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Neat. I used to love the hack vs hack servers. The cheats were a bit more primitive back then, so I imagine hvh isn't as fun nowadays since all cheats are very advanced... I remember when xqz2 first came out - the first opengl-based client cheat for the half-life engine. It was simply a wallhack at first, and evolved to a primitive aimbot I believe.

Anyway, they started to get pretty sophisticated around cs 1.4 or 1.5. The real breakthrough was the client aimbot which hooked into the game (using function trampolines) rather than opengl, and was instantly fast, but it was still a little inaccurate because it used hardcoded constants for offsets from the center of the player model to the head. It eventually got a bit more sophisticated with hitbox aimbots I believe.

The next breakthrough was "nospread" which basically allowed you to fire your gun with laser accuracy. I remember how it worked - to make accuracy random the game used a pseudo RNG which was seeded with the game's current tick, that way the spread was shared by both the client and the server. The cheat calculated the future spread by using the game's next tick (current tick + 1) for the RNG seed and setting the player's view angle to the inverse of that. If you watched the player, it looked like they had a shaky crosshair. You could be bunnyhopping around with any gun and get insta headshots with 100% accuracy. Each gun had its own spread constant so these had to be hardcoded into the cheat, and adjusted based on whether or not they were crouching or standing.

The last major breakthrough was "autowall," which would only shoot through a wall if it was a guaranteed hit. After this, cheats and hvh servers got more boring with marginal improvements only.

All of this got me into programming and I learned a lot, both about some game internals and operating systems. No ragrets
I'm not a web dev and have never used Rails, but I hadn't even heard of Ruby until Rails and Puppet got popular. I'm sure every language has a few people who heard about it in its early days, but I do think Rails was the catalyst for Ruby going mainstream, even to non-web people.
Looks the same as previous landings -- a big puff of dust. Normally everyone's showing up to claim that it looked like a hard landing, but the dust is kicked up by the retrorockets that make the landing soft.
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At the moment, it is better on Mac, but who the hell knows how long until the touch bar is repurposed as a billboard to sell you a subscription to WWE's streaming service or whatever the fuck.

Sweet monkey lord indeed. I used to be one of those rare Windows evangelists who said C# was the best thing since sliced bread, Windows 7 was the best thing since Windows 2000, WPF was my favorite way to make apps, and the microsoft surface (the table sized one) was going to change computing forever. I even nearly bought a zune.

Now I turn my PC on in disgust just so my daughter can play Job Simulator. After my macbook dies, maybe I'll wind down the consulting business, move to South Dakota and start selling plasma.
The problem is, a civilization with the kind of industrial base and know-how to build Dyson swarms, if it was still interested in 'military dick waving', would be trivially capable of knocking everybody back into the stone age, or even, totally rendering every planet with a biosphere uninhabitable.

Worse, in such a civilization, it's pretty likely that even small organizations would have the kind of tech you'd need to induce a nuclear winter on a given planet. After all, you just have to crash an asteroid on the right spot, then you have a mass extinction that human civilization would definitely not survive.
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Yes, it's not a paradox... to someone who accepts the Drake Equation as illustrated in the article.
Ross Ulbricht, the developer of Silk Road, is serving a double life sentence plus 40 years, without the possibility of parole. There is no doubt that it was illegal. However, a lot of people think that the sentence is overblown compared to other crimes. Sign the petition if you agree with that.
It doesn’t matter who is doing it. You can’t build a working Android system without binary closed source drivers.

No manufacturer can build an Android device using just AOSP even with proprietary drivers and hope to be competitive in any western market.
We have a registry with a frontend coming soon.

You can also resolve them locally by putting them in your optic.yml file

You can add a skill and containing as many transformations and lenses as your want.

It’s explained at the bottom of these docs https://useoptic.com/docs/authoring/writing-skills
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I liked the writeup + seeing it come together, but this project struck me as pretty wasteful.

How big of a bed do you really need? (even if "you" is two people).
I'd love to know why at least three folks downvoted my comment. The original poster stated that he knows zero people who have installed 50 apps, so I offered myself up as an example of someone who's done so, and gone on to install more. Do people think I'm lying?

Did they object to my thought on iOS versus Android? Why? Do they think that an iPhone is a computer with calling capabilities? Do they think that Android phones are smart phones?

I'd really like to know what offended folks so much that three folks (at least) downvoted, and offended them so much they didn't even bother posting.

I'm not complaining about the downvotes, just genuinely curious what could possibly have been controversial.
TOML is probably my favorite.
> Further nobody questions the legitimacy of "early risers" and blames it on lifestyle.

