skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that that has anything to do with carriers specifically, though. The old AI just wasn't very smart -- there were lots of cheap game-breaking tricks you could use. Lurkers in the base entrance, for example, generally resulted in a computer going crazy until it starved itself. It's like it refused to do any teching until it could get a dozen infantry standing in the base entrance like it WANTED.

The new one's better, but definitely not exploit-free. A dozen speedlings in its mineral line will result in it recalling ALL its forces, rather than just what it needs to deal with the problem.

I sometimes think of the AI as an example of how hard it is to simulate human intelligence.
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You can think of no reason someone wouldn't want to have every waking moment of their life recorded?
A fun unit in multiplayer isn't really a good excuse for a gamebreaking behavior in single player.

An examination of what it was that made the Carrier fun might have revealed ways to get similar effects (long range, able to fire while retreating, requires paying minerals for continued use . . .) in a unit that wasn't such a weird gamebreaker. Most people just liked Carriers because it cast a field of enemy unit and Ai stupidity around it. Once players get attached to a unit, you may be stuck keeping it in the game even if it's not really good for overall playability.

Just because it worked with this one unit doesn't mean the overall game experience couldn't have been better with something different in there. But once something is introduced, status quo bias takes hold in a major way.

Edit: I'll concede that you want the AI to be stupid in some ways so that it can be exploited. The Carrier just always seemed to me too extreme.
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I don't have much to comment on this, as I myself am an introvert and somewhat of a shut-in.

But after reading up to "I guess I'm kinda different.", I couldn't stand it and had to use Developer Tools to change the background color and font color. Still feeling some discomfort in my eyes and it feels like the text is burned in front of me.
I'm pretty sure Epson engineered these T88-TMs sometime in mid-80s and haven't changed them since. It seems that the only difference between the versions is the print speed due to upgraded processors, but nearly all the mechanicals are exactly the same!

Stuff like this reminds me that at some point people really did give damn and that you can still buy quality if you're willing to look. Like when I go to the bank and they're still using a 20 year old Okidata Microline dot matrix printer for receipts. My dad had one for his office that never skipped a beat in over 15 years of service.
Sorry! Not sure what the deal is with the Safari issue related to the tooltips plugin yet. :/

However, as stated in big superscript on the brand name, Groundwork is in Beta and was just published on February 5th (15 days ago). If you would all submit issues and contribute to the project on Github, I bet these bugs will quickly become a thing of the past! :D
Not sure that helps JP. As you can see from his response he doesn't see himself as being abused so yelling at him might not get the message through.

One of the weirdest things I've encountered was how much the brain internalizes its existence from a very young age. Without going massively philosophical on people the question of what is 'normal' is really really fluid. Nearly everyone I've met baselines their own childhood experience as 'normal' even though people have widely different sets of acceptable/unacceptable behaviors, language usage, religious views, Etc. These get injected into the pliable and undiscriminating brain of a child, and children of dysfunctional families usually can't express their discomfort as a function of their own upbringing because human brains don't work that way.

So while I agree the author would benefit greatly by deconstructing his earliest inputs and re-contextualizing them in a way that allows him to move forward with his life, that has to happen somewhat on his timeline.
Same here. Same setup (24/12.04). For a minute I thought the mobile version was the new front page.
While probably not being something that interesting for most of the HN userbase, personally I find this an useful resource.

So.. thank you.
Well, we're going to have these conversations again in the near future as automation becomes more common. At some point we as a society are either going to have to organize us all with some productive activity, or embrace and deal with the departure of the "everyone-must-work-hard-all-of-the-time" work ethic.
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Cities are more and more doing this (what you specified for pedestrian lights outside the US). My problem: there's a very large intersection that I walk through daily that changed to "only allow walk when the button is pushed" and 9 times out of 10 when I walk up to it and push the button when it normally would have been set to "walk", nothing happens. Then, the next traffic cycle I get the "walk" light. However, I've also noticed that from the time I push the button until when the cross traffic starts, 90% of the time I would have had time to walk across the street. So, I've started ignoring the button and just walking when "the time is right." In this case, it has made me less safe. Twice in a few months I've been caught in the middle of the street when the light turns.

I realize that in this case, the walk portion is probably just not tuned properly, but I wonder how often that happens.
> You don't need law when one person is empowered to call all the shots.

Even the most abject dictatorships have courts and laws simply because one man has limited time.
I read the comments on the site and have pretty much lost my will to live. What a cornucopia of ignorance. Who let these people on to the Internet?
It's almost never that simple. For example, a (regular) telephone book cannot be copyrighted[1] but medical billing codes for insurance can be[2] (so far.)

