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The EULA bans any SDK, not specifically the GDK which presumably includes some part of Unity in a re-distributable form. If it was only banning the GDK, then developers who want to use SpatialOS could integrate the SDK on their own just like someone who uses CryEngine or builds their own engine instead of using either Unity or Unreal for which the GDKs were created to streamline the process. But the EULA doesn't stop at using Unity on the cloud with an SDK, it bans all use of Unity running on the cloud. "2.4 Streaming and Cloud Gaming Restrictions.
You may not directly or indirectly distribute the Unity Software, including the runtime portion of the Unity Software (the “Unity Runtime”), or your Project Content (if it incorporates the Unity Runtime) by means of streaming or broadcasting so that any portion of the Unity Software is primarily executed on or simulated by the cloud or a remote server and transmitted over the Internet or other network to end user devices without a separate license or authorization from Unity. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not use a managed service running on cloud infrastructure (a “Managed Service”) or a specific integration of a binary add-on (for example, a plugin or SDK) or source code to be integrated in the Unity Software or Your Project Content incorporating the Unity Runtime (an “SDK Integration”) to install or execute the Unity Runtime on the cloud or a remote server, unless such use of the Managed Service or SDK Integration has been specifically authorized by Unity. Additionally, you may not integrate the Unity Runtime with a Managed Service or SDK Integration and offer that integration to third parties for the purpose of installing or using the Unity Runtime on the cloud or a remote server. For a list of Unity authorized streaming platforms, Managed Services and SDK Integrations, click here.This restriction does not prevent end users from remotely accessing your Project Content from an end user device that is running on another end user device. You may not use a third party to directly or indirectly distribute or make available, stream, broadcast (through simulation or otherwise) any portion of the Unity Software unless that third party is authorized by Unity to provide such services."
I had planned on building out a home audio system using Chromecast Audios w/ small amplifiers distributed around the house. I even did a test run with my patio speakers and it worked out great. Now I'm going to have to rethink things.
Or 10% of their employees were doing nothing.
Looks like Lumberghs of hn disagree.
Take a look at http://bitplanets.com

It's a game that works on phone
They launch giant multi million dollar missiles into space. Allowing an employee that knows they are terminated and is most likely distracted to continue working on a project like that is not worth the risk. If someone was genuinely upset and wanted revenge, a good portion of them are literally rocket scientists, they could probably figure out a way to do it if given a couple weeks.

Better just to cut ties as quickly as possible. They were given 8 weeks of severance and if they are really friends with the people, they can call them on the way home. They are not banned from communicating with their past co-workers.

I know it sounds harsh but there is no nice way to find out you were fired. This way mitigates the companies risk, provides decent (not great) severance for the employees and time to find a new job while being paid.

The only winners in a layoff are the shareholders.
Yes, as far as I can remember there was no option to adjust the sensitivity.

However there seems to be a third party hack that fixes the issue: https://github.com/AWilliams17/Halo-CE-Mouse-Tool/releases
Agreed. There is no way to do layoffs that doesn't suck and doesn't harm morale. This avoids some of the worst of it and also keeps it somewhat private.
This isn't the first time SpaceX has done a 10% layoff round [1]. It seems like they do this at key inflection points where they're relatively sure they can make the next tech leap, and need to retool their workforce.

[1] https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=35254.0
Great to see alternative built with cryptocurrencies.

Since biycoun doesn't have subscriptions, you'd need to topup your account X amount which then gets distributed over the months to bitpatreons?
That's kind of a ridiculous statement these days. It's a bit like saying "Worried about e coli contamination in your food? Run your own farm."

These days, running a mail server is a complicated business, and the very fact that you ARE running your own server makes it much, much more likely that all the other mail servers consider you a spam relay unless you are very, very careful about how you have configured things.
DHH and Jason from Basecamp have been talking about this since day 0. Even now we've indiehackers owned by stripe.
I made a quilting game
I wasn't going to respond to your parent as it was a blatant shitpost, but since there is a legitimate post here I got to say that I am actually curious what caused the quadrupled murder rate in just two years (1905-1907). There were no significant organized crime or changes in homicide reporting I could find, and the closest disturbance I could find seemed to be the Black Patch Tobacco Wars happening in Tennessee and Kentucky.

Wish we had more historians hanging around here
IIRC, he used that word specifically because he knew they were racists, so he deliberatley used a slur he knew they'd hate. It'd be like him referring to communists as capitalist pigs. He may not have a problem with capitalism, but he's using an anti-capitalist insult to drive home the point that they are acting no better than the people they hate.
Just leave off items #1 and #2 if it bugs you. The rest of the list shows a progression, and changing the goals of a system undoubtedly creates greater change than twiddling knobs.

