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Into The Breach is readable because it looks like Advance Wars[1] / Fire Emblem[2] / X-COM[3]. I'm not convinced there's much more to its understandability than familiarity with the genre[4]. But, making the familiar look familiar was definitely a good move. The people who loved those classic games are the people most likely to buy another. Having the inspiration be visually obvious is a good marketing strategy.

[1]: https://www.mobygames.com/game/gameboy-advance/advance-wars/...
[2]: https://www.mobygames.com/game/gameboy-advance/fire-emblem/s...
[3]: https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/x-com-terror-from-the-dee...
[4]: I saw this screenshot a few days ago and thought it looked cool. I basically only understood: "has spider tanks", "plays like Advance Wars", and "has decent production values".
Someone who ran the equivalent of ~20 miles per day (a 5K per day, maybe?) for 5 years would probably have their share of expensive medical issues too. Runners get fractures, they get in traffic accidents, they get pneumonia, etc. So in a straight comparison between running vs. biking as far as the insurance company is concerned, it's probably a wash.
I remember seeing "Watson" mentioned in the news like five years ago, but besides a couple HN threads, I've not seen it mentioned since then. Am I missing something (besides TV, which I don't watch)?
But it is how you do things. You took $ in exchange for letting that happen. That's your right, but you shouldn't pretend that's not your responsibility, unless you are offering refunds to anyone who is now dissatisfied.
To be specific it's Brownback and people who think like he does when it comes to economics. Such people are overwhelmingly Republican. I don't know the percentage of people who are Republican who think similarly though so I can't say that a majority of Republicans hold similar views.
I don't know, but I think it's an extraordinarily important question.
Couldn't agree more.

Back in the day I used to be a Cloud Engineer at a small ISP/VPS provider + managed support(largely LAMP). Percona server was our MySQL install and we used their other tools pretty heavily for operations(backups, migrations, etc).

If I ever really needed a MySQL consultant, they would be top of the list for sure. I would say they are Tier N support, and I'm somewhere around Tier N-Y lol.
They don't need to write their own loans. They can just open an interest-bearing account with a bank that does and park the money there.
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If someone's "in IT", it does not mean they're a developer, at least around here. It usually means they're a network or system admin.
Congrats, you've learned the Secret of Management.

From here on out, your career consists of optimizing methods of manipulating that effect for your benefit, the benefit of your team, and the benefit of your company, in that order.
I disagree. The decline of mechanized agricultural America makes for an enlightening comparison to the fate of the mechanized manufacturing Rust Belt and its eventual decline. After all, the common thread does seem to be that mechanization and automation results in productivity gains with fewer workers, but nearly everything else differs, and yet the results are quite similar.

As the article lays out, in some ways the farmers were victims of their own success, while in others they were fighting a losing demographic battle against out-migration and lack of opportunity to retain talent. Studying why things ended up this way is valuable.
1. The magic comments are specific to which analysis tool you're using, so don't work well with portable code.

2. Those magic comments are put in the source code, meaning they uglify the code in github, etc.

Of course, one could create a separate database for the annotations, but that adds another layer of complexity for the users to prevent its use.
Aren't they referring to it being statically served?
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A personal theory of mine is that one reason telecommuting is hard is that is really screen-real-estate bound. I've been remote for 5 years, full time, and in that time I have come to rely on an iPad Pro, 2 laptops and 2 30 inch 4k monitors, all on all the time. I'm on the phone maybe 4 hours a day, sometimes up to 8. (I don't work in coding, FWIW). I have so many documents, projects, collaboration windows, schedules, emails, calendars, and checklists open all the time that it is easily more productive to add more screens.

One thing I have learned is that collaboration and individual productivity are kind of opposing forces. To do one well, I do the other poorly. As a result I split my time between them (I manage a team, so I try to push for more collaboration so that they can work efficiently more of the time). When I am working solo, I prefer the untethered laptop with one screen. When I am collaborating, I would gladly double what I have now.

I say this because I can see a day in (in my mind's eye), when I have augmented reality glasses that provide infinite, location/object-fixed screen real estate around my house and office that I can use to collaborate better, and then simply set aside when I don't need it. I really want to be free to have the room around me be a canvas on which to work and collaborate. I'm interested in VR, but I prefer the experience of the AR solutions I have seen so far since I don't need to contend as much with focus and motion sickness.
Surely I'm not the only one who would prefer to live and work near where I grew up, regardless of the weather.
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There is a browser extension that does this for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611594

It was removed from Chrome's appstore, so it must be very effective... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13327228
...and shows very clearly whose side they're on.
Is there any valid reason to use WhatsApp over Signal?

