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I couldnt get into D3 because there is too much focus on the items, I think the items should compliment the character, not the reverse
I played the first Alexa-enabled board game and it was a real trip
I’d love to talk more, if you can. My email in my profile.

As stated in a comment above, I think that this should be a global nonprofit. Mapping tools should be made for free to emergency responders. That’s one way to go around the financial question.
I feel like the HN bias tends to go the other way, that FP is some kind of awesome magic sauce and OOP is the bane of good software. In reality, most of the techniques we discuss don’t really depend on a specific language orientation.
> hard to identify a specific economic problem which they currently solve

Problem: a handful of private companies could exert monetary censorship.

World changing organizations like Wikileaks are possible because of cryptocurrencies, when Visa/Mastercard/etc began blocking donations. Cryptocurrencies enable anyone to take online payments. [1]

> Transactions are slow and costly, prone to congestion, and cannot scale with demand

Lightning Network has found a very promising solution to these issues. Off-chain transactions can be completed in under a second, without the scalability concerns of on-chain transactions. I highly recommend checking this out if you're unfamiliar [2]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/08/20/wikileaks...

[2] https://lightning.network
I would not make that bet at all. Why would there be any correlation between crypto and the stock market? Also, crypto is arguably more liquid than stocks. They trade 24/7, there's decentralized exchanges, ATMs for BTC, etc...can't take my company stock to an ATM machine. And cashing out stock often takes weeks.
Second Balkan war? :)
To be fair, OP was looking for a modern spiritual successor (not sequel) of which D3 is not.
Not hot enough to melt, but heat definitely reduces structural integrity of materials. And pressures on the rock so deep are immense. This article linked from Wikipedia seems to confirm that the hole tended to close itself when they were drilling:

"At that level of heat and pressure, the rocks began to act more like a plastic than a solid, and the hole had a tendency to flow closed whenever the drill bit was pulled out for replacement."

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-deepest-hole/
Valuing ICOs from fundamentals – ideas?
Hi, I am trying to come up with a theoretical justification for valuing ICOs, specially utility tokens - one that ultimately ends on cashflows. Any ideas?
Seems unlikely that road infrastructure will be upgraded/changed prior to construction of self driving cars.

When developing the self driving tech, a company retains all IP associated with research/development costs. Would they ever instead pay for development of public infra? Would a municipality build roads that conform to Company A's standard of self driving roads, omitting the requests of Company B?
EPIC: Digital Advertising Ecosystem Is Not Healthy [pdf]
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Thanks for that. I had come across some of Seneca's writing before, while researching / reading about Stoicism, but hadn't come across this specific text, that I recall.
If anyone else was also puzzled:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
Thank you :). Yes I have considered it, I will maybe implement it later if this project is liked by the community.
Just some greedy gremlins ousting the actual creators of success. Must be a law of nature.
"Hacker ethos" is using other peoples' work for free?
Every other place I've worked for took reviews pretty seriously. I think that for me in my current role, my boss would have egg on his face if he admitted to having opened a very expensive job req for a role he didn't need.
Actually, I've found that the best way to guarantee I'm buying a quality product is to shop by brand.

I assume that is highly but not completely correlated with manufacturer.
Smartz: How to Fill the Gap Between Smart Contracts and End Users
That is weird indeed. Especially since there are regular scheduled flights from the Reykjavík airport[1] to Kulusuk. Reykjavík airport is included, along with most airports that have scheduled flights from there (like Ísafjörður and Egilsstaðir) but not Kulusuk.

[1]: not to be confused with the larger Keflavík international airport that handles almost all international flights to Iceland
I feared this but have yet to experience it being a problem. Maybe the people I'm talking to deal with reading off letters all day.
I don't think you'll find a 'quick hack' but what you're asking is definitely possible as a project.

Check this video out for ideas(guy used ML/servo controlled squirt gun to get rid of squirrels from his bird house)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgqfnKG_T4
I had totally forgotten about Descent, thank you for the reminder. That game seriously scared me as a 13 yo boy at the time. I loved it.
>> That looks like astroturfing to you?

No, it looks like people exaggerating to me. I don't doubt there is some merit to the safety claims made about Rust, but many people have a tendency toward unwarranted idealization. I admitted that I have not learned Rust yet which should add doubt to my own skepticism.

The project I'm thinking of trying with Rust looks like it will be predominantly Unsafe Rust - using a lot of structures that are multiply referenced by necessity (or not?). I'm doing a lot of reading and thinking prior to starting because I really want the benefit from Rust as well as changing my thinking if there are good changes to be made there. Using an array of items and having them reference each other by index should satisfy the Rust compiler, but that doesn't actually solve the potential problems of trying to traverse (update) a complex data structure with parallel threads. The challenge of doing this suggests to me that the claims are overblown. A modestly complex data structure seems to require disabling all that safety but I am still learning and contemplating different approaches. Questioning basic assumptions seems prudent. I want to believe, but at this point I'm not convinced.
Not op, but pretty much, yes. GDP per capita is still way lower for China compared to US.