For an example of #3... I dunno, change the definition of GDP. That affects a ton of stuff.
That's your opinion. There are people who'll accept lower salary and higher variable pay, and for them, my suggested option is no worse than working at an early stage company in terms of risk. Actually slightly less risky, since they don't have to worry about the company going bankrupt, they'll have a comfortable office space, a prestigious name on their resume, their relatives will be impressed by it, etc.
I wonder how it really works. My first thought is to have a dedicated credit card used only to pay for my google services, kept in a drawer at home (and not uses for any other online service) and therefore unlikely (less likely?) to be used fraudulently. But I have three cards known to Google Payments. If any one of them has an issue would Google lock my account? I hope not.
There's no denial in the article.

It's a father writing about loving his daughter for who she is rather than who he thought she might be.

Later: Even better for the second sentence there, it's a father writing about loving his daughter for who she is rather than grieving (the loss of) who he thought she might be.
He seems to think he is

That's not how he identifies, though he doesn't think identity should be an issue and that people should be judged by the content of their character.

violating the maxim that “White people are meant to be polite and respectful to one another”

Again, trolling white supremacists by throwing their own broken beliefs (and inability to live up to even those broken ones) back in their face.

I'm not a member of the far left.

Really?

> in years past, he would just have been called center-left.

Which years past? Maybe the 19th Century. Not anytime in living memory.

In my living memory, certainly. Someone being against identity politics, for strict border controls, and being for "equality of opportunity" but opposing "equality of outcome" is a perfectly reasonable liberal position to me, and could have been claimed as such with no comment in the 80's, 90's, and 2000's. It's a dishonest far left narrative to try and label those as "conservative" or even "Alt Right."
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I worked with someone who did. He came in at 6 AM, sent off an email, and left at 6:15.

I don’t blame him, as our employer has walked out 25 year employees with no notice.
> The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center issued a statement [1] that encouraged administrators to read the FireEye report. [2]

[1] https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2019/01/10/DNS...

[2] https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2019/01/global-...
This comment reminds me of something I read a while back about Tor, I2P, and Freenet-- that the fact that those services are loaded with child porn and other nasty stuff is in a way a positive commentary on our society. It shows that the mainstream is healthy enough that the vast majority of speech and activity does not feel a need to go underground. You could say the same thing about "censorship-free" alternatives being full of fascists and racists and people announcing that they're "going in" before shooting up a synagogue.

That being said I do subscribe to the Larry Flynt doctrine of free speech-- free speech is measured by the freedom of the least sympathetic speakers. The fact that platforms like gab.ai can be created without legal ramifications means that we still basically have free speech.
Typo correction:

It's a trade-off, and I don't know what the optimal balance would be.
In my experience, I was not able to run systemctl restart some.service in a docker container. This wasn't an issue in a LXC container.
You could argue that the owner was invading the dealership employee privacy by sending in a covert recording device.
Huh. I've had credit card companies call me proactively when they thought something was wrong, before I caught any stray purchases. They refunded the money before I knew my card was stolen. So that was nice.

But then I've also heard pure horror stories about stolen identities, and I am genuinely sorry you faced any of that.

So what's going on here...

I think this is due to one aspect of their model that is ultimately an improvement, even though it still completely breaks at moments.

+ + Your card number is not your account. + +

Ie, if your CCN is compromised, it's disposable without starting your relationship with the company entirely from scratch.

Your "identity" though is not disposable. Your identity controls your relationship with the company and is not disposable. That causes major problems when hijacked, as it did for you. And that's not fixable (or at least not easy to fix at all).

So while we might not be able to solve the problem with identity, we can create firebreaks -- disposable parts of the infrastructure that attract some thefts because they allow quick wins. Ie, CCNs provide access to money. That funnels a lot of theft towards something that is easy to monitor and patch.

The identity theft remains an issue, but hopefully hits fewer people.

One thing that makes Google struggle is that they combine all of these interactions together. Nothing is revocable without resetting your entire relationship.

Given that they started as an email service, I have no idea if it's even fixable from where they are.
A few years ago, Google's penchant for abandoning projects was an actual honest-to-god issue for both Go adoption and the use of GCP at a very large company I am deeply familiar with. It's not just nerds, it's also director-level types.
Reread what I wrote. A resident homeowner/renter - that's literally the definition of a town, county, or state constituency. Living there (which only a human can do) grants you special rights to decide how that public property will be utilized, developed, and regulated by voting in representatives.
Right? And why is everyone talking about how bad Google is when AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint are selling our freaking location?!? It's nuts!

