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Doing research, writing code, testing your product, and ultimately launching it are lessons that are applicable to actual business. Of course, they can be misapplied to what essentially amounts to gambling, but so can any other valuable skill. (e.g. If Sebastian put on his selling hat, started taking on investors, and charging them a fee.)

The fact remains that many people never develop these skills, never get over these hurdles, and oftentimes don't even realize that these hurdles exist. They find it motivational to read about people who did. Especially a teenager like Sebastian.

And ofc you're right: Sebastian is no different than others who came before. But that's never been a criteria for being on Indie Hackers. I find it somewhat telling that the people who are up-in-arms about this interview consist almost exclusively of those working in finance or who've experimented with algorithmic trading.
> i'm disappointed that i haven't seen a single member of the media or Democratic party establishment talk about Obama's expansion of the drone program.

You must not read a lot of media then. Pretty much every source of media I read on a regular basis has commented about the drone assassination program, Obama's expansion of it, the questionable legality of it (particularly as it applies to US citizens), and generally pointed out problematic aspects of it.

Even Democrats have complained about aspects of it:

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/04/24/democrats-repu...
Would it be more legitimate if it was the Washington Post? You would probably think so.

Generating data to fit a narrative is certainly believable when a study doesn't bear the fruit you planned it to. I may be cynical, but I am not at all surprised that this is happening at the federal level, especially with something so politically charged. Researchers all over the world tweak data to fit their papers, which often present garbage that cannot be reproduced.

It's unfortunate that the government faked data to push a narrative, assuming this is true. Just another thing to shake our trust in the institution.

Obligatory: Yes, humans are rapidly changing the climate. That is not an excuse for scientific fraud.
> They pay and save for retirement, but don't use it.

Since we're throwing around random opinions...

Would you say that the kind of person that continues such an expensive habit nowadays despite what everyone knows about smoking is the kind of person who "pays and saves for retirement"?

Poorer, less-educated people are much more likely to smoke. How about we also take this into account when we're speculating about how much they might be saving.
Over the last couple of weeks we suddenly care about casualties again

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Drone%20str...
The best part of that comparison is that solder might not even melt on Venus at that temperature. The atmospheric pressure on the surface is roughly 90 atm which is the pressure you'd experience if you were 1,000 meters underwater. Even modern nuclear attack submarines made out of titanium and high strength alloys can barely go past 800 meters without completely losing structural integrity so solder would probably be under way too much pressure to change phase from solid to liquid.
> I've seen nothing about Vulkan that indicates it has some inherent qualities that make it suitable as a Javascript API.

And you are qualified to make this assertion because?

It would make an awesome JavaScript API. It is well defined, well supported, well documented low level API for graphics. It would easily be exposed within JavaScript.
> Personally I think it's fine to complain about being downvoted if no-one has responded constructively.

I understand that often often times people will use downvotes as a substitute for disagreeing, despite that being explicitly against its true function. Ultimately, you're complaining about fictitious karma points.

If you are a regular contributor who follows the rules, over time your karma will accrue and this can be a fuzzy way to weigh your importance to the community. The danger of valuing karma too much will cause the system to be gamed by marketers and astroturfers (see Reddit for Example A)
Cluster munitions are bad, but you have to consider that people often try to hide in houses, in cellars during air raids in the city. Cluster munition will not do much to those people, other than being insanely noisy and terrifying. What will kill those people is a bomb that will drop the house on them.

Indiscriminate killing is a function of decision making process, not the munition itself.
In my experience, the only country in which Chomsky is seen as uninteresting or nitpicking is in the U.S.

That's not to say there are no complexities to whether or not a Pax Americana is better than the alternative (based on previous U.S. govts.), or that all governments records are equivalent when it comes to propaganda or human rights (for their own citizens). But no other country sees the U.S. unequivocally as "the good guys". A few see it as "the less-bad guys", but plenty of countries in Latin America saw the U.S.S.R. as "the less-bad guys" by comparison too.
You ever see the president get a pat down when he returns from over seas?
If I self-host (as painful as that is), what happens when my internet goes down randomly (or my computer has to reboot, or whatever)? Should all incoming emails really be dropped with an‌ "oops, try again later" message to the sender?

I sure as hell wouldn't want that.

There are lots of hidden costs to self-hosting...
I see.

incidentally the embedded DNS feature is fairly extensively leveraged by kubernetes - it takes of the situations where you dont want to muck around with underlying /etc/hosts (on the actual metal) and do your changes only on the containers.

But I'm hearing what you are saying more and more - Docker Inc is having a huge PR problem. Docker Swarm may actually be good, but people are generally disliking the organization itself.

