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I'll agree you do not have to have humans to make an interesting play experience. However, the addition of human opponents creates almost infinite replayability. I probably had two, maybe three runthroughs of Half Life, with as many as two hundred hours of gameplay. It was an excellent game, superior to any other FPS I had played upto that point, and I enjoyed it greatly. However, I am not sure I would even want to calculate the amount of time I spent in the Counterstrike mod during the same period even if I could. Thousands of servers, millions of unique opponents? It was a daily ritual of my early twenties, often a few hours a night to relax after work.

Yeah, both were great games. But one was a great game that never seemed to end.
> Usually when someone says "well received" they mean professional critics.

Says who ?
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It may be worse, the problem is that it loads too many info per tab. If you do it on multiple processes it will not get any better.
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Yes. It was introduced in 2010, also the popular EV1 from the 1990's.
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That'd make in a very simple case (an app with a user_profile table) one view per user? This doesn't sound particularly appealing...
This might be a good idea, but it is just so very bad at UX.

From clicking the first question / answer.

"ReferenceError: __match_answer_and_solution__ is not defined"

"SyntaxError: Unexpected token )"

Meh.
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> I think for myself, the key is knowing that the guy who biked across India wasn't writing a novel. Or at least, he wasn't biking across India, writing a novel, and maintaining a 40+ hour job and raising a family.

Well exactly.

A bit of back-of-the-envelope calculation tells me that (to sicken the GP) I write at least 30000 words every 5 months - and that's with a time investment of 3-5 hours on a Tuesday evening (I write commentary for a weekly paper). I could hit eighty or ninety thousand if I didn't like video games and talking to my girlfriend etc. There's no magic there - my dad is a writer, and when I was 6 I wanted to Be Like Him, and ever since I've enjoyed writing. You do that for 22 years, you pick up some speed and style.

On the other hand, whenever I think "I need to contribute to $OPEN_SOURCE_PROJECT", I suffer immediately from 'don't know where to start' paralysis, and usually give up pretty quickly.

Nobody's ever going to be confident at everything.

EDIT: The other thing is sort of 'confirmation bias' - stuff you're very productive at feels very easy, so you don't notice the productivity so much as you feel acutely useless at things which feel difficult.
Depending on what function you are providing for HIPAA-covered entities, you may need to also deal with the Transactions and Code Sets rule, though the rules related to PHI are usually all people are aware of.

One should also note that the Breach Notification rule, through its definition of what constitutes unsecured PHI, actually sneaks in technical requirements that entities dealing with PHI probably should treat as near-mandatory for encryption, etc., since, even though they aren't strictly mandatory, significantly impact the likelihood of a reportable breach.
i don't think this is a valid counterargument -- even if access is only given to views / stored procs you would have the same issue of a client connection directly to the HTTP api having too coarse-grained security privileges since they could be executed with any input params (unless there was some kindof extra security layer spanning front-end to db layer? sounds crazy)

but this could be a moot point as long as db communication is only done server-side so it can be behind company firewall anyway -- after all, isn't that why the current db security model works? No one should EVER post ajax to the db, essentially. & i dont think anyone is suggesting that, i hope
Yeah, when it started claiming that the games of yesteryear had mythical qualities that make them better because they have some lasting impact on the player, that's when I gave up on the essay.

We experience games very differently as adults than we did as children. Partly because of the child's mind, but partly because we no longer have the kind of time to completely pour ourselves into a game like we used to. I remember playing Master of Orion 2 for so long that I would hear its music in any kind of white noise.

No modern game, no matter how good, can measure up to that kind of adolescent commitment to a game.
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the defendant is protected by the 5th Amendment, and can refuse to answer on the grounds that it may incriminate. If this is how the law goes, then any attempt to backdoor the phone is essentially an attempted end run around the 5th amendment.

I'm pretty sure that's not how the 5th Amendment works: Just because your protection against self-incrimination allows you to withhold potential evidence doesn't imply that the government can't attempt to acquire that evidence themselves through other means.

You can refuse to answer questions like "What's written in your diary entry for the night of the murder?" or "Where did you hide your diary?". The police can still get a warrant to search your house for your diary and read it.
I've been wanting to get some beehives for a while. I am a bit concerned because when I was younger I used to have a minor allergy to bee stings. From what I understand, if I'm careful, I shouldn't have any problem.

