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ActionScript3 (or AVM2) is fairly well documented and Shumway did a fairly good job executing ABC files, I think we got to like 99%+ compatibility on the reference tests. Getting Rendering + Timeline + Library working correctly, ... that's another story. You have to bug-for-bug compatible AND do different things for different versions of SWF and AVM versions. If anyone needs a decent emulation of AVM2 bytecode, Shumway has a pretty good one in there.
Of course you're right, but lots of startups and "corporate makers" learn this the hard way.
There are plenty of dev board from manufacturers under $100. They're just too bad to compete with the Arduino/Pi.

It's not fun figuring out a board with no documentation and shit tools that noone ever used.
This seems like a direct argument against camera only systems for autonomous vehicles.
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hmm. bloom seems to really amazing, everbody with a garden might want to use.would be cool if this works in europe also...
Building a business is a lot more work than hacking on some fun ideas. There is significant risk, often little chance of a payoff, and it consumes everything in your life. IMHO there's nothing wrong with working for other people from time to time and being apart of a community of engineers. That being said, I have had the privilege of helping build a few startups and it involves a number of people. So if you are truly interested in building a successful startup, you need to do with with other people.

As an aside, these sound like awesome projects and it sounds like you accomplished your goals of creating and learning from new experiences! I wouldn't call them worthless but rather adventures! That 3D printed watch is neat, I've been trying to come across a new kind of PC for the year 2020 and beyond which acts as a hub. There are all sorts of exciting stuff on the horizon that you can continue to explore like WiGig and beyond. Don't give up!
Ask HN: How soon would it be to call it quits after joining a company?
Say you join a company and after a month, things aren't what they were hyped out to be.. There are a handful of fallbacks in place. How soon would it be without wasting everyone's time to leave?
Hey zbuf, if you go to any of Cleanfeed's blog posts, the FAQ and Contact links in the footer are broken.
>i also hope they keep developing and supporting AIR

Flash support within AIR is going to continue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851400
>There is no such thing as "objectively easy." Languages are easy or difficult in the degree to which they share common features and vocabulary with a language you already know.

That's just wrong. All that means is that you haven't experienced all the crazy language features out there. Children all over the world learn their native languages at different speeds because some languages are harder than others.

I guess your statement is technically correct in that if you already know a really difficult language, learning it is easy, but that's just pedantry.
There's a big difference between cheering on people killing each other and a popular sport remaining popular after the long term consequences became known.
Perhaps successful people do wake up earlier, but does that mean that the average person will become successful by doing so? Perhaps there are also many unsuccessful people that also get up early, but you don't hear about them!

I've also read a theory that says that you can become too focused on success, and in doing so miss out on serendipitous opportunities. I wonder how the succeed at all costs ethos sits with that.
I'm not sure if you're new here, or just in a foul mood, but myself and others have been pretty calm commenting on your original post. Your comparison was weak, completely off topic, and you get upset when it's pointed out? Where do you think you are?

Take a moment and review the HN Guidelines please: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.
Which is why as an unintended side effect of the US instituting a single-payer healthcare system, abortion would become illegal.
Getting an H1B worker is significantly more expensive than someone domestic at the same salary. You have to pay lawyers a bunch of money, the employee can't always start when you/they want, and worse, right now the chance of actually getting an H1B is only something like 1/3. So there's a 2/3 chance that after all of the work of interviewing for this person, paying lawyers, holding a spot for them, they will never actually be able to work for you.

At any rate, I would like to see some empirical backing for those who want to raise H1B salaries higher than inflation adjustment.

The side effect you think is great, is actually really bad. It's not a question of developing more talent, it's the fact that people move to the coasts for jobs. All this really does is disadvantage companies not in NYC and SF, and make it more likely that they will have a labor shortage they can't make up, and pack up. This isn't reflective of anything though, except basically regional inflation (it's not simply that salaries in NYC and SF are so much higher because the companies there are the most productive and therefore deserve the H1B slots more, the salaries are partly inflated because cost of living is also super high, i.e. a dollar is worth less).
It is alphabetical. Also it is wikipedia edits from the previous day, some days do not have that section, but I would say that is rare. The blurbs do seem to be more statement of fact than op ed especially compared to media outlets.

Also humans are messy.
From the companies standpoint, there is a lack of local candidates who can prove they are qualified. Proving it is important because if the company gets it wrong it will costs $XXX,XXX or more and probably more than a year to figure it out. This makes them understandably risk adverse.
Oh, they loaded the Etherium blockchain into an SQL database. Easy. From the title, it appeared that someone had figured out how to represent an SQL database in the blockchain using the virtual machine for contracts. That would be hard.

