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As discussed on a previous thread -- I like making games, but I hate the gaming industry.

So today I write games in my spare time while I turn one of the giant stone capstans on an enterprise Java installation to keep food and a roof. It's not sexy work by any means, but my team is great and I get to punch out after eight hours.
Yes!!! It was! Thanks so much!
Ah yes, which explains why my Android phone suddenly stopped working after Google apologized and removed the functionality described in the article.

That the phone has to connect to nearby cell towers is obvious. That this information needs to be sent not to the cell company but to the OS company without an option to turn it off is bad programming or something worse.
Perhaps someone could help me.

Lightning seems quite sound in theory, but I have misgivings about the order in which a fresh transaction is signed, and the secret to the old transaction revealed.

It would seem that by interrupting this chain before both old secrets are revealed, the attacker could safely claim all coins in the channel.

I'm probably wrong, but I'd like to know why.
I want this to be successful more than any other startup I've seen in recent history. Our reform system is so outdated and broken.

Do you have a plan for how to help addicts and people with mental illness? Or is that outside your scope?
Something that deeply bother me about the "pro-life" stance is its hypocrisy.

They put advertisements about "protecting life" and use "life" and "humanity" all the time in their discourse, but that have nothing to do with what they think. What they think, normally, is in the line of "in the moment of the conception an immaterial entity take hold in the zygote".

For some reason, they refuse to discuss that. They believe in an immaterial soul but they hide their real beliefs in their discussion of the issue.

Of course, I don't know if this is so in your specific case, but I know other cases where it is.
Slpc still thinks Pepe is a hate symbol and juggalos are gangsters. You don't have to dig down into scripture interpretation to see they have bias issues. Remove refrences to islam, jews, and religion, and focus on why the group is unreliable if you want to engage with most people.
I trust duckduckgo more. :)
Duopoly, to be precise
Part of this is a method to make subscribing easier. I would prefer if there were a ubiquitous and easy way to make micro-payments for news articles. I consume news from way more sources than I am willing to subscribe to.
Why oh why is this flagged? Does HN lack the stomach for civil debate about a contentious issue?

For those trigger happy flaggers - the responsibility ordained on you shouldn't be abused. Reddit will devolve into partisan piffle, HN IS the only space that's remotely capable of civility. So, don't flag - encourage diversity of thought!!
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I completely agree that the semantics are probably the most overall useful thing we presented in this version of Eve. Having the world just be views over a datastore that you don't have to manage in any meaningful way is hugely liberating coming from the way we program now. You don't have to worry so much about how things are "placed" - you can always access them wherever and however you want. Bloom gave us a nice way of thinking about how to deal with change in that context so that it's not just some giant pile of scary mutable state.

Removing the fetching and placing of data is probably the biggest source of Eve's efficiency too. It turns out a lot of the code we write is nothing more than plumbing things into the correct location.
Might not be any since there were only 8 as of 2015:

As of August 26, 2015:

Number of YC companies worth more than $1 billion: 8 [1]

Number of YC companies worth more than $100 million: >40

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-stats/
Thank you @artemis
It was going 3mph over the speed limit, a perfectly reasonable speed that is still probably lower than almost everyone else on the road.
In the world of diplomacy sometimes "obvious" facts aren't "clear" but you use nice words, i.e. one could talk to an embassador and give them the chance of introducing their representative.

I however assume the original poster was more inclined "do the, have any means to summon some American citizen" (to which the answer is "they can summon who they like, and the other can do what they like, unless his state of residence has some form of agreement (like extraditement in criminal court cases)")
I just see this as a lame non answer. When being asked for why I'm passing on someone I can give some fairly clear and concrete reasons. What someone could have done differently or what skills they could have had that would have pushed them over the top.

My questions for you: do you know more than one language? Can you design a database "from scratch" - do you understand the rest of the technology in the stack of your domain - (servers/network and so on)?

> Recently I went to an interview for python developer.

This tells me a lot because the python community is, for lack of a better word, weird. There are plenty of (ab)users of python who get shit done without being programers by trade. I can point to plenty of data, EE and systems admin folks who see python as a swiss army knife. Their code is ugly but functional, it isn't code that is going to scale or be elegant, rather it serves a purpose. Python on the web/api side is a different beast, it is easy to turn your python code into a big ball of mud without a fair bit of discipline - Exactly what that takes is up for some debate and can be domain dependent.

If your the sort of python dev who focuses more on "get shit done" rather than "long view" I could see how someone might make the comment they did. The get it done mentality is not something you need to drop all together (it happens to be how I use python myself) but it doesn't preclude you taking the long view as well.

