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The argument that far less ambitious AAA games have taken a long time has seemed to me to be a double-edged sword. It does give SC some leeway in expected timeline. But there’s also the concern that if a reasonably-experienced studio like Blizzard could be stalled for 10 years to iterate on Diablo 2, then it seems very likely that CIG, an entirely new studio, is going to stumble hard when trying to solve multiple challenges in gaming that have yet never been solved. Chris Roberts is rightly a legend for the WC series, but that doesn’t suggest he can pull off a dynamic game of SC’s scope.

I’ve been paying attention to SC because its ambition is fascinating. I’m especially interested in what innovations they’ll bring to AI when it comes to populating a game world. But I would’ve thought by now — especially based on Roberts’ confident prediction of a 2016 release — that the single-player SQ42 would be in beta form by now. But it seems like they don’t have any kind of game loop, or a stable/fun flight model.

Nevermind the never-before done innovations — I think that SC, whenever it releases, is going to have a hell of a time with more mundane things, such as game balancing. I think of how much work Blizzard has to constantly put into Overwatch, a team FPS with very few innovations, to find the right mix of balance with <30 characters in 3 classes. SC has what looks like dozens of ships that have to be designed well for human and AI alike. Some of these ships cost hundreds of dollars and yet have to be tweaked so that SC doesn’t feel like a pay-to-win game, where whales dominate the galaxy with AI-controlled fleets. It’ll be an interesting project to follow over the decade but the challenges seem daunting.
> A given problem, such as the integral we just computed, may appear to be intractable on its own. However, by stepping back and considering the problem not in isolation but as an individual member of an entire class of related problems, we can discern facts that were previously hidden from us.

A professor put it this way: "the more you assume, the more you can prove"
And then you end up with something like:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/jinja/index.html
I think there is going to be room in the future for a single handed symbolic entry system like Twiddler as we enter the era of immersive computing. It seems likely you're going to need a way to do text entry on-the-go, while wearing AR glasses. An input mechanism where one hand is dedicated to doing that seems like a good model, with the other dedicated to more fine motor gesturing.
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What about MEC?
It is disingenuous to conflate a trigger "safety" with a classic manual safety. One requires unlocking as a separate action from pulling the trigger, and has it's own state independent of the trigger.

I doubt the original commenter new the difference, and was most likely referring to manual safeties.
The fact that Apple is the most successful company in the world seems to suggest that their method of thrilling the customer by subverting and surpassing their expectations beats building what the customer says they want. In the case of laptops, it turns out that lightness and battery life -- portability -- is what people actually want, otherwise they'd just use desktops.
Fall of 1996. guy on my freshman hall says "you should try linux". Installed slackware on everything I had for the next three years until finally switching to Debian.

Fondest slackware memory is installing the media to a Syquest Ezflyer -- but I needed to boot with a bleeding edge linux 2.2 kernel to recognize the parallel port hard drive!
I wonder what the logic is behind this?
Is it getting too costly to educate people in person?
Is this as effective as in person?

>Those companies will also receive a video interview with a YC partner later in the year for advice or aid in applying to a future YC batch.

I laughed at that comment due to how it shows how competitive it is to get into YC.
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Android the project is open source and lacks those apps, but Android the consumer branded product without those apps is not very appealing to customers.
I took the first iteration of Startup School, and while the lectures were outstanding, the weekly calls with the mentor and classmates didn't really help.

I guess it depends on what mentor you get. I've heard of people having excellent mentors, and others that didn't even show up half the time.

But it probably also depends on your experience level as an entrepreneur. If you are just starting out with your first venture, then it can definitely be helpful if your mentor doesn't suck. If you are experienced or your mentor sucks, it's a waste of time.
I took the course last year but did not apply to YC. I'm assuming there are others in this situation as well, so I'd conclude the acceptance rate for SS graduates is higher than the acceptance rate for the general candidate population.
I love the work by Solus, a Dublin-based street artist. He does some work in Brooklyn/NYC from time to time too

https://solusstreetart.com/Outdoor/
Here's a Feynman mystery that I've asked about for years:

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...

By the end of that summer of 1983, Richard had completed his analysis of the behavior of the router, and much to our surprise and amusement, he presented his answer in the form of a set of partial differential equations. To a physicist this may seem natural, but to a computer designer, treating a set of boolean circuits as a continuous, differentiable system is a bit strange. Feynman's router equations were in terms of variables representing continuous quantities such as "the average number of 1 bits in a message address." I was much more accustomed to seeing analysis in terms of inductive proof and case analysis than taking the derivative of "the number of 1's" with respect to time. Our discrete analysis said we needed seven buffers per chip; Feynman's equations suggested that we only needed five. We decided to play it safe and ignore Feynman.

