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I switched to Godot from Unity. Ya I lasted about 2 months and now I am back to Unity. Really depends on what you are doing but Godot has tons of bugs and it just gets old real fast, assuming you actually want to build a game. And trying to fix those bugs is not so easy in a lot of cases. Obviously depends on what you are doing though.

Switching from Unity to Unreal or vice versa is a wash imo as both those engines have proven themselves. Godot hasn't and still has a much longer way to go than the fanboys will have you believe. Maybe someday for some types of projects but I just don't see it ever having all the conveniences of Unity or Unreal.
I haven't had the 'pleasure' of that kind of technical interview, so I can't speak to that.

To the point of #3 I'm believing it more and more. I'm writing less code as I go on, but spending more time talking to people trying to tease out why people want things the way they say they want them.
Ask HN: What companies are using Stream Processing in Production?
Stream Processing has received a lot of attention first with Storm and later with Flink and Kafka. Beyond the hype, who actually use it in production and who has found it useful? What kind of use cases does it really work for?
I struggle to see how this is different in kind rather than degree, from content that has long been on steam. Bioware PC games, for instance, have long had suggestive sex scenes and dialog. So have weirder things like relationship simulators and Japan-esque graphic novelelly things (Lady Killer in a Bind has turned up in several sales, at least).

The Steam marketplace has had, e.g. nudity Skyrim mods forever.
No. The prices they quote are JUST getting the CO2 out of the air. Other technologies for getting CO2 from Flue Gas using amines or ammonia have been commercially demonstrated at scale for similar prices.

The hydrogen production, FT reactors, post-treating refinery will cost a lot more.

If you want hydrogen from water, you need electricity. A lot of it. Nuclear reactors will be the most viable way to do that.
Replying here, because I had no time to reply here earlier due to meetings. Anyway yes between 150 - 200k range.

My prior comment before removed was 5k savings, 11k 401k. I had more, but life events. For me, it's a variety of things. Largely summed up as I bought a house at 25. Had health issues that were in remission, then came back. And have been trying to get above water since.

I know a number of software engineers, who are in it just to pay the bills. As the pay increases so do the responiblities you hold.
Happened to me too. Told me to email them back to "unsubscribe", which of course didn't work. They train my spam filters now.
Internals of the Linux TUN Interface
Except the reactions happen at 300C, and the FT reaction is exothermic between H2 and CO, not CO2. taking CO2 apart is endothermic. And then you need to refine the hydrocarbons (because they will look like diesel or wax, not gasoline).
But the “computer age” also created a ton of bullshit jobs that shouldn’t exist. If anything, milkmen, elevator & linotype operators provided actual value. What does “social media analytics” provide?
Most laywer will not understand ElectronJS logic. I'm just looking for a simple advise and not some in-depth legal case.

So hopefully someone at HN will help out
>shame the deadman posts

If that were actually the case, then what are they supposed to say?

>lest I be disrupted into a barrier

This made me audibly chuckle.
> Frankly, I expect more from my remotes then I do my in-house because they have fewer distractions and no commute.

Been working remote for 6+ years and I agree. I can work hard as hell because of this... It's great!
If anyone can comment on "I can see work is already happening to make it easier.", I'd love to hear it.
Giant mirrors in space, redirecting energy to the surface of the earth...
Is there a software-engineering methodology for functional programming?
Really? I'm not really a news junkie, but I can't recall a single time hearing anything about Obama having a dispute with anyone, whereas I've heard stories about Trump virtually every day for the last year. Maybe he's even worse than they say?
But deployment is slowing in jurisdictions that have decided they can't afford the subsidies and what it does to power prices.
You've included "domain name" in the list of things Shopify does for $30, and you'd be wrong about that. It's an extra expense. And not only that, but the $30 plan doesn't provide "professional reports" which most businesses would want. Exporting invoice data as CSV, or to accounting software, backup of database etc. These are things I would advise a business needs.

