skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post doesn't seem to be very concerned with turn-based games beyond multiplayer.

I'll concede that turn-based has never been a good fit for multiplayer, but I was hoping for some analysis on single-player failings. There are reasons why turn-based single player games have at times been very popular, but many newer entrants seem to have forgotten what those are. The turn-based system gets rid of skillshots at the cost of respondability, which can both improve and degrade approachability.

I also wouldn't consider the two offered solutions to both be turn-based. I feel the Travian system of ticks is realtime, whereas the Age of Wonders system is mostly turn-based (though exploitable). I'm on the fence about a Planetarion style system, with sparser ticks - it retains some good parts of turn-based, but adds some bad parts from realtime.

I'm pretty sure there has been a multiplayer game like Frozen Synapse, which is the third simultaneous option. I feel like this is the only truly turn-based variant, though a very different system from traditional turn-based games.

Of course, there is the final, popular method of simply setting time limits on turns and simplifying the game until turns are fast. I dislike this approach as well - maybe turn-based games are better left in single-player mode.
The android app version says it ships this fall. When does the iOS version ship?
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Sounds good. Would like to try.
It's a huge hammer and a considerably larger webpage footprint just so that a type of character isn't allowed to run amok, something that's not going to happen anyway in the vast majority of cases.
He didn't appear to call out anyone. In fact, the only names he mentioned were the ones that he interacted well with. It was the nameless "company" that didn't fulfill their end of their agreement.
You're wrong. Policies like you listed are not viable because of either government regulation or the mere fact that a company will not be able to hire and retain good people if it treats them like shit. You offer an absurd and totally unrealistic situation.

It's also naive to expect companies to be concerned with anything other that making a profit. At any moment, another company can come in and implement changes that the first company was unwilling to make and undercut it's business.
If I saw someone wearing this t-shirt, I wouldn't know that it was HN-related. But wearing the t-shirt below, I have occasionally bumped into other people "in the know":

http://sdf.org/store/shop.cgi?3;sdf10

Plus the design is way cooler.
no sane person would want to use glibc EVER!
People with money can be assholes too, and a social media conference with zillions of attendees is a great way to bully yourself into a soapbox with relative anonymity.
Looks like they tack on shipping when you check out. It was very reasonable for me though < $4.00
What test cases do you use? Oddly I do not know what cases the git / hg devs use so I would be interested in seeing test cases plus comments as much as anything
Watsi is great but I am not sure if I want to be constantly explaining the shirt to people.
I've been doing Google searches every now and then to try to assess the relative popularity of Git vs Mercurial. Two years ago it seemed to be 2:1 in favor of Git. A year ago it seemed to be 3:1 in favor of Git. Now I think it is about 5:1 in favor of Git. Here are my most recent Google hit counts:

git 208M
git revision 6M
git version 56M
git control 19M
mercurial 29.5M
mercurial revision 1M
mercurial version 7M
mercurial control 6M

Google trends of "git repository" vs "mercurial repository":

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=git%20repository%2C%2...

update:

hg revision 5M
hg version 55.5M
hg control 63.M
hg OR mercurial revision 6M
hg OR mercurial version 70.5M
hg OR mercurial control 74M

The decline in popularity of "mercurial" vs "git" seems real, but I agree that "mercurial" searches may be under-reporting the popularity of Mercurial. The top hits for "hg -mercurial revision" have nothing to do with Mercurial, tho.
If you'll notice, I didn't write a blanket statement. ;) I used the word "rarely".

Agree that sometimes it is easier to start from something, but not always.

Or, did you forget about Wayland and X? I mean, we are talking about that right now ;)
I think you'd be hard pressed to find any company that would willfully disobey a subpoena.
Old doesn't necessarily mean low-tech.

A quote inside a quote uses single quotes. A quote inside a quote that's inside a quote goes back to double quotes. If that's what you're asking.

He said, "You said, 'My friend said, "Hello World!"'."

Thankfully that doesn't happen too often.
I tried switching to Clojure, and while I love the purity, simplicity, and logic of it, two things always bothered me:

1) Immutable data structures are always going to be slower than their mutable cousins.

2) "Clojure code is beautiful" should be changed to "Your OWN Clojure code is beautiful". When I finished writing a compact piece of logic or data transformation, I was often struck with the beauty of it. When I tried to read someone ELSE's Clojure code, however, I couldn't even begin to make sense of it.

