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Even if education was the same everywhere, the most talented would tend to flow toward the areas of highest opportunity, and employers and customers will pick (their judgment of) the best performers.

Either the best here will compete with the best there, or the best there will come here (or vice versa)
Flash (the editor) wasn't killed, Adobe renamed it to Animate and now exports to other formats.
When liberty attaches to ownership and all property including the rented space your bed is sitting in now belongs to someone else it is scary and oppressive you just haven't noticed.
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>Journalism — the historical counter to propaganda

"The good old days", except that never existed. Journalism has always been the tool for the powerful to paint a positive picture of themselves to the general public via "unbiased agents" called journalists who are "free to write anything" as long as it serves their masters.

Now that almost anyone can publish their opinion and share it with everyone, the ones who have been doing their thing for hundreds of years are being exposed.
Nice! Can't remove a classic and glad they listened to the people
Companies shopping the business, or going public almost always hire a CFO.

This is probably the top indicator IMHO.
Unacceptable to whom? Is the US a free country or not?
I think you are misinterpreting my posts. I'm just trying to make sense of all of this, myself. This report is eye opening to me and I just don't understand it. I understand and accept that the CTE rate for football players is quite high.

What I don't understand is what that means exactly. Are there degrees of CTE? Might some of these players have CTE but hardly ever show much of a symptom in their lives? Or is everyone, as the people who I was responding to suggested, doomed to some sort of dementia where they forget who they are their families are? And if that's the case, shouldn't we see this more often among ex-players who are still in the public? Or are the former players who take these jobs all in the 10% that don't get CTE? Just trying to make sense of the conflicting data here.
That seemed pretty motivational to me. The message I got was to try as hard as possible not to just "go with the flow" and choose what I can in life.
Depression is orthogonal to critical thinking skills. Suggesting otherwise is ad hominem.
I agree with your point but also want to point out that a very large percentage of the food industry is very focused on increasing 'engagement'. Most process foods/snacks push our addiction button to get us coming back and eating more.
How about Safari?
Bucklescript works fantastic in the Elixir system (I have a bucklescript-tea library that maps Elm code 'almost' verbatum to Bucklescript code too).

There is an ElixirScript project in current dev, still early but usable, that compiles Elixir code to javascript too.
Industrial engineer jobs went to China because the low-wage factory job they oversee went to China. Industrial engineers would be easy to find if their was demand for them.
I wouldn't even know where to begin, to make you feel joy. Dread though? That would be easy, just sincere threats of violence would make any rational person feel dread. I think for joy I'd have to offer you something significant, or know you very very well. The triggers to make you feel awful are probably much more universal: fear of death, injury, penury, ostracism, failure, catastrophe.
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Most expensive talent != top-end talent
Then the players are probably much too nice.
Because the only viable alternatives are a capitalist wonderland and soviet Russia. It would be forgivable if you were actually funny.
Does it pay better than a career as a dockworker or insulation installer over the course of each career?

Did it when the people being impacted by CTE today played?

I think most people overestimate the career earnings of the average football player and especially don't discount for the dramatic increase in pay that happened in the last 20 years?
Yes. When a company is 'operationally cash flow positive' which is to say they make enough money that not only does their bank account balance increase each quarter, but also their future spending to refresh their equipment and offices etc would not cause their cash balance to go below its current point. That company will have the opportunity to 'exit' (sell themselves to another company) or IPO.

To quote the former CFO of Blekko, "Every month we have a number of dollars in the bank, that number is bigger than last month, 'Bueno', its smaller than last month 'No Bueno.'"

Easy and quantifiable.

Also, if the company is losing money, and each month the bank balance goes down, divide the rate of loss by the balance, at the zero intercept the company will 'exit'.

Also easy and quantifiable.

Between those two 'easy' versions, lays the challenge. But for your question which included the caveat "... in the near future" only the easy ones apply.
Yes. Flash was unusably slow on MacOS. Stuff that ran smooth on Windows would stutter and lag on the Mac.
Similar in quality to Lyrebird

https://soundcloud.com/user-535691776/dialog

Google WaveNet sounds almost perfect in comparison:

https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...
So the punter had CTE too? And all the quarterbacks? Obviously these players can get concussions, but don't we expect them to have a much lower rate of repeated, sub-concussive impacts that are supposed to result in CTE?

(They don't say so, but 110 of 111 were diagnosed, and if the only brain tested without it was the punter I can't imagine them not emphasizing that. I don't think this conflicts with the family's request to not identify the player.)

Presumably there is some sort of way to quantify the extent of disease besides yes/no. I'd really like to see the the extent vs. player position. Is there a write up for this, or was it a direct to NY Times deal?

