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I have been following development pretty closely on YouTube, although I'm not a backer. I don't think you're right. To me the cycle looks something like:

1) Hack together assets as close to AAA as they can get, on top of a POS tech demo. Enough to show to people and get sales (this is a very Hacker News startup-y technique)

2) Pick one part of the system that "needs to work" by release, hire a few good coders and have them actually write a proper software subsystem

3) Hack together another POS tech demo, with the proper subsystem in place

4) Redo all of the assets that have already been done to use that new subsystem

They've gone through this several times with many many subsystems. It's not clear to me this will ever crystalize into a system that has a certain quality bar it hits across the board. So in that sense you might be right that they should've taken a more top-down high falootin' architecture approach from the beginning.

But that's speculation too. Design is hard, and you generally have to try stuff in order to figure out a large system. Some degree of iteration is necessary. At a certain size waterfall just won't work.

But for sure your characterization of "he's just throwing artists at cryengine" is not correct.
I find it somewhat ironic that a GitHub competitor is using GitHub as it's Git service. I recognize they probably want the community benefits of it... but that likely explains to their potential users why they might also rather use GitHub.
I thought the checklist was aiming to be comprehensive and that the omission of the audits was an oversight.

The one for bitwarden being, as you said, disquieting, makes its omission a little suspicious.
http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ + https://prism-break.org/en/all/ can insulate you.
I wonder what would Apple’s market share be with the whole China iPhone sales wipped out. Funny comment
I want to see a post-incident analysis, like GitHub published: https://blog.github.com/2018-10-30-oct21-post-incident-analy...
> They will mostly be empty zones of players.

They plan to have a complete Sims-like ecology of NPCs, and players will fit into that.
> The difference between him and a Chinese mainlander is at species level.

In computer terms, their hardware (race) is essentially identical in capability, disregarding minor individual defects. At the software level (culture) there is tremendous variance.

I often wonder what percentage of these disagreements are because of a misunderstanding of what level of the system is being discussed &/or that fact that substantial numbers of people don't/can't differentiate between race & culture.
From the screenshots at https://gogs.io , it looks like the UI was directly taken from GitHub. See https://gogs.io/img/screenshots/2.png in particular. The watch/star/fork UI is exactly the same, the branch picker, the choice of HTTPS vs SSH to the top right of the file list, the book with a bookmark icon. This definitely looks like a GitHub clone, not a git host that happens have a similar UI because it's solving the same problem.
If you did something wrong more than once and gave the same apology that statement would make total sense. The first time though is unfair and kind of selfish minded.
Primality testing is actually much easier than integer factorization thanks to Fermat's "little" theorem. Methods based on this theorem, including the Lucas-Lehmer test for Mersenne primes, can identify prime numbers on classical computers in polynomial time. However, factorization is not possible with this method.
It isn't those that got kicked off that are boycotting. It is those that had students or collaborators get kicked off, that are now refusing to use Slack.
I ignore the "sheets" numbers because those are completely defined by the manufacturer. The number they can't lie about is "sq. feet", so that's what I use to compare packages and brands.
The Indian journalist jailed for a year for Facebook posts

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46631911
Foodnome, the airbnb for food
At 31, am I past-the-post to some extent?

ROFLMFAO. No, you have barely even made it to the starting line. Do whatever you think best, but don't use age as an excuse one way or the other. You're not too old, you're not too young, you're just you.

Wherever you are, start there.

Regarding the PTC and the IPO... ask yourself how confident you are that they are really going to IPO. It's not unheard of for companies to use the carrot of a pending IPO - that somehow, mysteriously, is always "just a few more months" away - to keep employees from jumping ship. This works right up to the point that they admit they're broke and lay everybody off...