How do you analyze boolean circuits using partial differential equations?

What else can you accomplish with this technique?

No one seems to know how he did it.
Qualcomm blocked Google from using Proprietary Android on its devices! One of the Nexus phones couldn't upgrade the OS to the next version due to Qualcomm drivers.
They're using a dominant position in one market to push services in an unrelated market.

Note that for the purposes of this ruling, the relevant dominant position isn't in Android, but the Google Play Store.
Yes, this is how the law works. You surprised?
This may have changed, but for years the apple warranty was "as long as you don't damage anything, you're allowed to open it". I did some research and at least the manual for my machine still states this, but mine is also from 2012
Which I believe is the whole point of fast.com - to give you a more realistic measure of your actual bandwidth.
The UK isn't in enforced austerity. Austerity is a political choice here (driven by a desire to eliminate the deficit), and a pretty bad one (the IMF said we should be spending more, also it looks like we will be irrespective of what the public wants soon because of Brexit). Basically, whilst the UK's economic woes are self-inflicted, over-borrowing isn't the cause of them. Italy definitely has over-borrowed, but its problems go way deeper than that and I wouldn't describe its spending right now as "austerity". Portugal, like Ireland, has already dug itself out of the hole.

Going back to my original point: if increasing your revenue faster than increasing your interest payments, you can do this forever. Sure, the credit crunch gave some countries a shock, but you really should read up on exactly how egregious the Greek borrowing situation was. It was insanely unsustainable. Germany, Denmark, Sweden, France, Slovenia? They'll be fine.
This makes sense given how often they'd fail. When I log in it takes me one attempt. When someone is using stolen credentials they might have to make hundreds of attempts before actually logging in.
Yeah, Google need to buy Samsumg or the closest one they can get and start doing quality hardware.
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> I don't think I've met too many untalented perfectionist, I'm sure they exist though (feels like an unfortunate combo). I just feel talent is orthogonal to perfectionism.

Don't these two sentences contradict each other? Taking 'orthogonal' to be loosely synonymous with 'uncorrelated', if they were so, then you would expect to see roughly the same number of untalented perfectionists as talented ones.
Ah yeah, that makes more sense. The keyboard I tried was a typematrix[1] and I really found it rather awkward to use. Maybe if I had stuck with it for more than a few hours it would've clicked eventually.

[1] http://allthingsergo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/tm-...
The article points out that the trick can be applied to integrals to which it doesn't seem applicable, by introducing a new parameter to the integrand which was not there before.

In general, that kind of tactic gives me hope someday mankind might find short, easy solutions to problems that currently seem hopeless (P=NP, Riemann Hypothesis, the 3n+1 problem, etc.)

For example, maybe someone will define spaces P(x) and NP(x), depending on a parameter x, with P(1)=P and NP(1)=NP, and then they'll show (in some simple way that makes us all kick ourselves) that P(x)=NP(x) for all x>=sqrt(2) and P(x)<>NP(x) for all x<sqrt(2). "And thus, P<>NP."

It makes you realize we really don't have a good sense of distances in the space of mathematical proofs. It's so high-dimensional, a solution that seems light-years away can actually be right under your nose, if you just turn your nose in the correct direction.
I'm a screen reader user and, hands down, date pickers are the controls which cause the most frustration for me on the web because of their almost universal lack of accessibility. In some cases, far too many to be considered reasonable, I've been unable to complete a booking or similar process because I simply can't choose a date. But yet, in an article about creating the perfect control, accessibility is barely even mentioned, certainly not in any menaingful enough way to actually create an accessible one.

> Making one of those date pickers accessible isn’t trivial, because date selection should be keyboard-accessible and you would need to toggle between open and collapsed states. You can find an overview of accessible date pickers. Also, consider looking into Whatsock’s examples.

Great. An important topic reduced into a paragraph which sounds like it was written during the planning stage of the article and never expanded on.
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How come there isn't a speed test site that test closest and furthest away servers and averages them?
A.K.A The Kardashian method to becoming self made.
One example worth looking into might be the Eastern Roman Empire’s Varangian Guard[1].

This elite force was primarily composed of Germanic mercenaries who didn’t care much for politics - in a foreign land far away from their own - as long as they got paid and could retire wealthy back home.

Conversely, the Western Roman Empire’s Praetorian Guard was composed of elite Roman soldiers, who had far more skin in the game of imperial politics, and occasionally offed an emperor they didn’t like.

