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The trouble with lobbying is - where do you draw the line?

Do I, an individual citizen, have a right to petition my elected representatives?

Do I, an individual citizen, have a right to organize with fellow citizens to petition my elected representatives?

Do I, an individual citizen, who owns a business, have a right to organize with fellow citizens who own similar businesses to petition my representatives?

The problem with lobbying is a fundamental issue with representative democracy, not with the American political system. Lobbying by monied interests is simply more overt in the American system. I can't think of a Western democracy where industry interests don't have a huge say in the legislative and even executive processes. From the perspective of the politician, they are looking out for their constituents by helping out industrial interests, because in their eyes, that means jobs and development.

I agree there is a huge problem with the outsized influence of industry in the political realm, but I think it's a very complicated problem to untangle. The only way we have to fight it is to organize ourselves, which is usually extremely difficult.
I wish I could see the exact moment Denton realized his glibness would help cause the destruction of the business he created.
Please note that the current actual pricing to purchase the game is $45 for the single-player campaign (Squadron 42), $45 for the MMO portion (Star Citizen), or $60 to purchase them together. All other packages that are listed, such as the various ships, are there to allow backers to help fund the game further.

Also, CIG is currently streaming live gameplay from Gamescom, and will be doing a presentation on Friday where they plan to show off upcoming aspects such as procedurally-generated planets (and possibly the Star Marine competitive FPS game mode).
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That's an apple and orange comparison. Not that it isn't impressive in it's own way, but having a huge library of built in vector math and graphics primitives makes it a lot easier than doing it in a language like C.
For non-browser content it would be hard to beat Calibre for ebook creation. If you can get the content out of email and into the file system you could even script the Calibre conversion.
Tools drive everything in games. Your normal AAA team structure is something along the lines of 1:10 dev:art/design. Every improvement you make in tools has a 10x factor in the people using it.

Additionally everything about game development is about iteration. No one really knows what's fun(it's kinda one of those things where "I know what it is when I see it"). So the core of gamedev is iterating and trying as many crazy ideas as you can until something sticks. The right tools that enable that rapid iteration are critical. The faster you can make changes the more shots you get at capturing that lightning in the bottle(which is why 10% of games make 90% of the revenue).
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> Any organization which does not take government money is just a consumer of government services.

From the above comment:

>bail bond companies, criminal defense attorneys

>any company that derives most of its revenue from selling goods or services to ... inmates, or criminal defendants

All of those take no government money in the strictest sense.
"Around half the country" is an exaggeration. Even with a two-party system, in modern history no candidate has achieved the outright support of anything approaching half of the US population.

Consider that only a portion of the population is eligible and registered to vote, and even among them voter turnout is relatively low in this country. And then there's always a segment of undecided voters who just make a choice on election day, without supporting either candidate prior to that.

In this specific case, add to the math that Trump is doing poorly in recent polls, and is disliked by an unprecedented percentage of his own party.

Math aside, given the sheer number of disturbing, extreme things Trump has advocated over the past couple years... if Thiel supports Trump enough to give an endorsement at the GOP convention, this certainly seems to condone his behavior, which in my mind is a pretty extreme position.
I think the word you're looking for is "basic arithmetic literacy". This should be obvious by the fact that it turns out the 100 million figure is for worldwide visits to stores, and only something like 40% of Walmart stores are even in the US. For those of us who aren't hobbled by a desperate need to be offended, little arithmetic spot-checks like the GP comment's are actually useful (in this case, revealing that his assumption of US-only visitors was flawed).
That was a great article.
Even they can be bought unfortunately... example: thepiratebay :/
Some even argue that the randomness of football (which Americans know by riddiculous name "soccer") is the main factor that makes it the single most popular sport in the world. Some unlucky events end up being remembered for generations.

For example people in Poland are still discussing over the beer whether we would have been world champions if only it hasn't been raining so heaviliy during Poland - West Germany semi-final in 1974.

P.S English is not my language and I'm pretty sure I messed up with conditionals, hope you still get what I meant in the last sentence.
Have a look into the Barrier Fund (was the Vice Fund), and clones: http://vicefund.com

> The Barrier Fund will concentrate its net assets in industries that have significant barriers to entry including the alcoholic beverages, tobacco, gaming and defense/aerospace industries.
Every self-driving car on the road is automatically remapping everything. Any discrepancies, like a new pothole or a disappearing tree, can be reported to the mothership for resolution and pushing out to all the other cars in the area.
Like any engine, Unity has its unique advantages and drawbacks. A small dev team can cover a lot of ground using Unity, and some programming tasks are actually quite pleasant with it. Some people have asserted in this thread that Unity's performance is deficient, but it's easy to write games that run smoothly on a large gamut of devices, whereas UnrealEngine's IDE and even almost empty scenes made with it run at 5fps on my maxed-out 2012 iMac. It might scale better, but Unity beats it handsdown in most low and medium complexity workloads.

