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I believe he meant the game engine itself: Those new levels were all designed using modern Doom engines, you can see even Romero is uzing gzdoom for screenshots etc. So they usually have a lot more corners and polygons than the doom maps devised at the time the game went out for the first time. It'd probably struggle to render in software.

That's what I understood from it tho.
Hi William,

This may be true - but you do still normalize users to the practice of entering their banking login credentials into a web form which is sent to a third party (i.e. yourselves).

In addition I believe the developer gains access to the users' bank transaction history - not just for the duration of their login session, but long-term, which is likely something that users aren't fully aware of in most cases.

Am I mistaken about those?

That is not 'selling' in the historically-used sense of the word, but we are now in a world where 'personal cost' means something different - especially when it comes to services which harvest personal data.
It is what Apple has been doing with ARM, but as he said there's only about 10 companies doing this, compared to the hundreds (thousands?) who take the core directly from ARM. Even big players like Qualcomm seem to be moving to just requesting tweaks to the Cortex cores.

It's much, much easier & cheaper to take the premade core rather than developing your own. But your own custom design gives you the ability to differentiate or really target a specific application. See Apple's designs.

Read the Anandtech article, it goes into more detail on the license types. There's also the newer "Built on Cortex" license: https://www.anandtech.com/show/10366/arm-built-on-cortex-lic...
Plaid is a great idea, but the implementation worries me. My understanding is that, for most banks, you give Plaid your username and password, and Plaid scrapers on their servers log into your online banking account. Even worse, Plaid obfuscates this behavior from users by replicating their banks login window and making it appear that you are logging directly into your bank.

I'm not sure how to feel about this, because I understand that banks' lack of open API access is the central problem. But it seems irresponsible to present Plaid as a secure solution, when its login system is technically a phishing page.

I think a much cooler, probably safer, solution would be a mobile SDK that runs the scrapers directly from the user's phone, instead of on Plaid's servers.
I used godaddy in 2010-2011 for domains. no problem with them. ymmv
>It was 4 consoles fighting for attention around that time: Sega Dreamcast Nintendo 64 Microsoft Xbox Sony PlayStation 2

Yes and no. N64 was 3 years earlier. PS2 was a full year later, Xbox/Gamecube were two years later.

I've always been confused how Dreamcast didn't win a that fight. The previous three rounds of console launches were heralded by improved graphics technology and immediately took over the market (1990 SNES/Genesis, 1994 Playstation/Saturn, 1996 N64). Dreamcast came out when nothing relevant had come out for 3 years, with a generation better graphics and a 1-2 year head start on competitors.
I personally have learned more about the supply chain for various big tech firms. I have learned that something like what the original story described is possible, in that USA-based firms have no reliable way to prevent such hacking. That doesn't mean I believe Bloomberg's version, but then again I rarely do. I'm just not in such a hurry to believe SuperMicro's version either... We don't have to act as if we know what really happened. I don't see why anyone would be so sure that GP's speculation above about the State Department is unfounded either.
Not exactly. Presumably almost all imperfect replications lead to dead ends (or we'd all be dead). Also, because they transmit poorly from host to host, even if one did evolve, which might be impossible, it'd probably die when it's host did.

Given that each human replicates each protein many millions of times over the course of their life, and that there have been several billion humans alive, if that were possible we'd probably have experienced it by now and again all be dead.
Not trying to defend DuPont or anything. But I think the simplest explanation here is not that there is some conspiracy or agenda like the headline implies - but rather that DuPont has been simply developing new compounds and materials, finding markets for them and improving use cases for them in various industrial applications where they bring unique utility (which they absolutely do).

In that process there has been gross negligence regarding burying, hiding or dismissing data of these compounds' potential to impact human health and broader environment. But this move to expand into water filters is simply them taking their skill set as a company and using it to grow in a new and expanding market: providing impurity free drinking water.
Shut up with your stupid “innovation”. Your innovation is just another dumb idea.

“Laws against stripmining are just another road block for innovation.”

Just shut up already. Shut. Up.
> In the case of media companies is, precisely, by getting the story right.

Strongly disagree. Media companies make money by publishing stories that people want to hear about.
If they were to publicly say they were wrong then suddenly that would be News the way the original reporting was. If they don't then only specialty publications will cover the failure to pan out.
I use JIRA in conjunction with Confluence in my teams software process. Confluence holds the requirements and specifications. The project starts there and work on the specification is partitioned into JIRA tasks.

So I do not have this issue with macro and micro views of a project.
A B testing is being done to death here.

Scooters end up being "left for dead" if they are too far away and the battery is dead.
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Edit: I stand corrected, I didn't think you get full account number access but you do. Leaving original comment below.

