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Most big time game dev targets consoles in addition to Windows. Each console has its own incompatible graphics API. When there is no business imperative to support PCs that don't run Windows, "useless self-restriction" is irrelevant.

From what I've heard, Direct3D (up to 11) and OpenGL work somewhat similarly, as will Vulkan and Direct3D 12. If a dev has already abstracted their engine to support a console (or two, or three), supporting another PC graphics API isn't that big of a deal, until driver bugs appear. Which they inevitably do; that's why new drivers appear suspiciously close to big game releases.
that's almost 512mb of 0/1 bits a day!

(not serious, I suspect they're wrapped in a 5kb HTTP request)
Is it the action or the message that's prevented?

Is there free access to anyone to do same?

What ove a telephone line over which only specific messages may be sent?

What of a wireless earpiece connection over which only designated messages may be sent, or to which only designated devices may connect?
Website integration is incredibly simple. Standard UI is also much better. PayPal also has a terrible reputation for holding money and bad customer support which Stripe doesn't. I integrated Stripe into a website with almost zero web dev knowledge. Really, really simple.
Ng2d3 – Angular2 and D3 Charting Framework for Creating Composable Charts
I feel it incumbent upon me here to mention that two of the companies in your list belong to one of those here under discussion. Something perhaps you've overlooked.
It is hard to imagine that a large number of reasonable tech and business people would do it that blatantly for so long. After all it isn't Mafia nor government nor banks. I wonder whether it was done as some temporary "fix" back then, just to meet schedule/KPIs/etc., which just naturally became a "feature".
I use (and pay for) Spideroak pretty much for that reason but given that their client is not open source I kinda feel like it's just homeopathic security. They could backdoor my client and I wouldn't know better.

So I definitely wouldn't store very sensitive stuff on SpiderOak either but I guess it's slightly better than dropbox.
Limited Liability Companies are "real" companies that you need to do real things like take investments or take on other people as partners, without putting your other assets (houses, etc...) at risk.

Unless you're doing something super simple, you don't want to mess around with a "single proprietorship" or the like.
The announcement of Ford's acquisition of Chariot was posted earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12464129

This piece by the CEO of Ford outlines their transportation vision for the future, which includes bikes and Chariot.
Using the 5/25 Rule to Learn to Say “No”
There are probably both. You lumped them as if all porn accounts are spam accounts when that's very likely not true, and that is what SysArchitect was commenting on.
Same problem here. My 3 year-old i5 Retina MacBook Pro is often slow because Dropbox uses 100 % of one CPU. And it gets hot too …
No, as long as at least one person included in the order is on the phone, or could be 'reasonablely' assumed to still be on the phone anything gathered is fair evidence.
Yeah, I don't know that I've seen an actual drop, but there definitely seems to be more development in other areas. Craft beer aisles keep growing, and a good chunk of what gets added isn't IPAs. Still not enough porters and dark ales for my taste, but I'll take what I can get.

I'm definitely glad to see the push into more interesting IPAs. I'm seeing more whites, doubles, and other exotic stuff. Plus people finally seem to be learning that 80 IBUs demands some malt and complexity to make something drinkable.

(For some reason, the Wyoming/Idaho region is awesome for dark beers. Something practical, or just a regional fascination? Try some Wake Up Call or 3 Picket Porter if you can find 'em.)
You get a check for X. The cardiologist gets a check for X, and also gets the income from working as a cardiologist. He/she then pays taxes on that income, which leaves him/her on net probably at least somewhat worse off than today, but still better off than you, who only get a check for X. It's that "better off" part that motivates the cardiologist.
On this same topic, it looks like the EPA can actually start doing its job. http://www.vox.com/2016/9/3/12776984/chemical-safety-act

> The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act

https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-t...
Let's be honest about this. Dropbox has always been awful with security. They used to flat out lie about encryption (pretending they encrypted server side, when they weren't at all). They've had numerous other incidents, including ones where Arash treated affected customers horribly.

Dropbox has hired some good people, but the foundation consists of a great CEO, and a customer-hostile CTO who doesn't give a fuck about security. It will NEVER be a good product because of that.

Drew Houston would be WAY wealthier today if he'd fired that worthless piece of shit he calls a CTO years ago.
It's the same concept as insurance: it's often better to take a guaranteed loss of X, than 10% chance of a loss of 10X -- or even 8X, due to a loss aversion.

So, let's say that you're in a group of 10 people and one of them will suffer an 8X loss, but you don't know who. You each set aside X, and pay 9X to the guy who turns out to take the loss. (Refund of contribution plus 8X.) You pay X for the overhead of managing the arrangement. Boom, you reinvented insurance.

There are cases where the evidence is strong, but neither side likes the uncertainty of leaving it up to the trial, so they make the above tradeoff, and save on the costs.

