skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shumway isn't maintained actively.
Integration testing, dev environments, and data sharing.

When we started switching over to microservices, originally we were going to have some sort of standardized message format, which would include all of the info that service would need to do its job.

However, there were too many people building it too quickly, and it's since devolved into a spaghetti pile where almost every microservice has about 3-4 others on which it is dependent (and a handful on which those are dependent) - to query for some bit of data, set off an async task, etc. This obviously complicates the development environment significantly.

When I want to add a feature to a service it can take hours trying to bring up the correct dependencies, update their configuration, fix the errors that they're returning due to their dependencies being down, and set up the necessary databases and ssh tunnels.
It's a non-issue if it's properly labelled as privately owned public space. It should be also clearly delimited from public space.
From the article:

"So even if every one of the other 1,200 players would have tested negative — which even the heartiest skeptics would agree could not possibly be the case — the minimum C.T.E. prevalence would be close to 9 percent, vastly higher than in the general population."

Where are you getting your information that estimates of CTE in the general population are low?
I can do embedded, but also do other programming and programming related jobs.

Thing I've found with embedded, is the pay is generally not as good as other work, and it's generally not as flexible (no remote). If you can do either generic webdev, or other things, those often look like better options.
No that means you're blowing things out of proportion. Immigration and guest worker policies do more than just increase margins for corporations.
A few that I have experienced recently that have really turned me off of Amazon.

- Charging cables, iOS and Android.
- Memory cards, were supposed to be san disk but obviously were fake and didn't work well.
- GoPro batteries.

I am pretty much 100% skeptical of anything I buy on Amazon now, which is why I have drastically cut back my purchasing from them. Like most who are posting here I mostly go to Walmart and Costco or look for local retailers for my needs.
Much like Unity today, one of the drivers of Flash popularity was that you could hack something together pretty quickly in a single interface. Throw a bunch of elements onto the "stage", add some scripting, and you're done.

In reality, though, serious applications or games seldom used the Flash IDE other than for designing/managing assets and packaging them (and sometimes not even for that). It was pretty bad in many ways for serious work. I used to create fully animated Flash websites and my work was 100% using FDT (an Eclipse plugin) and the external compiler (Flex SDK). It was way more sustainable.

Stripping the Flash IDE itself (or whatever it's called today) down to the animation essentials and allowing it to export in a number of formats (SVG, GIF, etc) would be the best thing for the app. Not sure it's the direction they're going, however.
I remember stumbling across http://www.plantwithbloom.com/ in the past and thinking it was amazing. Consider this at least a small thank-you for your efforts!
The concept is called an "oracle", or a trusted contract that will put real data into the blockchain, then other contracts can query it. For example, the NYSE stock exchange would publish closing prices daily of stocks in an official NYSE contract, and other contracts could trust it. This does rely on a third-party intermediary.

I think there is a business model here to allow internet commenters to easily put their money where their mouth is. Like on reddit, 2 guys get into a long argument chain, and nothing ever comes of it. If it was easy to just say, "Bet me here if you are so sure," and all the other readers of the chain could as well, there is certainly a lot of takers. I know I would. I'm just so crazy busy right now to implement this, but maybe I'll find some time.
Is this a case of there not being enough qualified US citizens or immigrants being willing to work for less?
Shumway is not under active development. The actionscript runtime itself is pretty good, but getting compatibility with the Flash API surface turned out to be practically unachievable.
Yes absolutely, I think your explication is perfectly correct.

Though (IMHO) MCTS is better characterised as evaluating moves rather than exploring plans.

The MCTS only explores the moves in order of likelyhood using the most basic of heuristics, random playout.

The Net outputs likely moves based only the current board position, it formulates no strategy.

No state is stored across moves - each play is independent, relying only on the current board position.

I still don't see anything anywhere in AlphaGo that is a plan, trajectory or strategy.

Neither is there an evaluation of the opponent nor any attempt to outwit them.

That it performs so astonishingly well without a plan is very very interesting and should perhaps give us pause - is planning a hubris ? Do we undervalue our use of heuristics in our own behaviour ?
20% behind schedule? 80% over budget? Look at some of the projects by SpaceX.
I posted this in response to a comment below, but I think this interview clip provides a great overview of the technology that Musk is proposing, as well as answers to some common questions/concerns about the challenges this tunneling might create.

https://youtu.be/hpDHwfXbpfg?t=1m17s

edit: added the word "interview"
Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842705

More comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14847617

First submission, subsequently ignored:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842679

Later submission, also ignored:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14846071
People are downvoting you just like devs dismiss your bug reports about the issue, but I can tell it is exactly the same for me: Firefox on MacOS is extremely slow and uses too much CPU.

