skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GW2's scaling zones were exactly what got my friend group playing the game, and kept them playing. With every other MMORPG we'd played up to that point -and every one of the very few we've played since GW2-, our group would inevitably do one of three things:

1) Never start playing together, as the level gap between the newbies and the more veteran players meant that challenges were either impossible, or impossibly easy.

2) Rarely ever play the game because a) the group wants to avoid 1) and b) it's hard to get five friends spread across four timezones together on the regular.

3) Play the game as often as we want, as we each have "regular" solo characters, and "play-with-the-friend-group" characters, but get far less than the regulation amount of fun out of the group games, as all-too-often there's only like one set of low-level story content, so playing with the group causes to to re-run stuff for like the billionth time anyway.

And, really, even with the level scaling, your skills don't go away. Having a character in the party that's five or ten+ levels higher than the zone content makes it substantially easier than a character that's at-zone-level or just a few levels higher. (It remains quite satisfying to drop an offensive golem on some level one goblin and splat it in two hits.)
Simple.com is pretty awesome. I'm sure there are others as well, but yes -- they are in the minority. :/
Transparent Armor from NRL; Spinel Could Also Ruggedize Your Smart Phone
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proof that this is random
You appear to be mad, bro.
Or you point the linker at a different libc.

I think the question isn't so much "Can I make VSC++ Android apps run on Linux" so much as "Can I futz around with linker flags, and get a desktop binary if I point it to the right runtime, start files, and so on?"
> Setting it loose for the first time, knowing that any bug could literally throw away cash, was terrifying.

I am interested in projects that deal with real cash values as well and the unique concerns that come in. One design pattern I've read of is circuit breakers, like those used on the official exchanges [1] are typically implemented in HFT's; just stop trading if your total net loss that day is some order of magnitude higher than your typical expected losses.

I expected the market for bitcoins was saturated with market makers. Interesting that author was able to set up shop and make money.

[1]: https://www.nyse.com/markets/nyse/market-model
Both the original and this retort forget to consider that different users have different needs. Security is never going to be a 'one size fits all' kind of arrangement. Different users will find differing levels of utility in Tor routers.
I probably could have been more clear, but by "power" I was talking about the abstractions afforded by the language. C# also exposes more CLR features than F#, yet it usually clear and uncontroversial when someone says that F# is more powerful than C#; I've never heard people talk about power in terms of performance.

But, it's not like C# ever afforded a strict superset of CLR features: until recently, VB exposed exception filters while C# did not, and that is arguably a more important feature in day-to-day programming than pointers and unsigned integers.

I also forgot to mention that VB's lambda expressions are more powerful because they can contain iterators.

Now, don't misunderstand me: I love, love, love C#. After grokking Haskell's type classes (and Scala's traits), I even slightly prefer C# over F# since the former can more easily simulate those features. But, lets not pretend that VB didn't ever having any significant advantages over C# for day-to-day programming. Even today, VB is probably a nicer environment for Ruby and Python programmers than C#.
Totally agreed re: the newer trackpads. Those things used to Just Work (tm) 10 years ago, now it's a gamble whenever you buy a PC laptop.

As a general rule, physical buttons and total lack of multi-touch support seem to go hand-in-hand with good ol' quality... but even that is not a foolproof rule.
If I woke up with 50 million dollars, no matter the situation, I would not consider myself a failure
I very much feel this way. I also live (but did not grow up in) a country where the average yearly income is ~800$. So, I guess my neighbors shouldn't get to experience all the interesting media that I did?

Also, there are many things that I feel I have an obligation to be informed about (like junk on CNN / Fox News, or war propaganda like "Zero Dark Thirty" or "American Sniper"), but I would be ethically opposed to paying for.
Figuring out a format for addresses is actually really hard.

https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
Thinkpads do not break, they accumulate.
At any time I have 3 on the house, use them as media centers, donate them to mom, etc.

Currently on a W540. Not very happy, but after some configuration is passable, cool and fast. Quality should be on par with others, maybe better.
Yay for geologic perspectives on humanity! The lack of anthropocentrism in geologic study can be pretty refreshing.

