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Because crowdfunded developers running on tight budgets generally don't throw money at stars. It might be a good business investment for a movie or television show, but most early supporters would rather the game be out sooner with B or C-list talent. Star power is icing a cake that isn't yet baked.

Particular to Star Citizen, fans remember well the use of Mark Hamill in one of the Wing Commander games, the one that came spread across six cd-roms. It was an interesting cross-media experiment but the industry took from that incident that gamers want a game, not cutscenes.

There is also great danger in hiring a star for something that will not come out until many years later. She may not be as famous in 2-5 (10?) years when the game actually arrives. She could be involved in a scandal. She could star in a series of flops. She could simply retire. Then the extra money spent on her will have been wasted. It is very odd decision to pay a premium for her over literally hundreds of equally capable but less-famous actors.
Turning off Google in Europe even for 1 day would result in complete chaos.

A week would definitely put a noticeable dent in the economy.
It measures the speed against actual Netflix CDN servers, so how can it "prefer your IPv6 connection" for the speed measurement?
Only $100k? That is much, much less than a big ol' intrusive SiteMinder or BMC project. In fact, it's so cheap as to cast serious doubt on the consultant's credibility. And I am already assuming this happened about 15 years ago.
Battletech The Game went to kick starter to get additional funds to deliver their game and it pretty much ranks up there as a AAA title. They went on to get picked up by Paradox Games who will give the access to resources they did not have before.

Having watched Star Citizen for years it is just obvious this whole process suffers from feature creep. They went in with one game and now have what? three?

It reminds me of Battle Cruiser 3000AD at this point, though to be fair they have delivered more content but at the same time not when or what people who got into it expected
> They are clearly related as a suite of applications which form the core experience of what is called “Android”.

I'm using Android every day and never once opened Chrome (instead I'm using the Lightning browser) or used the Google app to search (I'm just searching directly in my browser). So IMHO that's definitely NOT the core experience of Android, while the Play Store is.
I spotted a copy at the local Half-Priced Bookstore the other day, behind the counter with all the other expensive stuff. It was priced over $100. I wish I either had the money or an elaborate scheme to distract the guy at the counter and make off with it. I've read a nice chunk of it in TXT form, but to have the physical copy would be very nice.
But Apple pre-installs it on Apple’s phones. Apple can do whatever they want on Apple phones.

Google is forcing installations on Samsung phones, LG phones, etc through their contract.

It is entirely possible what Apple is doing would be illegal IF they licensed/sold the OS to other OEMs.
For the ones that allow you to, yeah. But how would you e.g. easily disable/delete Google Play Services (say, if you didn't want Google on your phone)? The disable option is disabled.

Also, even when I try disabling some of these built-in Google apps that I supposedly can disable, I get a prompt warning me that "If you disable a built-in app, other apps may misbehave"... you can't keep a straight face telling a user "oh but you can easily disable this!" when you yourself are telling them the consequence is that it might break other things on their phone. (!)
EURUSD: Remains Vulnerable, Eyes More Weakness
That feels right given the number of ideas that turn out to be side projects vs. Become real companies
Why we need a real life Richard Hendricks of SIlicon valley and his tech
Except the existence of D3 wasn't even announced until 2008, releasing four years later - and they didn't rely on the donations of backers, nor did they promise it'd be out in 2-3 years or bolt on feature after feature (and a FPS), nor did they push the limits of graphics cards and whatnot and design it for two generations over.

I could go on, not sure though, I think it's a moot comparison.
OEMs and carriers often put "their" (the Facebook app bundled on some Samsung phones can't be deleted, only disabled) apps on the system side of the fence...
Yes, which is fine.

The ruling was because Google say it must be Chrome, and cannot be Firefox.
This is a case of breaking a law where there was clear precedent set by the Microsoft case. Google decided it could get away with it or the cost was worth it. I'm glad the EU stands up to monopolistic practices and doesn't capitulate like in the US. Without large companies suppressing competition who knows how many other choices and products we would have?
It isn't throttling if it is operating at or above base clock.
There is ongoing open source, community based effort to replicate Alpha Zero Chess.

The effort is lead by Gary Linscott. He is also one of the main developers of Stockfish (I believe the framework for testing Stockfish).

https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/lczero

Here is the current state of the effort: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18UWR4FVhPi0vNwwPreu_...

Estimated date of surpassing Stockfish with settings and hardware reported in the spreadsheet is the end of this year.

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I have missed your statements about symbolic reasoning. Yes, I'm referring to the same type of symbolic reasoning as the author of the article. I.e. system that manipulates high-level symbols without any grounded understanding of them in the surrounding us reality. Deliberating whether it is thinking or not is pointless. It's effective and that matters.
Three tech demoes and a team making advertising videos for ships you can buy for a premium which you can play in a video game that still doesn't exist yet.
The same reason that none of the console makers are being fined for only allowing games to be bought from their own App Store.