As for your question about "why not have a mini-trial anyway", the prosecution is required to disclose their evidence at the allocution, so there (some level) is transparency about the basis for guilt; but if you have to commit to the regular trial with all its procedures and protections, then that defeats most of the purpose.

Often, people confusedly moralize about plea bargains, when their real objection is that the government could credibly claim to be able to get an 8X penalty at all, which seems excessive given the facts of the case.

Also, not just an American thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plea_bargain#Use_in_civil_law_...
It would be a good idea to look into data from interviewer side. In my experience I found some people provide much better interviewing environment and some people make candidate nervous.
It's a pretty question architecture that outsources feature flags to a third party. You're creating a critical path hard dependency and for most apps this is going to be hit multiple times on every request and is something you're going to want to run locally.
Very applicable Apocalypse Now quote:

"We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes because it's obscene"
Can Facebook be held accountable under monopoly laws? They are too big and too influential for our own good.
Just checked this myself on a MacPro. You can see the DropBox process kick in with CPU usage while opening big apps like Photoshop or Xcode. Not a lot on this MacPro (~3%), but it's always in time with an app opening. Oddly there's no corresponding disk access associated with the Dropbox process when looking at it on the Disk tab of Activity Monitor.

Would definitely like an explanation of what's going on here.
Maybe they are afraid of earthquakes, like how they are realizing that fracking wastewater wells are causing many [1]

1. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-07/oklahoma-w...
There has been substantial asset inflation, the cost of housing, health care, education, child care are all through the roof, and really there is substantial inflation in necessities too. Yet wages are largely stagnant, and people can still buy cheap junk at Walmart, so officially inflation is called low.

Like all bubbles, it will eventually correct. It could be soon, it could be years away. We may be stuck in secular stagnation with high asset inflation for a long time. Who really knows? That there has been so much intervention from central banks, with ZIRP and NIRP policy being the new norm, should make everyone a bit nervous. We are in uncharted waters.
Individual engineers don't make product decisions at big companies like Volkswagen. When I worked as an engineer at a big company, I couldn't even use a different text editor.
Not all of them. For example, the reported risk to CIA agents in US embassies in China was that they would suspiciously not be in the leaked data like actual State dept staff would be.

Apparently the Defense investigators (DSS) merged into OPM in 2004- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Security_Service
IPFS should be looking at this. They had a number of NAT traversal issues this might help with.
It's like peacock plumage, the biggest, strongest bird is still going to "win" but you gotta look good doing it. Or yell at an intern to whip up some slides.
> Introverts are people who have not spent the time developing social skills.

I know introverts who are socially quite skilled.
I used to feel the same way; my first dev job came through someone I met at a tech meetup.

I've since found a couple of good ones by cold applying. What helped the most was reading a couple of books about sales.

Essentially, when you're applying with a cover letter and resume/CV, you're making a very short sales pitch and need to make the most of it. The good news is that most cover letters and resumes people send out don't have this focus at all, so it's relatively easy for you to stand out.

Sometimes, the hardest part is accepting that there's nothing wrong or dishonest about selling yourself. When I've reviewed resumes in the past to decide who to interview, I've found that most of them overlook the fact that I have a problem I'm trying to solve, and I'm looking for someone to help me solve it. If the first sentence on your resume/cover letter shows me that you've read the job posting, understand the problems I'm trying to solve, and tells me why you're the right person to help solve them, you really stand out from the competition.

YMMV, of course. What I've observed may be atypical, and it's entirely possible I've just had good luck.

It's just worth remembering that while cold applications tend to have a low success rate, applications sent in response to job postings are really, really awful. Being non-awful significantly helps your chances, but not as much as meeting people and building a strong network.
You're confusing "didn't even know they wanted" with "took for granted". In the pre-industrial era with much lower populations, human-sourced massive environmental pollution wasn't common. Many people didn't even realize it was possible. Everyone wanted and most people had clean environments and only learned to make it an issue when the clean environments started to disappear in places.
K_sze's point was that it is a lot harder to prove you have not seen and were not inspired by publicly available code than it is to prove you were not inspired by code that was kept secret.

And while someone using free software in a non-free fork can release the changes as shared-source leading to the same problem, this has rarely happened.
The whole deal with food regulation is it's very hard for a consumer to test for toxic substances/purported nutrition etc. It absolutely matters even if you don't notice.
I've only heard about it in the last few years. It seems like a very cheap, but very effective hack. The way the FOV/bokeh works is very nice, and a similar technique should be used for water refractions (those have been bugging me for over 10 years).
Of course it matters, you're being defrauded as a consumer.

Aside from that, it could have health ramifications. Most people eat organic to avoid herbicide exposure, and most people use olive oil because it's considered healthy. Obviously there are countless examples. You should get what you pay for.
It's still in "raw" status, but the release date says October 2015.