Lastly you can run into some very odd camps/elements in the python community - the fact that were 9 or 10 years into the 2.x to 3.x should tell you where some of the lines might fall.
Are you outperforming with Vim, or is Vim outperforming over those other editors/IDEs?

I doubt you'd be "outperforming" if you were writing Java in say Vim, over Eclipse/Intellij...which have vi-keybindings.
The title immediately made me think that this would be a competitive multi-player webgame that invoked the patriotism of users to keep their country's flag flying.
Probably not Windows. These radios require a POSIX compliant OS. In the old ones (not the latest spec) the only allowed external calls were to CORBA services and POSIX capabilities. This was to aid portability (discussed in TFA: didn't help because changing capabilities usually required hardware and firmware changes, not just software).

http://www.public.navy.mil/jtnc/Pages/resources.aspx?filter=...
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Radio guts, hardware cryptography modules, power amplifiers, and batteries. They've shrunk over time but still aren't small. When I first joined the Marine Corps, we had ground radios for each of the major spectrums: HF, VHF, and UHF (LOS and SATCOM). Now, most of the radios are multi-spectrum (combined): HF/VHF and VHF/UHF/L.

The AN/PRC-117G is an example manpack radio used by the Marine Corps today. We use it for voice and data.

https://www.harris.com/solution/harris-falcon-iii-anprc-117g...

If you're not familiar with radio wave propagation, don't get suckered into thinking hand-held radios can always replace manpack radios or that manpack radios can always replace vehicle radios. The art of radio involves a balance between power, proper antenna use, and terrain. Small, hand-held radios often don't have enough power to transmit a signal the distance you may need it to go in whatever terrain the person is in.
That's me.

I still think learning some Eve is worth your time just to see and experience something very different. You can get started here: http://play.witheve.com/#/examples/quickstart.eve.
(This is Eve 0.2)
Went to the link hoping to see a video, but I guess, pending all other investigations, that video would not be released.
Yeah I just don't understand why Carriers (ATT, Verizon etc.) and Manufactures (Samsung, HTC) can't work out a standard deal for providing continuous software upgrades.

I will single out Samsung though: they supposed to be the purveyor of "premium" android phones, but still seem to consider software as second class feature. If they had taken the initiative, maybe they would have set a standard for others to achieve?

As of now, I get the feeling that Samsung users are just resigned to using whatever software Samsung provides...
That's what was promised by the UML (Universal Modeling Language). I remember consultants telling us in the 1990s how "soon, you'll just draft UML diagrams and that will execute directly."

Those consultants have moved on to selling some new fantasy. I'm still here writing code.
Paper about N26 Security Flaws [pdf]
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Even if the intent is not to drop boosters, as long as there's some reasonable chance boosters will be dropped (accidentally), I can see that requirement sticking around.
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I don't think Zuckerberg will go, though I'm sure Facebook would like to send him. This puts them in a bad spot. To show respect, Zuckerberg should go. But then it sets a precedent that every country can summon him at will and it becomes an insult if he doesn't show up. And there are enough countries and committees that would enjoy ordering a US megacorp executive around, that it has a real risk of becoming a problem.

They'll probably send their highest level UK exec, or US exec that serves in some kind of ambassador role.

Edit: Plus, if Zuckerberg screws up and says something he shouldn't or commits to something he shouldn't, Facebook has no recourse. If they send a representative, that representative can always be deemed to not be properly representing the company, the statement can be clarified, and/or the representative can be chastised or replaced.
The US may have a system of democratically electing representatives but many(most?) of those elected representatives look out for themselves first, their party second and the will of the people that put them in office a distant third.

Good thing you didn't start off with a snide remark about the simplicity of my analysis.

Anyway, I would separate "blame" and "responsibility". There's a difference between the blame for the war and whatever responsibility the United States has to Iraq going forward. The blame lies in the past. The responsibility to improve upon our mistakes is pretty obvious if we want to pretend we have some sort of national morality.
UK High Court perma-bans efforts to extradite Lauri Love for US hacking trial
> If you don't understand why so many developers are so committed to Vim

The only real reason I've heard people use vim instead of a GUI IDE is because it's simply what they're used to and don't want to change. (EDIT: And the fact that it's available on every system, but that only gives a reason to learn vim, not a reason to prefer it over an IDE)

In terms of features, there's not a damn thing vim can do that an IDE can't, while there are tons of things IDEs can do. It's excruciating to hear developers say "I use vim instead of an IDE because I can do X in vim" when every IDE made in the last 10 years can do X. And it does it out of the box without needing plugins!