I am ever open to being proved wrong, however. Any Clojure programmers reading this, please reply with some code that is readable, elegant, and performant, to provide a counterpoint to my pessimism.
We did not, he actually give's me crap for my school (UT Austin) because he went to USC (look up Rose Bowl 2006). We did share common backgrounds. He went to school for creative writing and I went for Film. He was essentially given a chance at being a programmer and I'm assuming I've rec'd that same treatment.
Shipping for me was $3.85.
While it does not fit everybody's needs and technical abilities, I have found that writing in markdown with Git version control has proven to be the best way to manage drafts. Other writers can submit pull requests, and when combined with a simple publishing platform like Jekyll it is easy to visualize final results.
That's true. But the flow I use to write doesn't require any kind of real time collaborative writing.

I don't want someone writing on top of what I'm writing. I just want me there, and then you can work on your own copy of my work, and I'll choose what wins.

That being said, I definitely need some more real time experience here alerting you when someone is editing your doc and when it's ready.
Could you give an example or two of their best competitor?
I've been meaning to ask for a long time. Are you this http://www.mikeash.com Mike Ash?
No.

4chan's /b/ board is considerably stricter than reddit.

The things that were allowed, and championed on reddit would have had you immediately and permanently banned from 4chan.
OK, let's see it this way:

Even for a 8-hour, 5 days/week job, the daily commute + wasted office time + coworker disruptions add up to 3-4 hours per day for most.

Thats years off of your life.

Adderal might be better after all.
Google had voice tasks (initiation reminders, text messages, emails, navigation requests) before Siri was released. The only difference is they are pretty strictly keyword initiated ("Navigate to X", "Text Y Z"), whereas Siri can parse natural language for tasks (or at least appear to; it may well just have a bunch of hardcoded variations).
Cimpler: continuous integration, unix-style
So is there anything going on differently on the backend? The article display shows images embedded in the body layout, as opposed to just the standard lede image spot (and sidebar embeds). Does the CMS have features allowing online producers to easily intermix words and multimedia, in the way that Verge and Polygon do?
> I'm not sure what causes large subreddits to spiral into utter shit, but it does.

My money? Karma systems.

I don't think they scale as well as many would like. When you get up to "default subreddit" sized karma systems just turn into some sort of currency system that rewards those who are ultimately detrimental to the conversation: specifically those making repeated boring puns/memes because they are easy and formulaic, and those making formulaic complaints about superficial elements of the post in question (flooding entire comment sections with complaints about grammar/spelling/limited vocabulary).

I don't think these behaviors would be nearly so prevalent without a karma system. Why would the 200th person to comment on an article make the 200th comment about a "there/their" error, if not because they thought they would get imaginary internet points?

Karma systems take the initial reward for discussion (intellectual satisfaction) and out-bid it with gamification induced endorphin rushes.
I'm assuming that these drivers are userspace drivers, whatever interface they have with the kernel is another problem.

The presence of SurfaceFlinger in these decisions seems to be derived from some speculation in an article, not based on what Canonical themselves have said.

When it comes to embedded hardware graphics, the industry is coalescing around Android as a kind of HAL/BSP, and so other projects that want to support off the shelf available consumer hardware either end up having to adopt Bionic or develop a solution like libhybris. This allows non-Android systems to use the same hardware accelerated EGL drivers.

SurfaceFlinger is one option for managing hardware buffers and blitting between surfaces in the main and GPU memory.
Love the idea, dislike the 1 color and the design. nothing wrong with minimal but this feels to narrow.

Should have put the [Y] somewhere in there imo
I've always thought the fact that the vast open spaces in the universe is really quite sufficient to explain the fermi paradox
I don't really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn't) & if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T?

I agree. It's missing a first post at the top saying 'this article is pointless' ;)
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Having money or connections does not transform one from being a jerk/troll/bigot. It's not surprising that there were such people at SXSW. It is somewhat surprising the panel did not have better moderation.
The work put into LLVM and Clang is great. But Xcode (the UI frontend) is really one of the worst Apple product.
Which providers offer something equivalent to EBS, are worldwide, and have better reliability?
Rather spend time there than on Reddit, honestly.

Near no filtering or maintenance, and none of this voting nonsense.
The linked article excludes free e-books when comparing sales of digital and paper books.

And that article is now 2 years old - it would be interesting to know the current sales ratio between paper and digital books.
They gave everyone a free game.

That sounds like something.
This is very true:

"Leiningen and Cake, joined forces to become an all-powerful build tool. Then Leiningen reached version 2. (And let me tell you, Leiningen 2 alone makes Clojure worth using.)"

Other build tools, and package managers, such as "bundler" in the Ruby world, seem pretty weak compared to Leiningen. This is a very powerful tool.

The tooling and the eco-system are reaching a very powerful level. For now, I use Emacs as my editor, but I am waiting for LightTable ( http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/11/05/meet-the-new-light-t... ) to get just a little further, and then I intend to switch to it.

