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The game was largely overfunded, and yet they had to rely on splitting the game in two acts and rely on the sales from the first to fund additional development.

I agree that among the titles I mentioned is the less disastrous, but is still an example of developers being given a large amount of money and almost free reigns, and delivering something late and below expectations (I played the game as well, it was decent but really not that remarkable).
This is partly related to the presidential race starting in Iowa. That's got to be worth a couple of points of Iowa GDP in subsidies alone.
Those founders would have learn a lot for next businesses in the future. The problem is that they did it with someone else's money.

It is a good idea letting people to fail early with the minimal amount of money possible.

That was exactly the idea of YCombinator. Experimenting before scaling could be cheap.
Signal needs a phone, even with the desktop client. A better alternative is Wire (wire.com), which you can signup for with your email address OR phone number. It doesn't mandate a phone number. All chats are end-to-end encrypted, just like Signal (not with the exact same protocol and implementation). You can have group chats, just like on messenger or any other chat platform.

Wire also syncs conversations across devices, unlike Signal that's tied to one device (a phone).

You can have multiple accounts on Wire, just like you would use multiple email addresses, each one for different purposes.

Wire is still way behind Telegram on UX, but is a good option for those who don't want to use a phone number or give their phone number to some centralized service. You set usernames and can @mention them (a recent addition to the client — I'm mentioning this as an example to indicate how far behind it is from Telegram, which had this a long time ago).

Lastly, Wire also allows you to backup your chats and restore them on another device. Signal explicitly blocks this from being done.
> I don't get what the underlying concept is

It's an app for listening to music. You get a search box and a list of music you've saved. What more concept is there to get?
But if you have no technical innovation or your innovation is trivial to clone, then you don't have a startup.

Many startups fail because they're actually not innovative. Nobody needs another database from a tiny company that is just tiny bit better. No matter how good rest of your offering is, bigger does often mean better.

Other fail due to entanglements, especially hardware ones. Their supply chain fails and that's that. No amount of media will help and you cannot afford to hedge this kind of risk.
This sounds like the "CO2 is plant food" argument, which carefully overlooks all the other effects of CO2 and even the nutritional implications: https://phys.org/news/2018-05-co2-rice-nutritional.html

Freeman Dyson in the same article is also talking about "abiotic oil and gas", which is another one of those things that the oil industry would definitely know if it was true because it's worth billions of dollars in exploration results.
Do you think there's a philosophical difference that the author did here? They specifically write "Don’t hurry. It’s not a startup rushing to an exit.".

The lack of pressure and the slow cultivation was something that struck me in this article, as opposed to the stereotypical rush of the startup lifecycle.
Whether or not this is bad depends entirely on what you do for a living. For coders, sure, that average would be excessive. For admin support, tech support, or other roles where communication is a majority of their job? Maybe not.
I still remember using QuickTime 4.0 - revoltingly ugly interface, but at that time Realplayer was even worse in usability.

On the bright side, this whole business of making "computer software look more like real-world analogues" seems to be over once and for all.
First rule of good UX: Make it work.
On a corporate proxied network I'm getting this response

server=oatpp/0.18.9
code=431
description=Request Header Fields Too Large
message= Can't parse headers

It seems to work okay on the non-corporate network
this doesn't really whip the llama's ass at all to be frank
Your theory should apply to any huge city where drinking is not taboo.

I've visited a few huge cities in North and South America dozens of times over my lifetime. I do not remember ever seeing people in non-ragged suits sleeping rough. Is anyone else's experience different?

If this is specific to Japan, that's worth pointing out, even if the explanation is speculative and may well be wrong.

Any other theories?
Evidence? I don’t think that’s the case. There are plenty of non-commercial snaps with system access, it’s really a question of the nature of the snap. You would want something like Puppet to be able to read and write files all over the system, so the snap declaration and metadata needs to say that. I think the only interaction with Canonical is that they need to review snaps which do have filesystem access to check that it makes sense and ty to spot Trojan horse apps being published that way. It’s not perfect but it’s sensible.
Basically your reputation, if you get fired it looks bad for you.
right, was typo meant 500
> A programmer is harmed by their creation not because it goes against their orders but because it follows their orders to a much greater extent than they were anticipating.

This is theme also explored by Isaac Asimov regarding the Three Laws of Robotics, in short stories such as "...That Thou Art Mindful of Him".
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I see nothing special about package managers
that makes competition undesirable.

The most common rationale I hear for using Snap/Flatpak/AppImage over traditional deb/rpm is that the fragmentation of the latter is burdensome [1].

