skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very true.

Gaming journos have very little influence inside the gaming community. Many of them do not quite get that "fun" is the most central reason for playing a game. Their articles often read like someone who is hoping for a regular media house to notice and hire them, rather than a gamer writing for other gamers.

Gaming's biggest personalities are on YouTube and Twitch. ACG, Angry Joe, TB (rip), Dunkey have a significantly better say on whether a game gets played or not. Brothers a tale of sons, is one such game whose success can be in part attributed to TB pushing it very hard, on his YT channel.

Among the younger generation, let's play and streamers are the bigger influencers. At least that is what I feel like looking at my younger cousins.

There are a few good gaming review websites, but the likes of IGN, Polygon and GameSpot feel like surrogate marketting agencies at this point.
I've never seen a JIRA installation that isn't slow as hell.

Project Manager types dont mind JIRA slowness for some reason. Prbly have too much time in their meetings to sit and wait around.
It wasn't just the gameplay for me, but the episodic format. I grew tired of that, and I would wait until all episodes were released to buy. By then, I might have either forgotten about the game, or could get it for a substantial discount.
A thorough intro to Distributed Systems
The College Dropouts Who Rode Credit Cards into the Billion-Dollar Startup Club
Heard of the IndieWeb guys? https://indieweb.org/
Again, I will not defend everything about EA, but I do believe the public perception of the company is worse than can be really justified. Especially since most common complaints about for EA are about industry-wide issues where EA is not the worst offender but seem to take most of the heat.
Worth noting that this data is from steamspy (http://steamspy.com/about) so only covers Steam, and is also not fully accurate.

How representative it is of the overall picture I can't say. I would imagine that Telltale's style of games sell more on phones/tablets and on consoles, but of course the sales on those platforms may well show the same trends over time.
Well, I don't drink (see my bio), but thanks for the offer. :P
If you want a proper adventure (maybe source your own aircraft?) you can probably go to Svalbard, which is Europe, if only just. The trick is to get there without going through Norway first.

"Svalbard has no border controls, and citizens of the 41 signatories of the Svalbard treaty (including such unlikely countries as Afghanistan and the Dominican Republic) need no visas or other permits to visit – or even work – in Svalbard."

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Svalbard
A car doesn’t store all your personal private data, so your analogy doesn’t fit.
That's one of the reason why big studio don't create new IPs very often, it's very expensive / risky, a false move and you can lay off hundred of people.
If that were the case the products would be clearly labeled "Amazon" rather than a bunch of private labels that sound nothing alike, I should think.
Where reporters across any topic and beat try to seek the truth, tapping information from the intelligence community is near impossible. For spies and diplomats, it’s illegal to share classified information with anyone and can be — and is — punishable by time in prison.

Even worse, feeding reporters false information is not that difficult. Given the scarcity of sources, it must be extremely difficult to get technically knowledgeable people who will corroborate these kinds of stories.

Consider who wins the most if the chip story turns out to be false: an administration hell-bent on reshoring US manufacturing capability.

Whether the story is true or part of some domestic propaganda operation, the result isn't good for the US.
"Compaq had the NonStop servers, which ran OpenVMS...but it was all delivered in software"

NonStop/Guardian had nothing to do with OpenVMS. And the hardware was certainly purpose built for HA, including redundant, lockstepped CPUs, disk controllers, etc.
If the company ceases to exist, then many of its usual responsibilities don’t exist either
How is that different from large supermarkets determining own-brand cereal and peanut butter are good markets to move into?

It's just capitalism at work. Yesterday's high-quality high-price item becomes today's low-priced low-quality commodity. Quality-focused small brands in every industry and every market need to be constantly improving, developing new product improvements, new niches, new products. (E.g. an even-higher quality version for the luxury niche.)

It's extremely unlikely that Amazon will be be able to raise prices long-term on an own-brand item with "no competition" simply because... well, capitalism. As soon as they do, manufacturers in China or whoever sells the equivalent product at Wal-Mart will list on Amazon for a lower price and make money... so Amazon lowers the price again... and as always, the invisible hand of capitalism keeps prices low for the consumer.
I have now subscribed! What ideas you thinking about for your next pieces?

And what are your goals if you don't mind me asking, I mean I don't see any obvious monetization stuff on your site? If you get 10m views a month does that help you avoid rejoining the rat race or are you not really thinking so far ahead yet?
>> If you unlock your phone via face recognition or fingerprint, they have that too.

They don't, your fingerprint data never leaves your device [0]

>> Is there any viable alternative to Android or iOS that doesn’t require you to be www-authenticated to make a fucking phone call?

Can't you use one of the many available feature phones?

