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Ok, I know I've ranted a bit. First, what do you want? Just good examples, or you're thinking of making a game andwant some good examples?

Now, for inventory. You can have the party inventory, like in JRPGS or the character inventory like in Baldur's Gate. Personally I prefer the party inventory because there is a lot less fiddly. But the other kind is more "realistic". There is one game that mixed the two in a way that I enjoyed. You have a party inventory but each character has "slots" where you can put items to be used in battle. But in this case you don't have the whole inventory available.

Then you can have an unlimited inventory, like in JRPGS, or a limited one. You can limit it in two ways: Limited space like in Diablo, or limited weigth capacity like in Skyrim. In my opinion you should never mix them both. It's too fiddly, and too frustrating. In limited space you also can have item of diferent sizes. This is fun because inventory menagement becomes a sort of minigame (again, Diablo makes this pretty well).

With party control it's a lot more complicated. If the game is turn based or if there is the option to pause the action, the player should have total control of all the mambers of the party. If it's all real time, there should be an option to ssue orders. One game that does this well is Mount and Blade. You can issue orders to your troops including, IIRC, you could issue orders to the different kinds of troops. I feel this would be a nice addition to Skyrim, for example.

About status, I really liked what Final Fantasy VII did for status effects. If a character was nead death he would appear hunched, if confused he would have stars swirling around his's head and if poisoned he would glow in green. If he were under all these status effects, we would show all three effects and they didn't overlap or be in conflict with each other.

But, as I said in the previous post, it still depends on your objectives in the game. In pokemon you have direct control over your pokemons but I would like to see a similar game where you don't have direct control and you have to train their AI.
Thanks. That answers part of it, but it doesn't answer the question of what age people would rate the Avatar at. The two should be consistent.
I think the $10 boxes are on the new hardware and so you'll need to either wait for 32bit support on the new hosts or upgrade to 64bit to switch to it anyway.
We swapped the headline for a bit of the subtitle.
> I did eventually learn how to make friends and it
> was through PUA, pick up artist. Yeah it's
> fucking weird.

The PUA thing is interesting to me.

People criticize it because it can be manipulative. But the success of PUA tells me that people seem to be really interested in some kind of step-by-step "system" for dealing with people.

I think that's why the book "How To Win Friends and Influence People" is still popular after many years. It gives you concrete steps to take.

Edit/clarification: I don't particularly think the PUA thing is positive - I wish there was a positive, modern version of PUA that omitted the manipulative aspects. Maybe there is and I don't know it. (There probably is...)
Why do these stories always bring out the white-knight nerds crying about "entrapment" or questioning if a crime was truly committed?

Entrapment would be if undercover agents stopped you on the street and hassled you to come inside and proposition a kid for sex and refused to let you leave, or even just kept getting in your face over and over. Or maybe even more subtly, if they kept messaging and pestering you in online chat, suggesting you could see "them" (fake kid) naked for money, even though you expressed reluctance about it. That did not happen here, these were just the super easy people who jumped easily and quickly at the opportunity to pay to have a child perform sex acts on video

Secondly, in every jurisdiction that I know of, this is the crime of Intent to Commit. It doesn't matter that the avatar was virtual, it's no different than an adult cop using picture of a model as bait. You aren't interacting with a virtual chat bot, you're interacting with an adult human being who happens to be using a computer-generated avatar. Again, this is no different than buying fake cocaine from an undercover cop, or attempting to steal a bait car.

Let us not forget that it is statistically improbable that even half of these 1000 people are doing this for the first time. Which means most of them have paid money to someone to force a kid to perform sex acts on camera, and so enjoyed the experience they went and sought it out again.

I think more police departments should have officers on staff and hackers as consultants to engage in consistent and ongoing honeypot operations, not just for these sorts of crimes, but also for things like online fraud, etc.
This guy is so talented it's actually depressing!
for all new customer accounts, no. You can still get the discount if you're still on the legacy prepaid billing accounts.
I've just downgraded as well. While the server itself is invaluable, I've only ever used a tiny fraction of its potential each month.

However, at this price point, I'm considering spinning up a second server just to tool around with (which is what this server was originally for before I and all my friends started relying on it as a proxy/gameserver/URL shortener/IRC persistor).
Have a Google spreadsheet link you could share read-only with this?
Really? It sounds like the agency has to check that the applicant meets the criteria for the license in either case. Where is the cost saving?
His point still holds: in consoles, any optimization past a certain threshold is wasted effort because your consumer does not get any additional value (the game runs equally as smooth and beautiful with or without the optimization), therefore, doesn't pay more.
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I'd just like to point out the improper use of the word introversion here. The author is using it as a synonym for being shy or being a loner. You can be outgoing /social and be an introvert. Being introverted simply means that your life is more focused inward and you find comfort from yourself.
I hope to see it soon on my lovely iphone!
"From a policy perspective, the real issue is whether there are a lot of units that have been removed from the housing market because of short-term rentals...It looks like that’s not a big number yet, but that’s what we need regulation to control so it doesn’t become big."