One of the main claims of Flatpak is "The days of chasing multiple Linux distributions are over. [...] Create one app and distribute it to the entire Linux desktop market." [2]

If you are designing something to solve the problem of fragmentation, and by so doing you increase fragmentation, you've achieved the opposite of your goal.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18215978
[2] https://flatpak.org/
Are you looking for an alternative OCR technology?
I'm not sure that becoming a founder at 45 is likely to be successful. It is surely because successful founders have many failures under their belt that the average successful founder is 45. This implies that stepping out at 45 is not the way to be successful.
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Google and Orange building cable between US and France
There’s a lot of doubt that they’re actually backed by fiat, hence the fluctuations.
Without actual code you will fail after round 1. Even the best salesman can weasel for funding only for so long.

If the product is not innovative or much better than competitors, you will fail in a later round and best exit you can hope for is an acquihire.

This is why many startups fail, their ideas are meh and/or the execution does not follow.
If other languages can exist where pork and pig are the same word, doesn't it prove the opposite?
Are they now? What kind of aspects are you talking about?

Hiring? Ensuring funding? How long can those two last without a truly superior product?
Maybe, but that does not mean a lot of ISPs haven't done that.
It's much easier to learn how not to do this than to answer how to do it!

You cannot rely on the data network, have to cope with all kinds of failure modes and mobile features support. Most companies decide that they will make some attempt to make things secure and live with the risk.
The lack of inspectability, it seems to me, would make quantum computing flat-out unacceptable in a variety of problem domains, including pretty much any decision support system. Not theoretically, so much as socially. In the way nuclear reactors are unacceptably risky to many who accept a far higher death toll associated with roofers falling to their deaths installing solar. Sure nuclear saves lives, but my aunt doesn't understand it and she finds it scary.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/trueusd/

If it’s true that tether is fraudulently printing tethers, then Bitfinex has already pulled one of the largest heists in history.

An important case law regarding these types of digital cash operators would be liberty reserve.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/nyregion/liberty-reserve-...
Tl;dr. Your computer isn't yours, and "We" know better than you, lousy user.

(That's what I took out of the shitty design decision and disgusting justification you wrote. I'll be damned if I have to defend myself against open source apps in some shitty all-in-1 format with fascists at the helm.)
Only if the federal reserve wasn't backed by the U.S. Military and did not have billions of people willing to trade with it's currency.
Sort of, but rather than being the guy posting on the internet the fed gets to draw on the GDP of a pretty big country.

Second point, 1 dollar is not a stable unit of value as viewed by other currencies. This is fine, you're valuing the fed vs currency x's backing resource.
Inspired by one of the links there: dear anybody listening, if you're going to show a bunch of comparison photos/screen grabs, or before/after screen shots, and the like - e.g., http://www.colourblindawareness.org/ - don't put a scroll effect in. Don't put a fade down then fade up effect in. It makes it too hard to see the difference. Just flick instantly between one and the next.

(Possibly related: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/02/15/why-does-adobe...)
I'd like to read more about what's happening in Ethiopia. I wonder if this is linked to the final conclusion of war in Ethiopia & Eritrea; the famine was to a great extent the result of a civil war against the Communist government of the time.
Show HN: Tracking the collapse of Tether at untethered.space
Back in February, I hacked together this little site to show the spread between Bitcoin priced in Tether and Bitcoin priced in USD:

http://www.untether.space/

Until today, it's never gone much beyond 1%; as I write this, it's at 8.4% and climbing.

It's a dead-simple Ruby/JS app with zero server-side storage, hence the lack of historical data. Source code here:
https://github.com/jpatokal/untether
Also, you need USD. Even if every other economic transaction you make is in crypto, you have to pay your taxes in USD. This alone adds quite a bit of demand for fiat.
> "computer software look more like real-world analogues"

Skeuomorphic design. That's the term for it.
Can moonmoons have moonmoonmoons?
I'm a huge fan of IPv6 as it's a huge contributor to ensure the continued openness of the internet. Also, I'm in the privileged position of having a native dual-stack provided by my ISP, so I have native IPv4 and IPv6 both at home and in the office.

And yet, even in this position, I think having IPv6 native inside of a production network isn't absolutely necessary (our production env runs in the RFC1918 space too even though v6 would be available at both ends):

Access to the private production network should all happen over an encrypted and authenticated VPN and all access form the production network to the public network (if needed at all) should go through a filtering proxy server.

Which means that the addressing used in your internal network becomes completely irrelevant and can easily be IPv4.

