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You would think it's not worth discussing but I've seen many many posts on HN of people building products, and not thinking of marketing, and then being disappointed when no one uses it.

Marketing and sales is the lifeblood of a company yet many people think of it as an afterthought to the product. I'm one that thinks that a marketing plan should be developed at the embryonic stage of a company not after you have a product.

That's why Amazon's Bezos makes everyone write out a press release as part of a product pitch. He wants to make sure there's a compelling way to sell it to people. "Press release," never start a product without it. :)
I love this. It's so cool. Bring back this kind of Internet.
I know it's not fashionable to RTFA, but these aren't really intended for air defense, nor limited to air targets. They won't be much use against high speed aircraft...

"HELIOS...is designed to track and destroy small, unmanned aerial vehicles or boats that approach a ship."
I actually think Reddit nailed the balance for subreddits[1], even if it is a little more forum-ey than the social sites you mentioned.

I understand that might change soon, which is a shame.

[1] excepting /r/spackd--ks[2], as it always should be.

[2] post.get_opposite("R.I.P.")
Yes, there is often times a lot of money to be made (see Buffer and their dependency on the Twitter api). People say you shouldn’t start a business depending on a 3rd party, but what if your only profitable idea depends on one?
Insurance doesn't mitigate damage, it amortizes it (typically across a group of entities). The expected average annual claims on an insurer's policies need to be lower than the sum of the premiums or the insurer loses money.

This is why people in high risk categories pay more for insurance (eg young people and people with high performance cars have higher car insurance premiums because statistically they crash more often and/or have higher rates of total loss)
I am that person you describe. Went to college in 07. I was told 'study whatever you want! the markets great!" so I went into poli sci. then 08 happened, millions of jobs disappeared, more than ever before in history. 'its ok!' they said. 'it'll bounce back!', but it hasn't, not really, not for me. I graduated with my degree, disillusioned with the world's institutions and my prospects working as a diplomat or for an ngo. unable to find a job I could apply my degree to, I was at least able to 'bridge the gap' waiting tables. I was so poor, my health plummeted. eating cheap food, unable to go to a doctor's office or dental office. this was exacerbated by a smoking addiction I picked in in college.

on a regular basis, I wonder what my life would be like had I gone to school a year or two later, where I'd be if I was aware of the housing/job crisis and not given the false promise of 'be whatever you want!'.

of course this paragraph is an oversimplification of a very long and grueling chapter of my life, and my attempt to distill it down for the sake of anecdote does not do it justice. Those lessons learned will stick with me for the remainder of my life: mistrust of private organizations (like banks), captured public organizations (like the american government).

whenever I see some bootstrapper huff and puff about how x demographic are lazy I can only roll my eyes. people live in their cushy little salary bubbles, blind to the outside world's struggles. they don't see how falling a little behind can set you so far back. Work a service job and you too can see how fucking dehumanizing wage slavery is.
> That they have such a weak patent is a problem with the system that permits it. Copyright should be enough for software.

Agreed

> The morality doesn't seem that disparate either - they are both exploitative.
> I do stand corrected on this company after being linked to their post on reversing their model.

Noted.

To clarify, I do not disagree that F2P can be exploitative. It certainly can be. There are cases when kids are playing games and end up spending thousands of dollars.

F2P can however, be done right. I've been playing Dota 2 since the beta which is F2P and only provides cosmetics; believe same is true for League of Legends. Hence, I was saying that one is pure evil and the other is lesser (and in some cases not evil at all)
Accusations in a lawsuit, even when they happen to support your preconceived biases, aren't the same thing as proof. Yes, the complaining parties in various lawsuits have levelled accusations of that (or, on the last case, substantially narrower accusations of which that description appears to be a somewhat hyperbolic generalization.) But anyone who can afford a court filing fee can put any accusation they want in a lawsuit.
You've got an odd focus on loan recovery.

Issuing a loan creates money where there was no money before.

Paying back that loan in the normal way is neutral, preserving the money that was created.

Defaulting on the loan and having value recovered, in whole, in part, or not at all, from your property, destroys money.
Creating/building etc improves your chances of success because you are actually making more connections (intentional or otherwise) which increase the chance of luck. That is not wrong, just the luck actually happening is well, still luck (does not happen to all).
> Nvidia certainly isn't going to put OpenCL performance on an equal footing with CUDA performance

And yet: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GTX-1080...