Anyway- do you have any websites or other sources you would recommend to someone just getting started?
After versioning, functionality and UI they now copy sandbox-mode from the Chromium project. I don't think there's much time left before you won't be able to make the distinction between Firefox and Chromium anymore.
But FAQ clearly states that generics are open issue. Something changed?
Yes, correct, that's what "dynamic destruction" is referring to.
My first thought after reading this, being a couple of weeks away from owning my first home with land, and a roof terrace was… is it safe to keep bees on a 3rd floor balcony where there's occasionally going to be people? The terrace is 16 square meters, and right outside what will be our bedroom.. but I'd love to keep bees. Especially since the evidence suggests we need them, and they thrive in cities.
Right, this is just memory, though. And I am curious on whether or not this counts shared memory correctly between tabs.

My point for performance, though, was mainly that if you have 200+ tabs that are actively doing something, then you are thrashing even in firefox. It isn't like they just do their work for free depending on the process model.

Also, 200 is not exactly a large N when we are too worried about scheduling, is it? (That is, unless all 200 are cpu bound, in which case, again, firefox would already be thrashing.)
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Sounds like a good business plan....divide & conquer!!
Before we start tossing about accusations against "this guy", let's take a step back to recognize the following simple facts:

1. The author is Orin Kerr, a nationally recognized Law professor, and co-blogger at the single most influential Law blog - the Volokh conspiracy.

2. His highest cited academic paper (421 cites, which is a lot in law world) is titled "The fourth amendment and new technologies: constitutional myths and the case for caution", so this is literally his domain of expertise, so maybe you might want to acknowledge the possibility that he knows what he is talking about.

3. He actually changed his mind based on additional evidence that was presented to him in the form of counterarguments. Given how rarely this happens, anybody capable of doing this in a public forum automatically gets +10 Respect points from me.

4. He has a technical background, as timsally pointed out, including mechanical engineering degrees. Now if he has such trouble grappling with the subtleties of cryptography and security threat models, maybe that is also partially our fault as security practitioners. We should acknowledge that.

5. I am aware that this all sounds like an elaborate appeal to authority, but given the cavalier way people are criticizing the author (as opposed to his arguments), I thought these facts should be stated.
Still one of my favorite profiles of all-time, and all the more impressive a feat of new journalism considering he never interviewed Sinatra.

Also not sure why this is here, but it's always nice to see.
Firefox has nicer curves :P
Really happy this came up on the front page. A great read and nice break from the norm. Worth the time.
I took the liberty of rehosting the linked .pde as a Gist (reformatted too).

https://gist.github.com/akx/b487d43b0acc815ce0a1#file-spiral...

It's not just the frame rate; David Whyte is doing 4x temporal supersampling too, so for each output frame, 4 frames are rendered, accumulated into an integer buffer (lines 20..29) and the output is their average (lines 31..35).

In addition, interestingly the color mapping is done afterwards (lines 38..41), based only on the red value of the original image. (One could do HDR and other tone mapping here, too.)

EDIT: Wrote a little Javascript animation test that has options for temporal supersampling. http://akx.github.io/supersample/
Is this really different than anything else in "pop programming culture?" Consider the spread of various paradigm practices in the different runtimes.

And this is not a condemnation of the practice. Just saying it really isn't that different than most anything else.

I will say that it is not that troubling. Far more troubling would be either a) multiple completely inconsistent browsers dominating the field or b) a homogenous ecosystem in the web. At least, I think so.
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I'm going to teach a FREE remote class on Python programming. Anyone interested?
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The goal of the course is to get the basic knowledge of programming using Python, it'll be a couple of classes (5 is my estimation) and the idea is that the students all work in a collaborative project where they'll have to interact with eachother to complete the assignment. My idea is to make this the closer we can to a real classroom (but remote).

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You mean that Chrome copied IE's sandboxing?
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From the post:

> I created this file on April 22, 2014. Today, five months later, that document contains 40.164 words.

Writing != publishing.

Also he could very well publish in multiple locations.
I'm curious how huge of a security win it really is. The vast majority of exploits that I hear about would still be possible. Especially since phishing is by far the weakest link in any model.

I mean, sure, it sounds great to say things are sandboxed. But when the actual exploits either a) root the machine, or b) targeted the user directly, it seems that protecting tabs from each other really doesn't do much.
I agree that there is not a 1-to-1 relationship, but there is undeniably some correlation. If a game is easy then it is not stressful.