This only becomes an issue once you need more hosts than the /8 offered by the 10/8 RFC1918 network, but the days when you need (and can afford) more than 16.7M nodes on a cloud computing provider are probably still a ways off.

If you want instance level IPv6 in order to access an instance directly or in order to access a resource directly, you're probably doing something wrong.

Then again, as services become v6 only (which will still be a few years off) and you need to access them from your production network, then your frontend proxy will of course need access to the v6 network. At that point, yes, instance level v6 becomes necessary too.
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Google doc is blocked by default by our corp proxies as well
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Is there some general overview of these "Blunder Years" of UX design? When Steve Jobs came back to Apple there were numerous examples of this, e.g. the volume control in QuickTime player being shown here, which was horribly annoying to use since it used an on-screen design that only made sense for a physical device.

They also had a note taking / desktop book program at some point that emulated the look of a physical book to the detriment of its UI.
if you rate-limit, you should probably be rate-limiting on the /64 prefix and those are about as hard to get as individual v4 addresses.
> where are all the state-sponsored projects to green the Sahara and the Arabian peninsula?

Saudi Arabia actually had a number of projects for this kind of thing, but they were focused on dairy and grain intensive farming propped up by "fossil water" that was either extracted from wells or from oil-fuelled desalinisation. It didn't last long.
"But why do we look to Orwell’s vision when Huxley’s rings truer?"

'We' here apparently is the US as I think China, with its social credit system, looks more like the society from 1984.
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Well now they're baking in things like piracy and fake news into the mix and I've noticed a loss in quality for regular search results over the years.
You could very well argue, however, that many of the issues with C are symptoms of a lack of some specific features. To work around that, you need just as much discipline (to avoid, for example, buffer overflows) as you would need not to misuse the features that aren't there.

That's more or less the reason I too don't find "multiple people projects may have problems with discipline" to be a good argument for anything. That's a culture issue and pretty much orthogonal to any technical factor of your environment, including the choice of programming language.
I think it would help with clarity - too much nesting in a function can mean it's doing too much and might need splitting into several functions
I'm not surprised, it's an APL family language.
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How does this square with the quote under following link from today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18217952?
In a problem that lacks definitive truth you have to apply subjective thinking. That is all you have left. And the wind farm is a good example of that. There is no scientific truth that means we have to care about threatened species, or the effect on tourism, or even climate change. Deciding to care about those things is a subjective decision. If you look at things from a higher level of abstraction the certainty just fades away.

I don't see the point in defending the humanities as some utilitarian tool. It is always a good idea to become more educated, and to try and understand the world a little beter from different perspectives.
This was also an age of people getting on computers for the first time. The brushed aluminum feel, the drawers, static buttons, etc. were all to make it feel like a physical media device since the target users were used to using those to consume media in the 90's.
...and most importantly of all, buttons that actually look like buttons.
Classic: https://gizmodo.com/5849940/ugh-god-why-apple-is-making-ever...
Anyone remember WinAmp radio and TV? Well, "TV"....we all knew what that was used for mostly :D
> ISPs are happily using CG-NAT

I wonder how "happily" they are using CG-NAT. NAT is inherently stateful and keeping track of that state becomes more expensive as the amount of hosts behind the NAT is increasing.

Running CG-NAT at scale is complicated and resource-intensive, so I'm totally willing to imagine that it's better long-term value for a carrier to switch to IPv6 than to expand CG-NAT.
If you like without fail I'd also recommend internet history podcast http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/
This is why I so love the millenials' habit of communicating via hieroglyphs when we have perfectly good words.
Some background: the chance of getting pick-pocketed or molested is much smaller than in other cities of a comparable size worldwide, and the Japanese practice a form of privacy where such embarrassing scenes are visible but not seen.

Those guys will wake up in the morning, purchase a ready-made set of clean shirt, deodorant, and tie in a shop, and go back to the office.
> If this is specific to Japan

There are several additional factors:

- social drinking after work is "the norm" in Japan. Not every day, but several times a week is not uncommon. In large companies it is excepted that you would join such events, since it's pretty much a way to talk about work (and other things) in an informal context.

- alcohol is produced locally and there a very large industry pushing for consumption (and it is advertised everywhere).