This whole article is good, but this is the part that gets to the heart of the matter:

"Rubyists know that their language effectively got rid of for loops. In the same way, Clojure gets rid of imperative iteration in favor of declaration. Your thoughts shift away from place-oriented constructs like memory and gravitate to data structures and functions like map, reduce and filter. Your “class hierarchy” turns out to be a type system that happens to also lock away well-meaning functions into dark dungeons (more on that in another article), and getting away from that is freeing."

That might be the best summary of the strengths of Clojure: it helps you think about data structures and transformation, rather than thinking about the ceremonial and imperative code that your language needs to hear.
I'm not sure trying to assign "value" to Tweets is terribly productive, either.
...because there isn't an effort to have the discussion she pines for. She asks great questions, but instead of using the forum to raise the level of discussion and provide answers and a forum on how to manage freedom of speech in the digital age where every degenerate and "loser" has a place to express themselves, instead we get more of an us vs them, finder pointing, shaming, ala Bill O'Reilly on Fox News, which rightfully causes defensiveness. She is more interested in pointing the finger and screaming fire, instead of grabbing a hose.

Her blog post starting out fine, but half way through, she decided she was more interested in mud slinging and shaming than having that discussion she so desperately wanted to have. It is left up to the reader to infer a motive for her choice in direction.
Nice "insider" design!

Since international shipping is $10.50, putting the cost per shirt at $23.50, but shipping for additional shirts is only $1, if there was enough interest I'd be happy to front a UK HNLondon Meetup group-buy, with all costs shared equally, and shirts to be distributed at the next event following their delivery.
Teslas Model S does 1, 2 and 3 out of the box and offers you a REST api to automate it. This stuff should just be standard issue in this day and age.

(I thought the OBD port is decidedly "read-only"? Given how easy access is mandated by law.)
No, the biggest misconception when it comes to clinical depression is the belief that clinical depression is a disease rather than a set of symptoms, many of which are idiopathic. There has been some luck in treating depression with SSRIs, SNRIs, SNDRIs, etc. but the exact cause of depression is still unknown and differs from person to person.

That someone can not cure their depression is impossible to know without understanding the cause.
I'm a big fan of Clojure, but I don't think I'd ever write an article like this. I guess I must not be an evangelist at heart...I will tell people that I like something, but I never tell them that they must use it.

You know yourself far better than I know you, and so why would I presume to tell you how to live your life?

Functional programming is sometimes great. Most forms of programming are sometimes great. But I don't think there is one form that is great all the time. Maybe there is, and maybe if I come across it I'll be smart enough to recognize it... but in the mean time, I'll just try to use what makes sense to me.

And sometimes, functional programming just doesn't make sense to me. I still can't quite get my head around monads. They have just one or two too many levels of abstraction for me to hold in my head. I think I'm almost there, and was trying very hard to grasp them, but then in one of the videos I was watching, the guy said this: "Monads are a solution to a problem you will never have." He said it in jest, partly because the language at hand was Javascript, but it really stuck out to me.

Clojure has what I would call "sensible" state containment via STM. And sometimes just plain storing some state is the easiest and most straight forward way to go.

I love working in Clojure because it makes it so easy to break down problems into bite sized functions. That, and the concision of the syntax suits me. I'm trying to accomplish the same thing in Java by having some classes that I treat as a namespace and load them up with static functions in that namespace. I'm sure a lot of people would spontaneously barf on their screen if they saw my code though.
Git is certainly much more widely used in general for open-source, but there are plenty of major projects that are on Mercurial. Python, Vim, Mozilla, dovecot, Go, NetBeans, and mutt all come to mind really quickly. Something like Kiln Harmony means that you, as a Git user, no longer need to care that these projects are on Mercurial. And conversely, if they want to use a project that's in Git, they can, from the security of their Mercurial workflow.
Just replace "famous people" with people you care about. For example, I follow the tweets of several Firefox employees, the big names in various programming languages, my senators, etc. I do also follow some celebrities, but thinking that Twitter is Tom Cruise in the bathroom just makes you sound horribly out of touch.
I think the idea is that the company could take steps so that they never had access (either physically or cryptographically) to the data in the first place, making a subpoena useless.

There are a few industries which are obligated by statute to keep certain types of data at hand in case the government wants it, but I'm sure that wouldn't apply here.
I took "social janitorial work" to mean cleaning up other peoples' comments, which really isn't possible without altering or deleting them.

If it was used to mean "indicating disapproval", then I have absolutely no problem with it.
I just pasted in a 4500 draft that I'm currently working on, and plunged right in. It's going great. I particularly like the side-by-side revision capabilities.

One problem: My current text is set to word-wrap at 80 characters. But Draft has word wrap at about 50 characters, resulting in ugly lines. How do I un-wrap my current text?
Carl Sagan would love SpaceX's Grasshopper
begin flamewar in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ...

