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An article about the edge and no mention of Akamai. Last I heard even Amazon Prime Video was being streamed on Akamai, not on CloudFront.
I'd suspect that varies a lot between countries. In Germany it's >80%, I can easily see it being quite uncommon in other places.
Because it is in the middle of a wildfire that has raged for weeks, in an area that was off limits for people even before the fire started.
Planned forest fires are pretty common
Twisting Stacked Graphene Reveals Potentially Powerful Superconducting Behavior
Voting has a different constitutional reasoning than freedom of expression as most elections have explicit constitutional provisions.
>"there are a handful of left turns I make that result in me being in the vehicle left-turn lane at the signal lights"

This is caused by traffic laws seeing everything in the road as being similar to a car, which is counter-productive, forcing slower traffic such as bikes to cross lanes for left turns.

It is much more sensible and safer for cyclists to do hook turns, instead of using the vehicle left turn lanes.
Eh, not sure it's all art. Some mediums (like hollywood blockbuster movies and video games) lend themselves to more of a team effort than a solo artist one, and there are classics in those mediums/artforms too.

There are also quite a few British TV shows made by duos and small teams rather than a single creator, including some of the best in the medium. Like Fawlty Towers, Dad's Army and Monty Python's Flying Circus.
> abstraction isn't something telling you how you should act, but instead something telling you how you should react?

A little bit OT: I don't think acting and reacting are separate things in the real world. We're always only reacting.
I agree with this. The correct way of resolving conflicts is different depending on both the semantics of the document and the context in which the conflict arose.

For example, I think the CRDT approach is probably applicable to most examples of interactive editing, where incorrect conflict resolutions will happen near a point of focus for one of the editors and can be quickly and easily resolved.

If you have wildly divergent documents however (again depending on the document type itself), this is not really the same case, and it's much more likely that a human will need to create a resolved document by consulting the two parent documents.
Maybe they've seen in life that if you try you can maybe achieve stuff ? And when you have billion you don't lose anything by spending some of it in high-risk/high-reward projects.
If the output is less than 250w and can do no more 15mph then they can be used on the roads in cycle lanes without a licence or road tax.

Scooters can't because they are throttle operated, there is a problem with the law in this regard.
I suppose it's because most people already know that 'fact', and pointing it out doesn't meaningfully add to the discussion (other than possibly imply that calling yourself a socialist automatically makes you one).
Oh, amazing. Thanks, I thought the site was down.
It does happen in the west as well I remember being briefed about a BT call centre where crims would hang out in a nearby underpass and try and get staff to get information.

I did joke with my opposite number in Cellnet (o2) who was ex 2 Para and in the Territorial SAS about taking direct action :-)
> But you want to break into gaming? Haha fuck you buddy

I'm not sure I agree with this - there is a huge game development community. A game can be an artistic success without being a commercial one just like an indie movie. And you bet there are plenty of other game developers out there who participate in the community, help mentor newcomers, etc.

The industry options out there aren't bad at all anymore, AAA companies have largely gotten their crap together and at this point mostly know what they're doing (they'd have to to stay afloat with the budgets they're throwing around). The indie companies tend to be more head-on-fire-this-may-all-crash-and-burn-at-any-moment-we're-on-a-shoestring-budget. The AAA-ish companies (smaller shops with small publisher deals) are somewhere in the middle. I'm not saying there are zero problems, but there are quite a few options for employment in video games at whatever level of risk and startup-culture-ness you're comfortable with nowadays, and a supportive community to help. That's not to mention the huge hobbyist community who are happy just making games for fun without stressing about financial viability.
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The Ethics of Entrepreneurial Shared Value
> 150ms is no big deal. That's on par with top-notch human reaction time.

Comparing a single component latency in technology to human reaction time is a complete straw man i see far too often. (I'm not blaming you, you are probably just repeating it). 150ms _is_ a good human reaction time, but in technological terms that includes sensor, network, processor, network bus, actuator and finally any physical latency of action being achieved.

A better and contextually relevant comparison here would be: human pressing a button after light turning on vs autonomous vehicle turning it's wheels 1 degree after seeing a light turn on. I bet you they are very similar, and I would not be surprised if the vehicle was slower.

150ms of network latency is significant because it's on top of the existing latency in the _whole_ system that makes up the car, including the sensors, the actuators whatever bus' inbetween them all. When you stick it's brain in the cloud and add 150ms of latency it's like a human trying to drive a car through a VR webcam, it will make it so much harder, 150ms latency between action and sensor is _very_ noticable even in humans, this is the same reason why cloud based FPS gaming (as in piping the result of the render over the network) doesn't work... no one is going to stick the brain of an autonomous vehicle behind 150ms of _additional_ latency.
Didn't know about this one, but there's another one I personally use, which is https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/
Replace "edge" with any other hot term and that's your IT market. Even without demand and even without innovation a lot of stuff is changed all the time. Current systems are centralized? Well let's decentralized everything. Current systems are decentralized? Centralize. Every. Thing.