People can blame mine (and many others) particular system as much as they want but the fact remains: FF on some MacOS systems is a big CPU hog while Safari, Chrome and Opera just work fine.

In Linux (with the same plugins) it works rather well though (except when using some stuff like Google docs).
There's nothing stopping you from just running Flash itself… even in a Windows XP VM if necessary.
The lesson of history is that people don't learn from history.

In the 1960s there was talk of the "intelligence explosion", double-exponential growth, and all the rest of it. And that was when people didn't have the least idea of how long Silicon had to run.

Winter will always be a few months away as long as you have people learning "machine learning" because Marc Cuban told them to.

This book from the 1980s

https://www.amazon.com/Eco-computer-Intelligence-Geoff-L-Sim...

makes a strong case that the 1960's "Forbin Project" scenario of a single malevolent won't happen and instead we will have multiple competing centers that will shirk their duties long before they start fighting each other and us.
This seems to have very little to do with "tools for 2D animations and games". For starters, it seems to be a "toolkit" and the first example is a piece of code.

In Flash, you can open up the program and make an animation without knowing any code whatsoever. I can guarantee a site like Newgrounds would never have existed if all those teenage flash animators needed to understand object-oriented programming paradigms first.
This seems like a fairly unproductive way to make your point, because I can only guess what you mean.

What I think you mean is that you can be against increased margins for corporations, and that's the reason that you're against immigration.

It's a strange strange thing to be against increased margins for corporations, without any other explanation, so I can see why many people would be confused, if that's what you're trying to say.
You're thinkin' lobster, I'm thinking postgres.
There was a good attempt (Mozilla Shumway), but Mozilla for some reason dropped it. I guess it was too resource draining, and wasn't their core priority.
The EVM has been formalized in theorem provers [1], so they're already taking that threat seriously. One threat also mentioned in the above thread that is often overlooked are full abstraction failures, ie. exploitable mismatches between high level language constructs and the machine code to which it gets compiled.

[1] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5003#comment-94646
> Society is so far behind on understanding privacy issues and the impact of these shoddy practices.

I am now of the opinion that it's going to take something tragic happening - aided by mass surveillance - for this to change.
"intelligence explosion" is also limited by the physical world. AI won't be able to come up with a better understanding of physics simply by reading academic journals. Yes it might have some good ideas, and find some of the stuff we're missing by simply connecting the dots, but that in no way will cause "intelligence explosion".

Just think how much money and time we have to spend to test just a few of all of the theories in physics. And no, AI will not be able to suddenly come up with better theories simply by simulating physical world.
One rules of thumb is "one team one service". If you have multiple teams working on a service then it might start making sense to migrate to multiple microservices.
"I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail."

I bet Henry David Thoreau would say the same about browser tabs.
In the case of teensy you've pretty much got just a chip with breakout (and maybe an FTDI chip) - it's pretty much a reference design. At that point you'd just board-down that entire layout, there's little benefit to buying a module with a mini USB connector that might or might not be in a usable position and high-pitch headers that take up a lot of space.
Whether you work with a monolith or microservices, decoupling is the key, and the best way to ensure decoupling is using the proper abstractions and APIs.
Show HN: How to Play the Guitar in the Time It Takes to Watch This Video [3:15]
A lot of advertisement on porn sites is still Flash. Will anybody think of the children?
Hm, is it true that everyone with CTE dies "horribly"? I think that might be overstating things a bit.
I'm right there with you. Except, I've been doing corporate jobs but no one wants to hire outside something your experienced in. So I'm stuck. And the thought of even interviewing disgust me.
Businesses are pretty simple. It's about consistently growing revenue and healthy cash flow.
Is it a coincidence that just yesterday we discussed a similar topic with fear being a product sold to us? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14843080

(This is to increase the discussion spectrum, not to shut down the one started here)
Possibly, but they could also choose to enforce copyright claims on people who can pay. Or maybe facebook just doesn't care about my meme pages and wants to purge them so I spend more time looking at branded content.
> This adversarial image is visually indistinguishable from the original, with no visual artifacts. However, it’s classified as “guacamole” with high probability!

May "guacamole" become as prominent as "Alice and Bob".
Aren't there standalone flash player desktop applications?
I think some might read that title and jump to conclusion. Don't. The article states that they are only foreign born, but it doesn't say anything about how they got here. It would have helped had the article made this clear, but it's likely IEEE doesn't want to step into the H1B visa abuse issue.
It was an incredible opportunity for programmers to work with graphic artists and sound designers.

It was the best years of my life as a programmer.

Flash was first and foremost a community where the goal was to further creativity with the "web" as a medium.