Seriously though, there are a number of historical posts about this (emacs vs vi being the oldest and best, almost as good as ninjas vs pirates, but I digress).

You should really list of all of your requirements and see if your editor of choice supports those requirements. That is the best solution, asking the internet for this, is like, well asking for someone's favorite editor. :D

Try to solve the problem of why you don't like your editor, rather than trying different editors to see if they 'fit'.

Me, I'm a vim man through and through, but it has everything I need to do my job. Find that, find zen!
glibc is not perfect, but bionic is even worse (simply crippled in comparison). So you call Android creators completely insane?
One of the most common causes for the "check engine" light to come on is a loose gas cap. That's something I'm happy to be able to address and clear all on my own.

Granted, I tighten my gas caps like a gorilla these days.
Sure, I didn't mean to suggest that the government should not provide any front end at all. After all outputting a simple HTML page with the same data in addition to a JSON dump should not be a difficult task in any sane web development architecture.

However if you want app for your iphone 6 that integrates with the wardrobe planner that tells you what to wear when it is wet outside I think it is reasonable to let that development be funded privately.
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"wasted office time + coworker disruptions"

These are part of the 8 hours of work and many might argue that interaction with coworkers is both healthy for the individual and a useful, productive part of your job.
It's impossible to "think yourself" out of depression or "do something good" out of depression, unless it's just a temporary down mood.

The way I beat depression is by doing pure mental exercises on focusing on the actual physical areas of the body where depression is felt, without trying to change/fight/eliminate the feeling itself.

I came up with this technique during lowest point of my life and was almost shocked how fast I moved from suicidal to almost fully content state.

This proved to be very powerful technique as it dissolved pain at it's roots. The speed of that approach for me was like taking antibiotics compare to taking vitamins.

I can also second advice on exercise and better eating habits.
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We have a fairly robust test-suite that covers all the corner cases we were able to find by trawling old/major Git repos, and then we have a Jenkins-powered server that does functional tests on a pile of major projects (Python, Ruby, PyPy, Vim, Git and Mercurial themselves, some other stuff I'm spacing) to make sure that what goes in also comes out. The test suite is kept tiny enough we can sanely run it locally; the functional test suite takes much longer, so it just runs in batches every hour or so, I believe. I'll double-check with QA and update this if I've got that off in any meaningful sense.
Fair enough. I was basing my comment on the other article, which claimed the opposite.
It's actually relevant here. For people less familiar with some aspects of Unicode, this is a neat example, along the same lines as the OP. Just don't try to select it!
Highly amusing. In my experience, even Mac users do not know what the green button does. I've heard people say, "Every time I click it, the size of the window changes somewhat, but I'm not sure in what way.".
FPF Publishes Leaked Audio of Bradley Manning’s Statement at Military Trial
Is having to make a binary choice between Git or Mercurial, really that big a deal?
I just assumed that teams would make a consensual decision, stick to one and get on with it.
Seems like a great feat of engineering, but is it that wide a problem? (genuine question).
> it's not censorship to hold the other people in your forum or message board to certain standards of communication.

It really depends on the method used. Simply using downvotes to indicate disapproval, while not a route I would personally go, is, in my opinion, a productive way to discourage negative content.
Per request, we just added a Grey option in both men's and women's cuts!

The specific color is Slate - you can check it out on American Apparel's website at http://store.americanapparel.net/product/?productId=2001.
They look pretty darn slick to me.
Having a strong social support network is a good foundation for dealing with depression. My best advice to you is just be available for when he wants to talk. Let him know that if he ever needs to talk, be it day or night, you're there for him and that he can call you. Thoughts of suicidal ideation or self-harm can come at any time and he will need someone to talk to during those times.

Onto your other questions. The amount of time that he spends hanging out with any individual won't matter too much; having him be in company with people he enjoys several times a week is what is key. What this means is, it doesn't have to be you particularly but if he is hanging-out with others at least 2 or 3 times a week it would be beneficial.

The only boundaries that exist are the ones he implements. Generally, you'll just need to ask him how he's doing and not 'remind' him of his depression everyday, but how often you do that should be down to him to decide.

The best piece of advice I can give, is to observe him. If there is a drastic change in behavior or energy level, that is when you need to intervene and either try to get him to talk or just get him out of the house.

Overall, the above article is a good basis for coping with depression. The author hinted at, but never explicitly said, two key points that I feel the need to reiterate. If your friend is taking medication or is thinking about medication it can take awhile to take effect, on the magnitude of weeks or months, and that not all depression medication is the same - if one pill isn't working move onto others. Second, if your friend is seeing a therapist, again, not all therapist are the same. If he is not connecting with the therapist personally then his treatment is going to be much less effective.

I hope that helps.
Hi lance, we just added a grey option on checkout!
And I have some initial problem figuring out how to set up anyway.