If it's easier to become a bounty hunter than a barber in Idaho, then almost anyone can track someones location without their knowledge. Odds are the data's being made available in other ways we're not even aware of. And think about the impact on battered wives, someone on the wrong side of a vendetta, hell even road rage. The possibilities are staggering.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2016/09/09/...
Do it progressively rather than telling everyone "go home and start guessing whether you'll come back." Hack and slash will always have casualties, and you'll lose good people. If you go down the chain asking people confidentially whether there's anyone they feel the team would be better off without, then you can work on removing the weakest links without making the entire company feel like they can't trust you.
Again, having gone through this a decade ago, that assistance gets outsourced to a company that specializes in it. Effectively it feels like you are attending a community college class on "how to find a job". It's not like they are going to call up a bunch of employers and try to match you to another position somewhere, you are still going to have to do a lot of legg work (home work) yourself. In my case it was somewhat beneficial, although the advice they had for me on my resume got totally shredded by the recruiters I worked with. At least it got me out of the house for 2 hours a day for the next 5 days.

The big lesson I try to pass on to everyone. Don't ever assume you will have a job next week. Be polite to any headhunters, assuming they are the professional kind, keep your resume up to date, network like crazy, have a few side project plans, don't be afraid of small jobs on the side, and most importantly keep a 3 - 6 month emergency fund. That fund doesn't have to be what you make in 6 months, but at least what your bare bones expenses are (mortgage, utility bills, minimum credit card payments), and try to keep your have-to recurring monthly expenses lower (mortgage / car payments, etc). That doesn't mean you can't spend on extra stuff, just make sure you can cancel them at any time.
Yet another interesting service made possible by blockchain and cryptocurrency. But HN commenters will continue to say crypto is nothing but a useless scam.
Is it really 'dishonest tarring' to point out how silly it is to point out how he criticizes the Alt-Right and White Nationalists, when the method he uses to criticize them is to tell them they act like n... ers?

No. What's dishonest is to call people like Sargon of Akkad, Tim Pool, Sam Harris, Dave Rubin, or Steven Pinker "Alt Right" in an attempt to silence them purely by association. All of those people oppose the alt right! Really, no one should be getting away with those cheesy 80's Moral Majority tactics. If just using the n-word makes one alt right, then my creole ex-girlfriend's transvestite creole musician brother is "Alt Right" -- NOT!
Interesting that KY and NC seemed to have had more success investigating hemp than the much more progressive VT.
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I'm a criminal defense attorney and I use arch.
People believe all kinds of things, but unless there’s more than a snowball’s chance in hell of changing the law to accommodate their beliefs, I spend my limited time considering other viewpoints. I don’t see any chance of these laws changing in favor of your beliefs, and I’m having this discussion in the world as it exists.
I used to work for a government contractor and during lay-offs they rarely did the whole plug-pulling nonsense on their employees when they needed to restructure or lay people off.

So I suppose you can consider me highly skeptical when a commercial company makes the excuse that they're doing it for security reasons. Because to me, that sounds like pure bullshit designed to cover for shitty practices.
you are assuming you know the content of the email. As others have said, severance and support programs could be outlined in the email.

I prefer email over HR walking past all the cubicles praying they won't stop at mine.
I went to the Decentralized Web Conferece a few years ago and really liked it. In spirit, I am onboard.

In practice, I am satisfied with just using my own domain for email, my web site, and self-hosted blog. For communication I like FaceTime so I can see people while I am talking with them, phone, and email.

I still use social media, very occasionally, to see what people are doing and sometimes advertise my new open source projects and updates, and any books I write. Most of the problems people talk about with Facebook/Twitter don’t bother me as long as I only use the systems infrequently. I am not tempted to cancel my accounts.
Private surveillance e.g. nanny cams are legal in USA and Canada.

https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/rise-of-private-surveill...
No, not suggesting that they were taking a big margin, I was thinking that I don't want a very powerful phone, I recently chose a Nokia 3.1 and have been very happy with it ($250 AUD), but would also like it to run Linux instead of Android. All I want is a phone calls, sms, camera, maps, and browser. (And a few other minor things like clocks and alarms and things.)
Other people here have said this general idea here, the large centrealized services like Google and Facebook have succeeded in becoming so big through a lot of effort and a lot of cost, which was paid for by all the money they make. At a minimum they have to pay for their server use.

From what I understand the proposal here seems to not allow for the advertising model. I don't think a services can grow and survive making people paying because people are too cheap.

There might be a better chance for something like this is they allow for the economics.
- Maybe the data host can provide a "advertising" profile which the user has control of. This can be exposed to the application hosts to allow for advertising.
- Maybe you also throw micropayments into the mix, along with bartering for information or micropayments.

