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Okay, at this age, I don't think we should worry about kids being tied to one platform.

In 10 years we don't know what language or platform is going to dominate, let alone by the time kids grow up.

The point is to learn any language to get some basic concepts down and then branch out.

Many people on this forum probably cut their teeth on Commodore 64 Basic but we're not laughing at them for platform lock in.
> Internal arguments soon gave way to bigger problems. There would be work stoppages, porous concrete, a risk of earthquakes and at least $3.4 billion in disputed costs: more than the budget for the entire project.

For a megaproject, 2x overrun is downright wonderful.
Okay let me just put it this way. When I consistently eat under ~30g net carbs a day, not only does my blood glucose remain at non-organ-damaging levels, but I can effortlessly resist the temptation to eat things like bread, pizza, and pasta.

When I start eating more than 50g net carbs a day, suddenly I want to shove all the pizza in the world in my mouth. Given that pizza will absolutely kill me, a diabetic, via kidney damage, a "very low carb, high fat" diet (which is much easier to explain/abbreviate as "ketogenic") diet is best for me, personally.

I know it's an anecdote, and it certainly doesn't mean a VLCHF diet is right for anyone else, but it's working for me.
I'm no expert, but I believe this was created to deal with the massive delay in communications between Earth and Mars. The ISS is in low Earth orbit, so it has less than a second of delay in radio signals. Mars is 20 light minutes away, so there's a 20 minute delay between with all packets sent.
Indeed, this is the "Top Grossing 200"

I wonder what percentage could be classified as abusive software.

If that's the path I have to take to make money on iOS, I'll take a path on a different platform.
Corvette = "successful plumber" or "poor man's supercar" (i.e. people who climbed the economic ladder over their lifetime and

Jeep Wrangler = "I'm not too outdoorsy but I like to think I am" (doesn't apply to the third owner onward

Prius = college professors and people who suck at driving, people who want the world to know how environmentally friendly they are

Subaru wagon (new)= lesbos and people who are outdoorsy

Subaru wagon (old) = poor white trash

Land Rover = trophy wife

SUV/Minivan/Crossover (new) = soccer mom

Acura/Lexus = old money

Volvo (old) = hipster

Single cab pickups = poor young men and old white guys
More evidence that nothing is ever fully out of human hands.

The promises of Ethereum are gone. If you write a smart contract and want to rely 100% on the code to be the source of truth, and a large enough piece of the community doesn't like what your contract is doing, they may fork and revert/rewrite history.

And forget it if your smart contract isn't perfect. The good and bad will be fighting to exploit it from both sides.

RIP.
You can use something like a two-prong lamp extension cable, I have one similar to these:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/USA-Canada-2-Prong-Male-to-Fe...

Or just cut and splice the regular power cord, that's what I did with a room fan. The Sonoff has thick plastic covers for the terminals with little teeth to hold the wires in place as it's meant to be put directly in line with a power cable. Note that the relay inside is claimed rated for 10A, so I wouldn't power appliances with it. It also only switches the hot and neutral lines, so if you need a 3-pin connection you have to splice it to the line and neutral while keeping the ground line connected.

It goes without saying however that you should be extremely careful and only splice wires like this if you know what you're doing. Don't damage cable insulation while stripping, wire things up to the right connectors, don't leave exposed wires, use the correct wire gauges for your load, etc. Mains electricity is dangerous, yo.
I stopped at Elon is wrong ;)
Yup, your PMs should be the one unblocking your developers and not randomizing them in return.

The best PMs I ever worked with I could come to with "I need X from the organization" and within a few hours or less I'd be unblocked and could move forward. The other type that pester developers are poison and should be thrown off the boat for the reasons listed in the article.
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> Usb-c is more likely going to offer what people don't really need for a price that they are very unlikely to agree spending.

When your household uses exclusively devices that are powered by USB Type C, there is an impressive collective synergistic convenience that results. All of our tablets, phones, and laptops use Type C. Any of the power supplies for any of our devices can, in a pinch, be used to provide power to any other.

We can carry tiny trickle chargers when we're going to be by an outlet all the time, or a heavier rapid charger otherwise.

We can power any of our devices directly from any other device.

Further, we can use the same thumb drive on any device, no OTG adapter or usb size adapter needed. Several of our devices support slimport, so one set of high end cables can be used for video, data transfers, or power transfers.

For those that love convenience, USB Type C is great. And it gets even better the more devices you have switched over - when you can share cables, power supplies, monitors, and thumb drives between all of your devices so easily.