Microsoft would have no problem vertically integrating thier surface computers with whatever product they wanted on it.
> What if I don't want to use webpack and npm and babel?

You don't have to use those if you use React. It can be as simple as including a script tag in your HTML and be done with it.
>As I recall, kickstarter originally had a requirement of giving money back if you couldn't deliver--which was never very practical. Getting money from a stone sort of thing.

Of course that can be a requirement, and you've given a great example of financial confusion that I've seen come up a lot in crowdfunding discussions: "requirement" in no way means "assurance". The actual final outcome comes out of the interaction of various pieces of law with different goals and the priorities established in the financial setup. It's like any debt, it's "legally required" to be paid back to the extent allowed under law, but that doesn't mean it will be, defaults happen. If a debt is defaulted on then what process happens next is very important to a functional economy. So it's fine to say "you are required to do x," what that translates to though is more "if you can do x, then you must do x", and by default it leaves what happens "if you can't" undefined (or here falling back to the generic overall processes, which weren't made with this instance specifically in mind of course).

In turn that's why it's not a "donation", they do in fact have performance requirements. They could not for example finish the project, reaching all milestones, and then suddenly say "nah actually we're not going to give backers anything we said we would after all." Or if they offered alpha access for a given price, and someone paid that, then with the alpha out that person should be offered access. They can't just go use the funds for any random thing, and if they can deliver they need to do so. But that they're "required to do so" doesn't mean they can't fail. They aren't allowed to pierce the veil, but there is still management discretion. Etc.

But it's also not a "preorder" because nothing exists. "Preordering" really does have legal requirements of its own in many jurisdictions, such as not being allowed to hold money or a reservation for money even more then a short period of time without explicit permission for extension (that must be repeated every additional period), or not being able to collect at all before shipping.

So the real missing piece I think is better defining the failure process and making it give better results for the backer population. What say do backers have in a project going outside its proposed bounds to a great degree? In a failure, what place in line do backers have vs any other creditors? What are they entitled to beyond any division of pure asset liquidation?
I can't get phone or Internet in my area without some form of forced arbitration.....if I don't give up my rights to the court system for those services, I just don't get them.

There is no option to simply not participate, it is absurd.
"He says Dawson can be a harsh critic, but she often spots logical errors that he and his colleagues have overlooked."

On the spectrum, and this is totally me. I tell my coworkers "I am not saying you are wrong or right, just that your logic doesn't sense."
In my opinion, Cro (https://cro.services) stands a good chance of becoming the "Ruby on Rails" for Perl 6.

"Cro is a set of libraries for building reactive distributed systems, lovingly crafted to take advantage of all Perl 6 has to offer. The high level APIs make the easy things easy, and the asynchronous pipeline concept at Cro's heart makes the hard things possible."

"Cro is currently in BETA. We're overall quite satisfied with most of the APIs, and don't plan major changes in this regard. Expect some bumps on the road - and if you run into any of them, please consider filing a bug report so we can make things better."
In what sense is Android "free" right now? Android—by which I mean the Android a consumer would recognise and expect—hasn't been "free" in any sense of the word for quite some time.
My employer used to provide additional funding in employees' HSAs (Health Savings Accounts) if they participated in a health screening. The health screening involved measuring height, weight, blood sugar, cholesterol and other lipids. There was also a questionnaire about lifestyle choices related to health in terms of how physically active you were, smoking, drinking, etc.
I experienced miscommunication with my SO, she was constantly using sleepy emoji as a sad/crying emoji:

https://emojipedia.org/sleepy-face/
I don't think that replacing Linux under the hood of Android will change anything. Most of Android is licensed under the Apache license, probably due to the alternative Java runtime they took initially from the Apache Foundation.

They sheer developer power Google has at hand to throw at Android development, including out-of-tree-kernel patchsets, means that it is a very significant effort to just keep pace with them, and the AOSP "code drops" come late and require major integration work.

If they wanted to switch to a closed-source model, they could have adopted that for the runtime a long time ago, still keeping the closed-source blob on top of the Linux kernel.

Maybe the EU decision will change the benefit balance of Android "being open source", and Google will go on with forking off / replacing the whole middleware, but I think that with their speed of Android development most commercially viable OEMs only have a chance to follow by subscribing to Google contracts (and maybe getting early access to new releases) anyway.
At first, I read this title as

> Georges Lemaître, the Belgian priest who discovered the universe, is expanding

A subtle, but important, distinction.
People use defaults. Look up UC Browser and the Samsung Browser. Especially their market share.

