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Ask HN: Do you use Lua in Production?
I've started using Lua for writing scripts and doing some data processing (stuff I've used Python for). I've wanted to refactor some of this code and put it in my production environment (I'm running an SOA so it'll likely be it's own Lua service). I haven't heard a ton about people using Lua this way, curious if anyone has experience with using Lua in production.
Ask PG: How is Arc coming along?
I noticed that 500 days ago you said that you'd be working on Arc again [1]. How's it going?

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7493993
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hey i'm sure people following you around telling you this probably gets old but i started playing Crash when it came out, i was 8. i'm 27 now and working in gaming. i just wanted to say Crash was really a huge part of my life and i would be doing us both a disservice not to take this opportunity to say thanks for such a great work of art!!!
Oh boy, an antifa-boy and the "hate speech". Do you really think I would post something so "unnaceptable" like this on my main acc? It is suicide saying something that doesn't fit in the facistic-left agenda, same thing on reddit. I was the same as You once, I flamed everyone that seemed "racist" on first sight, without even giving a thought about what he was trying to say. But it seems I'm too old and tired of this correct bullshit served me my whole life. Probably my last rant here about this topic.
Okay, from the top - tell me what kind of hatred are we talking about? I never hated blacks as a whole, and the ones I met I usually liked and had no problems with. We are talking about their IQ and achievements not if they're likeable or not.
The standard of living/safety/education is deteriorating in European countries that take loads of immigrants form the 3-rd world. Usually each country releases yearly statistics about things like these, please look them up.
The Greeks have nothing to do with this, they took the money, used it to their own gain and now don't wan't or can't give it back. They're the least of the problems of Europe.
The thing with the leftist elite like you that wants to save the world is that you want to do it by using the country and citiziens that many times don't agree with it. Why can't you just take them to your houses and give them your money? Everyone would be happy.
A country should foremost care about its citiziens, not some economical immigrants from the 3-rd world. If the left cares about them so much they should use their own resources, not the ones that should be used to building schools/roads/etc.
And btw to the guy talking about how I should be more subtle - do You mean I should ignore some facts that someone doesn't like so I'm gonna be accepted in the "community"? This is the PC circlejerking I was talking about. BTW funny thing no one is crying racism when a dominant portion of athletes is black because on average their superior when it comes to athletics. But when talking about mental capability its a big no-no and I should shut up. And what the hell is racism? The ABSURD idea that humans that lived for millions of years on very different enviroments evolved diffently? Damn, so absurd...
Whoa, this is sick!
A lot of people here talk about homeschooling/normal schooling as a binary choice with stark trade offs. But if anyone has read the recent Reinventing Organizations book then the example of Berlin school ESBZ[1] imediately comes to mind - self managed school where the kids decide their lessons, help each other and solve problems with help and advice from the parents, teachers and children from higher grades - they are still graded normally at the end of the year so they get the basic skills but they also get so so much more - problem solving, autonomy and authority, etc. I really don't get why we don't try to get all of our schools to work like that.
[1]http://developyourchild.co.uk/blog/teal-school/
It doesn't have a proper ending (obvious they were expecting a second in the series), but having played it I enjoyed it for what it was.

With the bankruptcy, it's questionable where purchases of this will go to, so you might want to keep an eye on the game's Steam forum.

(There was another game, the name of which escapes me, that had a similar issue, with it getting sold cheap, and the money wasn't going to the creators. I think it was this year's Steam sales, if anyone else recalls the game.)
I have no idea. People aren't always rational when it comes to their wants.
That's just a further proof point that open-source is not a panacea: it sometimes gets in the way of running a business.
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That's the rub with mental illness. How can you really know? Mental illness is used as a defence in murder cases because it's tough to know which thoughts are lucid and sounds and which thoughts are the result of legitimate mental disorders.

Consider this: imagine a disease whose symptoms were temporary intermittent paralysis. Individuals with this disease occasionally can't move their arms or legs. To outsiders, it may seem like they are faking it. How could you know if the paralysis was real or not? After all, you saw the individual walking just fine moments earlier, and they are walking fine now.

My point is, to say "He could have just as easily forgiven his supervisors" is like saying "He could have just as easily walked". If the condition is legitimate, he really couldn't have forgiven his supervisors, because there is a side of his mind he can't control.
> I refuse to believe we live in that unfree of a society.

I could never believe otherwise. Not after everything I've learned in my time on this rock.
Off topic, but thank you for CB, it was my favorite game for years.

