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In the recent threads on armor and armor piercing on the Bay12forums, the game calculates and checks for fracture stress and impact stress when crossbow bolts impact armor.

So for example the game will test to see if the impact_yield, and further research in the threads below reach conclusions such as :

" the IY (impact_yield) deflection mechanism is related to armor density, armor thickness, bolt size, bolt impact yield, bolt contact area, and the difference between mail and plate at larger contact areas."

Armor density takes from armor material - Iron/Steel/, as does impact_yield.

Here is the thread where the initial !!Science!! on whether bolt weight made an impact on their lethality -
[Dwarven Research: The Effect of Bolt Weight on Crossbow Performance](http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=115683.0)

The results were converted on reddit into a LaTeX PDF, which is excellent reading - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2891221/DF%20study.pdf

This led to the follow up: A Comparison Study on the Eﬀectiveness of Bolts vs Armors

LaTeX - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2891221/DF%20study%202.pdf

Thread - http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=116151.0

The underlying algorithm for impact_yield deflection on page 11 was:

" Algorithm:
1. The projectile is hitting the creature on a body part protected by a piece of rigid armor (i.e. bolt hits steel breastplate).
2. Multiply the armor's LAYER_SIZE by the projectile's CONTACT_AREA, and round the result down to the nearest 100. The exception is that you round up to 100 instead of rounding down to zero if the result was less than 100 (i.e. 20x2=40 -> 100).
3. IMPACT_YIELD = (800/157) * ARMOR_SOLID_DENSITY * (step #2 result) / PROJECTILE_SIZE "

And thats to test if a bolt deflects on impact with armor. Penetration causing severing of tissue, blunt damage causing bruising are also possible depending on the Armor vs Bolt combination.

And this is a minor sub part of the game which most people don't see.
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For some people going off gluten makes them confirm their fad belief since they feel a lot better for cutting out burgers, beer and pizza.
This use case has been around for at least several years, but it's a niche market. I'm not a professional, but to me drawing is what I consider a serious hobby, so a few years ago I bought an Asus EP121 Slate.

Almost everyone likes to doodle from time to time, so I'm hoping that Microsoft's push for tablets with actual digitizers in them catches on. So far, the devices aren't exactly where I'd like them to be, but there's definitely some progress being made. Ideally, I'd like to see Apple (the company that claims to be for creative types) implement a true Wacom digitizer into the iPad. Drawing with a capacitive stylus is like cutting off the tips of your fingers and trying to type. Every attempt at a pressure sensitive workaround for the iPad has thus far been absolutely horrible. If Apple just got over their dislike of the stylus, and implemented a proper digitizer into the iPad, probably every artist in the country would buy one to play around with.
> time or the inconvenience

It took me less than two minutes to get the latest episode of the walking dead from a torrent site in 1080p quality about 20 minutes after it aired on cable tv tonight (commercial free).

I think your argument really highlights your advanced age and disconnect with modern technology.
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Edit: I'm one of the guys working on action.io btw
I'm not talking about the last 20 years, i'm talking about the epedemic sized population explosion in the last 2 or 3. an epidemiologist friend of mine remarked to me that if even 10 percent of the people had a real problem, it would be one of the largest outbreaks of disease since the black death and the largest outbreak in food born illness in recorded history.
I don't have, can't get, and don't want a US cable TV subscription.

I never said you do, could, or did. I responded to a comment by smtddr. I had no way of knowing you trying to redirect the thread to be about yourself, personally. My reply was not directed to you, personally.

Even if I lived in the US, I wouldn't want to have to pay $100 a month for cable TV just for the privilege of paying an additional fee to stream HBO.

There are two things wrong with this.

One: HBO Go is free with the subscription. The cable subscription is why it's free. If you're going to get angry with me for even mentioning it, please try to familiarize yourself with what it is. Better yet: don't get angry with me.

Two: smtddr (the person I responded to initially) specifically said he was willing to buy something which sounds almost exactly like HBO Go. I don't understand why that option is overlooked by him, as it sounds very similar.

(Feel free to now call me "selfish" or "entitled" or whatever the rest of the trolls in this thread have settled on to describe the actions of rational people.)

I don't believe anybody has referred to you as selfish and I don't believe that anybody is trolling. I'm sorry you feel you've been attacked.
Is there anything that you are less than satisfied with about it? I was close to getting one, but when I heard the stylus was the S-Trig (significantly inferior to the Wacom for artistic purposes) I just got an iPad 4 to hold me over for a couple of years. It looked really awesome, but 1300 bucks is quite a bit of money for me.
There should be a microformat for spoilers, to make this kind of thing more accessible.
I've never used the workflow plugin, what are you primarily using it to achieve?

