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There was a time in the UK when waterwheels were all the rage. It is hard to imagine today but there was a time when rivers in wool making areas were slowed down to no longer flow due to the amount of water wheels present. The external effects of the water wheel was known but there was little that could be done if you were downstream of other mills taking power from the river.

I look forward to the time when we have the 'too many wind turbines' problem to solve.
Make mandatory annual operator tests, all failed ones get fired immediately. Throw in some safeguards against secret handshakes between operators.
Or a good way to get it repaired? Ship it to whatever address they tell you to.
Does js-ipfs work yet? Around the time I first wrote hardbin people were saying you could use js-ipfs, but it just didn't work. My non-javascript node couldn't access content published by js-ipfs, which seems like a major flaw.
>IMO nuclear is the only realistic alternative to coal to provide reliable, zero-emission "base load" power generation...

Yeah, but no one wants to pay for it. Which is why you'll see more wind and solar with hydro-storage, and even more geo-thermal energy plants in the future. Even with all the extra infrastructure, it still comes in at less than 2 or 3 cents a kwh long term. Whereas even if you take a very optimistic long term view on nuclear, it's just REALLY hard to get down below 3 cents. So for nuclear sources to get higher in the dispatch stack, government must take on more of the costs.

But then, of course, if government is taking on more of the costs, then you're still paying more than 3 cents. Probably a lot more. You'd just pay it in extra taxes instead of a utility bill. So, yeah, I guess that's why energy is a hard problem. No easy solutions really. Just hard to balance pros and cons to every known technology at this point.

(Maybe someday someone will figure out this whole fusion thing and we'll be able to consign all these other, less refined, technologies to history's dust bin?)
I can not understand how it is legal to dismiss a worker with less than 14 days notice. Those are great workers rights! Thanks god we still have some of them here in Spain (although some have already been diminished).
I can play violin by ear, meaning that if someone plays me a melody I can generally play it back note-for-note fairly quickly. I also can hear most common chord progressions. I do not have perfect pitch, so I struggle with series of random notes and note clusters.

What does it feel like? It feels the same as how you can just sing happy birthday without having to do any calculation about what note or lyric comes next. You can hear the song in your head and sing it. I also feel that the notes map into a grid and I will have songs mapped out by intervals.

If you want to become better at playing by ear, you can improve rapidly with rigorous training. This is how I like to learn. I think it's much faster than just plunking around with your instrument and rediscovering everything for yourself, but may be less fun for you. Ultimately, you should do what you enjoy and avoid burning yourself out.

I spend about 30% of my time on technical mastery of my instrument. Right and left hand technique, scales, arpeggios, chords, speed.

Another 30% is spent working on repertoire. These are songs where I already have all the notes worked out or written down. This is where you learn to polish your work to the point where it can be performed.

The remaining 40% is consists mostly of transcription and improvisation. I do some ear training as well. Transcription is very painful for most beginners, but you quickly improve at it. I cannot stress how invaluable transcription is for improving your ear. You say you "slowly work things out by trial and error". This will pay HUGE dividends if you keep it up!

For improvisation, I suggest recording a backing track playing simple chords very slowly and attempting to improvise. I try to have some guiding idea, like trying to arpeggiate over all the chords, or only move in half or whole steps but always land on a chord tone, or always land on the third of the chord. As you get better, you can speed up your backing tracks and work on more complex chord progressions. Knowing your scales and arpeggios will really help here. The more comfortable you are with the layout of your instrument, the easier improvising will be.

I'll stop with this piece of advice -- plan your practice sessions! It doesn't matter how you break them up, as long as you are consciously working on something specific. Staying organized and having a plan will ensure that you continue to improve and help combat the plateau that many amateur musicians encounter.
Elsewhere on Hacker News: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181004-why-pride-evolved-a...
Chinese IEM's & earphones are actually starting to compete with the big guys in USA and some simple research can yield wonderful results. TRN, KZ, LZ, Tin Audio, are all wonderful.

Head-Fi forums are all the rage about them.
Rust: Are we game yet?
I mentioned our talk to my coworker, his immediate response was "does he work for Oracle?"

I'm only half seriously asking but, do you? (Given the certifications you mentioned, I think that even if you don't, there is a vague subjective case that you do...)
This easily gets to a semantic argument.

Bragging is making your achievements known. Bragging poorly is doing this in a way that's too obvious & grating to the listener. If you're accused of bragging, this means you are bragging poorly.
The problem with this is that it's built in the backs of brands who were at one point well recognized brands on Amazon. Amazon took their sales data, determined it was a good market to move into, created specifications and reached out to their hundreds of sellers for a "private label opportunity".