I disagree that there can't be a measure of skill across different games. You can just look at the probability of a top X% player winning against a top Y% player. If an average player has a low probability of winning against a top player, then there is a high degree of skill involved. If an average player has a decent probability of winning against a top player, then there is a high degree of luck involved.
Financial Services and Insurance Services sell actual products though. An option is a product, insurance policies are products.
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Writing every day doesn't not necessarily mean write "blogs" every day. Blogs is not the only place you "write". :|
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This is another reason for drug legalization. The paranoia around opiates has to end. Lack of access to pain medication is a huge problem globally. Every time there is a natural disaster doctors are arrested for carrying pain meds without waiting for formal permissions. After the Haitian earthquake many people had limbs amputated without pain medication.
IBM doesn't need luck in the Enterprise market, the Enterprise is asking for it (maybe not IT leaders, but they're losing the battle to other divisions). Besides, the idea that upgrading to iOS 8 as part of the bug fix cycle is a remnant of the days when OS upgrades were big, expensive and hard. If the lifecycle of the iPad in an Enterprise is three years (a guess), there's a documented trend that Apple will release OS updates for three year old hardware. Instead of patching 7 forever, push the latest OS update. End users are happier, which makes leadership happier.
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If you don't like that behavior, you probably wouldn't like Ablock's either: https://palant.de/2014/07/29/which-is-better-adblock-or-adbl...

(Admittedly the author is biased towards ABP. My biases: former Adblock user, former ABP user, current Adblock Edge and µblock user.)
You certainly can put them on the terrace. I'd recommend looking for a local provider of nucs who has "gentle bees".
What about Ruby ???
I just erased a moderately long reply and am going to offer up as rebuttal a single title.

Myst.
In fact, the ",1" was usually used for "autorun", which was achieved by setting the address to load into low enough that it would overwrite the program counter used by BASIC, or a few other approaches that also involved messing with low memory.

All of which had the result of "tricking" the interpreter into handing control directly over to the loaded program instead of returning to the command prompt.
This is the worst type of "gaming" and probably exactly why the RTS genre is dying.

If people within 10% of each other means one gets thrashed then it's simply not fun for one of the players.

The RTSes you're lauding, which I do enjoy, often are little more than thinly disguised rock/paper/scissor with a big dash of "what is over powered today". Until it all gets balanced into a vanilla mush of nothingness. With the added bonus of the occasional unintended broken mechanic, tower rushes, marine rushes, zerg rushes. Anything called "rush" is usually an exploit of poorly thought out mechanic and an all or nothing of wasting 2 peoples time for ten minutes after which one or the other simply quits depending on whether the rush was spotted or not.

Most RTS games also seem to suffer from the same "let's play for 5 minutes of building and capturing exactly the same things every single game before the match actually starts"

I myself do love these games, but I have friends who hate them. It's not the pinnacle of gaming, it's simply one form of it.
I find that official scores are plagued by corruption and wrong incentives in place (game critics get paid by advertising from game companies... how twisted is that? If this were in any other serious business nobody would take it seriously). And don't tell me we don't have examples of that.

I think user reviews can be great. I read a lot of them before buying a game. They are often way more detailed than anything coming from actual "journalists", because a number of users can be expert a certain type of games instead of journalists playing any kind of junk out there for money.

Don't discard social media, you are on Hacker News after all.
Right, they are. But what makes them a product? Really, all they are is a contract, an agreement. A really really well defined agreement. There are also associated processes for executing that agreement.

How does that differ from, say, the person who "knows heaps about the web and will build you a website"? Well, their agreement (and processes, usually) aren't as well defined.

My point is that those financial/insurance companies are really service businesses, it's just that their services are so well defined they behave like products, and that you can do it too.
Wariness of the potential abuse of power is no more paranoid than following proper technique handling a sharp kitchen knife.
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I find this article a little odd. The implication is you can't be novelty-seeking and also a mature independent adult. I really don't see how those things are mutually exclusive. Unless your definition of adulthood is simply "not novelty-seeking."
>> Did you get a bill after the fact? You could call them up and negotiate.