These are reasons why Unity is well liked among indies, and not necessarily only among non-technical people either. But if you have many millions to burn, other engines give you more room for customization, have more high-class sales teams, and have a workflow that is optimized to be familiar to artists with a AAA background.
Mostly the new software render, which can run without OpenGL.
> Now, freight and commercial trucks are effectively the biggest contributor to this tax plus they have to pay for weight.

That makes sense, since the road wear increases superlinearly with the vehicle weight - so commercial trucks are also the one generating most road maintenance costs.
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Sure, there are different ways to do various things, especially depending on what one is familiar with and what the task at hand is. It sounds more like you knew how to get something done with your tools faster than the other guy/gal in this case. :)
Before the web, software publishing was inconvenient, both for users and developers: copying listings from magazines, mailing floppy discs & CDs, finding that there is a bad sector on disk #52 of your Linux distribution...

But once you had the software, you could use it on your local data, fully under your control.

The Web changed that landscape dramatically: it is arguably the platform with the lowest barrier to entry for all parties. Unfortunately this has been abused by huge siloed services. They are attractive because they are free, and ... actually useful, but they make you lose control over your data, how you can process and manage it.

Sandstorm aims at fixing that imbalance, putting back the user in control, as do a few other "easy self hosting" systems.
Dosage seems to be more like a pseudo-RSS-client that relies on scraping cronjobs (for following live content that doesn't have an RSS feed; somewhat like what Dapper used to do) rather than a batch site-mirror-to-single-document transformer. I want this extension not for the new pages just coming out now, but rather to more comfortably go through the ten years of pages of something that have already built up (on my phone with a reflowed mobile layout†, and still available when offline.)

Side-note: webcomic authors have realized that there's a market for physical book-prints of their work, but they're ignoring the fact that people like me would gladly buy a digital version of the same book from the Kindle or iBooks store—even though we can read the individual pages online. People are willing to pay for convenience!

† And speaking of reflowed mobile layouts, I wish every webcomic reflowed the way Dinosaur Comics does (http://qwantz.com/index.php?mobile=1). It wouldn't work for those special "frame-boundary-breaking" art techniques, but most comics don't even use those.
Consider the alternative. Can the government decide that the videotape of a prominent opposition leader (or a leader of a social movement) having sex with his mistress is "newsworthy" material and surreptitiously deliver it to reporters?

Why or why not?

We can't abolish laws solely based on objection that the government can hypothetically abuse it. The government can easily abuse the absence of law, after all.
Making ASP.NET Apps First-Class Citizens on Google Cloud Platform
(Article author here.)

> I think decentralization is also about Users own/control their data.

Of course. I'm arguing, though, that while user control of data is important, software and developer diversity is more important. I realize this is likely to be a controversial claim. :)

> [If] I'm not able to easy move my old runs to new app then diversity is nothing.

Depends. The fact that I have many (old) documents in Google Docs doesn't prevent me from using Etherpad today, even though there's currently no automated migration. Also, quite a few services do actually provide data export and API access that could be used for export, which all suggests that data mobility is not the real problem here.

Don't get me wrong: I obviously think data mobility is important. But I don't think approaches like solid.mit.edu -- which seems to focus entirely on data mobility and storage rather than compute -- will actually fix very much if there's still a very high barrier to entry to software delivery.

Incidentally, Sandstorm's fine-grained containerization approach (https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works) makes it easy to use a new app for new data while keeping your existing app for old data, while still getting a unified experience. You can have repositories in Gitweb and Gitlab side-by-side on the same server, for example. And, of course, moving data between physical servers is completely independent of moving data between apps on Sandstorm. So you end up with a situation where you can move between apps and servers without really needing a way to migrate data, which I think is, technically speaking, more realistic that expecting everyone to use standardized data formats or write good export/import code.

> "Software must be provided as a package – not as a service – with each user running their own private copy." This sounds like a going back to desktop apps. Or am I missing something?

The next line is: "It doesn't really matter if the user chooses to deploy to 'the cloud' or to their own machine, as long as they can run any package they want."
Yik Yak pivots away from anonymity, makes handles mandatory
Mod_auth_pubtkt: A Pragmatic Web Single Sign-On (SSO) Solution
The number of trucks would absolutely rise as they get cheaper to drive.

