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Is it actually a poparul game? I've never heard of it...
+1 for team browserify. It's sad that it appears to be way less popular. Webpack is too much of a magical black box for my tastes.
In which case that liability does not transfer and all the people here subtracting Alibaba's asset value without subtracting that liability are wrong.
>I want to fix something that's manifestly broken. I envy Elon Musk above all others, because he's seen terribly important things that were very broken, and had what it took to break all barriers to fixing them.

Here is the thing though: Elon didn't pop into existence as the founder of SpaceX or Telsa, or being involved in PayPal.

The way I see it is that he didn't just take the steps to break through the barriers, he took all the steps to get to the barrier.

No one glamorizes what it takes to get to being where Elon is (ok, maybe not a lot of people) but you have to start somewhere.

Sure. Writing an app isn't going to save the world, but maybe if you can fix just one little bitty problem (even if it is just other people's boredom!), maybe you can take that little bit of leverage / money / whatever to move on to something even bigger, ad infinitum. :)
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I'm just coming out of a long period of "stuckness." I work in software development, but definitely feel the way you feel about my work.

For me, the lack of autonomy and freedom and everything that comes along with having a normal job feels repressive. I was an artist and musician, and I gave up, because "there's no money in it." Now I make money, but I'm sad.

I came to my wit's end. This week, I started writing on Medium. I write one story a day. I get up at 6AM, pound out a thousand words, and publish. I also started going to the gym.

I can tell you that this has made a world of difference. I feel like I have a little bit of control over something. My job isn't the only important thing about me. I'm a writer now. I will never tell anyone, "I'm a software developer." I will say, "I am a writer."

I've also started having more, and better ideas. I think that writing and having ideas can open up the whole world to us. Time will tell.

Eventually, I'd like to become self-sufficient and fire my employer.

I think if you begin to do something that stimulates you every day, you will feel less stuck. It needs to be something that you do for yourself, and only for yourself. Maybe you can take your lunch-break every day for a few weeks, and write a bunch of business ideas down. Or maybe you can compile a reading list of books that you are interested in, and read one a week.

I think if you try it, opportunities will present themselves.

Of course, advice is worth what you pay for it, but this is what works for me.
The important thing is that new users need a zero configuration way in to the technology.

Once you have done some coding, found your feet and stepped up a few levels of comfort and understanding, then sure thing, start venturing out into the world of configuration via "eject".

I think it's a good thing that it is pure zero configuration. If you want to configure then you have graduated.
Amazon did make a phone and it didn't take off.
Similar concerns were raised a couple of years ago when Yahoo thought (foolishly) that it would be a good idea to "recycle" email addresses:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/20/tech/web/yahoo-recycled-email/
This is the 1st use case I have seen where microservices are starting to make sense.

My question is what about network security ? How is that part managed ?
add another dimension allowing the gyros to move freely stead being fixed within a cube and even more freedom to alter the center of mass could be achieved

It's the fact that it is fixed within the cube that allows it to move the cm. That only happens because of the reaction force it can exert against the ground. In the absence of external forces the cm won't move (strictly, won't accelerate). In a sense this is a tautology.

So it's not an uncalculated motion that can alter the motion of the c.m., it's an unaccounted for force.

When "dark matter" arrived on the scene it was a catch-all for matter we couldn't see. It's only when the explanations for "normal matter hidden from view" fell one-by-one that dark matter took on exotic properties. (In other words, super-smart people have already done the math on hidden galaxies of brown dwarfs and neutron stars being the source of the gravity).

I'm betting that if there is a revolutionary simplification to it all, it is because fundamental constants are changing with time. Thus redshift, as ars also speculates, isn't a true measure of velocity. But I understand that super-smart people are doing the measurements on this as well and are finding no changes.
Everyday chemicals may be messing up our microbiomes
it's at

https://www.classes.cs.uchicago.edu/archive/2015/winter/2230...

You are right FRP is gone now, but still they talk about Functional Data Structures which are not going to change anytime soon.
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is it "most downloaded app in the first week" active? Definitely 3 IMHO
When I write "2.5 mm" this is not narrative. If you want to explain "2.5 mm" without using text, how would you do that? The only way to do it is to use something literal from the real world. That's what we're talking about when we're comparing blueprints to programming. I think the word is literal. Can't avoid the need for text when it's precision we're after.
Sure, we agree the code is not the important thing, but that's a very oblique point.

