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Yes, I'm not sure why the original post is being downvoted. It's exactly right!
Confirming.

Javascript is really cool when you learn it. However, the moment you dip into libraries you are dependent on someone else's work. Then you run into a problem because Native doesnt let you use a specific library, and googling your issue recommends that specific library. You use something else, it works alright. Months later you re-write everything anyway.
With the extra bonuses that come with new credit cards I actually come out way ahead.
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I love pedantic, stubborn techies. You asked how one goes from Coffeescript/J2EE to TS, as you apparently couldn't understand and considered it bizarre. I (and another commenter) explained what everyone else seemed to grasp that you couldn't, and now you're nit-picking simply to win an argument.

You're right, it's all just machine code in the end. Real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand. You totally win.
BerkeleyDB still has corruption issues, and is quite slow. The only k/v store out there proven to be entirely corruption-free is LMDB.

https://symas.com/lmdb/
I see it often come up with regard to alternative health topics like vaccine refusal or homeopathy. I could be wrong, but my perception is that people who hold these beliefs are more likely to be left leaning.

It also comes up often in the global warming context, obviously, which goes the other way.
No, LMDB uses a copy-on-write B+tree.

https://symas.com/lmdb/technical/
I have seen it only once so far when one minor German publisher asked me to send the same details per snail-mail. Luckily they also had other options.

I can't really know how common it is in UK, never been there, but I would definitely be surprised.
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Can you define your question further? Are you looking for information on communicating via visual means, or the data to visualization toolchain?
Can agree with all of these critiques of the game.

In particular, this feels like a game that was created in a weekend or two in Gamemaker. The UI is quite simple, the mechanics (or at least the ones I saw in 10 minutes of poking around) are unoriginal, and the enemies all seem to be variants of "fly/walk towards me".

There's no feeling behind the gun, there's no real feedback when I get hit, I have no idea how much life I have left (yes it's in the UI, but it's not prominent at all).

If I had to guess where the 3 years of effort has gone into, I'd suggest it was the level randomiser. That's a big mistake, and one probably made by a programmer mindset rather than a game design one. The game isn't fun, so it doesn't matter how much replay-ability there is. Whereas if the game were fun but not replayable, I'd probably buy it on the promise of a randomiser coming.
> That said, Jonathan Haidt's book The Righteous Mind does outline a very similar thing. That our 'reasoning' is almost always a post-hoc attempt to explain how we already feel.

I think Hume beat him to this position by a bit.
This fits my expectation. I still tell most folks that starting at thread per request is a sensible starting place. The difficulty in writing continuation style can cause most efforts to stall out.

Of course, that last assertion needs data. And i could be wrong. :(
But you are actually competing with the whole developed world. There may be localised tastes or patterns to follow but your competition is from the whole world.

Your market is the whole world too.
When looking for the best Perl book, I liked "Programming Perl" by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Jon Orwant better. Just a fantastic book that is both fun to read and authorative yet still suitable for learning Perl from scratch (for certain readers).
This is really neat in concept. However, I would be cautious about the substance here. I took a look at one philosopher that I know well---Socrates---and several of the entries seem very doubtful to me.

> We need to know how to conduct our lives and ourselves.

Sure, but doesn't everyone think that?

> Things like 'justice' do exist; not materially, but in some sort of essence.

This is getting metaphysical, something quite foreign to Socrates.

> There can be no cut and dried answers; answers themselves are open to question.

This reads to much in to the conversational aspect of the dialogues. Socrates is always pointing out that in many areas of life there are experts who know the correct answers and can be appealed to. In the moral realm, sadly, there seem to be no experts (though there are pretenders, hence lots of questions), but the point is that it would be great if there were experts here too!

> To the man who preserves his integrity no real, long-term harm can come.

"Integrity" sounds too personal or individual; this should be "the just man", or "the righteous man". And it does not need to "long-term" qualification.

That is four out of seven items. There rest of the list seems broadly ok, though it is a rather eccentric selection of Socrates views. Gotta start somewhere though, I guess.

One the other hand Socrates presents unusual problems of interpretation, so this may well not be a representative entry.
For those wondering about why Brazil claims to own the Emerald: in Brazil all minerals are literally property or government, to open a mine you need to lease the land and jump through lots of hoops and red tape. If you just go, dig something up and try to sell, even if it was literally in your backyard, Brazilian government considers it theft of its property.

EDIT: went looking for news on this... found out in 2017 they found another one in the same region, this time they did it legally (asked the govenrment to come and do all paperwork), and seemly the "second" Bahia Emerald has a legal owner.