[1] Feist Pubs., Inc. v. Rural Tel. Svc. Co., Inc. - 499 U.S. 340 (1991) http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us...

[2] Practice Management v AMA - 121 F.3d 516 (9th Cir. 1997) [writ denied by SCOTUS] http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/tfisher/IP/1997%20PMI%20...
I thought that was pretty bad ass, too. You've gotta give me credit for exposing such a huge bug to Apple. :)
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i think his gripe was more with proprietary solutions and not really !javascript, as you imply.

what you did would be the same as if i replied to you:

Are you implying that everyone should just shut down all R&D in web technologies and just choose between NaCl or ActiveX?
And what hardware startup might this be? I'm curious ;-)
> zoning out on Facebook, flipping through TV channels, browsing Reddit front page for 2 hours

Not that I rate the intellectual output of these things above reading books but the value that people get out of them may be higher. Firstly, it seems unfair to judge people based on whether they choose to read books or surf sites. I, for one, find internet more interesting, dynamic, fluid and cheap source of information as well as entertainment than books.

> aimlessly browsing social media

That has some value too. For a person who prefers that kind of past time, I would argue that chances of them engaging in an activity of much higher intellectual engagement are pretty low anyway. They are probably looking for an easy and light way to spend time or consume information about their peers.
PDF performance is great on the Mac because Apple's 2d drawing system is actually based on the PDF spec. You can even "print" to a pdf from just about any Mac application that supports printing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_2D
I assume he thinks putting the situation in stark terms is more likely to provoke a response from France that will have a chance of saving their jobs in the future.
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Here we are at HN, a community of "smart" people, and yet you still don't understand that those words are for targeted for everyone, not just you, the nerd. Of course it's fine if she says the "obvious", it's not obvious for everyone.
None of those links actually cite a disadvantage. In fact from the second:

"Finally, the authors reiterate that even if you consume “unnecessarily high protein intakes” like 1.3 grams per pound of body weight per day, this still isn’t a risk to your kidneys unless you already had kidney disease."
What's interesting is that you can already do this at concerts with your existing smartphone [1].

Not to mention people already take plenty of pictures at bars.

[1] http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/stream-live-video-smartphone/
... from there comes most infections on windows PCs running chrome.
False Dichotomy.

Hello dear French Person,

We have taken your offer under consideration and have decided we are not interested.

Experience has taught us that we can produce cheaper in Asia which is why we are not going to set up a manufacturing base in Europe.

best regards,

x

No fake smile, not an ass.
I agree with this -- I aimed at making Groundwork as close to this as possible. Even the button styles (colors, radius, borders, etc.) are all easily customized in the _variables.scss file. I think there's more we can do to make it even more generic of coarse, I encourage you to create issues on the Github page if you find components have too much stylistic direction. :)
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Yes, the interface needs to be improved/replaced before what I'm talking about is practical, even if it's so you can whisper rather than speak at normal volume. Personally, I do not think using voice as an interface is the correct way forward with these devices at all.

I haven't many ideas for this, my best guess would be using the eye to control it but then that has many challenges - how would we click?
Typically, the independent variable is on the x axis and the dependent is on the y. Most modern economists consider price independent, hence the axes are reversed. The convention was created by Alfred Marshall and everyone has stuck to it ever since. I don't think it matters, since neither variable is causal. The "inputs" of the function are actually the supply and demand curves themselves and the output is both price and quantity.
Your assuming things that are not necessarily the case. GM had some terrible factory's in the 80's where you could buy alcohol, hard drugs, and visit a prostitute all inside the factory. That has little to due with the US work force and a lot to due with the history of Union activity at GM.
She's been in the job 6 months and a lot of changes have been made already.

Maybe a little patience is in order ? It took years before Apple could be turned around.
I didn't get any sense that the author was expecting others to divine the solution to his problems; I think he was just irritated because they were besieging him with "concern" without actually helping any.

Therein lies the contradiction. You presume the author isn't expecting solutions and yet he's justifiably irritated because other people aren't helping. I don't think he's justified at all.

So many presumptions about how other people should react and behave: expressions of love should be like this, auntie should know she doesn't understand...

Aunt Sharon has to be willing to meet you halfway

No, she doesn't; she needs to hear, "I don't need advice, I need you to listen."
Since you're interested, here's the video (recorded by a SC1 pro) that catalyzed the SC1 behavior being recreated in the SC2 expansion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rqx8s2qKXM
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. I'm not technically on the server team, but here is what I understand: we have 450-ish Backblaze pods (each with 45 hard drives) deployed in the datacenter. We are JUST NOW starting to see some old age mortality (increased failures) of the drives we deployed about 4 and a half years ago. We're really happy with the longevity, it exceeded everything we were told to expect.

