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There is a guy that is updating XWing game to use modern 3d acceleration with detailed 3d models and FX.
https://youtu.be/TLrqtmKazpI
Also, try Star lancer. I think that is the most modern game that follows the lineage of XWing and Wing Commander, and had a decent history.
> special state powers

Like the limited liability granted to corporations?
Yes the plan is to lease bandwidth.

I'm always happy to answer basic questions about what we're doing. But questions around very specific technical details, especially when it comes to things that give us a competitive advantage like our antenna design, just aren't appropriate for a public forum. Thanks for understanding.

For more detailed questions we may or may not be able to answer them via email. But certainly I'd be happy to take a look at it and if its appropriate put them in touch with the relevant member of the team. (See-- https://www.astranis.com/about/)
It's very lightly regulated compared to most other industrialized countries.
It's not only about malicious actors within the company; they might end up in some sort of external blacklist scrapped off HN that would complicate their life once they depart their current company. It's best to have 0 private opinion trace on doxxable accounts these days and usual VPN + Tor circuit.
I made my own distro back then. Started from source with everything. It fit on a 3.5" floppy, and had room for an IPX client that could download stuff from a fileserver, after formatting the local drive (it was an automated reinstaller for a computer lab when kids trashed the Win16 computers).

That's how I learned the whole boot chain diagram - hands on, trial and error.
I feel like this gets at something that you don't really hear talked about much, namely: we, as an industry, have for a very long time assumed when thinking about how to secure our products that the attackers those products would face would be either low-skill amateurs ("script kiddies") or, at worst, small gangs of professional criminals. But more and more we're seeing a new class of attacker, actual nation-states (and their associated intelligence services), who can bring resources and expertise to bear that those other attackers could only dream of. Which means they can open up defenses that were more than sufficient against the attackers of the past like soft fruit.

That's a big change, and I don't know that most developers have even started to grapple with what it means for the products we build and the way we build them.
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Claiming that working hard is "luck" is an absurd excuse for not bothering to try.

The vast majority of people in the US are healthy and the environment in the US is the most conducive in the world to success. Stop making excuses.
I don’t see why this is so bad. If it was anybody else, it would be obvious that it was a metaphor, but this is the same guy who said Obama literally founded ISIS.
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What is the difference between a bunch of software engineers unionizing their wages versus a bunch of small and large companies all agreeing to price-fix their products? Nothing.
Heavily compressed and carefully pruned, it is still possible to squeeze modern (4.9) kernel into under 1.44MiB, and kernel+rootfs into 3-ish MiB:

http://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.4/targets/i...
I know, actually, what you are saying. And I can see why you are saying it. But you are wrong.

But I wanted to give motohagiography an opportunity to provide a more specific description of what s/he means. He used a new term and I'd like to understand it.

I don't want to start an acrimonious dispute, but I can clarify what you are right about and what you are wrong about after moto* has had a chance. I moved here- I'm not from here- so I think I actually have a pretty good view of this FWIW.
This is about the Web USB API, not the entire web in general. Are you routinely granting web pages access to your USB devices? That's not a permission that web apps get by default (unlike with native desktop apps btw).

It comes down to this: if you ever found yourself in a situation where you needed to connect a USB device to a remote service, would you prefer to download that service's unsandboxed native code to your PC and execute it? Or execute some JS in the browser sandbox and grant it limited access to that one specific device?
Do you have some examples of Snopes providing bad information? They're certainly not flawless, but it's a useful resource, and most of the people I've seen dismiss them out of hand seem to have a political interest in them being wrong.
> Unions (or similar labor organizations) are not only a universal good

Can you explain why this is universally true? It seems that the behavior of companies reacting negatively to unions is a counterpoint to this.
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Alcohol and tobacco don't.
Maybe I have a stronger intrinsic work motivation than most people, but I seem to get luckier when I slow down, assess the situation, and start making simple but sometimes extremely emotionally difficult changes.
Perl6 has Camelia (https://perl6.org/) for much the same reasons. It's everywhere once you start looking for it. I've taught Ving Tsun Gongfu for about 25 years; used to have fancy uniforms, grades and walls covered with certifications; and put a lot of effort into entertaining people and stroking their egos. These days I'll rent whatever shabby room, show up in regular clothes and focus on teaching the real deal; the people who are in it for the right reasons don't care.
> I am worried about the server I'm targeting behaving in a way that's different than my expectations

This is the responsibility of system or integration tests, not unit tests. (Unit tests are what's under discussion in the article.)

> What harm is done by using the real object, under the circumstances I described?

