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Yes, absolutely generalized. It basically outlines a generic "world/story engine" using index cards and a kind of "rule of threes". I've used this in all kinds of systems: Shadowrun, D&D, Pathfinder, AD&D, Star Wars d20, etc. It's totally usable in any system. It cuts down on the preparation time required by orders of magnitude, seriously.

One tip that I use in every game that is incredibly useful and isn't in this book (or Sly Flourish's other great book, "Dungeon Master Tips") is to have three NPCs who represent "Money, Power, and Fame" and are always on the move. Their storylines develop even if the players are not interacting with them. Remember "Fame, Money, Power" and create a single NPC to represent each of these three things. For example, you could have a local baron who is hungry for power, an evil guildmaster who is trying to expand his influence over local trade routes for money, and a retired, good-hearted adventurer who helps out new adventurers at the local adventurer's guildhall because he enjoys the fame and recognition.

Each of these three NPCs will have some immediately obvious conflicts which will generate storylines you can very easily improvise. I don't even need to give you an example since you can probably think of some conflict in those three examples just off the top of your head. These three NPCs also have easy access to each of those three things (money, power and fame respectively) and typically, at least some of your players will be motivated by this to some degree. That makes for an easy carrot-and-stick for players. Do your players need money for an expensive spell component to save the mayor's daughter? You might find the guildmaster willing to pay a handsome reward for completing a small side quest, for example having the players bluff or sneak their way into the baron's palace during a party and steal some important documents. The local baron of the land can probably give you the power to raise a small militia to stop a rampaging band of orcs in the area. Does the king's court have no idea who you are? It turns out the retired adventurer might be willing to write a note on your behalf, if only you could do him a small favor...

And the important thing is that you should always be moving these three NPCs along their life paths even if the players aren't around to see it. This is very easy to track with your index cards. And if one of these NPCs is killed or retires or somehow drops out of the game, you should come up with another to replace them. Perhaps the evil guildmaster has the baron assassinated, and now that he's had a taste of power after his guild is given control of the barony, he becomes your "Power" NPC, and a rival guildmaster becomes the new "Money" NPC. See how easy that was? And you can do this in your sleep really, so it works out great for the method described in The Lazy DM.
Possible hot topic: should the politics of unconventional job locations scare me from moving there?

Take Kansas. If in theory I'm making 100k and we're playing the "low taxes" game I'd probably be fine financially, but I think it would come at the cost of... well, a few things. School quality, for one- if I have kids are they going to be better educated in NJ/NY (where I am now) than Kansas?
Just a matter of cherry-picking it in. I'll get around it it soon
<quote>but how the oceans did not boil or evaporate off like they did everywhere else.</quote>

gravity and magnetic field? if it were hydrogen or helium it would be stripped off by solar wind (storms) like everywhere else, but water is quite heavy due to the oxygen.

also 'everywhere else' means practically mercur, mars and asteroids (moon). no idea about venus.
ice giants keeps their water also due to gravity and far apart on pluto it's frozen like rock.
> With a statically typed language, you still have to look through the code to find the definition of an object

Static typing (or, more to the point, compile time structure that doesn't require running the code to get right, but the two are closely linked) makes tooling to avoid manual lookups easier to implement and more reliable.
I've seen an interview with the women who made many road signs still in use (it's not on Youtube). She modelled the 'children crossing' on herself and her younger brother. It was all made with the idea to be figurative and idiomatic over life-like.
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>I believe that can be avoided by having easy to access to documentation which would also apply to dynamically typed languages like Python.

staring at five year old project, started as a one-off quick'n'dirty prototype, having gone through many hands doing one-off quick'n'dirty additions since then

What documentation?

But seriously - I don't have to "look through the code". It's a few keystrokes at most and it's always there and correct.
Sure.

I put together a summary of the main points here: https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2015/jun/pdf/bu...
Fantasy wasn't mainstream then, and now it is. Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Harry Potter kickstarted fantasy into the mainstream conciousness. It's no surprise that a growing acceptance of the genre in the large would also lead to a growing desire to participate in it, and the streamlined rules and whatnot are just a little boost to help in that direction.
Amazon wouldn't have a possessory interest in your apartment, so they couldn't consent to a search.

Amazon could certainly be coerced into unlocking the door, but the FBI could also just use their boots to coerce the door into unlocking on its own.
You can already get that. Search for "delivery box" etc. and you'll find large steel boxes, at least some of which have locking mechanisms that lets the delivery person pull it shut to lock after putting a parcel in,.
I got started with the kubectl command line function as it was packaged with Google Cloud SDK. Then experimented with Minikube locally.