I've been gradually trying to move my WhatsApp friends over to Signal so I can stop using a Facebook owned product. This news just reinforces my belief that I shouldn't trust any product owned by Facebook.
The situation is oddly reminiscent of when cars were first introduced: https://qz.com/1257151/this-electric-scooter-mayhem-sounds-j....

If we allocated 15% of the street space to micromobility that we allocate to cars, all these discussions would vanish.
Heh - so the Falcon Heavy has launched a Tesla on its way to Mars, but the Boeing SLS which hasn't flown yet is more capable of "NASA's deep-space needs"???

Are "NASA's deep-space needs" as non existent as Boeings rocket? (Given the current administrations record of funding science, that could easily be a true interpretation, sadly...)

Also, how cool is it that the SaturnV is still the most powerful rocket ever flown? Those '60's rocket scientists were genuine heros...
“if you want the negative statistics to rally around, start looking at the racial inequality of who the growth is benefiting;”

Thanks for the suggestion. How do you measure improvement in racial inequality? Detroit has a really robust open data portal at https://data.detroitmi.gov/browse?category=Government with lots of data on education and health. But I don’t see any with race / ethnicity.

There must be some way to use statistics to capture improvements. There are quite a few statistical models and other cities are able to show quantifiable evidence.

There’s the Resilient Cities initiative - https://www.100resilientcities.org/

There’s also lots of stats used by businesses to relocate and invest in cities. Certainly it’s not possible to reinvent cities overnight, but Detroit has been in recovery for quite a long while and there must be some metrics that are being targeted.

But the article mentions none.
Have you ever been on food stamps, in a foreign country, only to get offered Billions of dollars a few years later? (yes, that's Jan Koum).

Frankly, I can easily defend his choice of selling to Facebook.

Instead, good point on his vesting.
Yup. And they have sold it as a "potential solution" to everything data processing related. Hell, they even got NASA to pay for it:

https://www.space.com/35042-ibm-watson-computer-nasa-researc...
I pay for Spotify and Google Play. If either one of them starts showing me ads, they're gone. It's not me I'm worried about at this point. It's my kids.
Been home routing for about 15y, first on old PC's with 2x nics, then on more embedded kit (soekris boxes RIP, about to upgrade to PC Engines hardware since my particular soekris boxes, though still running strong, are getting a bit long in the tooth for modern speeds).

Strongly suggest just throwing OpenBSD on a flash disk (possibly with the help of flashrd) and going from there. Once you get a taste of the solidness of pf & the openbsd network configuration tools/documentation, you'll miss it every time you use another free OS.
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I've had a Mikrotik router for a few years now, and have absolutely no problem with Newegg at all... perhaps one or the other has fixed things since your friend had trouble?
Actually in one of their interviews after the acquisition Koum said that they still had every single penny of their VC money, they hadn't spent it. He even showed the bank statement showing it was all there before they took a second round of financing from Sequoia. Jim Goetz said they were the only startup we'd ever dealt with that was paying income tax before taking any money.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/02/19/exclusive...
You're assuming the target audience to only comprise of subject matter experts. This article is perfectly ok for 90% of the tax paying population that works outside tech
I think the poster is suggesting that if people didn't have to work for money, many scientists would continue doing scientific research for free, and they'd have more time to spend on it because they wouldn't have to play the grants game.

This might actually be true for a field like math, where you just need paper/computer to make a major discovery. Probably not for a field like biology that involves a lot of web lab materials -- paying the humans is only a tiny sliver of the cost of making a discovery in the biosciences.
They are "less" valuable in a couple of ways.

1) They often aren't that predictable and highly depending on cultural norms i.e. more or less anything goes for a study or a report and the standards that are in place just doesn't produce as much value to society compared to how much we spend on it IMO.

2) They even more often aren't actually re-producable but are rather pop-scientific studies that are more based on personal interpretation than any reproducible results.
2) They can often be studied on your own without need for guidance that can't be solved in a self study. (We are at a point were I would argue most humanities and social sciences doesn't actually need a university to happen on. Plenty of available knowledge for that today online and in various foras.

3) They don't produce value for society that can be reproduced by society, instead they are used often for political reasons or based on biases we have already that can't be tested.

Don't get me wrong, philosophy, social sciences, psychology etc all have an important role to play in society, but they do not need to be PHD's IMO. For the most cases they aren't rigorous enough which amongst other things is because they are more often than not coming from disciplines where the actual scientific rigor that is required to say anything along the lines of "we know".

Not sure in what way you think social sciences and humanities help solve those problems. In what way can we rely on those fields (rather than our own independent thinking) to "solve" the problems that you claim we have?

Most problems we have are solved (and created) by technology and most problems that technology can't solve neither social sciences nor humanities at large can solve (there are obvious exceptions)
I’m no scientist, so this is really conjecture. I remember being confused as well; and in elementary and even middle school, many students were convinced the hypothesis had to be the right answer, so they wouldn’t fill it out until after the experiment.