Another issue is complexity. A number of comments have talked bout over-engineered solutions and protocols. This decentralizezd idea could be started with something small like an open social network standard. I think I saw something similar to this on HN not too long ago:
- You have a web site, which is your profile. A provider could give you a nice editor for it.
- You have a feed, where you can put pictures, short posts, long posts, whatever. This is distributed with RSS. (The host makes this all seamless for you.)
- Identity is controlled with OAuth, used only to give an identity to visiting users. The owner users can manage permissions for certain remote users (his "friends")

Such a service could be managed on your own web server, or there could be different cloud providers that make this arbitarily easy, with arbitrary levels of functionality on the "profile" page, the "feed" and the "friend" permission management.
Anecdote from friends' parents, this is done in China for some romantic relationships.
This has to be the first backgrounder on Hobbes that I've read that hasn't included his description of the natural state of mankind as being "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short".
Seems like the privacy rights of the dealership and their workers have been transgressed.
Shouldn't their slogan be

"At last, a modern smartphone you can truly own." ?
In percentage yes, but not in the manner of choosing the affected. Or at least one would hope it’s not every tenth person regardless of role, contribution, etc.
Trickle-up makes a lot more sense. Give money to people at the bottom, or maybe equally to everyone. They will spend it, and whichever businesses serve them best will profit.
The 64 bit clock will overflow about 292 billion years from now. That's long enough for me.

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Worrying about 64-bit time overflow is like worrying about IPv6 address exhaustion.
Can someone explain exactly what is pressuring payment processors to pass moral judgement on the payments they're processing? I'm sure MasterCard would rather not waste resources moderating Patreon users, so what's pressuring them to do so?
I like it. Support had been fast and helpful, and it's hard to beat for international travel. I've used it in 5 countries with good speeds (although I've mostly been in cities). And as an added bonus it gets around the firewall in China. I've seen people try TMobile here and it's definitely slower than Fi, although it also gets around the firewall.
> [...] mastercard will not allow you to take money if you facilitate right wing views

That is clearly not correct. You can subscribe or donate to "The National Review", "The Weekly Standard", "The American Spectator", "The American Conservative", "The New American", and "FrontPage Magazine" all via MasterCard, and these are all right wing publications facilitating right ring views.
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It is a big problem with Patreon as it is with almost all major tech platforms - especially those who have dominant positions without any current viable competition. I can understand shutting down accounts involved in criminal activity but blocking transactions because you disagree with their political views or speech is ridiculous.

The hubris of the tech leaders are a cause for concern. Who voted for them to be our puritanical leaders and tyrants? Do we really want Tim Cook, Zuckerburg, Page/Brin, Conte, etc to be our moral censors? Do we really want them to be the American Politburo to rule over us? I certainly don't. What's even more incredible is that the co-founder of Patreon is a musician by trade. You would think he, of all people, would be against censorship.
That would be akin to be back in serf mode. If you can't escape taxes anymore, there is nothing preventing a "worldwide government" to tax people to death. I guess this is when people may want to move to Mars or something.
It's easy for me to take a pragmatic approach from the outside looking in but if I was the one getting laid off, I would probably share your sentiment.
You want to minimize the time where employees who are not being laid off are wondering “am I being laid off?”. Ideally you want that time to be 0, because it can wreck havoc on morale and those 24 or 48 hours of doubt can be enough to push people who are not getting laid off to reach out to their network, recruiters, etc. Now you’re losing high performers.

If indeed everyone was told “check your email over the weekend to find out if you’re laid off or not”, that’s terrible. Tell people who are being laid off that they are being laid off, tell people who are not being laid off why there are layoffs and that they’re not a part of it, but don’t keep everyone in the dark - even if it’s “just” for a day or two.
Why are you censoring yourself? I don't remember HN having a rule about self-censoring "bad" words.
Yes, that would be a fine service to have.

Operating solely under US jurisdiction, it would be virtually immune to government censorship. Given strong protection of free speech in the US Constitution. And so it could be as censorship-free as its operators desired, without interference from private third parties.

But all bets are off if other nations have jurisdiction. Consider the pressure that Google is facing to apply "The Right to be Forgotten" to all searches globally. Or pressure from the UK and Australia to censor mention of legal stuff under protective order. Or China, seeking to block coverage of its Muslim "reeducation efforts".
This is true. Nothing like deer in the headlights when the person is singled out for the meeting. It’s a terrible thing.
Dash cams are not covert..
But the is a big difference between total compensation and salary. Just to be clear
Yes, what most programs are interested in is duration from boot time or process start time. Not some human level duration from some arbitrary point in the past.

Programs should just use time since boot. And only bother to convert when offered for human or external consumption.
Yea, but LSP gives an API target for the compilers not just for the editors.
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