[0] : https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6300638?hl=en
The Telephone Game is not common parlance in British English, just American English. So a better phrase is sought than that to convey the idea.
I don't necessarily mind buying cheap goods from unknown brands. With something like earphones, I'm not optimistic they'll last that long before breaking or my wife losing them or something in the first place.
You can't use review scores. They are not a proxy for quality at all. They are a proxy for perceived value. I have noticed, subjective of course, that people rate more expensive products more harshly. If I buy some $5 head phones and they work alright I am really happpy. If I buy $200 head phones and they are not perfect I am going to be disappointed, my rating will reflect that. So you have to compare products that cost a similar amount to get a real feel for the product quality. Reviews of vastly different costed items doing the same thing are kind of meaningless.
Just admit it's not bad :D
Yeah, the Carbury's stuff really is a far cry from real Turkish delight. It's like comparing Haribo strawberries to real strawberries.
I think you misread - "Unicorn jumping over a rainbow level rare" was about catching it, not missing it.
"Inference" is a term of art in machine learning jargon so those replacements you propose have much broader meanings than the original and are not suitable replacements.
Citation needed. As far as I can tell, post-scarcity is almost fundamentally unachievable; and, at best, achievable with technology that today's eyes would confuse for magic.
this doesn’t seem to offers any novel perspectives. I read it as intended for self marketing.
This makes for interesting reading alongside:

* The Register's analysis https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/04/supermicro_bloomber... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18146307)

* Joe FitzPatrick's analysis https://securinghardware.com/articles/hardware-implants/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18144538)
> Consider what the automobile landscape would look like if the same were true.

It more or less is that way already, have you had a recent car in the shop? With the diagnostics and systems in all cars going more digital every day, there are lots of things a local independent mechanic can’t fix anymore. I’ve been pushed to the dealer with foreign and domestic brands alike.
I've canceled my Amazon Prime account for two reasons. Firstly the advertising on Amazon has gotten out of control, I want the best product in my price range, not the one with the largest marketing budget. And secondly, I've found if I go to a more niche market (Cabela's for sporting goods, Lowes for tools, branded clothing stores, etc.) I always get something better, sometimes at a more reasonable price too.

Amazon has turned into a warehouse, you have to know what you want coming in. The only reason I kept using them was because I was lazy and didn't want to have to manage purchases across multiple different websites. But it just isn't worth it when I kept consistently getting inferior products.
I haven't used XCode in a while, but I was always amazed when I had to download the entire, massive, application every update. Android Studio has fairly consistent updates that are around 150-500mb on average.
A specific example of when consent is not a valid reasoning for processing personal information under the UK's interpretation of GDPR: "consent was a precondition of a service, but the processing is not
necessary for that service"

https://ico.org.uk/media/about-the-ico/consultations/2013551...
There really, really needs to be. If this story is real and things have been known compromised since 2015, it’s unacceptable that this information isn’t shared more widely. The “we’re going to follow them” idea doesn’t hold water over 3 years, countless small vendors using Supermicro and not being well-connected enough to know (like Apple or Amazon) about it.
Well, maybe, if we judge that Amazon does not exercise monopolistic control over online retail. But a lot of people are going to never look anywhere besides Amazon (gotta take advantage of that Amazon Prime subscription, of course) and just buy the product and not know that a lower-price option is available.
Maybe they were happy to use the same backdoors for themselves?
Trello. No "workflows" that force you to drag the ticket through 5 different columns to get it to the state you wanted (or, even better, just make it completely impossible to undo a mistake), no approvals, no waiting 5 seconds for the UI every time you change something, just a bunch of task cards in columns that you drag between them.
Absolutely sh!tty way to treat people. Won’t those left demand massive retention bonuses?

How fungible are game dev skills? At least folks are getting released into a hot tech market.
Honest question: what are the reasons to code this up using OOP, creating a neural network object plus methods, instead of data structures and functions that operate on them?

If it’s just personal preference, I’m fine with that, I’m not trying to start a flame war.
New fiber cable will connect 4 continents via South Africa
Until the second part of OP's story happens - which is the competitors die off and then Amazon jacks up the prices.

Most of these sellers are much smaller than the brand names you see in supermarkets, and also much newer. Spigen, Anker etc. don't have the same sentimental decades long attachment that Kellogs, or Pepsi have with consumers either.
The example in the page that I cited concerned Internet commerce sites. As I read it, you can't refuse to sell stuff if customers decline being tracked.

So are you arguing that providers of "free" content are allowed more leeway in refusing service for users who decline to be tracked? Do you have a cite for that?
Well, if you don't rape someone, generally that's not something you need to worry about.
I don't know who owns the term "futures", but the limitations of javascript promises are just choices that javascript made.

In Java, you can write:

List<Future<String>> futures = new ArrayList<>();
...loop that populates futures
List<String> strings = futures.stream().map(Future::get);

The loop will run a series of futures (potentially asynchronously...the use of a Future is decoupled from the actual choice of thread pool, etc). The map will collect the results in a blocking fashion. And Future.get() will rethrow any errors that were uncaught in the execution.
I have started to view "baseload" generation more in a negative sense (as in "can't be easily turned on/off").