Where I disagree is that "removing the code" will help someone gain better understanding. It might help them dip their feet in and get at the core of what's important (hence MIT using scheme for its intro CS class for 30 years). However as soon as someone passes the beginner phase, the difficult thing is expressing the ideas succinctly and unambiguously. That's exactly what programming languages do.

A good analogy might be mathematics notation. You can explain basic math without any notation, but as soon as you get to more complex stuff you need the notation to help you reason about it and encapsulate the ideas succinctly. Similarly, graphical programming environments can do a ton of useful stuff (HyperCard is what got me into programming at the age of 10), but they will always always hit a wall (until true human-level AI anyway). The author definitely doesn't get that part.
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My project: https://batterybarpro.com

Freemium model, $4 for a Pro license, ~$1500/mn consistently for the last 6 years.
And as usual, that doesn't make it right.

- x is doing something bad
- x is allowed to do that
- that doesn't make it right

The HN comment circle of life
To be fair, it didn't really emulate the gameboy one either. Very different gameplay.
Having a consistent API with ember-cli will make this more useful.

$ react-cli <>
The company has to communicate that the data is restricted, they can't just deem it restricted after the fact. Usually when companies or individuals (eg. 3Taps & Aaron Swartz) have gotten in trouble under the CFAA, it's been because they've been served a C&D or IP-blocked and then persist in accessing the data, which the courts have upheld as "knowingly and intentionally accessing a computer without authorization".

In this case, WeWork is within their rights to terminate ThinkNum's membership for the ToS violation, but there's no legal case unless ThinkNum persists in scraping WeWork's data after the termination, or there's evidence that ThinkNum knew that the API was restricted at the time they accessed it. Hence the founder's repeated insistences that he did nothing wrong, and coyness in discussing the source of the data.
DC/OS is an open source solution: https://dcos.io/
That's strange. I'm not that player level and I still easily take down the highest gyms I've seen, which are level 6-7. As long as you can beat the weakest monster in the gym you can attack over and over until the prestige is low enough that there is only one monster in the gym. At that point it is easy to defeat even a 2,500CP Dragonite with 6 crappy Gobats since you have 6 shots to wear him down.

The only limiting factor for taking down gyms for me is the number of potions I have. I usually only fight with half dead monsters so I can use revives instead, then I use potions for the one that I put in as a defender to conserve potions.
Actually, this is not a new idea. Entire block of IP adresses are known to have been highjacked this way and are now used for spam purposes. Squatters reclaim the block with various ploys including registering an abandoned domain name to accept email to the point-of-contact domain contact. [0]

[0] https://www.spamhaus.org/faq/section/DROP%20FAQ#258
Alternatively titled: "How to build a desk toy that functions better as a conversation piece than a practical replacement for a Hyper-V/Xen lab"
> I'm sick of the "storage is insanely cheap" refrain from FLAC proponents.

It is insanely cheap.

> Practically speaking, for a MacBook this means going to the 512 GB storage model instead of the 256 GB storage model, which is an extra $300.

That's really a issue related to buying and owning a Apple laptop rather then FLAC being too big. You bought something with very limited capacity that costs a huge amount of money to expand.

3TB drives are now about $100. That's _cheap_.

> Yes, let's not have people transcode music needlessly.

I transcode _all_the_time.

It's fun.

Why? Because my music I care about is in flac. So if I want mp3 I can have mp3. If I want AAC I can have AAC. If I want Opus, then everything can be had in Opus.

Some devices don't like AAC. Some don't like MP3 VBR. Many can't play Vorbis, and very few like Opus. But none of that matters to me.

I can stream to my phone over cell network without any major expense because now I can use Opus running at 60Kb/s to match what I used to get with MP3 at 128Kb/s

If I followed your thinking then I would have a great amount of my stuff in 256 Kb/s VBR MP3 LAME, because that was the best and most compatible technology for a long time.

Now where would I be?
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Find something from your childhood that you wanted to do, but didn't because of what ever reason. For me, it was learning Japanese.
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js-non-window basically means "extensions and the browser UI itself".
Only for those used to ember-cli. For the huge majority this is irrelevant.
> Shows you just how much pent up demand there was for Nintendo to release games on mobile.

Does it? My impression is that there's a lot more people playing Pokemon Go than there are Pokemon fans. The IP no doubt helped, but I don't think that you can just release any Nintendo IP on mobile and instantly have the massive virality success of Pokemon Go. There's something more to it than that.
Ask HN: What is your goto site for market statistics? For ex,number of day cares
What sites do you use for market research? Is it random news articles pieced together or do you know specific sites. For example, if you want to know how many child day cares exist and how much they pay the teachers, what websites do you use to find the data? Or for example, how many iphone cases/covers have been sold is last one year? Any site dedicated to statistics/discussions like this?
My question is how is drawing rather than writing simplifying anything i.e. what is the gain from moving from traditional programming to some sort of theoretical picture programming? Is it that you can draw lines between things rather than just assuming that the line from one symbol points to the next symbol on the line? Does that simplify things, or make them more complicated?

