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>Showtime executive vice president Stephen Espinoza told ESPN's Sal Paolantonio, "Due to the overwhelming demand, capacity of cable systems around the country are being overwhelmed. They are shutting down and rebooting some of these cable systems.

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/20469815/floyd-mayweat...
The canary in the Wall Street coal mine (Tesla)
Yes we all understand this. The question is is it worth it? BTC offers some clear benefits over existing money transferring systems, but is also has clear drawbacks. Simply restating some benefits doesn't close the issue.
I take old laptop batteries apart and use the cells for USB power banks. You can buy cases off of eBay for a couple bucks that hold two cells and have USB connectors and a charge controller built in. It's no Powerwall, but they're still very useful. I power my bike light with them.
Haha didn't see this. Moon hasn't hit v1 yet, and a keyed virtual DOM is definitely on the roadmap.
reminds me of this http://gridlesskits.com – also a DIY storage/solar project that was on HN a few months ago
The hybrid versions do not outpeform what a petrol version could be, if it wasn't strictly restricted to a specified maximum engine volume and pressure.

Once upon a time, F1 used to be a "anything goes" series where the best in the world competed to build the fastest racing cars in the world. This stopped when it became easily possible to build a car that was simply too fast for a human to drive.

Since then, the racing series has piled on rules and restrictions meant to limit what the cars can do. Since the gasoline engine is hard capped, and they allowed adding an electric engine on top of that, you now need to use one to compete.
More precisely, there's a proposal to have a ballot initiative for this in 2018. That's a long way from it actually becoming law.
Cheap flights from Eastern Canada to Asia often stop in the US, which is a huge pain.
1 - I think many people care. Maybe you are not considering the other 7 billion people on the planet who have drastically different life situations. I believe it's the key reason why people are so divided about whether cryptocurrencies are useful or not. Just because a feature isn't useful to you doesn't mean it's not useful to others.

2 - Yet you tolerate the irreversibility of cash. So it's probably not such a big deal. Besides, most merchants are honest (the need to charge back a CC transaction is extremely rare.) I also think one of the potential great use cases of Bitcoin is informal person-to-person transactions (paying back lunch money to a friend, giving money to family, etc). Irreversibility is irrelevant, actually desired, in those cases.

3 - Once again I think you are not considering the situation of others. In the US alone, millions are denied banking accounts https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/news/cnfall13/denied... This is severly handicapping them given that a bank account is practically required for participation in the modern economy.

Thank you for intelligently and politely discussing. Too many critics of cryptocurrencies are borderline aggressive/insulting and I've never understood why.
Don’t get the touch model, cpu speeds are essentially equivalent, and you’ll get an extra hour of battery life.
ICOs to the left, "KickStartups" on the right. I'm stuck in the middle with you.
Very true - it's really quite annoying and unnecessary. Funnily enough, even when ex-employees from such firms establish a start up, much of this culture comes with them. I know I had elements of it engrained in my psyche, much to my detriment. It took a good 6 months to train myself to not feel threatened by my own employees. I like to think I'm mostly rid of this mentality now and can celebrate/cultivate the strengths of my team!
Since you're looking to collect anecdata, I've had 100% uptime from my self-hosted GitLab instance, which has been online for about a year. GitHub may be on par with that, but it's hard to beat 100%.
This is a repost of the Hackernoon article, no?
Want a library faster than mithril, no runtime download, & handlebars syntax? Try Sveltejs.

Rollupjs also has "treeshaking", meaning your transpiled bundle only includes the functions that are referenced allowing you to organize your code into large modules or even use a monorepo.
Apple Loop: iPhone 8 to Launch September 12 with Astonishing Price
> A question for D&D players and dungeon masters: How can a dungeon master possibly do their job?