I never said build the whole CMS/store platform from scratch. I would use something like Perch which is a CMS with shop-addon that allows you to build the site and store normally, then integrate easily into a shop. It's possible to be up and running quickly using a basic shared hosted platform as the host - which is all you need at first.

The day that "scaling" is needed is the day you ask your web host to put your mySQL e-store site on a better shared hosting plan with more RAM and more CPU... wow, what a huge effort! Or go VPS or something. Easy.

Every used mySqL? It actually works quite well believe it or not. Cheap, easy, not a headache.

We can argue all day about the details, but in the end you are advocating a microwave dinner as the solution for a small business wanting to make an impact and good impression with new customers. I am advocating something a lot better.
Top Most Expensive and Luxury Cars in the World 2018
Well there aren't enough cabs because ride-sharing companies have driven them out of business.

I am no fan of cabs. They were unreliable and overpriced, which is why they got driven out. I am willing to pay slightly more some of the times in exchange for the better availability, reliability and price that Uber will provide me most of the time. But not 5x more! This price should in theory be determined by the free market. However, because Uber determines the price, not the driver, it is not really a free market. I'd love to see an Uber-like service where the drivers outbid each other <del>and Uber takes a fixed percentage cut</del>.

Edit: I learned that Uber does in fact charge a fixed percentage cut, even during surge (20%).
Yes and yes.
Why do you bring those games up specifically?
Sex, Spies, and Clunky Computers on “The Americans”
> No, Obama had a personal thing against leakers. None was too many for him.

Funny enough he did promise transparency https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/obama-promise...
I take it that you don't use node? I write all my scripts in node instead of bash.
That actually makes more sense. Still though, it's pathetic that the NYT pretended like they were going to publish the story about mass illegal wiretapping by the NSA and then buried it to get Bush re-elected, and now are complaining about the government reading their reporter's emails. As if this isn't completely deserved.
In case this isn't a joke or someone doesn't get it..
Valve got their big start with COUNTER STRIKE
A game where you can hear the phrase "Terrorists Win".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike_(video_game)
A human driver crashed in that same exact spot one week earlier, so you can't really say AP is necessarily worse because of this accident.
Idk mang. Murder simulators have always been the biggest chunk of the gaming market. From Battlezone to Mario, to Counterstrike to Fortnite, the idea is kill those other fuckers before they kill you.
that's not a standard limitation. Both my wife and my auto brake systems will start squealing if driven too close to stationary obstacles.
Home Depot stocked shelves with empty boxes in its early days
Texas Man’s Near-Fatal Lesson: A Decapitated Snake Can Still Bite
But maybe it is a ... wait for it... moptimization!
> there are units at Infosys who design chips. None of your folks at Facebook will do that quality of work their whole life.

The arrogance displayed in this statement is unbelievable.

I know the specific chip design projects in Infosys you are talking of. It is an abuse of the word "design". They implement the HDL for the chip, sure, but "design"?

And who decides designing chips is a superior quality work compared to image to alt-text translation (yes, happens in Facebook Hyderabad)? You?
How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping the Drone Industry
Binary matrix is trusted or not??
Facebook is fighting fake news by producing its own news
... regulation ... (ie. ability to audit afterwards)
Reminder to NOT use any 3rd-party VPN service if you truly value your privacy. ProtonVPN, PureVPN, Private Internet Access, etc. Do not use those services if you're intending to do some "shady shit". I know first hand that Google has a (semi)-automated web-based process for law enforcement to submit their subpoenas and get the entire access history of a particular Google/Gmail account. They don't get access to the contents of the account, but they get to see IP addresses and user agents that accessed that account in the last N days. A warrant to see the contents of the accounts would be trivial if the investigators wanted to pursue it.
The interior design of the Model 3 is very simple - there are few physical controls - with the assumption that the car usually does not need to be driven by a human. As Elon presented it: https://youtu.be/GZm8ckvsu9I?t=2m2s.
Pure speculation: perhaps the simplified interior is necessary to bring the costs down for mass-production, and here is where the "synergy" with the autopilot comes in.
No, those are fine. But how about "hunt and kill thinly-disguised versions of prominent feminists"? We will see someone push that limit, and probably this year.
Alternately, `x and y or z`
It is First Person 3D (no shooting). The learning curve was individually quite straight forward for each component, especially if you already have familiarity with the concepts. Blueprints were easy because I can code, and node based shaders aere quick to get started with because I knew the pieces of the puzzle so to speak.