I think what you really want is something like a "Minikube in the Cloud" learning environment. Where you walk students through building an actual service. But if they make mistakes, nothing catches fire ;)

Another recommendation is a gentle intro to serverless deployments such as Fission and Kubeless, since that is maybe where everyone's headed in the near future. Also a great way to introduce design thinking, architecture, distributed systems, fault tolerance, decentralization, etc.

http://fission.io/
I'm not American. I haven't seen any coverage of this issue at all. How does PBS/NPR benefit?
If you explicitly court particular industry (amateur/niche porn) to build out your own business model, yeah, I think you do owe those businesses a business model. Perhaps not legally, but morally.

> Fund a goddamn KS to make a porn-friendly Patreon clone

Pretty sure you can't KS an adult business (which such a clone would be considered). That's part of the problem. Nobody wants to touch that industry once they become "respectable".
Try it anyway. From all the browsers that don't have your key extensions, Firefox 57+ might still be the best option. It's still greatly customizable via userContent.css file, and there's a lot of motion to improve the abilities of WebExtensions. Thanks to that I've brought back vertical tabs on Firefox 57 that now look and work even better than before - something I wouldn't be able to do on Chromium at all.
For those using IOMMU, integrated GPUs are a wonderful way to separate your host machine (which uses the integrated GPU exclusively) and your virtual machine (which uses the dedicated GPU exclusively) such that you can work on a Linux host and game on a Windows guest with (near?) native performance.
This looks really nice. Am I correct in that it'd work only with apple music currently? Would've loved to test it, but most of my stuff is in spotify...
It's basically a demo of their native code sandbox technology: (P)NaCL

https://developer.chrome.com/native-client

This new online notebook system is probably the successor of:

http://colaboratory.jupyter.org/welcome/
Honestly, that makes sense - doing multiline replaces with sed isn't very convenient (I believe it's possible if you replace newlines with NULL).
I guess I'll probably learn awk then, it can't be that hard with the examples from this repo^^
we have someone with that sole job as well as other security experts. In financial services, the regulators have made cyber security a priority item.
I think the obvious answer is that this service is probably not a good fit for you?
Constraint solving works pretty well in these domains too, and AFAIK, top-level artificial players in board games is a mix of constraint solving and MCTS.
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with the first point. Static vs dynamic typing doesn't have much to do with safety. Haskell, Standard ML, OCaml, Rust, and many others have memory safety and no null pointer issues. Exact arithmetic and overflow also has nothing to do with type systems. There are statically typed languages other than C and C++, and virtually all of them from the last 20 or more years address the issues you list here.

(I personally would also disagree with your second point, but that is more a matter of opinion.)
Ah, yeah, I was skeptical of the upstart brands.

Yale and Schlage seem to be reliable (Dad has used both, his rental agency prefers the Yale on all homes for consistency).

Z-wave and Zigbee are two of the common home automation protocols. So, you'd use those locks (or other devices) in conjunction with an automation hub (I use Samsung Smartthings, Dad uses a Vera). Some will also integrate with the Nest system or Alexa, but I'm not sure if that's directly, or via one of the hubs I mentioned.

You can build your own "security" system with these. Quotes because adding cellular/phone support isn't usually directly supported, though there are ways to hack it together.

I have mine set with timers, motion sensors, a Nest thermostat, and light switches. I'll add cameras eventually - waiting to see how the Nest video doorbell works out (if it's good, I'll likely cough up the money and go all Nest camera).
I really like Inbox but I feel it'll inevitably end up being chopped by Google so I just can't justify switching to it and getting used to it right now.
At my library (smallish US college):

We do keep logs for a period of time, but the library administration's policy is to only investigate them when a publisher contacts us with a claim of abuse (we do not proactively monitor for unusual activity, although we do take steps like limiting the number of concurrent sessions per user and blacklisting IP addresses/ranges with a history of suspicious activity).

The publisher generally supplies examples of timestamps and URLs that were part of the alleged abuse. We use that information to identify the "abusing" user in the log.

Usually there is pretty clear evidence that the user is not conducting legitimate personal research (e.g. the user is a freshman early childhood education major at the local rural branch campus, but they're downloading thousands of chemistry papers from an IP address in China or Russia). Typically the user does not seem like an information freedom warrior, or even to have a clue what is going on, so it seems most likely the credentials were phished.
How do you just a diff in git?
Lots of related projects getting that long overdue major version number now. SymPy 1.0 was released last year and I released mpmath 1.0 less than a month ago, both projects 10 years old. SciPy's 16 years is a notch more impressive, though. Congratulations, and thanks to the SciPy developers for their hard work!
I used to regularly do ad-hoc text processing, typically on a 24 hour log of GPS data (on an early-2000s-era computer). Surprisingly enough, awk is many times faster than cut for any data set big enough for you to notice time passing.
We are barely in the top 50 for drinks consumed per capita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_c...
> you still have to look through the code to find the definition of an object

I haven't done this in the last 10 years. I typically use IDEs, and every IDE I've used has had a "Go To Definition/Declaration" feature, and let you set a key binding for it. On JetBrains' IDEs, I've gotten quite used to pressing Ctrl+B to jump to a type definition's, and then pressing Alt+← to jump back to where I was originally in the code.
> This site may not work in your browser. Please use Chrome for Desktop.

