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Multi-Platform Version of StarCraft: Brood War in a Docker Container
Show HN: Conveniently control led strips with Arduino and Alexa
DeepFrame display creates augmented reality without special glasses
>* When were these kids educated about pyramid schemes and other scams? When were they taught the patterns to look for?

>* Who is responsible for teaching them? Most of you will say "Parents", but are they equipped to understand and teach?

learning by getting you own bruises seems to be the learning way of choice of human species. Beginning of 199x pyramids of all sorts and at all scales swept across former USSR - pretty much everybody was a "kid" back then when it came to anything market/capitalism related, and thus they had to pay for their "practice based economic education" out of their own pocket :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMM_(Ponzi_scheme_company)

"МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time, in the 1990s."

I expect that some ICO will soon finally beat the MMM record :).
Are you a product manager?
Every time Amazon misses a guaranteed delivery date, I send a quick note to customer care and get a free month of Prime added to my account. Takes under a minute and I've never had to even respond a second time to one of these threads.

There are times when 2 days is not the guarantee, which is slightly annoying, but for most items, 2 days is.
The older tiers of this list seem to be heavily dominated by Japan, Germany, and Switzerland. Is that reflective of something other than the demographics of non-"New World" contributors to Wikipedia?
It might exist, but if my experience is any indication it's moving steadily toward irrelevance and Oracle is pushing it there.
One thing that I don't know if it's possible with homebrew is installing previous versions of packages. For instance, brew install python3 installs python 3.6. How can I install python3.5?
Creating a Reddit bot with PRAW to combat affiliate marketing spam
Bookies have to eat. They are never going to give perfectly fair odds because then they don't make any money.

Also NB: The odds don't reflect the bookie's opinion of what the real outcome will be. They reflect the bookie's opinion of gamblers' willingness to bet on each option. The bookie is trying to get the odds-adjusted amount bet on each option to be as close to equal as they can manage. That way, no matter what the outcome is, they can just take the money paid by the losers give some of it to the winners and then keep what is leftover for themselves.
What about your network device? Your I/O device?
>but I see you are reeeealy frustrated with our email/registration policy

No, they're frustrated that you aren't up front about it. Trying to BS around the actual problem just makes it worse. I really couldn't imagine giving money to a company engaging in such tactics, I feel like I'd have to have a lawyer go over every last detail to ensure I'm getting what I expect.
I know it sucks, but I think the intentions were good here. By managing the disclosure in this way, the majority of users _should_ have been protected before public disclosure. Of course that didn't happen, but that was the intent IMO.
>> High risk investment is in no way unique to SV. There are lots of people that
invest in all kinds of crazy stuff, from hipster juicers to high-stake poker
games. They can afford it, and they are the lifeblood of innovation and
invention. All power to them. I literally can't think of anything bad coming
from a billionaire spending some promilles of his outsized bank account on
some weird innovative project, that may or may not change the world. Some of
those would be stupid, so what. You can't make innovation without doing a
couple of stupid tries on the way.

Could I ask you (and hopefully, others) for a few examples of SV startups that
have, in your opinion, changed the world?

I would like to impose some criteria however - and I don't know if you'll
agree with them. I'll number them for easy reference but you don't have to
respond with a respectively numbered list. You might contest my criteria, of course.

1. The change brought on must contribute to the wellbeing of a wider
community, i.e., not just to the bottom line of the company. This is probably
an obvious requirement.

2. The change must be a clear net benefit to the community. For instance, if
a firm is selling millions of a device that "make the world a better place"
but these millions of devices end up as unrecyclable garbage soon after,
that's not an obvious net benefit- it's doing some good here, some harm
there and it's hard to tell which is bigger. I think we should be able to
agree on this being a reasonable requirement, too.

3. The change must not fulfill a need that didn't exist beforehand. For
instance, insurance is not strictly needed until one is offered the
opportunity to buy some, at which point there is a (conditional) benefit that
was never expected before it.

4. The change must not fulfill a need that was adequately satisfied
beforehand. For instance -this might be controversial- a smartphone fulfills
the need of "communication" but people could communicate just fine without
smartphones. Uber fulfills the need of transportation, but people had
transportation long before Uber; etc.

I'm asking you specifically because you seem to believe that SV firms really
want to change the world. I agree with Karrot_Kream that it's just marketing.
So I am interested to hear why you think this.
> where do people buy electronic hardware if not Amazon/PC World?