(Fun anecdote: I'm from Russia and I didn't know English when I was a child. I had no idea what "save game" means so I started Crash Bandicoot 3 from scratch every time. Imagine my surprise when I realized how saving works.)
No, games developers are badly underpaid because it's seen as a cool thing to go into.
I use Atlassian Sourcetree as a git GUI on Windows. Does GitHub Desktop do anything different / better?
I know Kickstarter failures are pretty common...but I submitted this one because I liked the refreshing straightforward admission of abject failure. The comments on the OP are pretty mild and supportive considering that the project isn't sending out any of its promised rewards, nevermind not finishing the game. I'd like to think that the OP's honesty is a factor in that.
I said it was a far-cry!

I don't work in the chemical industry and other than complaining, I can't effect much change in how it operates. I can however make life better for those using the software I create. As many others have pointed out, there are many more categories. I'll even add another - efficiency. I should create my software to use the least amount of resources possible. Eventually CPU and memory usage equate to power consumed from the grid.
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Ask HN: Suggestion to gain betas for a B2B health care application?
My startup is focusing on developing a cloud-based application in dental industry. The problem is it is so difficult to reach out our customer segment. Can anyone experience in health care area help me ???
I don't use it, but I'm curious to know why you're using it ?
Public school doesn't teach people to interact well with people you don't want to.

Indeed forcing people to do what they don't want to do is precisely the problem with school - whether socially or academically.
>> .. or, as Mark Cerny (our producer on Crash) used to tell us, "add one and increase the unit"

Reading this made my day, it's the exact same rule I try to apply to my own effort estimate, to the letter. I was 100% convinced I came up with it myself, but now I'm starting to think I may have (unconsciously) picked it up from someone else at some point ;-)
Thanks. Hard not to get distracted by Microsoft though ;)
I'm baffled that so many people claim to have had a great experience. Every single interaction I had with their team, be it management or ZA's, was a poor one. They didn't attempt to understand our business at all, and kept falling back on Zirtual related systems and lingo.

Beyond that, when I found out what they were actually paying ZA's, compared to what we were paying, I was appalled.
SimplyBuilt provides free websites for open source github projects.

http://www.simplybuilt.com/support/the-settings-panel/gettin...
I imagine the word for it has pejorated so much you can't really use it in polite conversation.
i wish they would make a decent mobile web interface, the current one is just painful to use. i always have to switch to desktop mode.
Magit is the best Git UI in existence.
Part of my point was that the 1% with good ideas aren't actually getting censored. If you can find any recent examples to the contrary, please let me know.
I feel your pain:

2 48 ms 11 ms 9 ms 96.120.89.137
3 10 ms 12 ms 26 ms te-0-7-0-0-sur03.sfmission.ca.sfba.comcast.net [68.85.103.129]
4 14 ms 12 ms 11 ms be-210-ar01.santaclara.ca.sfba.comcast.net [68.85.57.245]
5 281 ms 1030 ms 974 ms te-11-0-2.edge4.Frankfurt1.level3.net [4.68.127.105]
6 964 ms 1007 ms 1028 ms ae-4-90.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net [4.69.152.208]
7 284 ms 689 ms 1048 ms 72.14.223.91
8 444 ms 1074 ms 927 ms 72.14.234.173
9 427 ms 980 ms 1012 ms google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]

And that's when the higher latency hops don't just time out.

If that Frankfurt1 actually means Frankfurt... as in Deutschland... the latency makes sense, though I'm curious as why that route.

EDIT: Actually for me it's all egress from the comcast network. Comcast told me that they're currently doing some work that is the cause. Naturally, your mileage may vary.
> Bitcoin's only real-world use case is illicit goods.

I think the 400 Million[1] in venture capital alone can disqualify this statement.

[1] http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-venture-capital/
> It is important to note here that Einstein was not being translated from German properly into English. 'Spuk' has a meaning akin to spook in the sense of a remote observer; Rather than 'spooky', which is an adjective relating to ghosts.

Einstein's "spukhaft" is very much an adjective relating to the activity of ghosts. If you translate it as "magical", you're not losing much of its meaning.
> It is important to note here that Einstein was not being translated from German properly into English. 'Spuk' has a meaning akin to spook in the sense of a remote observer; Rather than 'spooky', which is an adjective relating to ghosts.

I've never heard this theory before and I don't think it's true. The phrase that Einstein used was "spukhafte Fernwirkung".
not sure how them hosting public projects adds directly to the bottom line

They get a ton of feedback and insight from non-paying users. The usage and feedback can drive both the product and business roadmap for their enterprise offerings.

Every developer who enjoys using it for personal or open source is also likely to recommend it to their employer as well. I know I have helped drive adoption in a few organizations.
The Windows app is still WPF-based and still uses ClickOnce for its installer. The web page claims that this is a new unified app, replacing GitHub for Mac and GitHub for Windows. But it seems to me that there are still two separate apps. I had expected something like a desktop app using web technologies via Electron, like Atom.
does the shim solution not lead to this exact same security problem ?
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June 2015: List of BBC web pages which have been removed from Google's search
As an increasingly older and older person I always try to warn myself against becomeing one of those "Kids these days" complainers.

