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>people have been buying games just fine without Steam for decades before Steam, and still are

The problem is the "just fine" part. For indie game shops it has been far from "just fine".
Sounds like you need to be more like this guy:

http://www.tvruckus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/TJ-Miller...
Wikipedia:

"Octopuses have a relatively short life expectancy, with some species living for as little as six months. Larger species, such as the giant pacific octopus, may live for up to five years under suitable circumstances. However, reproduction is a cause of death: males can live for only a few months after mating, and females die shortly after their eggs hatch."
Shouldn't this have the correct title "The New Google: ‘All the Assholes Have Left’" ?
Most people wood work because they can't stop themselves buying Netflix, wide screen televisions, big trucks and huge houses. Not so different from now really.
These are algorithms for convex optimization whereas stochastic gradient descent and saddle free newton are generally used for nonconvex optimization (neural nets in particular).
To be fair, G+-the-product is not bad. It's G+-the-borg, the forceful attitude towards integrating other Google properties and establishing a source of truth for real names, that generated backlash and eventually doomed the project.
You could add one more line of crappy code to work around another line of crappy code, when explicitly asked to by your product manager, but that's a pretty bad way to do it. Even if a lot of people out there are doing it to make a living.

It does take creativity to come up with a better way to arrange the code, to balance robustness, performance, and simplicity. Elegance (and even simplicity) is subjective. There are different styles that can work, but you kind of have to have good taste to end up with a good result. It's an art.
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Right. It's not that software engineers are going to go away, just that more and more cookie-cutter software will be buildable by less-technical people (eg. like what Wordpress has done for basic websites and what Unity has done for game development). Advances in NLP and A.I. will probably make code more English-like (eg. like SQL), or at the very least abstract away all the syntax quirks and other tedious low-level bullshit.

Most software engineers are constantly reinventing the wheel (even if they don't realize it because that wheel hasn't been open-sourced yet), and that is the work that will be automated away. But of course the cutting edge will always require programmers (like someone above me commented). But don't be surprised if programming looks a lot different in the future than it looks today.

I think software engineers tend to glorify the act of typing lines of code into a text editor. Code is simply a means to an end.

http://www.jbernier.com/the-future-of-development-less-code
Anxiety is a complicated subject, and can be interpreted differently depending on the sufferer's knowledge of certain areas of neuroscience and psychology. I've been lucky to study anxiety deeply enough that it no longer has control over me. As a sidenote, anxiety comes from the German word for anger, and is the result of unaddressed internal dialogue within the sufferer, closely related to cognitive dissonance, or witnessing too many paradoxes throughout the day. Avoid paradoxical thinking - it gets in the way of the task at hand, which is usually something mundane like getting in a lift, or even walking the dog.
You literally just described the point. The author was not sure about those things and you just explained it to him by saying that everybody feels that way about it and he shouldn't obsess with it.

That's the point, he described what his problem is and people are giving useful comments and suggestions on how to solve that problem.
Whenever automated transportation becomes feasible, which is on the order of 5-10 years, a good chunk of a multi-trillion dollar market will go to the few players ready to capture it. At this point, Uber is arguably the most promising bet: tons of data, name recognition, long-term vision, talent, and on-point execution. Not to say they can't miss the mark still, but the market size for transportation of people and goods is gigantic, and Uber is dead set on basically being the One to take it all. I can see why it'd be an appealing investment.
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no such assumption. The statement at the end is that there in inequality created at the end. I.E. there will be winners and losers. Now you could argue that the 'right correction' would create the 'right winners and right losers' but I think historically, almost all of the best-intentioned corrections applied by the states have ultimately hurt the dispossessed.
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Tell HN: My recipe against procrastination
I had a history of heavy procrastination. A therapist suggested that this is panic due to the great number of tasks in my todo list. You look them all and panic "They are so many".

My recipe:

1. Split your work into tasks. They may become hundreds, but don't worry. Describe them on a paper, or in a todo app.

2. Pick ONE suitable task for the moment.

3. Write it down on a piece of paper and put it in front of the keyboard. Close the todo app or push out of sight all other papers!

4. Prepare your workstation - open the IDE/text editor with the needed files open. Open the browser on the page you'll be working on. (I'm a web dev)

5. Go for a short walk or sit down in a quiet place. Leave all communications behind. NO DISTRACTIONS!

6. Start staring at something relaxing - trees, birds, 24h nature channel

7. If there comes a thought about the chosen task - write it down on a piece of paper

8. IMPORTANT: If you start thinking about the other tasks push the thoughts aside - "They are for later, they are written down. Now back to the current task."

9. After 10-15 minutes of relaxation return to your workstation. Look at the piece of paper and start working on the task.