Do note I am a slightly more impulsive player, so I tend to make massive stock piles of things so that I don't need to manage Just In Time systems.

DF conditions tend to be similar to Hard Core modes on games like D3/Torchlight, which in turn inherit from Roguelikes like Nethack, so there is an old tradition of hard choices that mean stupid death. (B/U/C identification How I hate thee)
Out of curiosity - does Foxconn procure the parts which it uses to assemble iPhones, iPads etc, or is it Apple's responsibility/domain to procure all the parts, with Foxconn merely putting it all together?
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Brightpod, a collaboration app for digital marketers, readies for launch
I mildly disagree about the brush sensitivity for mathematics. I write a lot of math notes in the margins of academic papers, and single line thickness on a display is annoying and makes the math less readable.
You could achieve the same effect with a couple of lines of CSS. As a bonus you wouldn't pop up the same alert box six times during page load for Internet Explorer users.
How is this different than Cloud9 IDE?
https://c9.io/
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> I think we can safely say that writing a Makefile to build your C code is a bad idea.

I don't think that's a safe assumption at all, I think that's a dangerous overgeneralization. You're only considering open-source projects... and as you point out, both NDK and Lua (projects in the embedded space) use Make. I would not be surprised to find hordes of non-OSS embedded developers using Make natively precisely _because_ it is the "assembler" of build systems.
Forget starting to work on side projects - I have so many unfinished side projects I need a NAS just to store my ~/Projects directory. Someone write me an article about how to finish side projects...
Ars' perspective : http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/former-obama-advi...

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they are similar.
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2010092205524...

And of course i had to compromise with the available domain.
Typically this shows up in recursive make projects with lots of sub projects—it doesn't take that much time to stat every file in question but reinvoking make sixteen times can be quite slow.

I don't deal with this by not using make, I deal with this by not writing recursive makefiles.
If I could vote this down I would, pay-wall site leave alone!
Of course we had to see this quote into context. Before the iPad was released most tablets pretty much required a styles to be useful. Reason was the used pretty much the same Windows UI as on the desktop (with the small close-boxes on windows for example). Those tablets could pretty much only be used with a stylus. Before Apple released the iPad there pretty much weren't any tablets that could be used completely without a stylus.
What would a heuristic function look like for a "regular" graph (I.e. graphs as the data structures used for learning bfs, dfs, &c) then? I understand A* in terms of the grid what with the x and y distance, but how would implementing distance work in a non-grid graph? I feel as though it would just be taking the weights of edges and/or nodes. And if that's the case, then it essentially regresses to being Dijkstra's.
You should definitely pick up Marty Cagan's "Inspired - How to create products customers love". That is one of the best books I've read on Product Management
>If you are one of the lucky less than 1% of the population you don't get celiac...you are born with it.

This is false. My sister developed it in her 30s as a consequence of contracting giardia.
Strange. When I visit the states I'm based usually in Seattle/Bellevue, where I see starbucks full of people writing on their iPads, bizarrely enough (you'd expect to see some Surfaces now given the locale but...). At home in China, iPads are common but mostly used for entertainment, not work.

I seriously doubt its posing anymore. When everyone in the coffee shop has an iPad (including the partners), what is there to pose about?
In this thread: People experiencing somatic issues have relief of their symptoms by placebo diet changes, and are angry when other people point this out.
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"If you define the total order of a set of time ranges as an ordering on their beginnings"

What is the data type of the beginning of a range of time, if not a point in time? I'm having trouble even defining ranges without points.

I'd be interested to hear your suggestions in more detail. There's a temporal data LinkedIn group that you are welcome to join (I haven't been as active lately, but I'll try to get back into it). It would be a better forum to discuss matters like this.
The conclusion I draw from everything I've heard is that the Surface Pro is a terrible iPad and an excellent PC laptop. Issues like the battery life, heat, weight, RAM free, and so on are reasonable for a Windows machine.

If my perspective is correct, look for the Surface Pro to cannibalize sales from MS's "partners." I do expect it to appeal to the kind of person who buys a PC laptop and an iPad. And that's a great market for MS to defend. But for people who want just a tablet, I expect iPads to carry on selling by the container.

If Microsoft's vision of everyone needing a computer is correct, the Surface pro will destroy the laptop. But if Apple's vision of a "post-PC" world is correct, the vast majority of the tablet market will be just tablets, and the iPad will continue to thrive.

It all seems to come down to whether you think of tablets as weak computers with a tablet interface or whether you think of them as an appliances that run software.
> The only major feature that's missing IMO is hash-based rebuild detection, which is essential if you're using much auto-generated code.