Smoke and mirrors. Improvisation. You define a lot less than you describe, both in terms of entities and details for each entity. And while consistency is an issue, TTRPGs are an ephemeral enough medium that people aren't going to analyze it the way they will a book or film. And there are lots of ways to rationalize apparent inconsistencies; working the rationalization into the background of later adventures so it is revealed as if it were a campaign secret that was foreshadowed by the seeming contradiction is a thin that happens.

The hardest part is often recognizing how much you don't need.
Where can you do that in Singapore airport ? That sounds great and I do pass there regularly.
Yes his segment was extremely disappointing. It amounted to a lot of fear-mongering, and I have to wonder why they wasted an episode on this when there are so many more real issues they could have discussed.

This is not the first time.
As an ecig user / moderate enthusiast, this horrifies me.

18650s are great! It's awesome to know you can easily and cheaply fix an old laptop battery to better than it's ever been by replacing the cells with some nice new VTC5s or 25Rs.

Hooking up tons of them with varying capacities and levels of resistance is surely not wise.

Ecig user knows using even an un-married pair of 18650s in a dual 18650 mod is a recipe for blowing up in your face sooner or later.

Idk, maybe there's something with such a large number that makes it less likely to fail catastrophically?
How about we say no to Communism?
A blast door protects against explosions – a very unlikely scenario, that will happen to practically nobody. ECC protects against bit flips in RAM which happen significantly often ( https://www.cnet.com/news/google-computer-memory-flakier-tha... )

Your comparison is inadequate.
That's really the thing to read into here. Too many people will blow this off and say "yep dumb kickstarters" but bottom line, they took people's money for purchases and didn't deliver on them. These purchasers should all be covered via chargebacks on their credit cards though.
Missing source for parent comment: https://intelligence.slice.com/apples-macbook-pro-launch/
You're completely uninformed. The US drug war has had devastating effects on many countries around the globe, from Colombia to Afghanistan.

For a well-written and in-depth overview, I recommend "The Politics of Heroin."
Would you mind posting a link to the specific case you use?
Well they're in par with fuel consumption of supercars. For example, a Lamborghini Aventador has 10 MPG, an Aston Martin V12 Vantage has 12 MPG, a Bentley Continental has 13, a Ferrari 488 GTB has 15,a McLaren 570GT has 16, a Mercedes AMG GT also has 16 as does a Nissan GT-R, and only Porsches get a tad above 20. Considering that none of the above could hold a candle to an F1 car, its fuel consumption doesn't sound too exotic.
Thanks for the reply.

Re #1:

Typically said posts are under Show HN. So the fact you put it there originally was right, I think the mod was wrong in that case. If it said Show HN I would have objected as much.

But I think the other part is because the only piece novel here is the price. There are a lot of services that do what you (and I) do. Unless there is something I missed.

Again, that second part is mostly moot because I don't think I would have cared if it was "Show HN"

Re #2:

Typically in that range I give the client an API, a single front-end (mobile or webapp) and all the database and design that goes with it.

I do really appreciate you trying to cut the crap and focus on shipping functionality. I also like how some things that people could call a negative you turn into a positive (like cutting edge tech and lack of fancy sales decks). I'm not calling it a negative mind you.

I do have one question, and feel free to not answer if it is prying too much. What do you pay the developers? How many of these a year does it take to pay their salary?

In the interest of transparency: our staff is all US based. Here it is $75k - $150k USD and if we have them on 3 to 5 projects a year we've paid for them.

Again don't answer if you don't want to. I can hide behind anonymity which lets me be a little bit more transparent.

Anyway, good luck to you!
For the prohibition, conservatively the homicide rate dropped 5-13%.

if about 15k people in the US are murdered every year.
Ending drug prohibition would save lets say 10% of those murdered? or 1,500 people. thats about half the amount killed on 9/11.
This isn't counting all the deaths south of the border or all of the violence.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/the-not...
Huh.

Two questions:

1. Any chance this can be replicated in 2D topological insulators?

2. Any chance this could work at room temperature? The paper seems to say <150K.
Ask HN: Why did you accept a lower salary?
Anyone who has settled for a lower salary when they know they could probably go and earn more elsewhere, what are your reasons?