Cue making dozens of companies compete to supply Amazon with the manufacturing contract and constant downward pressure and you get a good product from Amazon at a good price. Not a problem right?

Until the private label brand forces 90% of those formerly quality-focused small brands to shut down and due to their "algorithms" detecting less competition, begins raising prices again. And now the expertise of small brands is gone and no competition springs up in the market.

I've seen this happen in a couple product lines over the year and is one reason we pulled off Amazon. Amazon customers are entitled pains in the ass, and the margin there isn't sustainable. The only way for small brands to make Amazon work is to aggressively sell a single SKU and put in remarketing/back-channel outreach to customers and make the conversions to the rest of your product line off Amazon.

This is explicitly against Amazon's policy, but their policy is in place to ensure they profit and you never gain traction so you remain reliant on them until they day they put you out of business with their own private label line.
Ask HN: Where is Half-Life 2: Episode 3?
Any little birdies at Valve know anything? Just remembered that it was supposed to come out years ago and keeps getting pushed. I know one of the drawbacks of a teal organization is that things are, "done when it's done", but does anyone have an idea? Is it still in production or has Valve moved their focus to VR and Steam?
Just get them to like you as a person. Interviewing is really fucked up and not meritocratic.
At least Netflix releases a season at a time. On Broadcast tv, filler episodes were really upsetting when you had to wait a week or more. (even worse in foreign countries that took time to realise US series moved to multiple episode story arc, meaning often you get mix and match season in a single year run)
> in the tech industry

In the liberal bubble that is the Bay area. There's tech industry outside of that bubble, throughout the Midwest, in cities like Austin. SF isn't the only place people are writing software.
I think that one of the main reasons for Amazon to grow so fast is that the competition fails to integrate into the web.

Do any product related search on Google and then look at the sites that come up. They almost all link to Amazon when it comes to the question where to buy the product.

And its not like Amazon is paying particularly much for that. From 0% to 10%, depending on the type of item purchased. As an affiliate, I average around 3%.

That is low. I know what companies spend to acquire customers via other channels. Adsense and other types of advertising. Several times more.

Why is the competition not in that game? I guess because they don't have the expertise to correctly track the value of the visitors.

My message to them: You cannot just stand on the sideline of the web and hope for people to pave their way to your online shop via a miracle. You have to integrate. You have to build that expertise.
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Can someone explain more about "making the same game over and over"? I don't know anything about these games. Were they all similar, despite being different franchises?
The gaming press is more press than gaming; they're often people with writing degrees who are disproportionately fond of "literary" games compared to the buying public.
This does not mean that a company has to offer free access to its contents if you refuse its terms.

Those consent walls are the expected consequence of GDPR.

People are given a real, free choice: Accept and access free contents or navigate away. There is no detriment and this is not a condition of sale.

One can go further and argue that consent is indeed in fact required to provide the service since this is free contents financed by ads.
Damn if it doesn't get every thriller writer high!
“Star Trek abundance” is coming ever faster, but the transitional period will be painful for many. Let’s hope to make it brief.
This would defeat the purpose of private labeling, which is to make you rely on the private label brand and not the manufacturer. The private label brands wants the freedom to change manufacturers and have you stick with them instead of going to the manufacturer.
That's my point. Security people were analyzing network traffic for decades trying to spot something that doesn't fit, host-wise, pattern-wise or even packet-wise (see The Museum of Broken Packets[0], for example). And someone managed to somehow hide all this traffic from security experts working for Amazon and Apple, for months or years? I'm very curious to see how.

[0] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mobp/
Should own brands be banned to avoid monopolistic behaviours?
I am already feeling nostalgic! Can't wait to play Turrican again!
I really enjoyed it as well. I'd also suggest an RSS feed; although it makes it harder to track who reads your articles, I really prefer to not sign up for email updates.

Anyway, keep it up!
I can't help but think there's some truth to all the talk about people growing tired of the same mechanics being used in essentially every Telltale game after the first series of The Walking Dead. Going from personal experience, it was a hell of a ride the first outing but it grew pretty samey even when new settings and stories were applied to it.
Still often cheaper and better quality than many other options on Amazon, at least in my experience.
This is awesome! I suspect you aren't getting upvotes because people click on it and get lost for an hour. :) I came back the next day to find you and upvote it.

Some cool posts I hadn't seen before:

- Launch of Venmo ("Rate this Startup - Venmo.com"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=948700

- Launch of Meteor ("Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3824908

- Launch of Stripe ("Stripe: Instant payment processing for developers"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3053883

- Launch of NomadList ("Show HN: Nomad List -- The best cities to live and work remotely in"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107222

I also really like the "links" breakdown, especially XKCD and wikipedia. It really captures the culture of HN.