Thanks, but no.
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You may complain that class-action lawyers get much more money than the plaintiffs, but that's the nature of class actions. They are meant for situations where many indiviuals are harmed, but each harm is too small to justify the cost of a court case. So naturally the plaintiffs get small payouts: each of them suffered a small damage. And the lawyers get big payouts: they handled the paperwork of thousands of clients.
You should probably talk to your own home insurance company as well. Owning certain breeds raise your premiums already (at least ours does), and enabling strangers into your insured property to now potentially interact with those breeds probably needs coverage.
I guess people like us - i have 2 Belgium Shepherd dogs, are not the target market. Probably for us Amazon will try to promote their “Amazon Locker”. I just noticed yesterday that they are now being installed at Whole Foods, which make sense.
I seriously doubt there's enough well/aquifer water in the US to sustain the entire US population for very long. As I understand it, many aquifers are being depleted right now and/or at serious risk of salination due to over usage. If you moved everyone else who gets their water from reservoirs to well/aquifers, there would be no chance.
Then you probably aren't the target for this service.
not for 20% higher vehicle costs.
Two reasons:

1. To avoid the Amazon driver getting the blame for things done by your kids/partner/dog/whatever.

2. To keep the drivers honest.
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The whole article has some issues: https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/getting-names-right-...
What is ACME?
My parents, less than an hour from where I live, the center of Atlanta, have well water. They live on a street that no ISP will service, unless you consider <50KBps and 50% packet loss for 60 dollars a month reasonable, if it decides to connect at all that day.

They don't have natural gas lines either. Or sewer lines. You'd be quite surprised how things still are in some places.
> What about marketing myself?

Alan Weiss has some brilliant advice on this subject. See Chapter 6: If you don't blow your own horn, there is no music. > https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/260218.Million_Dollar_Co...
I was confused. This is a hosted colaboraty service.

But the new google drive / jupyter integration is called jupyter-drive:

https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter-drive
Yeah, Amazon seems to use a mix of USPS, FedEx/UPS, and private couriers. And because I'm in a townhouse complex with remote mailboxes, I wouldn't recognize any of them.
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This is correct. Also a good overall note here is that the Constitution only applies between the government and the people. Private entities (businesses, for example) are not beholden to respect your rights.

A point to bring up with regards to landlords is that both State law and contract law (your lease) enable them to enter the dwelling under very special circumstances, usually such as an immediate threat to life. They may also enter to do various tasks such as inspections but laws usually mandate notice that must be given and how. Here in Texas, it's a minimum of 24 hours written notice for the latter.
I would flip that on you: What kind of liability would you incur if you signed up for this service, knowing you have a protective dog?
It's one thing to share some interesting facts and point people to the book. No-one's going to object to that! But I think it's a bit different if someone spends an entire lunch "explaining" the contents of a book they've just read.
Yeah, but packets being able to be maximized to the window size of the connection early on (and being able to have more than 6 "parallel" downloads as a result) is great for initial page loads.
+1

W3schools is contributing to poor education amongst junior web developers.
Yes, the number of times I've run to BLAS/Lapack errors on Windows with Python were countless. I'm glad to see this has been fixed though I moved to Unix OSes a few years back.
Congratulations on your early success and thanks for sharing your story. It's inspiring and I love your storytelling style. I don't think people realize that it takes awhile to get everything started and your timeline/decisions clearly show that.

It's also a great product for us but as a fellow bootstrapper, the price range is out of our reach at the moment. We will be looking into when get more scale.

We're building a simple CRM tool that tracks calls, meetings and all kinds of details for companies. It would be interesting if you already have an API available that we can integrate with.

If you're ever in Edinburgh/Glasgow, be happy to take you and your significant other out for a coffee/beer.
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"That would preclude ubiquitous animation"

That would be its best feature.
According to the authors linkedin he is as far as I can tell born and educated in Australia. Why do you say he is from Sweden?
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Patreon courts amateur and niche. But I haven't seen any sign they invite porn on their platform, just that marking as adult content is an option. Same can be said for Youtube and DeviantArt.

Patreon's homepage says they protect from chargebacks. I can see why that appeals to content creators but this feels inevitable.
I'm far from expert at NT kernel programming, but I do know that there's not much you can do in the callbacks from interrupts, which is why you use a deferred procedure call (using Io/ExQueueWorkItem) to continue at a level where you can do more things, like potentially blocking calls. The work item execution of the DPC proceeds on a system worker thread, rather than a thread you had to spawn yourself.