IMHO negotiation is one of the problems causing high health care costs. Prices are crazy high by default, but insurance companies are able to negotiate lower prices from providers. This means the uninsured are billed higher by default. It turns out that individuals can negotiate lower prices too - sometimes. I advocate that a given service provider should be forced to charge the same price for the same service to all patients. This might result in competition and lower prices, but in the mean time it should lower costs for the uninsured.
The finest book I've ever read. Perhaps by the time my 2-year-old is ~13, a nano-scale machinebook will exist that can teach the both of us about zero-knowledge protocols. I understand, at the surface level, how it works, but am far too dense to see how such a system could exist in, say, computer authentication.
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I think the real standout here is NVIDIA. Shield was such an interesting product from the very beginning, it's nice to see how it is actually holding up against some of the "big boys".
> And as you say, the form in which this experience is irrelevant. What matters is the quality of the experience.

This eclipses and outweighs what I would have to say.

I think the author of the article, in those terms, was saying that the experiences created by recent games are often, and more and more, far inferior in quality; I've followed the correct sequence of buttons, I am rewarded with a scene of my character doing awesome things. If done well, I might even feel a tidbit of attachment and of feeling that this was the result of my success. But it's not the experience of being a super-spy in a high-tech facility. It's the experience of seeing a super-spy do stuff after I complete my homework, and I will have more homework to do so the super-spy can go on to do awesome things.

The problem is that these lower-quality experiences still sell better, often because they abuse certain hacks or dopamine bypasses of the human brain, without necessarily reaching all the way through to what makes an experience fun and pleasurable for the player.

Of course, to make such an argument successfully, you first have to convince people that humans do not always act optimally rationally, and then that humans do have such "hacks" and twists that control what they want and do (which in turn requires an audience to be convinced that brains control actions, not "the soul" or some other immaterial entity). Think that's a high bar? It's not even the start.
I wrote 750 words a day for over 400 days and http://750words.com played a huge role in motivating me. Not wanting to break the chain kept me coming back to write on days when I didn't feel like it.
She was sitting with her husband and friends for hours and they obviously felt extreme guilt about not realizing she was having a stroke. I'm sure they've all played that party back and forth in their minds for days wondering if there was something they should have noticed. That day would have been analyzed in agonizing detail by all of them. And it sounds like the writer had this conversation, as she had to re-piece so much together.
I wonder if it's time to start scaling mobile benchmarks by the size of the device.
Your post is no better than the reports from the flawed media; it's full of name calling and presents zero facts backed by any evidence.

It's not like we can approach the Scottish independence as a physics experiment: run it in a controlled environment, adjust for different variables, and expect the results to be replicated in another laboratory. So in this case I'm going to be skeptical of anyone who claims there's a "truth" that I can choose and sleep soundly at night knowing I made the right choice. It's too complex of an issue - socially, politically, and economically.

I'm cynical enough to suspect you're not unbiased either and that you have a self-interest in one side of the Scottish independence discussion.

Too bad for both of us that cynicism have never solved any problem.
Seems like Apple really knows what consumers want. I spend about 90% of my iPhone time in Safari/Chrome. Advanced 3D graphics are nice and all but I rarely take advantage of them, I'd expect that most users are the same.
There's a handy Reddit thread[0] with reports of actual "real world" usage.

[0]http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2gzxx1/post_your_batt...
It would make sense, bigger device allows for larger die and more ram, battery, etc.

Seems like bigger devices will usually squander their extra resources however and have similar performance to the smaller devices.
Curious-- do you define a running database system (e.g. MySQL) to contain "data at rest", "data in transit" or neither?

My reading says "neither". Conservative move is "encrypt everything" but curious if others have passed/failed a HIPAA audit with a standard MySQL or SQL Server system (assuming you have individual ID access & logging).
That's great. While I read his articles, I didn't bother to read the name of the author because the validity of a reasoning should be independent of who wrote it. Reading his original article just gave me a headache for the reasons cited in my first comment.

I will agree fully with you on 3), and partially on 5) (only partially, because on one hand I agree with the premise, but otoh if you're in a position of authority your job is precisely to understand despite potentially poor communication from other experts).

(I'm also not sure what my "accusations" are.)
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No matter what people say, a young man is dead and no one is in jail. I am a Greek , but I cannot see how this is good for my country and security. No matter if a foreign agency is implicated, this is treason. They care for their interest, we do not.