But, at least at my schools, we never did any real experiment. We did demonstrations and tried to shoehorn them into the scientific method. We never started with an observation (say, mice live longer when given reduced calorie diets), worked out a hypothetical explanation for that observation, and then designed an experiment to prove or disprove our hypothesis. I’m sure that’s done at some level, but not in any science class I took.
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Better yet, test cases. That way you can throw your new implementations against them.
Doesn't matter if revenue is less than costs.
The best answer I can give to that is I've been an investor in MSFT since the early 90s and am well pleased with the long term results.
If I were going to pick a boring, flat land wheat farm type of place with ultra low cost of living to telecommute from, I would not pick Kansas. You can buy a pretty decent house in Ritzville, WA for $100k, it is on I-90, and it's not a ridiculous driving distance to Spokane or Seattle. And numerous mountainous hiking/camping/skiing/4x4ing locations within a 2 hour radius.

Also in the wheat farming sort of region, some random small town 45 minutes from the moscow-pullman metro area in SE WA. Pullman is a nice welcoming college town. Can buy houses for $100-120k.
>>> If you don't take a side, then you could potentially say that you believed that would happen all along

How does that harm anything? The result is the result. Pretending to have a belief so it can potentially be disproven seems contrived.
>When it’s actually legalized, nobody will be making money, as it’s an agricultural commodity that is pretty easy to grow.

When compared to other cash crops, remarkably easy to meet market demand on a per acre scale, which is a contributing factor to why it's still illegal, and when legalized, why the who, where and how much are so heavily regulated.
WhatsApp cofounder Jan Koum is leaving Facebook
I wonder if lots of stores often sparsely populated with expensive goods where we almost never see anyone are part of some money laundering scheme. These stores should be able to claim lots of cash-only transactions to launder money while having to keep almost no significant levels of products.
I talked with a friend who lives 1/2 time in Detroit and 1/2 time in the bay area last week and they were not very hopeful about the future of that once great city. They said it was not uncommon that once a property didn't have anyone around for a couple of weeks people would come in during the night and strip it. It sounded sad and dystopian.
90% of the world's heroin supply is from the Poppy fields in Afghanistan, and everyone knows where those fields are. Do we (the USA) destroy those plants in our Drug War efforts... nah. Some reports say US troops even guard them.
Are they just sitting on it until the price goes up? Why not sell for whatever they can get and then re-invest the money?
I finally 'got' the concept of hypotheses after a couple stupid public policy experiments here in India. The 'Odd-Even' car rationing experiment in Delhi to reduce pollution was praised because it reduced traffic. Then the country-wide demonetization disaster meant to reduce undeclared income was later touted as a way to enable digital transactions. So to generalize, if you're not clear on what you're trying to achieve, you can claim success by retrofitting your results to any stated purpose.
Our workload is application specific and currently requires MySQL - 100% of queries are on primary keys so most 'hot' paths I think tend to stay resident, at least as far as query operations go. Also, we tend to fetch 'chunks' and operate on those in memory rather than running server side so some of the processing is offset by local operations.

Would be good to dig a bit deeper into this - thanks for the pointers.
Aqua regia is just the name for a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid which has the ability to dissolve gold. Aqua fortis was simply an archaic name for nitric acid; acidum salis (literally "salt acid") is likewise an old alchemical name for hydrochloric acid, rather straightforwardly named because it was an acid that was synthesized from salt. (If you ever see hydrochloric acid referred to as "muriatic acid", this is just a somewhat more modernized version of the same name: brine-y/salty acid.)

Oil of vitriol is sulfuric acid. This was also quite a logical name at the time - it's an oily liquid that was made from vitriol (a common term for a class of brightly colored metal sulfate crystals).

So, in the reaction given, when the sulfuric acid is added to saltpeter (potassium nitrate), the sulfate ion swaps places with the nitrate ion and you instead get nitric acid and potassium sulfate.

Source: Have spent far, far too much time researching alchemical nomenclature because I thought it was cool.
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We used to allow remote connections to management, but for probably 2-3 years it's been trusted networks only. Same for rdp, and the last customer with an in house mail server should be off it in 2-3 months.

These days a blank non responsive void is the only thing that makes sense for an office.
A delivery date for CADE 2, the IRS’ subsequent modernization effort, has slipped several years even as contractors working on the project have earned as much as $290 million.

They call them "Beltway Bandits" for a reason.
> [comcast] do subsidize the cities with higher fees in the country

That may be true, but cities also cost less to serve than rural areas. Less density means that equipment serves fewer customers, each customer requires more cable to serve, technicians need to travel further between calls (or you need more of them), etc.
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Go whole hog and buy a 43" LG 4K monitor ($700). Not a tv, has no tuner, has native display port inputs. Best thing I did all year for productivity.

