skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are mistaking internal time with external time in simulation.

Even if universe runs on Turing machine doing one instruction per external year, for one external year, and 1000 instructions per second for the next external year - you won't notice the difference from inside.

Only observators from outside will notice.
That's true - do you suppose that this flag might be used if an app developer was targeting a specific CPU architecture, then?

I guess it could be argued that if you're that concerned about performance and know your target architecture, that it might be worth going native rather than running on a VM.
IP and TCP are still Big-Endian. Above that, both formats and ascii numbers are used.
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I actually think that most people missed the big issue with paid mods. If anyone can upload a mod to steam, that means that it would force modders of free mods to upload these as well - otherwise they're in danger of someone else uploading their content and earning money on it.
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the trace isn't dbus itself, it's a particular client program using the gdbus binding. The gdbus binding uses a lot of malloc and threads, and this particular client program is all blocking round trips.
What should a modern scientific infrastructure look like?
I just don't think gamers understand, if you pay for high quality mods, your gonna get more high quality mods.

It's a bit like the crazy excuses people make for pirating games.
Using your theory as a lens to observe current events in Baltimore (Ferguson, etc.), where the media is really responsible for fanning the flames of outrage to riot proportions -- it seems that the government is either ineffective at this refocusing of media and not really an issue, or so diabolically effective that we should all be shitting our pants.
Correct. I'd be happy to pay more for a decent service that had all the content I wanted, or even for multiple services. But paying $100 a month for non-HD cable is about my only option at the moment, and that's not on demand. Again, region specific licensing to blame.
Google is very flush with cash right now so this is just another opportunity to invest their money.

I think that the example of Microsoft shows how important it is for large tech companies to have lots of cash in order to be able to pivot. I think that Microsoft is pivoting very well right now into platform independent productivity software. If, for example, Google's ad revenue diminishes it is important for them to have long tail reserves to experiment with other ways to be profitable.
Ok, that works.

I was just going from the article's figure of 100atm. I probably should have double-checked that figure.
I dunno, a mod store could raise the support necessary for running a store by an order of magnitude or two. Plus, to their credit, it seems like they were spitballing and ready to revise.

EDIT: Actually, they will get a favorable reaction to a much more reasonable compensation (say 25%)
to content creators now that the community has gotten the worst of its reaction out. It might even be calculated.
>remove friction from the patent market and improve the landscape

The question really is: whose landscape is that?
Less prone to drinking. I see my priest drinking wine every week at mass. But seriously, I don't think Hispanics are less prone to drinking. Is that true?
Too afraid to lose users to proceed with their vision.
As a user, I'm totally fine with that. PC game distribution was so braindead that third parties (Steam, etc.) could strong-arm their way into un-bundling. Having chosen a payment and download system I'm not inclined to let game publishers try to force me into a different one, and whatever financial incentives Valve can apply to make that painful is great.
This article is from a year ago, and since then, the implementation of this has been delayed until at least 2018 [1]. The good news is that the latest drop (last year) of statutory roaming rates has made roaming within the EU much cheaper if you shop around a bit, but we're sadly still far from the way it is in the U.S. where you don't have to think about the fact that you're 1000 km away.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31737635
It's standard science reporting. Science rarely gives a firm answer; firm answers in science reporting is usually a sign of bad reporting.
but 25% goes to creators, 45% to bethesda and valves standard 30% fee for transactions?

25% is awfully low, honestly.
Edit, because YC locks comments for some absurd reason:

Apparently the vapor pressure of CO2 is ~60atm, which bumps the number down to ~12.5KJ. Though I haven't checked that number yet.
Android apps still suffer game-over HTTPS defects 7 months later
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>I think you are confusing "universities" with "USA universities"

When the thread topic title starts with "Texas College Professor" on a US hosted web site, in English, not appending "in the USA" to every single assertion is not unreasonable.
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> I don't see how you could even fit that in the 128KB of RAM it claims to have.

