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agreed

I've been to several game jams where I see amazing prototypes come up in 24-48 hours where people use free or really cheap $5-$40 asset store assets

https://www.google.com/search?q=unity+assets+for+prototyping

It's arguably one reason why there are a glut of games. Not only do engines like Unity and Unreal make it easy to get started but their asset stores have starter kits for almost any type of game. FPS, 3rd person platformer, racing, tower defense game, 2D platformer, etc there's a kit that you download and just start skinning.

https://assetstore.unity.com/search?q=category%3A90&sc=templ...
If you are in the Rochester NY area, go to the Strong Museum of Play. They have this arcade game plus many many others - all still in playable condition. Plus their collection of video games is amazing - all the way to the beginnng of the history.

http://www.museumofplay.org/collections/video-and-other-elec...
Wish the trial was at least 30 days (and more documentation on the API). Not pointing fingers here, but please don't let us turn HN into Betalist.
>If you're an adult thinking in terms of an abstract blueprint of a weapon..

You are probably not making mines. I don't know. It makes perfect sense to me the kind of mass murdering sociopath capable of working on such a device would find it perfectly ok to target children.

Only one physicist quit the Manhattan project iirc. Maybe the indiscriminate nature of mass murder is not such an irksome burden for a weapons designer or distributor. Maybe the people that find themselves in that line of work fully understand the risks but just don't care.
I think that input from someone else with more experience in the startup and VC world would be invaluable, but I'm not sure how to build the relationship or connections that would be needed. The ones I have right now are with people whose VC firms I'd like to raise money from in the future, so I can't really tap those for help getting out of a rut.

I spent $4,000 to get executive coaching, and initially felt much better from not being isolated working on these challenges alone. But it ended up being more hand-wavey than practical. If you have any suggestions for connecting with the right people, I'd be quite grateful.

Thanks for taking the time to offer feedback.
Yes, the user can upload a certificate via CPANEL manually using a service such as Zero SSL; but bluehost does those automatically & there's no action needed for updating the certificate every 3 months (as is the case when done via cpanel) in VPS.
The last time I bought a new car for myself, I had a pre-approved loan from my bank in hand.

The dealership swore up and down they could beat that deal.

Three hours later and they finally gave up and went ahead with our pre-approved loan.

Pissed me off to no end that they made us wait that long before they gave up trying.
I'm very interested to hear about your call centre project.
And that’s not really a good thing. Windows is so full of hacks that it is bloated and impossible to maintain. Apple has been able to port the base of MacOS to phones, tablets, watches, tv devices, etc. MS can barely make Windows run well in a Docker container.

Edit:

If anyone thinks this is just me being facetious, they need to read Raymond Chen’s blog with entries about all of the hacks they had to do to keep badly written programs from breaking.
2019 security forecast: Cloudy and unsettled, with a chance of gloom
I appreciate the feeling this point of view is based on, but whenever I see it, I can't quite see where it's going. I don't see many people claiming there is no amount of factual truth available now or that there can be none found in the future. The problem seems more to be that many people use the subject as a justification for some laterally related ideological attack - against a race or against a politically opposed group of people. As though being able to prove that a race is more/less intelligent than another by some meaningful metric is somehow an ideological win. That's where I perceive most of the noise to be coming from.
I gotta say that Star Wars is one of the few games that didn't benefit from a sitdown version. Seat distance wasn't adjustable, right?
A very fun pure CSS animation framework
I would like to see examples of this effect in advertising
Yes, all constrained optimization problems can be converted to unconstrained problems. For example, consider:

minimize f(x)
subject to x \in C

Let g(x)=f(x) if x \in C and infinity otherwise. Then

minimize g(x)

has the same solution as the original constrained problem. However, this conversion often conceals some of the structure of the original problem which can be exploited to solve the problem more efficiently.

Solving point problems as you have called them typically involves solving a sequence of least squares problems, which are simple to reason about and computationally efficient to solve. Solving a calculus of variations problem typically involves solving an integral or partial differential equation. Although there are theoretical similarities in practice they are pretty different.
Exactly right. I negotiated hard on both houses I bought and pretty regularly (as a percentage of transactions) negotiate on Craigslist or Ebay type purchases. I've negotiated salary at every job I've taken after my first one. Many (perhaps more than half) of my business contracts are also negotiated as well.

You don't have to negotiate these things if you're willing to take the other side's initial offer; it's probably financially materially in your favor to not do that though...
They’re quibbling over basically nothing, making a purely us vs them grandstand. It’s about $1.3B vs $5B in border security funding. Yeah I think a wall is dumb, not least because I’m not sure which side of the rio grande they plan to put it on. This is a new point of contention though, I’m not sure prior to Trump Democrats and Republicans disagreed a whole lot on immigration or border security at all. How much mileage of fencing did the Obama administration put in? In 2011 he declared it “basically complete.” They found a difference the public cares about right now and seized on it for all they’re worth.