- like in many Asian populations, there is a deficiency of the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme among Japanese, so a majority of people can't break down alcohol very efficiently and could get drink after just 2 beers. I have seen that happening over and over again - it's just genetics at play.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1762903/

> Electrophoretic and quantitative studies reveal that 85% of Japanese carry an atypical liver alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH). The frequency of ADH polymorphism is identical with the reported frequency of alcohol sensitivity in the Japanese population. This identity in population frequencies points to a causative relationship between the two phenomena and suggests that alcohol sensitivity might be due to the increased acetaldehyde formation in individuals carrying the atypical ADH gene.
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Would a simple backup/copy of the "charged" database have sufficed?
e.g: backup the db with a 5$ charge, use the credits, restore the database...
Or anything APL-related, really:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565743

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13797797
Thomas Dullien (halvarflake) on security, moore's law and anomaly of cheap complexity. In the talk Thomas discusses the idea why simplicity is important and how increasing complexity increases attack surface.

https://www.err.ee/836236/video-google-0-projekti-tarkvarain...
KDB developers make BIG money. It's an APL-like language and used to analyze financial time-series.
Options or not, salarymen sleeping on the street does seem to be a thing in Tokyo. This is far from the first article I’ve seen about it.

As for an explanation of the behavior, I don’t think that was the point. This photographer is less interested in “the answer”, but is presenting “the question” in a new way. If you found it provocative then it worked.
do you know the difference between Samsung S9 & S9+? Don't let anyone fool you. It's all in here https://momsall.com/major-differences-and-similarities-betwe...
I think both used debt previously to fund stock buybacks because they could not bring in foreign profits without incurring large tax payments. Apple still has more cash it can spend.
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The "ignore your competitors" bit is the part I struggled with the most.
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In Georgian languages we have at least 9 nouns and 64 adjectives for "rain", but each of these denote different kinds of rain (To be honest, most of these words are archaic, belong to regional dialects, or are used by poets only).
Read Hansen's book sometime. There's plenty of direct geological evidence that puts a pretty good bound on climate sensitivity, without depending on computer models at all.

This is because the climate has gone through major changes before, and we can see how much of an initial push it took, and what happened afterwards.
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> Let me make a claim: if the humanities are really a solution for problems created by STEM, all you should need to do is demonstrate the case. Technical and scientific crowds understand problems, and will jump on real solutions.

Technical and scientific crowds understand technical problems. But non-technical problems go completely unnoticed.

Or as one of the actors on the show Silicon Valley wrote:

> As a cast member on a show about tech, our job entails visiting tech companies/conferences etc. We meet ppl eager to show off new tech.

> And they're amazing, wonderful, necessary products, right?

> Often we'll see tech that is scary. I don't mean weapons etc. I mean altering video, tech that violates privacy, stuff w obv ethical issues.

> And we'll bring up our concerns to them.

> They don't even have a pat rehearsed answer. They are shocked at being asked. Which means nobody is asking those questions.
I like RSS very much and use it everywhere I can, but for me the live bookmark feature in Firefox kinda sucked. I use other readers like e.g. Thunderbird.
The Instagram account @shibuyameltdown has been covering people in Tokyo being passed out in public areas for a while now.
> The whole idea of a company is that if I have $100 to invest, I can either lend it to someone else and get interest, or I can build something and get a profit for my effort.

No. The idea of the company is to pay out the $100 to shareholders. You take on debt if that makes more financial sense to the shareholders.

A prime example is AAPL and their dividends. They could repatriate $1 billion from overseas accounts and pay 10% ( or $100 on taxes ) and then pay $900 million in dividends to the shareholders. Or they could keep their $1 billion overseas, borrow $1 billion at 1% interest rate and pay $1 billion to shareholders.

Debt makes sense for corporations because you are able to shift profits to the shareholders and risk/liabilities to the company. Ultimately, that's why companies exist. To shield shareholders from liability and to serve as a vehicle to transfer profits/wealth to the shareholders.
How to get access to paywalled scientific papers?
This article does a good job of drawing parallels between the book and reality in a short amount of time. I feel like the article is just scratching the surface though.

> Television was transforming the news into a rapid and proliferating series of images, a form of entertainment that prized ‘the unreal’ and the ‘more or less totally irrelevant’. You can contest facts, he said, but not images.

Noam Chomsky has some excellent work in this area. It can be very very dry reading, but very
informative. Check out manufacturing consent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

In the same vein and much more entertaining is this video that compares local news channels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI
Agreed, I don't think that BNW is more appropriate for the current world than 1984.

BNW has taken many things to the extreme, especially with regards to the cementing for a class system through destroying anything that's remotely human about our existence. 1984 on the other hand makes people freak out because the idea of truthless-ness and state surveillance and language controls are much more real and close than a forced societal divide.
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