You dont see these kind of answers with Fleet, Mesos..even Openstack. Docker Swarm is a genuinely sweet piece of tech.. so this is rather unfortunate.
> those that don't kill themselves are going to revolt.

There has already been civil revolting in recent times. The police being shot at during the BLM stuff is what it looks like. The days of organising a 'continental army' and taking the current government head on are long gone (in developed countries, at least). Making an organisation large enough to even start to annoy the US military would be nipped in the bud long before it happens. But there will be lots of small-scale or individual revolting.

The methods of government in the US are not going to change (eg: the Electoral College) because fairer systems would work against the current parties in power, and changing the constitution itself is extremely difficult, even for something as conceptually simple as 'no more alcohol' ('new electoral process' doesn't stand a chance). So, barring massive social disaster, things will carry on as-is. Trump will do a lot of damage to convention and will highlight lots of edge-cases, but the underlying systems will barely move.

There will be revolts, but it's not going to change anything structurally.
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There was a relevant recent event for that spike ...
Good point.

But, that's assuming that it's not possible to write a wrapper on top of DX (for Xbone) that proves a Vulkan API. It's already been shown to be possible to do something similar, with MoltenVK.

The ball would be in Microsoft's court for this one.
Generally speaking, in order to lose freedoms due to lawbreaking, the government must first prove beyond reasonable doubt that you have in fact violated the law. This does not appear to be the case here.
You and several others have recommended Mendeley but I personally wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. It's a nice system but 1) it's proprietary, and 2) it's owned by Elsevier, a company notorious for its shady business practices:

- https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/03/19/2220208/boycott...

- https://science.slashdot.org/story/13/12/06/1945224/elsevier...

- https://science.slashdot.org/story/15/11/02/1323258/all-edit...

Personally, I very much prefer Zotero but here's a great comparison of both software http://www.library.yorku.ca/web/research-learn/citations/zot...
That sounds well and good, but "better education" is a bit hand-wavey, isn't it? When we educate someone, aren't we, in a way, taking away their choice to do certain things? Sure, in principle they can still make completely free choices, but it is often very difficult to deviate from one's programming.

Somewhere along the line, someone has to accept the responsibility for programming others. It's simply a fact of being human that your consciousness will be shaped by factors beyond your control. Maybe it's time for us to abandon the ideal of the Unconstrained Man and instead embrace the arbitrary.
Philippines, possibly - depending on who you talk to.

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/deadly-drone-strike-on-mu...
heh, I thought you were talking about the contracts (which is also figuratively true) at first, rather than actual peppercorns... :)
From Wikipedia:

Some, but not all, authors restrict the term "programming language" to those languages that can express all possible algorithms

I am Some.
> To make a claim about relative magnitude would require us to establish "how much is enough" and I do not believe that was the point in question -- as I am unsure how we could ever make such a determination.

Fair, but when I compare the left echo chamber over the last two weeks when Trump launched attacks in Yemen to the left chamber a couple months ago while Obama was bombing Yemen and US armed groups were fighting each other in Northern Syria, there was a significant perceived difference in the amount of coverage and tone. It's not really quantifiable, as you said, but that doesn't mean it's not true.
Certainly, because it's what a lot of us learned in academia. Everyone's right!
Does Boom count?
I have friends who've moved to the NL via DAFT. You'd probably do well to hire an accountant who can deal with the tax authorities (who are the only branch of gov't that will not speak English to you), but the business doesn't necessarily need to cater only to Dutch speakers.

And while it's nice to learn the language and all, the NL has among the highest English competency in Europe. It's rather difficult to learn Dutch because English is so useful and prevalent.
Sure, but as a counter point, simply look at drone strikes overall:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Drone%20str...
Https://strongcoin.com offers this service. The keys are encrypted on the client side before being stored on a server.
I was under the impression that DX wasn't available out of the box either? That you'd need to install suitable drivers and a suitable runtime?
I've thought it has something to do with Met-Art at first.
Accessing the site is a little slow but I am able to access it without a problem. I would recommend you please try again. The author/publisher of the site is a very smart Pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist (David Cay Johnston) who wrote THE book on Trump so he knows Trump extremely well. https://www.amazon.com/Making-Donald-Trump-David-Johnston/dp...
The point is that if there was also a category released to the general public called "groundstrikes" (or better yet "everything but airstrikes") and the Army was not including attack helicopter mission in that either, then there would be a clear intent to decieve. Likewise if these missions were not contributing to public tallies like "total casualties". But so long as it's public knowledge that the Army has large categories of missions that are not included in these public reports, this is plausibly just a definitional confusion, and so it's not very damning.
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with Apple TV?
It doesn't even require anything that complex. If I remember correctly, even if your smartphone never connects to wifi AP's, while thhe WiFi radio is on, it does periodically scan for AP's in the area while either surrendering some identifiable information or establishing a pattern that can be used to identify you.