Watching it as engineer can be especially painful, because you already know that the other thing is not that much better. And more often this b.s. starts with the optimal trade-offs and turns into exactly what was carefully avoided with good architecture and decision making.

Sometimes I really think some of the managers are sitting there thinking "Yes, I know that you are smarter than me. But that is your disadvantage. Just to get some leverage I will now push for the stuff you told me to avoid again and again over the last 3 years, and you can't beat me in that approach because everything in you is fighting against this."
I moved from a western European country to one in the east. Things here are a little bit less organised than back home. Back home, everybody uses direct debit to authorise companies to take the money for bills out of their accounts. Like this you never have to worry about paying the bills. This kind of system is slowly gaining traction here, but it is not without it flaws. Sometimes it fails :-)

I wrote some some code that logs on to the websites of all the companies I have contracts with and verifies that the bill was paid. If it wasn't, it sends me a warning text.
Nothing fancy, but I have to add some integration tests today :)
Curious to know where you are based. I've not heard of game developer unions in Europe either.
1 A small number of mp's where Brexit most where not.

2 Yes I am saying there should be no referendums in an elected democracy its a terrible idea - Germany even outrights bans them in its constitution.
<pedantic> A meteorite is an object that hits the ground. A meteor burns up on the atmosphere. When they are still in space and only potential meteors/meteorites, they are called meteoroids. </pedantic>
Games (and books, films, music) exist in an interesting middle ground between commercial enterprise and pure art. Although I suppose most art these days has to sustain a business in some form. It wasn't always like this: art used to be sustained by rich benefactors sponsoring artists. In a way it's good that art has been somewhat democratised through capitalism, and on the other hand the stress of having to turn your art into a product must destroy quite a chunk of the creative freedom and drive. Would be interested to hear what some artists (not hobbyists who have other jobs to sustain them) would like to see happen with art in the future and its relationship to society and capitalism.
Is there any proof that the liberal perspective is able to produce software of sufficient quality? All the safety-critical development standards take a very conservative approach, especially in respect to development speed.

A program that executes and performs some I/O is a very very low bar to pass. The next step is not being ready for wide-scale production, in fact the IEEE Software Engineering Body of Knowledge aims to define the many steps required for that and it's a lot of them.
Developing by the seat of ones pants is fine for personal projects, but not for publicly used software.

And why should what developers "want" be the main criteria that should be used to choose programming languages? It's certainly important that developers are able to extract some satisfaction from their work, but that doesn't mean we should sacrifice other important goals just for the personal comfort of developers.
> The vast majority of time is spent debugging and maintaining code.

Not all programming is the same. I've seen a lot more code churn in frontend projects than in the backend, where the actual logic and persistence happens. That makes the speed of (re)writing code relatively more important (at least for the iOS apps I've worked on, YMMV).

But even when I had to clean up legacy code, I spent most of my debugging time on on incorrect threading (typically using UIKit or Core Data from the wrong thread), AutoLayout errors, Apple framework bugs, storyboards/NIBs out of sync with code, performance degradations, or anything else where Swift doesn't help much.

In my experience, Objective-C programmers aren't allergic to safety or brevity. We love ARC! It's just that Swift has taken away too much productivity, mostly through terrible tooling and by dividing the community, for very little gain.

> Objective C was always so baroque, when I define a method or variable and declare the exact same thing in a header file

When I helped out on a Java project, I noticed that my coworkers religiously created interfaces for every single class they wrote. They couldn't really explain it beyond it being a "best practice", but I suspect they enjoyed being able to look at a short file that only contained the interface plus JavaDoc, instead of opening the full implementation every time. They basically re-invented header files :P

I don't think people would mind headers as much if Xcode was a better IDE, and we didn't have to copy declarations around manually.
> What they are claiming that they are preserving some record of the information that makes you up on the hope that it would be sufficient for future engineers to reconstruct some version of you.

Yes, that's what they are claiming, but there is zero proof this is going to happen. In fact, given the long term stability of real world artifacts that are far more durable than dewar flasks there are substantial obstacles in the way of success here besides the non-viable scientific parts of it.

The whole point is that this is a 'hope' about as useful as the hope that there is a heaven or a life after death.

Death is final, until proven otherwise, and once if it is proven that it isn't we will know the pre-conditions required for successful preservation.

