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> the (community-built?) editor was a nightmare. I did a lot of UT level editing, which was a lot more comfortable.

Yeah, there are two editors, JED and JKEdit. AFAIK the latter was much easier but also it was shareware whereas JED is (or became) open source but harder to use but on the other hand it has more features. Also it is extensible and i think it uses some sort of text-based API to communicate with external programs since i've seen extensions being made in different languages. As the end result the entire community focused on JED (although there are still a few people using JKEdit).

But both editors work with the negative sectors directly while i think LucasArts' editor (Leia) had a more high level interface that was more similar to UnrealEd's subtractive BSP. The engine uses per-vertex lighting and i've seen some "artifacts" in the geometry that give me the impression that the geometry was generated through BSP subtraction instead of the more "hand-made" approach that JED has (i don't know about JKEdit).

(Also FWIW this was a similar case with the original DoomEd for Doom - unlike most editors made at the time and even later, in DoomEd the sectors were implicit and assigned through some sort of "floodfill" algorithm that found the connections between them, but in most Doom editors you had to manually create vertices, linedefs, sectors, etc)

> I remember the next version (UT2003?) put more emphasis on imported models to populate a sparse UT-style carved-out map, which I imagine made things a lot easier for most people, but sadly was the end of my level editing days. I never got into 3D Studio Max (or Maya?) enough to be able to create maps as nice as those of others.

Actually it made things harder for people since it added the requirement to use an external tool to create the assets - this was always (even today) was seen as a major drawback when it comes to modding. It isn't a big problem for big game studios because they have dedicated artists for making environment props and the level designers simply have a ton of premade props at their disposal so they don't need to actually make them themselves, but it is harder for solo and small team modders.

This is probably the reason why you see a lot of maps for games that come with in-editor tools (like Valve's games, despite having a clunky interface in Hammer, the brush tools are top notch and a ton of maps are made with that) or with a ton of premade modular assets (like Bethesda's tools which also encourage people to create reusable assets for others as mods as opposed to special single purpose assets).
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Google wasn't making > 25% of their money in China. I applauded Google's move when they did it back then (and I worked down the street from their Wudaokou office), but it is completely obvious why Apple, as a public company who makes a lot of money in China, can't pull out now.
You can probably create a separate bank account, put your rent in there on a monthly basis, and if/when they ask for rent, you have the good-faith evidence, and be legally protected. IANAL.
> you don't want your community to be split in the middle because of a congressional line.

why does this matter? congresspeople vote on national issues, not local issues.
They have to obey rules related to their use of public broadcast spectrum.
This is reassuring. Every time someone told me this I figured it had to be bullshit. I think people used it as an excuse to make bad decisions.
With a human behind the wheel, with hands off? Or are they really launching with nobody in the vehicle?
It's on sci-hub: http://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/bjso.12236
Atom takes longer to start up than text editors like Vim and Sublime Text because of the dynamic architecture of the app

And yet Emacs is fast, hmmm.
Google drive has some terrible integrations to 3rd party apps, making it extremely messy to manage alot of folders at times (folder endpoints are in the root folder, but dropbox uses /apps folder to make things clean). You don't see 3rd party integrations to google drive as often as dropbox because its API is subpar.

Google drive also can get someone confusing with how it integrates with things like google spreadsheets when you want to keep non-google things seperated

Dropbox has the fastest sync rates by far, and the largest number of integrations. You also have useful features like selective sync as well

Icloud has some subpar sync rates from when I use it. Personally, I do IT for family members who own apple products and I can definitely tell you I have spent at least 3 hours on tech support with a apple lvl3 tech just to resolve some basic issues. Dropbox never had that problem.

Amazon, I have not tried it. Dropbox used to use a lot of AmazonS3 until it migrated to its own storage solutions last year? so you can't necessarily go wrong with them. However again, 3rd party integrations is not there

Mega while its doesn't offer a lot of 3rd party integrations, and I can't attest to any of its quality

I used to be in the same boat as you comparing prices to GB of storage, but this is a highly inaccurate way of benchmarking cloud solutions.

Your benchmark needs to consist of

- Cost vs. Storage Size

- Folder complexity VS. sync/index times

- File size VS sync/index times

- Number of 3rd party integration

- Privacy concerns

- Other features (selective syncing, revision control for 1 year, etc)

At the end of the day I use dropbox since $99/year is not a whole lot anyways. I'd rather pay more for a better solution.

I have a few personal files encrypted using boxcryptor that I run alongside with dropbox
It is use it or lose it flights. Flights don't role over. We're kicking around the idea of trying to make giving unused flights to friends or family work.