As I've pointed out before, smart contracts need atomic transactions. Either everything commits, or nothing commits. This is a basic property needed for accounting systems.
> I assume the Adobe AIR will live on, which is basically "Flash Player for Desktop and Mobile Apps".

That appears to be the case:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851400
Indeed, version 7 came with the best improvements in features, scalability and stability I ever witnessed in a product. A bit later, SQL 2000 also broke new ground with its OLAP functionality.
I used to work for startup called OpenMile in 2012. We were trying to do pretty much the exact same thing. We might have been too early, but it was hard. We had the tech, but the trucker and other brokers were not very tech savvy. The margins were low and there was too much hand holding.

Best of luck to them.
This seems like a really bad idea.
> It's like calling something 'The Gospel' or 'The New Testament' or the 'Quran Protocol'.

Yeah, I don't think that is true, at all. Dharma is a concept and you've listed books (or close enough to books).

According to Wikipedia,

> In certain contexts, dharma designates human behaviours considered necessary for order of things in the universe, principles that prevent chaos, behaviours and action necessary to all life in nature, society, family as well as at the individual level.

With this definition, I think the author has given the project a fine name.

Beyond that, I really think you're getting bent out of shape about something very insignificant and don't think this has anything to do with "westerners [yanking] Buddhist words". It's no different than naming something Apache, Vista, Yahoo, or Google. It's just a name.

And just to add, also according to Wikipedia,

> The antonym of dharma is adharma (Sanskrit: अधर्म), meaning that which is “not dharma”. As with dharma, the word adharma includes and implies many ideas; in common parlance, adharma means that which is against nature, immoral, unethical, wrong or unlawful.

So, either you don't know what Dharma or Adharma is yourself or you just don't know what's an antonym.
We'll ban this account if you won't stop violating the guidelines with personal attacks and name calling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Too bad. Mozzilla will not ask me to update flash player as it is literally gone now. I must there are too much memories with flash player as there was a time when you couldn't play a video on youtube without it. #ripadobeflashplayer
Just because you find one source more politically palatable than the other does not make your preferred news outlet less susceptible to being propaganda. It was the NYT after all which convinced the public that Saddam Hussein was armed to the teeth with WMD's, and the only solution was to give him (and his oil fields) a little taste of Freedom.
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Research prototypes exist, yes, but Jeeva Wireless has yet to ship any parts. Once they do, they're going to be very limited on range, power and # of devices on the same band.
GiveCampus (YC S15) hiring Rails devs in DC and SF to improve school fundraising
We are GiveCampus, and we build fundraising software for educational institutions. Our goal is to build innovative software so schools can raise money, and make it cheaper and more accessible for everyone. 25 of the top 50 colleges in the US already use GiveCampus, and we are growing faster than we can currently build!

Our engineering team is currently still small, and we're looking to add to the team to keep up with our continued growth.

Our ideal candidate:

- working professionally for 2+ years. Not currently hiring fresh bootcamp grads.

Front-End

- great front end chops, but can still manage some of the backend functionality as well.

- eye for clean design (though not necessarily need to be a designer), and be able to implement and iterate quickly.

Full-Stack

- can do css down to database queries, and be comfortable with everything in between.

- enjoy owning a feature or product, from idea to deployment, and support/iterating in the hands of users.

Our stack is Ruby on Rails, with mostly vanilla JS on the front end, and we're moving toward React where appropriate.

Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, expects us to be a household name in the next few years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896296. We were also covered by the Washington Post last year (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/1...), and have more than quadrupled the number of schools using our software since it was published.

Shoot us a message at careers@givecampus.com with your github and a little about why you're interested in GiveCampus!
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I hope this is correct. I would gladly switch to Firefox and forget about google forever. But firefox is just too slow for me.
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-choose-a-laptop-for-p... works
Large, distant comets more common than previously thought
I would also suggest that the LA Times does seem to apply a lot of effort into separating OP/ED and news. They do publish a lot of op/ed, but it is decently separated.
I am not super familiar with Scott McCloud so sorry for that, but I'm very admirable of comics from a distance.

I think it's worth mentioning I think this might be a little outdated of a definition because philosophy and art is agreeing more every day that everything in art grows out of the survival and reproduction instincts.

