skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fortnite wasn’t designed to be a Second Life-style experience, or even a digital “third place“; it became one organically.

I don't even know what to do with this comment. All multiplayers games are designed to be a third place, that's why they have groups that stay together between rounds, integrated voice chat, and friend systems. Multiplayer games have been designed to act as third places for ... a long, long time now.

> Epic has also built up another great and particularly hard to establish advantage: some 200MM+ registered user accounts.

I don't think that Fornite players as a group think that setting up a new user account is a big deal. Having an account is not a particularly big point of friction any more.

> Third is the threat posed by the shift to cloud-based gaming

do players actually want this? I've only heard that players want this from "thought leader", technology speculator types. Never in my thousands of hours of online gaming have I ever heard another player talk about this.

> they will be able to support Unity and other engines as well (interoperability will obviously be critical to any Metaverse and has long been a passion point of Sweeney’s).

this seems pretty divorced from technical and political reality.
Ask HN: Alternative HN-Like Communities?
I've bounced around my fair share of online forums since ~2006.

Inevitably, a shift in culture/moderation/interests with cause me to seek out new communities. HN has been fairly consistent in it's discussion since I've joined, and I'd like to find some similar sites.
I had this happen to me. My android developer business account got banned. I was making a fair amount of money and my account was unexpectedly terminated. I got a canned response and could not get in contact from anyone from Google to resolve the issue.

Ultimately, I gave up trying to get the verdict overturned. Instead, I used my personal gmail account and created another developer account. I re-published my app and it has been in the play store for the last three years.
...I just keep my website lightweight, so I don't need to preload stuff...
Yup, and then the moment German and French industries needed some help we started gettting talk about exempting them from state aid and anti-monopoly rules.
I'm sure you can expand your perspective on this question with some additional inquiry.
Except that in practice regulation nearly typically protects big incumbents from startup competitors. That is exactly the effect GDPR had in Europe:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/09/gdpr-has-cut-ad-trackers-i...

Incumbents, especially in the tech industry, face a greater threat of being unseated by a startup than being unable to handle regulations. The "heavy hitters" have plenty of cash available to pay for the lawyers needed to deal with regulations, and the lobbyists needed to shape regulations to their advantage. Startups need to be careful about their budgets, and the added cost of compliance represents an entry cost that will almost certainly work against small players.

Moreover, when you regulate to the point where the big incumbents suffer economically, you are typically in a state of over-regulation. The evidence is very clear that numerous freight railroads failed in the 1960s because over-regulation prevented them from adapting to new realities; it was too difficult for the railroads to shut down unprofitable routes due to service requirements and they were required to continue paying taxes and maintenance costs on redundant infrastructure. Following deregulation (the Staggers Act) America's freight rail industry was able to reorganize and become profitable once again (and today the North American freight network is one of the most efficient systems on earth and is envied by the world). Passenger railroads are still uneconomical even in regions with high population densities that are absolutely dependent on passenger service (e.g. the northeast corridor, which is the ideal scenario and home to some of the only services that manage an operating surplus) largely because of persistent over-regulation (especially safety -- Acela trainsets are significantly heavier than comparable equipment in Europe and Asia and are more expensive to operate).

Good regulation is certainly possible, but it is the exception rather than the rule. The more typical pattern is either the economic failure of an industry (over-regulation) or regulatory capture.
Oh, and a summary, based on their report to the press: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190204114641.h...
A command line version would be great.
> I just don't get why you would possibly risk the immunity deal for this.

Because the investigation they are trying to kill is bound to uncover serious crimes that are not covered by the non-prosecution agreement that in aggregate present much more serious exposure. I mean, that would be a rational motive, at least.
i've always thought of Ruby as a very clean, elegant, ergonomic language to write tools in (based on a few months of experience working with it a few years ago).

I'm familiar enough with JS that i would primarily use JS now for web stuff, but Ruby is quite a nice language to use, and I wouldn't be surprised if its easier for beginners to learn than JS.

In any case I think that skills in any one of the popular 'big' higher level dynamically typed languages (Ruby, JS, Python) are fairly transferable to the others too.
4chan. I mean, the threads are all public, it seems exceptionally stupid to claim it wasn't happening.
The great irony here is that people have no issue stealing data -- copyright theft is considered "normal" by many people.

However, if it's your data, then maybe jail time should be on the table?
Thanks. Yeah I'm not so good at piano either but I'm getting better.

I spent a solid month trying to build decent sounding instruments, and it's really hard and they didn't sound that great. Then noticed webaudio-tinysynth, it saved the day! They sound surprisingly good. Although the actual piano sounds aren't the best....piano is an incredibly complicated to synthesize...sympathetic resonance and all that. I'm personally happy with all the other ones though.
> do players actually want this?