I guess my only suggestion would be to allow pagination in the top all time pages (i.e., go beyond 100).
Yep, totally agree with all that. The way I'd really like to see is that people with this ethos of care towards employees start companies. And as seems to be Basecamp's position, that starts with funding. If you're not beholden to investors demanding certain growth goals, then you have the freedom to cultivate this kind of environment. My opinion is the problem's not collective bargaining or regulation, but that most companies default to taking money from investors for quick growth (which is then expected to be maintained) rather than growing slowly and organically from customer purchases like Basecamp.
It seems to work for most AAA games.. In fact they usually dont even bother changing IP

eg.
assassins creed series, farcry series, call of duty series, madden series, etc. etc.

Look at the ridiculously popular battle-royale games like fortnight.. They are pretty much clones of each other, and that gameplay has been done (better) decades ago.
Staples' in-house products are generally branded as Staples, right? I like that because there's no confusion or deception.

When BestBuy sells Insignia or Amazon sells Arabella, I think there is some deception happening. They should at least at "by Amazon" to the name.
As someone working for EA I am so terribly tired of hearing all the negativity and hostility towards EA. Even the positive comments tend to be of the form "well, at least they did something good".

I'm not saying EA hasn't done things I don't agree with, but I do believe they get more than their fair share of hatred on the internet. Actually, I should say "we", not "they".
No. Actually in most countries "social security" and "unemployment insurance" are 2 different things. Social security IIRC is mostly there to take care of medical expenses, including for employed people.
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Alledged disappearance.. Well china is a big area I guess maybe they don’t have telephones everywhere. I laugh.
Burnout, lucid dreams, and soil carbon
Not always possible, but baklava is pretty easy to make and stores really well (since you want it cooled first anyway.)

I have the same fixation with galaktoboureko (so many semolinas that are not grainy enough) but hardly anyone serves it :(
I found it in backups from ITS. ITS is the MIT operating system for the PDP-10, which was the workhorse around the AI Lab, Logo Lab, Lab for Computer Science, Mathlab, Dynamic Modeling group, etc.
Hmmm... Sort of like Kavanaugh.
You are absolutely correct. This law could have such effect.

More realistically, this is a problem that has no easy technical solution that originates from a law that still isn't adopted.

If I were an owner of such platform, I wouldn't worry too much about it now. In a year... maybe.
Wow. So you don’t apply security patches? Or am I not understanding what you are saying?
No they aren't.

EU is 500 million people.

The rest of the world is 7.2 billion almost all not living in international waters.

Your point was fair, this complex law that applies to the (rich) few, affects many. It's clear what you meant.
It's an _extremely customizable_ tool. Just deploying it and using it will nearly always result in a bad experience. You have to spend time making it work for your workflow. I don't think that's so much a manager problem as a knowledge of the product. More like a work chair - it can be really uncomfortable if you unbox it and sit down, but if you adjust the back, arms, seat some it could be the most comfortable thing ever.
You are wrong, as has been explained to you above. I laid out the argument in more detail a few weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17808789

Basically, you need consent to use tracking and consent isn't legal unless it's optional and independent. So it can't be tied to access.
Hiring in most business settings is severely broken. It's biased, long, too sensitive to supposed red flags, and opague.

Conversely, I recently received two job offers where the process was easy. One was for a large corporation's customer service department. Aside from an insanely long appllication form, the interviews were very short.

The other job is a waiter job, and I'm absolutely loving this type of work. I walked in, told the manager I have experience, and started the next day.
I hear about game studios going under like this a lot.

Is it just that games companies suffering the same fate get more coverage in the media, or is it something about game studios that seem to make them more likely to crash and burn like this?

I know that games are quite consumer's-whim-driven and you're never really sure if you've got a hit on your hands or not until you release. I guess it is the same for movies, yet I've never heard of any movies spectacuarly just going bust half-way through filming and just abandonning what they are doing and packing it in (although I have heard of some near-misses). Yet it seems to happen a lot for games comapanies?

What gives?

P.S. sucks for the people working on this. Hope you all find something new!
These are a fore-bearer of the masonry heater. Very similar to what some off-grid types have built and called a rocket mass heater. Very interesting principle but unfortunately (or fortunately if you are so inclined) they will never compete with the ease of operation of a gas (or oil) central heating system.
From the other messages, it looks like a simple EEPROM overriding the firmware of the BMC chip (an ASPEED AST2400), which lacks cryptographic signature verification.