As someone who's never lived in SF (and in fact my somewhat depressed area's just beginning to recover from a ton of vacancies left by the mortgage crisis), it's amazing to me that the local government seems to be contemplating restricting supply and demand, and stifling economic activity like this.
Very good summary. I understand the reason why Google has these restrictions: they have a lot of old C++ code and they try to play it safe, maintain the same code style, etc. However, the modern C++ is a much nicer language than it was 15 years ago. By imposing these restrictions, Google limits the developers productivity and quality of the code. I've had experience integrating large old C/C++ project into the modern C++ world and while it is not a simple task, it can be done with relatively low pain (the biggest challenge was related to making the code exception safe).
Unless there's a test or certification, transferring them is more like transferring ownership of a car or house. You can't sell your driver's license because that license certifies that you meet the state's minimum demonstration of competence as a driver. A taxi driver has already demonstrated that, they just need permission to act as a taxi driver, which was deliberately made as a scarce resource. It's really more of a coincidence that they are both called licenses, they permit you to do something (drive cars, operate a taxi service), but one certifies competence, the other merely conveys permission.

EDIT:

Perhaps of interest, I went to Prince Edward Island last year and met some fishermen. Apparently their licenses can be sold (they effectively take out a mortgage given the cost) and are used as a sort of retirement plan by the fishermen that own them. But they also (according to them so I'm not sure the precise legal considerations or if it's convention) require that you spend some years working for licensed fishermen before you can purchase one. So sort of a hybrid between the driver's license and the taxi medallion model.
The trick to getting around this cap is to be running teams of your own employees.
And it is also blazing fast.
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The visualizations are WebGL dependent.

Check http://get.webgl.org/ to see if WebGL works for your system.
Stop spamming your site on every tangentially-related article.
I never understood why they simply could not use Trident for OS calls and let IE have its own engine. It seems like such a straightforward solution.

It is like building a computer and soldering in the GPU, just because you want to reference the PCI port statically.
Glad to see Gists being improved again. Thanks GitHub!
to be fair Linode also only posts when outages are DC-wide or otherwise affect large numbers of users.
Of course its different - the avatar isn't a real person, not in any meaningful sense. So what if they witness a person propositioning a poster, or a blow-up doll, or a DVD on pause with a sexy actress on screen? Its not a crime, period.

I don't apologize for criminals; just counseling caution when painting everything with the crime brush.
I'm sure you must have a really good reason for so heavily implying that it was apple. Go on. Enlighten us. What makes you so certain?
enter the so-called 'pua community'. its a shitload of work (ie doing awkward things like approaching strange girls in awkward places like the street) to get better, BUT its really good for your social skills. and you'll def meet some nice ladies OF COURSE. just take it from this introverted carless autistic no-longer-a-virgin programmer. if you ever come to the netherlands i'll welcome you to 'game' with me and my gang some time.
> HTTP Load Balancing changes the game for how developers interact with network resources. HTTP load balancing can easily scale to support more than 1 million requests per second with no “warm up.”

> And while other providers count each and every IOPS and charge extra for them, SSD persistent disk includes IOPS in the base price with no extra charges or fees, making cost completely predictable and easy to model.

Between Google's price cuts, and releasing features directly addressed at Amazon AWS feature/pricing deficiencies, Google is coming out swinging.

Google vs Amazon's ELBs:

https://aws.amazon.com/articles/1636185810492479#pre-warming

"Amazon ELB is able to handle the vast majority of use cases for our customers without requiring "pre-warming" (configuring the load balancer to have the appropriate level of capacity based on expected traffic). In certain scenarios, such as when flash traffic is expected, or in the case where a load test cannot be configured to gradually increase traffic, we recommend that you contact us to have your load balancer "pre-warmed". We will then configure the load balancer to have the appropriate level of capacity based on the traffic that you expect. We will need to know the start and end dates of your tests or expected flash traffic, the expected request rate per second and the total size of the typical request/response that you will be testing."

Google vs Amazon charging for IOPS:

"And while other providers count each and every IOPS and charge extra for them, SSD persistent disk includes IOPS in the base price with no extra charges or fees, making cost completely predictable and easy to model."
Thanks for the feedback!

That was the template Beacon Reader gave us and how they're set up. We're looking at building out our own donation tools to enable one-time, zero-signup donations, but not quite there yet (we do take PayPal at info@muckrock.com though).
I really wish there was a way to plug my iPhone into my car screen (2007 Prius) in a way that I could leverage Google Maps or Apple Maps on the primary screen instead of the phone screen. The GPS in this car is convoluted and broken, the Garmin I have is outdated and slow and the maps on iPhone both Apple and Google Maps are substantially more powerful and accurate.

