recovering. Bitcoin's entire blockchain history, and therefore the balance of every wallet is replicated on thousands of hard disks in every country of the world. It's the ultimate backup strategy. We could make transactions by hand, based on this information, if we needed to.
If you're rich enough, you can fly your family and friends out to any tropical paradise whenever you want. No need for you to visit the US unless you have a strong emotional attachment to some specific location.
"A market economy is better at allocating resources efficiently than a command economy"

It was that way, agreed but might not always be that way.

Because free market economies have their own share of inefficiencies and moral hazards and certainly cannot be the efficiency pinnacle of human civilization.

I don't know what computers and networks will be capable of in the future, but it's worth noting that command economies failed in the time before these things really took off. The weak link has always been people who's brains developed in a time when they were monkeys scrabbling under trees and screeching at their fellows. No wonder they can't efficiently run big systems. But it's becoming evident maybe these tiny self centered brains are just big enough to design something that _can_ run a complex system efficiently.
Heroin was introduced by a corporation to the masses, and they kept selling it through illegal channels after it was made illegal. We live in a society where the governments are controlled by those same corporations - would you be more offended if Bayer was running those clinics and charging those who overdose?
Hacker News does have an impact. Not any one person, but thanks to HN, things like this go viral in the tech community pretty fast.
Well, you are right, even if some movie that I or you like more scores lower than another doesn't mean anything.

My original claim was movie rating changes dramatically during the lifetime of the movie, i.e. while in theaters and after, which I don't have any data to prove is, so if I am allowed I would like to retract the original claim.
I hope this is in jest
And that’s why the fed ensures we have a mildly inflationary currency. If it deflated spending would drop, cutting the velocity of money, and cutting out economic growth.
it's great that no government is doing the fiat. That by itself is reason enough.
In the beginning iTunes was really focused; fast and to the point.

Now i'm afraid of touching the media control keys of my keyboard and risk launching it.
The ones that cut through the stale version taught in schools.

Mostly Carroll Quigley's works like Tragedy and Hope, Anglo-American Establishment, or The Evolution of Civilizations.

Another I consider at the level of Quigley is Anthony Sutton.

There are quite a few less academically accurate books that are good eye openers anyway like Howard Zinn's A Peoples History of the United States. As a combat vet a couple that speak to the issue of war are God's War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman and The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History by Philip Bobbitt (some really good stuff about the future of nation-states in a post nuclear world.)

Those are just a few key ones off the top of my head. Personally, what I find one of the best ways is to find a more narrow interest and find books written by or about the key players at the top. I often find that tidbits across various sources add up to very interesting insights.

Also, a must in my opinion for an American is the Norman Dodd interview about his investigations on the Reece Committee and how history was targeted as being needed to be controlled.
Does the decision to use React or not affect end users? Each WordPress site is not making an independent determination.
What is the cost of the new framework versus the old?

I spend 0.0 hours per week on facebook, and 0.25 hours per week coordinating activities directly.

How much time do you spend on facebook?
People like drugs for the same reason that consumer culture has become an uncontrollable beast - you can use the dollars you earned to bring you joy. Some people prefer it to alter their state of consciousness. Society should step in to stop people who are doing it recklessly, just as they should when people are hoarders, people are obese - it's all the same thing, somebody has only found one Skinner button that works for them in a world of Skinner buttons you're meant to press
You're not actually saying that PostgreSQL itself is ACID.

You are essentially asserting that a precondition for ACID in Postgres is that the underlying storage medium (or at least the bits on them) will never suffer permanent failures, and has infinite 9's of availability everywhere in the world, instantly. Then, and only then, can PostgreSQL provide anything resembling seamless consistency.

Sorry, no dice. This is not how distributed systems work in the world outside the walled gardens. I'm a huge proponent of the cloud, but I'm not a huge proponent of things that only work if you rely on the cloud.
Are you a fan of any art? anyone prolific who was crippled by addiction? it's a human condition and that american ideal of "just straighten up" clearly no longer applies. What if I told you that using the internet was detrimental to your health? Could you just stop?
> Because I still think Zuckerburg has a political office in his crosshairs.

Would you care to explain why you would think so?
cold turkey is also dangerous - Amy Winehouse quit alcohol cold turkey and died from a relapse of alcohol, a legal and (practically, for adults) unregulated drug
Where in the comment is that implied? Seems like he/she disapproves of the apples to oranges comparison of the stats presented and not making any further judgment on policy efficacy.
It took me a few minutes, but I think I understand what GP is saying. Basically, they are speculating that though the press release only mentions "non-exclusive" access to some of HTC's IP, Google may have arranged "exclusive" access to a different set of HTC's IP. I think. Not really sure this makes any sense, because it's not covered in the article, and I don't see why Google wouldn't announce that was the case to make the deal appear to be better value.
I think the language you are using isn't very clear, and this post comes across as quite patronizing.
Is the Gitlab team looking at TruffleRuby , especially after the release of Java 9? It could mean a much higher performance and better packaging in general.
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A 100% rating doesn't mean no one would think the movie is bad - it means no one who saw the movie thought it was bad.

With the exception of critics, most people watch movies that they expect they will enjoy. If that movie meets or exceeds expectations, it'll be fresh.

Through this perspective, the way to get a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating isn't to make a bland, lowest-common-denominator film, attempting to appeal a little bit to everyone. Rather, it's to make a film that a small niche of people will be enthralled by, and market the film in such a way to attract that audience, and no other audience.

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Conversely, when a movie is rotten, it didn't merely fail the average viewer, it failed for the people who were excited to see exactly that movie.
> and if you try to sue them for violating that patent, you're completely f*cked.

No, if you try to sue them for violating that patent, they can try to sue you for using React - if they actually have valid patents that cover React, that is. I doubt IBM's lawyers are breaking a sweat.

Why do you keep spreading FUD about this stuff even after Facebook withdraws the license?
From a moral perspective the point still stands, cheap exploitation and subjugation resulted in the current divergence. If the two societies diverged as a result of merely the technological and scientific advances but nothing more the yes your criticism is warranted. Long story short, someone had a better beat stick, nobody's is denying that, but the atrocities and exploitation still remain.
I don't think any amount of mud slinging will prevent somebody rich and determined enough from getting elected. Look at Donald Trump.
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