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I'm guessing you already know this, but speculation is that it's Rocket Lab's patented thixotropic monopropellant, VLM, developed when they were working on propulsion tech for missiles and sounding rockets, before they started Electron

https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLab/comments/7sg0vn/rocket_la...
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> every subgroup will also have to hit peak child

Not really, because subgroup membership is flexible: people can enter and leave a subgroup. But even ignoring that objection, calculating that the Amish will eventually outnumber everyone else is a crazy bad extrapolation, whereas predictions of world population are based on much more modest and justified extrapolations.

If you took some old population data you could perhaps extrapolate that Shakers were destined to increase exponentially, but what happened to them? I'd say that the destiny of a single religious group is typically a short-term and local phenomenon that doesn't much affect the long-term development of world population.
True, but a multi-pole switch can also cut connection to those.
> Most of the well-paid programmers I know (including quite a few at AmaGooFaceSoft) can't wrap their heads around databases well enough to deploy a low-traffic web application.

I honestly don't believe this. You did caveat that this is anecdotal, but it's such a bold claim of ignorance I think it should be qualified.

> And this industry is now rather routinely hiring totally inexperienced people, right out of bootcamps, at salaries that are mind-blowing to most professionals

This is also dubious. It clearly does occasionally happen, but those candidates are also not as inexperienced as you imply ( e.g they typically hold STEM degrees like mechEng, chem, physics, Maths - often from prestigious Universities - or have years of experience with non-dev technical work like security, IT, ETL, etc. )
Can anyone change the url? Boardgame Geek has a much meatier article with actual details:

https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/73620/asmodee-acquires-lo...
Start with something I'm interested in. Don't worry about the theory; just focus on solving the problem. Solve the problem; start broadening my focus from there.
> due the age of the battery in the controller, it has the potential to overheat when left charging for extended periods of time

...uh, what? I assume I'm missing something here, because this doesn't make any sense. Can someone explain?
Why would yo want to triple (I guess even more) your work just to have a semantic title when you can use an alt-text?
This was really fascinating. This game just confirmed the patterns that I have seen in declining Malls
Lots of folks (me) who moved here 7-10 years ago seeking prosperity after recession succeeded.

Those people (me) were often young, prioritizing living in a city, going to work a lot, don't min renting bc couldn't afford a house anyway, even in Tennessee.

Now they (me) have different priorities, say, having kids, working on something more meaningful, or just working less. And that's often quite hard to do in SFBA.

But for less than than the down payment on a 2BR apartment in the bay area (often much less), you can buy a house elsewhere. I grew up in Topeka, Kansas. Houses there can be like 20k. 3-4BR ones for 100k. You (I) don't want to live there, lol. But even Kansas City has 2-3BRs for 150k. You can leverage 'middle class' SFBA wealth into cash flow through things like real-estate investing, but good luck doing that happily while at a 40-70hr/wk job at a startup.

Also this person is retiring. If you plan your retirement with the traditional 'spend 4% of your net worth per year and you can go forever', you will be able to do that in an average-growth place, but not somewhere with cost of living increasing this much faster than a place like TN.

My biggest piece of advice to myself back then would be: Get a rent-controlled apartment in a neighborhood you wouldn't mind living in for 10yrs. Market price rents have doubled or more since 2010, and during the same amount of time (if you're young), your salary could at least double. During a period of growth like the last decade, the rent-control alone can save you enough money to buy a modest home in most parts of the country, let alone the rest of the world.
Allowing people to send code to friends within jailbreak community and expecting no leak? Did I read that correctly?
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The Oxford comma is opposed by the NYT editors, Hitler and Stalin.
No dive necessary if you don't get close to performance limits of browsers. Actually looking at how it's meant to be first is the only sane way, because browsers do whatever the fuck they want and you just have to see what happens.
It's pretty common. It never "finishes" charging, instead however many watts of the charger gets dumped as heat, indefinitely.
I'm aware I don't know what I'm talking about.

But the love.wav gives a bit rate of 768kbps, 6 sec of audio at 571 KB storage size.

Another poster also did the math on 5.6 kbit/s (700 bytes/s).

> 5.6 * 60 * 60 / 1024 / 8 = 2.4609375 MB/hr

But should that 5.6 not be 768 to get love.wav voice quality? What am I missing like a moron?

Thanks for the example and anecdote, something to actually grasp in trying to understand the problem.
I completely share the thoughts of the author of this article. However, I'm not sure if his proposed solution would work for most people. It's not that I want or like to use npm etc. - I'm forced to use them as it's the new default way of working with almost anything useful in today's web development work. An alternative would be to start from scratch - and then reinventing all these things again, making another full circle.