Also the daytime/nighttime power consumption differs almost twice, so almost any solar added only smoothens out the difference.

Also the new offshore wind turbines (>10MW) offer some extraordinary capacity factors (~60%). Makes me wonder what these capacity factors could be if we could get to 20MW turbines.
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And the price is often vary drastically.

> At Newegg they go from $355 up to $446 but on Taobao and AliExpress they can be found as low as $130

https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/msur-n650.21366/reviews#rev...
Or forty-four percent of online sales. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/amazon-grabbed-4-percent-of-...
I can play guitar by ear (within reason - it's much easier for idioms I'm familiar with, and I don't have perfect pitch, so I need a quick exploration to find the key first).

I had some guitar lessons as a teenager, covering a mix of technique, vocabulary and theory. But I was not academically schooled in music.

There are two things that help develop this skill I think, extrapolating from my own experience:

One is, when learning a piece I find it useful to hum or sing the notes I am trying to learn. i.e. play back a bit of the recording, then pause and hum it to myself while finding the notes on the instrument. It sounds trivial and obvious, but it helps build the connections and to hear the music in your head.

I think part of being able to do it involves "having the instrument in your head".

The second tip is then to follow on from the first but do it without a recording and without the instrument in your hands. Hum the notes to yourself and try to imagine where they are on the "instrument in your head". If you don't already know the key just choose an arbitrary one. This helps two things - develop the instrument in your head, also a sense of relative pitch (intervals) between the individual notes in sequence, and also between each note and the key centre.

I distinctly remember as a teenager this was something I liked to do while on my way to and from school - hearing back a guitar solo in my head and trying to play it, in my head. And then when I got home I could try it out on the instrument and see how close I was.
care to give your reasoning for both of those claims?
After upgrading every older family member to Chromebook, I have had zero calls for support.

Apple isn't the only game in town.
Hmmm, I’m vaguely remembering uploading the TI-Logo source to the MIT ITS PDP-10 for backup purposes too. If so it might be there also. You’d want to be careful about the copyright on that. Though I’d love to see it again
If you know a company that's hiring and has "no Jira" written into the contract, please let me know where! It's easy to find a job at a company that isn't using Jira right now, but then a tool like GitHub offers an integration and they change their minds.
The company didn't cease to exist; they still had (have?) employees finishing existing contracts. They also tried to raise money to staff back up and finish off the Walking Dead games.
Does any government know where all its citizens are at all times?
Interpol president reported missing during trip to China
HERMES: High-Frequency Emergency and Rural Multimedia Exchange System
The Mandelbrot set and all its Julia sets are part of a larger, four-dimensional fractal. Explore it here (only JavaScript and WebGL needed):

https://rawgit.com/MatthiasHu/FractalsWebGL/4d/page.html
Is that true, surely there's a terminal velocity that's reached by water flowing down a riverbed after - I'd guess - a hundred metres or so (probably much less)? Given the mill is not reducing the volume of water, surely it gets back to speed in time to hit another mill a couple of miles downstream.

Silting, I'd think would be a problem.
The end of Snap and Tesla
yes I think developing a sense of relative pitch is somewhat necessary for what the OP asks, otherwise you will be stuck in trial and error forever
The burden of organizing a group of people large enough to make a triple A game is enormous. Revenues come after long, painful development periods only. Risk is high. It doesn’t surprise me at all that the workers get a tiny proportion, unsatisfactory as that is.
The birth of the Moog One
The posts above listed a lot of evidence. Maybe you’d care to read them, since you ask. Or provide your own counter evidence.
> Especially when they're story based so basically you're replaying the movie that you've already seen.

Weren't most of Telltale's stories original? I didn't play any of the others, but I know the Borderlands and Batman ones were.
Really surprised to see the display on this list. Compared to anything that involves removing ic's or replacing resistors (for example), replacing a display is pretty straight forward.
I’m sick of seeing the lazy argument that moves like this are in the best interests of consumers. Yeah, the prices may be a little lower and the buying experience a little easier right now. But those are tiny short term benefits relative to the medium to longer term impact a move like this can have as we allow a massive centralization of commerce to take place. The long term impact is that wealth, power, and control are all centralized in the hands of a small number of people, with fewer and fewer opportunities for anyone else to build a thriving business. Platform capitalism has us headed for a dystopian future and the saddest thing is that few people seem to be able to imagine anything better.
Telltale's games since The Walking Dead became narrative focused, essentially the interactive version of a "choose-your-own-adventure" book. Personally I loved the format since I hated the cartoon logic behind a lot of adventure game puzzles, but Telltale never evolved it. Supermassive Games (Until Dawn) and Dontnod (Life is Strange) both showed that you can expand on the concept and tell interesting stories.
Don't compete with your customers...