Frak it, TV is going in a Faraday cage
Even many people wouldn't be able to create real art by looking at all those pictures. Probably not even when trained by one of the painters.
I'd actually have to check if Urbit supports utf8 code. I want to say yes, since the compiler internals technically can, but it's probably not hooked up correctly.

Are there any languages do this right? Even if identifiers can be utf8, they still have English reserved words. Maybe something like Forth, where the entire language is redefinable. Or, I dunno, Smalltalk.
> Now, there are more than 5,000. Computers supporting the network

Is this really correct? It sounds low.
"Only platforms without Vulkan are Apple's" is most certainly NOT true. The Xbox One is a widely available platform for which a lot of 3D effort is invested, and rewards this effort really well - much better than other platforms (like desktop Linux or old versions of Windows) that are frequently thrown around as arguments for "Vulkan everywhere".

It is a common observation among game developers who have really tried both that Metal is a much more accessible API than Vulkan; "90% of the performance for 10% of the effort".
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of course not , I mentioned those riots because biased view of andrewvijay , where riots means gujrat and criminal means modi.
That's a bingo!
I'm Indian myself and it concerns me that so many of these scams emerge from what appears to be India (based on the Indian accents).

Does anyone know if any scammers have ever been "brought to justice" in India. Ever?

Seems like something that should be a high priority for the Indian Govt. if they want to help with India's image abroad, especially with the tech sector.
There's a new documentary coming this year. It was mentioned in one of the lectures on 33C3. What it is about may be a part of it.

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events...
Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying IBM
Unfortunately the regex/grammar engine is one of those components lacking deep optimisation. At the moment. Thats probably a much bigger factor than anything algorithmic.

With tokens another nice thing to note is there is longest token matching and the concept of "proto" tokens and regexes. This lets you have simple decision making between similarly defined tokens without backtracking. For example the grammar I have for biological sequences can simultaneously identify and parse DNA/RNA/Protein without back tracking. Even if a file has a mixture of data I can instantiate the correct subclasses on the fly whilst parsing! https://github.com/MattOates/BioInfo/blob/master/lib/BioInfo...
I see three main failed predictions:

- 10 GHz
- long pipelines, I think we're currently at around 14 stages, which is more than P6 but less than Netburst (Pentium 4)
- EUV lithography is still not a thing at 10 nm

Die I miss any important failed predictions?
> the USS Vincennes incident took place

Summary for those who like me didn't know about the incident. Our guy shot down a passenger flight, murdering 290 human beings, we gave him a medal but we then paid USD$213,000 in blood money per passenger to Iran without ever admitting fault.

"
Iran Air Flight 655 was an Iran Air passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai. On 3 July 1988, the aircraft operating on this route was shot down by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes under the command of William C. Rogers III. The incident took place in Iranian airspace, over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, and on the flight's usual flight path. The aircraft, an Airbus A300 B2-203, was destroyed by SM-2MR surface-to-air missiles fired from Vincennes. All 290 people on board died

...

As part of the settlement, the United States did not admit legal liability or formally apologize to Iran but agreed to pay on an ex gratia basis US$61.8 million, amounting to $213,103.45 per passenger, in compensation to the families of the Iranian victims.

...

Commander David Carlson, commanding officer of USS Sides, the warship stationed nearest to Vincennes at the time of the incident, is reported to have said that the destruction of the aircraft "marked the horrifying climax to Captain Rogers's aggressiveness, first seen four weeks ago".

...

In 1990, Rogers was awarded the Legion of Merit "for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service as commanding officer ... from April 1987 to May 1989.

"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
A variation: What's the shop that never has empty shelves in a socialist country?

The shelf shop.
Seems like it would be better to go through with the calls and destroy them at the payments gateway/payments provider level, same as was done with online pharma spam.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/technical...
I realize the irony of this comment: But Marty Chavez is one of the few openly gay, latino Wall St. execs. Great, diversity, progress... This wasn't mentioned in the article and to be honest, that is rare and it was cool to read on article focused on Marty's skills as a professional banker (a good one) without feeling the need to bring up his personal life.
for " political correctness " .
Wish they'd do a full write-up. I'd be interested in how they run their node processes.

- Using containers, VMs, bare metal?
- Using a process manager like Forever[1], PM2[2] or just native systemd?