There could be another solution. A lot of today's complexity of the web stems from the fact that we're trying to design (web) apps using (HTML) documents. It's like building user interfaces in Word (without VBA). You can, but there are much better ways to do it. Why not to define a set of APIs for creating GUIs? Yes, I mean something like XUL which failed because nobody except Mozilla cared. Make it standard, make it easily themeable, and we can finally throw away this mess of ugly hacks used now to create intricate GUIs for which we have dedicated widgets on the desktop and which we have to reimplement on the web, with mixed results.
.. so.. unemployment benefits will keep you forever when "profession is not appreciated" or you'll convert to a beekeeper or some other job ?

Unemployment benefits, as I know, are temporary. You'll face the real-world in 2-3 years when it ends.
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And where is that hypothetical "induced demand" coming from? Some other city that now has more affordable housing due to the people leaving town.

Either way, when you legalize housing and build more houses, you end up with more houses. That makes getting a house easier, for someone, somewhere.
These include moving beyond the pursuit of economic growth in wealthy nations, shifting rapidly from fossil fuels to renewable energy, and significantly reducing inequality.

The one thing not mentioned is that only actual solution: managing populations. The number of people on the planet has nearly doubled just in my lifetime! Also on HN today

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16339467

But making more people is not a problem the human race has.
I put together one a week or two ago, it runs pandoc on directories with markdown files in them to generate html, and then generates an atom feed of the md files if any content has been created/updated. html/css can be set in pandoc template, atom feed information from yaml. It barely works but so far it hasn't broken in my normal usages

https://github.com/dxwc/post
A little counter to that narrative, Epic has really been letting me down lately.

When Epic started the UE4 project, they promised to take care of us gnu/linux users. I bought in the second I could. Immediately they started ignoring us. The first year and a half or so most of us Linux people were using a community fork because Epic refused to merge changes. We banded together and we're forced out of their irc and had to form another channel. I tried to be understanding, at first thinking they were low on resources. As time went on and games like Paragon (which I payed $20 for at release and which has now been abandoned, and I'm still waiting for my refund for over two weeks), and Epic started showing off how well things were going, they still basically abandoned us. There is still no marketplace/launcher on Linux, so to retrieve my $500 worth of assets I have to use a windows computer. Major bugs persist in all branches, and not just for the native editor... games like pubg would love to ship for Linux if the crosscompile tool gain wasn't an exercise in cryptic puzzle solving (which is why so many UE4 games are windows only not by choice. All pleas for more resources and love on the forums are met with comments about marketshare and how unworthy Linux is of their time and resources.

They promised us all this love and then after many of us spent lots of money on them they just ignored us. I'm thankful for the attempt for a native Linux editor, but crashes and uncompilable projects have essentially halted dev for me to the point I'm having to consider godot and blender even though they aren't nearly at feature parity, and due to epics licensing all that money on assets is wasted since those assets can only be used in UE4...

I love UE4 when it works. Blueprints, the animation and rigging system, the camera system are all wonderful to work with. I want to use it... but I'm feeling increasingly taken advantage of by Epic.

Tim, if you're reading this, how about a post mortem of the abandonware that is the Linux editor?
I saw the title and I thought, "Bal Harbor Shops is expanding?" Yep.

This article leaves out one of the more bizarre parts of Bal Harbor to me. As you drive around, you mainly notice three things: really expensive shops, super-expensive cars, and families of Orthodox Jews.

When I lived in South Florida, somebody once explained to me that the orthodox Jews lived in a different area nearby until they were pushed into North Miami Beach. Around the mid-1980s, they successfully sued the local government to remove racist laws preventing black and Jewish people from moving into the neighborhood (though it would appear something prevented any black people from moving in). The Sephardic Jewish population in this absolutely tiny, super-rich "village" between Miami Bay and the Atlantic Ocean is growing so much, they just spent $20 Million to expand their one shul. The power of the local orthodox Jewish population is such that they recently passed a local ordinance to include "criticism of Israel" as a potential hate crime.

It's hard for me to not sound really racist while describing this, but it really is strange to go through the entirety of Miami/Dade and nearby counties and cities, which is basically mostly full of caribbean and latino people, and then hit this super-rich exclusive pocket of real estate, which just happens to be super Orthodox and European. It's just weird. (The only other area nearby that I know of that has a similar population is Hollywood, Florida, though I have no idea why)
Yeah, I agree with both you and the article. The biggest problem with website design seems to be that it's all layers on layers on a base that wasn't so great for design in the first place.
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Use Publii (getpublii.com)
It comes with GUI and themes, supports GitHub Pages, Google Cloud, Netlify, S3, SFTP.
Ok, we changed to that from https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/9/16996882/mayfair-games-look.... Thanks!
I will not start with programming but will focus on:

1. Learn how to build a good understanding on a subject. As I am growing old, I feel I am in hurry to grasp more rather than deeply learning stuff

2. Second important area for me will be how to effectively communicate my point point of view and listen to other.

In short, I will work on my soft skills more.
Is the rate of fertility problems increasing? And why?