Keep in mind that freezing the brain actually destroys it further, the resulting structures may look like they still preserve information when in fact they probably won't, just like a frozen and then thawed out steak still looks like the original but has structurally been completely altered.

> All they are claiming is that cryonic vitrification or aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation preserves in an information-theory sense the microstructure of the brain to sufficient detail that the connectome can be reconstructed by physically realizable scanning mechanisms, which we might not have now but are permitted by the laws of physics.

The laws of physics have little to do with it, it all depends on how much - if anything - of value is still present and recoverable from dead tissue. So far there is no proof that high level constructs such as memories and identity would be preserved through such a cycle.

> That's a much weaker argument, but one which actually IS supported by actual scientific papers in the field.

Actual scientific papers are not the equivalent of proof, they are merely the advancement of theories in the scientific sense, lacking - for now - evidence supporting those theories.

Cryonics organizations are very careful to ride that fine line between selling hope and selling bull-shit. They have to because that's where the gullible nerds will be more than happy to part with their money.

The short version of all this is:

Hope Springs Eternal.

And hope for an eternal life is common to Catholics looking for salvation, uploaders, cryogenic preservers and rapture kooks. And they all have another thing in common too: they all die anyway, just like everybody and everything else that is alive.
Don't trust any corporation. It is unbelivable simple to install dnscrypt-proxy 2 [1] and use DNS crypt.

Dnscrypt-proxy spreads your queries across multiple servers and keeps them private.

If you can afford consider running dnscrypt server yourself. [2]

[1] https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy

[2] https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/How-to-setup...
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Then you must hate typical dark themes.

There are two kinds of dark themes: low-contrast, washed-out dark themes that use various shades of greys, and high-contrast, white-on-black dark themes that are good for people with poor eyesight or poor quality hardware, and for use in an actually dark environment.

Naturally there are things in between the two, but by and large there’s a pretty clear division between the two and which is provided, and the latter are pretty rare.
I always have a choice if I'm the one writing the code.

But what I want is a way to catch all errors that others may have introduced in code I have no control over. That includes arithmetic overflow as well.
The first problem is that these shows follow the Peter Principle. A show will continue to run until it becomes bad enough to be canceled. This means that many shows will have a bad, disappointing ending rather than a thrilling/touching/moving/memorable climax.

The second problem is that given that the story may or may not have to continue for another season, how can the main characters get any form of meaningful character growth? How can they get closure or a conclusion when the next season is around the corner and either a new problem has to be invented for them or the existing one has to be reopened/continued? This is similar to the problem that "villain of the week" shows suffer from, just on a seasonal rather than episodic basis.

This affects 1-season shows as well since: 1. If they only get one season it may be because they are bad. 2. The 1 season still needs to be written to allow for the possibility of a 2nd season, thus potentially making it less interesting.

Of course, for some shows those things don't really matter, since no one watches The Simpsons, The Office, South Park or Seinfeld for the character growth.

That isn't to say it is impossible to make a good plot-driven show with this format, just harder (and it is the reason why I rarely watch American TV shows).
As I understand, temperature is a measure of how fast atoms and molecules are vibrating, and not a measure of how much energy per unit area of contact can be transferred in a unit time.
Pessimism
When bots teach themselves to cheat
I've used a Unicomp "Spacesaver" for many years and have been very happy with it. Recently I've switched to a ten-key-less keyboard with blue Cherry switches in order to have more space on the desk, and I've got to say that I much prefer the snappy feel of Cherry switches.
Can you grep only adverbs in your words file?
Chasing knowledge for its own sake, without a broader goal is ultimately useless. If it makes you feel good, go for it. If it makes you feel superior and "smarter" than others, you are just feeding your ego.

Knowledge is best used in service of a bigger goal. If you have no goal, work on that instead.
Does anyone else feel that these interfaces now look a lot less dated than they did five years ago (as we move away from skeuomorphic designs toward more flat, functional designs)?
I think the author was missing the point, but not in the way where he should lie. Edge in the context asked, with the explanation given, likely was refering to "bleeding edge", "cutting edge", or "leading edge".

As in the customer wants to buy modern technology that makes their company look hip, their developers happy, and gives them an advantage against the competition.

Some rant about CDNs, or where the edge of the network is, seems inappopriate here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_edge_technology
And conflating the two problems really doesn't help.

Simply: Apps exfiltrating data can be prevented almost entirely using sane permissions, sufficient security, oh and not willingly turning a blind eye, helps. That is about read permissions and entirely not what this news is about.