> we know that we can create tools that translate designs into executable code that can be less error-prone and more reliable than people typing letters into a text editor.

I disagree. Maybe you know, but I haven't seen any indication of the sort.
This would have been better written in Ru-

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I love the Humble store. I got really worried after learning about these second hand key stores and fraud, that this might be a venue by which they acquired the keys with stolen credit cards. Glad to know that the Humble Store isn't merely aware of this practice but actively taking steps to stop it.
I appreciate the insight I wish stories like these could have been present in more of the discussions regarding Yahoo that I've been reading. Maybe ending telecommuting was the right call. But it seems to me that systemic laziness in engineering circles are not the product of location but rather the product of process, review, and so forth. Perhaps also recruitment and management were very ineffective as well.
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I contend that a snob is a person who has an articulable reason why they don't like something. Hopefully this isn't too obscure of a reference, but for example I don't like Primus not because they suck, but because I don't like the drummer's snare sound. This makes me a snob about Primus' music.
When I first heard that multiple players can fight in the same gym battle instance, I got excited with the hope that there might be the conventional raid versus boss combat mechanics present - a main tank, positioning being important, taunts and so on.

Of course gym battles are a lot more simple and fixing the many issues both combat-wise and in general take priority compared to adding such mechanics in.
> I think the React team needs to take a little more responsibility for the eco-system it created. You can't call it just a view library when most use cases use it to develop entire applications.

This is the reason I've embraced React. No, Facebook doesn't dictate how React fits into the rest of your app, and yes, it requires more effort up front to fit the pieces together. But judging by the popularity of React vs. kitchen-sink frameworks like Ember/React/etc., many developers seem willing to invest this effort.

Another comment here mentions Django; clearly some developers prefer the batteries included approach, but others don't. Is one preference right and the other wrong? Is any developer that doesn't adhere to your preference not taking "responsibility"?
Lossless and lossy compression have different use cases. Hell, even different kinds of lossy compression could have different use cases, for example encoding for voice vs music. Though offhand I can't think of any lossy use-case which Opus is not currently best for.
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That's because history books tend to cover exciting events, and not the daily doldrums of life. Revolution and war typically have long preambles, most of which gets glossed over in favor of the actual event itself. The Cold War was a decades-long preamble that failed to lead to an actual war, and that was far from being stagnant.

Society is ever-changing, but often in subtle ways that eventually coalesce to the "big-bang" event written about in history books. Much in the same way as technology -- it took many incremental improvements to many technologies to finally allow Apple to build the iPhone.
"I don't think we can distinguish text and pictures so easily. Look at Chinese, look at Egytian hieroglyphs."

My understanding is linguistics research has pretty thoroughly debunked this idea.

Don't remember the experimental design (was a long time ago, sorry), but I believe a study showed Chinese readers basically translate the characters back into the sounds of spoken language in their heads, before any processing of meaning takes place. In other words, pictographic mnemonics may be helpful when first learning the characters, but play no role for a fluent reader.

I suspect a similar thing will be true with programming for a long time to come. Even if you try to replace keyboard characters with other icons, it will be just substituting one arbitrary association between symbols and meaning with another. (Which is basically what language boils down to, anyway.)
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I wonder why Google Compute charges a minimum of ten minutes to spin up an instance. I understand there is some setup cost, but ten minutes is $0.00056 for the cheapest (f1-micro) instance [1]. I know this sounds sort of cheap, but that's the cost just to deliver the interface (the VM) that is going to be used. That's a relatively large amount of money to spend on not having any work done at all yet. A diskless VM, which can just send data for storage to a database over HTTP, shouldn't require much setup work, as it really just is the execution of CPU instructions (with the OS being the CPU interface rather than JavaScript).

Couldn't someone write a virtualized VM that runs inside Lambda, thus providing zero (or Lambda-equivalent) startup costs for generic VMs? Then the VM would just be a function running inside Lambda, transforming incoming user data and then storing the result in a database, after which it would disappear.

Or maybe the OS just is the problem? One model of bypassing it is Lambda-like services, which would be the more centralized solution, while the more decentralized solution (of the two) would be bare metal/unikernels, which basically achieve the same thing: (close to) zero startup time/cost (~30 ms for a HaLVM unikernel).