For me, I work with my fiancee... for over 5 years now. This is our second job together and this is the longest job I've ever held in my career. I make way less than what I could be making as a web developer. I know I could probably go to another company and make more, which may be an assumption, but I like my company and I like working with my lady.

My job is fairly laid back; less than 10 minutes from home; Friday nights I get to work from home; I get about 4-5 weeks paid vacation a year; no one bothers me too much; and I have so much downtime, I spend a majority of the time working on side projects.

I also have a dream that someday I will finally be able to work for myself and not someone else hence the side projects. To go to another job means a whole new environment and I am just developing and supporting a product for yet another company. So I willingly accept my lower salary.
Can some of the garbage be trimmed off the end of the URL?
two planes, flying in dangerously close proximity, connected by a tube of highly flammable liquid, what could go wrong?
Kind of wish we'd get news that we could make the trip fundamentally faster instead.
There are very few things that are actually useful (socially or otherwise) but don't provide economic incentive. As pointed out by others primecoin isn't really a very good example. A good application to shoot for, if there are any budding cryptographers in the audience, is a ticking timelock encryption. A set of keys known in advance, and each block solves the next key. This would let you encrypt messages into the future, where the cost to decrypt is equal to the cost of minting that many blocks.

I've seen partial schemes for this, but no complete ones that would justify implementation. If a full and workable scheme could be devised, I would bet on it replacing sha256 based proof of work, eventually.
Off topic, ish, but this is the first WSJ article I’ve looked at in a loooong time that didn’t paywall me. Did they change their practices on that recently?
Smalltalk sort of survived in the Smalltalk-inspired Objective C.

Although in the end Stepstone left out the dynamism that was the best part of Smalltalk on the D machine.
httplib2 isn't my library, it's Joe Gregorio's, one of the best developers you'll ever read about.

As for the "if you say X, you're incompetent" line of arguing, seriously? If I say I prefer a language because it makes me write functional code faster (in my perception) and disagree that Python is better than JavaScript then I'm incompetent? Seriously, guys?

BTW, I dig Armin Ronacher's work too. His Python code, how beautiful it may look, doesn't diminish any of the points I raised about JavaScript nor my love for it.

I'm done paying attention to this thread.
Credit card charge backs are generally only possible within six months of the purchase date.
I believe so too!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-5600mAh-5V-USB-Power-Bank-Case-1...
I backed a kickstarter for $20 that I'm pretty positive did exactly that. Communication I had with the project seemed to indicate that they used the money to pay for a move. In retrospect, looking at this Kickstarter, it has got all the warning signs of a project that won't deliver, but then again, it's $20. Luckily it's the only project out of several dozen where I've gotten burned. Still, it's a wonder that Kickstarter lets this crap go on on their platform.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/743096088/bonerwood-the...
> You have to know, anything crowdfunded is very high risk.

People who ordered from Kanoa's site directly didn't "crowdfund" anything, they "pre-ordered" the headphones. They weren't gambling on Kickstarter. So what risk are you talking about? It has nothing to do with risk, it is fraud.

> I'm amazed some unscrupulous company has't abused it to take money with no intention of ever delivering a product.

there are plenty of million dollar fraudulent projects on Kickstarter, they don't care, they have only their reputation to loose.
> makes me wonder if you've ever seen a theatrical play

Interesting - after reading the comments I realized my love of the arts (as a reader/viewer, not as a practitioner), including theater, was the source of many unconscious assumption behind my question. I was (am) thinking that role-playing could be art by different means. I saw a couple of old modules by Gygax, and the stories and characters were really good, better than many movies I've seen. A good dungeon master could make quite a story - but perhaps the demands are just too high.