They also appear to agree more every day that your last point, that "anyone who dedicates their free time to creating is an artist" holds true.
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I would suggest thinking harder about making money, not less. I think these projects represent a half measure between _really_ trying to make money, and having fun. Real, profitable side projects cum businesses are usually much more boring. You may enjoy a talk I gave at Dropbox about how to start a side business without quitting your day job: https://youtu.be/J8UwcyYT3z0
Many machine learning and reinforcement learning models are susceptible to adversarial attacks; it's not unique to deep learning. However, because so many systems that are currently deployed in applications use deep learning, it's under particular scrutiny.
I think $250k is a little high. You can have "high end" talent fresh out of grad school and make less then that. Maybe $100k or $150k would be better.
“How can I read and parse CSV files in C++?”
Hot damn, an actual Farmville developer. My big plan fresh out of college was to make a Farmville-esque game with some action elements. Got WAY further along than I rightly should have, and I have AS3 to thank for that.

It's a shame it's going away. Glad the pros from that time feel the same way I do about it.
This type of system already exists. Their are plenty of exchanges where truckers or trucking companies can get matched with a load or pickup work.

I don't understand what makes this so transforming?
You may want to check out the recent 2.0.0 release candidates for the Cowboy HTTP server -- HTTP/2 support is one of the changes. (It's technically Erlang, but most Elixir projects I've seen use it for HTTP, generally through the Phoenix framework.)

https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy
Kind of tangential to the discussion here, but Walmart's threats are empty. Amazon is currently constrained by trucking capacity, and would gladly swallow up more.
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Has helmet technology improved in the last 25 years? It will be a few years before my son could play tackle football (and I would probably try to gently steer him towards real football), but the helmets I see at sporting goods stores today look pretty much indiscernible from that which I wore for one fall season in the early 2000s.
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If we really want to determine how dangerous or unhealthy football is, we should consider the full picture.

As part of this thought exercise, let's take as a given that CTE doesn't exist and brain injuries are unimportant.

After that, let's look at the prevalence of diabetes, heart disease, and other long-term degenerative diseases in the NFL player population.

Then, let's look at the shortened earning potential of the NFL player. Yes, for a year, maybe more, they are highly paid but lifetime earnings might not be what you'd expect. How do the stresses of many men who leave the NFL with no skills and often an abandoned college degree affect them and their families?

Next, let's consider the lifestyle the NFL envisions for its fans. Spending at least a full day each week sitting and eating unhealthy food while consuming alcohol. Spend the rest of the week gambling on the outcomes of the games (or individual players). Much of the time, this fandom is done as a family leading to impacts on children in the home. There's a societal health impact here.

The list goes on if we follow this thinking. So, if we go back and remove our given, we end up with a spectacle that unduly endangers its participants, encourages unhealthy behavior in its fans, and indoctrinates our youth to be accepting of all the above. Meanwhile, a very few wealthy families get even wealthier on the backs of all that.
I have no problem with them sponsoring college courses. Nobody is forcing anybody to take those courses, and if a particular subject domain is important for national defense purposes, it makes sense for the military to subsidize its study.
I don't understand the obsession with coin cell batteries. Why not use an AAA or AA battery? There's clearly room for one. Coin cell batteries are a lot more toxic than ordinary AAA or AA batteries.

In this case, they had to jump through quite a few hoops to get 1-2 years of battery life. Is sampling every 30 minutes really practical in all applications where someone would want to use a TI sensortag? It's probably easier to just modify the sensortag to use a larger battery and get the sampling rate you need. Depending on the situation, figuring out how to use a C or D battery might be easier than all the compromises made.

My garage door openers have plenty of room for AAA batteries, or could use AA with minor modifications; but they use coin cells. I just don't get it.
Can you give some more details please, curious what the issue was.
Roblox is a really interesting game. My kids all love it from the 3y/o to the teenagers. The games are mostly very amateurish and buggy (from what I've experienced) but the whole thing is like a web browser for games. Has a very early web feel of being built by people rather than by companies.
Not as of yet, but I'd definitely be interested in exploring the possibility. If you know of any good resources or primers on those, please do send them my way.
Tree Tabs (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-tabs/) is the WebExtensions version of Tree Style Tabs.

It works. It's a bit unpolished UI wise, but that should improve.

There are two crucial missing bits of functionality in it. One is respecting tab order. Currently it just lets you organize the tabs, but will not actually reorder them under the hood, i.e. the ordering that ctrl-tab respects. What it should do is reorder tabs as they are moved around. Tab Center Redux does this, so I suspect the webextension API exists (in fact IIRC the google chrome webextension tabs API, which Firefox definitely supports, has this), so it just needs the stuff to be fixed. I considered fixing it myself, but the extension doesn't seem to be open source (you can of course inspect the source of the bundle but then there's no easy way to contribute back)

This may even have been fixed by the time I looked at it last.

The second is that it doesn't actually hide the tab bar up top. Neither does Tab Center Redux. This is a matter of a missing webextensions api, but it's one that's probably easy to add.