It even looks like this attack has been already described here: https://blog.eclypsium.com/2018/09/06/insecure-firmware-upda...
Probably. Although plenty of people are starting to notice that Amazon is often no longer the lowest price source for many name brand items. But the majority of the public probably won’t think to check and just automatically assumes Amazon is the place to buy everything now. Kind of how some older folks think of Facebook as “the internet” itself. Sigh.
> Also, companies think they can afford to be selective. This tells me that companies don't actually have a development talent shortage to face, or else that they believe any such shortage is only applicable to other companies, or else they vastly overestimate the appeal they have to the labor market.

This. I keep my eye on the market, deal with recruiters all the time and I've seen too many companies that are always looking. I've done interviews in such companies only to get contacted by another recruiter with exactly the same role and exact copy of job spec some 2 years later. I'd like to know reasons why, but I can only speculate. Could be that management is pushing for more developers, but incumbent developers don't want any, so they sabotage all the candidates. I got my previous 2 jobs because the companies were desperate - single interview and an offer on the same day. As far as I'm concerned there are just too many companies out there that are just wasting time.
An employee who can't understand what a manager is communicating is not a good employee.

More seriously communication is a two way street and problems can occur at either end.
True, but you dont need to use full-spectrum tracking to serve ads. TV commercials dont use the same level of invasive tracking, yet they finance all sorts of content just fine.
Well, that’s only true when talking about past achievements is the only tool to get people excited about you.

But superiors working with you, observing you in action, will come to a conclusion too.
Maybe now is a good time to try and revive user-friendly linux desktops initiatives ? ( and i mean really user friendly... don’t mention anything that requires displaying « libxx » or « package y » to the user every now and then)
If it's gotten to the point where most of the positive comments are of the "at least the did something good" kind, then you know something is wrong with the company.

Just because they do some good things doesn't mean that the company is good overall, hence the comments.
How are they 'ad-hoc'? With the exceptions of JSON and XML support (cf. the 'NoSQL' fad), they're all valuable enhancements to core functionalities, no?

> the fact that you need to manually specify so many details about indices sounds like a failure to have a good theory around indexing which can be integrated into query plans

I'm no SQL guru, but this smacks of a variant on the 'sufficiently smart compiler fallacy' to me.

That the system can't always, uh, optimally optimise, isn't necessarily an indication that the system is fundamentally flawed.

GCC permits inline assembly, but that doesn't mean GCC is a failure.
And the manufacturer doesn't want you to know you can buy exactly the same potato chips in two different bags at two different price points
What evidence do you want? They only have 5 accounts with the ability to downvote. This is why comments always have -4 with anything critical of apple.
"bad game adoptions"

At least their "Wolf among us" was an extremely enjoyable adaptation of an existing comic book franchise with a novel story.
Bourne-like shells do not interact well with spawn(2). Their foreground execution semantics require forking.
So the idea is that when you write the queries with these explicit join requirements, you'll want the query to fail if someone changes the schema later in such a way that the requirement is no longer met? If so, it seems like something that comes up so infrequently as to not warrant the noise, but maybe I'm still misunderstanding.

What I was saying was that often people have T1::T2 (1-1) and then throw in a later join T2::T3 (1-many) without considering the implications for the T1 (maybe they were doing a count(T1.id)). At least that seems to be an aspect that confuses developers newer to sql (that the many join is duplicating other parts of the data).
> That’s a ridiculous basis upon which to form a conclusion.

Have you seen any climate models in the past 20 years?
This is practically a non issue. Not only would it be unrealistic to use wind power for 100% of US power generation nor would it be a good decision since a huge benefit of renewable energy is that we can diversify among so many different source.
Is a wag's take on this "Idiots no longer wasting as much money betting on long shots that are longer than they thought" ?
Can they say that "our servers /info" has been compromised? I mean, what's the point,Apple is not FBI /NSA owned. They have the right to know material things, even if specifics might be lacking.

Yes, looks like Apple dropped SuperMicro as their supplier in 2017. Why is that $64k question.
DoD contracts for the military require the hardware to be sourced and made in the US to prevent compromise. I wonder if one day we will see the DoD require any Cloud contractor that has DoD datacenters to source from the US or NAFTA countries...and what impact that would have. I've heard ramblings about a lot of companies moving their manufacturing and sourcing from China to Vietnam already.
> The problem with this is that it's built in the backs of brands who were at one point well recognized brands on Amazon. Amazon took their sales data, determined it was a good market to move into, created specifications and reached out to their hundreds of sellers for a "private label opportunity".

Not sure I'm seeing the problem. On the surface it sounds pro-consumer. Plus, this is already common in brick & mortar stores, I think Costco is particularly well-known for doing this (and of course private-label/house/generic store brands are hardly uncommon elsewhere too). If it was that destructive, why do we still have brand names in regular stores as it is?