We group the drives into 15 drive RAID6 groups, where there are 13 data drives and 2 parity drives. This means we can lose 2 drives and not lose any data in that particular RAID6 group. We use the built in Linux "mdadm" tools to do this.

The network interface to a pod is through HTTPS talking with Tomcat (Java web server). Java writes the data to disk (ext4 on top of the above RAID6). Our application (backup) is very specific and performance forgiving, essentially we write data once and then re-read it once every few weeks and recalculate the SHA-1 checksums on the files to make sure the data is all completely, totally intact and a bit hasn't been thrown somewhere.

One of the "luxurious" parts of working at Backblaze is we own BOTH the client and the server. On a customer's laptop, the client pre-digests the data, breaks it up into chunks that make sense (more than 5 MBytes and less than 30 MBytes) and then the client compresses it if appropriate (we don't compress movies or audio because it would be silly wasted effort) and the client encrypts the data, then sends it through HTTPS to our datacenter. Because the client computer is supplied by customers, all their CPU cycles are "free" to us. We can conveniently break up files, encrypt them, deduplicate (within that client) all without spending any CPU cycles at Backblaze because it is done on the customer's laptop before being sent.

Again, the Backblaze storage pods really aren't the correct solution for all "off the shelf" type IT projects. For example, it won't meet the performance needs of many applications. But it does work exceptionally reliably in our experience as a backup solution when you have one or two programmers to help implement a custom software layer in Java.
Infinite scroll is stupid for many of the same reasons why it is stupid to use physical scrolls instead of pages bound into books.
Which has always struck me as hilarious advice considering that second and third sentences in the paragraph are unnecessary.
Last I checked, Skeleton is just a grid system and doesn't attempt to be a complete framework (and is basically the old Foundation Grid isn't it? -- I think the guy that made Skeleton used to be a Zurbian) -- We can easily extract the grid system from Groundwork to be stand-alone and use it in the same way. If you'd like, create an issue on the Github page and I'll make it happen!
hehe, I <3 Zurb, I've followed them and the cool stuff they post on their Playground and have been inspired with what they've done with Foundation over the years, too. Orbit seemed like a great component to include in Groundwork to achieve a MVP. I plan to write a fresh alternative or enhance and contribute to Orbit moving forward. The current version isn't quite as flexible as I want it to be (it needs to properly support content-only sliders with no images, have less image dependencies -- possible utilize SVG/font icons for controls, etc.)
Maybe he meant to say: we were harmed financially, paid lawyers, sued, won and got jack in return.
Not to sound flip, but does Stripe need to be building the best engineering team in the Valley? From an outsider's perspective it does not seem like are trying to solve that difficult a problem--marry Internet technology with credit card payment technology. In effect, they are just building glue, not anything new. However, let's assume they are building very good glue. That still begs the question can one attract the best to build the best team when the tasks at hand might not attract the most talented? The answer to that question, I'd like to know. My own company works on what I think are challenging engineering problems, but perhaps not as challenging or impactful as what Google, Prismatic, Factual, or SexyStartUpX are working on (just to name a few).

So my question is how do you attract talent and build great teams when you're not the prettiest girl at the dance?
The paragraph text didn't necessarily bother me, but the nearly invisible headers are just ridiculous.
Foundation has really tought me a lot and inspired me over the years. I gladly admit that I've been heavily influenced and learned a lot by the amazing work the Zurbians have been doing. I thought about just contributing to Foundation, but had so many ideas and things I wanted to do, that I knew they would eventually tire of reviewing my frequent pull requests :)
I was always under the assumption that plain english was avoided because being succinct can leave things open to interpretation. This would leaves legal documents up for debate and open to loopholes.

Am I wrong in this assumption?

I often find myself writing things that are too verbose in fear that I won't be interpreted as intended. I recognize that this is an inherent challenge in writing, but is there any intermediate solution? Can there not be a "plain language" version of a document? Or why can't legal documents be primarily written in plain language, with notes (like footnotes) for legal clarification?
PayPal is not cheaper unless you do a lot of volume: https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/paypal-fees
> Yahoo still has a tremendous amount of popular services and traffic.

Which of these services are not witnessing substantial decline and will likely remain relevant (never mind dominant) in the next 5 years?

edit: Yahoo Finance is the only candidate I can think of and I don't see it as having a very dominant position.
mm, strange math.