These days, with 3-6 month release cycles, I can't see how a traditional publisher could stay current unless you have a rapid iteration cycle.

Also, I wonder how platform-agnostic the book is? I know many resources out there start by having you set up a GCP account.
Please stop. Insults are not OK on Hacker News, and the need for civility when discussing controversial topics is greater, not lesser.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or the professional inmate hired by Walt in Breaking Bad.
> The real outcome seems to be that the species is now 1/4 its previous size.

I had a sudden panicky vision of miniature quarter-size giraffes caused by improper zoo breeding before I figured out what you meant.
>And there is no way they will stop printing

Why would the Central Bank stop printing money? As long as inflation is in control, can you point to the harm?
The Depression Radically Changed the Way Americans Ate
Relevant West Wing: https://youtu.be/Zrap9ljIVWk?t=2m3s.
That's a nice (and popular) story but it really isn't as simple as that. Not only does the accounting get a bit creative, but also the research is more expensive to do in the US for partially for precisely the same reasons that the health care is (a lot of the cost of R&D goes directly into the health care system). Chicken, meet egg.

Even without this, drug development cost doesn't get anywhere close to accounting for the whole cost difference.
Happy to address the question, but it's not clear to me exactly what the question is.

In the example I provided the lower court and court above it shared jurisdiction over the case by law. Generally, upper courts for case load reasons will not hear a case that's not an appeal. In this case, the higher court considered hearing the case based on the arguments of the other party, but I won based on my arguments that as a result of the contract between the parties the lower court was explicitly the only court that had jurisdiction over the matter.

For what it's worth, I'm not an attorney, just skilled at legal matters and litigation; as an example, once had a judge issue an order by phone for me and have their clerk draft the order too - ask any attorney if they've ever done that... :-)
Is this at all related to MYOB's Atlas?

https://www.myob.com/au/small-business/atlas-website-builder
Have you ever been seriously injured by a criminal or have had a loved one seriously injured by a criminal?

Vengeance is a perfectly natural and reasonable expectation of someone in such a situation and an essential element of justice. If the state doesn't provide it, people will take it into their own hands.
> obscure benefits

1. No need for metaclasses simply to make the class construction locals dict an ordered dict. ORM library devs will be happy.

2. No need to pass a list of tuples when you wanted to pass keyword arguments. That's a big win for usability.

> technical debt

The language spec will say that class construction locals and kwargs are insertion-ordered, but other dicts are ordered according to the whims of the interpreter. What is causing technical debt?

> This just isn't the sort of thing that benefits from [change].

The core devs say that status quo is the sane default. They're not just mucking about for the amusement of code churn.
Typically diacetyl, acetylpropionyl or acetoin, the first falling out of favor due to lung disease risk.
I can't believe you're catching flak for this.

It is absolutely not difficult to distinguish between a photo of burning children and a photo of a sex act. In fact, it's pretty ridiculous to characterize this photo as that "of a nude child."
"A single human" isn't a phrase meaning "literally one individual human".
It matters for organic food, because people buy organic food for ethical reasons that don't necessarily have any relationship to quality.
This article doesn't mention the Prime Minister of Norway's contribution to this story, but HN readers are probably aware of it from another post today.
As the article said, the mercury content of different fish can be a very big deal for certain people (especially pregnant women).
Misanthropy is easy to come by when evidence supporting it is widespread. The best thing to send to anyone worried about population is: https://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-end-poverty/
Ah, that indentation, it's killing me! :) http://prntscr.com/cg5jfa
Uhhh, right, but those options aren't really options since it would damage them far more than a policy that needs to be tweaked occasionally.

"Shut facebook down" is a bit ridiculous. Congrats, you're technically correct that it's an option open to them.
That didn't come out quite right; I meant syntax errors. I will check with the extension team.
We are working hard on performance and have some major work underway to improve this.
Study shows alternative therapies improve metabolomic profile
Don't forget the expensive bus insurance.
"James Robert Liang, leader of diesel competence for VW"

He's not an individual engineer, he was a team lead from the sound of it. Also, your experience "at a big company" has no relevance here.
Patrick writes in the article:

> I never thought I could build a Fog Creek, but I saw a bunch of other geeks building Poker Co-pilot and Perfect Table Plan and skeet-shooting scoring software, and I was pretty sure I could at least do something like that.

I'm the geek who built (and continues to run) Poker Copilot. Patrick got the order of events backwards.

What actually happened is that I started Poker Copilot in a large part because Patrick inspired me by managing to launch a software product (Bingo Card Creator) after just one week of development.

All the best working for a boss again, Patrick! I'm sure there will be plenty of interesting twists and turns in the years ahead in this remarkable life of yours .
Some great upgrade news will be coming at Summit in October. You will like this.
The channels documentation at https://channels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ is comprehensive.

Heroku has a short tutorial building a chat app at https://blog.heroku.com/in_deep_with_django_channels_the_fut...