This reminds me of the futurama episode with the clones running for president: A: “your 10c titanium tax goes too far” B: “well I say your 10c titanium tax doesn’t go too far enough!”
It could be a time factor. That was published in 2006. "An introduction to optimization and to the calculus of variations" is published in 2017 https://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/mazari/documents/Cours_Pristin...
I wouldn’t design weapons for the US government today, but if we were facing another Hitler and another WWII-era Germany, along with Japan? Remember that we wouldn’t have the benefit of hindsight and know that Hitler would shoot himself in the foot with the Russian front and wasting resources on his insane genocide. The Manhattan project might be one of the most prominent exceptions to the sweeping generalization you’re making. It’s also unhelpful and unwise to frame people you don’t like or understand as sociopaths, or crazy.
Not the poster, but there are dozens of speech to text solutions that can do an OK-ish job on phone calls. Voicebase, Google Speech, Speechmatics, Amazon Transcribe just to name a few.

What problem are you trying to solve?
I don't think they are asserting that shareholders never can successfully sue companies, just that a company making a business decision that doesn't maximize profit is not something shareholders can successfully sue over.
It’s going to be an amazing world briefly when poor people are super smart and resistant to measles when rich kids aren’t.
a) this is not the same problem. The second equation you suggest could have a different minimum than the first, e.g. if f(x) goes to negative infinity but only when g(x) != 0.

b) because this is a much more complex topic, for which you need to know optimization first anyways.
“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.” - Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The author represents a classic Chinese example of confused identity, one who has made his fortune in one country - yet forgotten his roots. It happens often, also within other societies.
China did not prosper because of him, but rather because of millions of hard-working Chinese people who slugged it off for little or nothing. - africasiaeuro
Even web developers have always used Sublime Text and Notepad++ much more than Atom in Stack Overflow's developer surveys. VS Code overtook Atom in 2017. GitHub completely rewrote Atom's text rendering last year. Both VS Code and Atom are migrating JavaScript code to C++. Maybe performance matters more than you think.

Atom used TextMate language definitions until recently. VS Code uses an RPC protocol designed to let any editor support any language. Emacs just isn't very popular anymore.

What "basic UI features" are easier to build in a browser?
Even more generally: talk in terms of what they do, not what they are.

For example: you did something bad vs. you are bad.

This applies to adults as well. Talking in terms of what people are gets the ego involved and people resist or become neurotic. Correcting mistakes or behaviour is much easier than identity.
- Quitting my job

- Traveling full-time

- Not selling my ETFs (I'm down 20%-30%)
well you're technically solving a different problem in the second case, you won't always get the same answer and sometimes adding that can mess up your solver. However a very common method for handling tricky constraints is by "relaxing" them, by moving g(x) into the cost function, exactly as you propose.

I think trajectory optimization can still be viewed as a point optimization, and it's helpful to understand the fundamentals before jumping into applications.
For coding, I really like Iosevka: http://typeof.net/Iosevka/

It's narrow, so fits more by width; and also quite sharp and easy to read. Plus it has a nice standard set of ligatures for the symbols I use daily.
“Customer centric” is not a strategy. Nobody sets out to “ignore customers” [pdf]
The opposite side of Dunning-Kruger's coin is that "competent students tended to underestimate their own competence" [0]. I have no idea where I fall on the spectrum, I just try to be observant. I read books, and check references when it seems important. The science library at the nearest State University is quite useful for this purpose. I'm working on a model to help me understand what's going on. There are lots of holes in my model, and I'd certainly take myself straight to the hospital if I sustained a sudden injury (broken bone, etc).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#...

I have videos from 2 weeks before my friend ran out of alcohol that show she was not psychotic when on her maintenance dose of alcohol. She was with me the weekend her mother said she "disappeared" -- I'd encouraged her to call her mother, but she did not do so. She ran out of alcohol when I took her home. She called me the next morning. I knew something was happening, but I didn't know anything about "psychosis" at the time. If I'd known then what I now know about withdrawal psychosis, I'd have called her mother right away...

I have the affidavits from the hospital's application for court-ordered evaluation, and the psychiatrists' affidavits from her first prosecution for having a "persistent or acute disability" (ambiguity in statute), even though the statutes distinguish between "mental disorders" and conditions resulting from "drug abuse, alcoholism or intellectual disability." I witnessed her deterioration while getting the finest of the mental health industry's standard of care. I drove five hours to retrieve my friend the day after she was released from a "stabilization" that left her more delusional at the end of the week than at the beginning.