Time, energy, and effort, all of which inevitably lead to longer (slower) dev/test cycles.
This is pretty dodgy. Snopes also fact-checks articles by The Onion, which has a definite liberal lean. (Here's the tag: https://www.snopes.com/tag/the-onion/)

If you're going to tar them as an "arm of the culture wars" you're going to have to do a little better than this.
When I delivered pizzas (2006; Pizza Hut; Alabama) there was a small additional consideration for gas and wear and tear on my vehicle. As I recall it was around 1/6th to 1/10th of the the ~$6 an hour wage I was otherwise making.
I don't see a link to the repository if we wanted to submit a PR.

Also might be worth mentioning that there is some alternative tooling to deliver multi-factor / single sign on and short lived certificates to SSH like teleport: https://github.com/gravitational/teleport

Disclaimer: I work for Gravitational, the company behind teleport
>You can seek diversity in step 1 and be completely merit-based on step 2.

What are your feelings on blocking all non diverse applications in step one and allowing only diversity candidates to proceed to step 2?
Yes, they have the opportunity. That does not mean that all will, nor does it mean gaming it is actually in their best interest all the time.
I'm specifically talking about the very first Electronics courses associated with MIT

People became quite enraged in the forums because the "diploma" was not issued by MIT and also because at one point there was no grade in the diploma.

Similar things happened in the Stanford associated courses, though not as ugly from my recollection.
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I agree that the rhetoric is harmful, but they do have a point and the "coasties" need to understand it if they want their political fortunes to change.
"Getting in the game is a choice you make."

If you are lucky enough to make that choice ;-)
And what if the personality traits that feed into "work ethic" have a strong genetic component?
I fully agree, unlike many others that are voting down this and other criticisms. The amount of boiler plate that go-kit adds is crazy.
They left out the Czech republic! Concealed carry for all!

A gun in the Czech Republic is available to anybody subject to acquiring a shall issue firearms license first. Gun licenses may be obtained in a way very similar to a driving license – by passing a gun proficiency exam, medical examination and having a clean criminal record. Unlike in most other European countries, the Czech gun legislation also permits a citizen to carry a concealed weapon for self-defense – 240,000 out of some 300,000 legal gun owners have concealed carry permit. The vast majority of Czech gun owners possess their firearms for protection, with hunting and sport shooting being less common.

Also made me chuckle a bit when they talk about Mexico and Brazil. How many people who own guns actually do so legally?
Once you're over 20, it's time to stop blaming one's parents and take responsibility.
This isn't "of course this is implausible," this is "there is not any actual physical way to conceive of this happening."

This is kind of why "fact-checking" this hurts Snopes' credibility. The only reason to fact-check this article is to take a snide shot at putative stupid people who think it's possible somehow to literally wash news in a washing machine.
I wouldn't expect it take longer than 30 minutes, risk is largely removed by meeting in public.

If it were as bad as you say, people would not be using it.
It's short for "in synchrony". It's really not an uncommon abbreviation.
I did, but it was a long post on mobile so I misunderstood their intent. I though that TangoTrotFox was disagreeing with tachyoff, when in fact he was just providing a better explanation.
They didn't exactly source their claim that "some readers took the story seriously."
In that aspect it is slightly annoying, still, there's a lot of written information that you don't have people translating for you, and you then can use it when referencing something written

(But then again Google Translate now has World Lens built in - so that helps)
Incorrect. TIOBE shows you what companies are making their employees do. Github numbers show you what programmers actually want to do.

However, looking at job ads these days I hardly see any for C relative to JavaScript.
It isn’t. Not by a far stretch compared to other well-developed nations. The rules about protected-classes are almost all the regulation there is.
Hard works is not enough. You have to work smart - i.e. work hard at the right things.
I completely agree. If we look at the compensation growth in the last 50 years, I think we can see that “tyranny of the few” has been the predominant force in the U.S. and things have been far, far out of balance.

Worker pay has been extremely stagnant while c-suite pay has skyrocketed to over 300x the worker pay.

This wouldn’t be so problematic if worker pay was not being pushed below livable wages. The presence of unions could balance things a bit.
Well regulated
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16500974
It depends on the purpose. Config structs are indeed simpler and make tons of sense for cases where you control all the related code. So yeah, for code where you can do a mostly-automated refactor if you need to change the API, I totally agree that Config structs make more sense and functional options are huge overkill.

For stuff that needs finer-grained control, or long-lived API stability, functional options give you a lot more flexibility.
They did give certificates, but a vocal minority was not happy that they were not Stanford/MIT,... issued certificates.

It boils down to your last sentence:

> The jury is still out on whether these certifications are taken seriously or not.