Regarding potential gains, Android has all but cemented its position as the smartphone OS. Microsoft did the same in 1995 with Windows in the desktop market and it has 90%+ marketshare there, 23 years later. It's very likely it will still dominate the desktop market in 2045.

Android will be at least a loss leader for Google for decades to come. And they made $10 billion in profit in 2017 alone (of course not all of it is driven by Android, but you get an impression of the scale).
Adaptive optics is really only effective in the infrared. And really only in the near-infrared, as past 5 microns, we can't really see through the atmosphere. In the visible, ground-based can't match space observatories (in the visible, the atmospheric turbulence is way harder to correct for).
When applying is the login the same as the regular YC login or do I need to create a new account?
ah, good point. much faster than cgo. so probably that would kill you in go.

i wonder if it's possible to speed up ffi in go...
But the price for this machine is crazy, and it doesn't support a use case where you actually use the i9 cpu for long periods of time... Why do you need it then? To open the browser a few milliseconds faster?

It's not a professional machine if it's throttling heavily under load so you can't use its resources....it boggles my mind that it's even allowed to sell something like this.

It's like selling a supercar which can't go at top speed for more than 20 seconds, then it throttles speed to 60 mph.
> If the public service of justice is slow and expensive

Is small claims court slow and expensive? Not to my knowledge.
Are they still being added newly, or have just not been purged from Google index yet?
Canonical had the final word on it. They could have reverted the default to the old behavior if they wanted.
On my second try I hit 108 WPM, in the top 1% among a sample of people who go online and take typing speed tests (probably not representative of the normal population). But it's way too easy without punctuation. Real world speeds are definitely slower.

FWIW I find that my quicker-than-average typing is still definitely not always fast enough to keep up with what I want to write down.
>with CyanogenMod / LineageOS most of the good part go to hell, camera goes to hell, performance goes

All that goes to hell because Google prevents almost all first party support for LinageOS (or any other forks), which is why Google gets fined now. In a theoretical world where Google didn't do the things they are fined for, LineageOS might work much better on a wider range of hardware and thus have much more mainstream appeal.
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I believe the statement goes: "You can never go home"

Tech people's attitudes have changed a lot since then. Large institutions aren't run by one or two techies in the basement.
Personally I feel like the European Commission is going to far and trying to make an example of Google. I think there is a space for antitrust fines for practices but I was it was aimed at practices that are anti-competitive at any size and are only effective because of a dominate market position. With in mind I think only 1 of the 3 feels like that to me.

> [Google] has required manufacturers to pre-install the Google Search app and browser app (Chrome), as a condition for licensing Google's app store (the Play Store);

I think this is an acceptable business practice. Saying "If you use one, you have to use the others" is reasonable. We want to provide a consistent experience so you cannot pick and choice which part of the bundle you use.

> [Google] made payments to certain large manufacturers and mobile network operators on condition that they exclusively pre-installed the Google Search app on their devices;

I don't see how this is a problem in a business. "Hey, we want to use our app. Here is some money if you agree to only use ours." Seems like a bog standard way of doing business.

> [Google] has prevented manufacturers wishing to pre-install Google apps from selling even a single smart mobile device running on alternative versions of Android that were not approved by Google (so-called "Android forks").

This one I think the Commission has made a good point with this one. This one does hamper competition because you have to choose Android or Android forks. Well, that is an obvious choice because of how big Android is. That is bad for competition and I am okay with Google being fined for it.

Overall I disagree with 2/3 of the reasons but I do respect the Commission to make the fines big enough that they hurt so that Google might change behavior.
Love this story/link. Perl is my go-t0 lang as well. ^_^
The original kickstarter scope was: you are your space ship and you will be able to fight and do some trading of resources.

The scope has increased a great deal since then but I feel like the time it's taken to develop is reasonable.

I will say they wasted a year or two at the beginning trying to set up an AAA studio from scratch and mis-partenering with the wrong sub-contractors. And maybe the scope could have been limited with some of the functionality to come later.

Right now backers are testing out space mining mechanics and the game is already pretty fun imo.
There’s a The Atlantic article[0] that explains how to source the data pretty easily if you are willing to put in the effort.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/amazo...
I'm not centralized, I will just update my config myself. Simply clicking on new myvpn.mobileconfig file :)
On my Pixel 2, the only apps I can't disable are Settings, Phone, Messages, SIM toolkit, Pixel Launcher and Play Services. I can disable (not uninstall) rest of the Google apps that were pre-installed.
This has been going on for years.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on...
$10 won't make or break a game's development. It'll happen (or not) with or without my tiny advance payment. I'd rather hold on to that $10 and buy an actual game now instead of gambling on the promise of one in the future.

