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Its OK poltifact marked it fake news not a robot.

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The 2 thinnest skinned humans are in a global pissing contest... How we forgot the lessons of our forefathers... Sad :(
My vote for Godot is that it works on Linux. What has blocked me from gamedev is the historical Windows requirement. I don't want to fiddle with virtual machines, bugs due to unsupported usage of the engine or dual boot. Electronics are very expensive in my country, so having 2 computers is a too big investment (this is also what blocks me from IOS dev btw). I need Linux because I am productive on it, and because I have an actual job besides my indie gamedev thing that requires it and I want to minimize context switch.

I have been able to run some big engines on Linux in the past, but it is always somewhat hacky and unsupported. The only game I was able to finish and launch was written in Java using the great libGDX (and I had to rent a mac in the cloud to compile for IOS (when Robovm was officially supported, don't know about how it's done now)). I am now considering Godot for my next game because it is free and runs on Linux.
It's a temporary hit. I get around that problem by purchasing 10x what I need. Prices are so low that it's not an issue.

And realistically, I may not have gotten back to the project in 3 weeks even if the parts were already on hand.
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I'm not saying it is impossible. I am suggesting that it is hard and the hard part is talking to people about something that they might not want.

PageRocket is a really nice piece of work and could be the basis for a profitable business I think. But that profitable business probably means going out and selling to one customer at a time...there are a lot of small businesses in the world for which PageRocket could be a very very good solution.

Currently, I see a possible business that is closer to the design agency end of the spectrum than the Wordpress end. Design agencies ship and don't really launch.

37 Signals is that sort of model. It was a design agency that eventually built a product, Basecamp. StackOverflow is sort of similar...Fog Creek Software was both a consultancy and built FogBugz. Slack was a game company before it hit on a product.

I want to reiterate that the process for PageRocket is well designed and the aesthetic results tasteful. I suppose one way of putting it is that the quality of what I see suggests that the team is capable of building something businesses might pay 'real' money for and I hate the idea that the bar would be set at a place where doing so becomes unlikely. So in the end, I guess I am encouraging you to aim higher or at least at higher fees.

Another HN classic: https://jacquesmattheij.com/double-your-price-and-no-im-not-...
Well, the email changed but the password stayed the same and I don't really know what that means. GoDaddy says someone logged in and changed it this morning but they don't log the IP address so I can only guess it's malicious.
They tend to overwithhold in Denmark as well, mostly because it avoids having to chase down people for payments later (giving people refunds is easier and fully automated). However they do pay interest on the overwithheld amount.
Definitely not impossible, but a quick check at the moment suggests that with the best available ASICs, it'd cost about $376M retail (or perhaps less wholesale) to buy hashing power equivalent to the current network. (And that assumes sufficient supply to do so, though it might be possible to scale that better.) So, definitely in the range for states to accomplish, but not trivial; it'd have to be extremely critical to do so. (And an attempt to do so would likely get noticed, and there are ways to work around it.)
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I could see this being applied in general customer service. Provide a sentiment analysis on the way in. Determine best way (sentiment) and time to communicate a response.
For a different viewpoint, I moved away from Maine after college, to Massachusetts, and wouldn't move back. The politics of the area are backwards and profoundly broken in the "boy, I hope you're a straight white male or things are gonna get rough" sort of way you don't expect from the general oasis of New England sanity, the drug issues in the places I grew up are rampant, and the public schools are being actively choked to death (because who needs that, yeah?).

It's a beautiful place. I'm glad I left and I'm glad the few people in my family still there are either retired or working on escaping.
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VESA was just a hack on top of ISA that allowed one or two cards to run faster.

PCI was the first real improvement over ISA.
Particular shout out to the really great VSCode GitLens plugin that adds gray CodeLens "ghost annotate" to every editor window.
> But the US has far more people and far more wealth than Israel

Just chiming in to add some context to this. In terms of area, population, and GDP, Israel is pretty close to New Jersey.
Apple officially testing self-driving cars in California – 9to5Mac
I guess you did not look into Patroni's README, as it states:

> Patroni originated as a fork of Governor, the project from Compose. It includes plenty of new features.