But hardly enough to keep all current drivers employed.
Personally for me I use es2015 and async/await in shell scripts since it's so close to writing sync code to me. I have an alias to my global babel so it's uber easy to transpile and run the code. I right a lot of node code for work so it's just native to me but I'd recommend others look into it. NPM is such an amazing ecosystem for it.
I haven't heard of a phone camera that can do video at 120fps, they're usually 30, maybe 60 fps. The S7 has some high framerate slow-mo option, but it's limited to a 720p resolution.
The other risk was that the entity on the other side of the bet would be wiped out in the crash and not be able to pay out.
I think bulldozer was just ahead of its time. I am fortunate to have one, and it has aged a lot better than the same-price alternatives from Intel due to the more multithreaded nature of e.g. games nowadays. That's not much comfort for AMD, since being ahead of your time is just another way to fail, but at least AMD had vision.

Mankind Divided's recommended specs are FX-8350 or i7 3770. The price difference between the two in their heyday was $100 in AMD's favor.
To me the question is will people be willing to use it? I feel like a lot of people I know are trying to disengage from FB as much as they can while keeping in touch with people. The older generation are not the ones who are going to buy a ton of games through FB and the younger gen seems mostly happy with Steam. Personally I do not see a market for this. We're not talking about web based games like back in the Farmville days.
I don't doubt that. I am particularly interested in how that mentality compares to the priorities of devs in other fields. For example, web development. I'm thinking that games development might be substantially more bespoke than webdev, necessitating the need to spend time on developing bespoke tooling?
The $30 plan with 5GB data (unlimited, but throttled afterward) and 100 minutes still exists (and I use it) -> https://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/other-prepaid-plans
I don't know where you're hearing that double precision is unrealistic. You can operate on half as many at a time, and some of the operations are slower, and some GPUs have no support for it—but if you're not using GPU acceleration, it should be possible.
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This is hilarious, a single individual can easily cripple email usage for the entirety of the US government.

HOWTO:

Step 1) Download a bunch of publicly leaked databases, i.e. linkedin.thecthulhu.com

Step 2) Extract .gov emails (~300k from the linkedin dump alone)

Step 3) Find a bunch of mailing lists off of google and write a script to automatically subscribe to them, some sites make this particularly easy by letting you subscribe to hundreds at a time.

Step 4) Fire away, tons of government employees will be having a really shitty time trying to read their emails from there on and IT departments everywhere will be swamped with complaints for the foreseeable future.
It's more like buying insurance on someone else's house, when you know they are a meth lab and the insurer doesn't.
I shouldn't comment before coffee - not grep, curl.
Why can't you ignore them? The Catholic church also has a very high number of users and you surely ignore those wrt competing with Steam. The Vatican is certainly in an even worse position to convert users to game shoppers, but I don't think that Facebook is that far ahead in this. People have pretty much stabilised in how they expect their relationship with Facebook to be and any offers to extend it to new grounds are likely to be ignored. When Farmville happened, Facebook users were a lot more experimental.
No one could publish their own book using a .book domain before either.
This is not the former, this a step in the R&D process that is working toward the latter (and can act as PR in the meantime).

I expect that "supervised by humans in the driver's seat" here means "the car is fully self-driving, but we're still doing development and testing and we don't trust it enough yet". You can test these things on private roads, but eventually you need to get them out into the real world and collect data, figure out where the failure points are, etc.

But for sure they're building a fully-autonomous no-driver-needed car, and it's not ready yet so someone has to be there to take over when it fails.
2% being big or small has nothing to do with the size of AUM. In this age of NIRP, 2% is yuuuge especially compared to costs associated with passive funds. Personally, I can see the 2 and 20 model dying within the next few years. The plebes will no longer associate hedge fund managers with the shadowy pinnacle of intellect (Limitless anyone?)
The first item you mention seems like a governance issue that can be addressed. I'm in Canada, and there are zoning regulations and five-year development guidelines, and that's it. Promoters can ask to derogate from the plan and potentially face protest, but that's only if they derogate. I rarely hear of much protest (in Montreal, at least). If they do protest, they have to protest the city, because they're the ones who approved the project (and yes, there are the occasional corruption cases and politicians who go to jail).

I don't really understand the electrical workers' union issue. Here there are provincial guidelines for safety and that's it. Construction is heavily regulated, union membership is mandatory, but it's often in the promoters' interests. The US tendency to deregulate/liberalize and let people sue each other is mind boggling sometimes.
I don't think it's too late for PowerShell, I think it's too late for UNIX. You need a big CLR ecosystem for this to play out.