We really need some new technology where we can plug in the power of our smartphones into the car with a larger screen without having to use the clunky interfaces the auto manufacturer or aftermarket systems give you, or rely on holding or mounting the device itself..
Sad thing is they had a product like this, Services for Unix but it was a server product that never got much love or attention. IIRC, it extended the POSIX personality to give you a true Unix environment running on the NT kernel.

A lot of people don't know that Cutler's team designed NT to support different personalities/subsystems and it originally shipped with a POSIX one, an OS/2 (text mode) one, and the Win32 subsystem.

If you put in the effort, there's no reason you couldn't use the NT kernel as the basis for a Unix OS without any Windows API whatsoever. It's a single root filesystem/object system with devices mounted in directories, etc. It goes even further, things like synchronization primitives are also mounted there.
The parent said (emphasis mine):

> Because credit card system is not sustainable

and you say:

> I have never paid [...] and everything sails smoothly.

The parent is talking about the system as a whole, while you are talking about your individual usage/experience. Is it not possible that your usage is subsidized by those less financially organized?
Or they could use WebP and get the best of both worlds.

O wait...http://status.modern.ie/?term=webp
Actually, I already find bing quite fast. Comparing to google search, bing results tend to load a little faster but to be a little lower in quality.

FPGAs may make bing twice as fast as it already is, but I don't feel like it needs to be faster. Although, I guess if its faster they can trade that off for more work done and so better results, perhaps.
shyer /= less attractive
My thought (that was badly expressed) is that we can't blame men for staying out of nursing, or women for wanting to enter that profession, on the grounds that they're reinforcing stereotypes. Each of us gets to make our own choices for personal reasons that are unavailable to pundits and well-meaning advice.
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Yes and no. I haven't seen the whole video, so I'd really have to know what their procedure was for engaging (suspects/victims/potential predators, depending on one's [apparently wide-ranging in this thread ;) ] view). "She said she was 10 but she looked 18" isn't really a tenable defense, as far as I'm aware.

In every US jurisdiction I'm familiar with, at least, if the honeypot declares "I'm 10 years old," that's it. Game over if the predator continues to engage sexually; the honeypot's face-value declaration of age is enough to get the predator on the hook for intent.

FYI, while Sweetie is a next step in that it has an audio-visual component, the standard operating procedure in text-only fora for years has been adult male F.B.I. agents roleplaying as a young male or female child to nab predators. The declaration of age is part of that standard operating procedure to make it easy to prove intent ("the chatter even said he was 10 and the perpetrator still went on with it!").
Google now is surprisingly good at this. Just the other day I needed directions to Costco in an area I didn't know and using only feel I was able to get it just to the point of meeting one more interactionbefore he would give me directions. In fact I used the voice recognition on my phone to type this entire comment without edit.
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As a product company, any day! As a consultancy, never.

Going on vacation as a consultant makes you acutely aware of how consulting revenue scales like crap. I've literally had 2 week vacations which cost me $20K+ ($5K in travel and $15K in lost revenue).

I'd frequently joke with my wife that she should really enjoy sipping that $100 bottle of beer on the beach.
Ask HN: Does your startup have a t-shirt I can wear to school?
Hi, I'm Gabriel.

I moved to Boston not that long ago to start my first startup, and to be honest when I arrived I didn't exactly have much business casual clothing. I still don't. Actually, come to think of it now I have less.

With that in mind, I'm going to be a student soon at the Boston Startup Institute! I'm extremely exited, and trying to get my ducks in a row. One of those ducks relates to you, and the above question, so thanks for reading!

I'd like to show up in a little more than my usual old T-shirts, or my sole dress shirt, because this is a huge opportunity for me. I feel like I'm turning a corner, and I want to dress the part! I would absolutely go snag some new duds if I had the means, but there are other ducks that are taking priority.

So, I'm trying to create a win/win out of this! My goal is to get at least a few startup shirts which I can wear while I'm attending the eight weeks of the Startup Institute (I'll definitely tweet some photos of me wearing them!).

What's in it for you is my love and appreciation, and at least some level of exposure to the companies and people in the building, which includes Techstars Boston, and NextView ventures.

I'd really, really appreciate it, will you please send me a large / x-large t-shirt?
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Reading this post made it seem like muckrock is more of a ideologically driven site than a neutral data dump. Which is totally OK, but I was thinking maybe it be nice to just to have a place to get data regardless of the topic or how it fits in with a particular set of opinions.