Look, football is a violent sport, and it's certainly plausible that this induces a chronic, difficult-to-detect but serious disease over years of playing, and that the organization making billions from it would fight against that conclusion. But it's hard to square the smugness and outrage in this thread with the observation that NFL players have a lower rate of all-cause mortality than the general population.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/sports/football/nfl-player...

Obviously that's consistent with the NFL having a significant net-negative impact on the health of athletes, who are a special sub-population that is likely to be of above-average health. (Although note that the average body weight of their pool is also very high, which would almost assuredly still be true even if they hadn't played, and that increases baseline death rates from things like heart disease.) And that impact could be so negative as to outweigh the benefits of playing, possibly necessitating rule changes, compensation, etc. But there is no ghastly epidemic of NFL players dying by the droves.

I don't think there's been a neurological performance test of retired players, but one will probably be done and I'm willing to bet that NFL players again do better than the general population (which, again, does not mean that playing in the NFL doesn't make you dumber). Anyone want to bet against me?
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I thought the message on Flash vs Flash Builder was a bit confusing.. but it came down to Flash being more for animation tasks, and Flash Builder more for building crud-like apps. There was overlap, but both targeted differing audiences.

I did find some object model inconsistencies annoying all the same, and some of the security implications in the early 00's frankly scared me. Even though I worked with it, I disabled it.

React + JS is nice, but the animation tooling in Flash itself was second to none. And still better than many options. If I still made a lot of elearning content, I'd be much more upset by the fall of flash.
It's real. We've landed enormous performance improvements this year, including migrating most Firefox users to a full multi-process architecture, as well as integrating parts of the Servo parallel browser engine project into Firefox. There are still many improvements yet-to-land, but in most cases we're on track for Firefox 57 in November.
Factually, his opposition to Iraq was not publicly strong prior to 2003. As is classic for Trump, in 20015 he claims the opposite, despite his purposeful equivocation. This is a strategy he employs to cover all his bases whenever possible.
The compiler should fire warnings to prevent injection like attacks.
I understand solidity is a tool to program what to do with balance... A super set of rules that (at least) alerts the developers about dangerous operations will probably become a thing in the future.
Kickstarter! You can easily pre-sell a million of them.

Actually shipping them turns out to be harder, but by that time you've got the money.
There's a huge middle ground between "Being #2 is failure" and "no need to ever try to do anything"
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Related question, Is there a way to "download"(for machine learning purposes) all posts on HN?
-3 years of audited financial records
-SOX compliance
An philosophical discussion with USV VC, Albert Wenger about a world after capital, cryptocurrencies/blockchain, basic income policy, sci-fi, mindfulness, and longevity of human civ
I have a bad experience every time I have to declare taxes because the interface was built on top of Flash; many parts of the platform are broken (missing images, inconsistent styling in sub-pages, JavaScript exceptions) and I wonder what the government will do to overcome this change, three years is not much time by government standards.
The tools still exist as "Adobe Animate CC". It exports HTML5 and video files now instead of *.swf.

This is only the death of the player software, not the toolkit.
It is totally something to be dismissive about because violent crime is firmly in a downtrend, that a year here or there has a slight uptick does not change the trend and is entirely irrelevant. To say violent crime is up at all is to be dishonest and nothing more than an attempt to incite fear.
Since these disproportionally affect males, what is the female vice of this age?
You can be wise and have mental health issues. In my experience often my friends with depression are wisest on this stuff because they have to deal with it all the time. Also, I don't think underlying health issues diminish it that much as you don't generally have much control over those issues
Yeah, this is the typical dismissal of anything not STEM!!STEM!!

In reality, technological invention has always gone hand-in-hand with progress in our understanding of how to organise a just and productive society. It's sometimes harder to point at specific examples because this change happened more gradually, but ignorance of this progress doesn't legitimise a wholesale dismissal.

Concepts such as the rule of law, democracy, capitalism etc. didn't appear out of nowhere, nor were they always-existing "goodery truthiness". And there's no technology that could be identified as central to their establishment.

In fact, I'm pretty sure I'd rather live in a society with the technology of the stone age and today's understanding of law&justice, than a society with the technology of today and the stone age's morality.

In as far as technology had an impact on such progress, Jared Diamond argues that it was mostly in increasing the productivity of farming, allowing more and more people to not work the fields, live in cities, and actually start thinking.
His point is fair though; just replace "road" with "railroad".
Jeez, talk about hold-outs. Lots of grandparents have already been on Facebook for a number of years.
I've been a user and fan of Geni.com for several years now. I wish they'd update their interface to allow some friendliness like this.
Everything is unacceptable nowadays. The word has lost meaning.

It's fine to inform someone of the risks. An informed society is better than a society that doesn't let you play football.
Same with headgear- it's there to prevent cuts, not to cushion blows, but some people feel safer wearing headgear to spar in boxing.