And even if the IPO happens in 2020, make sure you understand just how much you stand to benefit. Of course you can't predict exactly what price the stock would open at, but you can probably use historical data to get a ballpark idea. Figure out how much stock you own, or have options on, how much purchasing any options would cost, etc., and see if there are weird provisions around vesting / selling your stock, that would lock you in there for X more years, etc., etc. All of that should factor in to deciding if staying at PTC is really in your best interest or not.
> There's no authoritarian nonsense, no matter how virulent, which lasts forever and is immune to general good sense.

Hitler was only in power for a decade or so and did a lot of damage to say the least.
Government partially shuts down for 3rd time in a year
XP was left out of Scrum “to keep the model simple”
Pity the rentier.
On x86 the effects of misalignment haven't been "hefty" since at least the 486, when they first got cache and everything within a cacheline would be just as fast --- don't forget that x86 never had aligned instruction bytes either.
Just because the terms were in widespread use doesn't make them correct; the prefixes "kilo" and "mega" had well defined meanings long before the computer industry tried to redefine them. I side with the disk makers on this one.
Fiber is very much the same as lenses.

(Well, the fiber you’re thinking of is. Fluorescent fiber is not, but that’s another story.)
Well, that and the fact that two years after the game released it can only run on the most premium hardware because they never paid down their tech debt.
As a Googler I am very satisfied with Blaze (the internal version of Bazel) at work. But I just don't want to manage such a complex beast for my own personal projects. Besides the large amount of dependencies to install for a build tool, it demands me to manually rewrite the build script for almost all third party libraries. At Google someone has most likely done that for me, but outside it, I have to do it myself.
Would Fastmail ever consider verifying signed messages? Authenticity is one of many things gained through using PGP, and implementing it in the Fastmail interface wouldn't lead to the false sense of security that "encrypted" email in the browser supposedly gives.
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That's an awesome point. The poor saps have to hand-waive around axioms within their own field. No way they're going to accept divine interventions and invisible dragons in some other line of work :)
Caveat: I'm also a white male, from a rural part of a southern state that went heavily for Trump. It definitely exists, though I'm not sure it's specific to "white male" as opposed to "white people" (very generally). I've definitely heard "But whites will be in the minority soon" relatively frequently... Countering with "What's wrong with being a minority?" never ends well, from personal experience.
I believe I provided both imperial and metric units for every equation. Maybe I missed one? I'd be happy to correct it if you can point me to the specific instance!
I'll add curvature combs in a future revision. I'll also point out that you can see a curvature plot of the underlying 2-parameter curve family by playing with beztoy.html in the linked github repo, which is one of the main ways I evaluated this.

Higher degree Béziers illustrate the "curse of too many parameters." Yes, they're very expressive, and yes you can have very high degrees of continuity, but it's also easy to make very wiggly or lumpy curves. I don't know of anyone who uses them, certainly not for font design.
How+Trip+Inferences+and+Machine+Learning+Optimize+Delivery+Times+on+Uber+Eats
Your point is that you don't know what an apology is.
Faith in Slack mostly restored.
What's ND?
Well, here in Australia we often used to buy credit for our mobile phones, and the credit was measured in "dollars", as opposed to "minutes". Over time things got inflated to the point where you might pay $50 for "$500" of credit. Then you pay for usage at like 30 "cents" per minute. Of course it costs you much less than 30 actual cents per minute in the end, because "dollars" of credit are not dollars at all.

I don't know whether this ridiculous concept still exists since phone usage is so cheap now that everything except data is unlimited on the only plans I've been looking at, but it was that way for a while.

The US measuring their credit in minutes makes a lot more sense - though having to have credit to receive a text message is pretty bizarre.
Preparing to IPO would be my guess
I put all my money on 2 diversified ETFs and down roughly 20% overall.
I love how companies now market their TVs as "65 inch class" so they don't have to measure exactly 65 inches.
They would also have to completely overhaul their permissions system, as it is extremely complicated and ACL based, whereas slack has much easier to grasp concepts of private channels and public channels, which is fine in the business world.
We're fortunate these DVCS systems, like git, allow us to easily use GitHub and Gogs together; more than "allow", encourage.
Can they read iMessages?
> This is not out of reach for even poorer households.