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#billingmodel
I feel slightly better about this with the knowledge that the office of the president of the US is primarily a status-quo-preserving institution.

The interest groups that care generally want the status quo preserved.

If Trump is not destined to do this, then I think there is little danger he'll be elected.

Note, the same applies to HRC.
Pokemon emulators have been available on mobile for a very long time. While I agree with most of what you're saying I think the phenomenon is more complex then just throwing something on the app store finally.
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My original comment was not an ideological battle. It was purely factual. Someone suggested it was too political (or had political motives), and I replied that I wouldn't pretend I'm not political or that the topic isn't political. Plain facts (in this case that Germany has free education and that it creates opportunities) can be highly politically charged, and I don't see that as a reason to shy away from them.
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Please Dan keep it zero configuration.

If a person knows enough to want to configure, then they have learned enough to venture out on their own via eject.

The difference in cognitive load between "zero config" and "some config" is enormous.

"zero configuration" === minimal mental model, no scope for misunderstandings, misconfigurations, minimal documentation, almost no scope for user errors and also minimal learning time

"some configuration" - even one single switch/option === learning the mental model, understanding, version problems with the old way of configuring, documentation of configuration, potential for errors, old & out of date blog posts on the Internt telling how to do it the old way, beginner pain

You will come under constant pressure from people who want to add "just this one teensy option" and will criticize the project for not having it. Resist the criticism - beginners need zero config.

The root of all evil in JavaScript development and build systems is configuration.
The science of finding out the (pre-)historic earthquake history is called 'paleoseismology'. You can read about it from a variety of sources.

In most instances the earthquakes are dated by finding carbon-bearing material in deposits that look like they were created during the earthquake, and doing radiocarbon dating of them. The ages may be bracketed by radiocarbon dating of sediments that were clearly broken by the earthquake (and are therefore older) and ones that overlie the broken rocks (and are therefore younger).

In a few other instances, earthquakes can be dated by tree-ring dating; for example during big subduction zone earthquakes, the coast often subsides by a meter or two, which will put some forested beaches under sea level (or at least high tide level) and kill all of the trees that can't deal with salt water.

In others, the dates of sediment layers broken or caused by earthquakes can be dated through other means, or correlated with climate events of known time.

Some example of deformed and undeformed sediments in the Wrightwood trench site on the San Andreas is here[0,1]. [2] is from the nearby San Jacinto fault. [3] has a lot of images. [4] is a good introduction to the science with good pictures.

[0]: http://www.bssaonline.org/content/97/4/1054/F14.large.jpg
[1]: http://www.bssaonline.org/content/92/7/2726/F11.large.jpg
[2]: http://lithosphere.gsapubs.org/content/7/3/211/F6.large.jpg
[3]: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/external/reports/04HQGR0...
[4]: http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic988563.files/EPS2...
Yes! I applaud this attitude of Elm, of keep breaking the language to improve on it (It still hasn't reach 1.0).

It has the disadvantage of breaking previous code and making previous learning resources obsolete, but on the other hand, the language keeps evolving and improving.

There's an article on why they changed from signals to commands/subscriptions. They argue that this change was needed, as signals was a concept that was hard and could be make unnecessary by the new system, which was easier.
Level 23? How many hours did you put in that?
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The grandparent's explanation seems correct.

I think the problem stems from considering the running on server and client as the entities, rather than the representation produced on the server and reinstantiated on the client as something that can be manipulated.
How would it become more useful / what is more useful about it, and for who?
That statement is wrong on so many levels.
"Going to church" is much more than worship of a god-being. Being part of a community is important. Church helps with that.
Yes busses blow up in Israel, markets blow up in Iraq, and schools get blown up in Syria because of news papers.
They got evicted "effective immediately", not at the end of their 1 month term. This is not a refusal to renew, which I expect requires some amount of notice greater than 30 minutes.
In 2008 with php and ajax
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You will hate it if you are the developer/QA person. You will love it if you are the manager.
This is pretty much like the drug war. El Chapo's interview was extremely insightful in this regard. He basically asked if he going to jail had any impact on the drug trade in first place. The answer is resoundingly NO. There is a huge market for drugs and if not El Chapo, Chloe Epa would take it over. Same goes for torrents. They will always exist, American law thugs just want to justify their own existence jailing some.
Coincidentally, the Rimworld developers recently got hit with this type of fraud: https://ludeon.com/blog/2016/07/steam-key-giving-stopped-for...