In my experience it makes my head a larger target than I'm used to, plus it affects my peripheral vision, making me take more shots to the head than I would have otherwise.

Plus, put on some headgear, let me punch you, and tell me how cushioned you felt.
This is so dismissive. You may not find those things valuable, but that doesn't make them valueless.
No. You don't know enough to be expert at everything, and if you were to become expert at sourcing information etc, you'd become a journalist, the very elite you decry.

(it's ok to have experts, honest!)
We're not talking about elites, we're talking about average.
There will never be enough 'elite' students to go around.
Yes, games.

http://www.kongregate.com/top-rated-games?sort=newest

Although it's not clear from just a game being in Flash if it's in Haxe and compiled to Flash or actually in AS, but still. It's so convenient for games.
Yeah, getting a bit of:

"Chrome is so much better for my usecase. Look how much Firefox usage has declined, Firefox should just die"

"Here's my use case which Firefox is better at"

"Your use case is invalid!"

from HN comments this week.
Certainly. Is this the case with Medicare, and if so, does the US federal govt. know what medications my Grandpa takes?
It seems like we're at the point where something might be able to be done, but having the set up be

assembly -> RNN -> C

Would be asking for a bit much IMO. If you develop something like snowman that outputs many possible equivalent C ASTs and train something that tries to choose the one that was the original code.
Language in a literate society changes more slowly. But it still changes, given enough time it will fragment.

There's also no reason to think Esperanto would evolve or fragment any slower than English once it's actually in use. Which negates many of the arguments that we need Esperanto as a global lingua franca because English will fragment once America declines.
The only people who care about the life of this product are those who invested in buying and learning how to use it. I can understand why they care, but I don't.

I decided not to invest in it back when Macromedia bought it because I knew it would be expensive and subjected me to their whims. I thought "Futuresplash" was great and had high hopes for it but I'd already been burned by Adobe's planned obsolescence and I hated the way Macromedia designed their UIs and thought they charged way too much for their products.

I stopped using Adobe's plug-in on my Mac even before Jobs came out and complained about Flash. I considered it a form "spyware" and even if it wasn't it was constantly pestering me to update it and I seldom ever visited a site that used it. As I recall it was a bit of a pain to get rid of it too.
I wish they'd just come up with Flash X (sub X for whatever), where the tooling was flash in a flash interface, and geared towards react in a flex-like (flashbuilder) interface. Where the output was a directory with assets that could run directly in a browser/iframe, and svg for vector assets.
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There are signs a startup is doing well (e.g., growth), signs that an exit may be necessary (e.g., capital requirements beyond another VC round), signs an exit may be desired, signs a company is ready for an IPO, signs a company is preparing for an exit, signs that exit will be "successful", etc.

You'd have to chain all those together to answer your question as posed.

Generally, look for $100M+ revs, strong growth, institutional investors, and a reasonably-new CFO with a track record in sales/IPOs.
I've been working with the BEAM (via Erlang) for over a decade, and with Elixir for almost 1.5 years, and I'd still give up, well, probably my current job if I could get a fully Hindley-Milner Typed Elixir...
I could not agree more.

The Linux version was really badly maintained for ages.

Circa 2014, I had to do weird stuff like sed on the .so flash plugin to bump artificially its version string from 11 to 12

This was to work around a requirement for VMware VCenter UI which required flash versions newer that
the one available for Firefox at that time (11.2 IIRC).

I hope that at some points, Adobe will release the Flash source code. It's probably not the most beautiful code in the world, but at least, it would provide a reference implementation and help other implementations a lot.
A friend of mine awoke from a coma a month before he could move or speak. He could hear the nurses, they thought he was a vegetable.

Are you saying the nurses were right? Without the ability to move, he wasn't actually intelligent?

Edit: I see your edit now, sure I like your restatement "simulation has a big role to play as imagination and plan testing"
Thanks for the reply. This is what I'm trying to understand myself. I didn't see the 9% number in the article. I did see the mention about selection bias. So I wonder what the true numbers are here. If it's 9% then that explains well enough why so many ex-players don't show strong signs of CTE (by strong I mean long-term memory loss or worse).
Is it that we aren't investing in our own citizens, or that they aren't taking advantage of the opportunities that those investments create that are open to all?

I went to a top liberal arts college, and majored in physics for most of my time there. Within the physics major, every single student was either 1.) An immigrant 2.) The child of an immigrant or 3.) Jewish. It was similar - though a little less pronounced - in the CS and math majors. Most of my friends there were from comfortable middle-class American backgrounds, and most of them majored in English, music, history, or psychology. Many of them are struggling financially or still dependent upon financial support from parents, 12 years after graduation.