There is a resistance against conventional psychiatry because of the field's long history of harmful treatment: Lobotomies, water torture, palliative medications, [edit: electrocution], etc. Robert Whitaker examined the predicament of the "mentally ill" in his first book, Mad in America: https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0786723793

The tragedy of the situation is that the Quakers figured out how to compassionately care for people while they had mental episodes (Ref: Whitaker's book). This was without the benefit of the sciences' contributions to humanity's understanding of our condition. Furthermore, 20th Century Science figured out the physiological considerations behind most so-called "mental" conditions. For some reason, psychiatry didn't incorporate these findings into clinical practice. Whitaker makes the case that psychiatry has been compromised by profiteers in the drug industry in his third book, Psychiatry Under the Influence: https://books.google.com/books?isbn=113751602X

People have rights, even people who are declared to have a "mental disorder", but most such patients have trouble asserting their rights on their own. I had a breakthrough last month, and am now confident that my last 3 years of efforts have not been in vain.

Thank you for reminding me of the importance of humility.
And then we find that mathematicians have wicked senses of humour so use words like “common sense” as a self-deprecatory reference to the decade they spent finding the proof :D
As a user, however, I think MS has it right.
And the developers can call the process test driven development!
design is about solving problems given constraints. flat design is oftentimes (more-so in the past than right now) a reasonable solution for the web, due to constraints related to latency (sending graphics over the wire) and the computational cost of rendering complex graphics/interfaces. from that perspective, flat design makes total sense to me, even if I don't always care for it personally. browsers can't even agree on how to render vector graphics or what falls on CPU vs GPU. projects like pathfinder[1] are sorting some of that out, but we've got a long way to go. flat design is only a very small percentage about aesthetics.

IMO, flat design takes the "best for the most for the least" approach of charles and ray eames (and so many others who followed the same ethos but maybe stated it less eloquently), and perverts "the least" to mean least amount of effort/money for the computer (or, cynically, the designer as well), rather than for the user. it either skews the idea of a design constraint, or highlights problems with the web as a platform. whatever flat design accomplishes, it isn't perfect for all cases, but it isn't necessarily bad, either. we just have to remember that as technologies mature, it's always possible we're designing for constraints that no longer exist.

I say this a lot, but when talking about web design, in retrospect, flash was like future alien technology that got taken away from us. although I understand the attack surface that came with it and why it had to go.

1. https://github.com/pcwalton/pathfinder
>I’m semi-optimistic about fixed wireless

I might be a bit pessimistic because WiMAX ended up being such a bust. OTOH, it seems as if consumer bandwidth needs are probably plateauing to a certain degree so another generation of wireless can possibly get things to a good enough point for many purposes.
For contrast, this is why I still use Windows primarily at home.
One of the guys who left engineering takes care of the old software, plus some other new stuff.

He's indeed friendlier than engineering.

Might be a good idea indeed to integrate him with his old team, or maybe build a new team around him.
which you have to pay to use in any way, including writing an implementation

You may be misleading here, AFAIK the spec is free to implement (which helped spread its adoption) or else things like this would not exist or be sued out of existence:

https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Corebo...

On the other hand, I agree with you and Linus on the actual spec itself:

https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/efi.html
Part of the point of looking outside was to see if they could see any remains of the seal. Something was preventing it from leaking air, until it did.
my deal only took about 10 minutes. for a late model used car, I wasn't seeing anything much out of the 3.6% range anywhere, so I didn't think they'd be able to do much better. had they surprised me with, say, 2.2%... great, but it's still not a huge savings anyway.
They tried once, but that was a year ago.

You're have a good point. Maybe after one year things will be different.
MS doesn't build sexy products as Apple, but I don't think they're lagging behind in innovation.
You may have been using a cabinet with a replacement monitor. The vector monitors are a bit special, so after their heyday it would have been harder to find parts.
Obvious, he sends SIGBUS to the driver and then someone examines the core dump :-) Forgive me !
We really only have 2 parties here. Sure, independent parties have held office, but the people in the US really only vote red or blue. Other parties don’t really get national coverage either. When it comes time for presidential debates you’ll only ever see 2 parties represented. No one can take a different option seriously because we’re not really giving a different option ground to stand on.
How to Get Your First Job as a Hacker
I don’t understand the reasoning / appeal of a new national sales tax for half of the new funding, as opposed to making this financed through payroll taxes exclusively. Maybe it’s to emphasize the 8% cost savings right off the bat to get private companies on board, but man, solving the escalating cost problem is a gift on its own. And we have already done the dance of trickle down, how about we directly deliver cost relief to the worker one time...
>By downloading any of the UEFI Specifications, you acknowledge that no license, express or implied, is granted to you to distribute, additionally reproduce, implement or otherwise use for any purpose (other than to read only) the UEFI Specifications, and that all rights, title and interest in and to the UEFI Specifications, including all intellectual property rights of any type whatsoever, are owned by the UEFI Forum, or subject to rights granted to the UEFI Forum.