Companies have shown a lot of interest in this. Most beneficial aspect is booking late with paying a high fare.
lol SFO - LAX flights are OFTEN cheaper than that or as cheap.

Unless.... are these roundtrips? I want to assume so but that would be a bad assumption to get wrong!

Fix the site.
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I had to use the MS-DOS variant of it, edlin, for a typing exam on MS-DOS 3.3.

After that I was glad not to ever touch it again.
Sample size is, of course, one of the factors included in any analysis that gives you a p-value, or any other measure of confidence.

In this case, the abstract specifically mentions a "Bayes factor > 25". The Bayes Factor is the likelihood, i. e. the ratio of probabilities for two competing hypotheses. With no information whatsoever, it is 1. A factor of 25 means that the null hypothesis is 25 times as likely to be correct as the theory of ego depletion.
Came to say this. I wonder if this hack is widely known, because it seems like this is a pretty clever way to use the Pi Zero in some applications that would be better served with a multi-core processor and don't require the GPU for video tasks. Hacking the Pi Zero to be a dual-core system essentially.
Bitcoin as anarcho-capitalist proof of concept

It's not conceptually proven, though. As a mechanism of exchange it does work, but that is a very low bar. Many things can be used as a mechanism of exchange (such as Poker chips). But Bitcoin has not yet succeeded as a currency. There's a long way to go before you can safely say the mechanisms powering Bitcoin's blockchain are sustainable and can be stabilized.
This would definitely be more useful for one-way probes, or as a drive mode for some far-future generational voyage. Maybe this could even be combined with some form of charged particle collection as well, a low-grade ramscoop.
We're currently speaking with companies about something similar to this.
Great overview of the media streaming on the web. I'll also mention that there are 3 main DRM people would want to support on web: Fairplay for Safari, Playready for MS Edge, Widevine for Firefox and Chrome. Each one comes with its own oddities and implementation is not trivial.
Santana Row is fantastic, I can imagine that it'd be a great place to live. That kind of mixed-use development is something that really ought to be more ubiquitous. It's worth noting that there are even companies, like Splunk, that have offices there. I considered living at Santana Row when I moved to San Jose, but I ended up a few miles further down Steven's Creek because I wanted to be closer to Diridon.
>Atom takes longer to start up than text editors like Vim and Sublime Text because of the dynamic architecture of the app. The majority of our code is written in JavaScript as opposed to C or C++, which is important for Atom’s extensibility, but makes it more challenging to ensure that the app starts quickly.

Yet Microsoft's VSCode, which is also Electron based, is much faster than Atom. Electron obviously slows it down, but Atom's refusal to admit their performance issues for so long are also to blame
Shows zero of my properties and property selection menu appears to be broken.

Available only to select few users, maybe?
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fans like to give one time tokens of appreciation to artists. and then maybe hang it on a wall and forget.

collectors and tax avoiders like to invest in scarce art (hence why they only assign big made-up values to the work of dead artists) and so they will be the only ones really interested in maintaining a block chain to authenticate their investment.
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> In this case, the find some non-zero effect, but call it zero because the difference was not statistically significant.

Neither the title of the paper nor the abstract say there is zero effect. They accurately and precisely state that the null hypothesis is favored and that the effect is not significantly different than zero.

> That's likely a reflection of their small sample size rather than evidence for the null hypothesis as the title suggests.

That doesn't seem to be the case. From the introduction:

> The Hagger et al. (2010) meta-analysis reported an estimated depletion effect size of d = .62, which we used to conduct a power analysis to establish sample size (n = 33) at 0.80 power. We established n = 35 per condition for our studies, which is slightly larger than the average sample size in the published depletion literature of n = 27 (Lurquin et al., 2016), because the intent of this series of studies was to examine empirically the frequency of null findings in studies similar in size and procedures to those in the published literature. The use of a similar sample size allows for an empirical examination of how frequently the depletion effect occurs when using methods and sample size similar to those in the pre-2013 published literature.

So if their samples sizes are a problem then it's a problem that the rest of the literature has too.

> But it's hard to know, or even have an intelligent discussion about it, since the paper itself is behind a paywall.

Agreed paywalls are unhelpful, but that doesn't mean we can't intelligently discuss what information is available. In addition, I and probably many other people on this forum do have access to many paywalled papers, so exact information is not exactly impossible to obtain.
I can't find it at the moment, but he's been talking up hyperloop as a way to move pods with private cars in them. The Boring Company (a step towards Hyperloop, potentially), is talking about drilling holes small enough that only those pods would work.
I could see Aviato moving into this space...
I recently needed to choose between doing nightly cloud backups of my family's iOS photos in HEIC or JPG, and chose HEIC. Did I choose incorrectly? Which is more future proof?