10. When the chosen task is done go to 2.

After finishing a task reward yourself mentally and physically. When you are in your relaxation place say to yourself "Task done - good job from me", and give yourself a treat - something you love - something sweet, cigarette or a Cuban cigar if a big project was finished.

The workstation and the place for relaxation must be two separate places - this creates different brain moods, and this is important.

I think that the quiet relaxation and pushing aside the thoughts about the other tasks are the key moments in my improvement. Now I can make up to 5-6 fruitful hours of work a day.

I hope that this will help to someone with the same problem.
Looks like it's because until now it was not available, since rr has gained both reverse execution and x86-64 support quite recently (now and end of 2014 respectively)

There have been other similar tools previously, but they were either slow (chronicle), unable to work on complex programs or only worked on VMs.
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If they really didn't contribute any value we wouldn't be talking about them, they'd have died a long time ago.
You'll find that gift cultures exist today that have long since stopped being agrarian; the Philippines and Thailand come to mind. In the big cities the gift culture is still alive and well. It is quite a different culture to the predominately protestant individualistic society that is America though.[0]

[0] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/31914331_J._Henrich_...
Occam's razor strikes again or in the latimes case Occam's butter knife.
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Chrome hackaround:

1. Right-click the field, Inspect element.

2. Go to Console tab, type: $0.value = 'mypassword';

$0 is the last selected element: https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/commandline-api
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The race baiting headline brought me here.
I find it sad that in this modern, politically correct world, no-one uses pulling apart by horses as an execution method anymore.
Most of the time you can paste the password in another field (like the username) and select and drag it to the password field.

Browsers should probably not allow that kind of interaction between javascript and the password field.
According to Wiktionary, anxiety comes from Latin "ango" ("to anger" - which also has the same root!), which in turns comes from Proto-Indo-European "*h₂enǵʰ". Closely related German words are "eng" (narrow) and "Angst" (anxiety).
OK, there are like three things about copyright that I don't fully get:

1. What counts as copying?
2. What counts as creative work?
3. What counts as fair use?

For me all this three are huge gray areas. I honestly can't decide if derivative works from this game's characters could be sold freely despite what the original author says under the current US law. Please don't mix trademark into the question, I don't know if Undertale or its characters are trademarked or not. For the sake of clear discussion about copyright let's assume that they are not.
It's great to see a blog post that basically presents a negative result - LLVM hasn't sped up peak performance and has slowed warmup. Often people will try something and if it doesn't work well will never write it up so you'll never hear about it.
Thanks for clearing that up :)
What about sending someone a zip with such a directory structure?
At first sight I thought that the microphone was an spermatozoon mad with joy stirred up by Plutarch's quotation. Unfortunately that was only an illusion and life is not such exciting today.

To force to your mind to work creatively you must feed your mind with lots of examples and experiences. And the suggested way to accelerate the learning process is via showing off corner cases.

Innovation places us in a field in which the corner cases are unknown unknowns, his workshop is about an strategy to detect and anticipate corner cases in uncharted territories. That amounts to finding the fount of creativity, and that is not an easy feat.

Edited n+1 times for learning English.
No - it's clickbait.
There was another point but because of 2000 char limit:

10b. If the task is too long in time or too boring you may set an egg timer for 45 to 60 minutes and make the relaxation break.
99% is probably stolen passwords and 0.0001% brute forced passwords.
i really didn't like the arrogant tone and the misleading content of this article.
the author discourages curious people and potential talents with uncertain future self replicating apps that will replace programmers (anyway, aren't this apps made of code as well?) and shows his huge-complicated-6M-lines-of-code to cut enthusiasm once for all, forgetting to describe a process that take years and involves loads of people to end up with so much code in a complex application.

if you want to programm pick something you would like to build and work hard. the author of this article did exactly the same, the difference is that he did it long before you.
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Many tech people such as me strongly prefer Los Angeles over the bay.

The bay "way of doing business" really irks and alienates me - polite people who couldn't care less about you baldly lying with a smile; constantly appeasing you as if you're a docile imbecile.

It's deeply insulting and incredibly disrespectful. No sincerity, humanity or compassion - void of substantive human interaction. It's a process, not a person.

For example, at events there I'm a networking point in a social elbow running contest. I've had people turn away from me pretending I don't exist if I'm not connected with who they want. it means that the pleasantries of the social interaction was a total farce - the "personal connection"? 100% grade A bullshit. The acrimony and inhumanity of it disgusts me.

Makes me ill just thinking of it. What a dreadful place. Terrible 8 years of my life.
Steam certainly used to provide valuable marketing to indie devs, but these days it's so stuffed full of shovelware and Early Access games that might never be finished that it's not so great anymore. They don't even feel they need to obey consumer rights laws on stuff like false advertising, refunds, deceptive pricing, etc.
Nor in my Windows 7 :(
You can't really compare SF to LA, because SF is a tiny, arbitrary corner of a giant metropolitan area, whereas Los Angeles is a much larger equally arbitrary slice of another giant metropolitan area.