Sounds like a pretty typical challenge for the demo scene.
Yeah, they ONLY removed it from Skyrim. Other games will be getting it (although probably modified).
“Just ridiculous, I had never had a problem in the class. I thought I had done pretty well, done pretty well on the first test and then I get an e-mail saying I am going to get an F in the class, it was overwhelming,” Shaw told KPRC.
About business value and confidence in legacy projects
Wow, Bethesda is sure greedy in a self-punishing way. I mean you have to buy the game before buying mods. Surely 5-10% would be enough.
The 'earliest known example' (520mya) discussed dates to around the cambrian explosion, the geological period where the fossil record is rich with "earliest examples" and type specimens for phylums.

Maybe another way to put it is 'The definition of brain used in this article might apply to organs other than the brain in modern species." It's basically a nervous system, centralized or not. Who knows what it did or what it was for. It may have a predecessor outside the animal kingdom. Plants have sensory perception, or some version of it.

I'm not disputing the claims in this article or anything else. I'm basically agreeing with you.

Whether or not some nervous system, nerve cells or complexes of nerves evolved 520+mya and were 'lost' in some phyla or was evolved through convergent evolution a little later, it's partially a semantic issue: do we call something a brain. Most of what makes a brain a brain probably came later and evolved separately in different phyla. This means radically different ways of doing things.

BTW, Richard Dawkins really turned me on to evolutionary biology (a side gig, when he's not arguing with dummies) in some of his books. "Ancestors Tale" is awesome for really getting the "phylogenetics" way of thinking discussed here.
It should be the other way around: Steam keeps 25% brokerage.
Although that sounds like a Freakonomics type explanation, it seems pretty unlikely that smoking and drinking rates would not already have been assessed and excluded. These are two pretty big factors at the top of the list when examining life expectancy.

Also, if your hypothesis was true, then it would need to hold for other [Roman] Catholic groups for that to be the key factor. That does not seem to be the case as, according to Wolfram Alpha, the top life expectancy (at 84.4 years) is Macau, followed by Japan (83.6) then Switzerland (82.6) and Australia (82.5) tied with Andorra. Italy is 6th though.

While there are Roman Catholic countries high up, there are also higher ranked, non-Roman Catholic ones.

There are many convincing cases of benefit derived from religious faith but I'm not sure you can make such a case for life expectancy.
Well you know what people want: freemium Candy Crush Saga and Clash of Clans.
Signals are too brittle and complex. That's why you have to read three whole manpages to figure out what happens if a process gets the same signal twice in rapid succession.

They are also un-Unixlike: they are used to communicate three or four different kinds of information, and they do most of them badly.
> or so diabolically effective that we should all be shitting our pants.

Buncha rioters looting cities. Nothing better to prove your "tough on crime" attitude or to activate military powers... (yes, I know, calling in the National Guard is commonplace in the US, but virtually unthinkable in Germany)
Let's not underestimate what Valve has done here. At first they tried to give passionate content providers a way to also make some money. That's a huge thing. Most modders can tell you about it. Then they screwed up, which can happen if you try something the first time. I think it's okay, but I understand why people are pissed. Then the boss himself comes and talks to people on reddit to see what is going on. He gets informed first, includes peoples ideas in his opinion, before making a decision. We know many big companies who wouldn't even thing about such a move. Finally they decide to shut it down as a failure and give back the money. All in all a very strong move. This at least made me believe in Valve again, after the last months slowly shipped away on my support for them. Kudos!
Crumble: stop online tracking without breaking stuff
How to find a co-founder for your software startup
If you're worried about leaving a startup early because it's not the right fit for you, don't. Your life, your choice. Plain and simple. Suggestion: review the employment agreement you signed to make sure you won't be penalized for leaving early. If you received a signing bonus, you may be obligated to repay all/portion of it if you leave willingly before you complete your first year.

If the concern is applying for new jobs, then that will depend on the companies you're applying to. Startups are volatile by nature; they'll be more interested in what you did during your time than how long you were there. Traditional corporations or long-standing businesses however may weigh duration more as they consider you.