What makes companies the most money?

One shot games? Or never ending games with repeat buys?

I see more of the later and not really the former...

That tells me that whether or not what gamers 'want'... what they spend on is cloud based.
But it does have some (usually), and it needs perf optimization much more, especially in regards to cache misses and such, because RAM is usually pretty slow on lower end ARM.
They mean the 300 bytes shaved from gzip to minified+gzip.

Both are under MTU size of TCP packet.
Google's Long March
Yes, because the potential damage is much more severe. If someone pirates a movie, the damage is about the price of a movie ticket. If someone's private data gets stolen, it can ruin their entire life.
What Is the Difference Between Test and Validation Datasets?(2017)
while I agree there are certainly adults playing. Web search of fortnite demographics put A LOT (like a 50% or more at < 24).

My own anecdotal experience in squads is that half are probably teens. So - the parent comment is certainly conceivable.
Idempotency has nothing to do with it. Deleting a resource is idempotent as well. You wouldn't do that via GET /delete

A GET request should never, ever change state. No buts.

Just because a bunch of well known sites use GET /logout to logout does not make it correct.

Doing anything else as demonstrated in this and other cases breaks web protocols, the right thing to do is:

GET /logout returns a page with a form button to logout
POST /logout logs you out
Nah, I am speaking about the general/majority culture of how it is done in PHP.

Do you not see the comments in this specific thread? The guy a bit higher up the chain thinks my issue is with "FTP vs SFTP", rather than "the version of the files at a particular moment in time".

He doesn't even understand why a partial view of the files could be an issue.

And the general sentiment in PHP is that "you can change any file separately, by editing in online on the server - and that is a good thing".
Question: Is this something you think you'd subscribe to as a service and pay annually? I was considering building out a series of videos on how to be an effective programmer based on my experience

After being a consultant for over 10 years, 20 years industry experience, you really get to learn a lot of different techniques and small "stylistic" things that can help you write quality code.

Granted, some of the concepts are language dependent and some are more conceptual but are employed slightly different based on the language you're using.
Apparently yes: they've been lobying in favour of this kind of filtering.

https://boingboing.net/2019/01/24/quisling-zuckermonsters.ht...
The real problem is betting your business on someone's platform that you absolutely cannot control.

I think we have these "OMG (Google|Youtube|Adsense|Paypal|eBay) terminated my account and it's a disaster!" - once a week at least.
How does one develop these kind of cults of personality in large organizations that can allow for “vanity projects?”
It seems to me like

TF2 -> Overwatch -> Apex Legends
From a sister comment:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-google-bo...
But in practice, the regulations end up being written by the heavy hitters, who also capture the regulators enforcing it.

They make a token concession or two, heap on the compliance costs and complications, and then enjoy a cosy relationship with the government group in charge of their would-be competitors too.
They have an Ozymandias from The Watchmen aesthetic to them.
Does it work in Edge? I tried a few times but I got no contenders.

It's not clear that the color of the rectangle is my color. Can you add some test to explain that? Can you make a circle that blinks around my token while waiting?

I won 5 or 10 games in a row in Chrome because I was the only player. Can you make a bot so it doesn't feel empty?

Nice name. Do you have an alternative name in case you get a c&d letter?
There's a fork in this history arising from the British publishing of Captain Marvel - i had a go at summarising the wikipedia entry [1], but gave up, because it's too bananas.

The gist is that when Captain Marvel was shut down, the British publisher came up with a knockoff called Marvelman, who then went through a comparable set of rights battles and name changes, becoming Captain Miracle, then Marvelman again, then Miracleman, then Man of Miracles (when eventually bought up by Marvel, weirdly enough).

Along the way, there was a really disturbing run in the '80s written by Alan Moore, which was out of print for years because of the rights battles, and also bits from Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison. Oh, and a villain called Young Nastyman, who turns up in a Tenacious D song.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvelman#History
If like me you view copyright and related laws like the DMCA as regulation, then absolutely -- all the peer-to-peer networking companies from 15 years ago were killed by regulation, not to mention companies that tried to sell circumvention tools (all killed by the DMCA).

Really though, the tech industry has not yet been subject to such significant regulations. The history of the railroad industry is filled with examples of the destructive effects of bad regulations, ultimately leading to a near collapse of the entire industry in the 1960s (a cascade of bankruptcies, especially in the northeast). The Staggers Act saved the freight industry by relaxing rules, but passenger industry remains uneconomical and is basically quasi-state-run.
Foreigners routinely comment on the low level of training and discipline exhibited by the US police force.
What's the problem??
The telephone company actually does have to carry your message, because they are a common carrier and regulated by the FCC.