Anyway the point is that if you're going to compare SF to something compare it to a couple of LA suburbs, maybe Downtown + Hollywood + Bel Air or something.
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The best password bullshit I've encountered was United Healthcare's. They put a list of password requirements on their page, but even if you adhere to all of them, the page will claim that your password is invalid.

Why? Because they AUDIT YOUR PASSWORD FOR "SWEAR" WORDS. I shit you not: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2013/09/united-healthcare-aud...
I'd like stop/move button, so I can get a nice image or tweak the parameters while the CPU is not at 100% (slow netbook).

One very strange example that I got with randomize:

http://shuheikagawa.com/attractors/?attractor=kingsDream&a=2...
I came here to comment on this as well. Replacing the world's authentication is a project that will probably take slightly longer than two years, and I would like to see Mozilla continue to support it, especially given how many people were this excited by it.
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> There are few artisans and craftsmen in SF.

I've been led to believe the exact opposite. Apparently web designers (they like to use fancier names these days) from SF spend all their time artisanally handcrafting websites.
I completely agree with the author, but... what he completely misses is the biggest annoyance: maximum length rules.

I'd probably sacrifice my firstborn if Microsoft would finally wake up and accept passwords longer than 16 goddamn characters...
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The EU is risking the open internet
You can do this in FF and probably others by using this method:

1. click on the input field.
2. Type document.activeElement.value = 'MyPassword'; into the console.
A password thief surely wouldn't be stopped by a text box that doesn't allow Ctrl-V.
Makes sense, but hard to implement.

Switzerland taxes the Eigenmietwert (self-renting value) of properties. If live in a self-owned flat, the amount you could have earned by letting the flat to someone else is taxable income. This makes sense in economic theory, but it is not very popular.
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So which policy is this? You try to make it sound as if this is common policy in the EU.

Holding the amount generated from privatisation in trust at the ECB - that is unique to the Schauble proposal Greek situation. To call Schauble's proposal as anything other than asset stripping is propaganda too. It seems we are on opposite sides of a propaganda war.

Under this as yet unnamed policy: Have all countries signed up to privatise government properties? Have any complied?

In the article many people are reported to say Greece didn't have 50bn of assets to privatise. It's quite ridiculous of you to suggest that a) this is normal, b) everyone else had already done it.
>singlism

What are the historians of the future going to make of this bizarre period in our history where everybody competed to find ways in which they are oppressed?

Yes, being single has some disadvantages. So does being not- single. So does joining the navy or sticking your face in a fan. Make your choices in life, but accept the consequences of them.
Why do you consider the Lituya Bay megatsunami to be bigger?

The prehistoric megatsunami was estimated to have a "minimum tsunami wave height of 170 m at the shoreline." The Lituya Bay crest was estimated at 90 m.

The run-up at Lituya Bay might be higher but, to quote from this Science paper, "run-up is a complex process governed by local bathymetry and topography".
No, 99% are the ones copied from a password manager application.
May you be blessed, brother. Let us find wisdom and civility in His word of Ref. 1, PG 09:14, Psalm 9:2. "If you want to build great things, it helps to be driven by a spirit of benevolence".

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/mean.html
The idea of domain name serving over the internet without any intervention is fascinating, though it would be interesting to see what the societal reaction would be when someone registers childporn.com or assassinationmarket.com (with corresponding content, of course). As soon as mainstream society discovers that this content can't be taken offline, the backlash to the whole system might be severe.
Yeah, I sort of alluded to it in the article but didn't expand on it - we're doing a combination of things.

1. Using AWS services where we can (DynamoDB)

2. Provisioning more "traditionally" to instances, and managing those independently of the Mesos scheduler

3. Experimenting with scheduler based solutions[1] (which are still pretty bleeding edge, but are promising)

As I mentioned, EMC are (to me) doing the most interesting stuff here[2] because they're leaning on a lot of existing production systems like EBS and Mesos' own scheduler.