I've literally heard people say they like vim because they can do some key combination to highlight several lines of text and then hit TAB to indent them all at once.
CTR would be a better comparison, and perhaps even more nefarious, since they employ full-time... let's call them "engagers".
As was the driver, mind you
Are these systems designed to honk?
The idea sounds terrific - I'd be interested in hearing how the response has been from governments? Also, what goes into the decision making process to manage the risks for specific cases?
Could you cite some neutral sources to support your claims?
I really respect what Promise is trying to do. Genuinely, thank you for taking on this challenge.

What do you think are the top one or two obstacles that you face in on the way to achieving your goal?
Martin Fowler does a pretty good job of categorizing some specifics around the vague meaning of “event driven”: https://martinfowler.com/articles/201701-event-driven.html
Well, certainly SpaceX has done a lot for the city I call home, Hawthorne. It makes me happy when I hear their mission control cited as "Hawthorne Control."

We also now have the Boring Company test tunnel going in under 120th Street. Some of the people I work with joke about the tunnel cutting their commute from Hawthorne to El Segundo from 5 minutes to 2 minutes. (Of course this tunnel is just for testing, but it's still fun to joke about.)
Google and traditional media as well are in the business of selling advertisement. I feel that when your money comes from selling your readers attention to the highest ad bidder, one incentive becomes to sensationalize and do other tricks to increase viewership. This incentive can be at odds with the incentive to inform truthfully and completely, as some of the important information would invariably be boring, resulting in less sales. I've experienced this at Twitter as we optimized the product for engagement.

I hypothesize that this incentive to lock-in reader groups, has led to fragmentation of media and creating a lot of "info bubbles", or "interest based magazines". I think this is exacerbated by the dropping cost of information ( I have some thoughts on the process at http://dimitarsimeonov.com/2017/10/27/the-shifting-sweet-spo... )

I don't believe it is in Google's _strongest_ interest to provide truthful media, as Google doesn't make it's money from telling you truth.

I am optimist though.. and think in the future we'll have journalist's job be to aggregate a lot of that narrative and collect some micro-payments. And we'll have a lot fewer journalists, as there is less money in making these narratives.
That quote isn't in reference to the version described in the comment you're replying to.
Are you open to creating an API for us to query for https://www.chooseholly.com? We currently pull data from Bings API for our Discover feature.

Happy to pay for usage :)
I wonder how susceptible these things are to electronic warfware. Complex software-based technology like that seems like a great idea but also like a huge risk. In the civilian sector there is nothing that can't be hacked, I wonder what makes them so confident that they can prevent that in military applications. Otherwise it might just take one good virus to take a whole communication network down.
I'm really skeptical about swerving as an evasive maneuver. It's complicated to get that right. But yes, if it didn't at least slam the brakes then something went badly wrong.

Maybe you can't prevent an accident, but you can at least reduce momentum and demonstrate that your system was working correctly.
There is a camera icon for taking a picture. Otherwise you need to use the attachment function for sending a picture.
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I believe that you, a person with a strong interest technology, believe the consequences are (and perhaps always were) obvious.

But I disagree that if we went back in time and quizzed people clicking "yes" that the majority would really understand that recent events were the probable expected outcome of them clicking "yes".

There's a difference between consent and informed consent. And it was strongly in the interests of Facebook (and anybody who made an app using their APIs) to be very vague about the potential consequences.
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>"To be serious, blaming an "entire country" is a little more understandable if that country is a functioning democracy."

No it would be "more understandable" if that country was a direct democracy and the people actually voted on the resolution. The US is a representative democracy and often resembles a plutocracy at that.
This wasn't the reason given when the 2011 announcement was made regarding the end of the project. But since then, the archive has faced copyright issues as newspapers sign contracts with other archive services: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160825/10114535344/newsp...
bitcoin is a horrible currency to do drug deals, the most infamous dark net site, Silk Road was doing $15 million annually at its peak, compare that to the 400 billion illegal drug industry that is mostly transacted with cash. Currently the primary use for bitcoin is speculation. Nation states will hire and pay with cash without the blockchain trail... There was a period of people speculating on a currency whose money supply is controlled by open source software and maintainers and it is still happening.
This is something you posted 15 hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16625687
> No Klik & Play?! It was the reason I can say I was building and distributing my own games back in 5th grade!
> No Lego Mindstorms!? I was building Robots with six degrees of freedom in middle school!

I think you, in fact, do understand the value of human-oriented programming.
> Adding encryption should be trivial.