The American educational system is such that you can largely make your own choices from college onwards (and to a limited degree, in high school too). This is a great strength of America, but it also means that sometimes people make choices that don't work out for them. The native-born citizens I know that invested heavily in learning math & computers when they were teenagers are doing great, even if they came from dirt-poor backgrounds. The ones I know who figured there would always be a job waiting for them, even if they came from very comfortable upper-middle-class backgrounds, are barely scraping by.
Sure but boxing gives us a historical precedent. Boxing used to be the professional sport. It was also a sport that many youth across all spectrums of society participated in.

Today it is confined to a niche professionally and is almost totally absent from most youth sport systems.
for those commenting about how unhygenic having many tabs open is, why bother trying to cajole others into having just a few tabs open? it's such a weird social norming behavior (to me). i can understand asking why others do it because it is not your norm, but why the addition of trying to force others to conform to your behavior? (i'm genuinely asking, as this kind of stuff is fascinating to me.)

why not take the 30 seconds to mull it over to at least develop a sense of understanding/empathy before throwing out a micro agression around something so frivolous? i mean, if it's not hurting you, then let other people be, right?

and besides, shouldn't the computer conform to how the human wants to work and not the other way around?
For those who curious and who is in Berlin:

There is going to be an event on this Thursday (July 27, 2017) where the author of this tool will be talking about decompilation.

https://www.meetup.com/LLVM-Social-Berlin/events/241197713/
How long until a critical mass of people forms to allow some more useful form of news to gain economic momentum?

Will it ever happen? If not will the economic repercussions leave us with a decent world or some kind of dystopia?
Try booting with the latest ubuntu/fedora live cd to see if it is a problem with your install. I've had good results blowing away an old install, while preserving /home.
Hotstar's (India's netflix) video player runs on Flash.
lowered fertility is not the same as childlessness
Connect is not going to die, is my understanding.
I'd like to see that graph expanded to distributions, and weighted by population.

I'd also like to see China and India and Russia on that list.

USA is big enough to be an above average nation and a below average nation combined.

Israel, that ranks significantly below the US on that chart, has perhaps the largest technology industry per capita in the world.
Dopamine. We market excitement and adventure to children like sugar (along with sugar, which is what's actually being sold a lot of the time), then most of them get into the workforce and discover that most jobs are bullshit and while the political system is nominally a democracy, most corporations and public institutions are authoritarian dictatorships. Some people accept this and can be bought off with holidays or being consumers, more intelligent ones who can't can be redirected into being angry at Those People.
::waves::

It's generally from researching a topic while working on a project. It's a bit like a cache of bookmarks, you don't really know what you're going to need until you've made some headway and found what was truly helpful that you may need later versus what you can safely close.
>So apparently $100k+ is not enough money to interest the citizens. I wonder why that's the case.

Lots of other career fields which offer more money and/or prestige? Anecdata: many of my friends with the aptitude for software dev are in med school now.
vertical tabs: It seems you are taking of an extension? (I got excited for a second but I couldn't find the option under settings). If you are talking about an extension then Firefox also has a similar extension that works very well.
Well but ... In the course of a day, I often realize that I have the same URL opened in 2+ tabs. There of course are use cases where I want to have more views on the same page but usually, that's not the default behaviour I want.

> open when I need them

Well, what do you mean with "open". As I said IMHO there is something wrong here.
Whoa, I would love to hear more. I'm a dissatisfied software engineer and have often thought about trying to move into a technical hands on field like welding, electrician, auto mechanic, etc, in the hopes it'd be more satisfying, or at least less boring.

(I agree american investment in education is abyssmal, and I bet gp might agree too, but mistook your comment's meaning)
Fair, and (while I'm not wholly educated on the subject) there still is a lot more regulation and consumer attention to those things now.

Of course, that may not have been the case a few decades ago, but I think there's a lot to be learned from there.
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Gecko is apparently pretty painful to embed, with most other Gecko based browsers (that weren't firefox forks a la Pale Moon) having long since stopped development or switched to Webkit/Chromium.
So what? All I hear is 'they could be EVEN better'. Unlike the comments below I have no issues proclaiming I'd rather the jobs go to Americans.
Apparently not. The criteria for what counts as evidence of CTE is still being fleshed out, at least as of 3 years ago.

> The neuropathology of CTE is increasingly well defined. In 2013, McKee and colleagues published the largest case report to date of individuals with neuropathologically confirmed CTE, presenting proposed criteria for four stages of CTE pathology based on the severity of the findings [9••]. Formal validation of the reliability of these criteria and the staging system are currently being performed by a team of nine neuropathologists, funded by a National Institutes of Health (NIH)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255271/
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