[1] https://github.com/foreverjs/forever

[2] https://github.com/Unitech/pm2
Over half of the world’s internet traffic isn’t coming from humans
(Not legal advice.) M&A practitioners aren't paragons of virtue but still it'd usually be considered uncool to go to a former employee years after the fact, ask them to sign a doc to facilitate a deal he'd get no upside from, and not offer to pay his legal fees - especially if he's someone the company let go. It's possible this is just a junior associate at the purchaser's law firm insisting on something technically correct but practically low-risk, getting poor supervision, and your former company not shielding you as they should. It's also possible that if the company tells the purchaser you don't want to sign it, the purchaser just says "ok was worth a shot" and that's it. If the purchaser truly does care, it's the company's problem not yours that the documents you signed years ago weren't different. Not something you should incur time, expenses or risk now to fix for them. An example of risk is the scope of the deed being too broad and covering other projects of yours that should be out of scope. You can say no with a clear conscience. If you feel bad about it, something like the following is a totally fair response: "Sorry I can't be more helpful, but I take legal documents seriously and don't review/sign anything unless it's necessary for something I'm currently working on. It's just a personal policy of mine."
I'd probably reach for ANTLR to write a quick parser since working with such a stickler is likely to require more code formatting changes in the future.

As an aside, the stuff I used sed/awk for in the past have pretty much been replaced by Python for me. These days it's pretty rare to not have a default Python install on any Unixy box one spins up and in the rare cases I use Windows I tend to install Anaconda so it's also slightly more cross-platform for my use cases.
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I'll say that a lot more people spend time with their laptops on their shoulders (every person in NYC, SF, London, Hong Kong, Chicago, Paris, etc.) than use their laptop for large render projects. A Macbook Air can handle even large still photos without breaking a sweat (I've done 1GB photoshop files while playing Spotify no problem). If you're doing 4K video it's another story.
>You can't polyfill(otherwise why use the GPU in the first place?) on the users don't have a cutting edge machine so you're going to have a swath of people that your WebApp won't work for.

I'm pretty sure you just argued in favor of creating a new API instead of using Vulkan...
It's not just Arabic and Japanese. My Swedish/Finnish MacBook keyboard doesn't have the | and ~ characters printed anywhere on the keyboard. To type them, you just have to remember where they are. That's ok for me as a programmer, but doesn't work for anyone closer to a general user, which Urbit seems to expect because these symbols are used extensively in the command line UI.
Assad is the President , he's extremely popular , he won the internationally observed election , hands down . If you say that Assad isn't the legitimate leader your the one spreading
crap . I lived there 19 of the last 32 years .
Well, thanks for the question!

You check the result with getLastError which, as you described, can be used to ensure a majority agrees with the write. But you normally don't use getLastError that way. Because a majority might not even be concerned with that particular write. They are, after all, shards. Instead you check if primary got the write. If primary disconnects while you are checking, you catch the exception and try checking until a new primary is decided. And if your check result is not ok, you try inserting again. That's as reliable as it gets when inserting to any database including SQL databases that support transactions.
During the end of Preisdent Obama's first term and into the start of the second term there was a series of uproars about illegal drone strikes in Pakistan[1]. This was covered on the front page of the papers I see (WSJ, NYT) and discussed extensively in podcast-land. See also, related discussions from HN [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=drone%20strike&sort=byPopulari...
"it should be not just theoretically possible, but actively supported by the design of the Web spec."
Especially when they used to also drop food aid in packages that were the same colour as the cluster bomblets.

(mostly text, but with graphic image of child with amputated limbs) http://www.rawa.org/cluster2.htm

http://www.landmineclearance.org/page2.html
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The world is going to hell. Socialism is making a come back. May be even communism soon enough.
Interesting that it's taken so long for web cams to increase their resolution. Especially when you can find several different brands of cheap IP security cameras on Amazon/Ebay that do 4K and/or 60 Hz.

Also, the article reads like a thinly disguised ad for a single vendor.
Exactly my thought. It makes it clear you really need to encrypt your data locally first.
Maybe it's Little Snitch getting confused.

ps. images.rcw..... not images.rcs..
For posterity, the 70k/year is a real[1] number.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/why-chemo...
I'd hope that he gives the number one call to validate that it is, in fact, a scammer before putting it on blast. If he does, I really have no problem with this approach (and have considered it myself, frankly); if he doesn't, then this is just downright irresponsible. But I'd hope no one would be stupid enough to just trust random data from internet users, in this regard ...
What are you saying "no way" to? Of course there are classes using Unity but I am very certain the bulk of these questions are not school related. Just look at any of the big Indie Game groups on Facebook.
Intel can't beat the heat.
> Cluster munition will not do much to those people,

Not all of the bomblets explode, so when those people come out of their houses they've got to not disturb any of the bomblets.
Parent company Illiad is a big french telecom operator. They have their own datacenters, big network connectivity and already big deals with hardware manufacturers.

They are know for cutting the cost by running project with very small and smart team with hacker culture.