My point with that statement was more about the image than the reality. Go back to 2002, and ask a legislator—or any childless 40-year-old—"who plays video games." That's the answer they'd give. Yuppies. Children of yuppies. (Then the XBOX hit and it became "college-student yuppies and urban youth." No market shift happened in reality; it was just advertising causing a change in perceived image of gaming as a hobby.)

> households

I really think "households" is a bad way to measure anything about gaming, because the particular way that gaming wasn't mainstream in the 1970s-2000s (besides older people just never having experienced it) was that it was incredibly male-coded.

In 2003, a girl sitting around playing GBA games was still considered to be doing something "tomboyish." It wasn't until the release of the Nintendo DS in 2004 that there was any large-scale availability of games specifically targeted at female demographics. All the home consoles were advertised at boys, and mostly had games for boys (that being the explicit localization strategy of the American branches of Nintendo and Sega through the 90s; it began changing by the early 2000s partly due to the influence of Sony, partly the diminishment of Sega, and partly the reining-in of NoA by Nintendo Japan.)

PC games were more gender-neutral (because PCs weren't advertised at kids to begin with, but in homes as a side-effect of parental usage), but AAA releases targeted at girls were still few and far between. There was... The Sims? That's all I can think of. When I ask the women I know about the games they played in that era—of their own volition, rather than because someone handed them a controller—the only other one they tend to name is Myst. Oh, and DDR, but DDR seemingly wasn't really "a video game" in their minds, in the sense that made them think of themselves as "the type of person who plays video games."
No, but people who did have an email confirmation. You can search not only from domain sent, but from subject and body.
One of these sensors is right outside my balcony (specifically one in West Los Angeles / Santa Monica). I set it up as part of a RAND Corporation study, and I've really enjoyed being able to get hyperlocal data.
Wii Sports was one of the first mainstream games. That's pretty much the boundary of the two eras. Everyone at the time was talking about how the Wii was penetrating all these "mainstream" markets that gaming had never managed to touch before, remember?
I need to start gaming again.
Unless it's an actual trademark, it doesn't count. I'm not sure how dissimilar trademarks have to be to each other, but I know that if a term is too generic it can't be trademarked.
It's interesting to me, to think about how curves like this can be useful in robotic path planning.
Well, there's the whole market of "people who want the game to exist before they buy it".... seems like a pretty big group.
I barely even use facebook right now? Mainly have used because other people in my past hace used it as a point of contact. A thousand dollars that's insane that most people value it that much. Funny thing is most those people I have not heard from in years. So I have no reason to even check on it.
>>bout BSD,MIT,... vs CopyLeft. We can say what we want, but if we just stick to facts, MIT-alike licenses provide more freedom for the final user.

They provide more freedom for the next user but because they allow freedom to be taken away at any point in the chain bsd/mit licenses provide absolutely no guarantees of freedom for the final user.
HipChat is terrible. The only thing it has going for it is that it allows on-prem, where most alternatives do not.
Again you are "explaining" when you should be asking.

> None of the fibers would "look at the moon". Fiber isnt the same as lenses.

I think you meant to ask "how is a fiber different from a lens?" instead of asserting "fiber isn't the same as lenses," which turns out to be completely wrong.

To a physicist, a lens is a shaped piece of refractive medium-- that is exactly what a fiber is. There is no magic inside the fiber; it does not add any photons. You are looking through a shaped piece glass, through which you will see a (possibly very distorted) image of what's on the other side.

In this case, it's the moon that is on the other side. The most you could do is surround your match/ant/whatever with fibers/lenses which are showing the moon on the other side of them. And from this fact it is unavoidable that you cannot make your surrounded subject hotter than the surface of the moon. If you are trying to say anything to the contrary, I'm sorry, but you are Flat Wrong.