Because being an early riser is adaptive. We're not at all well adapted to operating at night given our sensory apparatus, we're quite well adapted to operate in daylight.

Furthermore, humans aren't genetically predetermined creatures, it's entirely possible to change virtually all of our behaviours and inclinations with the right environmental changes.

Even if being a nightowl were adaptive at one point, that doesn't mean it's adaptive now, and a maladaptive behaviour needs correcting if you want to function in modern society.

> When you go your whole life having to dispel the initial impression of laziness due to your natural sleep rythmn it becomes personal.

Don't go pushing your personal prejudice on a factual discussion. No one here called "nightowls" lazy.
Obama and Hillary competed on their healthcare plans. Obama's plan was more favorable to existing interests. His argument was that Hillary's plan was too aggressive and would never make it through Congress, whereas a vote for him and his plan ensured successful passage of a reform package. From the article,

"If I think we can achieve those same goals within the
existing institutions, then I am going to try to do that,
because I think it's going to be easier to do and less
disruptive and less costly and less painful...."

...

Obama is telling the truth--he's not opposed to structural
changes at all. However, he appears to be interested in
fighting only for those changes that fit within the existing
boundaries of what's considered mainstream in Washington....

It was funny because Hillary spent years working behind the scenes with insurers and providers and had their [tepid] buy-in. It's not like her plan was particularly radical, and really Obama just tweaked her framework. But Obama moved right to out-flank Hillary, capturing more centrist votes in both the primary and the general. Despite GOP rants to the contrary, Obama spent most of administration to the right of mainstream Democrats. His policies were typically crafted to at least be tolerable to conservatives, but his sensibilities were wasted in the spiteful partisan political culture. It wasn't until his last 1 or 2 years in office that the Democratic leadership convinced him to start pushing policies demanded by the Democratic base (e.g. Dreamers, etc).
The Unicode Consortium publishes a list of all the requests made to the Emoji Subcommittee.[1]

[1] http://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-requests.html
Title should read "Great react tutorial (From 2 years ago)"
I still say the greatest trick the ISPs ever performed was getting customers and content providers to both pay. I don't mean simply the content providers internet bill I mean backbone providers and large orgs like Google and Netflix paying to connect with an ISP. They double dip already and with net neutrality gone they can now make even more by charging both for "premium" services on top of regular charges.
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Awesome thanks for the response. Looking forward to the registry. Will there be a cli for the registry?
Right, hence the vinyl gloves. It also protects my skin from any harmful chemicals or minerals that may be in the paste.
Your own comment would have been a lot better without its first sentence and that "idiot" clause :) I didn't find the parent's comment rude or trollish.

It seems clear that therapy can help people. It also seems clear it is not a panacea, and that it can depend on both the person seeking therapy and the therapist, as well as the reason for therapy. It sounds like the parent was sharing their own experiences, which are just as valid as your own.

If we elevate therapy and therapists to be beyond criticism, all we end up with is a cult. Take the parent's comment on credentials and licensing: I'm sure that we want our therapists to be licensed, using evidence-based techniques, but that doesn't mean all credentials are created equally, or that because someone has credentials automatically means that they can be helpful to you personally.
Lots of fixes built for Fortnite and none (that I can tell) built for PUBG...
> I hope, for sellers' sake, that Ebay has some kind of attention that they pay to patterns of bad behavior.

They don't. There have been quite a few stories about this, including some on HN, but the bottom line is that buyer fraud is rampant on EBay, and, as the GP said, when there's a dispute EBay never ever sides with sellers.

To be honest, while I also like buying on EBay because of the protections, I'm amazed that anyone still sells there; that's how bad it's gotten. I suppose whoever is left has just accepted that the fraud is a cost of doing business and prices it in accordingly.
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I think there's a lot of truth to your comment, but the other side of it is that voluntary community & interpersonal relationships are all self-selected and reciprocal, and so you get significant selection bias in their advice. Oftentimes, if you have persistent dysfunction in your life, your relationships are part of the problem, but you can't see that because those are the only folks you hang out with.

I can't imagine asking my high-school friends (who were largely potheads with no career ambitions beyond working retail) for advice about getting over my fears about starting a company, for example. Or, later in life, wondering why I didn't have a girlfriend when many of my friends were nerdy workaholic commitment-phobic males. It took a perspective beyond the folks I normally hung out with to break out of my old habits. These are different from acute crises like grief, which can usually be handled through sympathetic relationships.