I found that at a certain point adding more screens looks cool to view from afar, when not sitting, or to impress non technical guests. But in practical reality, the wider you spread things out, the amount of body and neck swiveling (like watching a tennis match) becomes highly frustrating.
Gender is a state of mind in Canada and therefore Alberta.

If it catches on, it will probably stop working once the statistics reveal gender-changed MtoF's to be just as high in accident rates as regular males.
I certainly hope so. Fuck that, the insurer chosen by my company doesn't get to be this intrusive with me. I simply do not trust them.

My current insurance hasn't tried this yet, but I'm sure they will. They're going to hate me by the time I get done redlining the agreement and sending it back, and that's just for starters.

We are going to see a ton of tertiary effects of all this data sloshing around, and I really don't think people are going to like them. Especially wrt insurance and invasive surveillance like this. To drive, the state requires it, and so any time-and-place data and so on will be effectively legally required to be shared under whatever terms insurance companies choose.
That's somewhat inherent to LSM tree.
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Nope. At the federal level it is very much still illegal.

Many states decriminalize or legalize use or possession. The dispensary or grow operations are a different story.
IMHO the problem with coding tutorials is they usually target people that have little to no idea about programming essentials and teach them just the very basics like key primitive concepts (what classes, variables and functions are etc), language syntax, frameworks elementary basics etc.

Is there even a single tutorial that a self-taught undergraduate coder (who has already went through a number of simple tutorials, can code a number of languages like Python and C# and use GitHub) can take to learn how are real-world apps made, what do professional (professional ≠ veteran, it just means a person who earns their living doing it, working in a team usually) coders actually do all day long at their workplaces, what are they meant to know, how to solve interview puzzles and everything enough to go and get a coding job with reasonable ease?

As far as I know many companies need coders that can join a team and start writing/maintaining plain ordinary code, not necessarily brilliant code, just code that is readable, maintainable, reasonably fast and reliable and solves simple tasks it (a particular piece of code) is meant to. As far as I know a huge portion of people can potentially learn to do this with ease (you don't need IQ>150 for this, 100 is enough, even 90 will do which means the majority of the population). But people don't know how. And knowing a programming language syntax and being capable to code a simple script for yourself isn't enough: 99% of people who speak a language and can write a simple essay have no idea about how to write a novel (not necessarily a best-seller, even a mediocre one) - they are to be taught to structure it, introduce and develop characters, describe places and situations nicely, bake an idea in, maintain suspense, organize their writing process etc - it seems arcane to them while it essentially is just a number of plain and simple principles that can be outlined in a single manual. If only somebody having both the knowledge (skill) and the talent to explain would bother to write one and wouldn't write a huge tome practically obsolete by the release date instead.
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Something I've thought about is to offer a modest reward for taking a bike from A to B, where the endpoints are determined by algorithm, or there are specified drop off points. This could be a form of income for the otherwise unemployable.

Likewise, litter of bottles and cans went way down in my home state when they created a 10 cent deposit.
As a counterpoint, the D programming community could not exist without the internet and telecommuting. It's spread out all over the world, and we only meet once a year at Dconf.

I remember "telecommuting" in the 1980s with a fax machine (international phone at a buck a minute was impractical) and mailing floppy disks (weeks of delays for international).
Hi @freehunter, as a fellow skeptic, I can appreciate your question as to how Azlo makes money if there are no fees. As an executive of Azlo, I can tell you that there are many ways Azlo can and will make money without having to charge fees. Some have been mentioned here (interchange and deposits) and some are coming down the pipe (lending, international payments, etc). Many accounts will be lost leaders in that their deposits and their activity do not give us any substantial revenue. But having LLCs and C-Corps (who tend to have larger balances and do more transactions) will make it very worthwhile. Rest assured that the banking fees you are used to with other banks are not and will not be there with Azlo.

Also, we are a banking platform built for developers. Tech-savvy customers will have access to their accounts through our recently announced API portal https://www.azlo.com/tech/ (scroll down to 'Coming soon')

Hope you give us a shot and provide feedback for our API beta!
Do you have a source on that? Also, what country?
EconTalk from three weeks ago was The Tyranny of Metrics[1] about how when metrics are tied to compensation, they often have disastrous consequences, even to the point of achieving the opposite of the desired effect.

[1] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2018/04/jerry_muller_on.htm...
So they need something proven, scalable, highly concurrent, fault tolerant, and runs in a VM so it's not tied to hardware.

Sounds familiar.
Nasim was a hero.
Because AFAIK, the GPUs can't be shared across multiple VMs unlike CPU and RAM.