A possibly-related, even more brain melting (to me) event is the Columbia River flood basalts[1].

The erupted material is ~5x greater than the current hot rock in the Yellowstone chamber, so ~50x more than the current amount of melt. What amazes me, in addition to the enormous volume of the eruptions, is that some of the flows traveled hundreds of kilometers, in sheet-like flows, above 1000°C. Unlike the current Yellowstone magmatic system which generally has explosive eruptions, these basaltic flows were much hotter and more fluid--imagine an enormous river of lava flowing at ~10 mph.

To do some super back of the envelope calculations, the wikipedia source mentions an average volume of 500 km^3, and that some of the flows were erupted in a week (it has to be a relatively quick, high-volume thing to flow that far without cooling below 1000°C). This is about 4 times the average flow of the Amazon[2]. Of molten f-ing rock pouring out of a crack in the earth.

"Well honey, I guess we're not driving to that Seahawks game."

The CRBs are mostly Miocene, ~15 million years ago, but similar volcanism has covered southern Idaho, and it's younger. The youngest flows are at (IIRC) Craters of the Moon and Hell's Half Acre parks, and are ~2000 years old, but they're basically burps well after the main event. Basically any geologic event that happened 2000 years ago could happen again tomorrow; I really really hope that we get a chance to observe some (minor) flood basalt volcanism.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_River_Basalt_Group
[2]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=500+km^3+per+week+to+c...
Lucky enough to have a late model nVidia T61, running perfectly since the day I bought it. It's had a few upgrades since then, more RAM and an SSD but it's still an amazing laptop.
You personally can also help by never riding any sort of buses or trains. Whatever their benefit relative to other options, they are still significant producers. I am a bad person and would never do such a thing, but guard-of-terra is clearly better than all of us and presumably already makes these sacrifices.
You have to keep in mind that to get to Europe, any Australasian has to stop over at least once. Dubai is the most convenient; so really this route is Australasia to Europe.
What does it mean to run a "libre system"? Why would I want to do it? What are the benefits (other than cost) and what are the down-sides?
Somewhat tangential: any recommendations for an Arch Linux install? My old IdeaPad V570 is wearing down and I'm thinking of replacing it in the near future. Either used or new.
I'm a babe in the woods, but I had no idea that I was broadcasting my list of installed system fonts and browser plugins.

But it seems to me that this kind of fingerprinting would be pretty easy to defeat if people new it was happening and wanted to defeat it. Something like panoticlick could give advic on fonts and plugins to add to lose yourself in the herd.
> I should just take refuge in your fancy-house

To further your analogy, it costs me approximately $0 to make an exact copy of fancy-house, it travels over the internet to you, and what you do with your copy doesn't affect me in the slightest.

I am very willing to give you a copy of my fancy-house under such a scheme, and you are completely welcome to do with it whatever you want.
The founders of google landed on approximately $30 BILLION split two ways. There was a lot of talk around IPO that Google was minting a thousand millionaires, but a million is still 1000x smaller than a billion.

The lesson we can take from Google (which did make a lot of people a lot of money) is that once the company reaches many many billions in public valuation, then yes, a good number of employees will get rich despite the lopsided equity distribution.
Stop calling it 'time lost'! If you had fun, and formed beneficial relationships, then why was that lost time? Even relaxation, has utility.
> not that anyone cared to visit these zones in the first place

For me the only exception was Un'Goro Crater. That was by far the most fun I had in the game apart from PvP arenas. Dinosaurs, cool quests inspired by 70s TV shows I watched as a kid, and just the fact that it was such a beautiful rendering of the real Ngorongoro Crater.