OpenCL performs great on Nvidia.
I wish the plethora of enterprise software I have to deal with on a daily basis didn't require Flash (I'm looking at you, ADP).
Follow-up question, why can't LLVM -> Web Assembly solve the problem?
I have to admit that in all of my use of my Yubikey Neo in Chrome I don't recall ever being asked for permission to access the device. Firefox hasn't asked either.
Let's see, mass of chaff in line of beam times one minus reflectivity of chaff at laser frequency times heat of vaporization plus heat of melting plus a bit more for raising the temperature of the chaff… I'm pretty sure any laser capable of penetrating an interesting military target is going to zip right through chaff. Aluminum and silver are only about 95% reflective at visible light frequencies and you have to figure as soon as the surface starts to go that value drops in a hurry.
I think you understand that my point is that I don't agree with the logic that 5% of something is "insignificant." It seems from this thread that I'm, at least, not alone.
How does mg differ from Emacs proper?
You stop discrimination by changing the brand. Many people have the impression that women aren't good at STEM, so hire more high quality women. Can't find enough of them? Grow your own. Google can start free bootcamps and apprenticeships aimed at women (men are welcomed too of course, just like women in engineering groups), don't graduate them until they meet a certain level of excellence. It might be more expensive, but rebranding is not cheap.
It is the kind of technology that might prevent drone incursions into crowded stadia.

Countering large numbers of small drones will be a key defensive goal in the future.
This is the coolest fucking website.
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Agreed. I've lost count of how many people I've met that owe their web programming careers to the Pokemon webpage they built as a kid.
Yes, but the HN submission headline (before ‘, union claims’ was added) didn’t allow for a subtler interpretion. (And, the SFChron didn’t dig much into these obvious followup details, for determining what really happened, before reporting the allegations rather uncritically – maybe as a sort of punishment for the company refusing to comment.)

In this and other coverage, it’s mentioned that more than just the employees discussing a union were laid-off. There’s hints of layoffs being started, or signalled, before union discussion began. That could mean the unionization discussion was a reaction to immminent layoffs, rather than the other way around.
Tumblr themes still work like this. Tumblr is actually an almost-perfect natural experiment on the value of customization, because there are two views of any given blog post: a public-indexed static HTML view, that the post's author can theme with whatever HTML+CSS+JS they desire; and an RSS-reader-like "dashboard" view, with no theming at all.

Polling Tumblr users on how they prefer to read pages—whether in the dashboard web-app, or by opening the links to the standalone HTML versions—would be pretty solid data on whether customization makes content overall better or worse from consumers' perspective.
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Side with the free market here: If there are people willing to pay real monies for in-game currencies, then no problems. It's a voluntary transaction.

The otherwise is not true.
At one point (96/97), I ran an informational website devoted to Final Fantasy 4. It's still around, surprisingly.

http://cecilpl_david.tripod.com/
The OP's site is how I remember that era. Using a toothbrush now to scrub my eyes with. Thanks.
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Yet, tech workers resist unionizing for some reason.
Then “SF company Lanetix lays off engineers, union alleges illegally” would be a fair headline. (The original headline here did not include “, union claims”.)
I don’t fully get the hate on Flash. We have shifted the CPU usage from the extension to the browser, with less capabilites than Flash. No sure if the web is a winner here.
A cross-platform API will never be first-class on a console. The GPU in the Switch is a generic Tegra Maxwell with full OpenGL and DirectX (unusable, obviously) support, yet Nintendo still pushes NVN as the first class.

PS4 has GNX, etc. Only Xbox has that chance since it has DirectX, but fat chance seeing that on OS X or Linux/*BSD
YouTube does variations of that for all publicly/state supported broadcasters.

See: CBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

"CBC is a publicly funded Canadian broadcaster"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ-XYUR2YL0

And the BBC

"BBC is a publicly funded British broadcaster"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3boVfBStFpM
If you tried to look at the document and found that the entire internet has been screwing with the formatting, change "Suggesting" to "Viewing" in the top right. Seems like someone forgot to check permissions on the document.
The article says that distrust of big tech is bipartisan. I imagine that's why they call attention to that industry.
Last I saw, hyperlinks didn't "provide a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content".