China is perfectly justified in playing a system built by the winners for the winners. Much luck to them in making the hypocrisy of the system more clearly obvious.

The US is complaining about IP theft, where:

1) they are (were? mainly?) the ones with IP assets

2) the rules have been established by the US (mainly)

3) whenever the US sees fit, it breaks its own rules (thanks Trump, finally this is obvious to everybody!)

And all the while without even mentioning:

A) the war dividends, all around the world. Whoever thinks the US is losing money with NATO is just delluded.

B) the massive rent extracting effects that the dollar has throughout the world economy.

Tell Trumpy something: if he wants "fair" trade, let's also get a fair currency for all involved.

The truth is that the deficit happens because the US consumer indulges in extra hyperconsumerism thanks to an overvalued dollar.

The arrangment suits nealy everybody. Now comes Trump and wants a new deal.

Let's get one: the US consumes less with a weaker dollar, and the deficit disappears.

You know what the US won't get: a world where the US controls the currency, the military and the economy. Maybe you haven't noticed, but the US is only 5% of world population.

It wouldn't be fair.
I guess this depends on how it is taught. If it is just memorization of historical events then it probably wouldn't matter. But if the students are expected to try to understand the mindset of the people acting throughout history, then it is quite important to avoid "presentism" and "hindsight bias".
A few factors:

1. There is no common language so hiring is typically restricted to one country.

2. Taxes are very high, particularly social security taxes that must be paid by the employer. Firms are very reluctant to create jobs.

3. A lot of bureaucracies are old and inefficient.

4. For the same reasons, products are difficult to scale. You can go from a local product in San Francisco to a national product in the USA relatively easily. But in the EU you are dealing with multiple languages, cultures, country bureaucracies in order to make the same jump.

The best thing for the EU would be to get everyone speaking English at least as a second language. Then, to require all official forms, Government engagement etc. to be in the national language and English.

Imagine you go from working in Warsaw to Berlin. A distance of only 570km, but you need to be able to speak Polish to deal with Polish bureaucracy, English to work at the multinational firm, and German to deal with German bureaucracy.
you don't need a testcase for that. just ask the daughter company in Austria.
You're basically talking about evading sanctions and/or money laundering.
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It's kinda funny how Americans still thinks US is doing shit to help anyone else besides themselves and their business interests. China is now doing the same thing the west/ImF/world Bank have always done. But in the case of China they don't run around toppling government and the countries do get general infrastructure while the west usually just built the bare minimum to get the resources out. Yes its imperialism but I'd take the Chinese version over the horrors of the western Empire any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
>You'd basically have to scrape video feeds from youtube to compete in this way.

Youtube still offers RSS and it's reliable and chronological unlike youtube's subscription feed algorithm.
dupe, did not see. woops
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17272122

still hoping to spread the information around in the hopes it gets increased attention!
> what is your solution?

* Progressive taxes on corporations. Use it to fund important social safety nets like healthcare. One reason people move to big cities is because the only modicum of security you have in the US today is to be in a place where there are multiple jobs in your profession. If you get fired, sorry "downsized", oops I mean "rightsized", oops, "restructured", you need to be able to find a new job fast or you'll end up on the street or dead if you get sick. One of the reasons people concentrate in large cities despite the insane rent is out of fear.

* Progressive taxes on individuals. A society that allows someone to be as rich as Jeff Bezos while his own employees are barely scraping by has failed. You should, of course, be rich-er if you work harder or provide more value to society. The graph should not be flat, but the slope should not be as insanely high at one end like it is now. A billionaire could sacrifice most of their wealth without losing any measurable quality of life. Use these taxes to lower taxes on the working and middle classes and to:

* Invest in significant infrastructure improvements in the urban core of mid-size cities. Thanks to automation, the balancing force that pulled people to spread across the country into small rural towns is gone. Without that, cities are the natural locus, but most don't have the infrastructure or amenities to be appealing or handle growth, so you get concentration mostly in the handful of megalopolises. Pour money into mid-size cities like Bakersfield, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Plano, and Des Moines. Fund the arts and other cultural properties that turn a city into the kind of unique place that makes people want to actually live there. Learn from Austin, Portland, and Athens. Learn from the slew of mid-sized European cities that each have their own character and feel.