Bots and troll-armies posting to polarise and increase tensions, are indeed a write permission problem, and superficially appear to be what this news is about. Except that as long as humans can post on FB, so can troll armies and bots. This only takes away capability for the small to medium scale ease of use. Any determined adversary wouldn't have been using these capabilities anyway because it's too easy to detect as not organic.

Surely the automated blackhat and/or psy-op bot farms use automated browsers, headless browsers, key macro scripts, or whatever to simulate an actual human user interacting at human speed--just 1000s in parallel. I mean it's not rocket science and as soon as you're running a slightly larger operation it pays to just do it properly right away.

This news changes nothing for the bot farms on missions that had to fly below the radar already anyway.
A bank is a bank, even if it's not called a bank.

This kind of wild west capitalism will eventually halt or at least stifle Chinese progress and growth, just because the risks of investments is too large.
Dad joke: "They'll go at night"

But really, it's cool that they're using carbon-carbon protection similar to that which was originally developed for the leading edges of the Space Shuttle. And I really want to know how they built foamed carbon for the interior.

I'm guessing that they're using white ceramic paint on top instead of a reflective foil shield (like the Webb uses) because the foil would be shredded by the solar particles.
I'm in Sweden, where most people are in a union. It doesn't have to be a union specific to game development (although I think one may exist, I'm not sure). I'm in a general union called Unionen. Even though it's not a union specific to the game development industry, they have a lot of power and work with the government, companies, and employees to monitor and improve work conditions and employee protections. For example, last year a series of meetings was held at our workplace between interested employees and union representatives, resulting in a new collective bargain agreement which formalised a flex hours policy and gave us an extra paid week off per year (partly to address the overtime we tend to do). I've heard of cases where employees called in their union representative to help them work through issues with the employer, negotiate better termination agreements, etc. Basically it's a normal union that does union-y things :)
It would be way cool if one of these could be installed in an old VW Beetle. Totally excellent fuel economy!
Exactly.
Stick your hand into an oven at 100 celsius ...OR...
Stick your hand into into a pot of water at 100 celsius.

The difference is that the water molecules are more tightly packed, than the air molecules in the oven. In space, they are quite far apart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_edge_technology

Not sure why everyone assumes the question was regarding networking.
Another explanation on CRDTs with a broader scope, can be found here: https://github.com/ljwagerfield/crdt. There's also this conference talk by Arnout Engelen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xFfOhasiOE
He is using non-public information to liquidate shorters. Isn't that it?
Alluc.ee alternative, Openload/streaming link spider
It might not be much from a random comment on Hacker News, but after confirming on your profile (2012... 17 content drops... Sounded familiar.) Path of Exile is an absolute treasure.

GGG is one of the companies on my short-list of inspirational studios out there now. Growing off cosmetics in a F2P game is probably one of the more ethical success stories out there for those examining current industry success.

Provide quality improving patches throughout the life-cycle of a major patch. Engage with fans and provide top-tier customer support.

I look to what you're doing right and hope I maintain the cognizance during product development to do what you folks do to keep people happy.

I'm looking forward to Delve, and I hope you know you have starry-eyed fans out there!
I don't think Swift has a way to catch all runtime errors that others may have introduced in a reliable way.

Perhaps because it's not a huge problem in iOS apps, but for long running multi-threaded applications this is a problem.
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If the program is designed to "soldier on", then why not? The question is how is the program designed to react in face of failure: should it fail safe? And is it safe to crash on any error?

My point of view is that a program should abort if it encounters an irrecoverable error, such as imminent memory corruption. However, if it's designed to fail functional, then it could continue to work, either by reinitialising itself, or by aborting the current operation.
However, it must be said that it's hard to design such programs, so the option of bailing out is very attractive.

Example: an out of bounds access is a typical programmer error. This should probably result in an abort during development, so that it can be fixed.
However, it is possible to not want to abort just because something is not accessible when in production. The program could instead raise an exception and clean up the call stack up to its initialisation point, then notify the surrounding system that a problem was encountered and resume service.
The surrounding system could then keep track of the encountered issues and try to perform a recovery after a threshold is reached: this is how Android recovery works for e.g. crashing system services, if I recall correctly, it first cleans some application settings, then system settings, then does an OS reinstall. Now in this example the trigger condition is a crash, but it doesn't necessarily have to be like that.
And a keyboard with a 5-pin DIN plug (not PS/2 or USB).
Bonus points if the function keys go down the side and not across the top.
Is there a way to access it by curl?
As explained in the article.

> Temperature measures how fast particles are moving, whereas heat measures the total amount of energy that they transfer.
> Stick your hand into into a pot of water at 100 celsius

..and: please don't! :)