They don't expose bank numbers though, that's kind of the point. Developer access is all tokenized.

That said, plaid does give you access to tons of detailed financial transaction data, and it's easy for companies to tie this to PII in their own systems, and I'm sure many of those companies have less robust security than plaid. As a developer, I thought "Wow, you can get so much data through plaid!" but then as a user I would refuse to ever use a plaid integration because I know how much data it gives them. Furthermore, I don't believe the average user really realizes just how much data they are giving up.

I agree with you, though, it really is similar to the Facebook API issue. All it would take is a third party company packaging data in a way to use it to target political ads and then you've got 60 Minutes exposes all over the place.
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figo too perhaps
Thanks for speaking up alehul; for what it's worth, I think it can often be interesting to later reflect on these moments of apparent shame and embarrassment, especially in the context of attempting to speak truth to power.

Accountability and transparency is important long-term; as is questioning possible abuse or misuse of power. Don't be afraid to continue to do so!

Also, always use Hanlon's razor, but it's getting harder and harder to tell genuine conversations from stage-managed ones online, unfortunately. It's the logical extreme of pg's article 'The Submarine'[0].

[0] - http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
And I’m guessing a lot of people here conflate simplifying for a mainstream audience as getting it wrong because they’ve omitted a lot of details.

Mind you, simplifying with a degree of accuracy is difficult and top writers like those with the Economist do it better than most. With tech stuff, I find more poor and incomplete explanations than I do outright errors. Mind you, back when I provided commentary for a lot of news stories, there were some reporters I always dreaded calls from because I knew steering them in the right direction was going to take an hour out of my life.
The Elixir core oddly was my first taste of an Erlang project. I'm amazed at how the ecosystem and language has expanded since 2011.
Jose Valim is a very personable person and thriving code ecosystems are built around individuals like that.
One was also the author of the fake NSA Heartbleed exploit story, which Bloomberg stood by: https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/104901890298483507...
Am I the only one that expected an article about Pixar?
It's up to SuperMicro to sue for libel.
Of course not. But one shouldn’t repeat untrue facts, especially when they come from a source with an agenda.
Finchley?
I'm afraid if the article mentioned all these issues, that would be proper journalism.

But no. This guy's tea getting cold is much more important topic to concentrate on.
> I am talking about after passed, the intent matters very little.

The intent matters precisely because of how the law is going to be enforced when passed.
SuperMicro, Apple, Amazon, and others could sue Bloomberg.

But they didn't.

I guess if you sue every news outlet for Rumours then Apple would be basically suing everyone. My problem is, why Apple and Amazon has such as "restrained" action to Bloomberg. May be the story isn't true, but something do smells fishy to me.
Correlation != causation. The fact that most newspapers aren't lucrative doesn't mean they don't value profit.
I spoke to a young guy recently, who is doing a graduate/rotation with one of of the big US banks.

He was excited for the rotation in one of the (several) "moonshot divisions," with a goal of 10X-ing the bank in theory. I told him that I hope _giant bank_ doesn't have 10X growth in it, but...

... I think that any truly disruptive idea for fintech/banking is likely to be of the "turn a billion dollar company into a million dollar company" variety.
I think this is a really good point. While I like the article's focus on depth, and thinking about the small stuff is important, saving a few bytes on headers is going to be blown out of the water by all the images, JS, CSS, and 3rd-party pixels being loaded. "Profile before optimizing" applies here too.
after reading the article, half of that is for voluntary layoffs? seems like worse than the market is Verizon's rush to cut costs instead of actually putting their acquisitions to work?
Fair enough. I'm not really familiar with the appeal.
> What is so bad about the implementation?

Several things, but I'll be brief. Basically the same problems its predecessor had: lack of enforcement, inconsistent enforcers across countries, subjective enforcement, attempts at global internet governance, and not providing substantial benefit compared to the costs. They took those implementation failures and instead of scaling back and doing a measured approach to understand what went wrong, they exacerbated it by adding more burdens on businesses and increasing scope chilling many businesses into spending money out of fear of compliance or regionalizing their online presences. All of that with hardly any practical effects makes it a clear net negative, and couple that with the fuck-with-the-global-internet mandate they were given and we've ushered in a scary internet big brother, cheering the whole way. All to prevent tracking and data sharing. Compare the harms, compare the results, compare the costs, and it becomes clear that while we all want the implementation to achieve its goals, in practice it is more bad than good.