B&H and Monoprice have been getting more and more business from me lately.
Missing this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avedis_Zildjian_Company
Yeah, I think both Orange and Vodafone only started taking tunnel coverage seriously once RCS&RDS started providing free WiFi inside the stations for their residential cable and internet subscribers. Until then doing Internet coverage inside all the tunnels was presented to us, customers, as “too difficult”
Can you point me to plans around standardized string encodings in webassembly that is an interesting feature.
Sorry to disappoint you:

1526	Beretta	Italy	Firearms

1578	Klett	Germany	Firearms

1674	Sabatti	Italy	Firearms
Thats not really the same at all because the question with net neutrality revolves around being charged for the content of the data. No one is proposing congestion pricing which charges you based on the content of your vehicle.
A Look Back at the State of JavaScript in 2017
[0] https://www.designernews.co/stories/90954-laws-of-ux

Super positive. We love it.

Blows my mind. But that's the point - it's really like two very, very different ways of thinking about, approaching/creating and evaluating projects (in this case, a web site.) On one side, they have "an eye for design" that really appreciates this novel UI design, but on this other side, we have that eye for efficiency and... ahem... user experience. (Rather than how a designer might experience something.)
Your scheme to byteswap little endian in hex displays falls over in the face of differing word sizes.
Perhaps you missed the point that I and underbluewaters complained that they were not willing to ship things at all, or taking longer than their own stated timelines? None of us said we expected two-day shipping.
I can't tell if we disagree, but I would attack this from a different angle. Libertarians clearly want less power concentrated at a central level, but it's not clear why that should carry down to every single entity that can be called government. If kids call their parents the government for the home, should libertarians be opposed to parental authority?

I think it would be a fair statement that libertarians favor a strong family unit (certainly not its alternative, the dystopian sci-fi separation of children from parents at birth.) Households run in ways that are almost entirely communist. So why should this non-profit collaboration stop at the front door? I don't think a libertarian has to be opposed to every unit of government that dares to call itself government.

So let's say you abolish your municipal government, but you don't have money to pay for private schools, security, road building and welfare. Maybe you have a neighborhood watch for security, a group of neighbors who fill potholes, and a church that provides rudimentary welfare and schooling. Is that government? Maybe it seems similar, but libertarians would argue that government is a monopoly on force, and that doesn't sound like what's happening here.

But maybe a few people in town saved money to buy some livestock, and now they're having problems with coyote/mountain lion attacks. The obvious solution is to have the neighborhood watch carry guns, if they weren't already. After all, if they're already out, may as well kill two birds with one stone. So now you have a neighborhood watch who's also the gun-carrying livestock protection. You can't help but notice that now the neighborhood watch is the only guy carrying a gun around, and that probably makes you less likely to mess with him. Is that a monopoly on force yet?

What about if there are enough herders in town to start paying that guy full-time, and he's used for neighborhood watch too (since he's already out, after all?)

Hopefully you can see where I'm going; people will naturally band together to solve community problems, and that needn't always be via a for-profit venture. I think it's a misunderstanding of libertarian ideology to suppose that you have to be opposed to all levels of government, and it's a misunderstanding by those inside and outside of that movement.

When you realize that most of the popular functions of government are performed by the local (or maybe state) governments, you have to think libertarians could gain a lot of support by re-framing themselves in that way, and it doesn't seem like they would be compromising.
Hacker News readers really are here to learn, and comments need to be substantive and informative so we can do that. Could you please increase the signal a bit?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Indie Hackers is now, first and foremost, a forum for makers
> Sure, those services are definitely better than Prime Video and Music

Not for me wrt Netflix vs Prime Video. The latter is much better if you value movies over shows and quantity over quality especially for older movies.
I agree that they shouldn't promise what they can't provide, but it is hardly inexplicable.
I don't really like the tone of "they said it couldn't be done, but I did it". When you don't have a day job and you have resources you can throw at an alternative process, it's not at all impossible to do good work. If you're trying to get by with rudimentary equipment and can't afford the time and money to experiment and learn how to get it right, then the task becomes more difficult.

Wet plate is a known quantity, with instructions online, workshops available, and suppliers are still in business.

He's doing some good work. If he were producing Autochromes or Lippman plates, I'd be more impressed. Those processes are almost lost, with a few successful experimenters only.

Edited: for tone
The US were founded in 1787, Columbus reached America in 1492, so how do you expect to find companies there older than that?
> 4-6 hours for one interview is fine. For 10-30 positions?

Exactly! When time commitment is symmetrical, the companies would only move forward with candidates they are seriously considering to hire. Because for a 4 hour interview session with a candidate, they have to invest at least 4 hours of their engineers' time. Probably more, as there is typically more than one interviewer present at a time.