There is just a lot of different concepts flying around so it's easy to get flustered at first. UE4 also has a lot of boilerplate around game modes and default world functionality. It's not hard to learn it's just arbitrary learning so not all that fun.

After the first week I found it surprising how quickly everything started coming together, it was more up front but once I was sped up I was good to go. Unity was a bit more of a constant grind of learning little bits here and there.

What I have found difficult and continue to find difficult is support for UE4. Someone has almost always asked the same question as you, it's just that no one has answered. I found there was always some level of discussion for Unity if not a solution. But for UE4 it just feels a bit baron, at least for the results Google offers me.
The article does address the question, but I think you're coming at this from the wrong angle. Let me give an example of what I mean by that.

Let's say a person swallows poisons. The poison is going to kill them if it stays inside them with the amount that they swallowed. They absolutely need to vomit or they are going to die. The way your comment is approaching this, you're basically saying that vomiting isn't worthwhile because it takes more energy than it gives back.

In this analogy, taking carbon out of the atmosphere is like vomiting up a poison. If we extend the metaphor a little bit, then using renewable is like eating normal food. So if we take the way your comment is approaching things in an analogous way, you're also implying that vomiting up poisons is pointless if the energy we used to vomit was acquired from healthy food.

The metaphor does start breaking down eventually, but its a lot more obvious why this matters when you realize it isn't whether a question of whether we need to vomit - its just a question of how we do it and what we gain from doing it. This method gives us a carbon-neutral fuel, which is valuable. It's also somewhat cheap. There are other ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere that don't have those upsides.
The important part is that it's AOT compiled into WASM so it can run in the browser which is what you can do now with Blazor.
That's awesome. Great choice of a language. We just moved to Gitlab internally (we were actually starting to do so before the MSFT news). Very happy so far. Looking forward to speed improvements.
These bullshit job might exist because people need something to keep them occupied, otherwise they will revolt, vandilize, revert back to barbaric behavious and society as we know it would collapse.
I highly doubt it. The new feature they were testing was probably rolled out to a % of their user-base (as any sane company rolling out new features does.)

Facebook has tools that lets them target experiments to specific subsets of their users. Chances are this experiment targeted 14M users in a very specific geography (generally English speaking users probably in the US/CA/NZ/AU).

Most likely, this sounds like a UI bug where users in the experiment had their default "audience" for their posts set to Public, instead of the value that it is usually set to.

The UI probably showed that it was being posted to the public, but obviously, if you weren't looking at that you'd probably expect it to have been the same as your previous default.
I think there's no question the pursuit of sexual stimulation hasn't declined one bit, despite a supposed decline in youth pursuing sex (or perhaps more plausibly they're simply being exposed to circumstances that enable stray sexual encounters a lot less often due to changes in socializing; as opposed to an actual decline in wanting sex).

An extremely small percentage of the population feels any motivation related to wanting to murder other people. Murdering people isn't very popular at all, and drives no pleasure for 95%+ of the population, despite the attention it stirs in media.

Somewhere between a very large minority and a majority of the population spends a large share of their teen and adult lives being motivated by wanting to have sex, sexual intimacy, etc. with other people.