A therapist's incentives are strictly financial (well, mostly - many of them do also want to help in general) and their time with you is bounded by 50-minute hours, and so they're oftentimes willing to take on clients that they would not be willing to have as friends.
And then it would calculate a score for each links it found recursively... Oh wait, that was invented 20 years ago by a firm called Google.
Android got market share because it was free, not because it was good. If Google didn't share ad revenue with carriers and OEMs or tried to extract a license fee ala Windows, Google would not be sitting on 80% global market share today.
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I have been wondering when the USA would start fining Google, Facebook and other mega corporations. It seems that will not happen.

I am really glad that EU did this, been waiting years for this to happen. Other fines will surly come. You can’t eat and kill your competition too long before someone starts to sett the records straight.

A happy day for us consumers!
Thanks for reading! We can't disclose the exact terms of the debt, but it's fairly traditional. The interest rate is higher than if we had years of profitability to show -- makes sense as that's the risk the lender is taking. Also, the team that did this is separate from their PE side. Slightly more details are here in this WSJ article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/ditch-the-venture-model-say-fou...
What if all of the functionality would be available as a Chrome Extension, but the data would be stored in a custom database, not the Chrome's native?
I don’t understand how they ship this many new features in one patch. Amazing work.
graduate school has been crushing in this way.
> The comment I replied to merely reinforces the stereotype that there is something wrong with them - "If only you lived better you would get to sleep at a normal time".

The comment you replied to neither said or implied anything of the sort. He merely conveyed a personal anecdote of an environmental change that allowed a self-identified night owl to function well on a daylight schedule. What's so offensive about that?
> just click the box that says "North American sellers only"

That doesn't necessarily block Chinese sellers. There is one seller named X-Channel that is based out of China. They sell used phones as new, they lie on many of their listings about the devices the sell -- they have a terrible reputation that is well-earned. They have at least 3 different seller accounts on Ebay doing the same scam: two of them, 'x-channel' and 'lotus-online' I can recall of the top of my head.

They must have an address in NYC they use for Ebay's billing purposes or where they distribute the imports, but the items they sell are the shadiest crap from China that you'd want to avoid by ticking Ebay's 'north america only' box.

Anyway, my point is that the 'North American-only' box can be gamed, and is not a surefire way to avoid the Chinese scam sellers.
What's your track record in software engineering? People in these industries are likely to be far more educated that the music / entertainment sector.
I was familiar with Haskell but I wouldn't consider myself a functional programmer, most of my career has been on the Object Oriented side of things. I actually found it to be quite approachable. It's charm has stayed so far as I've found it offers a lot of advantages in terms of code re-use. The elm-lang.org resources, hosted Core lib documentation were most of what I've used. They have live examples in a web repl that is helpful. I would recommend checking with their git though as the pace of the languages development can go through spurts.
I can't say I am surprised as they have spent the last half decade or more trying to reinvent themselves as some sort of Amazon marketplace for companies selling new goods. Policies and rates have repeatedly penalised sellers ever harsher. It is now so buyer-centric that eBay is a safe place for buyers to experiment with their first fraud.

In the process they have thrown away their reason for being and why they grew. At one point just about everyone I knew used to get rid of their spare tat on eBay and post a link. One or two had nice little hobby businesses selling collectables etc. Now I doubt many of them remember it exists. No one I know sells on it any more. I used to get rid of all my old IT kit on eBay, yet now I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot barge pole to sell anything.

That is equally reflected in what's there when looking as a buyer - mostly company sales and endless cheap rubbish and far fewer private sales.
EOS's issues are due to its convoluted governance structure, not POS.
You say that like space isn't full of Aether. Are you an Aether-denier?
Vans warped tour hasn't had much to do with punk culture for like 15 years, unless you consider using it as a marketing tool as what punk really is. I saw anti-flag and face to face at a free show in Montreal this summer and punk rock certainly felt alive. The US has punk in drublic fest going on which is probably quite authentic considering it's thrown by fat wreck chords.
It had little things like multi-process, omnibox, and something like a 10x faster JS engine than the competition, but the real killer feature was the auto-updating.
A bit.

But what fills me with joy is the REPL. It's hugely helpful when trying to make use of unfamiliar APIs.
Today we have an unfortunate tendency to romantize native peoples as living in harmony with each other and/or nature.

But in fact few things in nature lives in harmony. If there is a balance it's usually kept through violent death or starvation.
Great (and terrifying) point. In that light it would seem that the major blocker for these types of engineering projects isn’t technological advancement as much as advancement in governance/social organization/psychology.
Well, if your current system is good enough, don't fix it. But many kind of stitches and threads exist, from leather stitches to laces.
Indeed, I think one important factor that is overlooked is that they are gaining experience in manned launches, sub orbital or not once you put a person on a rocket it’s a whole new ball game.