Isn't the Vanity Fair article just a version of that? Mixed in with the usual bias journalists have towards negative spins on things? An article Title "most Tinder users have positive experiences" wouldn't get any where near the views.

When I was a kid, we had to trudge through snow uphill, both ways, just to date the person our parents picked out for us. Kids these days don't know.
Why don't you say what this precise subset of skills is, and present some evidence or even narrative about how public school assists students in developing them?
What's wrong with News Corp?
There would be no github without git.
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The T-Fal one I have has been going strong for a few years now (maybe 3?). The trick is to NEVER put it in the dishwasher. Hand wash only. It's the easiest thing ever to hand wash, since nothing sticks, and most of the water drips off before I grab the towel.
Creating Art from Facebook Conversations
Yep. That's how the word was taught to me. In the US, quite a few people say it as "fort."
Before Clipper I also wrote a ton of code in dBase II and used WordStar (in text editor mode). This was on a couple of different NEC CP/M machines (an APC [0] with 8" floppies and it's sibling the PC-8800 [1] which had 8" and 5.25" floppies - no hard disks!). This was circa 1985/6. Then my boss bought Clipper Autumn 86 after we tried a few other dBase compilers (Quicksilver and I think dbXL). We also bought B-Linker after Nantucket/CA's supplied link ran out of steam for us.

I was a demon with the Clipper TBrowse object :) Happy days.

0: http://imgur.com/NjCBsYs

1: http://imgur.com/NcCTnUS
I don't get the point of creating yet another signing framework.
Integrating GnuPG would have saved them time and money. Also, it is used on virtually any linux distro package manager (which is about just a bit more critical than docker)...

Perhaps I missed something though? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at72dhg-SZY&feature=youtu.be...)
Can't access my Windows desktop to look now, but I thought I've had Github Desktop running on my PC for awhile now. Was this previously in beta?
Whole Foods' John Mackey: Why Intellectuals Hate Capitalism
I won't back games unless they either ask for a few 100k, or are vastly over target already. The reason is that I'd rather back someone with a realistic, workable (but maybe a bit too high) budget than someone optimistic about a probably too low budget. Double so if they state that they want to hire someone.

I see a lot of kickstarter project where a team of 5 is looking for 20K or somesuch. While some teams can and do pull it off, that just seems crazy low and too much risk (especially when you factor in KS' fee and cost of rewards).

EDIT: Removed the as a rule from the first sentence (was I, as a rule, won't back...). After reading andallas' reply, I realised that there are some very rare occasions where I do back projects I otherwise wouldn't, but they have to have really proven themselves.
I have exported the project on github, but in the google code page, this button is still available and they don't provide by default any link or redirection to the new github repository exported by google tools. The google support suggests me to make an "url redirection" to different website, the github repository.
"..and code do not change the primary purpose of the Application by providing features or functionality that are inconsistent with the intended and advertised purpose of the Application as submitted to the App Store."

That seems to be a reasonable clause, and should actually benefit everyone, provided the developers stick to the rule and don't abuse that option.
For companies that use open source (i.e. pretty much everyone) it's nice to be able to mix e.g. public forks of open source repos with private repos.
That's what the developer gets, net. Multiply by 2.5x for what the employer actually has to pay.

72k USD will get you one senior developer for one year.
There doesn't seem to be a way to do so, but if you open a repository cloned elsewhere everything works just fine. It even prompts for your Bitbucket password if you try to push.
Based on what I've read, clients were charged up until the last minute. I wonder how this affects them? Will Startups.co help to reimburse them in order to earn those customers back?
"Sunk cost fallacy" is what my college "Engineering methods" course called it, but we are talking about the same concept.
> And that's equivalent to felony robbery in your mind

It's far worse. Without accountability structures, the rule of law simply vanishes. Her attempt to avoid accountability/transparency was simply an attempt to avoid the rule of law and replace it with her own prerogatives.

If our leaders do not themselves respect the rule of law, how can we hope for any kind of just society? There are lots of societies run by warlords who simply take and hold power with no accountability. Our system is fundamentally different by design, or at least, it should be, even though some warlords are well-respected by the people they rule.
Because such a system is not reasonably doable with a student to teacher ratio of 28-1
Oh wow, that's an even worse tragedy.
Can you present even one piece of evidence about how public school helps students develop empathy for those who are significantly different from them?
>Really? That's what you're posting when a group of talented artists see their dream shattered?