Also it is conveniently shaped like a obelisk or something, the owner said he plans in renting it to museums around the world...

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> "It was not immediately clear whether or not the company has released any patches for this, with the page on its website merely referring readers to a login-protected page."

Or as I learned in the last week with Cisco, it doesn't even matter if you have an account! You can't download software updates to the hardware they sold you unless you pay extra for a Service Contract!

Leaving security holes in the software? Well gosh, we're real sorry about that. How 'bout you cough up a nominal fee for each of those "Security Appliances" you bought so we can give you the privilege of fixing our mistakes. Thanks!
Why did HN's traffic tank so hard recently?
> being fortunate enough to get a bunch of coverage

I don't think this is good fortune so much as a good pitch, a good product, and a lot of persistence.
Have you read CNN in the past 2 years?

No.

They are blatantly anti-trump

Maybe they're just anti-criminal, anti-corruption or anti-treason? I read news from Reuters and the AP and stay away from Opinions. Let me share with you (in case you're just watching Fox News) - it isn't good for the GOP - criminals, traitors and corruption everywhere.
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But our churn is really really low with an average subscription length several years long. So 12 months at 10 months fee is less than 12 at 12.

There is work to help people update info, etc. And an annual check or ACH would save card fees.

But it doesn't sound like OP offered a discount, so just curious.
I came to learn about it through Ecology: The Ascendant Perspective, which is a very fun read in general. If you want harder to read stuff, you could go to Popper or more contemporary, Eric Hochstein.
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Not sure if it's quite the same thing but it's similar to Jevon's paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
So facts are offensive? I don't see any rebuttal to the facts presented in the article unfortunately.

Anyone knows facts that disprove his?
It doesn't auto complete on DDG either, so I don't know if that would even be like popular enough to auto complete? I just read the AdWeek article that came up first in it and it's from like 2010.
Really liked that! Congratulations on your work, it is very inspiring. I am also trying to build small languages, for fun, I think the web could use more languages.

One example that is quite amazing in my opinion is Pyret, I think you might like it, check it out at https://www.pyret.org
Great post on the issues of Docker's linear layering method (which a tweet[1] by the author of the post also explains well independently of computers) and how to improve on it with Nix.

The "old" way of building Docker images with Nix also provided some of these benefits, but for quick builds often ended up being slower due to the dependency on qemu. This is an awesome improvement on that!

I'd recommend people building & deploying a lot of Docker images (especially in languages with many dependencies on native libraries and such, which can be tricky to get right but which Nix mostly just handles for you) to see if building images with Nix could improve your workflow!

[1]: https://twitter.com/grhmc/status/1046529919897886720
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I can sympathize with the lack of EQ, but this is ridiculous and also poor data science.
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> The danger of possible outlets for alternative voices controlled more and more by big corporations is at least as bad as the privacy implications.

I understand why you feel that way. A diversity of voices is critically important for our society! These are the people who hold the powerful to account, who give voice to the voiceless. Their continued existence, as a group, are essential to a functioning modern democracy. We need to have them. You are absolutely, completely right about their importance!

> So there must be a tradeoff if we wan't privacy, but we also want to have publishing outlets independent of big corporations. There is currently no perfect solution where we can have total privacy and also little publishers can sustain themselves.

I understand why you believe this. At the same time, it strikes me as perhaps excessively entrenched in extant business models and takes on faith that there can be no other approaches.

Right now, I think you will find that a substantial portion of the public agrees with you. A balance, a set of tradeoffs, around privacy and online advertising can and must be found. The popular balance is likely to be the one of privacy first, and advertising just has to suck it up. Which, while a balance, is clearly not the one you want.

> Having 100% of one while giving up the other is not the answer.

I understand why you feel this way. Having a diversity of voices, large and small, independent and otherwise is very important! It's worth bearing in mind that not everyone is likely to want to be required to surrender their personal privacy for your notion of viewpoint diversity in publishers. After all, whatever balance is struck will apply to large corporations just as readily as small, scrappy, alternative, independent voices.

It's definitely worth considering that alternatives that do not set up a conflict between user privacy and revenue may be possible. There is genuine innovation going on in this area, as well as age-old subscription models - and people like me can and do have subscriptions. I, personally, maintain several.