With nearly 8 billion people on the planet, the answer to that is a resounding NO. Go and look at the charts...
I remember that app! It sounded so cool but was only available for iOS at the time and when I saw the Android app a few years later by change it was only a weird proof-of-concept where you can transmit folder-icons from within the app to another phone with the app.

Mh, looks like they're still around: https://www.chirp.io/

I really like the concept, would be really nice to have a functional app one day.
What difference does being remote make?
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Use Publii (https://getpublii.com)
With GUI and themes, supports GitHub Pages, Google Cloud, S3, Netlify, SFTp. WP migratator available too.
But this is why lithium ion batteries need special lithium ion charging circuitry in the first place... If you don't have this, the cells will happily take as much energy as you give them and then promptly catch fire.

It doesn't make sense to me that this would only now be a problem. Either the circuit was designed correctly, and this excuse is bullshit, or they should have issued a recall ten years ago.
Yo seem to assume that everyone working at a news outlet is a journalist. IT, legal, finance, HR, facilities, production, sales, marketing, distribution...
Understand pointers, program counter and some aspects of the hardware

- build an emulator for a fake CPU

Learn Basic OOP

- build a game in C++ and OpenGL

Learn Basic Functional Programming

- Elixir or Haskell

Learn Prolog

- it will change the way you think about programming.

- implement A* and solve a problem

Learn Python or Ruby

- build a basic bug tracker in Django or Rails

Learn SQL

- note the similarities and differences between the other languages you have used

Or just find a university that covers the above!
Start with a lisp like Clojure or Racket and focus on functional programming. Ignore OOP except as needed to make money. KISS.
Education is not housing, though, and has different goals. Education subsidies at higher levels is off. If we just paid most of the tuition and books, I think folks would care more that the schools are spending on sports instead of education. I'd certainly not do it with tax dollars and not allow colleges to charge students. Sports scholarships would be a thing of the past. I also think we could revamp degrees to have more pointed classes, insisting the "well rounded" education happen before college. It could probably actually make a masters be a 5 and sometimes 6 year program instead of 6-7 years, for example.

At the lower levels, some of our problem is funding by school district instead of distributing state-wide or country-wide. School are still segregated in many ways and the system has created wide disparities between schools because of funding. Sure, you need to adapt a little to the local level, but that's mostly for things like more special education students, more students not speaking english, and/or higher rates of poverty, which affects learning. The last case is some of what has made some of our schools bad, and the rest of us act like we don't care because it isn't our kids.
... and once again, Stallman (and the FSF) are proved right.

https://xkcd.com/743/

If you buy into a proprietary ecosystem, especially a DRM-encumbered one, and doubly-especially a streaming one, don't be surprised when the inevitable happens and your non-ownership of any part of the system bites you.

I speak from personal experience. I lost some of my small Kobo library when they dropped support for their Web reader, and I closed my account (no support for my everyday / work laptop).
There can be net decrease in population if housing gets less intensively used. If I used to share an apartment in San Jose with a roommate, but that roommate moves out to go to Austin and I decide I'd rather have the extra space to myself, then the local population has gone down.

And as I understand it, there's room for quite a bit of this to happen in the Bay Area. There are plenty of stories about really dramatic numbers of people cramming into two-bedroom apartments.
Can you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's already becoming common. Chromecast has used it since 2014, and I just bought a $30 Wifi camera on Aliexpress that also uses ultrasounds for the initial configuration.
They're also claiming in the forum thread it's because of battery issues (battery getting older, more at risk for device to malfunction, etc). Seems like a bad reason to brick a device (and was likely made up once it was decided not to support)
There is no reason concerned US citizens have to, nor will, tolerate another absurd US intervention (aka WAR).
You can go through a video frame-by-frame with YouTube, and it's worth doing it for the video on their landing page for moments such as: https://i.imgur.com/5tRzFsZ.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOC3huqHrss
FYI link to Twilio is broken.
> the Java ecosystem is horrible ...

Oh, what a low move. Whatever you consider the Java ecosystem to be, it's used by most large companies, millions of developers and has been one of the most successful, scandal-free ecosystems in the programming world... if you think that's horrible, you must explain yourself, otherwise you're just being a dick.
>If there’s an explosive risk, then it’s going to be a huge risk over land as well

However overland flights ( generally ) don't route up to 240 minutes flying time from the nearest diversion airfield.

