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I just wanted to provide an update regarding my mobile carrier. I gave them a call today and there were no recent changes on my account. I'm still thinking this was an exploit or vulnerability on Twitter's end. I will continue to try to reach out to Twitter employees.
I’m only interested in whether the majority of professional developers are able to ship software to their users. Is your stance that you can do that just fine with just the tools you listed and therefore professional developers don’t need the command line on iOS?
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I disagree. There was no magic trick here. Unreal is a company built with the best and brightest in the games industry over a very long period. I don't think any other company could have replicated their success - they just don't have that level of talent density.
It won't, because the insurance doesn't become worthless. It only means that, if you were able to get it, you're less likely to need a payout.
Don't forget having the team work 90 hour weeks for multiple years to power the success.

Edit: I like that I'm getting downvoted by fanboys of epic for pointing out the large human cost to games being "updated as fast as gamers want it". https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/23/18507750/fortnite-work-cru... if you don't know but games are very complex simulations and very hard to work on. Keeping fortnite up to date took a ton of effort by a ton of people in a not really sustainable way for peoples lives or careers to make it a success. Also can take irreversible impacts on help and psyche.

And really every time I played that game it was still massively buggy. For instance build to weapon switch issue that locked me out of controls for 1-3 seconds on a regular basis.

And epic got very good at the cheating stuff because they were helping blue hole solve the same issues and got to prototype it out on pubg and got a headstart there. Yeah that's a risk of using a team's engine but...
Make programming accessible to scientists.

Today, running any compute/memory intensive experiment requires working through so many tools and terminologies (e.g. AWS, SSH, python, dependencies, virtualenvs). Scientists really need just Jupyter notebook like experience that's collaborative, reproducible, and powerful (i.e. run on any hardware with 1 click).
It appears to me that this may be an opportunity to harness the gut to intentionally deliver multi-stage options: perhaps relying on microbiome-consumption for timing and\or changing strategy mid-digestion?

To what would have been my great loss, I almost gave up on this article after reading the first three paragraphs. They set the stage for an agonizingly long article that would have made me work hard to glean meaningful insight. However, the rest of the article was somehow both consice enough for me to stay engaged, and descriptive enough for me to learn. (This is my humble plea to journalists to please forego this type of writing)
Is planning a bomb ok if you phone in a warning before hand so that the building gets evacuated?
They will move on to Pentation and Hexation soon enough.
If the only open source software available to companies were GPLed software, they would not switch their product to GPL, but rather not use open source software. GPL isn't making companies share source which they don't want to share, they just avoid anything GPL. That is what I meant with the limited powers of GPL.

This isn't about not wanting to "give back" to the community, companies using permissive licensed software are contributing back. It is about that the GPL is incompatible with the business model of all companies which are licensing (selling) the software they produce.
How is raw lack of experience different from lack of experience? Greater risk of food poisoning?
Fortnite also was very good for having weekly updates of significance. This kept it moving.

Did epic pay the celebrities that used it initially.
Session is a higher OSI layer than transport, and any secure session management would probably be as complicated as TLS in the end.
In fiction when an author has an entire page of technobabble I just subconsciously skip the entire thing and only go back to read if the rest doesn't make sense.
It's important, but I think even more important than women was children and the mobile story behind it. I hear all the time of kids playing fortnite at school and it have a cult like following.
It's a huge security risk. Background service typically runs at higher level of privilege. Letting it expose a UI element opens up a huge attack surface. Other much less privileged processes can send messages to its window. An old trick was to send SetWinEventHook message to a service's window to hook an event callback in a dll. The dll is run in the service window's process and thus with its privilege. Privilege elevation achieved!
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Did they make a couple billion? I think that is grossly overestimated.
"I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did have Windows in mind." -Alan Kay ;)
I'm offering an extreme dichotomy to highlight the effect... reality will not be so extreme but the value difference will be great enough to cause competition (self correction). Another aspect of a company focused on reducing payout by selection is that they will probably be less prepared to support customers who actually need help, it all feeds into an opportunity for competition as the product of the gambling insurer has less and less value.