As for those who don't adapt... well. My heart goes out to them. But my wallet does not.
I really hate browser extensions because the product now forces me to use a particular browser. Rarely do products like this support Safari for example. It also requires a strong level of trust as well.
Does anyone have any good recommendations for industrial electronics design? Like a PLC digital/analog input/output module, protecting industrial inputs, etc? I've searched quite a bit, but I've never found enough good advice in one blog or book.
Good on this guy for speaking some truth, even if he faced flak for it all around. He had the statistics to prove it, and he was discredited. He had the anecdotal experience to back his story, and he was discredited. By daring to say that people should be admitted based on merit and not given free passes into the field based on gender, he was lambasted. There was no rebuttal, the only responses were basically 'I don't like what he said'.
I've admittedly not worked on a project team as large as the ones you'll find at Cisco, but a lot of the time it comes down to deadlines and a team biting off more than they can chew rather than active maliciousness. Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity, and all that.
> This article is obviously guilty as well - "Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds". Like, ever? The content of the article doesn't back up the headline, but the headline is what people remember.

I think these days most readers, especially of publications like the New Yorker, are more media savvy than you give them credit for. When you read the headline, did you really think it would be an article espousing the view that nobody anywhere has ever had their point of view altered by learning something new?
> it takes about six minutes to vote

Why does voting take 6 minutes?
I think I used a voting machine maybe once in my life (in the Netherlands and apparently young enough to not have used those more often). Casting a vote on paper is usually checking a box with a red pencil, takes maybe a minute of dealing with the huge sheet of paper with all the candidates.

Just curious.
And IMO they should do away with "optical ballot scanning", and should move to regular humans counting them with their own eyes.

An electronic scanning system could easily be vulnerable to many of the same issues that are presented here.

Instead, have everyone mark their ballots like normal, then get a bunch of people in a room who all don't trust one another and have them count/tally votes together. Just about everyone that can vote can help count (unlike with electronic counting machines where only a very competent engineer could even begin to audit a machine like that, assuming that they were allowed to even do so), and in places that run elections like this, there is almost never a shortage of people willing to assist counting votes, especially when the election is particularly controversial ("I'm not going to let that [side a] person from screwing over us on [side b]! Let's go get 20 of us there watching to make sure nothing bad is happening!")

Voting should be hard, voting should be expensive (for the country, not for individual people). Why "optimize" the one thing that secures our country with alternatives that are less secure, have more points of failure, and are overall less understood both by the voters and by the people using the machines to tally votes?
Legal system doesn't particularly care about that
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If you're on a really fast internet connection where your ISP doesn't throttle P2P (many do in the UK) then I wouldn't be surprised that you'd get good results from Popcorn Time. The issue is whether that is consistently true for people on slower internet connections, connections with QoS or other traffic shaping methods against P2P, and those who stream on lower end hardware (old laptops / phones) or embedded devices (Amazon Firestick or smart TVs).

This is where RMTP streams really shine through - they offer the performance (at the client level) and flexibility (quick swapping between bitrates within 15 seconds of chunked video) to maximize the video quality per client.

As for why Netflix doesn't look to great on your connection, I can only speculate there but the reasons might be more down to congestion on your local Netflix cache server or your ISP itself than RMTP streams being inferior to BitTorrent.
There are a lot of words in this document. What we need is some infographics that boil it down into something people without the time to read and parse all of those findings can understand easily. A map showing vulnerable states, some pictures showing how easy it is to circumvent a particular system. Something that shows what percentage of machines are vulnerable and an easy way to know if the machines in my district are susceptible without having to wade through pages and pages of text.
I am really souring on such conversations because of the tremendous number of bad-faith arguing tactics people use -- willfully misconstruing your point, racing as quickly as possible to a glib dismissal without really understanding what you said, or, like you said, link-bombing. Another failure mode I find extremely frustrating is failure to understand analogies. For instance, if I were having a discussion about whether potatoes are healthy it might go like this:

A: Of course potatoes are healthy! They're natural!

B: If everything natural were healthy it'd be healthy to eat hemlock.

A: Potatoes aren't hemlock and it's really offensive you'd make that comparison.
Aren't extensions standardized for a years now?
And he is absolutely correct
Ok. So, those are powerful findings of fact. From this, what has been done thus far regarding:

State election boards

State House/Senate committees on elections

Local election judges and boards

Federal House/Senate committees on elections

I would assume that these allegations must be verified. However, since all the procedures and observations are being made in the open, they should be relatively easy to confirm.

But, what are our legislators and boards doing to prevent hacking and malfeasance like this?
That sounds similar to Wirth’s Law. In general the more efficient a computer’s hardware is, the more bloated its software will be, so the slower the whole system will run.
- The guy presenting this might be wrong.
- He may be an asshole and/or have resentful intentions with making this presentations.