Many people were taking those courses under the expectation that the certification would be highly prestigious and felt defrauded when that wasn't the case. The fact that they paid nothing only made matters worse because people feel more entitled when they pay nothing for a service.
My point was that it takes no better than average luck for people that choose to work hard in high paying fields and make good life/financial choices to become millionaires. It may not be easy to stay on that course, given human nature. But barring very bad luck (major health issues, etc.), these things are entirely within your control.

Many people ascribe the consequences from bad or risky choices to bad luck, but the reality is that those are entirely within your control. You are making the decision to experience negative consequences when you make bad decisions.
> The most successful people ascribe their success to their own hard work first and foremost

because it makes them feel greater, more merits for them and less to fate. They don't want others to think "ah you got lucky with that".
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It's an article from a reputable source. Why would it be flagged?
The frontpage of HN is quite useless, I go directly to /active it shows the most discussed thread, a better metric than upvote in my opinion.
> Outside of the touristy parts of Reykjavik, everybody will assume you speak Icelandic until you respond in English.

I am curious, does this apply to everyone or only European-looking people?
I believe the SPLC has done a lot of good over the course of its history. There have been a few recent occurrences where I think they've lost a bit of perspective and nuance. You may disagree, but if you want to see some examples, you may want to look at their listing of Ayaan Hirsi Ali[0] and Maajid Nawaz[1] as "anti-Muslim extremists"[2] for why people may view the SPLC this way. Please don't read this as a blanket condemnation of the SPLC (nor as agreement with your parent), as that's not my intent; rather, that there's more nuance there than some (not all) rather recent SPLC stances would seem to admit.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayaan_Hirsi_Ali

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maajid_Nawaz

[2]: https://www.splcenter.org/20161025/journalists-manual-field-...
> companies reacting negatively to unions

Yes, that's the intended result. Each side has to fight for their own goals. The resulting competition is what limits each side from gaining too much power.
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Further reading from other times this has been posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16500974

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16497551
I mean a standardized protocol that could allow such integrations with any cloud provider. API is just an implementation.
I'm not sure you understand what that means. The limited liability applies to the people. The corporation is still fully liable.
I have no idea, that is a good question!
>if you ever found yourself in a situation where you needed to connect a USB device to a remote service

I have never found myself in that situation. That sounds like a really silly idea.
That depends entirely on which unions you're looking at, the wobblies were organizing across racial lines and across industries. The pullman porters were black. And, yeah, unions very much are a class antagonist, they were conceived as precisely that. I'd even go so far as to say that actually your comment is the revisionist one. Note how you start the history at "the first half of the 20th century" leaving out arguably the most violent and repressive period of union struggle. Google The Battle of Blair mountain.
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This is an under-communicated point, and both makes the admission more palatable while subtly increasing the sense of value through the implication that you'll need multiple days to actually take in the breadth of the institution's collections.
I think he has a strong Lebanese background.
A well regulated militia
Economic models developed by researchers have a tendency to confirm the opinions of the researchers. I wouldn't base policy on any of them.
> A union that only subsists because it gets special state powers is not a union, its government.

You do realize that all business organizations other the sole proprietorships and simple partnerships (including, but not necessarily limited to, all of, in the US, corporations of any kind, LPs, LLPs, LLLPs, and LLCs) only subsist because they get special state powers, right?
What's your proposed alternative?
The headline was: "CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication". Hard to miss.
well said.
Or if free college is their end, then these are the means. Complete collapse.
I am financially independent and it is almost entirely due to luck. I was in a stable career as an AI researcher when, in 2000, pretty much on a whim, I decided to apply to work at an obscure little startup company called Google. It was the only startup I had ever applied to at that point (until then my ambition had been to become a university professor). Since 2005 I have participated as a principal in half a dozen other startups. They all failed. Being in the right place at the right time makes a much bigger difference than effort or ability. Working hard and being skilled can help tilt the odds in your favor, but they are neither necessary nor sufficient for success.
Cool. YC brand, plus application pre-screen should ensure high quality. Will the demo stage be broadcast?
I didn't know that existed, /active sounds very useful!
They support equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity
Even Snopes themselves have tried to tell people this.[0] They created a category called "The Repository of Lost Legends" composed entirely of false, made-up myths and called them "true", to show people what False Authority Syndrome was. People believed them anyway.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/lost/false.asp
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It's not the Midwest, it's rural areas everywhere. Coastal elite is just code word for urbanite.