Four hours is a long, long time with a cabin fire.
What's the difficulty of having your own web service sending out emails by itself for free?
Isn't that life anyway? We're only on earth for a short time. You can't take your music to the grave with you, so why not accept its never really yours anyway?
When all the games Mayfair are publishing are made by Lookout, having them as two separate names doesn't make a lot of sense, especially in today's globally connected world where you don't want your games being under a different name in Germany and the US. Mayfair made their name republishing a German game, and maybe that's a business that no longer makes sense as a separate proposition.
Chromecast is already using it on their SDKs for Android and iOS apps (they call it "audio tokens"): https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/guest_mode
It's not an argument, merely an unknown. Considering that black people have elements of their own culture that are anti-hard work ("acting white") and pro-crime ("gangsta rap"), I wouldn't be suprised if this culture managed to spoil even the kids from the good homes to some degree.

BTW how do you know that white and black people smoke weed at roughly the same rates?
What did they use lamp oil for then? I thought lamp oil was always for indoor lighting...
Jurisdiction. It's tough to prosecute some developer in India or Ukraine from the US.
Because "negative infinity" is just hyperbole in this case. Some careers have been harmed or even destroyed, but we aren't seeing accused men wondering the streets homeless just yet (or whatever you want to equate to the most terrible outcome).
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Your writing is confusing. Your first sentence should have been structured as such:

The Bal Harbour shops are honestly done for.

or,

Honestly, the Bal Harbour shops are done.
Is that why it's usually used for cryptocoins?
To each their own. My friend group and I, we play board games together multiple times a week.
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Where the document database? There 3 cache implementation, and 2 of them with a data structure layer.

To be called a database you should actually have some acid compliance. Otherwise your just a datastore.

But this is a bit of bar banter on a public forum. which recently shown the ugly fact that senior software engineers does not read their reference documentation, but rather just use stackoverflow.

It is 2018 there is solid software(redis included) that can fulfill all 3 needs with one technology stack.
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Blackberry ftw ;)
This is my experience of web development, every time I return to it.

I’m really not an expert in web dev, but it _feels_ like web dev has been badly engineered.

JavaScript is a very badly designed programming language (yes, even in its modern form), which I think has caused a lot of problems. Many JS developers don’t know much about programming language design, so they can’t see how bad it is, and they make matters worse by not trying to abstract or use JS in a way that reinforces good PL design methods.

If you recognise JS as a terribly designed language, then the last thing you would imagine doing is widening its use. But that is exactly what node.js does. You should instead isolate JS and minimise its use. So red flag - something has gone wrong here.

It also feels that many web ecosystems have an over-inflated sense of self-importance. This has led to many competing frameworks for the same tasks, that try to do everything. Things are not pythonic. There appear to be an excessive number of package managers involved. There were already plenty of package managers out there - inventing new versions of existing tech makes it harder for everyone and is usually a red flag that someone somewhere is making bad decisions.

I need to build a website soon and I’m dreading the front end. At the back end I can use range of solid and well designed languages and technologies, but at the front end I feel like I’ve got to choose the least poor of a bunch of crazy options. If anyone has advice on how someone who prefers rigour, simplicity, elegance, and decent PL design over the latest trend should approach web dev that would be massively helpful. “Sane web dev to minimise the impact of the Web Dev CSS/JS disaster on your life” would be my favourite O’Reilly of all time.
Annoyed by Promethean's software, I was about to start working on something like this. Not because their software is completely bad, but because an update removed something that many professors relied on and there's nothing even a school full of programmers and computer scientists can do about it. I don't understand how workflow-critical software like that isn't open-source (not even saying free software, just accessible source code).
I will be taking a close look at this and possibly throwing some dev time your way if I think I can get our school to use this.
I expect any and all features of my Sonos speakers to possibly stop working except the local music library. If they ever stop that, I and others will file class action lawsuits at the very least. When the dust finally settles, that will probably be the only service still working anyway in the not so distant future. It's sad that the commercial market cannot and will not create worthwhile music services that are worth paying for in the long term. If my favorite songs disappear from the online library every few months, why should I pay a monthly fee? This happens on every service and is a categorical failure of the system's only purpose, to keep my favorite songs available. I'll take my NAS over those systems any day.
No it's not. You decided to make "easy" tasks complicated. Then rather than learning about new technology you wrote a blog moaning about it. Just stick the basics if that's what you want to do. No need for loaders or preprocessors if you don't want to use them.
As as web developer the most important skill to learn is to let go! You fix it for whatever browsers the client uses and forget about the rest.
http://book.mixu.net/css/ is a reasonable guide and as a backend dev, I've learned to feel more comfortable with HTML/CSS by reading through it multiple times and making flashcards in a Spaced Repetition app.