No thanks to Elop who "Eloped" Macromedia.
It's a major theme in Mike Davis' _City of Quartz_ [1] which predates No Logo by a decade.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Quartz
There's SEEED Studio, in Shenzhen. They make PCB boards and assemble them. If you design using only parts in their Open Parts Library [1], they offer quite fast turnaround. They have ARM and ATMega CPU parts. They can also source from DigiKey and Mouser. They have a Design for Manufacturing manual, with lots of information on tolerances.[2] They'll hand-build one-off prototypes for you. Upload your Gerbers and BOM, and they'll give you a quick quote.

Of course, all this assumes you can design a working board. It's not inherently difficult, but there's a considerable learning curve. There are lots of online resources. For board design, there are lots of packages. I use KiCAD, which is open source, but Eagle is probably more suitable for pro work. (KiCAD is a good package, but the component footprint libraries are not that complete and may be somewhat off.)

(I've used them for blank boards. They do a nice job, but it's not super-fast. All their boards have been good, although once, by mistake, I got boards intended for someone in Japan, and they got my boards. Seeed re-made the boards and shipped again.)

[1] https://www.seeedstudio.com/opl.html
[2] https://statics3.seeedstudio.com/fusion/ebook/PCB+DFM+V1.0+....
Flash also made distribution very easy: all the code and assets could be bundled in one compressed SWF file. Now we have lots of js files that are minimized and bundled and other loose asset files.
Well, a hundred is actually manageable. A thousand just takes up so much space, in any form, that you can't possible sort through them in any reasonable time.
A thousand marketing departments are now checking with IT if their own domain is secured to prevent domain expiration from happening...
B/c we haven't completely evolved beyond our animal instincts yet. Merovingian said it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHW0FgiB7TI&t=4m16s
Doing microservice right with proper data isolation is a challenge. Once you do that the next challenge awaits - strategy and infrastructure to replicate the right data set to other domains
Isn't that what Adobe Air was? http://www.adobe.com/products/air.html
'OK K.O.' game hacks help build community for cartoon
combination of all of the above + cost of living in CA
ContainerShip launches its fully managed Kubernetes service
Docker has been a lifesaver in this realm. If you do the work to containerize each service (non-insignificant upfront cost), getting all your services running on a local box is as simple as a `docker-compose up`.
this is what I'm curious about too. Are these people who came to the U.S for college / grad school?

the report only says foreign born - doesn't mention how long they've been in the U.S for or if they came just for the job they landed.
The first two paragraphs of the article ties them together. I'll admit you may be right, but the confusion here is driven by the article.
There is HBO go for 20$ a month, which IMO sounds too expensive for most.
In my experience, bookmarks just get forgotten about. You end up with years of bookmarks, never revisited. Tabs are a visible reminder.
If you enjoy nursing, after a couple years of experience you can go on to get your NP (and I believe work full-time/half-time while you are doing it - and/or get it paid for by a hospital).

NP's can bring in 150K outside bay area and often have better schedules/flexibility than physicians.
They still have time. There's nothing stopping them from doing this. It would certainly help archival efforts and benefit people who do animations.
I think California did become the 6th largest economy in the world by just getting workers for less.
There's nothing duplicitous. A private entity is providing a free service along with terms of use. Why should anyone think they're entitled to another person's property?

> it also probably isn't a welfare-maximizing use of space.

Probably not, but that doesn't make the property any less private. Anyway, it hardly sounds like the corporations' terms are unreasonable, or significantly worse for "welfare" than those of a public park.
1129 participants this year. The top 5 represented countries are:

1. S. Korea - 242

2. Japan - 186

3. China - 114

4. France - 85

5. Germany - 36

There's a pretty long tail of 61 countries this year. (they published stats in the kongresa libro - congress book)

I find that most esperantists are europeans. The euorpean congresses tend to also be the biggest.

Culturally, there seems to be an age gap. The older generation (of which there are a lot of, I'd say the majority for sure are over 50) tends to be more into people who buy into the vision of world peace and inter-cultural communication. The younger crowd tends to be a mixture of world-travelers, language nerds, programmers, kids of esperantists, and people looking for a subculture to latch on to.

Not sure if it's growing, attendance seems to vary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Esperanto_Congress#/medi...
I thought this was the beginning of the end: https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
As things like Flash and Silverlight due i can't help but think that there will be another one of these in-browser techs that is just bound to come back around. What's new is old and what's old is new :D
Looks dead, but https://github.com/tobytailor/gordon
VMware vCenter's Web UI by default runs in Flash, even on the newest vCenter 6.5. There's an option for an HTML5 interface, but it's not feature-complete and is far buggier and laggier than the already buggy Flash client. ESXi 6.5's web interface is HTML5, and it appears to have a lot of common codebase with vCenter's HTML5 interface, but is far more mature and accessible. I hope that this gives VMware the kick in the pants to finally lose the Flash vCenter client and finish up the HTML5 version.
On that note, coffee, sugar and energy drinks should also be included. UV light is also somewhat addictive.