Any other configuration of fiber would give you less moonlight than completely surrounding the subject, so it's not going to improve the odds of starting a fire.

> Note too that i said match. Getting tiny bit of a matchhead hot enough to decompose isnt the same as burning an ant.

I think you meant to ask "does the material or shape change anything?" instead of asserting "it isn't the same," which again, in the context of this question, turns out to be completely wrong.

The maxiumum temperature that can be imparted by a lens/mirror system doesn't depend on what it's focused on at all. In the long run, the ant/match/whatever will reach that maximum temperature and not get hotter. From a thermodynamics perspective, it is like putting an object in an oven of a particular temperature-- It doesn't matter if you put in a brick, or a cake, or match, or an ant; eventually they will all be 250 degrees if the oven is set to 250 degrees. In this case, the "oven" is the moon, and it's set to about 120C. A match combusts at about 600C. There will be no combusting of the match by putting it in the moon-oven. Sorry. End of story.

And if I can give some advice: If what you're hearing doesn't make sense to you, it is always safer to ask a question than to blindly assert your gut-guess of how you think it is. Someone who thinks they're an expert but spouts nonsense looks like a fool. Someone who asks a question, though, looks curious, which is smart. These two people have the same degree of knowledge, but one comes off looking much worse than the other. That's why asking questions is better, especially when you don't know the knowledge of the people who are listening.
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Just collect all the photons from the moon using solar panels (moon panels?) Store the energy in a battery. When you have a big enough charge use it to light whatever you want. Sure, it isn't practical and it is not what you guys are really talking about, but you can definitely make something hotter than the moon, as long as you are willing to cheat.
Expats comprise less than 1% of the global population, and I doubt the number of international tourists at any given time pushes that percentage much higher. Use a VPN I guess, or better yet ditch Slack.
People confuse Facebook the org with Facebook the workers. Don't confuse the great work it's workers do with the what management decides.
Whoever doenvoted, can you please explain so I know what's wrong ?

To an not-googler this seems a pretty well reasoned argument with not much that seems to be wrong-facts or stupid.
Yeah I've seen that response too. While at megacorp I just stayed off of slack as much as possible.
1080p and 4K aren’t trademarked either. Just because it’s not trademarked doesn’t mean it’s a scummy move to do what AT&T is doing, and is exactly the same as the ancestor comment saying that it would be ridiculous to see “4Ke” TVs.
I don’t buy the thermodynamic argument. Here’s a version I would believe: if you have a gadget that, exposed only to the sun and to empty space, heats some target hotter than the sun, then that gadget must not work if you take away the empty space part. This is because your gadget could be used to drive a heat engine, which is impossible without a temperature difference, and the sun is more or less a blackbody emitter. Lenses and mirrors aren’t magically taking advantage of the cold parts of the sky, so there you go.

But the moon is not blackbody, and I think the whole argument falls apart. Here’s a thought experiment: go stand on the moon, and assume the moon is made of rock that diffusely reflects, say, half of the indicent 500nm light. Stand somewhere that’s in shadow, so you can’t see the sun. Wrap a piece of paper and some air in perfectly insulating, perfectly reflecting material, except that the material lets 100% of 499-501nm light through, but only on the moon side. The target will be in a bath of 499-501nm light at 1/2 the intensity (energy density per unit volume) of the sun, which is far more than half the temperature of the sun. It’ll catch fire after a while.

Now do the same experiment on the Earth, at night, with lenses to bathe it in moonlight from all sides. Fire! So I claim that lenses+mirrors+filters can start a fire with moonlight.

Another interesting question: can you use a luminescent solar concentrator or other fluorescent material to pull this off without taking such egregious advantage of the spectrum of moonlight? These types of materials can violate conservation of étendue.
It's sad how bad bay area air is at night. Fireplaces seem fun, but really don't work in California valleys.
Does an IPv6 world prevent IP-based location sniffing?