How would my question imply that I wasn't familiar with theater?
A coder builds a solution to a problem. An engineer builds the right solution to a problem. Doing that requires as many soft skills as technical skills.
Resilience, Risk-Taking, and Dreaming Big
You are horribly underinformed if you think any of Afghanistan's issues are rooted in US domestic drug policy. I recommend reading more than one book on the history of the region.
"That's not a technical problem"

That's the point: it's a human problem. And by removing the human element, blockchains solve the problem.

Note that I'm taking about decentralized blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum...), not the private centralized ones that are being proposed for financial institutions.
We were driving away from the Gulf in the teeth of, I think, Ivan back in 2004, the freeways had been converted to only one direction, it's the only time we've ever eaten at Waffle House, they were the only thing open, as we left they didn't look like they were closing

I guess it can't have been too bad
“Holy Grail” Bugs in Emulation, Part 2
Would you please not post like this here? Regardless of how right or wrong your underlying point is, ideological rants and snark make HN worse.
Part one can be found here: https://mgba.io/2017/05/29/holy-grail-bugs/
Programming is hard, but progress is being made. For example: I think Haskell is an order of magnitude easier to write than C++. It seems to me that programming languages are evolving to give programmers access to ever higher levels of abstraction.

The holy grail, I think, would be a kind of unification of programming language and mathematical notation, the kind of language in which the models of the Prime Radiant (fom Isaac Asimov's Foundation series) would be expressed. So far, I haven't seen a language that comes close to this ideal, but I think there are lots of people who have a similar vision and have tried to approach it in various ways. Haskell is capable of posessing some small fraction of the terseness and beauty of mathematical expressions, Gerald J Sussman's work in Scheme captures symbolic mathematics and physics beautifully and succinctly, and Stephen Wolfram has elegantly organized an incredible volume of mathematical knowlege in his Mathematica package.

I don't think we can completely eliminate the impedance mismatch between human creativity and computation, but certainly we're working on narrowing that chasm. I can't offer you any suggestions, but if you feel very passionate about it, there may be a project (possibly a thesis project) out there that you could get involved in.
Ah right, there's a couple of those sold at the post office and supermarkets here - the brand names are changed though, so how do you know what's rootable?
This is a rather lazy analysis. Would you like to consider any more than a single act of terrorism on the other side of your accounting? 'All of the death [or violence] south of the border' is also rather imprecise and self-generous.
Agree. One reason why I like Taipei airport is they have free showers. They are nice too!
Since I started hiking and multi-day backpacking trips I've found it much easier to enjoy myself while being dirty (amongst other slight inconveniences like being hot, sweaty or attacked by bugs). Might not be ideal for those around me but I'm now more comfortable on long trips/flights even if I don't get to shower right before/after.
To provide a counter anecdote:

I have never been burnt by a KickStarter yet and I've backed about 7 of them. I have had to wait a very long time though. Once almost 2 years.

But I am prepared knowing that one day I might back a losing horse.

With that said, I'm surprised there is no recourse for the people who bought from the website.
Ok, since you don't seem to want to use HN as intended, we've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Some newspapers are opening their paywall for a couple of days due to Hurricane Harvey.
Do you have any suggestions for another good book to read?
No, not all of their content gets paywalled. They treat different sections of the site very differently.

For example, if you check the section the article belongs to (CMO Today):

https://www.wsj.com/news/cmo-today

you'll notice this particular article doesn't have a key next to it indicating a paywall. CMO Today seems to be heavy on the non-paywalling, for whatever reason.
Gosh, I'm like $1500 deep into keyboards, cases, keycaps, etc because of that site.

Got some seriously cool shit though...
> As a compare and contrast generally most players are used to computer RPGs which have zero character development

I tried Baldur's Gate, having read that it was among the best in that regard (I didn't care how old it was). It was pretty disappointing. Then I saw an old D&D module by Gygax, and was impressed - the module and the whole concept seemed to have incredible potential, but I couldn't see how the demands on the dungeon master could be met.
Could you please just restrain yourself from commenting uncivilly like this on HN? I'd really, really like not to have to go through this again.
The review video that "killed the company" was great. The entire time, I was bracing for the moment when the founder would offer a kickback for a good review, expecting a number above at least $2500.