This is can in the long run give them an advantage over SpaceX depending on how fast SpaceX can actually shift towards manned launches.
Soundsystem/free tekno culture is certainly keeping the mentality alive. My friends that build speakers and play heavy drum and bass and tekno all used to play in punk, hardcore and ska bands in their teens.
According to my friend from there, the DIY scene has migrated to the areas north of Seattle proper. I don't remember any specific places unfortunately.
thanks for the link, it was a good read.
AFAIK PicoLisp is pretty Arc-like so this should be doubly relevant here. :-)
Implementations of emoji don't implement "meaning" -- meaning is in the eye of the beholder. Unless you mean the specific artwork. But some variation is obviously to be expected, not unlike... the variation you see in fonts.
> Insurance companies generally have atrocious IT

And mandatory IT standards (e.g., those adopted under HIPAA) in the healthcare field are written almost entirely by insurance industry IT.
”If doctors and drug companies have all the bargaining power -- and in the most important health care situations, they do”

Not everywhere. It’s miles away from what people in the USA think they want, but governments can intervene on behalf of patients. https://www.government.nl/topics/medicines/keeping-medicines...:

”The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport and the Healthcare Institute of the Netherlands decide what drugs fall under the standard health insurance package
[…]
The Netherlands and Belgium are going to jointly negotiate lower drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. Together, the two countries represent a larger group of patients. This will make it easier for them to negotiate lower prices with drug companies. They will especially try to negotiate lower prices for expensive medicines, including orphan drugs which are used to treat rare diseases.“
While GlenTheMachine has done an admirable job answering your "headline question", I think for your particular area of expertise you might also look for support from a public health-oriented non-profit like the Gates Foundation.
Nowadays, several countries have GDP much greater than "£100B" and I think that was very much not the case in 1905. Anyone have the figures for 1905 at their fingertips?
Leap hour every 1440 days would be a nice happy medium.
No, it is designed to run on any blockchain that supports smart contracts.
PUC are completely non-interoperable.

Apple and Google, and their users, want to interop. PUC is a non-starter.
8 people out of 536 that have gone to space report the overview effect. That's not necessarily a huge impact.
Looks like eBay unloaded PayPal in 2015. Guess this is how long it takes to unwind that relationship.
There needs to be a distinction between fundamental government functions (those that exist to establish the rule of law) and those that were created by law.

It's the fundamental government functions that should never be outsourced.

(If the people's will is that government take care of other matters, no problem. They can choose either way, provided the resulting laws are not unconstitutional.)
So according to you, there are zero European tech companies?
They switched 2 years ago from CryEngine to Lumberyard from Amazon which have an integrated feature for using AWS. They also stated that they completely rewrote the network part and still working on it to date.

They call it Object Container Streaming and Network Bind Culling (I'm not a network developer, so I have no idea about the technical side of it). I don't know how far along they are (they postponed the feature to the 3.3 update) but I'm confident in their abilites.
> Shiji (Mandarin: zhǐshì) characters are ideographs, often called "simple ideographs" or "simple indicatives" to distinguish them and tell the difference from compound ideographs (below). They are usually simple graphically and represent an abstract concept such as 上 "up" or "above" and 下 "down" or "below". These make up a tiny fraction of modern characters.

EDIT: It seems to me that you're arguing that Han are not ideographs, but here's a definition of the word from wikipedia:

> An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek ἰδέα idéa "idea" and γράφω gráphō "to write") is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept, independent of any particular language, and specific words or phrases. Some ideograms are comprehensible only by familiarity with prior convention; others convey their meaning through pictorial resemblance to a physical object, and thus may also be referred to as pictograms.

Now, Han are independent of language, being used to write multiple rather different languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, Japanese), and they do represent ideas or concepts. They do also get used for only the sounds of the spoken words (in each language) for the same ideas/concepts, in which case they may mean very different words altogether. And they get used in combinations that aren't ideographic themselves, but none of that makes Han not-ideographic in origin and character.
What I remember from the announcement of this galaxy's discovery a while ago was that it didn't challenge the theory of the existence of dark matter. It only challenged the theory that dark matter surrounded all galaxies. And here, it dark matter and ordinary matter are attached to each by solely by the force of gravity, it seem logical that their correspondence would be standard but universal.

Indeed, to say just a given galaxy lacks dark matter is inherently to say that dark matter exists.
Was that a parody of the parody?
Canada's CDC (Public Health Agency of Canada, my current employer) is looking for something along these lines:

https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/101.nsf/eng/00029.html