The company may spend only 10 minutes on average to review an assignment. Most of the submissions are dismissed in the first 5 minutes for something trivial or subjective. The more interesting ones get more attention, maybe 30 minutes of the company's time. Suddenly, "interviewing candidates" get cheaper. And as is the case with supply and demand, decreased price increases consumption.

Before, the company would have invited only 10 candidates for an in-depth interview for each position. Taking 4 hours of the time of each candidate, 40 hours in total, and spending 40 hours themselves. Now, they can give assignments to 240 candidates. That would waste about 1000 hours of candidates' time, while taking the same 40 hours from company time.

If it catches on, for every job, instead of sending 100 resumes, having 20 phone interviews and 5 in-person interviews (arbitrary numbers), you would have to send the same 100 resumes, get 20 phone interviews and 20 assignments, plus a couple of in-person interviews. Suddenly the cost of getting jobs increases multiple times for the candidate, while staying the same for the company.

This is not good.
Deep Learning Tensorflow
Versa renders your hobbyist photos in the style of famous painters
China is invested in almost everything. Phytium or Rockchip for ARM (large and small respectively). FeiTeng Galaxy FT-1500 runs openSPARC. ShenWei Sunway series runs Alpha. Suzhou PowerCore runs openPOWER. I can only imagine they have a bunch of work going into RISCV too.
I would presume that entirely different methods would be needed to prove that the constant can't be positive. There are many types analytical proofs in math that break down to "negative", "zero" and "positive" cases and often a couple of those are relatively easy whereas others are extremely difficult. The Calabi conjecture is an example.

So really it's hard to say. You might even say this proof made things harder. It guarantees that you have to prove the constant is 0 if you want to prove the conjecture. Before you might have hoped prove negativity.
> There is no logical reason why we shouldn't prefer an older generic medication if it treats the symptoms of a condition just as effectively and with fewer side effects than a newer option that is no more effective and has more side effects

There are checks on this, and I'm not sure if you are thinking of a particular case, but I can't really see how this would happen. In order to get approval, a new drug almost always has to demonstrate that it is at least "non-inferior" to the standard of care. Additionally, there is a lot of pressure in the United States from payers. Insurance companies just won't pay for a drug that is in no way better than the previous standard of care with more detrimental side effects. There are definitely cases where the FDA made a mistake for one reason or another (allowed an entity to move through the wrong approval mechanism, were duped by fraudulent AE reports and didn't catch it, failed to require the appropriate screens for AEs, etc), but the system has some checks on drug companies.
The irony is that they're perfectly demonstrating the importance of Jakob's law (03): "Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know."
Brew nazi?
Maybe it went over your head. The point that people live outside the city evaporates when their driving is useful to people inside the city. Only if they were driving through without stopping would there be validity to the idea that outsiders are taking advantage of the city.
In addition to property taxes mentioned by others, many jurisdictions have a transfer tax on the value of the property transferred. A jurisdiction would do well to have high demand schools at different levels in different areas, to encourage families to move, and pay transfer tax :)
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I think the challenge will ultimately be the scale and price at which open processors would be available at for the target market. It isn't just a processor, but will potentially need a motherboard, chipset, and various hardware configurations depending on the customer.

There would need to be significant player buying these processors to make them viable for some smaller entities to be able to piggy back and purchase as well.
Postgres Conference US, CFP Ends on 1/22
Let’s play 20 questions?
The Risks and Rewards of Building for People
There were people in America before Columbus got there. I guess it's a safe bet though, that even if they had companies, they didn't survive.
It's cheap compared to losing your life savings, but consider that being saddled with debt that's an investment(†) in college is different from losing $150 that you could spend on lunch tomorrow - in addition to the fact that they're likely not earning anywhere near as much as you and I are.

When I was in high school, losing $150 meant that I'm out of gas money for the next two weeks, which means that I'm riding the school bus every day at 6am, holding on to a paper bag with a sandwich I made the night before.
To further support your point, not only is it possible to use that added value to pay for infrastructure, but that's historically how it was done back when infrastructure projects had to be profitable (because they were private.) Today, the most similar thing might be the ski resort that is largely profitable because of the sale of slope-side condos.
What are we looking at here?
Theranos: Engineering of a miniaturized, robotic clinical laboratory
and if you need more trust add more oracles. what makes you trust an oracle? reputation, competition, time...
> all that has value

Yes, and (ideally) currency in an economy is a liquid representation of value. A college degree translates (after accounting for inefficiencies) to higher income potential, more efficient spending, etc.