I don't know if people are aware, but the Midwest does have cities and its city dwellers have more in common with city dwellers on either coast than they do with rural areas in their own state.
Did you try to make a point here? If so, it seems that you are suggesting corporations have it harder given that they can't legally price fix while labor can.
Controversial.

HackerNews, does not deal with feminism, affirmative action, or criticising darling companies of anything to do with sexism or racism.

Unless your name is Susan Fowler and you work at Uber.

This will probably just lead to a lot of fighting in the comments.
Google is becoming more and more irrelevant anyway, so who cares what the HN crowd thinks.

Google is basically just an advertising business. I can understand why a business like that wants to stay hip and cool and "diversified". Kind of like those old H&M ad's ...
Not really. Most programmers hate interviewing for new jobs.
> Without a high school diploma,

What is the cause of not completing high school? what about lack of IQ. There is a hidden variable that causes both not passing high school and not being a millionaire.
You are dog whistling that "i dont like the message of this article and want it flagged as a dupe"
What happens when the "Union side" "wins"?
Organizing a labor union however is vilified in American society as it directly challenges the inherent class structure of capitalism.

It's vilified because of the corruption and strong-armed tactics many unions have resorted to in the US. You talk about beatings and murders, but the unions pretty quickly took up those tactics as well.
No, but that's a great idea! I have 3 years of data now from hundreds of services including severity of reported outage and text about why it went down. So I could show graphs over time for sure.
I hate this counter argument. It's cheap, low effort, and dishonest. "Oh gee, look at that, this piece of paper says I can own a killing machine, pack it up boys".

Constitutions can change; it was changed to get rid of slavery. It's not some kind of immortal document handed down by god.
Without much more data I'd say:
1. I once thought the same of an idea I had. When I finally launched it failed. So no one cared to clone it!
2. I have another idea I now think has merit. I've proven some traction with users. Enough that filing a provisional patent makes sense for about $2k. Might want to try this path too.
I get 60fps on my phone but after a few seconds all the water leaks out and i am left with a plane. Is that normal?

Edit: using brave 1.0.30 chromium 60
> In a perfect market, the market value of the company will go down when company buys back stock

Consider a company worth $100 with ten shares of stock with $10 of cash on their balance sheet. Each share is worth $10. They company uses the $10 to buy back one share of stock. The company is now worth $90 and has 9 shares outstanding. Each share is still worth $10.
Are they "failing" any more than they did in the past?
And they stopped doing the metal buttons as proof of purchase! Which was a minor souvenir in itself and also could be picked up off the stairs/sidewalk out front
I can't tell you how many friends and family (I'm in the US) have posted nonsense about swiss gun laws all over social media. They drastically changed about 20 years ago or so. (and a few other major changes 7 or 8 years ago) But they like to talk all over social media about how anyone in Switzerland can walk down the street with a fully automatic rifle..
I think it's better to compare whole labor subgroups:

[1] Computer and mathematical occupations (engineers, programmers, etc):

> 4,804k jobs, $78k median, 25.5% women, 7% projected growth

[2] Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations (doctors, nurses, technicians):

> 9,141k jobs, $63k median, 75.0% women, 18% projected growth

If we imagine the ideal scenario of employment across all jobs being 50/50 men/women then we need to add 2.3 million women to tech and 4.5 million men to healthcare. Arguably, the lack of men entering the healthcare field (good-paying jobs, growing need) is at least as important as the lack of women entering technology, but why do we constantly talk about getting more women in to tech but not men in to healthcare?

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/home.htm

[2] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/home.ht...

[3] Percent women info: https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm
The United States is the biggest exporter of English-language media. In other English speaking countries American terms and idioms are increasingly common.
Simply said, economics. This is a winner-takes-all problem, nothing short of banning US media and forcing creation of a local media industry will be able to do that.
Yes someone people seem to think that if you can't find anyone qualified for the money you want to pay, that you should just keep increasing what you're offering to pay.

But obviously at some point it just becomes not profitable to employ someone to do that job at that pay rate, even if you want the job done.
Yes, I've not looked at fasttext but word2vec is a simple 1 hidden-layer network to learn word embeddings, which can then be used as pre-trained word embeddings in other tasks.

CNNs and RNNs would be used in the next stage of the pipeline for whatever your task is (machine translation etc), probably as some way of combining the word vectors. RNNs are especially nice as they can deal with variable length sentences. Note also that it's possible for systems to learn their own systems as part of training, rather than using pre-trained ones from word2vec etc.
I think most people believe that you can choose, on any given night, to study or play video games. And I think most people believe that if you choose to study then sooner or later you will succeed. And I think most people are wrong on both counts.
The employees were laid off 8 business days after they announced they were unionizing.