So the condensed answer from this historical example might be: pay disinterested professionals handsomely, but maybe don’t expect for them to stick around forever. Not sure how well this advice works in the digital age though. YMMV.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangian_Guard
This is interesting. But why does anyone bother to write news in Latin?
Don’t listen to productivity gurus. Waking up at 6am won’t make you successful
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But the rise of communism and resulting violence in Germany greatly contributed to the rise of the nazis in the 20s and 30s.

I think comparing Germany to Russia today is missing the point. Europe self-destroyed through two world wars during the XX century. At the end of the XIX and for about 300 years before it pretty much dominated the world. Now it is a club of mid-size countries that have lost most of their international influence and military might.

The rising demography of developing countries being probably the second biggest factor.
Popups, dickbars ... it's amazing that Medium can retain users. I am so driven away by this user-hostile behaviour. I would never ever put anything on Medium.
Is that "advanced calculus" course part of the university's formal calculus sequence, or is it more of an analysis course? If it's not an analysis course, what topics are covered that aren't in the lower calculus courses?
Which only shows that opinion on these issues is malleable and not ideologically-fixed, as many would like to portray them. Understanding your constituency and being successfully persuasive is a fundamental part of any politics.
The GPL issue is completely separate. The law regarding GPL and where is applies vs LGPL is well understood.
though I'm an American who lives in California, i feel zero loyalty to Google.

and that absence of loyalty is reciprocated. Google isn't doing me any favors.

if Google disappeared tomorrow someone else would step into replace them. and i wouldn't care if they headquartered in Buffalo or Barcelona or Beijing.
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“But of course to an Android buyer, it is all a part of the experience with the device. They know what to expect and what is there.”

The problem is that by not giving the choice makes this anti-competitive behaviour. What’s wrong with giving Samsung the ability to make a deal with Yahoo to install Yahoo as the default in their Android phones?

If they claim it’s all part of their integrated experience, then they should provide the necessary APIs/SDKs for other search providers to integrate properly.

We’ve been over this before, it’s anti-competitive behaviour, and it lacks choice.
Google specifically warns that having a Noindex header doesn't work if there is robots.txt disallow (since the crawler never sees the noindex, since it obeys the disallow), that's why I asked.
Couldn't work that one out in the time I was prepared to put into it :)
As I understand it, the galaxies themselves are not really expanding in-and-of themselves, but moving away from each other.

I suppose, though, that we are all releasing heat and carbon dioxide etc. all the time, and the more space there is for waste and heat to radiate into, the more the source could be said to be "expanding".

Of course, whilst you are alive, you are replenishing these particles, but after you die, you cease to replenish them, and so perhaps it then makes sense to talk about your constituent particles as being as much "you" as that which is still part of the main body mass. And so, as your body is eaten away by bacteria and worms, you are steadily carried across to far flung parts of the earth and beyond.

Thus, as the universe heads towards being an entropic soup, the components will be spread ever further and wider.

So, in conclusion, yes, I suppose Lemaître might be said to be expanding.

I still doubt that he should be credited as discoverer of the universe, though.
It wasn't Bribery, it was intense lobbying and campaign contributions. There's a subtle difference between them in America politics.
The discussion tripped the flamewar detector, which we've just turned off.
This has always been an interesting question.

You can look at luck as someone's luck in particular, or people's luck in general.

The odds that any one person at a craps table rolls a 7 first are low, but the odds that someone at the table rolls a 7 first are a lot higher.

Same thing with success in the way you mention it.
It's a losing battle. 2-3 years ago they got significant pushback for aggressively censoring right-wing content.

The best thing you can do is moderate as little as possible.
Is DMARC fully protecting your organization from email-based attacks?
My definition of "failing" certainly doesn't include companies that are still profitable, employ hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, have hardware in every Fortune 500 company's datacenter, and is the market leader in some high-growth fields.
I’d guess the software, as that’s the primary distinguishing factor. I don’t know of anyone who runs windows on a mac, even though that’s relatively easy. However, there’s a thriving hackintosh community.

It’d be easier to tell if Apple offered consumers choice themselves.
Please everyone: Stop allowing sms as 2 factor authentication. The normal readers of Hacker News are in a special position to prevent this.