[1]: https://github.com/mesos/elasticsearch

[2]: http://blog.emccode.com/2015/10/08/enabling-external-volume-...
me!! me!! me!!

seriously.
It always seems like banks are way behind the curve on this for whatever reason. My old credit union that I left a couple years back required specifically a 6 character ^[0-9]$ password for complete access to my account. I have no idea why this seemed like a good idea to them. Plus the idiotic security question crap that they usually store in plain text. Just let me store my email and send me an email if I lose access; security questions make you /less/ secure.
This is because OSX uses a feature-limited (and apparently completely broken given this report...) BSD-derived userspace instead of the GNU software used with Linux, which are usually specifically designed to not have fixed limits of any kind.
Currently I'm about to start a tech company myself. But I'm not on my own. I found a great team while finishing my masters degree at the university.
Even though founding a company is a ton of work, you learn a lot by doing so. Thus, here is the advice I can give:

Silicon Valley is a good place for you to go when you need to get in touch with other tech companies. But in order to find skilled developers you don't need to go to Silicon Valley at all. I'm living in Austria and I know that there are excellent developers right here (and I bet the same is true for Germany). You just have to know where to find them. And once you found them you need to start talking to them. I know its hard to tell total strangers about your big idea, but it needs to be done.
You don't need to worry about someone stealing the idea as long as you and your expertise are still required. If the developer you told about the idea wanted to do it without you, he would face exactly the same problem as you do right now. He would need to find someone like you. And convince him of your idea. So why should he bother stealing the idea in the first place if he could just join you?

So, where do you find people that have a technical background and are also prepared to take some risks?
Go to coworking spaces. That is where you find people that may be working as freelancers or in small teams up to 3 or 4 people (if the team gets bigger than that its often cheaper to rent an office for your own). But maybe you shouldn't just walk in there and distract people from their work.
From time to time such coworking spaces host events. Usually they post about it somewhere on the web. And usually the people that work at the space go to such events. So this would be an ideal chance for you to talk to people that are both talented and not bound to a fixed job.
My advice: Go there.

And now a suggestion concerning investors and money: Consider public funding. There are many funds that you don't have to pay back and in contrast to an investor the funding organizations don't ask for shares.
Totally agree.
At least 1 Uppercase means 99% of people just use an uppercase first character for their standard password. 1 number means they append 1,2 or a year and 1 special character means they append an exclamation mark. Entropy added = 0 (if password rules are known to the attacker). I don't get how anyone who cared the slightest about security would think otherwise and enforces these stupid rules.
Makes sense, but hard to implement.

I'd say the implementation of a land value tax is rather easier than the implementation of a property tax. In both cases, the assessment is done by comparing properties to similar ones which have sold recently; but it's much easier to find a comparable square foot of land than it is to find a comparable 25 year old three-bedroom two-bathroom house which had the kitchen renovated last year but needs repairs to the roof.
There's an ongoing discussion in Poland about land-value tax. The problem here is that such tax is seen as a form of asset forfeiture. Why? Because of the communist times legacy.

In 1970s and 1980s there were a lot of apartments built by communist government, most of which were given to average citizens either for free, or for some insignificant amount of money. Now almost 40 years passed and we ended up with millions of people still living in those apartments, which they got back then, or inherited.

Now, especially after Poland joined EU, market price of those apartments skyrocketed, while owners income levels stayed pretty low. So, if government introduced land-value tax most of those people would not be able to afford paying it, effectively forcing them to sell their apartments.

I don't know how such tax would work in different setting, but here in Poland only visible effect would be rich people taking over properties for discount prices.
Well, it depends. My solution is opinionated, using only one vulcand cluster for load balancing, multiple vulcand servers listening on one etcd namespace.

For a small number of nodes (< 100) and requests (< 8000 req/s on each vulcand server) this vulcand approach is ok. For large scale, HAProxy/Nginx supports a lot more req/s than vulcand, and I think it can also be configured using confd [0] using a similar aproach: listen for marathon events, update etcd keys, then confd will listen for changes and reload HAProxy/Nginx

[0] http://ox86.tumblr.com/post/90554410668/easy-scaling-with-do...
Article written from small-country perspective, it appears, for which case it seems to make sense. But try to explain to farmer who owns a ranch in the middle of nowhere in Texas that he should be paying for roads mostly used to bring goods from other states to Houston/Austin/San Antonio.
But their neuronal density is much lower.

IIRC their high glia/neuron ratio is though to be an adaptation to sea life.
This enthusiasm for taxation doesn't really motivate me to renew my subscription to the economist. There is something fundamentally wrong with taxing an absence of income. The French socialist party had a similar idea, they wanted to tax homeowners who occupy their property based on what rental income they would get if they were renting it out.

In London the primary cause of the housing crisis isn't unused lands. It is a combination:

1. very restrictive planning, which doesn't allow to build up except in a few limited spots. We end up with this absurd outcome of 3 storey houses everywhere and skyscrappers in 3 or 4 areas. Instead London would be much better off allowing to build 10 storey buildings everywhere.

2. Terrible infrastructure choices made decades ago which are now impossible to reverse. London has kept the narrow streets from XIX even when it had an opportunity to plan a better urbanism after the war. And the tunnels in the tube are too narrow to support the current traffic.

More taxes isn't really going to change any of that.
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