How, exactly, was their "dream shattered"?

They raised money that (they thought) was sufficient, and got to work independently on a game they loved. That's more than a lot of people get. Apparently the game wasn't very good. No one is entitled to financial success.
Aport from everything?
Ask HN: How do you pitch your B2B product, when no one knows you?
It would be awesome, if you share actual stories.

Cheers!
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I'd like someone in the industry to look at the code first, to Due Diligence that it's not just utter crap...
Russian plutonium-fueled breeder reactor reaches first criticality (2014)
Does the lack of n = 16 mean that there's no current proof?
I've always wanted something where I can see the status of all my projects at once:

- Have other people committed things to origin on any of my repos?

- Do I have uncommitted changes on any of my repos?

- Notifications for when people push

Basically this but focusing more on collaboration.
Ask HN: Resources on developing tenacity/grit/determination?
I'm interested in learning more about how I can train myself to be "tougher". My desire for this has arisen primarily through my kickboxing training, as I'm now pushing myself to new limits (running 5km where I couldn't before, hitting harder and doing more rounds than before). All great athletes seem to have this kind of toughness, and it reminded me of PG's determination essay. I could easily see how possessing this kind of attitude or work ethic could help in the startup world.

Does anyone have any books or resources on developing determination?
Sad to see GRIN dissolve, I felt they were a very promising studio.
You made 'Crash B' ? Boy you're a myth! It was one of the few games I wasn't bored to death while playing :-)

congrats!
Ask HN: Tesla never does any ads but still hogs all the limelight. Thoughts?
I was listening to a podcast today from dotnetrocks.com. The speaker mentioned Tesla never does any advertising. This made me think. This is really true. And, it made me wonder also - they are successful so far with getting the word out without spending a dime on marketing. This may not work for lot of companies. What do you think is help them here?

1. Elon Musk Brand
2. Superior product
3. Cult like following from consumers
That's true. I left MS-land years ago, and PowerShell is one of the few things I miss.

The only problem with PowerShell is that you need to write C# (or any other .NET language of course) if you want to create a real cmdlet (if I remember the name correctly). Other than that it's a quite nice shell and a sane procedural scripting language (again, with access to most of .NET).

The other, general problem with cmdlines/shells under Windows is the fact that they all work very differently than terminals that worked with type-writers 40 years ago. Which is what most console apps expect, for one reason or another, under Linux.
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Was that title developed using lisp? If so (or if you worked on other Naughty Dog games which did use lisp) do you feel that it was a force multiplier in any way?
Except that Rumsfeld had a different problem, he had people who didn't want him to know what he didn't know, because it was a tactical advantage for them.

This, like most engineering tasks, is more straight forward. You have to know what its going to take to build each piece and assemble them into the final product. So if you are making a AAA indie game, it helps if you can talk with the project manager at a company that made AAA games and go through their list of deliverables, and then think about how you're going to deliver the same thing. Sometimes you'll be tempted to say "we won't need to do that" but like Chesterton's fence, you need to understand why they did that so that you can really say you won't need to do that thing.

It is always ok to start with "how hard could it be?" but that starting point requires you educate yourself on exactly how hard it could be. For game development I think pretty much all the questions are knowable (except for consumer reception of course)
It's likely they felt it's not worth the time since most Linux users are using the CLI for everything else, and likely wouldn't be interested in a GUI. Personally I've never used the Github GUI and have no plans to, running the commands is fast and easy.
I started with GitHub for Windows and have quickly transitioned over to PowerShell. Bit of a learning curve, and I still have to look up a number of commands, but I've actually found it easier than using the GUI. I don't even use the Android Studio integration ...
Well that and really good omelettes!
That would surely be "speculation on future real-world use cases". Which isn't nothing, but isn't present real-world use cases.
You can allocate it as early as you like, but if you declare bankruptcy then all of your assets are seized. The administrator doesn't much care what you intended to spend them on, they are now going to your debtors.
If you do another video of the slinky steps in action, have someone stick their face in that window at some random moment for comic effect. ;)
Its easy to underestimate the scale of AAA titles today. Even a few millions dollars with a team of twenty isn't nearly enough to cut it. If that wasn't enough, they also go for the top talent and expertise the industry has to offer in order to manage the massive complexity of these projects. Its also easy to underestimate how much a difference it makes to have experienced developers for projects of such scale. This has to be by far the most important factor when determining the success of these projects.

This is both good and bad news for indie developers. Bad in the sense they'll never reach that scale and level of graphics without serious investments. Good in the sense the triple-A giants are anything but flexible and indie developers can therefore differentiate themselves through innovative gameplay and storytelling, which is very much lacking in the AAA scene nowadays.