Isn't it surprising that Apple is on board with AV1 so shortly after it moved iOS devices from JPG to HEIC?
I can happily say that my mountain bike was made in America AND was also cheaper than the competitors. Although Turner now makes its bikes in Taiwan since they only do carbon. Guerrilla Gravity is another US manufacturer with decent prices. Anyone know any others?
Figure 5 demonstrates how an array of two or more plasma magnets can deflect solar wind to achieve the same maneuverability as a solar sail.

Can't wait to see a cubesat demonstration vehicle blow past Mars!
I disagree. It's a fatal flaw in TLS-SNI-01/02. Here's why:

All of the information required to solve the challenge is in the attackers control. SAN-A and SAN-B (in v02) are known by the attacker. And no action or information from the target domain is required to solve the challenge.

Every shared hosting provider and CDN that lets you pick a domain and upload a custom certificate can be used to solve the challenge.

Your solution of restricting it to ip = one domain just reduces the vulnerable sites to sites that don't use LE and are on a shared provider. (Also note, if the provider does not implement LE.. then they are vulnerable to this attack against all of the customers.. with your solution: 1 customer for each IP owned by the service)

As long as SNI is part of the TLS standard, it is incorrect to assume IP = domain ownership.
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Emacs' display engine, input handling, etc., are written in C.
You may think that, but it is not how things work. Politicians are formally addressed according to current office or the highest office they held at any point in the past if not a current office holder. Probably a silly convention, but it is what it is. (ordering is Representative < Senator < (ambassador or cabinet secretary) < SC justice < VP or President)
That’s just from the production in 2016. It will make more in 2017 and for a decade, plus the album (#12 on Billboard) plus the book (top seller on Amazon) plus the merchandise and eventual stage film.
That is a real risk - however, this time around people are already working on their own fast implementations (both software and hardware versions), so a lot of the dumb mistakes will already be avoided. There is also the risk of a lot of features being too slow to use at all in a fast encoder, but that's not a risk exclusive to AV1. HM (the reference H.265 encoder) was far too slow to be practical, and given the current speeds of H.265 encoders compared to H.264 at their best quality settings, it's not clear that they totally succeeded.
I sold my 10 year old company about a year ago and promoted my #2 to CEO to lead it post acquisition. Aside from the company related responsibilities I still have here's what I've been doing:

-Actively working to strip away the identity/persona I built up over the last decade while leading the company, in order to get back to "who I really am and/or accurately understand who I've become" outside of the context of the company and the role of CEO/Founder.

-Reading SO MUCH. And specifically the book "The Adult Years" has been essential for me in understanding the life stages we all go through and how to manage transition best.

-Going on extreme/esoteric retreats: like climbing a snowy mountain this winter in Poland in just a bathing suit. I'm trying to push myself physically in ways I've never done before.

-Bought a house for the first time and am learning to be a DIY god.

-Supporting my wife's entrepreneurial journey as much as possible (she's the founder of her own successful company).

-Being open again to mentoring/supporting others as much as possible.

-I hope to soon become a Court Appointed Advocate so I can help NYC area kids who are caught up in "the system" in some way shape or form.

-Oh and...lot of financial/estate planning work :)
Software is not patentable in most of Europe [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Eur...
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Your approach prevents children seeking help when they're being abused.
To me, this is an interesting statement because it highlights the difference between true and useful.

For several years, since I read the book Willpower (an intro piece to ego depletion), I've meditated on the idea. I've decided that even if it's not scientifically true, it can be useful to me.

Some may see it as self-help tripe ("Eat your frogs in the morning!"), but it's a useful mental model for me to push myself to get stuff done sooner, rather than later, because I imagine myself not having the willpower later.

Your choice of word -- real -- was probably casual, but I think a better term would be "scientifically valid". There are many things that aren't replicable that have use to many humans.
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What would be the adwords for this? Scanning search results and picking the result is what enables the ecosystem currently.
That is incredible! I knew there would be the off chance that someone would have put something like this on, but this looks like they went all in.
To add some anecdotal evidence... We basically get no sun for half of the year where I live. I find my subjective wellbeing has increased somewhat, especially during the winter months, since I started supplementing with 5000UI D3.

Other potential benefits are harder to measure, but the cost in terms of money and likelihood of adverse effects is so low I feel I might as well continue.

To add another data point, gwern has done some more rigorous self experiments https://www.gwern.net/zeo/Vitamin-D
Dartmoor is a non-scottish option? Done it before in a camper... got woken up by a pony rubbing itself on the van which was someewhat unsettling. Nice to be able to just park up and camp, though... I've done it in the Lake District as well, but obviously not without the risk of being moved on.
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This approach rewrites everything from scratch.