Best advice to you is to be prepared to explain your reasoning for leaving, and also demonstrate that you were effective in the time you were with your current employer.
GOG is a nice DRM-free alternative. I've been trying to buy as much as I can through there, in order to support their DRM-free initiative.
My father was a navigator and bomb aimer on Wellingtons and later Halifaxs during WWII. He very rarely mentioned it, brushing off questions from my younger self saying he never really saw much action. It wasn't until I was a lot older that I realised that this wasn't the truth and he had been in the air force since 1942.

I can only assume (my father died several years ago) that he felt somewhat ashamed of his time in the war. I didn't appreciate the negativity surrounding the bombing campaigns until more recently when they opened the memorial in Hyde Park corner in London (http://www.rafbf.org/1794/bomber-command-memorial.html). It's difficult to appreciate this when you grow up watching films like the Dambusters and 633 Squadron and seeing these guys as heroes. Dads are always heroes.
You answered it yourself. It lacks efficient multicast.

What dbus really needs is an efficient kernel-level capability-aware multicast IPC mechanism, and a total rewrite of the user-space daemon to not be rubbish.

All the user-space daemon needs to do is provide a registration point for other processes to find and connect to each other via (existing) unicast or (new) multicast mechanisms.

My initial thoughts were that kdbus /was/ that IPC mechanism, but it sounds like that might not actually be true.
There is an unofficial option. Failing a term or two. We have a saying that engineering can be the worst five years of your life or the best seven.
Floyd exploring his career options
From the guideline: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
IBM Is Going Agile
france a country with latin culture? not really..
Most of the money wasn't even going to the modders. With AAA companies increasingly putting out broken/unfinished games and modders making unofficial patches, it's ridiculous to be rewarding the publisher with most of the money and not the modder.

I think the biggest problem most people had was that they forecasted Steam's mod marketplace as being swamped with garbage mods that offered no real value and were nothing more than a quick cash grab. This would result in the modding community becoming a race to the bottom as modding became less of a hobby of passion, and more of a trash market. Looking at what's been greenlit on Steam lately, seeing the garbage that's been flooding the mobile phone market these past few years, and witnessing the bullshit DLC is these days, I don't think those predictions would be too far off.

The low barrier to entry also opened up the opportunity for people to rip existing free mods and sell them on Steam, hoping to cash out before they got pulled.

I don't think the complaints were at all hollow and plenty of high quality mods exist without paying 45% to the publisher + tip to Valve.
The sentiment probably comes from experiencing Valve's customer support, which is a lot like Google's - either

- the automated system solve your problem, or

- you have enough influence to generate bad press for them, or

- your problem will most likely be ignored.
Mailing Lists: What’s Wrong With Them, and How Can We Fix Them? [pdf]
I recall that during the first Gulf War, Iraqi propaganda broadcasts were telling American servicemen that their wives and girlfriends back home were carrying on with Bart Simpson.
Where were you with your rational thinking when the witch-hunt was going on on Reddit? It was so disappointing to watch.
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At first they tried to give passionate content providers
a way to also make some money.

Given that the "passionate content providers" only make 25% of what users pay, I think that's a very generous interpretation.

Edit: It doesn't matter if it's Valve or Bethesda or the tooth fairy that takes the remaining 75% - the fact is this system does little to accomplish the goal of "giving passionate content providers a way to make some money" - indeed it's so wide of the mark it's hard to believe that was seriously the intention.
> unclog pipes

On a larger scale, "pigs" [1] are used to clean and maintain oil pipelines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging
Seems like as long as the hardware doesn't crash - apple can do no wrong in the consumers' eyes.
The original content creators are the people who made the base game and own the IP of which mods are derivative.
Happened at the College I use to work at (Systems Librarian and in Student Life)

Whole class plagiarized their papers and it wasn't a he said she said. Clear as day guilty. Some of the papers were word for word the same (The kids forgot to change words). Professor gives the complete class a failing grade. College within a week lets all the Seniors graduate and changed their grades to C and fires the Professor.