Acknowledge that the US is never going to function like it did in the 50s and start building the social, financial, and geographical structure needed for it to be a thriving country in the Information Age.
I've found fakespot.com to be helpful (not foolproof) here. I'm starting to also use ReviewMeta.com.... Has anyone had good results from them?
In the past couple years, my credit card number has been scanned at least 3 or 4 times from (likely) gas pump readers. Those scans resulted in transactions that I didn't have to pay for (but some merchant did).
Yes! I actually played it through last year.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/wiki/index#wiki_diablo_i_gam...

I've also used this HD mod that adds some characters from Diablo II, better multiplayer, and increases the difficulty:

https://mod.diablo.noktis.pl/download
Digital product should cost less than physical, since there is no expense of printing physical disks. But if it already costs so for DRMed digital, then sure, price won't likely be less.

The cost of manufacturing a disc is less than a buck in volume (http://www.dvdreplication.com/blu-raydiscmanufacturing.htm). The cost of a movie is in mostly in creating the content.
> Another way to reduce envy is to realize that, ultimately, it's luck all the way down. There are plenty of talented, hard-working people who will never see even moderate success

Realizing that it's luck all the way down only reinforces my opinion that the wealthy pay a pittance in taxes relative to the value they get from our society. Those talented, hard-working people who will never see success deserve affordable healthcare, a functioning safety net that allows them to overcome difficulty and take chances, equal education opportunities for their kids, and a hope for a retirement that doesn't require giving up everything or overburdening their families.

Unhappiness that we (in the US at least) are not on that path is more than envy.
Yes, I'm questioning the "basic evolutionary theory" (and it appears that Dyson does too), because all efforts to test it in software have failed so far. Which is especially troubling given that processing power has been increasing exponentially for decades since people started experimenting with genetic algorithms and artificial life simulations.
I love the built-in demos!
First thing I do at my computer if I am groggy is to do chess tactics. Based on the results, I take a break or continue with my actual work. I should probably be looking at ELO as well, I just go by numbers at this time !
There's nothing to download. Everything is right there on the page.
Yeah, as much as I like long-form pieces on how a technology was developed, pretty much any company with capital can make an Android tablet nowadays. But "Company develops internal tech solution to reduce BOM costs & reliance on third parties" isn't as sexy a title.
Imagine trying to pay for something with crypto and having the seller deride it as fake money that they refuse to accept. That is illegal with officially minted currency.
I'm pointing out a clear example that invalidates a major assertion from the BIS report.
«As stated in other comments, Bitcoin is hardly anonymous anymore»

Cryptocurrencies ≠ Bitcoin. There are quite a few cryptocurrencies that provide full anonymity (eg. Zcash with its zk-SNARKs.) Besides, Bitcoin is sufficiently anonymous for most.

«Fraud was (and likely still is) rampant in the digital currency community when Bitcoin hit its peak»

Still, for the recipient of an online payment, receiving cryptocurrencies (specifically Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc: the big ones that can't easily be 51%-attacked) are the less risky option that exists for them.

«Also, at least with credit there's legal recourse. It's at least something compared to nothing with digital currencies.»

False. There is legal recourse for cryptocurrencies. Governments have and will continue to legally prosecute cases of crypto theft. It might be harder to recover the money, but there definitely is legal recourse.

«At Bitcoin's peak there was a significant cost to doing any transfers. This is now admittedly lower but to the average person I don't think this is a strong enough argument alone.»

Global remittance fees cost an average of 7.13% (https://remittanceprices.worldbank.org/en) which is terribly high. The crypto tx fee is typically much smaller. This is still a strong argument in their favor.

«takes so much computing power to confirm a transaction»

Transactions don't consume energy. The transaction rate could increase without necessarily increasing the energy consumption. This is a big misconception floating around cryptocurrencies.

«Also, what do you propose when quantum becomes mainstream? Every wallet in existing currencies will be cracked in mere seconds»

And legacy banking will break too (VPNs, IPsec, encryption at rest, TLS shopping sessions, and so on.)
...because bitcoin is actually decentralised. All of the other fake coins have some aspect of control built into them, e.g. that 'airdrop' where everyone gets some new allocation of fake-coin, the people doing the air-drop hope that some people use the new fake-coin and that the price goes up and they can then sell their special founders hoard of fake coins for real money (or real bitcoin).

The 'airdrop' idea is a scam to get around the problem of the ICO - just magic these new fakecoins into existence and avoid any regulatory problems.

Point being that bitcoin is unique among the crypto-coins in that it is actually not centralized in any way, all the others pretend to be that but there is some fat controller hoping to profit from the uptake of the things.

That said, although bitcoin is legit compared to all the rest, there is a problem when it is no longer economic to mine. If the mining won't pay for the electricity bills then there is nobody around to take those exorbitant transaction fees. Of course these problems can be solved with more centralisation and control - lightning networks and the like.
> Since video hosting is such a resource intensive undertaking, I wonder why many free porn sites don't have outages and have no limit on uploads for free users - unlike YouTube competitors.