The other missing bits are mostly minor, like configurability etc.
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I think the idea is that RAAs can bridge the reality divide by tying the pseudo-anonymous contract identity to a real life identity. You can, for example, require the user upload a video showing them, any government IDs, their house number, their last utility bills, pay stubs, etc. You might require a mobile app that could look at ongoing phone telemetry/contact info to see someone has a network and is regularly going to a job. The goal isn't mathematical certainty, just to make the effort/cost of theft < the value of the loan.

Some startups do similar things to this (Tala) to lend in countries without credit bureaus and IIRC they can achieve loan repayment rates >= 'prime' US borrowers.
Scratch that-- I just realized that most of the problems I encounter in FLOSS maintenance consist of explaining/documenting the problem. Once I can refine the question of, "Why is the loader being a butt," to, "Why is the loader recursing 1000 levels deep before bailing?" I'm already 90% of the way to solving the problem.
I've been using NewsBlur since Reader shut down. It's not as good but it's passable.
Toxic and popular with no benefit?
A cutting edge product does not mean a successful product. There's plenty of tech already. All I need is for someone to help me make my life better with a killer product or service that uses it or at least show me how to use tech better towards my advantage. Perfect example, binder clips, low tech but I'm always finding new uses for it and people show me new uses. Another example the tech for cell phones was around for years before the cell phone. It took someone to put it together to create something useful.
Definitely Unity.
You're not welcome to start flamewars on Hacker News and then stoke them every which way like this. Please comment civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's also a slightly condescending and forced narrative when the pieces are examined.

Pursuing depth in knowledge isn't synonymous with a lack of curiosity just by definition.

People should probably also consider taking a break from quoting Fight Club and attacking people for "thinking they are special snowflakes" when making generalizations. It is not an argument that contributes much to a discussion and seeks to strip people of dignity.
You get what you pay for! If you can't afford senior developers, get someone you can train that can listen and has an ability to hone coding chops. Take on an intern, or maybe a contractor... as a matter of fact, why do you look into having a recruiter do this for you??
The browser rendering environment is only half of electron. Electron (and nw.js) provide a node.js / browser hybrid. You can use native node-modules, instead of browser-based workarounds and you have the same filesystem access a native application would have. You also have hooks into platform specific menu/dock/notifications.
You were right to use a throwaway. This is a stupid idea. Are you interested in fixing the problem and protecting people's information, or are you only interested in creating more surveillance and data minding opportunities for people?
I would quit the cafe job, based on what information you've provided. If you truly don't need the money, and if you're really approaching burnout, then drop it. The last thing you want is to let your grades suffer, or perform poorly on the contract job, over a job that isn't part of your future.

Anybody running a cafe should be familiar with people coming and going. People don't typically take jobs like that intending it to be lifelong employment. Give a proper notice and do things professionally and there shouldn't be any hard feelings, and you'll have nothing to feel guilty about.
sitting is the new smoking, social media is the new smoking, sugar is the new smoking...
>> Just jaw dropping. Inexplicable.

"Adobesque"?
I got married and had a child. That solved the problem for me!
Every project is already known by someone.
Now we have ceramic wool which doesn't have regulations like asbestos does but is still a known carcinogen and the handling of it is done without any PPE.
Tech Radar: A map of technologies to Adopt, Assess or Hold
There are many factors. To start, many companies were already choosing to run a fork of Android in their products, like the Amazon Echo. This gives you access to Android's APIs, developer tools, and knowledge base, which is a significant boost in productivity. By using Android Things specifically, you also get hassle-free OTA updates directly from Google, which is essential for security.

Raspbian is pretty much only supported on Raspberry Pis, so I think the worry of lock-in is worse there; and it's significant, taking into account that it's harder to go from prototype to production with a Raspberry Pi than with a SoM-based board.

The UserDriver system is another factor: Android already does sensor fusion, so if your product uses, say, a GPS receiver, you can hook it up to the OS with a short amount of user-space Java code, and all existing Android code that uses the location APIs now works with your GPS. No need to modify client code nor compile anything into the OS. And your UserDriver works on any Android Things system.

The talks of this year's Google I/O explain these kind of things in more detail.
Y Combinator raising $1 billion for new fund

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14820629
> Letting flash run outside the browser sandbox, what could go wrong?

It would be like any other desktop application. You're running code of which you presumably know and trust the provenance. It's not like a malware Flash ad written by someone who found a security hole in the Flash player, that is loaded into a random web page by an unsuspecting user.
Everything is unacceptable nowadays.

Nothing is unacceptable. Except faulty generalizations like the above.

An informed society is better than a society that doesn't let you play football.

Is anyone here saying we shouldn't "let" people play football?