Are there any practical applications of this protocol on the wild, or on paper? This server-to-server communication reminds me of email in a good way. It could open a door for websites to talk to each other without Facebook or Twitter chaperoning the whole thing.
Testament to Google Finance's abandonment: still using Flash.
I sent a request but the timestamp shows it was sent 5 hours ago.
>I'M 13 AND CURRENTLY LEARNING 3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES, C++, CSS AND HTML.

>I OWN A CSGO CHEAT THAT YOU CAN BUY FOR 3 POUNDS A MONTH.

>I'M UPDATING IT ALOT AND NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN BANNED FROM IT.

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Good point, in the past, when we actually had bookstores. Book distributors would ask for the book covers of unsold paperbacks rather than the whole book when shipping it back. Their thinking being that it was cheaper to destroy the book than to get the book back. I suspect that now distributors are happy to get rid of what they can't sell and people are mostly happy to get rid, cheaply, of any books they no longer want.
God I wish Geocities never went down. What a lost trove of websites.
I went through the first a couple of topics. It seemed very disjointed. Different people presenting, different exercises. Was it like this internally? Or is this heavily "annotated"?
So when they say, it generates a big switch statement, do they generate this big switch statement for whole program or for individual functions which takes enough context to continue at at point where it yielded?
> with less capabilites than Flash

In what way less?
Yep. I miss the magic of FTPing into your ISP and having that little folder where you could drop simple HTML files.
It sounds like you have a particular viewpoint - atheistic ethical relativism. I'm sure you can appreciate that the existence of god and the existence of universal ethics are two separate questions. (Example: a universe with a god, just one that is morally ambiguous.)

Of course Taleb has condensed several different thoughts into a single aphorism. One might be that laws (civilizations, governments) tend to not last as long as broad ethical traditions. Another is the observation that what is legal is rarely what is right. Yet another is framing what should be a guide to your behavior: do what is most consistent with what you believe is right, not what is legal.

Some of what you are saying is related to the grand challenge of ethical philosophy. But your solution, relying on the law, will probably result in some pretty bad consequences, especially when you think about how laws are made - and that laws are sometimes used as a cover for bad behavior. Taleb is saying (among other things) that you should think about your ethical choices on the terms of your own ethics rather than appealing to some other authority (the law) as a guide for your actions. He is being a bit pretentious while making this point but the logic is sound, I think.

Personally I agree that Taleb's point about grandmotherly knowledge is a bit silly, but I think the underlying idea is well taken. Absent any fundamental understanding of how the world works, people still had to figure out how to survive in that world. Those that survived probably have made some choices that - perhaps in hindsight - aren't that dumb. That being said, the world is changing faster than ever before, so I think Taleb's analogy is very weak. I also find his point to be in contradiction with other things he has said before: notice that he has assigned some meaningless quantification of uncertainty ("90%") to the quality of this grandmotherly knowledge. Such a number has no basis in reality, and stinks of the type of probabilistic ignorance he rails against.
A website should never access to usb devices with just an allow prompt. Imagine taking control of a usb mouse or keyboard... You could then just take control of the machine...
> The social media bigs aren't attacking political opponents, they're attacking hate groups.

They classify their opponents as "hate groups" and think this basic trick is going to fool anyone?
The #1 recommendation to have a hassle-free wedding is to get married in an 'off-month'. My wife and I got married in March, which is the second least popular month to get married in. It gave us so much leverage in setting our own prices. We got married in the city of San Francisco, which is a pretty competitive market. I would call and ask venues a year out and say 'We're getting married next year, do you have any availability'. Almost every one said 'no, we're completely booked'. Then I would tell them we're getting married in March, and they said 'we are free all of march.' Ultimately, we ended up getting a bunch of stuff for free. Like, my wife ordered flowers, and the company just threw in chair covers and ribbon. We didn't even want chair covers and ribbon originally (was too expensive when we researched it), but they just gave it to us!

Another tip is to not overthink it. We let each vendor handle their own deal. For example, my wife didn't tell the florist how to decorate. She said 'you are an expert with flowers, I want pretty flowers, make it look nice'. Along with this, I would choose pretty venues that are easily available or public. We had the reception on federal land, which means that the prices are somewhat regulated already. We also got married in one of the beautiful Catholic churches in the city, which needed no decoration whatsoever and was totally free (although, obviously, you have to be part of the community there).