Carrots are not addictive though. I won't do anything for a carrot, no matter how many I've eaten in the past.
This makes me wonder how much differences in eye contact between cultures (in terms of etiquette) is due to prevailing genetic influences.

Like if most of the people in a group are wired to make less eye contact, maybe that's how the social norms get developed.
Tabs seem like a poor visualization of your browsing history. A history tree of your last N sites seems like it would be a lot more useful and informative (not to mention compact). Tabs don't show the tree relationship.
253 comments here as of the time when i am seeing the post... really folks? :)
The dark web goes corporate
Indeed they also help keep wages and demand of American workers down.
It was a path to programming for a lot of artistic minded kids who enjoy learning things on their own. They could start by slowly adding programming to animations until it became a game they could share with their friends. A lot of these people grew up into development jobs. I think if the barrier to learning was picking up ES6 and React or Unity before being able to make a functional game, a lot of them would not have gotten started.

This is not a small thing.
Making it easier to grow communities on GitHub
> Sounds like a wasted opportunity for HBO not to have a Netflix-like service that's completely separated from cable contracts.

It would be, if they didn't already have such a service.
Why would guest worker policies increase margins? Software is pretty much the easiest type of work to offshore, and if the businesses do that they don't have to pay wages sufficient to live in San Francisco.
QoL in California is pretty poor, considering the cost required as compared to the rest of the US. Only immigrants are willing to pay the price since for many of them, it's still an upgrade from what they can get back home.
And AS3/FLex is still better then JS/and any JS framework
Nothing besides a thread populated by programming language theorists with links to over two decades of research on smart contracts and smart contract languages, all of which are safer and more composable than Solidity and Viper both, and whose linked threads have hundreds of comments from other PLT researchers? Yeah, that sounds totally useless.
The new system is more secure. There'll be some initial pain as new APIs are stabilized and new extensions are created, but I'm willing to give Mozilla the chance, they're the only major browser that's not making a browser with a secondary, ulterior motive.
Not uncommon for these kind of giant step backwards in the world of computing.

I was in a plane the other day sitting next to an elderly gentleman who saw me using Apple products. He then proceeded to tell me how he's been on mac since 1984, and absolutely loved Apple products before, but now he's stuck on OS X 10.6 because it's the last version that supports AppleWorks, a tool he's been using for over 20 years. No currently supported tool gives him the flexibility and power he had with Apple Works - embedding multiple documents of different types (spreadsheet, word processing, etc) within one another, not to mention the thousands of AppleWorks documents he's accumulated over the years. However, most websites and new products don't work on 10.6, so he has another modern computer just for browsing the web. (George R R Martin similarly has an old computer sitting around just to use his favorite 20 year old word processor of choice)

Flash is similar - I have animator friends who maintain an old copy of Windows XP because they love Flash's interface and no other tool comes close.

The news yesterday about MSPaint potentially going away (I think MS back pedaled on it?) falls in the same category - powerful tools that pretty much can't be improved upon that get randomly EoL'd.

Another thing that happens pretty often - tools randomly losing functionality in an update because the developer felt that it should be removed for whatever reason.

Maybe there would be a niche for a minimal Linux distro that comes with a set of powerful, minimalistic creation tools (office documents, multimedia manipulation + viewing, etc - whatever covers the computing needs of 90% of the population) that gets updated with security updates etc but has 1) backwards compatibility and 2) a user interface that mostly never changes as primary goals.
> Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.

Why not open source it and make Flash the open format instead?
I don't know about Linux, but back when Flash was relevant the Mac version always felt like an inefficient crashy dumpster fire to me. I don't have a source to back this up, but I always assumed that was a big part of why Jobs was so uninterested in supporting it on iOS.
I am annoyed by privacy breaches
Overall a net gain, but it made you leave?

That definitely does not sound like an overall net gain.
Yes, I do. Thanks.
One difference is that corporations can be more easily taken to court. It's more difficult to hold the 'government' accountable without it being political. I don't necessarily know how to remedy that, but it's a different class of problem. Maybe there should be more personal liability for the individuals in these agencies?
The reply by this developer is full of sarcasm, a literary devise commonly thought to be hard for people on the autism spectrum to understand, let alone practice to such an extend.

The only imaginable purpose of this domain name was to elicit exactly the reaction that he got, and/or to cause emotions in people that don't complain. Such an intent to inflict emotional harm is also not consistent with what is commonly thought of as autism, especially not if it succeeds. Indeed, autism is almost defined by an inability to sense others' emotions, and therefore also to influence then.

If anything, this behaviour resembles sociopathy more closely.