I'm guessing that your goal here is to avoid a recompile if the auto-generated content did not change. This is not a problem for timestamp-based build tools if you add a single step: auto-generate your output to a temp file, and only replace the target with the temp file if the file shows a difference. The program `install` will do the 'copy iff file contents have changed' part for you, so it's really just two extra lines in the Makefile recipe.
Ok, so you have a 1.5 million employee company that actually wants to expand it foot print to contries other than china. Brazil, Indonesia and the move to the US was already discussed.

Articles like that happen when political journalists write about economic things. The facts provided are mainly that Foxconn has a) a new growth strategy and... let me think... yeah, that's about it.

But yes, a 10 billion investment plan in indonesia surely is a sign that the iPhone 5 (the only electronic device Foxconn is assembling) isn't selling as good as before. Would Apple stock have risen by 2,4 percent the article would have been about greater growth in iPhone market share in Brazil and the HUGE opportunities manufacturing sites in Indonesia would offer.

Just to end up with the fact that Foxconn flees China because it's a bad place to be. Business as usual in journalism and stock exchanges. :-)
Moving production to Taiwan doesn't seem to be a particularaly smart move if the objective is to avoid China related political risk.
You know, it may work for you, but it's probably no more than (and no less than!) placebo. Somatic gastrointestinal issues are very common, and are often resolved by placebo treatment. You can't tell unless you're in the context of a real study that uses blinding to tease out the placebo effect.

I find it fairly absurd that so many people suddenly feel better when they stop eating gluten (poorly, might I add, if you monitor most gluten-free diets they're a complete failure) this decade. Is it just recently that everyone has started having issues?
It's been a while since the tablet market was defined as 'iPad'.
4. And if you need to do anything extensive as root on a any machine, you might want to consider doing it with a configuration management system (puppet, chef, ansible).
SSH access, and a console so you can actually deploy. It's more similar to a VPS but with a little more hand-holding and some restrictions.
Googling Dabangg I discovered an action movie with more plot twists and turns than three Jackie Chan movies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabangg
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It appears the author has a penchant for bashing China at every opportunity. Check out this comment[1] and then browse the author's archive[2] to make up your own mind.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2013/02/24/is-foxcon...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/archive/
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(*subtree)[keys[len(keys)-1]] = value

This is the first time I see this kind of syntax in Go, what does (*subtree) do?
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The name 'func' doesn't collide with anything else though. It is an entirely more reasonable abbreviation.
If doing:

#define BEGIN {
#define END }

were such a bad idea, then why is it so easy?
Linux kernel? Uses its own automation. See also *BSD make, which is the basis for ports among other things (unless that's changed since last I looked); entirely in-make. Plan 9 and the userspace port uses mk, which is a slightly cleaned up variant of the BSD make.

Fact is, a makefile for building C code is typically smaller than the autoconf files required to get autotools to work on the same code. Most horrible makefiles are written by terrible build automation software (autotools being among the worst offenders here) or by people who don't understand the dependency graph model. A ten line Makefile that automated something repetitive is fantastically important, even if it is just writing down something in an executable fashion such that you don't have to remember it later. Almost every build automation tool out there either doesn't scale up (too simple) or is too hard for small work, or occasionally both, like Ant.

If I need to do something simple, a Makefile is only a very little bit more complex than a command line—I frequently crib the command I just ran to start off the Makefile. If I needed to do nontrivial logic in a Makefile and couldn't avoid it, I wouldn't use jam or tup or redo or SCons—I couldn't, because they're less useful than make! I would probably end up using Rake, which is the only build automation tool I've seen so far that isn't a make clone and can do implicit dependency generation.
My wife is gluten intolerant, but we also enjoy chebe as a pizza crust. Just an alternate idea. We have found quite satisfying, gluten-free alternatives to almost everything that she wants.

Haven't quite cracked the doughnut, so if anyone has ideas...
If you're not celiac, gluten can't hurt you.

I am so tired of this quackery.
Is not that what heroku was doing before they pivoted?
Pay walls should not be permitted on HN, IMHO.
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Very similar, although I don't think Heroku ever had a console. But yes, this does seem to be at least a partial revival of Heroku garden.

Also I don't think this is meant to be a production hosting environment, more like a test environment before you deploy to Heroku (which Action.IO will automate when the time comes).
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It depends what you're doing with networks. These tools are good for calculating statistics on large scale configs.