You should be wary of using your personal business anecdotes to justify impositions on the rest of businesses. The "I can't see any problem means there aren't any problems" is not an inclusive mindset.
Just don't try to cancel your subscription ... Suddenly they become impossible to communicate with.
Sega's dev kit included recordable GD-ROM discs and a drive that could write to them.
I was an earlier believer in FxOS and while it made huge mistakes, I don't think it was a waste of time.
A lot of the work that went into getting Fx running well on bottom-of-the-barrel specs (256MB RAM, 4GB flash, 1GHz single CPU etc.) I would argue we still see gains from today.
They also helped pioneer Web APIs, improve web permissions, and even useful web tools were made for FxOS that could be used for Fx on Android. Hell, even Google thought the main ideas were solid - look at ChromeOS!
A fantastic write-up of FxOS is written about here: https://medium.com/@bfrancis/the-story-of-firefox-os-cb5bf79...
I think it's more a matter of a 386 being old and slow, and modern WADs being developed for and tested on newer and faster systems.
Whatever this thing is or has been for you, how do you distinguish between a path you should pursue or a dream that is best left as a dream?
Just because you've contributed an infinitesimal amount to a road doesn't necessarily mean you have a right to it, just as how I don't have a right to drive a tank around because my taxes are funding it. Taxes are not the 1:1 transactional relationship that it's commonly conceptualized as - it's part of the whole social contract, and different groups benefit differently.
This is one time I applaud eminent domain to crush a billionaire, let the poor fly their noisy drones all over the rich peoples parties for blocking their access . . .
I loved Mr Nobody as a teenager, and I still think the overall concept is great, but when I watch as an adult, I can't help but cringe at a lot of the scenes. the acting is just so overwrought. maybe I've watched it too many times.
The Euler spiral seems very similar to a curve I was generating in a stepwise manner while doing self driving car work.

I was trying to generate the path the vehicle would follow if you were driving at a constant speed, and start turning the steering wheel at a constant rate. The full curve would then see you holding that angle, then returning the wheel to center.

After brute forcing this curved portion, I was able to solve a linear algebra problem to determine how far to drive during these straight segments to smoothly enter a parking spot with exactly 3 turns: 2 arbitrary turns, and a 3rd that brings the vehicle to the correct angle.

After brute forcing each combo of the first 2 turns, throwing the path through a weighted fitness function that minimised travel, and penalized reverse moves, while at the same time checking for collisions, it would spit out a very simple and elegant parking plan.
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It would be worth mentioning that the particular journalists behind this story (nevermind Bloomberg as a whole) have been caught pushing nonsense before[1].

On top of that, the story itself has a number of technical implausibilities that render it difficult to believe.[2]

[1]: https://twitter.com/RobertMLee/status/1049617855396933632

[2]: https://www.servethehome.com/investigating-implausible-bloom...
I was in college about this time; did a lot of programming on the Apple //e. I didn't have one, but the college I attended had a lab full of them in the business department, and a lab full of boring green-screen IBMs in the computer science department. What can I say, I like color. I wrote a bunch of Apple code that is long gone and not lamented, and created some RPG materials that I did rescue from the floppys a couple of decades ago.
I will admit radio is not my thing, that works too though and then you can make it a much larger activation key, even just bytes instead of bits would exponentially increase odds of not having an accidental activation which should make it not get set off by a router or microwave and you could probably activate it simply by flying over with a slightly modified cargo or passenger aircraft that looks business as normal but just belches high-power bursts of the activation signal.
You might sum this up with "markets & incentives are hard"
Yes, it was Richard Sackler, former chairman and president at Purdue Pharma (his company still owns a major stake in the company). They produced Oxy under his leadership, arguable contributing in a substantial way to the current opioid crisis. Sackler recently patented a fast-acting form of buprenorphine, a drug used to control opioid cravings.

Truly sociopathic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/09/08/t...
It is easy to say 'didn't even need' - as this misses the huge draw that karaoke devices had in Japan and beyond at the time. Plus VCD had a huge draw across many Asian markets.
These could have been the Dreamcast's 'killer app' in an alternative path.
I’m pretty sure this is a story about a desalination plant in the desert. Made by a company (Dow) which has been making these plants forever, which happened to have merged with DuPont a few years ago.

I mean there’s plenty to be outraged about in the world, and DuPont certainly is an infamous target, but this is clickbait.
I think you mean a secret. I'd be very surprised if you're having LEDs custom made for your application. I'll go ahead and guess it's the Nichia NVSLE21A.
> Reliable newspapers generally don't throw around anonymous government sources

Huh...
Did I miss something, what was the mistake the author was referring to?
Fascinating. Kind of sad that this was ever _considered_.
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> the UK (although not technically EU anymore) seems to have the same unhealthy relationship to work as North America does.

We're still in the EU and I've no idea why you think we are anything like the US in terms of overworking. I've never had a job that required me to work overtime really, sometimes I've stayed behind in my latest job as I got lost in the moment and lost track of time, but usually someone will ask me "Why are you still here?". My manager even told me not to work overtime, as it often hid problems more than anything else.