Governor's git repo seems to have no recent activity (last commit 11 months ago).
This is exactly what I use them for and it works well. They are like the "falling rocks" signs on roads. The "TODO" is to make the entire cliffside completely safe, but as long as everyone is watching for rocks when driving (coding) in this section, that suffices.
It's official: Apple is testing autonomous vehicles
The reason American taxes are more complex is that both parties use the income tax system for social engineering. They want to encourage things like home ownership, attending college, having kids, donating to charity, etc, so they let you deduct related costs.
Until I can use a keyboard and mouse in FPS settings against people with controllers, I don't give a fuck. I came up the hard way and hate the exploits possible in pretty much every competitive game. In that regard, I want to have the real advantage I care about. Precision. Finger agility.

Until a console gives me that option, to lay waste to Player and (1)Player and (2)Player like Half-Life gave me joy back in the day and leveled me up beyond what I could've imagined by bunny hopping and tau jumping and using audio A3D to at least hang with the best...Chosen1, Neo, aCiDtRiP, 007 and more...

I'm an old now. I'm not going to let a bunch of teenagers talk shit to me with a mic unless I can lay waste to their feeble understanding of victory by attrition. I've found it's uncomfortably hard to use a controller to walk up to a victim and use the squat/crouch function to tea bag their carcass.

When console gaming gets with the mainline of competitive PC gaming, it might be worth it. I've got no use for MMOs and shit like that. I'm an FPS/driving guy. I've played Australians and Croations alike no matter the lag, we competed fair. Console interfaces are fucking garbage.

Give me my mouse, my keyboard, my console to tweak my views (FOV 110, weapon_on 0) and let me do my thing.

Apparently this is not the best business model. Huh. For a minute there I was (1)Player getting a face full of Glock or crowbar, but life is like that. Spawn. Run. Die. Repeat.

Oh, just for the record, if Gabe debuts HL3 as an Xbox Scorpio exclusive I will take money out of my retirement fund just to get in on it. Only if I can use my keyboard and mouse though. Always good to temper expectations...
I'm one of the somewhat lucky ones - I file a Form 1040EZ. It's pretty simple. Fill in the boxes, do a bit of really simple math, and sign on the dotted line. My state, New Jersey, does free online filing as well.

There is a silver lining to everything. US tax filing isn't completely bad.
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My initial review was here - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5w3MwzG3IiQ - where I was really impressed with great industrial design and very promising features.

After playing with it for a while though, I have to conclude it's not yet a consumer product and probably won't be for many years. Maybe it will find a Place in the enterprise.
> This assumes that one's politics align with the politics and hostile culture in California. I intentionally avoid living in CA due to its culture/politics and have turned down multiple bona fide relocation offers to CA.

This is certainly true! To each his own. My point was that the midwest probably isn't a great place to be if you're looking for "cheaper California".

Sounds like we agree on that.

> When I lived in the Midwest, we had not only multiple gay people, but multiple gay teachers living in our neighborhood... these teachers were able to go about their business just fine and spent many years teaching at the schools

1. "Not being fired for being gay" is literally the lowest bar I can think of other that "not being imprisoned for being gay".

2. A school I attended explicitly discriminated against trans people in hiring. And those are the public schools. So, YMMV. I'm sure things have gotten better across the entire country since then, including the midwest.

3. Even without "lose your job/house" levels of hate, the world can still be a nasty place. E.g. imagine driving by this billboard every day: http://www.medina-gazette.com/news/2013/02/22/Passers-by-on-...

And of course most of the people you interact with disagree with the sign, but attend churches that teach the exact same thing. Those "midwestern nice" interactions don't feel so "nice" anymore.

> If you live in a big city like NYC or SF, you probably get exposed to more "intolerance" from contrarians/extremists who also live in big cities than someone who lives in the Midwest.

Sure. The difference is who's in charge! And that's the difference that makes a difference.

> The Midwest is a great place to be. It's extremely unfair to cast such aspersions on it.

For you. I hated it.
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Could not afford a Soundblaster so I used 8 resistors to solder together a crude 8-bit DAC (called Covox iirc) which plugged into parallel port and was amplified by a cassette deck, which was good enough for games
Hello! Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that code formatters are not useful, they are massively useful in order to turn badly formatted code into more readable code, and also when there is to integrate some code from a code base to another and needs to be re-formatted and so forth. What I find odd is that there are people using it as a "to go" solution for code indentation. The fact btw that it keeps the original blank lines is a great feature that saves a lot of semantics. Thanks for your comment!
> rabbit hole
I have no guide at hand, but here a few hints:

- in general, understand which types are values, and which have to be allocated. E.g. the slice structure itself is a value type (typically 24 bytes), but it points to an array, which might be heap allocated. Re-slicing creates a new slice structure, but does not touch the heap - extending a slice might.