Apparently I'm one of the few that likes the idea of Apple's next notebook having exclusively Type C ports.
That game looks pretty neat. You just sold a copy :) But it's a game I've never heard of before, and I'm pretty good about checking the new games lists on the App Store each week. So I think the takeaway from this shouldn't be that premium games (is $2.99 really "premium"?) don't work, but rather that you can't rely on free marketing to sell your game. Once a game falls off the lists, it's pretty hard for people to stumble across it unless they're looking for it specifically.
Something I learned a long time ago is this: if someone claims to have a proof, trying following the same proof in a different case where the conclusion is actually false, and see where their "proof" fails.

So let's try applying your reasoning to the example given in the linked article. There it shows that in the integers extended by sqrt(-5) we have 2x3=(1-sqrt(5))x(1+sqrt(5)). So using your specific reasoning:

Let's take n=6

f1 : 2 x 3
f2 : (1-sqrt(5)) x (1+sqrt(5))
p : 2
m : 3

You now say:

f2 does not contain p, ...

Correct.

... and we cannot construct a prime p
from other primes or composites.

True.

This means that f2 cannot be evenly
divisible by p, as that would require
it to have a prime factor of p which
it does not.

But f2 is evenly divisible by p, despite not including p in the list of primes being multiplied together to give n. So your line of logic fails at this point.

This is actually assuming (something equivalent to) the FTA. The example shows a case where f2 is evenly divisible by p, so your deduction here is wrong.

It is subtle.
I'm curious how you unpacked this post and came to the conclusion it was a treatise on anti-commercialism?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11755522
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19011
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19010

here you are :)

Yes I think for most software waiting for the .1 release is mostly safe.

Thanks a lot once again for the deployement process of gitlab, just having to do apt-get update/upgrade is such a wonderful things, most of project should learn from you, as too often in companies you start to freeze at one version, because the upgrade process is too much mind taking and soon nobody remember how exactly one can upgrade it.
Dynamic structures in C++
I don't identify with this at all. One of the first things I started asking for at my most recent job was a better, more clearly-defined process so that we knew exactly what we were building, what it needed to accomplish and what does "finished" mean. I largely got what I was asking for. Its made our engineering team a lot more focused and enabled us to deliver faster than we were before. It also makes it easy to figure out what to work on next.

Maybe the difference for me is that software engineering is my job, not my lifestyle or identity. I don't know.
Right, because a non-falsifiable statement is a fools errand to try to prove wrong.
The basic objection here -- that Musk misunderstands the nature of simulation on a philosophical-technical level, and that even if our existence was simulated, it is still as meaningful as it would be if it weren't -- is nicely written and argued, but it feels woefully irrelevant to the debate. The author has done nothing to address the fundamental probabilistic argument that Musk uses in favor of simulation. This article is mostly an attack on definitions, not one on substance.
This is for future use . . . Imagine an "internet of things" where the things are space probes spread throughout the solar system, landers on other planets, and so on. Because of light speed delays, as well as availability issues due to the satellite being in the other side of the planet, for example, new protocols and techniques are required to ensure reliable communications.
> f2 does not contain p, and we cannot construct a prime p from other primes or composites. This means that f2 cannot be evenly divisible by p, as that would require it to have a prime factor of p which it does not.

No it doesn't. Suppose p, m, q and r are (distinct) primes where f1 = p * m, f2 = q * r. Then why can't you have (q * r) / p = m? The fundamental theorem of arithmetic says you can't, but you are trying to prove that.
Hugged to death by HN...
They also show on every single app whether or not it has IAP (and you can see what the IAP is with a tap), so you can do your own filtering when looking at the new games list if that's an important criteria.
This is exactly why the use of a remote server exists in so many IoT devices. Widely deployed home APs, even in USA, come with device isolation on by default or even not disableable.
NBA 2K16, Bloons TD 5, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Terraria, Geometry Dash, Trivia Crack, Heads Up!, Neo Monsters & Plague Inc. also made it into top 200 grossing games in Q1 in US on iPhone.

Worldwide wise, paid games are doing worse off overall -- so US is over-indexing on paid games compared to the rest of the world.
The submitted article talks about attempts to design a minimal set of genes, but they kept failing. The difficulty with your comment is it sounds like you're dismissing the work; I'm sure they are aware of that paper and its lessons. They tried working in that direction and failed.
Wait a second:

" the first non-iOS game I did after spending two years on iOS, released on a Sony handheld that many describe as being “obscure”, generated literally thousands of times more income for us than two years and ten games on iOS with its potential billions of users."

What was the platform? I wonder if there is a strategy to be carved out making games for Windows 10, Linux mobile, etc.
I don't know. The definition of "life" seems so arbitrary and nebulous. It seems really more like we're trying to attribute properties based on a wishful interpretation of emergent behaviour that ultimately boils down to extremely convoluted chemical reactions.