In fact I don't know anyone in Web Development in the UK that does work overtime. Maybe it's different in London though...
more details please?
why doesn't Mint have is kind of valuation?

I guess I don't understand how they differ, I do get that they both rely on giving your bank credentials to a third party and that they both scrape your financial history.
> At this point I wonder if they should stop protecting their sources on this story and see if that shakes out any truth.

That would be a mistake. Don't just throw your sources to the wolves if you couldn't prove their story.

They should press their sources for proof, or stronger evidence. If they can't find any then they should issue a retraction.
> It was basically deprecated as a file manager, in favour of Dolphin

Well sure, but I saw that more as splitting out the file manager and browser into separate apps, which seems perfectly sensible.

> It started lagging in development efforts. I have not really followed after about 4.2 (iirc), but at that time it already looked fairly dead in the water, at least in the attitudes emanating from the project.

Shrug. It was always a shoestring project in terms of how many developers they had, but the browser kept working well, was my experience.
I have my own issues with Plaid, but I think you’re reaching a bit here. Everything Plaid does is opt in by the end user. They’re not selling data unbeknownst to the user (assuming co-founder above is being genuine), the user is giving another service permission to use their data.

As for bank logins...that’s been around since long before Plaid. But I agree there must be a better way. Though I don’t have any great practical ideas.
Ask: Why there are no discussions on tech stacks?
Previously, there were many discussions offering insights about many technologies.

But these days, no one talks about any webframework or ORM here on Hacker News.

Is it being censored? How are people building startups these days, what frameworks and technologies are they using?
But since its enforcement can be completely contrary to the intent, intent only matters to the enforcers if they want it to matter. The actual enforcement, whether intended or not, is what really matters.
I would have said that "gorgeous ASCII particle effects" was an oxymoron, before I saw Cogmind. https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2014/03/particle-effects/
In what sense do you think I'm being hyperbolic? I'm pretty sure I mean every word of what I wrote literally.

(Though perhaps "authoritarian" would be a better choice of word than "totalitarian"; I mean it only in the broader sense of "infringing unjustly on individual freedom" and not in the stricter sense of "mandating total subservience to the state" that a Google 'define:' search yields as the first result. I thought it was correct to use "totalitarian" in the former sense, but don't have time to confirm; if I'm wrong, and that word choice is what you take issue with, then I'll concede that it was an erroneous word choice and I should've written "authoritarian" instead.)
The general case of hardware being backdoored is believable, but the problems come down to, not just the lack of any kind of corroborating evidence, but the nature of these specific claims themselves having some hard-to-believe holes in them.

https://www.servethehome.com/investigating-implausible-bloom...

Basic informational hygiene is that the claim is garbage until proven otherwise, "credibility" notwithstanding. There is not only not a single positive reason to believe this story, there is mounting evidence that it should not be believed.
> es lint style tool that allows experts to share their best practices via plugins,

Have you seen gometalinter? Its defaults are way too computationally expensive for me, but it brings together reports from a lot of different linters.

https://github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter#supported-linters
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Ask HN: Advanced free math courses online with exercises?
I wonder if someone can help me find free math courses online that comes with exercises? I have been going through all the math courses Khan Academy offers, https://www.khanacademy.org/, but their material ends with basic calculus so going beyond that the site is of no help.

I appreciate sites that tracks your progress and has lots of statistics and points you can score. Even simple sound effects when you get answers right is something that makes a big difference in how fun the site is to use.

Are there any such sites? I don't care much about the video content as long as it has exercises organized in some way. Right now the topic I'm learning is abstract algebra but I'm also trying to find online exercises for other advanced math topics. I.e I want something exactly like Khan Academy but more advanced.
Yep, I was thinking of the original WebForms.
I really feel for you here. And I think you're right that this comes from deep weakness at the top. The investors want to get in on the Silicon Valley money. The founders channel the Silicon Valley hype. But once you've started pretending you are a genius who will make billions, you can't really switch to the sort of humility that it takes to really get things done well. So the whole company turns into an extension of the sham performance of the founders.

E.g., really great people I know are constantly sweating effectiveness. They look at outcomes. They want to be sure they're having the desired impact on customers, on the company, on its people. Plenty of mediocre people focus on metrics, on following the rules, on seeking efficiency. Those aren't intrinsically bad, but can turn that way when the proximate measures don't align with outcomes. But the really scary ones I've met focus on appearance. They want butts in seats, the later the better. They create artificial deadlines and dramatic launches. They look at metrics and find ways to manipulate them with no regard for actual outcomes.

If those fools were only harming themselves, I'd be ok with it. But when they harm others, often hundreds of others over the course of their companies, it's truly enraging.