- to analyze your code, use go build -gcflags="-m", this will print out optimization information, especially which allocations "escape to heap", which means, they are heap allocated and not stack allocated.

- Interfaces are really great, but copying values of interface{} does involve heap allocation of 16 bytes. Also method invocation via interfaces has some overhead. Method invocation of non-interface types is a fast a plain function call.

- profile :)
The article isn't claiming that united broke its contract with frequent flyers -- it's discussing the contract included in every ticket. The Bloomberg (and therefore HN) title got this wrong.
Seymour Cray used to say that the biggest problems in supercomputing were the thickness of the mat and getting rid of the heat. The "mat" refers to the wiring on the backplane, which in those days was wire-wrapped. The Computer Museum in Mountain View has a Cray I in the lobby, and you can see its wiring mat easily.

Getting rid of the heat in the Cray I involved lots of copper with fluid channels, like the stuff overclockers use. The Cray 2 ran the whole CPU in a tank of inert fluorocarbon liquid. This was generally considered a pain. The idea comes back now and then. One Bitcoin mining farm in Japan ran submerged in coolant. Everybody else just used air cooling, sometimes in a cold climate.
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Apple to Begin Testing Self-Driving Cars in California
I usually have a pretty good idea how much utilization I should see, it's just a quick way to make sure I get what I'm aiming for and it has definitely helped me on a number of occasions when performance was disappointing to point out the GPU was simply starved. Memory access for a GPU is everything, even one detail wrong and you could easily get a 50% or more performance penalty so it is handy to have a quick confirmation that you're in the ballpark.

It's not suitable as a detailed profiler.
If you think so, don't you find "BRB" and "viz." OK too? My post's dad-post (though not by you) calls for avoiding such short forms on account of matching long forms' violations of lipographic norms.
There are two simpler IRS forms (1040EZ and 1040A) for people with simpler tax situations which are used by something like 40% of filers. People with simple tax situations really just need to transfer a few numbers to a form and send it in. I guess the process could be even simpler but it's already pretty straightforward if your income streams and deductions are simple.
$99 a year (<$10 pcm) for someone else to handle my problems doesn't seem that much if the service for which I'm paying is important to me. Sure, I can self host things, but I've learnt pretty quickly the the extra pain in keeping things up to date, and maintaining them in general is simply not worth my time.
You have four years to claim back overpaid tax from HMRC.

For most employed people, this calculator should be very close to correct: https://listentotaxman.com/
In case other people don't see why this would be the case, hyperthreads are good for running a second thread while the first one stalls while waiting for something such as a memory read. Compilers often work with indirect data structures such as irregular graphs and symbol tables which don't cache perfectly and may cause memory stalls.
The benchmark runs either single core or multi core. Is not a single core iPhone.
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Ask HN: Uber signed me in as my ex on download
Has anyone downloaded Uber as a brand new install on their device and when you went to use it....it automatically signed you in as someone in your contacts; into their account? I did and do not have an Uber account.

This happened to me last night as I got an Uber for a friend and didnt notice until this morning that it had automatically signed me in under my ex's Uber account. An ex who is troublesome to me and who blew up my phone accusing me of cheating and threatening me.
We also use RDS in Zalando (and it works great!). With running Patroni on Kubernetes we get several benefits over RDS which in our opinion warrant the effort. Some examples include:

* Real superuser access to the cluster

* Installing custom PostgreSQL extensions not available on RDS, PgQ (Queues in PostgreSQL), PgDecode (logical decode to Kafka/Json), PgJobs (minimalistic jobs in PostgreSQL)

* Easier migrations via S3/Streaming replication from and to AWS - RDS currently offers no way out of RDS to another PostgreSQL cluster

* Deployment model allows for more availability/flexibility with less costs - EBS + S3 allow us to run single node PostgreSQL with high uptime

* Multi node PostgreSQL can run on different node types

* OAuth login for PostgreSQL (via PAM)
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1120S? $1500 is a reasonable price once you accept the world of asinine information returns costing this much to prepare and file.