Finally, do not waste money on a fancy photographer (probably my most controversial opinion). Photographers are expensive, and there's only one part that's super important to photograph (the ceremony). We could not afford a top-tier photographer for the entire thing. We instead hired a good photographer only for the ceremony. For the reception, I went on craigslist and hired a photography student. She wasn't as polished as the professional, but she gave us 1000+ photos which we later sorted through ourselves. Not only was this fun, but it was a lot cheaper. The professional photographer would have charged 3-4k for the entire night. Instead we spent $200 for the ceremony and $600 for the reception.
New Spectre attack against Intel's SGX protected enclaves
You seem to have entirely lost the context. We're talking what you can attack from code running on the GPU (aka, from a compute shader), which does not include the drivers since that's not running on the GPU.

If you want to attack the shader compiler go for it, but since that lives in your own process anyway so you could skip that step and go straight to attacking whatever it is you wanted to attack.

> WebGL history (it's been much worse, not DoS only etc).

Such as? All I'm finding are DoS attacks. But regardless WebGL's problems were more due to WebGL and its designs than in vulnerabilities in the drivers or GPUs.
To you. There are a lot of people that don't understand other cultures all that much, or are missing context. It's easy to make fun of others.
I'd say it's not really as much a threshold as it is a damning realization. Usually you just keep developing, things get shipped, business as usual. Then eventually someone high up raises slowness as an issue, and that's when you realize that you've got a problem.

In a previous job, we were clocking at some 30k+ DOM elements worth of densely packed features on any given page before the company decided to put resources into fixing performance.
google is based in California, which in 1996 passed proposition 209 which essentially ended affirmative action in education.

and how many hispanics, women or blacks do you see in movies or tv?

google is multi-national company with billions of users so it makes sense that they value having people of different skin colors and gender.

with a more diverse workforce maybe things like this[0] would not happen

[0]https://twitter.com/jackyalcine/status/615329515909156865
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Taxis did this 100x worse.
It generally boils down to one or more of:

- closed and proprietary

- has vulnerabilities

- could be resource intensive

Here's an article (from 2015) which discusses it more.

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/adobe-flash-player-die/
Flash was much more heavy than JavaScript, especially on Mac/Linux.
The regular Go compiler doesn't use LLVM. It is derived from Plan9 compiler toolchain. There has been work on a LLVM Go compiler. There is also Gccgo, Go frontend for GCC, that could use GCC WebAssembly backend.
Was never really about the CPU. Flash wasn't designed to be for any device (mobile/tablet/desktop UI) and the pattern of plugins exposed the user to too many security flaws which could not be patched quickly enough.
It can, emscripten supports this, however the primary Go compiler doesn't use LLVM so this doesn't help really.
$150m and completion within 1.5 years, seems like zeroes are missing from those numbers
Not really. The absolute worst estimates for CT scans increasing your risk of fatal cancer is around 1 in every 2,000 scans. That statistic almost certainly isn't true, since we'd see skyrocketing cancer rates since the development of CT scans, which we haven't. But even assuming it was true, that's pretty close to a "negligible" risk. 1 in 5 people will die from cancer. That's 400 out of 2000. Getting a CT scan makes your risk 401 out of 2000 in the worst possible scenario. If anything, that's an argument for more CT scans (as long as they're necessary or preventative), especially if you're at risk for certain types of cancer and could detect it early with preventative scans. MRIs would be better in that case, but you aren't going to die from a CT.
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150kW laser, chaff is 98% reflective mylar, that is like sticking a bunch of plastic in the microwave. Eventually it'll melt, but not fast enough to justify using a laser over a conventional weapon.

Honestly, just using a smoke source is probably even easier as a shield, and just let convection protect you.
> Why do you expect the [...] media reporters to know offhand about polymer chemistry?

I don't expect that all media reporters have a Ph.D. in chemistry, but it would be nice that they check the information with an expert instead of just copy&paste whatever PR the company sends to them.

After all, there should be a difference between a serious newspaper with real journalist and a random dude with a blog...
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I found mine on wayback and was shocked that you can actually make one move in the Othello game. The game ran as a CGI script (in C) and was stateless.

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