Most people are biologically driven to want to have sex with other people. An extremely small number of people are similarly biologically driven to murder (perhaps a near zero population).
Those two things are not mutually exclusive. This is especially the case when you consider that, for example, government is currently controlled by conservatives but popular culture is controlled by progressives. Similar situations exist for the deep south versus the coast, churches versus software companies, gun culture versus hip hop culture, etc. Therefore, depending on their circumstances both a minority progressive and a white conservative can be suffering.
I got tired of encountering graphics issues for seemingly simple concepts, like casting a shadow that doesn't look horrible, or light leaking through everything. Not post processing issues, genuinely painful to debug issues which seem like no brainers.
> People feel that video games should be held it a different (more conservative) standard to other formats (books, video)

I disagree. I'm worried that Steam's porn won't be properly separated from the rest of their library. I've frequently had borderline-naked prepubescent children from erotic visual novels show up on the front page of the Steam store, and would like it to stop happening before somebody calls the cops on me.
In e.g. Mass Effect, I have innumerable opportunities to go renegade and waste some guy for no reason.
Censorship in the Age of Large Cloud Providers
Team Foundation Server is more than Team Foundation Version Control.
Solar and wind are cheaper than coal without subsidies.
Not sure how accurate but napkin maths and quick google suggest barrel of oil produces 118 kg of co2. So about 9 barrels to produce a ton. Barrel is $67. So cost of capture might add 15% to 38% to cost of oil.
I don't belive you give up any fifth amendment rights when given a security clearance.

However, you also have no right to a security clearance so simply refusing to answer probabbly kills your career / clearance right there, and suddenly you're the focus of the investigation.

When asked I wonder if it was just the FBI "casually" asking everyone a bunch of questions. Then you have to decide, do I lie (not a good idea) and maybe keep my job... or end my job outright?

Most people's choice likely has to do with how likely they think they're the focus of an investigation and how much the FBI already knows or doesn't know.
Ask HN: Should I buy a 2015 Macbook Pro?
The non butterfly keyboard one, with no touchbar, 16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD.

Any suggestions with reasoning appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Capped at what? Article doesn't say, unless I missed it. That makes a difference.
That would give the user full control over the physical CPU, though, whereas most "cloud" services only give you access to a virtual machine.

On the other hand, it should be possible for the hypervisor to provide roughly the same capabilities in software, without having to modify the software inside the virtual machine. Indeed, most hypervisors already provide a GDB stub for this purpose, including, e.g., Xen [1]; it's just that public clouds don't typically give customers access to it. It would be nice if that changed.

[1] https://github.com/xen-project/xen/tree/master/tools/debugge...
8 Times U.S. Intelligence Set People Up to Fabricate the Russia Story
Where there’s chaos, there’s opportunity. Channel that heartbreak into cash flow.
I think you're referring to traffic analysis for protocol identification, which is something else entirely, and Tor handles that as well. Resisting protocol identification can be done very efficiently -- you basically get the same information theoretical efficiency as the protocol you're mimicking does, and the primary failure mode is to not be mimicking it completely accurately. It's theoretically possible to mimic the target protocol perfectly, and each time someone finds a way to distinguish them is one step closer to there not being any more ways left.

Resisting global traffic analysis for the purposes of deanonymization is not so easy. The issue is that if every time Alice sends ~476MB of traffic, Bob promptly receives ~476MB of traffic, it's not hard to deduce that Alice is talking to Bob. To fix that, the amount and timing of the traffic Bob receives needs to be independent of the traffic Alice is sending him. Which is possible but inherently comes at an efficiency cost.
That was caused by stupidity - reckless password management on the victim’s part.
I'd be curious as to if profit-sharing schemes and the like cause employees to make more fiscally sound decisions.

Probably a difficult thing to study, though.
Shocking, shocking I say!

I would bet money that the historical overlap between regular consumers of Steam and pornhub look more like a single circle than a venn diagram.
Really depends what is "leaked" doesn't it? The only leak I am aware of that breaks a law would be passing classified documents (uncertain if the law specifically extends to discussions at which classified material may be used).