$500.

He offered this guy 500 bucks for a false review of a product that they both knew was absolute shit. What a joke!
A lot of app developers do that on mobile... "Man, this app sucks and doesn't do what it should. Oh well, it's only $0.99"

That's why I am a proponent of easy refunds and/or trial periods on apps. Like: if I uninstall this from my phone within 7 days I don't get charged.

As a seasoned KickStarter backer I do a lot of due diligence. and haven't lost money yet But the average project I have backed is $300 so I'd be very pissed if I did.... not like losing $20.
Most performant CL implementations require the ability compile to executable code at run-time. iOS disallows executing from the heap for security purposes, so porting those implementations is a non-starter.

Others have said this already, but mocl is a (large) subset of common lisp that requires all code for which performance matters to be AOT compiled. It's better than nothing, but it lacks the level of dynamicism that lispers have come to expect.
Inventing on Principle
> Germany invaded Poland on the 45th anniversary of the Japanese occupation of Korea. (Maybe not exactly, but close.)

1) The Japanese-American Battle of Manila came on the 46th anniversary of the Philippine-American Battle of Manila (exactly), the first battle of the Philippine-American war of colonization that saw widespread, sanctioned US atrocities against the native population to the tune of hundreds of thousands of civilians dead.

2) The Japanese occupation of Korea was only made possible by the wholehearted support and abetting of the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for facilitating this annexation and personally ordered the striking-out of Korea as a nation from White House records.[1]

> Japan had been a menace in the East Pacific since the 1890s, formed an anti-Russia alliance with the UK, used WWI as an excuse to invade German islands in the Pacific, and was trying to invade further into China during the time between World Wars in Europe.

Japan was considered a menace in the East Pacific only when it threatened territories already conquered through Western imperialist expansion by the likes of Britain, Russia, and the United States. It is not any more abhorrent that Japan invaded German islands in the Pacific, than that Germany had made claims to Pacific islands in the first place. Japan's campaign of brutal spread and subjugation was not some uniquely objectionable aberration, it was a direct application of lessons learned from experienced masters; Japan was a late adopter of a well-worn and broadly used template of colonialist conquest.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/opinion/06bradley.html
"I have to confess, the build setup is the most intimidating part of modern web development for me."

Here here.
Any holistic examination of the history of conflict in the region should suffice. Even this should suffice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(1978–pre...
> people aren't going to analyze it the way they will a book or film

Maybe that's too bad; maybe we're missing a lot of potential there. I'm sure there are some essays out there looking at them as works of art - the games are old enough that I can't be the first who thought of it.
This is the history not taught on Youtube. Thank you. I'll update my rudimentary world history notes[0]. Feel free to suggest other modifications or better sources.

[0] http://gilgamech.com/docs/thoughts/worldhistory.txt
Huh, good to know. I guess I just managed to always look at their paywalled content.
Thanks! I'm not sure I've conveyed this accurately enough on the landing page: we don't route $20k to a bunch of developers that we find dirt cheap; a single seasoned developer takes the project from start to finish and they get all the money. Now, how much money they make is based on how quickly they can finish the project. This is where the vetting becomes crucial. If someone calls me up and goes "I want to make the next Facebook!", I explain to them this is beyond the scope of a $20k prototype and guide them to other agencies that can help. Worst case scenario, they gain a little knowledge about their project.

The price/time ratio is the key to making this work. I've done a ton of prototypes that are near that sweet spot. Some will take longer than expected, some will fly out in a few days.

The biggest obstacle I see right now is finding the right platform for targeting the demo-graph I'm going for: people who have ideas, money and not a lot of connections to tech.
Incivility and acerbic swipes will get you banned here. You've done this many times on HN, unfortunately. Would you please fix this? Among other things, it sets the wrong example for the less laconic.