In other words, you argument is a bit ignorant. Reddit is a private forum that’s allowed to what they want as long as they don’t discriminate against protected classes.
I've been working on something loosely related as a side project. It's a turing-complete lisp DSL that's made for generating HTML and CSS. Kind of like a scripting language that was made for the sole purpose of CGI scripts.
> muckrakers during the Progressive Era

So you're one of those.

Were the "muckrakers" at the time in the same business as the companies they were raking muck at? Cause that sure is the case nowadays.

> And how does any social media company provide "financial relief"?

Zero dollar cost for communication, broadcasting, entertainment, information retrieval, etc while little else is free.
It's not "stealing" because the data isn't being taken away. It's "copying".
This is a good optimization. However, it is like pushing the mud under the carpet. It’ll hide real problem. I would rather fix the root cause of slow rendering pages and then use this trick to make it better.
Ask HN: What's it like to work in VFX?
1) What kind of work do you do?

2) What kind of skill/languages/xp did you need to get into the field?

3) What's the day to day like?

4) How's the pay?

5) Would you recommend working in the field?
This is exactly what TDD came about. It was designed to help you a) write code that you need and b) tests that validate the code does what it's suppose to do.

In terms of the latter, you can boil it down to two aspects.

a) Does the code function correctly given positive input?
b) Does the code fail in a deterministic manner? e.g., if an age is a negative number, does it' throw an appropriate error message?

In the failure case, it can get more trickier when you start to introduce things like database persistence or API calls. In this case, you should mock out these dependencies and also set up scenarios to make sure your code also fails in a deterministic manner.

Keep in mind, what's really important is to make sure your code only doesn't what's required and nothing more. Keep things simple and no simpler. ;)
Obviously Reddit, particularly r/programming

Slashdot.org is still around

Metafilter.org is still going

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes

https://lobste.rs/
Also, after a bug is fixed add the reproduction case to prevent regressions.
If you want to see another stunning tribute to the internet times of yore checkout https://www.cameronsworld.net/ (make sure to turn on the sound)

PS: Plz join my webring ;)
Curious if Tijiuna has safe areas.
Thank you for readying the actual study. News outlets are political and have their narratives. If there is no hard boiled source, it impossible to tell from one source what the actual facts are. Almost no one will compare different sources to filter the truth, most just stick with the outlets they used to.
Michoacán is "adjacent" to America? It's one of the most dangerous places. Acapulco was recently Mexico's murder capital -- also nowhere near the US. Violence in Tamaulipas has declined quite a bit; certain interior states are far more dangerous these days. Mexico is a nice place, but the murder rate is 25 per 100,000 people, compared to 4.9 in the US and 6.2 globally.

As far as the war zone aspect -- I lived near Guadalajara in a small town called Chapala and, when you're in Guadalajara, it often does seem like a war zone. In our "peaceful" enclave, there were frequent (several times per year) shootouts with police and gang-on-gang violence along with innocent people being victimized, robbed or killed. Just a few days ago, a 78 year old Canadian expat was walking through San Antonio Tlayacapan (a nice community next to lake Chapala) and was shot in the head twice in broad daylight on the street.[0] Chapala is pretty much a peaceful retirement community, yet even there, there is brutal violence.

With the Jalisco NG Cartel, there is a substantial military and paramilitary presence across various areas of Guadalajara. Large police pickup trucks with machine guns mounted in the bed isn't something I've ever seen -- outside of an actual war zone. I've been in US Army units that have been less heavily armed than some of the standard police in Guadalajara. Heavily armed patrols in full military "battle-rattle" are a mainstay of the city. Anyone that's suggesting that Mexico is a peaceful place must be asleep. The Mexican people are generally very peaceful and I typically feel safe enough there, but that's not much different than how friendly Afghanis are -- despite Taliban activity in the neighborhood. You're definitely taking much different precautions traveling through Mexico than you would traveling through Los Angeles.

I love Mexico, my wife is from there, I go there all the time -- but suggesting it's a war zone? That's not too far from the truth -- the Mexican marines recently took over security in Acapulco.[4] If that isn't the definition of "war zone," I'm not sure that word has any meaning. You'd have to be oblivious not to see the war zone aspects in many parts of the country.

[1] https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/canadian-expat-78-shot-and-...
[2] https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6024568/cancun-murders-mexico-...
[3] https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/michoacan-turf-war-fuels-cr...
[4] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/26/marines-swoop-ac...
It is reality for businesses and large institutions. I can accept that they don't care about anything other than making (or saving) money which drives their managers to drive their coders to make shitty sites that encourage unsafe practices.