Ebay does not compete with its customers, sadly it lost the fight.

Amazon knows which products are the most profitable based on its own selling data collection, then it will make its own white-labelled version to compete, what a strategy! again, sadly, it has no competitors these days so it can do whatever it wants.
It's called "work" ;) People are not stupid. They will observe and than judge.
> JIRA is the top project management platform for good reason.

As others have said, it's popular with managers, not with developers, but managers make these decisions. I've worked at several places that used JIRA and it was always hated by rank-and-file developers but imposed from above.
China probably does.
Cool, though I have a printed copy of that. I looked through it recently trying to remember some details for an upcoming paper
Walmart has Great Value, but that's not their only private label. They also have Mainstays, Equate,and plenty others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Walmart_brands
Yeah, growing up in New Zealand I fixed many of my own and others' MacBooks/iMacs with aftermarket parts for this reason. We had no official channel, outside of shipping to Australia or further which required a 3-4 week wait, a potential invoice, and of course the entire time you're without a machine. It's a real bummer, because this is still the reality today, and some of these repairs are trivial (i.e battery).
Tools drive the way they're used. You have to go out of your way to use Jira well, the path of least resistance is to use it badly (e.g. task state transitions default to disallowed and you have to explicitly allow the ones you want to permit, so your workflow will be too restrictive unless you've gone out of your way to fix it).
What do you look like? Being attractive helps. Dress well, carry yourself well.
Even more realistically: is there any reason to assume any of this stuff will ever be enforced, let alone enforced against obscure forums?

Here in the UK, these sorts of laws have had, as far as I know, zero enforcement.

http://nocookielaw.com/
https://silktide.com/the-stupid-cookie-law-is-dead-at-last/
https://silktide.com/dear-ico-this-is-why-web-developers-hat...
Maybe “they” were happy to have China do the dirty work and take the fall, but it was all conceived and execute by “them.”
I guess I don't totally understand how a public official can "allegedly" disappear. Doesn't he have job responsibilities? It's been a week.
If you get out of your bubble, assets are very much not overpriced. If remote work wasn't such a dirty word, one could live in places where nice houses sell for under 100k and taxes are negligible.
And paper bag. Just in case.
Ford's testimony appeared credible. However, there is no contemporaneous corroboration, even from her long-time friend who not only didn't corroborate it, she refuted that she had even met Kavanaugh.

Ramirez, Swetnik allegations are not credible. They too have no corroboration.

While I've seen plenty of people decry Rachel Mitchell's letter to the Republican Senators as "political", I have yet to see anyone refute the content of that letter. (https://www.axios.com/brett-kavanaugh-rachel-mitchell-prosec...)

There isn't an honest prosecutor who could get an indictment, let alone a conviction.
That theory would explain a lot
> Yet, to Apple — and Amazon and other companies implicated by the report — they too might also be in the dark. Assuming there was an active espionage investigation into the alleged actions of a foreign government, you can bet that only a handful of people at these companies will be even cursorily aware of the situation. U.S. surveillance and counter-espionage laws restrict who can be told about classified information or investigations.

I think this may be key in this case, which would give plausible deniability to Apple and Amazon. Conversely, I'm also not fully convinced by this argument, I think it applies more easily and more often when companies are directly subpoanaed by authorities not when there are the initiator. In the case of this kind of breach if one engineer find this issue I would think it would report to senior management first, before contacting the authorities. Also Apple directly stated there are not constrained by any gag order, which leave only one possibility if they genuinely think what they say is true: could it be an unkown unknown?
Someone gets crucified every week there, nbd. Hopefully for Kaplan, they will be distracted by a similarly inane incident soon.
Did your deps make upgrading to React 16.x hard too?
I am struggling not to spout cliches about how the JS community make breaking changes constantly.

Up to now I was one of the proponents of how great the ecosystem is (these days). I have been deeply frustrated by the number of libraries that made major breaking changes across different React versions, without a straightforward upgrade path, so instead of being able to incrementally upgrade I've been forced to bulk upgrade and fire-fight and read all the documentation in one mega upgrade...

React itself has a really good deprecation / upgrade version support, but I inherited a codebase using react-router (complete paradigm shift across versions), redux, redux-saga and a bunch of other deps with code splitting and webpack too, and this has been painful unlike any other upgrade I've had to do too.

The hot reloading library was deprecated, there were changes in the history api, the router is no longer parsing query strings and also changing the signature of the properties routes create have changed... I could go on and on, there was even a breaking API change to react-select!

My point is not that breaking changes are a problem on their own, it's that I was left with the version change dilemma where breaking changes across 10s of deps were made without a straightforward deprecation / migration path in a single version of React and I ended up with little choice but to upgrade everything and work through all the issues, until the thing built correctly again...

Anyone else have a similar experience?