However, it's an interesting technical problem to adjust the code. Does anyone have a rough idea how to implement it?
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Mechanically, self driving cars are not going to be cheaper to build or maintain, and they will need just as much fuel if not significantly more to go park somewhere distant. You also need 2 parking spaces @ 100+$/month (one at home, one at the office) and pay to park other places. Insurance might get slightly cheaper, but I don't see the economics changing much and the added electronics are not going to be free.
That's not true. We have a bicameral legislature because the smaller colonies negotiated for it at the start of the Union as a way to increase their power (smaller population -> Senate gives disproportionate power), at a time where the People were largely ignored and the balance of power was among the aristocrats.
I'm sure I've crossed the line into personal swipes before — who hasn't, at one time or another? I get emotional about this stuff because I care about it, and I'll admit it angers me to see people spreading ideas that I consider not just wrong, but dangerously so. When that happens, its difficult to respond like some perfect critical-thinking debate bot.

But I'm somewhat baffled that you consider what I posted in this case a "rant". Fair enough, saying "total nonsense" was probably unnecessary, but it is still a comment on the quality of the argument, not upon the person, and as such seems to be within the rules. As for the rest, what exactly is uncivil about it? I absolutely would make these same arguments face-to-face if somebody made the original argument. In fact, I'd be probably be rather less civil about it in person.

I consider the post I responded to to be spreading a genuinely dangerous idea. Such ideas need to be rebutted, and, practically speaking, the force of the rhetoric needs to be increased commensurate with the dangerousness of the idea, in order to avoid giving an impression of false equivalence between it and other, more harmless ones. If it isn't commensurate, then surely that is what the community moderation is for? But in this case you seem to have acted unilaterally to hide my post.

I'm all for HN to be a bastion of constructive discussion. But that shouldn't be an excuse to allow toxic ideas to go unchallenged, or to be treated with a degree of respect that they do not deserve. The failure of intellectuals to vigorously contest destructive ideas, confining their criticism to a passionless and academic vernacular, has been a recurring historical problem. In the long term, it contributes directly to the rise of situations and movements that curtail any debate, anodyne or otherwise.

HN does not exist in a political vacuum. The type of discussion you say you want to foster is only possible because of a set of political principles and circumstances that are by no means "normal", historically speaking. Failing to defend those principles, or censoring those who do, helps those who would destroy them, and will harm HN eventually.
As I understand figure 5, an array of theses devices should allow momentum changes.
you can currently filter by country actually!
I heard an estimate that something like 25% of traffic in some areas at a given time are just people driving around looking for a parking spot. That's just nuts!

It really remains to be seen what self driving cars would do to traffic.
> Slightly off topic, but one of the only software issues holding me back previously was 1Password compatibility on linux, but apparently, it is now available (1).

Well, it's a Chrome extension. For some people (including yours truly), it's a deal breaker.
I would suggest `password-store`[0] if you don't need to share your vault with anyone.

[0] https://www.passwordstore.org
Wasn't High Sierra supposed to be the same? Lots of improvements under the hood, few if any visible new features?
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My first reaction to seeing these listings was to feel very disconnected from people who like the mall so much they want to live there. But it's a fantastic idea. You don't often get the opportunity to create new dense urban cores in the Bay Area.
Well the thing to wait for is not Musk's self-driving cars, but Musk disrupting the tunnel boring machine industry. Sure, Musk might not like public transit, but his boring company could very well offer tunnel drilling services. Any improvement at all may cause other tunnel drilling companies to decrease prices. Of course, we really shouldn't be relying on Musk for things like this.
Most of the codebases of both iOS and macOS are fundamentally the same kind of (low-level but architecture-independent C and Objective-C) code, and encouraging team unification will make that even more true—if the same people are working on both AppKit and UIKit, for example, it's a no-brainer to unify them rather than maintaining that duplication.

The exception is the kernels and drivers of each OS, which have to consider things like architecture, but I would expect that it'll still be the same individual engineers working on these who always have, no matter what their team structure looks like now. Whether or not Apple has a formal "macOS kernel team" or "iOS kernel team", those groups definitely exist and have rather static membership.

(In fact, one main benefit you might see from this is that Apple has hardware hires—many from Intel[1]—who have stepped up to apply their knowledge of formal verification methods to the iOS kernel and drivers, but haven't necessarily had the flexibility to spread that love to macOS. That can change now.)

[1] https://danluu.com/cpu-bugs/ (search for "Apple")
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Does anyone have info about his current status? He has not updated his site since Dec 15.

As far as the van thing goes, he wasn't really homeless. He went to his parents house frequently and he could live there but chooses to live mostly in his van because he likes it.
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