But when those same coders come home and defend the practice just because they have to do it for work I'm a bit confused. It shouldn't be controversial that this is a bad thing. I'd guess it's sunk costs type thinking.
Aren’t the DoorDash kids Stanford grads? How can they hold their heads up having introduced such a scummy business practice? What a disgrace.
Exactly! And I think the problem with an SEO guide to engineers in particular, is that it ends up being a list of technical things. Things that are easy to quantify and that are black or white. Those are marginal. Yet an engineer can increase the score in some tool from X to 1.257X so they’re happy.

It’s much harder to write a guide on how to engage and delight your audience, and how to get the attention of other sites and the authority and trust to get linked to.
or, of course, stop developing apps. If this is actually a common problem for app developers, then few people will go into this business, and the supply of apps will drop. That will then tell Google/Apple that this is actually a problem that they need to deal with.

All businesses have risks. At least these risks you know about beforehand (a <1% chance that your app developer has been shady in past and will get your account banned). This is actually a pretty small risk compared to the >99% chance that the app will sink like a stone in the sea of apps available, never to be seen again, along with every penny invested in it.

The app stores are swamped with apps. Every single one of those apps was some person's dream that they spent significant time/money/effort on - building an app and getting it on the store is not a trivial undertaking. The overwhelmingly vast majority of those apps will never make a cent for their creators.

From Google's perspective, one less app on their app store at this point is probably a good thing.

From the OP's perspective, unless they're seeing significant revenue from the iOS version, writing the whole thing off as a sunk cost and walking away is probably the best plan. Which is ridiculous, I know, but logically true.
I think 1 year is reasonable, that guy is a dick
I think they will just make Google into a true monopoly. By true monopoly I mean a monopoly where barrier to entry is so high that there is not only no competition, but it is impossible to enter the market.

For example, I don't think anyone will care to sign contracts with DuckDuckGo or any other small competitor. This means that they will not be able to compete with Google in EU market.

Currently we have also Bing. But Bing AFAIK is bleeding money from Microsoft already, so they may end up just cutting it off from the EU.

So, Google will end with a total, true monopoly.

Funny thing is that even now everyone want to be on Google. Literally all the money that Google is making is because people want to be visible on Google. Media companies will sign anything to get there. If Google offers them "we will pay you nothing", they will have to agree. If EU forces media to ask for payment (like Spain did) they will ask for 0.01 euro for a year of being indexed by Google. If EU forces media to ask for some "reasonable" price, then Google will refuse with knowledge that no one else will be able to afford that anyway.

Similar process will happen with media. Google will not bother to sign deals with small media companies. The biggest media companies will benefit. Actually, this is may be the actual reason behind this whole shit show. Cutting of small media competition. But if I had to bet, I would bet on media ad politicians being just stupid.
I could offer you the numerous citations around the web, but I have a feeling I'll get tired of following the goalpost before you get tired of moving it.
Wow. I love the Art Deco style. My absolute favorite aesthetic right now, maybe ever. I haven't found anything I like more to be honest except Classical.
Tennessee mother carries dying baby to term to donate organs
Maybe there’s some money in a business model that has up-front pricing so that the consumer knows what they’re paying in advance, without worrying about their food getting cold or employees being short-changed.

Because the existing system seems like third world style corruption, frankly.
It seems to be easier to upload malware to Google Play then legit content
isn't this verbosity CL only and not Lisp per se ?

clojure code is often super terse (mostly because lots of funcallable and fp idioms)
Awesome job...pretty amazing when you consider what's involved in the graphic overlays and timing synchronization!
I think this argument is silly tbh. Are we going to say no games can have a zombie mode or team deathmatch because games have done it before? Battle royale is basically free for all game mode but with a persistent death mechanic which has been around since the dawn of gaming - the idea that it can be ripped off rather than just iterated on doesn't hold for me
Google is such a joke. They need to get their heads out of their asses. Constant stories of bad support. Youtube is a complete horror show.

And I seriously question if their cloud offerings have actual product designers attached.

One great example:

If you are using Google CloudSQL, you are one command away from losing everything:

> gcloud sql instances delete prod-instance-name

When you delete a CloudSQL instance, it also deletes the back-ups associated with that instance along with it. So if you accidentally delete your production database: Your backups? Poof. Gone.

It says this in the fine print of the on-demand backups documentation: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/backup-recovery/back...

> They persist until you delete them or until their instance is deleted.

There is also no way to mark a CloudSQL instance as "protected" so one bad CLI command can lose you your production database and all backups.

In order to get an actual backup workflow that will not affect production traffic, you have to script your own database dumps.

For me, Google CloudSQL does not do enough to protect my production data from accidental deletion. I would argue it is unclear how your production backups are being handled. I would argue their product treats your production data and backups irresponsibly.
What about downloading tracking js you didn't ask for then?
'(zero) ?
Why don't you just run it on your target codebase and then run your test suite to make sure nothing is broken?