If you want a "real" network GNS3 is so much better.
The good news is that anyone can do it :D

Check out https://github.com/github/linguist. It's the library GH uses to detect and highlight languages; and _many_ people external from GH have contributed to it. It's just a matter of someone adding a lexer for Rust and submitting a pull request :D
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Just a quick notice, some spammers have been spamming my site, so now the service is offline until I can migrate mx servers and add in anti-spam policies. Unfortunately, I've been super busy lately and may not get around to it for a while...
If your standard for differentiating between placebo and "real" effects is participation in a "real" study, you've by definition eliminated pretty much all introspection as a source of data about ones body.

Although you might find it absurd that folks are feeling better from a dietary modification that hasn't been around for a long while, I find it equally strange to dismiss out of hand the lived experience of "so many people".
thats not an inappropriate use of gotos either. they're in the same function, just a few lines down, and are just used to improve the safety and efficiency of the code. in fact thats the textbook case of the only time when a goto is actually a good idea.
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22617359

a case study about this exact thing. There's actually a lot of literature on giardiasis and celiac as they're often confused initially. Biopsy usually sorts it out.
I'll second this. My friend made a pretty cool and useful language (moonscript.org) and after it got popular he submitted a pull request for syntax highlighting. It took months and lots of people commenting for it to get merged in. So to see this BS front-paged grinds my gears a bit.
That's exactly the thing though - - the corporate positive mindset isn't about avoiding needless negativity, it's simply enforcing causeless positivity and optimism. You might be the type of person who simply isn't a bucket full of sunshine all the time without necessarily being "negative", though in the corporate world you'd be considered that if you are anything less than super positive.

I don't think it's a question of "is negativity good or bad", I see it as more of why can't we just let people be themselves? As long as we have a healthy mix, we should have all types of views and personalities represented, en though that are slightly more negative.
I once contacted a company about a job offer they had published on a university's alumni website. First thing they did was redirect me to their favorite recruitment agency so they would screen me before they considered my application.
Prior to understanding gluten intolerance, many people would just struggle through life with low-grade malaise that they felt was normal. Loose stool, constipation, low energy, poor metabolism, malnourishment, cloudy headedness. These problems have been around for a very long time with very little understanding as to their causes.

So, as you asked: Is it just recently that everyone that everyone started having these issues? No. The issues have been around for a long time. It's just recently that there was this possible explanation and remedy for these issues.
Personally I would go for single device that does everything I need. Something on the lines of what Ubuntu is doing. Even Surface to an extent solves this issue. I don't want to carry an iPhone to call/msg/listen to music, an iPad to casually use internet/read/play games and a laptop for everything else. Better carry one phone which does call/msg/music/internet,reading and minor editing/office stuffs when plugged to dock.
That has been my experience too. At least it doesn't seg-fault all the time any more.
I'm an n of 1. That said, I tried various diet changes (i.e., dairy free, vegetarian) and life changes (e.g., exercise) and none had a substantive effect. When I removed gluten from my diet the effects were dramatic. In addition, I do have gluten on a rare occasion and my old symptoms return. Is this a placebo effect? Perhaps, but then why didn't any of my other significant experiments have any meaningful impact?

Note, I'm not suggesting that anyone with stomach issues has gluten intolerance. But if you do have persistent and long term stomach issues it is one of many conditions that should be seriously considered. Based on personal experience and research on the issue gluten intolerance is not a fad and shouldn't be dismissed as such.
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Ask HN: What legal notices do I need on my website?
Is this even something I can find out, or is it something I have to have a lawyer for?
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This is such a good statement. Thanks for the contribution.
Not bad, but pretty buggy even in Chrome on Windows. Selecting the text sometimes doesn't de-blur it, hovering images only results in partial blur (I later realised you click to get it to work). Great idea, but definitely needs some more work before it can be considered a definitive solution for blurring out text and imagery. I forked the project and made some adjustments that were annoying me and submitted a pull request. The lack of semicolons and shorthand if statements bothered me, as did the lack of support for chainability as well. I might contribute a little more to it later on with some newer ideas and support for older browsers.
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True, and I commend you for putting it out there and iterating.

If there was one suggestion I might have on where to go next, it would be improving fine grained control of item placement (as alluded to in my original comment). No one has done this well, and it is one of the things that makes coders say "screw it, I'll just do it with CSS", and non coders say "screw it, I'll hire a designer/programmer.
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There might be stuff like screws that Apple will let foxconn procure based on their spec, but they might not even let them do that.

Apple produces the CPU, procures the screen, the aluminum, the glass, the memory and the glue. At the scale they operate, if they didn't, they won't be able to keep the production pipeline running.
> Rotate image without losing information ...

Actually, lossless rotation is only possible for 90/180/270 degrees, otherwise some information loss is unavoidable.