It boils down to two quite opposed principles:

1. I want to try to prevent payout and focus on taking home as much of the sales as possible.

2. I want to try to spread the cost of health care and provide an honest and valuable service.

It's hard do both well. I'd rather be in boat #2 in case I actually need help i'd trust them to be to be more capable of providing it since they are expecting it rather than trying to avoid it. If enough people realise this, they will all head for option 2, and option 1s will have to change their principles or pivot into some sort of health vetting service.
I think it is the same principal as simultaneous contrast.

https://youtu.be/FIwqyyFLo_A
> At its peak in 1998, O’Leary sold TLC to Mattel for an astounding $3.5 billion — 4.5 times The Learning Company’s annual revenue.

This is a weird footnote because 4.5x price to sales is not that crazy above the market average of ~1.5 at the time of this acquisition. It would make sense for a growth industry in the midst of the Dot Com boom in 98. It's certainly not crazy today, where companies trade at many times that (Pinterest trades at a 18x multiplier).

Great article by the way. I loved Rocky's Boots.
PUBG and H1Z1 were the only BRs at the time before the whole BR craze and fortnite came out

PUBG was supposedly the "better" h1z1 but even ninja (the famous ninja that played with drake, former halo player etc.) went back to h1z1 solely because pubg was so garbo

then fortnites BR came onto the scene and the rest is history
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I have never met anyone who chooses their movies based on box office, nor have I met anyone who chooses TV shows based on their ratings. Those are all after-the-fact consumption stats, unlike YouTube view counts, which are shown to you upfront (without you looking for them).
Sure, but this isn't particularly different from any other multiplayer FPS throughout the history of the genre. There's a bunch of common game modes that have been around forever, like deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag, assault, king of the hill, etc. These game modes were reused repeatedly by pretty much any arena FPS that came out within a span of over a decade. Battle royale and team battle royale are simply the latest (very popular) game modes that most new FPSs are including. Zombie was the previous hot game mode, but that's cooled off a bit now.
I know... i used it. It's nothing like the NHS.
This is a very accurate assessment. It was a real effective marketing team combined with a very smart pivot to an adjacent market and hitting product market fit.epic games tried and tried and tried (paragon, recent attempts to revitalize unreal tournament, etc) and eventually they got a huge hit.
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Yes, if you make the image big enough, looking at each ball individually it look brown, but the ones in the periphery take on their different colours.
>To your point about heterosexual religious white people projecting an identity of oppression: is that the average member of the alt-right?

Probably not, given that I'm describing an extreme viewpoint. I've encountered alt-right people who reject the white supremacist elements of the movement but still identify for various political reasons.

But the narrative of oppression is still part of the identity politics of these movements, given their reactionary nature. The modern men's rights movement, which includes incels, redpillers, MGTOW, etc (the movement itself being older) isn't merely a criticism of, or alternative to, feminism, but a reaction to the perceived oppression of men by feminists. Anti-progressivism and anti-multiculturalism are reactions to the perceived oppression of conservatives, Christians and white people by leftists and other races and ethnic groups.

This phenomenon was covered in the mainstream media during Trump's campaign - the narrative of his success being portrayed as a successful anti-establishment revolution by the disenfranchised "rural white male" that felt betrayed by globalism and the loss of white majority power.
Interesting, considering the number of things they say which are demonstrably false. Interesting also how these Buzzfeed "news" links are so fiercely defended here lately, by people with very specific information about Buzzfeed "news".
> context-appropriate inflections, dramatizations, and intonations

I do this too, and other people often comment on how well I read out loud.

I often find myself buffering words into vocalization while I read ahead a line or so and prepare the next sentence. I can insert pauses (or intone a clause as an aside) to make it easier for the listener to parse.

What tricks do you have?
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The article quotes Cathy Jordan,"Technically, what is going on is that the Earth, Sun and all the planets are orbiting around the center of mass of the solar system".

I believe that the statement is a good approximation for the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects or any other orbiting object that is more than 40 AU from the Sun, but I think it is a bad approximation for Mercury, and not a good approximation for the Earth. When I say it's a bad approximation, I mean that it would be more accurate to say "the Earth and Mercury orbit the center of the Sun" than it is to say "the Earth and Mercury orbit the barycenter of the Solar System (center of mass)".