Please promote U2F with TOTP backup.
> A consideration if you're making an accessible website

When would you not be?
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Investors need to re-imagine epic games as platforms, a movie that plays for twenty-plus years, iteratively developed. This also tends to collapse genres (markets): the World-of-Warcraft effect, wherein all other games of the genre bleed-out to the big platform. Good if you're the Star Citizen in the room and succeed.
It's a constant tension. In the real world single party government is more efficient than multiparty democracy. But most of the world hasn't clamored for single party rule unless it's their personalo preferred party
They are free to fork Android though and use it however they want, as Amazon did. They just can't install the Google Play Store without including the other Google apps which Google claims are part of a unified experience.
It looks like the "What is your most impressive accomplishment?" question on the application has a max length of 60 characters. I can understand it needing to be short, but that seems really short. I'm having a tough time trying to slice and dice a sentence to fit.
> Try this experiment. ...ask everyone. No one will be able to give you an answer.

Funny you say this. A friend just went through this. Not even the insurance company could say. The calls to everyone got so ridiculous that I had to construct lawyerly questions so that people couldn't default to weaselly answers. The provider billing staff seemed to feel put upon that they were being asked to coordinate w/the insurer to figure out patient out of pocket cost would be. And in the end they still couldn't figure it out.
I think your point about execution is correct -- few people actually develop their ideas into something tangible.

But I'm not sure that it is an inevitable fact that most people will end up having the same ideas. Someone once said that in humongous countries like China and India, it is statistically inevitable they have thought of most of the things the rest of the world have thought of.

But why hasn't China come up with thoughts that German philosophers have come up with, or with specific ideas that have come out of the west? I think it's because there wasn't a focus on the things that mattered to Europeans at the time. Culture and environment matters, and dictates the ideas we are capable of having.

Large populations are not made up of uncorrelated, independent individuals. Most of the those individuals have highly correlated thoughts, mostly driven by the culture at large.
If you're starting there is a huge advantage to holding yourself and others accountable. It helped push me to launch my startup and provided insights.

Perhaps more importantly you make connections. Just yesterday I was speaking to someone from my startup school group, and I did startup school over a year ago. They provided feedback and I provide them feedback, we also found synergies and can introduce one another to other teams, sales, etc.

I'd argue startup school isn't going to help you "finish" your startup. Only you can do that... You're motivation is the real premise behind the whole thing. However, they can give you the tools and connections to make it easier. It's always a cost benefit analysis - "is this worth doing?" Is something startup school helps answer, and also tips the balance (slightly) towards being a bit easier.

For reference, I'm still working on my project a year out (with some revenue):

https://metacortex.me

Startup school helped me get free AWS credits (which helped significantly), helped make connections, and perhaps more importantly - helped with introspection. I should note, I didn't even launch a prototype until the last few days of startup school... It would have been more helpful had I had something at least half way through.
Marine Expeditionary Unit - the smallest "self-sufficient" deployable unite of the "regular" US Marine Corps. In this case, it's just relevant to understand that its infantry with embedded artillery and air support.
Lol no, cpm varies on every video but it's more like pennies on the low end to maybe a dollar for the most viral videos of the moment.

Source: am YouTuber, talk to lots of other YouTubers.
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"Patent Troll: a company that obtains the rights to one or more patents in order to profit by means of licensing or litigation, rather than by producing its own goods or services."

While distasteful, this isn't patent trolling and it's not at all clear why you assert IBM is on its last legs.
I've never gone into the Bluetooth settings on my phone, that doesnt mean it's abusive that it was already there on my phone when I bought it.
"Hork-bajir", now that is a deep cut reference.
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Google doesn't offer an API to export your home screen config for use by an alternative home screen :-(
The amount of the fine is literally proportional to the revenue that was made using the practices in question. The more money you make by breaking the rules, the bigger the fine. Which part is petty or vindictive?
The free test has parameters that does not make sense: a desktop usually has a cable, not Wifi.
It's a way of communicating additional information beyond the words. It expresses a lack of certainty that would otherwise have been clear in real speech through tone of voice and other non-verbal channels.

Perhaps you feel people should never say things they are uncertain about? Or do you mean that people should not express that uncertainty?
It's a really bad architecture. Couple of examples

(1) The angular compiler doesn't have the same JS or CLI interface as the TypeScript compiler. I have to know very specifically which I am using when; my build tooling must always know whether it's compiling TS the Angular way, or the vanilla way, and there isn't much commonality.

(2) What if I want to use an alternative TS compiler? Or someone writes a faster one in Go? Or I want to use tsickle [1], which is Closure Compiler-compatible?

Now it turns out there isn't a TS compiler in Go, and the Angular team are the authors of tsickle, and so ngc happens to work with it. But it's an architectural smell to couple that closely for my MVC framework (and IMO with little necessity).

[1] https://github.com/angular/tsickle
- 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 is the most clearly anti-competitive practice.
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