Are you suggesting leaking details of something like the EPA heads abuses of position should be prosecutable?
>it doesn't detect stationary obstacles

Wait, how can that be? I mean clearly it didn't detect the barrier in this case, but that wasn't by design was it?
Its not profitable to clean: even if cleaning was paid for by the government, most cleaning efforts would be commercial enterprises simulating maximum cleaning effort(like the incentive to collect rat tails will result in rat breeding farms, the "environment cleaning industry" will be most profitable with more pollution and costlier cleaning incentives/bonuses ).

It will result in encouraging more pollution and removing all safeguards(clean coal? we'll clean it up later!)
towards a new industry whose main interest would be preserving pollution forever to profit from cleaning it up.

Like a pharmaceutical industry, the symptoms are more profitable than curing the disease completely.
"basic requirement" huh, like exporting customer orders to a format ready to import into accounting software, aka "advanced report writing". Sorry, only available in the $299 per month shopify plan.

Look, if you like Shopify... go for it. Me, I would avoid that thing like the plague. I value flexible parameters and increased possibilities over a stifled e-store that pops out the vending machine slot if you remember to feed it $30 a month.

Shopify is not for developers, and not for anyone who knows a developer or willing to pay for something better than a microwave dinner experience. That's not just my opinion, it's also how it actually is.
Reread what I actually said. I didn't say violent video games weren't popular.

I said very few people derive direct pleasure from simulating murder in eg a video game. When you stomp on a bad guy in Mario, you are not feeling the serial killer equivalent to some kind of sweet orgasmic reaction high to murdering a fellow human with a butcher knife in real life. There is no connection at all.

To put it into movie terms: a lot of people enjoy action movies (which include violence), the latest flick by The Rock etc, they're exciting. A dramatically smaller share of the population enjoys watching highly graphic, gruesome, murder movies like Hostel or Saw. And that's not the person simulating murder, that's second hand, watching the simulation of it, and the drop off in popularity is extreme.

People are not having fun in GTA because they get off on actually murdering people and their sole physical outlet for it is relegated to a video game. All of those players aren't actually lusting after wanting to slaughter their fellow humans.

You can simulate sex in VR, or watch porn, and then go have sex, jerk off all day, etc. There's a direct connection.

Very, very, very few people murder or actually want to murder; some extremely high percentage of the population wants sex, has sex, jerks off, etc.
Shenzhen may have grown too fast, too soon, for its own good
In Deep Q Network (DQN), the Q network itself is the policy. You have one output for each possible action, and the the neural network estimates the Q value for each action in the current state. You act by selecting the action with the highest Q output. This doesn't work if the action space is continuous, e.g. motor torques for a robot.

You might think you can fix this by making the action an input to the Q network and keeping only one output; then you could find the action with the highest output. But due to the nonlinearity in the neural network, this is an intractable nonconvex optimization problem.

So instead, you train a neural network to output the action given the state. The algorithms are harder to understand, because Q learning is kind of like supervised learning but policy gradients really aren't. A lot of algorithms (A2C, DDPG, TRPO, etc.) still use one-output Q network (as described in the previous paragraph), but this is just a part of the learning algorithm * . Once training is done, you throw away this Q network. The learned behavior is entirely contained in the policy network. These methods are usually called policy gradient methods.

This article covers policy gradient methods only.

* it's possible to do "pure" policy gradients using only the empirical return, but the Q network helps reduce the variance of the gradient estimate and stabilize the learning.
Valve are taking a stance that every major open-access digital vendor has backed away from. Apple, Google, Facebook, Patreon, Zazzle, Amazon... they'll let you sell anything you want with no pre-moderation (except Apple) and rely on community moderation to bring things to their attention.

I don't think this will end well for them. They've declared open season for the internet's worst people to push the boundaries of acceptability, for which they'll earn a cut of a tiny number of sales, and reams of negative press.
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