Of course I stopped playing in 2007, so I'm sure there's tons I've missed out on since. But I really enjoyed the early quests and their unique stories, even the hammy stuff like the Edwin VanCleef/Deadmines quests. Given the level cap is at 100 now, I don't see why Blizzard doesn't open up the game as free-to-play for the first 60 levels (the original game before any expansions) instead of just 20, and you pay to play beyond that. I would definitely pick it back up if they did that.
Show HN: Commitizen, Commit convention prompts for contributors and maintainers
With the new touchpad, the trackpoint is useless because it badly positioned.
The trick is to use the multitouch pad like in a mac and forget about the trackpoint. It is actually not bad, you got pinch to zoom, two finger scroll, etc. Actually is better than the trackpoint sometimes.

That being said, I will change it for a W541/T541 ultranav touchpad asap. But not sure if I will keep it. Getting used to the pinch-to-zoom.
A million dollar lunch
I don't mind clickpads, but the one on the 450s is shockingly bad. I use my rMBP a lot on the train, and I never realized how good the Apple trackpad was at smoothing inputs until I tried to use the 450s on a rough patch of the northeast corridor.
As someone who was once upon a time diagnosed with ADD (I didn't quite cross the threshold into ADHD according to my pediatrician at the time), I can relate to this, at least a little bit, and I agree with most of what's discussed.

That said:

According to a recent study by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, 14 percent of schoolchildren
are currently diagnosed with ADHD in Arkansas and
Louisiana. In Nevada, the number is less than 5
percent. If ADHD were truly a genetically based
biological disease, wouldn’t the percentage of children
diagnosed with it be more or less equal across
geographical areas?

Probably not. Genetic diversity, at least in nature, tends to correspond to geographic separation of populations. I'd be surprised if this was significantly different for humans, particularly those on almost-opposite sides of the U.S.
Hey Brandon, I replied to you from an address containing 'dash'.
Coinbase is hosted on AWS in the us-east-1 region; this makes co-location incredibly cheap and accessible. The specific availability zone isn't publicized, but it would be trivial to do latency comparisons between the zones and figure it out - since Coinbase is a fairly new company, there are only 3 zones they could be in.
That's pretty cool. For better worse, a pre-condition for living in a tiny house is having the land to build one on. For my family, an amenity of our somewhat larger house happens to be its location, among nice neighbors, near public transit, and within walking or biking distance to all of our daily destinations such as work and school.
I thought a large part of google Devs are using Ubuntu. What I don't understand is why isn't there a Linux client,ms imply for the purpose of dog-fooding?
Yeah, being a founder is higher risk. Correct. At each stage towards success, a company is de-risked.

But founders' equity usually totals the equity of all employees combined. Did the founders' risk --and their contributions-- equal the total of everyone else in the company, combined?

I'm arguing the numbers in today's equity distributions are wildly out of proportion.
I use the x230 and all the hardware works right out of the box. Pretty much the only manual setup i did was for laptop power management and a xsessionrc to disable the touchpad since I always use the red dot.
Shadows are a huge part of Material UI. They are used to create layering between materials, which creates the illusion of depth and space.
It does feel like a stunt to promote a language that has nothing to do with dogecoin.
Filter-based addons leak at a minimum 1 bit of identifying information -- that the addon is installed.

With something like RequestPolicy the specific policy in place likely uniquely identifies the user.

Maintaining anonymity with a modern web browser is virtually impossible.

Maintaining pseudonymity substantially less so, but you're probably identified as "user running tails version x"
Same. The touchpad on my x230 was terrible--hours of forum searching and 2 driver updates never fixed it. I'm happy that I learned to use the nub, but it just felt ridiculous that Lenovo hadn't figured out how to make a functioning touchpad.
For who long would your website run, if the human race seized to exist tomorrow?
I usually use the DOM inspector to check for a maxlength, but really wish I didn't have to do that. >.<
This is similar to a criterion that I once proposed when a personality test was given to the employees at my workplace: Would I recognize myself in the report if I found it on the mailroom floor without my name on it? You could take the reports, remove the names, and let people try to guess which person belonged to which report.

To make an analogy, imagine finding a room full of un-labeled bottles of chemicals, and an inventory of chemical names. Could you match the chemicals to their names?
I thought you were being facetious.
I don't disagree with most of what you said. But the reality is there will be long grueling hours regardless of the best laid plans. So you have to inspire people to push through that. That doesn't mean you aren't pushing back on deadlines and working smarter, but when you have limited runway you have to push hard. It also doesn't mean you abuse people or not push them to take personal time.