You can find more example projects at https://github.com/andrewgodwin/channels-examples
I completely agree. I just wanted to highlight a major one of those traps that can get you if you do start carrying a balance. Doing so should only ever be out of complete necessity, so whether you can get an interest-free offer seems somewhat beside the point.

FWIW it feels like the additional complexity of those offers coupled with the relaxing of standard payment behavior is a great way to trip people up.
Ask HN: Modern Web Dev on the JVM – How does the stack and tooling look like?
I work as a data analyst and therefore have mostly been dealing with Python and R (both in exploration and to deploy services). We recently switched to h2o as our analytics engine, which lets you save your models as Java objects. Our goal is to create a template for a prediction microservice on the JVM to make using the models in production straightforward (I.e. Save the prediction model, implement the endpoint, deploy).

The question is now: What tooling is consider best practice? What JVM language would be most appropriate for small services (that can still easily interface with Java)? Any good micro web frameworks?
> I can concede that there could be good reasons to pull the photo.

Such as................................................................................?

It could offend some peoples sensibilities? Fuck them. Let's try to remember the costs of war eh.
Exactly, but I can’t fork AMP – as Google decides which fork gets preferred treatment by them
In my life, I've fluctuated between moderately misanthropic and moderately speciesist. I don't see the evidence for your slippery slope argument.
Be careful with that. In the US a single-owner corporation can (and regularly does) have courts "pierce the veil" of limited liability. Simply incorporating and calling yourself a company is not sufficient to limit your liability.
Playboy Can Block Links to Pictures, EU Court Says
Ask HN: Equivalent of Stripe Atlas in Europe (EEA)
is there an equivalent of Stripe Atlas where all the data stays in Europe ?
Uh, historically the last 40 years have been pretty good. Sure it is worse than some of the years before that (but we did not have to go to 'nam so there is that). But historically you can't say Generation Y have had many crisis and terror attacks. Think about people born 1900-1910, they had two world wars to survive!
Hitting someone with a 12-inch bat is probably better than stabbing a cab driver with a penknife.[1]

[1] http://dealbreaker.com/2012/12/in-wake-of-exec-accidentally-...
That's why we highly value flexibility on JIRA. Forcing a terrible workflow on people is a sin. At the same time, we've always gotta help keep people from over complicating things.
Show HN: GeoScreenshot – Test your website from many locations
The optimist in me would like to believe that we are still in a "Napster" world in terms of content, and we will eventually get back to a more bit torrent centric environment - what we lack is a killer UI that me, my kids, and mother-in-law will all use.
Antitrust laws. (I believe that is what monopoly laws are called.)

I don't think that will work. We're gonna have to make new laws, the social media laws.

...Never thought I'd type that! :)
Ditto; now I use SpiderOak which has a solid no-knowledge replacement, but I hear Box is also good.
This is talking about the identity of fish though, I'd guess that this is not talking about the toxicity of the meat. The article does mention that they are certain species which are known for higher toxic chemical contents, so that can be an issue.

However, isn't the toxicity of the meat is a separate issue? I have no idea how the FDA tests for that (sample testing?) but it probably isn't just discrimination on the species of the fish.
+1 for "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"
What's this mythical European country where you cant get a credit card? There are places where most people don't have them, sure, but they tend to be very easy to get.
The first is a video still, and the second is part of the link to another article about Kim Phuc.

This article is not about napalm or the war, it's about the photo itself! Of course it will be featured...
In many states your house is protected even as a sole proprietor.
A company I used to work for bought a huge (for the time) NAS full of drives... when one of the drives failed they (IBM) wouldn't send a replacement, as it was "discontinued"... if it weren't for the VAR, they never would have gotten the drive replaced... something like the following (3-way call).

IBM: "Well, we're IBM and you're $300k annual spending wouldn't be a huge loss"
VAR: "Well, this is Bill from VAR, and we do over $40M in purchases a year, and this will be very enlightening in future purchase recommendations."
IBM: "Uhhh... hold on for a moment please..."
> Protip for freelancers and small businesses: While it might look really cool, don't buy IT equipment as a business (unless you want to pay extra for services guaranteeing continous operation of said equipment), but as a consumer.

This doesn't pay off. If you're earning more than 15K EUR per year, you have to charge VAT. If you buy stuff as consumer you're not eligible for a VAT return. If you're any kind of limited liability company, stuff needs to be on the company books. You certainly can buy as a private person and resell to company, but that just increased the price by about 20%. Plus: selling stuff to the company makes the tax authorities look really hard at your papers since at least in germany, if prices are not market rate you might just have committed a criminal offence (verdeckte Gewinnentnahme). Talk to your tax accountant before pulling stunts like this.
You do smell like it. You just don't know it.

Self knowledge is rare. I have it, you don't.