Because they can run far riskier and less-vetted ads. They can also run as many of them as they want - the "target audience" doesn't really care if there's 1000 banner ads on a page. There's a reason much of malware is spread from porn sites.

For consumer facing video sites, they have to compete with YouTube on UX, which means much more stringent ad vetting, and far fewer ads. This likely tips the balance just enough that normal online video startups are not feasible without 3-4 years of runway.
>The incubators and conferences she attended were typically full of men; often white, mainly young. It wasn’t often she saw another visible Muslim woman such as herself.

>“I didn’t feel welcome and included. I never saw anyone who looked different,
”

>I had to deal with a lot of microaggressions, from being ignored to … realizing [some people were] not willing to help.”

This is probably the quickest way to turn perceived racism into real racism. Make a huge deal about how different you are from everyone else, and blame every sleight on the white men for simply being over represented in a voluntary gathering.

Ironically, the apparent solution to incidental exclusion is purposeful exclusion. This is growing increasingly ridiculous.

On a related note, how far backwards are we to bend to accommodate for others? I once shook hands with a Muslim woman, before she noted that she was not allowed to shake hands with men. Why stop there? Why not segregate women and have them wear facial coverings to be inclusive of Muslim men[0]? Business has its own culture, without which it would function less efficiently, and the people writing articles like these don't seem to care, prizing diversity over actual function or merit.

[0]I don't mean to target Islam specifically, this is a general problem of cultural clash that only white people in the US are apparently supposed to be shamed for.
Not sure that a model ending in cash flows really makes sense — most tokens don't come with any obligation from some central organization to pass along cash flows to token holders. Thinking about the flow of value through a network probably makes more sense: https://medium.com/@cburniske/cryptoasset-valuations-ac83479...
Which is really weird. Because the code is reverse-engineered and I'm 99% sure the author used Hex-Rays Decompiler (due to variable names, etc).
Billionaires are the outliers among wealthy people. Its hard to connect what they did or are doing, to anything that most people will ever know or experience.

https://imgur.com/a/Bu8iLiz
You likely wouldn't be included since you don't meet the lower limit for a monetized channel (I'm assuming).
Recently there was a thread on that topic on the TUHS mailing list - including a story about exploding one :-)
> That appears to be some sort of exponential in type inference.

If I recall, it's in the implicit conversions, not strictly the type inference.
The ancient travel booking app we started using after the acquisition. SAP monstrosity that feels twenty years old.
I often notice that most things now are basically "Android tablets".

Those little machines popping up in restaurants where you can order/pay? Android tablets.

Have a relatively recent car? Got CarPlay? Your stereo is probably an Android tablet.

So this isn't too surprising. Instead of spending whatever amount of time trying to design and build an embedded system, along with basic OS, library, etc, you can just find an Android tablet that fits what you need and build off of that.
How could this work? I specify an interface to an api.

C Foo(A a) = ...

Someone then provides me with some not-A error value. What should I do? What do you mean by implicit.
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Check out Overload on steam dude. Made by the same peeps.
Agreed, this article does make sweeping arguments about the costs of operating these currencies, but their implementations vary wildly, some cryptos are able to do thousands of TPS (and even BTC, with lightning, can achieve this). Some are POS and use minimal electricity.
Thank you very, very much for this data!

We also have to factor in the following, which makes the economics of being a content creator even worse:

1) If you made $12,140 last year ($1,000 a month post tax for sake of whole numbers), how much of that went to recouping production costs? Include food, travel, electricity, amortized hardware cost for cameras and computers, etc.

2) Of the money that's leftover, how many hours went into creating this content? Divide those two numbers (e.g $800 per month / 40 hours per month = $20 effective hourly rate).

If $1,000 a month pays the bills and allows you to live a non-corporate, stress free life, then being one of the 175,000 people making this type of money sounds like a great deal. But I have a feeling the economics of this situation aren't sustainable.

Also check out EEVBlog. He makes about 40k a year on youtube with frequent, family-friendly, profitable-niche content. Decent, but not full-time family supporting money.
Apple Gets U.S. Supreme Court Review on iPhone App Fee Suit
Ulysses is meant to be read aloud
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Me too! It was fantastic. Ironically, I stopped playing a few weeks before it came out of closed beta (just didn’t have time and then never went back to it... now its changed so much I feel a bit overwhelmed by the thoughts of going back to it)

I actually heard about PoE on HN too, back in 2012 :)
If your use case is archival (running this on many videos stored on disk) as opposed to realtime (running on a live video feed), we built a research tool called Scanner [1] for maximum performance in offline video analytics, e.g. see our face detection example [2].

[1] https://github.com/scanner-research/scanner

[2] https://scanner-research.github.io/scannertools/#face-detect...