If somebody resurrected Midori as a CLR Unikernel I'd be very pleased.
Yes, Office Lens is great for that. I recently switched to CamScanner, which has an even better algorithm for deskewing pages (take a pic of a receipt at an odd angle, it automatically transforms it to flat and rectangular). Pro version was on sale -- I'm not affiliated, just a happy customer and highly related to this article.
I don't understand how some people think that it's the job of a private corporation to handle social media like it's a common utility. Twitter isn't the only major social media site/app today since there's SnapChat, WeChat, Instagram, Facebook, and many more. So if you get banned on Twitter just go to another site. Hell, it's easier still to make another account (just have to be careful not to be flagged as a bot). This is why I don't cry when a person (or even I) get banned. We have the whole Internet and all it's products minus one of them.
If you only use 2GB/month, why not switch to google fi? You'll have better coverage and a lower monthly cost.
Can you share advantages or powershell improvements over Bash ? or is it kind of over-statement?
"Stealth mode" may not even be the reason they had minimal web presence. Maybe it wasn't a priority. I personally help off doing a proper website for three years and it launched last week. Mind you, I don't run a startup, so web marketing is the least of my concerns.
Oh right. Thanks for that.
One thing missing from this article is TCP heartbeats, which prevents the first two conditions from going on indefinitely.

However since the minimum allowed heartbeat is (usually) two hours host reboot/shutdown is usually detected via a heartbeat at the application layer instead, which sends some no-op traffic every n seconds or minutes.
Well, no. There can't be thousands of "the big consulting firms".

But more than that, I'm pretty sure the point of the question was to get a list of such firms (I'd like one too!), not to be assured "they're out there, even if you'll never know who they are or how to find them".
Closer to 40%
Buries the caveats a little at the end of the second paragraph: "They have yet to reassemble those pieces into a functioning E. coli."

What they actually did was make copies of the genes in E. Coli, completely remove 7/64 of the codons in those genes, replacing them with synonymous codons, then checked to see that the genes still worked. I imagine they did this by putting them into E. Coli that were missing those genes and seeing if the bacteria could survive using the new gene, but I don't have the full text so I don't know for sure.

In other words if the genome were a book, they replaced all the instances of the letter "y" with "i" and found that the book was still understandable.

It's remarkably hard to do this simple modification, but it's still a ways from completely rewriting a genome. That said, it's a very important first step and hopefully the process of stitching all these things together will be relatively pain free.
There's really just 10-50x more "content" involved in gamedev then say web development. You might have 3-4 designers on a front end where a 60M budget game will have 6-8 animators alone, not even considering environment art, character art, level design, gameplay mechanic designers, etc.

Now if you get into indie things are slightly different there but you still see just about everyone using an off-the-shelf engine because no one has the time to invest the man-years needed for proper tooling.
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As I understand it, Unity's big PR problem is that they require the Unity logo on games made with the free version, but not with the paid version. So you see lots of cheap/dodgy Unity-branded games, and never realize how many top-shelf games are also made in Unity.
The article you link to says it may be outdated :) Do you know of their current status?
> Booing happens everywhere.

And right here too.
Ask HN: How do you get on the radar of digital agencies with a product/service?
We are currently seing increased traction for our plug and play database service restdb.io, especially from digital agencies. How could we reach more of them? Target their developers?
I am not sure what to make of Orwell's essay. I think it is a fight between people v/s government and who is a winner is not clear. In USA government has massively expanded in last 100 year under so many pretexts, Americans are significantly less free and most of it seems to be achieved by government using sheer propaganda and fear mongering.

But when I look at my home country technology has helped us escape the government propaganda, understand our own history better, realize the scam of the ruling party that virtually rules all the years post independence and feel far more hopeful about future.

Indians are better informed, more free and are able to exercise their choices because of technology.
Sadly, in Seattle, most drivers drive as though there is a stop sign at the end of every Interstate on-ramp. Not sure what causes this behavior.

For a bit of humor: http://scottberkun.com/2011/help-me-teach-seattle-how-to-dri...
$mysql_cmd|awk -F\| '$2 == "what you want the second row to match" {print $0}'

Not that much more work. And you can do better if you can coax mysql to emit proper DSV.
The name “soccer” is just an old British slang abbreviation of “Association Football”, to differentiate it from other kinds of football (that is, games played on foot, as opposed to horseback—compare “footrace”). You can find old references to “Rugby football” and “rugger” as well. Americans kept the term, Brits didn’t.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/the-origin-o...
Gimme a break. Transparent click-bait attempt on the politically charged "diversity" headline. And can these guys give less nerd-cat and more of a "what are you concretely going to do for me" pitch rather than all this transformative abstract lingo? An OS for the cloud? WTF is that? Sounds at least 2-levels of abstraction too clever. I don't even know what this service actually does other than hype up a whole bunch of ephemeral next-gen jargon. Can we short this thing?
No, it has no impact on the problems with DANE whatsoever.
A human joined my company a few weeks ago.
US might be becoming less and less free every passing year but is likely to remain far more freer than rest of world for years to come.

I think this is bad idea. The rest of the world consists of China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, UK, Russia. I don't want them to have any say in the naming system.