As for inspiring the board and CEO etc. totally agree, but rarely is there a time an early startup CTO can tell investors we need to move slower. The best scenario generally is working to get more resources to reduce individual workloads but you still have to inspire people to work hard which will result in a number of long hours for some. And you can't be the "manager" just telling people to work harder, they have to be inspired by the work and what they are doing.

I also think it is critical to know how to transition your team to a more mature group as you raise further money and gain clients and revenue. Exactly to your point.
Purescript (compiles to JS) also offers Eff: https://github.com/purescript/purescript/wiki/Handling-Nativ....
Both styles have their merits, as evidence by WoW beginning to implement a 'timewalker' feature where players will be able to run old content dungeons with properly scaled stats (it will offer rewards useful for max level characters). There's just so much content in the game now, glad to see them making the most of it in a relevant way.
Sure, and then it would be up to the patent holder to prove intentional infringement. Otherwise, they don't get anything. That's how the legal system works in many other situations, the accuser has to prove their accusations, which is perfectly reasonable to me.
So, you can build portable tiny homes, though that constrains the tininess even more so.

Another pre-condition is being in a city with tiny house-friendly zoning regs.

As someone who frequently entertains the notion and novelty of tiny living, I keep up with it, and know more than a few folks who have been evicted from their tiny homes.

D.C. has actually been making it harder to live in tiny homes, as they are non-conformant structures in which you can "camp", temporarily, but cannot live, so there's this shell game going on of tiny home dwellers rotating out their dwellings just frequently enough to be on the right side of the law.
Especially if you take into account saving technical cofounder s from themselves.
Your welcome. I go back and watch it from time to time. A Reminder never hurts.

Good luck
There are two major future super-jumbo markets not mentioned here, and they're whoppers: core domestic routes in China and India, eg. Beijing/Shanghai/Guangzhou/Hong Kong and Delhi/Mumbai/Chennai/Hyderabad/Kolkata. The distances are too long to be covered by any form of terrestrial transport, even bullet train (there's already one for BJ-SH, but it takes five hours), and as both countries get richer, demand will grow exponentially. China's airports are huge, but badly hampered by military ATC restrictions, while India's byzantine permitting process means eg. Mumbai's airport isn't going to expand any time soon (and I'm not holding my breath for the construction of Navi Mumbai), which means the only way to increase capacity is larger planes. And indeed, China Southern is already flying A380s domestically.

http://www.ausbt.com.au/the-world-s-shortest-airbus-a380-fli...
➜ curl -i https://api.exchange.coinbase.com
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: cloudflare-nginx
Set-Cookie: AWSELB=7541......;PATH=/

It looks like they are hosted on AWS and only provide access via cloudflare.

Given that, I don't think offering paid access to be closer is really relevant.

The closest you can get physically would be to find the availability zone - however your traffic is still going to be routed through cloudflare, so you might be better being closer to the cloudflare servers handling your requests.
The Lies We Tell Our Code
T420. should only run about $275 refurbished. you want intel graphics. fill it with 8Gb memory. simply great with Archlinux. with a 9cell battery and standard hard-drive tuning (consider swapping in a SSD sometime) you can easily get 8hours on a charge.
1/3 * $0 = $0
Perhaps you only visited after the gate was opened? This zone was very busy on PvP servers, because of the horde v alliance competition to open the gate to AQ first.

I thought the AQ raids were quite enjoyable also. When else has a warrior tank needed a frost wand?
Ask HN: Do I give up now?
I've heard failure is good, but 10 years is a long time. That's how long I've been failing for now. I've worked on failed project after failed project, and now at 25, I'm wondering what the fuck I've been doing with my life - my youth.