Trying to produce genuinely novel and distinct biological lifeforms sounds cool enough on its own though.
Let's assume it's feasible to run this kind of simulation in the future. Wouldn't this be unethical and hence probably illegal, making it less likely?
That's probably not going to be effective. Look at devices with cheap universal motors and the like. They spew out tons of noise and a lot of them have a filter on the input to cut down on noise but as far as decreasing wasted power, the RF noise is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the total power of whatever power tool or vacuum we're talking about. Also, the filter that they put on the input to try to combat this doesn't increase the efficiency of the device. If anything, I'd be afraid that there would be design changes to decrease the thermal losses of a device even if it increased the noise it put out.
Website seems down (connection refused).
Did you use any network library (aside from native, I mean)?
SoundCloud new suggested tracks feature
Oh, yes, absolutely. I think it's a fantastic feature. Just one whose existence I hadn't even considered until it was demonstrated to me.
This guy basically is saying "the world we live in is physical, because well.. it is physical!". How does someone like this become a professor and publish books?

I have no problem someone saying "it is very likely we live in a simulation" because it's an opinion and he's not trying to hide the fact that it's just an opinion.

But saying stuff like "THAT IS WRONG" and "It's conceptually and empirically incorrect" is really amateur.

By the way does this guy even know what "empirically" means? Our experience is nothing more than what we perceive as human beings, and there's plenty of evidence that supports that what we perceive is not necessarily the reality. And this guy is saying "it's empirically wrong". It is impossible to prove a philosophical theory "empirically wrong".
a bit off topic.
Why can't somebody sell a reasonably priced Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosure. Oh right intel's certification process takes several months... All in the name of quality assurance yet most thunderbolt 3 products feel subpar considering their price.
Soccer mom is an accepted phrase with known meaning. "Soccer parent" isn't.
Downloading pirated torrent is unethical and probably illegal, but tons of people still use it. So I think "less likely" is not really the case. People will do anything as long as there's value.
The Vita. A "dying" console. It's actually the best handheld gaming device I've ever owned.
SellerHQ: Why and how we built our own marketplace platform
I can definitely see where you're coming from, but I would have still gambled if I had been in your position :)
Is the website actually the URL shortener, or some other stack? I think it's highly unlikely HN just C10K'd them.
Why would it be unethical or illegal? You are also basing the fact that the simulation is run by humans or any other entities with a social structure and a grasp on what we call "morality".

If we are living in a simulation morally it is not much different than the SIMS or minecraft...
Make and Go for fun and profit
Yes, I don't see this as a "rant against commercialism" at all. There are some very specific criticisms being made about one company's approach. The author seems to think non-profits do one particular task better than for profits, but that's not criticism against "commercialism" as a whole.

Further, its clear that this is a carefully considered position being presented in this blog. Why would anyone call such "a rant"?
Well, no, Chomsky's problem with statistical models is that they are based on data.

Chomsky is a Grand System Builder in the style of the medieval and renaissance thinkers. Data is, at best, irrelevant and, at worst, a confusing distraction that gets in the way of his program, which is elaborating on his system, basing it entirely on intuition.

One advantage of such grand systems is that they can be made to look like the mathematical model, based on "intuitively obvious" axioms and built by thinking deeply in the comfort of one's armchair.
This is a really great idea, especially when done right. The difficulty with machine learning and AI is understanding the pitfalls inherent in selecting data and training systems. You can fool yourself pretty easily into thinking you've got something that works when you really don't. That said it sounds like they're doing things well, I have no doubt this will have a positive impact in demystifying the "magic" of ML/AI and making all those Google products I use better!
To add to this, the whole board pops out of the protective plastic enclosure with minimal effort and is pretty compact, so if you wanna build your own enclosure it's pretty easy.
"A lot of companies"? With 2+ million apps in each app store, the top 200 is still the top .01%. It does nothing to refute the idea that app store income follows a power law distribution.

Even if being in the top 5% was sustainable, that's still a far cry away from the rest of the computing field.
Wow, what an incredible way to view content!

From the awesome drone videos detailing exactly what I'm looking at, to the great writing and the animations throughout; this was awesome!
The ad agencies are safe because brand is everything to a Fortune 500 company. TV or online - doesn't really matter, since big agencies are on a retainer and considered a department of a corporation or brand. Most of that coin goes on strategy, so the media spend on TV isn't really that big a deal. I know that's not the thrust of your comments, but I think needed it probably needs to be added.

As for what TV gets replaced with - well I believe we're in a kind of awkward patch between platforms at present. One AR matures and reaches a critical mass it will set the course for the next couple of generations of advertising.
Next Nissan Leaf confirmed for 60-kwh battery, 200 miles of range
I was fortunate to grow up during a time when Alan Kay was a well-known figure in the personal computing world, and while what he said didn't make sense to me at the time, it still interested me intensely, and I always wondered what he meant by what he said. Strangely enough, looking back on my younger experience with computers, I think I actually did get a little bit of what he was talking about. It's just that I came to understand that little bit independently from listening to him. I didn't realize he was talking about the same thing. It wasn't until I got older, and got to finally see his talks through internet video that I finally started seeing that, and realizing more things by listening to him at length. Having the chance to correspond with him, talk about those things more in-depth, helped as well.