For a simple schedule C, $200 is suspiciously cheap but I hear this all the time, even from people with rental property and I'm like - ok whatever good luck with that. If you go to H&R Block for a simple schedule C, of course they do the whole return and it's a charge per return. I think it's about $500-$600 for a 1040 that also includes A, B, C, D, E and SE, last time I had it done. These days I'm just using TurboTax with numbers plugged in from accounting software.
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It's very amusing SJWs getting triggered by AIs.
I think Mike Judge's humor lands best with people who recognize the behavior on the screen as driven by impulses they feel in themselves. It simultaneously gratifies those impulses and teaches us what the world looks like without the moderating influences of culture and experience. "Beavis and Butt-Head" is a celebration of crudity, a lesson in empathy and humility, and a reminder that "refinement" and "education" are not just silly, fancy things but aspects of every person's experience. The distance between us and Beavis and Butt-Head was created by myriad formative experiences with parents, friends, teachers, and culture, who not only influenced us directly but also taught us which influences to be open to. If you take perverse delight in their misadventures then you truly know: there but for the grace of good fortune go I.
I've had the same experience. I just collect the various forms I get mailed in a little bin next to my computer, and when I do my taxes it takes two hours max. And that's with a fair amount of deductions, IRA/retirement contributions, and a side consulting gig. Usually spend $100-$150 with them based on my needs that year, including the audit protection.
And here is the EastNets' blog post denying the compromise ever happened http://www.eastnets.com/News_Details/17-04-14/No_credibility...
>I haven't heard any allegations of corruption or scandal around him either.

https://www.google.com/#q=john+mccain+corruption
The UN can make whatever they want a right. They don't really have any way to enforce these rights.
Human activity weathers stone monuments faster than desert winds. If I recall correctly, the original sheathing stones and capstones of the pyramids were gradually stolen. The Sphinx was used for target practice.

Water, on the other hand, will tear through your stones much more quickly. In a wet, temperate climate, the weak acid falling from the sky will wear limestone. The moisture invading cracks and freezing will widen those cracks. Lichens will bore tiny holes into the rock, and plant roots will cause fissures to expand. Additionally, moisture that penetrates to metallic structural reinforcement will oxidize and swell that reinforcement to pop bits off of the stone (observable from earlier attempts at restoration at the Parthenon, where the replacement anchor pins weren't coated in lead correctly, and they started to crack the rock blocks--now they use non-corroding titanium pins). Sometimes mortar does not swell or expand at the same rate as whatever it binds, and something will crack, admit water, and generally deteriorate from there.

Water is the enemy of preservation. They pyramids didn't survive just because they are stone, but because they are also dry.

And on a long enough geological timescale, every potential building site will eventually experience every climate, including being entirely immersed in salt water.
I bought the first edition of this book and I enjoyed a lot.

Ivan, can you give those of us with the first edition a summary of the changes?
The Remembrance of Earth's Past series by Liu Cixin? It also has the "lurker" theory of cosmic sociology being discussed in this thread.
Thanks Alan. If my current project succeeds, and it should, I'm going to try to reach out to Butler and present it to him because frankly, it has Lampson written all over it with maybe some Thacker graffiti here and there.
She must have made her account under your phone number.
Yes. The thing to remember about these SV people is that they're mostly single people or working couples who are living in ridiculously tight spaces like these "microapartments". [0] They're forced out after having a kid or two.

Almost anywhere else in the country, that $2200/mo will get you quite the spread; you can trade off between square footage, neighborhood, and commute time, but you're going to have very nice accommodations if you're willing to put that much money up. In SF, you're lucky if you can get a 1-bd for that, and LA is only slightly better.

While the price of goods doesn't fluctuate as much, housing is a HUGE factor. If you want something functional for a family of 4 (or if you just like a lot of space), you are going to be paying at least $4000/mo in these tech hubs, or living 60 min+ away.

Florida also has no income tax, v. California's rate between 7.5% and 13.3%. That is a big dent too.

One other note. If you have the skills, look for remote work in companies that pay rates that are higher than you get paid in your local market. It's a great way to make the COL differential work even more in your favor.

[0] http://sf.curbed.com/2016/3/30/11332920/rent-small-soma-micr...
Kind of crazy the Google Cloud team is using gmail.js to build this extension. Gmail.js is a side project by Kartik Talwar who just graduated college and the codebase isn't exactly active.

I guess even Google can't find a good way to extend Gmail with their own APIs...
You should go be a team lead, get some deadlines - and the perspective that comes with it.
It feels like a taboo opinion to hold but I do think it changes something. I remember being completely blown away by "A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style" (e.g. https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style). I've always thought of creativity as a process which can't (yet) be described in terms of mechanical steps.