When I was 15 me and my friend started a little hosting website. It was really fun. I learnt to program, and we even made a little bit of money. In the excitement I began to learn about business, startups and programming. I thought it was going to be so easy to make money. I mean, if I could make a bit of money on the web at 15 without knowing anything about business or programming, I'm going to be great at this startup stuff by 20 right? Well, clearly, I'm not.

And I read a lot. And I think even more. I just have no idea why I'm not succeeding. Because for the last 10 years I've worked 16-18 hours a day, every day, with absolutely nothing to show from it. Well, aside from the lack of a social life and the book on my coffee table by Eric Ries. I really should book that holiday.

Maybe I'm just not as smart as I like to think? But how would anyone know? I mean, I do okay on IQ tests.

Maybe I've just been unlucky? But 10 years of bad luck? Anyway, one must fail to succeed.

And even if I say so myself, I don't think my ideas suck. And even if they did, I've worked on other peoples ideas too.

So when do you give up HN? Because 10 years later I'm suck in a day job as a programmer. Something I never wanted to be, I just wanted to build a business.

I've built my own prison and I've lost some of the best years of my life behind a text editor and a dream. Not to mention the money and friends I've lost along the way.

I think maybe I've had too much wine. It's Friday night and I have a project to work on after all.
You could have stopped consuming without paying.

No judgement, I pirated games when I was in school. I still pirate TV.
I bought 4 Thinkpads and broke 2:

- X60s that I sat on. 1024x768 really sucks. ~$70

- X61 still running strong on ubuntu, 32G ssd too small for anything else. 1024x768. ~$75

- X200s that I loved. 1440x900. Windows and Crunchbang Linux. Rare but routine video/display issues & blue screens. :( 128G SSD went into the T61p. ~$220

- T61p too heavy to pick up. 1920x1200. With 8GB and an SSD, it's not slow at all. Display hinge has half an inch of play. Still running windows. ~$250

I won't buy another Thinkpad. I would buy a Dell Precision M4800 (to replace the T61p) and I still like 11" MacBooks (to replace the x200s). Needless to say old Thinkpad batteries are shot, though 1440x900 and 1920x1200 look(ed) great.
A "libre" system is a truly free system which the FSF and Richard Stallman endorses:

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
They forked. There has been talk of reconciliation but it seems to me that many of the iojs folks are not really on-board with the idea. As far as which to use, take it from some guy on the internet, I say use iojs.
The screen contrast is what finally convinced me to switch from a T61 to an X230, even though it was giving up 1.5 inches of screen height. I can't wait for this shortscreen fad to be over.

Still, build quality wise, it feels like I haven't seen the end of the T61 (when this thing inevitably falls apart).
I haven't yet, unfortunately the project has been on the backburner the last year or two since I've been so busy with other things. So far I've basically hooked up a relay board with an I2C GPIO extender, and use the Pi to toggle relays for lights and pumps. I also have an Arduino hooked up via serial that acts as an environment sensor, logging TDS, pH, light status (with a basic photoresistor, although this could be expanded to a fancy color temp sensor), and temp+humidity. It also monitors water level via a float switch. When the float switch is triggered, it adds more water. This naturally brings the TDS down, which triggers relays for peristaltic pumps to add a given ratio of nutrients.

The goal is to have a RESTful API service running on the Pi so that I could deploy one Pi+environment sensor setup per reservoir with a basic js app to monitor variables and set the timers and nutrient schedule, and if necessary aggregate that data into a centralized management frontend for multiple reservoirs.
David Fincher sure put lot of effort in every frame of this movie (apparently there supposed to be Starbucks cup in every shot!). However many thing in this article looks like author wants to see something when there might be nothing. "Official" list of facts are at IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/trivia.

For the record, this movie had its share of bloopers and mistakes just like any other movies as well: http://www.moviemistakes.com/film473.
x200s have an IPS screen, I think. It's the x201 with the crappy screen (which I'm writing this on...). You can switch out for a nicer panel if you're willing to put the effort in, but if you're looking to buy, may as well look for other models.
Then the answer is "no" because there has not yet been a system made that RMS will not nitpick in some way or another. The microcontroller that runs the LED on the back of the screen will not come with source code and so forth.