It seems odd to me that IPs can still be used to (semi-)reliably determine a client's geographical location.

With the immensely larger address space that comes with IPv6, does that give the Internet a chance to completely sever the link between geography and IP address? Or do we still have issues with aggregating routes in a space-efficient way?
I am not very familiar with build systems but how difficult would it be to make one that wraps the native ones whenever and provides modern features, unlike make.
> Just because the terms were in widespread use doesn't make them correct

That's exactly what makes uses of words correct. The disk manufacturers adopted a different usage than had theretofore been used in the computing industry (including previous usage by the same diskmakers!) deliberately to exploit consumers understanding of the preestsablished usage to create a false impression on which buying decisions would be made; it was, in simple terms even if legal laibility was escaped, a deliberate fraud.
Interesting article. Right in many places. Wrong (possibly) in main conclusion.

Entropy argument - correct in the sense that using radiation from black body we cannot use lenses to heat another body to the temperature higher than original. Easy to understand why - the first body has a temperature, radiation has the same temperature, if we apply the radiation to another object it will not heat up more than the radiation's temperature.

Also the argument about impossibility of concentrating light into a dot is correct (although even if it were possible we still would not be able to get higher temperature - light would not be energetic enough for that). The important part is - we could concentrate light into a dot only if it consist of parallel rays - i.e. only for an object that is infinitely far away.

Moon surface temperature argument is incorrect. A body at 100 degrees Celsius does not radiate in visible spectrum, so the light we see is not produced by Moon's temperature. It is reflected Sun light. So Moon's temperature doesn't matter. Moon surface does absorbs some light, changing spectral composition from about 5.7kK (Sun's surface temperature) to about 4kK. So we should consider moon to be a part of optics not emitter.

Hence the question is now - can we concentrate moon light enough so that intensity at the concentration point is higher than thermal loss into environment (only then we will be able to raise temperature in the concentration area enough for combustion - remember that light is "hot" enough for this)? I don't have answer for that - need to do calculations. What can be a deal breaker? Remember that Moon is much closer than Sun, so rays come to us even less parallel, so the area into which we can concentrate light reflected from the Moon is even larger than the Sun's, so together with lower intensity of light from Moon we might have trouble achieving the necessary intensity for combustion. However big enough lens probably will work.

And yes - I'm a physicist by training.
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> Unless it's an actual trademark, it doesn't count

It doesn't need to be a trademark to be used to deceive customers in a fraudulent manner.
Another way to see this is to observe that the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic would be wrong (or more difficult to state succinctly) if 2 were not considered prime or if 1 were considered prime.

For example, if 2 were not prime, it would be impossible to represent the number 256 (or the number 123456) as a product of primes.
To be clear, my recommendation is to shadow 1-2 CEOs a year.
I agree. Recoil or no recoil, the bullet moves the same in the reference frame of the rifle. Proportionally to the masses ratio, the bullet acceleration is about 500x-1000x the rifle acceleration, thus the speed of rifle reference frame in the recoil case at the moment of the bullet leaving the muzzle would be just about 3-6ft/s - an order of magnitude difference vs. claimed 20ft/s.

Edit: forgot about the powder which as hot gas is subjected to pretty much the same acceleration as the bullet. With the powder being about 2-4x bullet mass it makes the rifle only 150x-300x heavier than the [bullet+powder] and that brings us to the 20-10ft/s of the rifle recoil speed, ie the article claim pretty closely matches the theory.
I think you'd need a different argument to show that's impossible, since the surfaces of stars are very hot, and their light is unmediated.
That's... not how the direction of time works.

By that argument regret seems impossible. Some nuance is probably lost here, to be fair.
A lot of business would go bankrupt. And I’m not talking about adtech, but advertisers. There’s tons of them, from small mom and pop style to big companies that depend on ads to get customers. And no, they aren’t scams.

HN crowd doesn’t accept that, but most people here have no idea about how business works.