EDIT: typo, "liquid representation of value," not "wealth"
I wish we could diagnose this as a mild case of narcissism (maybe just unfounded smugness) and not be scratching our heads about what is going on with this guy.
you're dead
I don't know what Amazon USA is like nowadays but the UK site has reclassified many smaller items as 'Add-ons' which can't be ordered individually, even with Prime.

The items seem to vary but range from rulers to multipacks of soap, duct tape, packs of pens, USB sticks and even once a big exercise ball that I was considering.

Nowadays I usually go straight to eBay for small items and pay the Royal Mail postage for them.
Language package managers are for developers. End users should use their platform's package manager to install whatever libraries their application needs. E.g. Apt knows what version of numpy easypaint works with, while pip simply gives you the most recent.
NASA's kilopower small scale nuclear reactor for space missions [pdf]
It thoroughly confuses me how every company seems to want to reach as many customers as possible yet most would rather invest time on maintaining multiple platform-specific native apps rather than have one good web app.

It's just splitting design resources, engineering and testing resources, and shutting out customers who actually want to use the service but don't have the system on which they chose to focus.
Aseprite has it :)
Not being sarcastic but who needs Facebook when we can just scroll through the HN firehose? The HN firehose has a much better S/N ratio and every so often you find really good gems: which is something that rarely, if ever, happens on Facebook.
It's more like 0-12 cents per survey, and they vary from absolutely odd ("Have you participated in a dance contest in the last month") to awful (most surveys ask you to confirm where you went yesterday)
At least in Freescale's PowerPC documentation, it's convention to number the bits left-to-right in big-endian. So the most-significant bit is bit 0, which matches up with the most-significant big-endian byte being 0. See, for a random example, page 1101 of https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/reference-manual/MPC8379ERM.pdf.

Personally I prefer the little-endian representation.
There are fewer moving parts in the engine and (perhaps) transmission. Same number of moving parts everywhere else. And remember it's a car: things you don't think of as "moving parts" are still in motion and will be degraded by vibration, dirt, road salt, etc.
Any resources you'd recommend?
If:

The sale is made to Amazon, The product goes through Amazon's warehouses, and Taxes are paid to Amazon...It's an Amazon Sale and they are acting as the importer for these goods.

Now, Alibaba/Aliexpress on the other hand, I do agree wholeheartedly with you. Because you are ordering from a Chinese company, ordering Chinese goods with no regard to US copyright/patent/trademark law.
More likely, they didn't think in the terms of companies to begin with.
Data transfer in the age of floppy disks
Right, obviously they're not going to be in the New World. The question is why those countries, of all the ones in the Old World? There's very little in France, the UK, Norway, Albania, India, Syria, and a heck of a lot of other places with thousands of years of history.
Probably the worst horn honkers in Manhattan are the taxi car drivers. Not the wealthy guy driving his Mercedes.
Not using glibc.1

Not using Linux.

Advice for all commenters who make presumptions about others computer use: Please kindly check your assumptions.

1 Is this an issue for musl and the various other alternatives to glibc? I have no idea but seems like only referring to glibc 2.3.x and up is a bit myopic. Its possible some users might not be using that library. I am one such user.
While it's too early to tell, what I'm suggesting is not that much of a stretch; currently we treat metastasis by dosing the patient up with chemo and hoping that the dose is enough to effectively wipe out the bloodborne cancer without killing the rest of the patient. Emphasis on hoping; the trickiest bit was always detecting small amounts of cancer cells in the blood. At a very minimum, it will mean more effective and knowledgeable deployment of chemotherapy, but it's not fanciful to imagine that more easily detectable cells are more easily targetable cells.
Actually, during most of my trip, the PM2.5 daily forecasts were in the good (green) category, and it dipped into fair (yellow) for only one day.

For a more intuitive comparison, the 'fair' day was clearer than Black Rock Desert on a non-windy day before Burning Man gets set up.
When I write this minikites is downvoted for no good reason.

As much as I support freedom of speech I also think it's unwise to normalize nazism.

Reminding people not to normalize nazism isn't something one should be downvoted for in my book.
This is actually my biggest problem with Prime: it feels like a bunch of substandard services, most of which I don't need, bundled together. If I'm not going to use free Kindle books or Twitch discounts (and I'm not), their value to me is $0. If Amazon Music doesn't have the songs I want to hear, and I have to keep paying for Spotify for those, then its value to me is $0. Prime's value is mostly free shipping, and it feels like the rest is just promotional fluff (maybe with the exception of Prime Video, which has some well-regarded original content).
That it isn't inexplicable isn't in question. It is, however, unacceptable given promises made (voluntarily) by Amazon marketing about the nature of the service.