Quote from the link above
With you on capacitive controls (other than touchscreens). Very often terrible, useless garbage from a UX perspective. From other perspectives they're great: can be cleaned perfectly and easily, and has no potential for mechanical failure. But none of that matters if they just aren't useable X-)
Good ol' Hanlon's Razor
If you're going to produce a reasonable-sized batch of anything electronic, I'd strongly recommend:

a) doing some reading on design for manufacturing

b) getting some quotes for PCB assembly services and

c) considering factory-programmed microcontrollers

At quantity 200, you could have simple boards like these assembled for about a buck a piece. Microchip will program 200 PIC or Atmel microcontrollers from the factory for about 20 cents each with a $29 setup fee. Unless you're willing to work for a very low hourly rate, you should probably take advantage of someone else's economies of scale.

https://pcbshopper.com/#assembly

https://www.microchipdirect.com/programming/Tutorial.aspx?mi...
The EU will be less of a stretch after the U.K. Brexits out of membership in the next nuclear superpower, in order to complete their transition to an offshore banking haven in the City. Or am I reading the situation wrong?
Visual Studio for example has gotten so many neat debugging tools in the past few years, while xcode has gotten...dark mode.
There's a lot of good evidence that correlates race and IQ. Even when controlling for as many factors as possible. To the best of our current scientific knowledge, this is a thing.

Obviously this is an excellent source of ammo for racists and likewise those fighting racism see it as a threat. By extension, anyone who speaks of this science must also be racist and the science itself must be wrong because it is racist. And even if it's not wrong, it must be locked in a box, hidden deep in the archives, and never spoken of again. If you're a social scientist and your results come back supporting this, should you publish them, twist them, or burn them?

So it's three powerful forces (racism, equality, and truth) all converging on one extremely hot button topic. It's seems Taleb here is trying to pull out the rug from underneath this perfect quaternity of shit show.
They always say they can't get young people to vote. They always complain about losing to their opponents or what not.

Rolling back copyright is not exactly a great rallying cry for a politician. Out of all of the things that most young voters care about, that’s not on the top of their list.
Wont know that until the pics are in. A thin layer of gas, an atmosphere, is a possibility. Pluto had bit of one.
Why is the avg starting pay for a c++ developer not even on par with java when c++ is a much bigger pain in the ass than java will ever be? I’m not saying java is all great mind you but for the insane complexity of c++ I expect more money dealing with it.
They have laws going back over 700 years:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Marlborough

“The chapters currently valid are c.1, c.4, and c.15 (often referred to as the Distress Act 1267),[10] which seek to govern the recovery of damages ("distresses") and make it illegal to obtain recompense for damages other than through the courts, and c.23 (the Waste Act 1267),[11] which seeks to prevent tenant farmers from "making waste" to land they are in tenancy of.”
Isn't it?

You need to keep recording something new to sell. Before you had to take at least some risks to find something that's both easily digestible and goes with the current fashion, and sometimes good music would sneak in, too. Now you can just run it through some buzzword black box and get back something that should make label the most money with least expense.
Speaking as someone who mostly works remotely (after multiple decades of working in an office most of the time), I have a lot of trouble envisioning coming out of school and sitting in an apartment at my computer all day. Sure, there are consulting jobs where you spend most of your days at a client site or otherwise don't work from an office much. Perhaps had I had a job like that I'd feel differently. But going straight from school to a fully remote engineering position would, I think, have been very difficult for me.
You’re right, as an adult I’m not suddenly going to become a piano virtuoso.

Innateness here is a pretty complicated topic. Hard work at an early age probably has a huge part of molding skills we associate with so-called “intelligence”.

Was Mozart a genius? Or was he working really hard at being a musician from an early age, and thus just very skilled? Would Mozart succeed if we suddenly had to train him to be a Java programmer? Where does the narrow “skill” end and the broader “general intelligence” begin?

I would argue skill is measurable and meaningful, but “intelligence” less so
Making test points for all your testable functions and aligning them to a stripboard really simplified making a testing jig. You can solder some pogo pins to the strip board and just press each board to your jig to program/test it.

Also, I've found renumbering passives to keep the same values in contiguous groups to simplify hand prototyping. You end up having dozens of 0.1uF for example and it's nice to knock them all out instead of switching between different components
Goodbye to Patreon
Popular uprisings aren’t exactly uncommon in the Middle East.
...and clicking it brings up a full-screen/application monstrosity that was really disorienting the first time I saw it, and still feels slightly unsettling:

https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ofs_5.p...

What's also irritating is the fact that an extra click or two is now needed to Save As or Open from that ridiculous "menu".
I would hope so. I'm older than the hills, and I was obsessively drawing batmobiles as a kid.