Encryption is by no means the only additional feature, at least frequency hopping is crucial to avoiding jamming. I can imagine there are other requirements I can't immediately think of.
To be fair I think all gun companies are evil by the nature of the products they make. They're nothing special about Glock or Remington.
Thank you so much! We will not be providing direct treatment services to participants. Our goal is to find the best each county we work in has to offer and to refer people to the best programs we can find.
In my case, I work for a design studio that often creates branded flags (along with awnings, signage, stickers, etc) for restaurants and other storefronts. This is going to be great for our designers to test out what their flags will look like under semi-realistic wind conditions!
I wonder if someone could make a legitamite bussiness out of this?

pay someone 5$ to get your account trasferred to a EU citizen, and consequently removed by the GDPR guidelines.

Your still taking a huge risk by giving your profile to someone unknown though.
Newspapers existed long before advertising. The goal was to inform, and to have a public place of record accessible to all.
> I wish they would spend more time providing tools for people to consume information in powerful ways rather than trying to 'tailor' experiences.

Power users are a very, very small number, probably sub-million, generate zero revenue, complain a lot and want features that cost a lot of money. There's no reason why Google would target them.

But I'm sure you can find a professional service that does that, allowing for powerful search of historical news. Probably costs a lot, though.
> The idea that "their elders" were "intuitively resistant" because they understood the decade-later implication of algorithmic user profiling being weaponized to undermine public thought and democracy is.... generous.

Intuition doesn't require explicit understanding. Many of my elders certainly had the instinctive sense that we're oversharing and that it will, somehow or another, bite us in the behind. And many of my peers assumed they were paranoid.
Partially solved. Most Ham operators don't have to deal with adversaries. These radios need to stand up to jamming and eavesdropping. They also need to handle a (fairly complex) protocol automatically and in a dynamic configuration. Imagine a cell network with no tower, each phone is capable of becoming the leader. And multiple networks can exist in the same physical space. All traffic has to be encrypted to protect against eavesdropping, and frequency hopping and other techniques have to be incorporated to become jamming resistant.
This feels like one of the more ambitious startups YC has funded in a while, I love it.

Has Promise been used in a real-world setting yet? I'd love to see the results.
About a year and a half ago, my wife was showing symptoms of early-onset macular degeneration, and it led to a rabbit hole of me searching for treatments, and I remember the earlier stages of this being discussed.

While it turned out that my wife's issue was (fortunately) something less severe, it still makes me happy to see that this treatment has had some success.
The person you are replying to is making a point about leveraged buyouts and how they can be used by unscrupulous wall street types to milk and destroy an otherwise profitable industry.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-th...
Keep in mind he started Palintir. He doesn't actually care about privacy.
Plus, of course, those other 15% of the market, to be even more precise. Not to mention that online advertisement to a certain degree is the same market as other forms of advertisement.
There was no one else on the road (or, reports haven't mentioned other traffic being a factor).
I think my issue with this is that google has all lots of special interests. I believe a true, functional solution most likely needs to come from a new company. A company that can build its reputation on surfacing "quality" news but without any particular bias or agenda. I'm not sure how any already large corporation would ever be able to win my confidence to act in this way.
You may think that, but that doesn't make it true at all. In fact the majority of firearms are used for sport and recreation. Others are used to protect yourself and those that you care for from physical harm from would-be attackers.

Both of these realities can easily be demonstrated that they are far from evil indeed.

Once again, poor critical reasoning. You're entitled to think that, but you're also entitled to be wrong.

I won't be engaging this topic any further with you though, as you have already demonstrated that you have no intention of expanding your worldview.
Well, fwiw, these quizzes weren't even on a separate website where you need to login using OAuth, but they were part of Facebook's "apps" ecosystem. And they were popular, so everyone was doing it, however harmful (and as has been said, even if you're not doing it, if your friend is doing it, the app can also see your information as your friend's connection). Add to that the tragic permission scheme where Facebook does say "This app can see this information..." without offering an option to allow/deny sharing of some things (I think they've changed it so you can give granular permissions).

Granular permissions are also a pain point for me on Android phones. They were possible with apps on BlackBerry phones in the late 200x's, but on Androids before version 5 or 6? No, it's either give the app permission for all of requested functionality, or don't install it...
As a KS backer of Light Table I always get sad about what might have been[1] if they hadn't gone the YC + VC route that basically lead to abandoning LT before it was near ready for daily use for most of us.

We never did get to see the vision that was presented in that KS...

[1] 2012 was two years before Brackets/Atom and three before VSCode.
unfortunately we don't have a reform system, but a punishment system as if the suffering of the offender is important
You're going to have a hard time convincing non-technical
people / people who don't acutely care about privacy to use it in my experience. I generally try to shift people who are not in these demographics over to WhatsApp as that has a large user base and implements the signal protocol for end to end encryption. It's not a "safe" as signal but it's far better than something like messenger.