So I'm all for using FOIA to make public data accessible for the greater good, but I'm not sure if what you're doing is the right approach.
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You just transfer the money from your bank account to the bank account of the merchant. There are various methods to do that, I prefer giropay[1]. If it's a merchant you regularly use like amazon you allow the merchant to directly withdraw[2] the money from your account.

It's not like this is some weird highly advanced stuff. Surely that's possible in the US as well?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giropay
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronisches_Lastschriftverfa...
> Then again, even the Irish are getting irritated with the Brits coming over to Dublin to get pissed and get in fist fights in the street and causing other bits of ruckus.

Stuff like this was the impetus for the federalized drinking age in the US.
I found working on the todo list myself very easy, however I wanted to involve another person in the 'send me a tasklist' list and couldn't.

I tried:
- Add a new task with a @help at the end, CC them in along with the @planleaf.com email
- Add a new task with a @help@example.com at the end, CC @planleaf.com

Both didn't work and I received no email from Planleaf to say that it couldn't be parsed.

Creating a new list, CC tasks@planleaf.com and help@example.com did work.

Is adding a new assignee after the list has been created supported?

That's my criticism with managing tasks through email: input validation and feedback isn't seamless. In an app UI this is instant. From what I've seen Planleaf doesn't give me feedback if I type something incorrectly.

As email is much more freeform than a form that's a barrier to being simple and intuitive. Not an insurmountable one, but I think you need to do a little more hand holding.

That said, it's a great idea with promising execution and something I've mulled over building for our marketplace.
There aren't really formal bonds being broken transitioning from liquid to gas, but I suppose it is fair to say that the supercritical state will transition more quickly to steam than a subcritical liquid with enough energy to become steam at atmospheric pressure.

The reason for that would be that there is a nucleation process in forming gas from liquid, which does take some time. Or at least more than not needing to do so.

There is some terminology you're using that bothers me, like "flash into steam" isn't really a good way to describe it. At that point you'd be better off describing it as "super pressurized steam" converting to "normal pressure steam" or something. It's just expanding, but there is no flash (which to implies a sudden change). It's gradually and continuously decreasing in density.

I think part of this may be confusion over how we overload the word "water" to mean "liquid water" as well as "water the chemical". I am meaning "water the chemical" which can be a solid, liquid, or gas. Steam is water that is a gas.

With a supercritical system, you can take liquid water, stay in the liquid state until the water becomes supercritical (where the liquid and gas phases are indistinguishable), and then move across a boundary from "liquid like" to "gas like", go back into a sub-critical state as gas, and never formally boil/flash/etc.
hey we've been looking for this EXACT solution for ages and had no idea you guys existed...

Is Streem going to continue to live on as a separate product?
I don't think people specifically thought Stalin personally was a hero, but prior to the cold war, Western Europeans had a much more positive view of the USSR's role in WW2.

For example, here are the answers of French people to the survey question "Which was, in your view, the nation that most contributed to the defeat of Germany in WW2?":

1945: USSR 57%, USA 20%, UK 12%
1994: USSR 25%, USA 49%, UK 16%
2004: USSR 20%, USA 58%, UK 16%

Source: http://www.les-crises.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sondage-...
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WW2 wasn't fought because people saw evil in Hitler. I have heard that is what is taught in British schools, but that is not true. WW2 was a fight for survival and nothing else.
They do, but their interface really blows and the scheduling system can be troublesome because they have a limited number of drivers and sometimes you'd have to schedule delivery during a bad time. I've only used instacart a few times, but I could immediately tell it was way better than Safeway's delivery mechanism.

For starters, I could have a single watermelon delivered at 11pm for a party I had going on, but with Safeway, I could not do same day delivery and it would need to be delivered during working hours the following day because the other times were already booked. Safeway's delivery mechanism is probably good enough for large offices that need regular deliveries, but Instacart is good for all other times. I probably would just stick with a single delivery service for everything so I wouldn't waste my time using Safeway's service.

Instacart feels very similar to Google Shopping Express, and if you haven't tried out either service, you should definitely try one of them out. Google Shopping Express can't deliver perishables, but they do support Costco, so if you don't have a car and you need 50 rolls of paper towel, that's the best place to be.
On the other hand there is an enormous concentration of globally preeminent higher education institutions (Stanford, MIT, Harvard and the other 7 Ivy League schools, UChicago, Duke etc) in the one first world country where the national-level government doesn't consider higher education among its responsibilities.

(*insert caveat that it's hard to really compare national governments when a single US state can have a larger population to manage than an entire European country)
You answered your own question, yes eventually you have to make money. You just have a different definition of eventually than VCs do.
Stopped reading at "awesome"
And screw the neighbours who never signed up to living in a hotel?

All the benefits you and the landlord enjoyed were externalised onto others.