Any comments by someone more qualified that me would be appreciated (I took about 6 courses in physics and 2 courses in astronomy in college and I graduated over 20 years ago).
Some context: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map–territory_relation
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I know, right? I thought mocking male tears and saying KillAllMen was ironic, but now overt lack of empathy for men is normal and encouraged.
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It could be, I was really slow to learn to read (and I mean slow, I nearly ended up in remedial classes) until I got exceptionally lucky in having a teacher who realised my issue wasn't capability it was boredom and who was willing to give up her lunch time to introduce me to books that were engaging (I still remember the first 'proper' book I read, 'Goodnight Mister Tom' by Michelle Magorian - The critical point was when I wanted to know what happened next and began (laboriously) reading it at home so I could find out) - at 7 I had the reading ability of a slow 5 year old by 8 I was reading books typically read in school by 16 year olds.

Once I found books and authors I liked I became a voracious reader, from eight to adulthood it wasn't unusual for me to have 3-4 books on the go at once and to read 3-4 books in a week all the classic works of sci-fi, books on science, computers, geography, history, politics, biology I was a sponge, I'd read almost anything - I used to read while walking to and from school, I walked into surprisingly few lamp posts.

The more I read the less I vocalised the words in my head, I started with pointing at each word (as most kids do) and then I stopped doing that, then I started looking at the word shape rather than the word and not vocalising it at all, it wasn't anything conscious just a natural progression.

In a very profound sense that teacher and my mum altered the scope of my life for the next 30 years, the teacher by realising I just needed the time and the right material and my mum for scouring charity shops/2nd hand book shops to keep me fed with books as money was tight (bless her, she used to keep a list in her purse of all the authors I liked, what books they had written and which I'd read).
"You should take just under two-and-a-half minutes to finish reading this blog post."

Does that include the time taken up by dismissing the "subscribe!" pop-up, and figuring out where you were when you got distracted by that?
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Even if PUBG didn't have all the technical problems, Fortnite still would've been huge. They have different enough audiences - a lot of PUBG players don't like Fortnite (and vice versa). There's overlap sure, but not so much that it's a zero-sum game.
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It was done on floppy disk.
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It helps that epic had 800 employees to start churning out updates after it got traction. None of the previous BR games had studios working at that scale.
I spend a fair amount of time walking users through new-to-them tools. These are all people who use computers for their 9-5. Some people are able to find a named option in seconds, and others struggle. I witness people moving the mouse down the menu like they are reading each entry in order, sometimes even going past the one they're looking for, at which point I usually point it out.

I (and I assume maybe you) have a way of taking in the whole menu at once and pattern matching to the visual image of the word in my head. I don't read the words, I look for a visual match. The target word jumps off the page as quickly as if they were color coded.
In the 80s and early 90s, when the vast majority of people with access to the internet were university students, there would be an influx of new users every September to usenet discussion groups--users who didn't understand the rules and conventions of the space. September was the time when every newsgroup would go to shit for a while, and we'd have to educate the newbies. "Eternal September" was a term coined when internet access started arriving for everybody in the mid 90s; there was a constant influx of new users.

It would seem that the commenter above thinks that HN is not that well-known, and getting linked from boingboing is going to lead to an influx of newbies. I think that's pretty silly, personally; these days HN probably has a significantly wider readership than boingboing.
Wow, is that catnip-clickbait for the Flat Earth Society...
The process seems fairly DSP intensive. If I recall, the IQ modulated color signal would leave a dot pattern in the luminance signal. I wonder how many frames it could process a second, if written in BASIC.
Cause its populated with bright-eyed / naive engineers.
I agree with most of that. But like.. most software is proprietary, right? Left to their own devices, Microsoft and Apple didn't decide to cooperate with the world and share software; instead they became the richest companies in the world by instituting a de facto computer tax. What you describe as "cooperation" really seems more like "people complying with rules enforced by force to the smallest extent possible", even in this software example.

There are obviously some cases where humans work together really well -- times of conflict or disaster are probably a good example. But as society contains less scarcity, it seems like we move farther away from that massive cooperation, because there's no overriding need for it anymore.
Yep. Here's a discussion with diagrams and numbers: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/10979/moons-or...
It's a PCB manufacturer.