179 means that while app holding and communicating to 1 million persistent connections it is still able to process 100+ standard requests per second. pretty enough to accept new clients to your online game, audio/video chat, podcast etc.

this graph shows how many requests per second app may process depending on amount of established persistent connections:

https://raw.github.com/slivu/1mc2/master/results/requests-pe...
These units are basically specifically designed to require micro-ing from the player. Both brood lords and carriers are pretty weak if attacked head on (slow/low-hitpoints)-- their entire strength is in the fact that other units will auto-attack broodlings/interceptors first (which makes some "conceptual" sense since that's what actually attacking them).
Thank you very much for the feedback. If you would post the issues you're experiencing on the Github page, that would be really helpful in getting any bugs resolved! :)
Aren't "bigger pictures" and "gadgets" more exciting than "dynamic" and "intuitive" layout?
Let's hope there is the option to say no otherwise this couldn't be considered a general purpose viewer by some.
Worked for me, too.
Fascinating read-- thanks for sharing.

> When I think how hard PR firms work to score press hits in the traditional media, I can't imagine they'll work any less hard to feed stories to bloggers, if they can figure out how.

I wanted to add that PR firms have indeed figured out how to pitch to bloggers, and do so all the time. I am close with several folks who work in PR and pitch to bloggers every day.

Anytime you read a blogger's review of any product, it was because they were sent free samples from the PR firm that represents the product maker. This sometimes backfires when the blogger doesn't like the product and expresses that in the review. But more often than not, the blogger is flattered by the gifts and praise and is happy to give glowing reviews of the new widget.
One word: convenience. People will pay to have them give them everything they need up front, instead of researching or finding it themselves.
see also quake rocketjumping, strafe jumping, bunnyhopping, etc. when carmack wanted to fix all those issues in q3arena, the players protested, because the game was dull.
Hg is fine, and it saddens me to know it doesn't see more adoption because there isn't a big nerd behind it. Git has some important factors in its favor, though:

1. In my experience, it's more robust. I had Hg throw Exceptions doing menial tasks.

2. It's more popular, there's more infra-structure available. GitHub is a big factor until we get more competition on this area.

3. Since most commands are just scripts that call lower-level tools, it's potentially more flexible. It's possible to derive new functionality without hacking too much the VCS source. That could include a saner command line.
Just curious, what system did you choose and for what type of business? As I mentioned above, I set up my friend with BreadCrumb which is okay for quickserve, but not great. There QS workflow needs to be extensively overhauled, and they need to support sig-less CC transactions and gift cards.

If I were to do it over again, I might actually look a bit more at a QS specific system, even if it's windows95 POS POS (ha!), because the efficiencies of workflow may make it worth it.
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My Google skills are failing me--any chance you have a link, or at least another keyword that might bring the right page to the top?
That you'll make less money than people with the same skill set?
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The "three hours a day" is obviously an impressionistic account, but he reports having visited that factory more than once and spoken with its workers. And, as someone who's managed similar factories in other jurisdictions, he'd have some insight about what 'tempo' of production is necessary for profitable operation.

So it's not fair to accuse him of imagining this based solely on cultural stereotypes. He has expertise beyond that, both in the industry and the specific factory; that's why the French government approached him.

Also, your OECD averages for France don't tell us anything about how a single troubled factory works. Many French businesses are doing fine, but they aren't looking for a foreign-buyer rescue. The Titan CEO is speaking of one, specific troubled factory, with a specific (likely unfireable) workforce. Its work environment might be among the worst France's traditions, unions, and political influences has to offer. As thin as the anecdote in the CEO's letter is, it's still stronger than an argument based on national averages that include healthy businesses.
Thanks for the feedback on the need for VPC support. We're listening to customer input to prioritize our roadmap. You can add custom security groups to each layer in the layer configuration.
I'm an engineer why should I read.... Better it fit HR
Babylon had large city's and a range of industry's. We are not talking about self sufficient farmers but weavers, blacksmiths, potters, architects, construction workers, priests, teachers, warriors, etc. They dealt with complex issues like what happens when you build someone a house and it falls down killing the son of the person that bought the house.
PDF.js rocks!

Now, stay tunned for ASM.js because that too will rock (once it is ready).

link: http://asmjs.org/
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Different from DropBox/Box ?
well, good luck with your _amphetamine_ habit.
The footnotes wouldn't have made any sense all the way at the end. My favorite footnotes on a webpage are when you can hover over the superscript, and have the note floating there. That way, they wouldn't interrupt the reading.