Professor appeals and is re-hired. Than he is fired 2 years later due to complaints that his classes are to difficult. Once again appeals and is rehired. He is now the easiest professor to get a D or C as long as you don't cut three weeks (AKA 1/4 of the class). You have to do projects for different grades. D = writes out 50 words and their definitions with hand drawn pictures. C = Pass a definition test of a possible 100 words (Super Easy). B = do research and turn in a short half page synopsis of your findings with printed out web pages or copies of books. A = write one 10 page paper and get at least an 80 on the paper with his simple rubric (AKA Jr High level). Only 10% actually ever attempt an A and he has a perfect Bell Curve the past 15+ years now.

His lectures are incredible deep (Philosophy and Theology) and you can either sit there and learn very little (Most do) or you can engage him and he will give the best lecture tailored for whoever tries hard and talks during class. When my friends who were alumni would come to visit I always took them to this professor's class and they were blown away at how foolish they were to dismiss him and think of him as a easy C or B class.

So this actually happened and it caused a professor to just not engage his classes brains or challenge them academically due to fear of being fired again. Philosophy and Theology field is incredibly competitive and there would be over 150 applications for his position if it ever opened up. You also would than be a person who was fired trying to get into a field where hundreds trying for the same job.
Good, let's rely on random genetic mutation instead. Because we know that only produces healthy organisms that are safe to eat.

(/sarcasm)
Note that Murdoch is listed as not participating in this.

News barely makes any money. The only people that have made it pay directly are low-latency financial services: Thompson-Reuters and Bloomberg.

This makes it absolutely rife with people buying their way to influence. Rupert Murdoch is the big example, but the Telegraph is currently imploding under this pressure as well (owned by Barclay brothers, cancelling articles unfavourable to HSBC).
Agile in a big company:

http://dilbert.com/strip/2005-11-16

http://dilbert.com/strip/2007-11-26
As far as I understood that was a value set by Bethesda, not Valve.
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Growing up in a latin american, predominantly Catholic country, I can assure you that they are not less prone to drinking. Smoking was less common, but because of the culture, not religion.
If you think it belongs here, just submit it.

Please consider that things highly specific to a single country or non-technical/non-scientific links may be downvoted.
I wonder what would happen if GitHub placed a clone fee and split it between itself and the repo owner...
I feel like your reply should be a top level post.

I don't mind the idea of mod creators earning money from modding. But the thought that Bethesda would be profiting off of releasing broken games rubs me the wrong way real bad.
I did, and for a brief beautiful moment I thought usenet would become mainstream again (and google groups would magically disappear).
I'm curious if the author actually reached out to ask the opinion of the people he cites, or just pick and chose quotes to support his premise. The author cited the Grugq twice in the article; the Grugq's response to the article was "They always acted like spies, sans security."[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/592884129441677312
Clearly, that's a simplistic view of the world. The iOS app store (and, I expect, Play too) is choking on shit-quality shovelware, while I pay zero for Ubuntu and a whole range of other high-quality open source tools that have tons of volunteer contributions.

Adding financial incentives to a community built on a share-and-share-alike mentality skews things a lot. I can see this whole paid mod thing working, but it's going to take a much gentler approach than what they did here.
>"...They blame it (horrific profits) on consumers getting concerned about what they put in their bodies."

Even though health food has become fashionable (for perhaps less than rational reasons), I believe that greater awareness of what you eat is extremely important and I'm glad it's becoming mainstream. Now if only they would stop putting so much sugar in bread...
Here you go: http://www.ukings.ca/hmcs-kings-wardroom

They apparently claimed to have sunk.... a college.

Edit: Also, http://www.secret-tunnels.co.uk/FwdH-Haw.htm

Either it's apocryphal or the kriegsmarine had a knack for making silly announcements. I'm inclined to think the former, and that it was more likely black propaganda to make the enemy appear stupid.
India tries a cheap and cheerful way of teaching people to read
I'm not much into low-level CPU architectures, so I have to ask: Is there a technical reason (performance or whatever) why LE would be objectively better than BE?

I do read hex dumps & disassemblies, and there LE is a huge pain in the backend. Everything is in reverse. Why would a sane programmer voluntarily use LE?

God Save the Network Byte Order!
DARPA's Homing Bullets Can Now Hit Moving Targets
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