However, none of the people who disagree with him in this article engage with any of these things. They're just angry that he's saying this at all! Their upset emotions seems to be the only case against what he's saying.
I think he meant that a potential chilling effect on discussion of such regulation is the likelihood that objectors would be labelled as sexist, thus being ignored as opposed to having their points debated upon their merit.
If they incentivize seeding I will definitely start doing so. Simple as that. If I can earn actual cash for offering up idle storage and bandwidth, you can bet I will do that.
For us, the best growth channel was partnerships and listing on 3d party marketing pages (Asana, Basecamp, ClickUp etc.). It is not difficult and costs nothing (if you have a good integration) while the traffic quality is awesome!
Something by developers for developers: https://newreleases.io sends email and Slack notifications wnenever there is a new version released on GitHub, PyPI, NPM, Docker... Current goal is to spread the word about us ower the whole www. :)
Sounds true, although I question why they don't simply install a proxy extension in the users browser. Would save them a lot of capital expenses.
Fake news written to shock, not to inform.

> In 2015, Nobel laureate Prof Tim Hunt resigned from his position at University College London after telling an audience of young female scientists at a conference in South Korea that the "trouble with girls" in labs was that "when you criticise them they cry".

Why was this mentioned, right at the end of the article? Also, the author conventiently ommitted that Tim was joking, the audience laughed (i.e. got the joke) and the joke was about his wife, whom he met in his lab.

In addition, the article doesn't even try to substantiate or explain why CERN considers the presentation as "highly offensive" - facts can clearly be wrong, but can they be offensive?
For Cisco there's really not a great deal of incentive.

I've seen the networking gear sales world.

A huge % of customers just buy Cisco ... just because. It's a matter of fact. So if you're Cisco, there's no incentive. "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is as much "Nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco".
Probably late to the party but almost a year ago I had my gamasutra blog post about failing to sell 700 copies of my game, to stay in business, featured on HN.

It's been almost a year since then. I kept updating the game, doing quality of life improvements and actively engaged with the people and reviewers playing it. I also kept people up to date with twitter and talked about the game every chance I had.

Hacker News initial exposure helped me sell about 200 copies and by March I passed my 700 copies goal. Enough to stay in business but, by then, I already moved cross-county and got a few consulting gigs happening.

Almost a year later I have over 4700 copies sold on steam with the total amount of copies sold being around 6000. The game was only recently added to a bundle that added ~1000 copies ("retail activations" are still happening). I'm at a point where I am so grateful for the luck I had after the initial HN exposure that now, one year later, I'm releasing the biggest update ever for the game and I finally got a professional artist to help me upgrade the graphics.

What I want the dev to know is that there's still a chance, but in my case, I already managed to secure enough money from my consulting gigs so updating the game and working on it was done on the side and I could afford to do some more marketing and sink time in it. If you are not financially dependent on the game, keep working on it and slowly build up your fanbase and outreach. Take note of people's feedback and if a common theme occurs maybe do something about it.

Hope you'll end up being happy with your project. If it reaches Steam I'll be your first buyer. On your site, I tried purchasing it via paypal and I cannot get pass the re-captcha. I'm trying to click on the "I'm not a robot" checkbox and nothing is happening. Might want to look into that.
One way is to only offer annual billing, but couple it with a 30 day trial. Hubspot operates like this and it results in a more invested user and substantially reduces churn and lowers support costs. It lowers churn because of you are going to pay for a year of something, you are going to be really sure it solves your problem. This approach only works though if you have a clear product-market fit.
As an engineer who hadn't studied that type of math in quite a while, Elements was pretty tough and I was getting stuck a lot.

ISLR introduces you to many of the same topics in a less rigorous way. Once I was familiar with the topics and had worked through the exercises, Elements became much easier to learn from.
We live in a post truth world. Instead of accepting men and women as complementary we're forced into "competition", yet another way of dividing society.
Traditionally ideology is more often cast as a reason people cannot understand the implications of facts staring them in the face.
I’m a huge fan of these sorts of simple programming languages. I consider the simplicity of Purebasic and TI-83/89 Basic to be one of the main reasons I was able to successfully get into programming in high school despite not having any programming classes. I was also simultaneously learning x86 ASM and while that was also super fun, my Basic programming was far ahead of my ASM. Being able to successfully build simple games in Basic is extremely motivating when learning to code.
I agree, but the optical scanners are like 1000 times better than wirelessly accessible Windows XP laptops... which is what they replaced. One step at a time ;)
Why such a mindlessly literal interpretation of an title clearly not intended to be literal?
Absolutely. I predict that more and more Indy games will be created by the retired, and the starving. Same as happened with novels and other arts like painting and photography.