The way I look at it is just take in how fortunate you are to have your realizations when you have them (I've had my regrets, too, that I didn't "get" them sooner), and take advantage of them as much as you can. That's what I've tried to do.
Today, right now, there already are terrible biohazards on every subway car. Have you ever touched one of those poles? Truly frightening.

They say you're not a "real New Yorker" (whatever that means) until you've lost a finger to the subway pole bacteria...
the URL creation and the browsing of a short URL definitely works fast, I guess this being on the front page is a cheap way to verify if the C10k claims are true!
t2.nano has CPU credits, they may have gotten spent and we're now seeing the results of throttling (limit on % cpu allowed to use)
SBT's IDE support isn't great by any means, but it's way ahead of what I've ever seen with Gradle.
I repair old pinball machines for fun and you pretty much need to replace every capacitor in them due to age - anything over 5-10 years old, even if working, is a time bomb waiting to go off.
Maybe the difference is also what you are working on, or the stage the project is in. Or the level of understanding of the business requirements from everyone involved.

However, this case appears to be micromanagement, pure and simple. Micromanagement is "way too much of a good thing".

EDIT: Don't forget the pie-in-the-sky requirements. If you have sane and straightforward requirements, then you can usually break them down without too much drama. But, if they are that simple to break down, should they even be?
Sure you can, just buy a new Apple-specific adapter for $30!
I've seen other indie game developers say that they made decent money on the Vita: Vita owners are a small market, but they're very active and prepared to spend money.
Read the rest of his blog, you'll be even more disappointed.
I thought it was because of some weird laws coming through to limit small commercial gardening through licensing, and it blew totally out of proportion as people misunderstood it.
looks interesting, funny that you use Google Form for adding new hacks. Because the overall website looks elegant, Google Forms not so.
Nice collection!
I'm reminded of the title-text from this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/947/

"But Einstein said that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe, and I take all my investment advice from flippant remarks by theoretical physicists making small talk at parties."

Musk's comments get held to ludicrously high standards because it's sensational to write headlines like "Elon is wrong."
It would be very easy for a single unskilled attacker to kill upwards of 20 people using a conventional firearm or stuff that can be found at any hardware store.

I'd estimate that such an attack would result in the subway being closed for weeks, particularly if several happened successfully a few days apart.

Similarly, small explosions dispersing any remotely harmful smoke or chemicals (even chemicals that are easy to obtain) would be amplified by media coverage, and politicians would close the subways as a knee-jerk response.

Sure, an actual banned bioweapon/chemical would be worse, but my point is that terrorism (the tactic not the alleged existential threat) works because it requires little skill, technology, or access to difficult-to-obtain materials to create fear.
I think your severely mis-interpreting what I'm saying.

> Meanwhile, are you sure that you 100% definitely want non-technical users who plug in the device and never want to take any further action, to ever enjoy the benefits of any automatic upgrade they don't need to know or touch or think about? You want to monopolize upgrades for hackers, and deny them to 99.999% of world's population, right?

I never said nobody else can upgrade, or that having cloud services (for things like upgrades) available are a bad thing. What I want is a device that doesn't assume it will be connected to the cloud, and doesn't lose any usability if it's not connected to the cloud. I think the best option would be a product that has both: Cloud services, and standalone services, and "home-cloud" services that I can install on my own home server.

> The default settings should have an option "Stay on latest version. Upgrades will be applied automatically." You as a hacker can turn it off to instead get the behavior you suggest.

I absolutely agree. By default I think auto-upgrades are a good thing. But I want to have the final control to turn those off if I want.

I actually really like your idea for how upgrades should be applied. I don't think it's the opposite of my desires though.
> In Germany by law every car needs to inspected every two years by the TÜV. Cars are highly regulated in terms of what modifications you may perform on them and anything even slightly significant requires approval.

Is this a German thing or an EU thing?

Because in Spain you have to pass the ITV every to years until the car has 10 years and then, every year.

And almost any modification has to pass that inspection
Fresh water isn't a closed system such that sullying water ruins it for next year. Limitations on fresh water come from the amount of rainfall, which is a conversion process being sourced from the essentially infinite ocean. If you waste some of this year's water, this year's crops might suffer but nothing permanent has happened.
Well it is entirely possible that a single HN user C10K'd them
Seems great and performant, but not productized. Seems like things are hard-coded in the c code. For example...

What are the api endpoints? docs? Can you view a list of all shortened urls? Can you delete shortened urls?

Can you change the base domain of lon.gs?
U2F support, finally! Although, there's no way to remove a device if I lose it, that sounds like quite the security risk...