But perhaps that's what you did. If you're still stuck, I suggest you email Larry Osterman (Firstname.Lastname@microsoft.com) for a clue; Larry has worked on the NTFS driver and he's responded to my emails in the past. For an improved probability of a useful response, I'd send him a link to a Stack Overflow question, so that other people benefit from the reply also. (This is a general rule for emailing people for developer help, you'd be surprised how many random people email system / compiler developers for coding assistance.)
Could have done with this in 1986! :-)
In case anyone missed it, a Node module used in production at Bing to multi-thread shared memory for CPU-intensive work hit the big time last week.

https://github.com/Microsoft/napajs/wiki/Why-Napa.js a bit edited:

1) quick iteration

2) multiple cores

3) share memory with structures

4) fine granularity parallelism, minimizing communication cost

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15498219 (Oct 2017, 201 comments)
Thanks for the input :)

I think installing Kubernetes and covering the whole setup especially for production is a whole topic in itself. Hence minikube would be very convenient for students.

That said I've always appreciated an example first approach (with a to the point explanation) other than pure plain theory.
It is an interesting idea.

Creating and maintaining an informative page represents a substantial investment of time by laboratory personnel and the return on that investment is largely dependent on the durability of that information online.

Because laboratories tend to have longer life cycles than web projects, I am curious about Labit's model for achieving sustainability over a period of ten or more years.
What’s wrong with anaconda? It’s a good distribution for the science stack.
So when the county needs more tax $$$, they just need to off a few grannies to collect, right?
We call that sort of thing a catlock.
What? All companies will collapse, building a business means fighting against that to create value. Why do you assume the buyer is clueless? They have just as much responsibility and would only purchase if they see value in the deal.

It's one thing to misrepresent, but that's fraud so that scenario is taken care of. Not sure why there's so much moral judgement going on here or who gets hurt when a company is sold, giving its workers money and opportunity rather than going bankrupt.
> Life on earth evolved in the oceans

Or not; the “land theory” (that it began in shallow, possibly volcanic, terrestrial pools”) and “sea theory” (that it began in oceans, possibly at hydrothermal vents) have been competing theories forever, essentially.
What is the problem with people want to live in hot spots? Cities are where you can have diverse communities, walk around, and be able to interact with people outside of your immediate family. The problem with the country is it is extremely car and gas dependent. The auto industry and oil companies have screwed up public transportation. People who live in smaller cities out in the Midwest are disconnected. They can only going to movie theaters, the mall and fast food restaurants. Everything else is super far away. How do I know this? Because I grew up in the Midwest. It is tremendously boring and once you realize your life is much more than shopping malls, that's when you want to move into cities.
Quite happy to see ML languages and Prolog still around.

Back when I was there, we used Caml Light.

Miss the campus. :)
I’m not specifically talking about porn.

I’m talking about the issue that major processors such as VISA and MasterCard hold too much power in general, and either should be broken up, or shouldn’t have the power to choose their customers.

For example, a few years back a major German retailer sold cuban cigars — and MasterCard, VISA and PayPal closed their accounts over it. Luckily in Germany wire transfers, direct debit and Europay cards are common enough that they had an alternative, but it still became a major issue, and the Rossmann chain refused to do what the processors wanted, because they argued that these companies had no right to enforce US laws in Germany (and Rossmann prevailed, in the end PayPal and co had to allow Rossmann to sell such products via their payment systems).
Is it bad that I wish I had that first desk setup? Looks so comfy :(
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote perhaps the earliest technical manual about 1391, on the astrolabe.

http://www.chirurgeon.org/files/Chaucer.pdf
Although I use and enjoy Python for some purposes, I can't help by see all the effort gone into improving Python performance (including Pypy, Cython, rewriting code in C, etc) as fixing a self-inflicted wound. Why are we using a language whose semantics make it very difficult to execute quickly?
As an avid boardgamer, I've noticed there's a big difference between American and European board games (and probably also table top RPG frameworks) in the sense that the American tendency is to favour luck and hail Mary rolls to save the day. Eurogames tend to be focused on resource management and long term strategy. So definitely a cultural thing. Both systems do have their merits, but "rolling for combat" is traditionally associated with "Ameritrash" games, a term used both lovingly and derogatorily.

I see that The Dark Eye does use rolling for combat, but it calculates armour differently, in a more predictable manner (for example, in D&D armour makes you less likely to be hit, whereas in The Dark Eye it makes you take less damage) which I think demonstrates the different tendencies.
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Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and yes Kansas
Ah that looks interesting. I will research that once I leave SF
Applies to work life too: if you just work more then you can become rich. But what happens when everybody works more? You get the same basic stuff, but now you really have to work for it.