They aren't buying computers from china. The company that did design the electronics (GE) decided to have this little outfit manufacture the PCBs for them (I mean, we're talking a production run in the low thousands so far -- this is NOT a big project). And the little outfit got bought by a bigger PCB company in China a few years back.

The risk to the supply chain is zero -- anyone can make printed circuit boards. The intelligence risk is limited to the ability to see how chips are wired together, with some ability to guess what ICs are in use by clues in the pinouts.
Similar to re-reading a passage I go back and re-read books I really like 3-4 times (and a few many more than that).

I've read all of the Discworld novels at least 3 times and a few like Hogfather more than a dozen (I re-read it ever Christmas).

Reading is one of lives truly great pleasures and it's one of lifes most democratic.
Or that a lot of “successful” businesspeople are swindlers.
I'm not sure what you think my attitude and entitlement are. I can handle the interview process fine without studying. It plays to my strengths. I've only worked at places with demanding interview processes.

My concern is about the success of the company I work at. My coworkers tend to be excellent when the bar is a tough algorithms interview, but they can't hire enough people. I'm a particularly demanding interviewer. I've rejected candidates who failed miserably, then later learned from my excellent coworkers that the candidate I rejected was excellent at their job.

I've also referred an excellent coworker from a previous job, only to have them fail the interview process. My current company would have benefited greatly from that hire, but instead rejected a talented person for a role they were having trouble filling.

If a company is having trouble hiring, it needs to at least get these excellent people that are being filtered out. Lowering the bar to let these excellent people in also lets in much less qualified people. Instead, the filter needs to be changed to let in people based on how qualified they are rather than how good they are at algorithm puzzles.

Successful companies need more than just people who are good at algorithms like me and studious people like you.
Does that change if you reframe federal ownership as collective ownership of the land by the people of the US, for the public good? Because that’s what it is.
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This is legitimately the most pretentious HN comment I've ever read, and that's a very high bar.

I too dismiss things that people enjoy as "crap" because I have such a gigantic brain from reading philosophy and looking down everyone else, and belittle them for believing that they read and understand fast in the wrong type of book.
Nearly half of his 300 page report was on "Russian interference" in the Presidential race.
Maybe so. But the poor of today (at least in the US, which the article is about:

- Have smart phones (entertainment)

- Have climate controlled housing

- Have better food than the poor of 1989

- Have fewer diseases and live longer than their 1989 counterparts

- etc.

It's not fun being poor, but there's never been a better time.

In a similar way, the rich don't live that much better than the next lowest classes. A middle class home feels more like a McMansion than the rich/poor housing comparison of 1989.
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I would consider whether you really want to. I'm someone who seems to have naturally not sub-vocalized for most of my life or at least if I did it was like a robotic voice fast talking in my head, I guess I would actually sound the words in my head but much faster than a person talking and in a way that did not help me develop a feel for inflection, etc. I have always been able to read faster than an average person but the last couple years has opened my eyes to a lot of communication issues I have had, basically my default has been that when I talked to people it would always seem very low energy and without much emotion or inflection and it has had a very negative impact on my social life, among other things. In the last couple years I've started learning a second language, in which I find it much easier to read if I do sub-vocalize at a normal human pace and I've also started pushing myself to record myself talking about various topics in English and to work on my communication skills overall. I've now started sub-vocalizing when I read in English as well and I'm noticing overall improvements in my life like being able to have more expressive and natural conversations with people. I'm sure reading without it has its places when you really need to speed read but I'm not sure a goal of never sub vocalizing is ideal.
Why wouldn’t the robots see it?
> persistent memory is not reliable

What does "reliable" mean? It saves data across a power cycle.

It wears out eventually, but so does flash. And mechanical drives eventually fail. And CPUs and DRAM don't last forever either.

This sounds like a specious point absent numbers. In fact existing memory persistence designs are plenty good for storing important data given reasonable backup strategies, and without reasonable backup strategies nothing is.
Speed reading seems have become a point of pride for many people. I think they see it as a proxy for intelligence rather than a learned ability that is very useful in some (not all) contexts.
Well the continue isn't doing any work for you since the else clause prevents the raise from being called.
The cell phone is not voice activated. That said, I do expect the worst of it.