As consumers, it's not our responsibility to support other people's open-ended projects. Let developers (and their actual publishers and investors) take on the risks themselves. It's better that way: with their skin in the game, they'll know when to say "no" to dumb features and actually get to a viable product.
You should also give more explanation on the addons pages, I read it and didn't understand what it does until I read this comment.
Wouldn't this be a perfect opportunity for a startup to handle billing for small doctor's offices?
It still provides a performance benefit for peaky workloads. Want to speed up your local compile? This will probably be faster than the i7 - it'll take 15 seconds instead of 17 seconds. But what do people expect? Don't do hour long renders on your laptop.
BMW is not a monopoly. That's the key to this. Please keep that in mind.
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I'm not a backer, but your sentiment seems right. It always seemed like a game that wanted to be "the best space sim", and that is going to take a while. All the demos have looked incredible, a the features are extremely ambitious, but cool.

I think that all backers should just feel lucky the project hasn't burned through all their cash and shut down yet.
OH, and I too comment my Perl code heavily and always.
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I use a QWERTY and I can type faster than I can think. I can routinely type at 130 WPM and at bursts up to 140 WPM. But I didn't type this comment that fast, not even close. I think much more slowly than I type. Point being, I can already type far faster than I need to on QWERTY, so why bother switching to something else, where I will almost certainly be slower for a period of months at best?
Thankfully those are most often bundled as stubs that take barely any space. roll back the updates and then disable. Did that to Chrome for the longest time as i was using Firefox on my Android device (before Mozilla went nuts. Now i am flipflopping between Opera and Brave, while waiting for Vivaldi to get a mobile version).
All generation is done on the server side. The cryptographic strength is to protect the seed from being inferred from the output.
Not tied to Hacker News id at the moment. Need to create a new account.
Possibly thermal regulation?

A too-cold butterfly that wants to warm up in the sun would want to increase exposed surface area. A warm-enough butterfly would fold up those wings, as normal. A too-hot butterfly would slowly flap, preferably in the shade.

I still can't internalize how butterflies can actually fly with those wings. It just seems like there would have to be so much twisting, curling, and flapping that they would either just flop around wildly in the air or rip their own wings off. But that's probably because I'm mentally trying to scale it up to Arthur-sized flight. Aerodynamics are a lot different when your whole craft is only a few grams.

With the huge possibility that I'm wrong, I think a butterfly about to take off would want to extend its wingtips as vertical as possible, and lift off with a strong down-stroke, then twist parallel to the air stream and re-extend before twisting back to flap down again.

Defensive is a strong possibility for butterflies with false eye spots on their wings, or zebra-stripe-like, outline-breaking herd camouflage.
> The thing about Perl is that it just starts small, with a regexp here, a text-file line counter there. Nothing that couldn't have been managed quite easily in Bash or Sed or Awk. But once you've written a couple of scripts, you're in—there's no going back. Long-term Perl users remember how we started, and we see the newbs going the same way.

Somehow I never graduated; I write scripts occasionally but Perl one-liners have been my favorite way to use Perl for like 20 years. For most of that time, I’ve been meaning to get more fluent with awk & sed, but whenever the need comes up to get something real done, I use the Perl I know.
AFAIK in more than one case that has been the burden of:

not taking extra steps to throttle Netflix,

i.e.

the burden of not double dipping.

I think few people are arguing that Netflix should get special treatment, only that:

* ISPs should treat all bits the same (unless I as the receiver has asked for something else).

* ISPs should have enough capacity to serve their customers.
Cypress (the testing framework) has a way to get a short, unique selector for any element on a page. It's even in its own npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cypress/unique-selector
> Instead, they come give you a hug and have a cup of tea and politely ask you to please stop

They did. Google didn't comply.
And that would probably have sat well with the KLF if you did.
Actually what I was looking at was the field of view of an individual MAMA detector in the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, that instrument has about ~ 100 x 100 arcsec2 of total field of view apparently.
This is just factually wrong.

Android is a separate software project that is developed separately from Google Play Services. The Android OS works perfectly without those installed.

There's no "Chrome, Google Search, and the Google Play Store" in the Android repository. Especially since Android is open source, and most of the latter APKs are not.

I suggest to actually have a look at the a android project before making claims like these. This page is a good place to start: https://source.android.com/setup/
> A typical person installing 50 apps themselves is utter nonsense also. I know zero people who have done this, and it would be utterly opposite iOS behavior (where most people install 0-1 apps per month).

I just counted, and I have 128 apps on my Android phone (none are games). Some of those were pre-installed, but I installed the vast majority of them.

It wouldn't surprise me if this is something where iOS & Android users are opposite one another: iPhones are smart phones, whereas Android phones are computers with calling capabilities. The whole point of iOS is to communicate; the whole point of Android is to be a computer which fits in your pocket.
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You’re mistakenly assuming everyone applies to join YC when calculating that percentage.