skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are permanently limited on how many times you can make a team with a player unless you pay more??

As someone who's never touched the sports games who grew up on old non-internet consoles that you can't replay the same thing is utter madness. You can't use the same player over in another attempt??? Do you run out of players?
How about a state regulation prohibiting stores to sell anything with real money procurement and trading mechanisms inside as games? Anything that allows in-app purchases or trade should be re-classified, a "trading platform," perhaps or, indeed, a casino? But then it would be up to society whether to allow their kids to play in a casino, or draw in a trading platform - where brushes have to be purchased. Squeeze those app business men a little bit. If Candy Crush allows to purchase in-game items, it's a freaking trading platform.
What industry do you work in now?

What kind of salaries are developers of 5ish years experience earning?
Obviously the company behind this doesn't care about PR or maybe it's just horribly mismanaged. Either way, I think Apple should offer consumers some form of protection. What's to stop other developers from turning paid apps into rentals overnight without warning? Of course most developers are not that dumb but what protection would the consumers have if they tried?
I look forward to usb4, which will merge with thunderbolt and simultaneously add and remove complexity from this situation.
I don’t think people forget Google’s results are useful; some just think they’re more creepy than valuable. You seem to have picked your side in that (im)balance, and other people prefer the other side.

Just as a general observation without taking either side:

People routinely fail to recognize both sides of a particular thing. It's why we have sayings like "You don't know what you've got til it's gone."
Amazon is paying above minimum wage already. What do you suggest they should be paid?
The one I support takes cans mostly from the commercial and grocery food distribution channels and uses money to move them.

If the canned food’s sell/best by was last month and it was pulled from channel because of that, it’s obviously perfectly safe.
The technologies developed in ancient China are staggering, the more so as they'd been largely fogotten by / rendered invisible to the Chinese themselves.

A find of the past few years has been Joseph Needham's truly epic Science and Civilisation in China. Begun in 1954, still in production -- the series is not yet completed, 7 volumes, 27 books. Simon Winchester (also author of The Perfectionists, mentioned in this thread, has an excellent biography, The Man Who Loved China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_Ch...
*chuckle
Very good point! Envy has layers! Hard to keep that in mind in the throes of it — but certainly a smart approach.
> presumably the removed the DisplayPort crossbar IC that does alternate mode muxing with the USB 3.0 signal, to reduce manufacturing costs

It probably saves some amount of money, but I'd bet that deliberately leaving it out to encourage sales of the full switch is a bigger factor.

Otherwise I agree with you about protocol confusion.

(Would you even need a mux? I don't think the switch uses USB 3 for anything.)
Keep on projecting.

^ Best way to identify a Narcissist is by their projective identification and overconfidence. In short, calls you an X, but does X all the time ... which gets quite confusing. Must be a nice NLP project in there.
This has nothing to do with aerospace. We are spending billions, trillions if you count the wars in the middle east, on oil subsidies.
Interesting that it came from a climate scientist, unlike the ones today who seems to know exactly what is going to happen in the future.
Microsoft+Office+365+Free+Download+Full+Version+With+Serial+Key
Why don't they give NAMES to these different types of cables?

They seem to have either no names or too many names where it's unclear what is intended for the consumer.

Just giving the cable a clear name (in words, not icons), so you could know what you were buying, and a device could say "you need this kind of cable", and a person could write a blog saying "to support DP-Alt-Mode you need X kind of cable" and all use the terminology... would seem to go a long way.

It seems odd that the USB people have not figured this out.

We can't even figure out what the CALL em all consistently.
Amazing. It's 2019, and you still don't understand what PRISM is. Hint: at no place in the system diagram does it show any NSA system interacting with any of those tech companies' systems.
That's the whole point. If you're a carmaker, you want gasoline to be a cheap, widely available commodity. Gasoline complements cars.

3D modelling software has had a long history of expensive, esoteric, difficult-to-use applications. Epic, hoping to make money from large numbers of Unreal Engine licenses, would like to see that situation change. Ideally (for them), 3D modelling software would be free and easy to use for everyone, thereby lowering the barrier to entry for those who might make 3D games using UE.

By donating to Blender, Epic hopes to achieve two things:

1. Blender becomes better and easier to use, allowing more developers to enter the market and buy UE licenses.

2. Increased competition puts downward price pressure on commercial 3D packages such as Maya, thus making it more affordable for small-to-medium sized game studios, potentially freeing up budget for more UE licenses.
I think it's highly dubious to suggest that the average American is better off due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is as the post you replied to said - the weapons sellers make money, while the rest of Americans pay them through taxes.
As I understand it, the biggest innovation the Wright Brothers brought to the goal of powered flight was the understanding that the biggest hurdle was not propulsion but control.

In a nutshell, most others of the era (not counting Santos-Dumont!) were striving to get more power with an assumption that once aloft with sufficient power that flight would "just 'happen."

Meanwhile, the Wrights knew more power was coming, and instead focused on the more important truth that if the operator couldn't control the ship it didn't matter at all how much power was available, how much lift was generated or how efficient the propeller was.

To this day the three-axis controls they settled on are fundamental to all conventional aircraft. (Though the weird "twisting wing" solution for roll control couldn't scale and so the aileron mechanism was a huge improvement.)
That's a leap, for sure. I am not arguing for a higher minimum wage. I didn't mention minimum wage, even obliquely. I am arguing that it is correct to demonize companies for their labor practices.
Some related threads:

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14284466

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11964673

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=972082
Social media, but not video games, linked to depression in teens
I think that the "fallback to Google" might actually tend to diminish consumer confidence in DDG. Every time you use it, you basically say to yourself "$newRiskyStrategy fails sometimes, we still need $oldReliableStrategy".

Instead, what might help DDG is a plugin that detects when you go past the first or second page of Google search results, and suggests that you might get better results on DDG. It's a little intrusive, but the mental nudge becomes "$oldReliableStrategy has flaws, try $newRiskyStrategy". You get a positive emotional interaction with DDG rather than "forcing" yourself to use it all of the time and "failing back" to Google.
>It seems pretty clear that the development of the bicycle would've been significantly hampered by the fact that balancing on two wheels was:

> (a) unintuitive as an idea with no analogue in nature or previous innovations

> (b) had a marked learning curve

> (c) that learning curve was separate and independent for each design.

This! It's completely non-obvious that balancing will work and there is no analog in nature to copy.
“They expose the growing chasm between what the public expects from scientific research - that is, a series of ever more precise answers about the world we live in - and the realms of uncertainty into which modern science is taking us.”

Perhaps it’s not a butterfly effect, but I like to think of the “butterfly effect” of extra money invested in research, for example, paying off in large future dividends.

For instance, if the transistor had been discovered 10 years earlier, would the world be significantly different today? Imagine hundreds of other smaller discoveries had happened sooner...
But over 1 hour, no?
I mean, obviously it’s not “free” to society.
you can block in-app purchases at the ios level using restrictions. i don't recall if the setting is a different password than the one to login to the ipad though. iirc it seems that you set it up when you enable restrictions.
Why Use a URL Shortner?
What make you use a url shortner like billy or any other one ?
Like what is the main reason and what do expect from them ?
I have to explicitly approve every install and purchase on my kids' iPod Touches. I don't know if they would need a fingerprint on my phone to be able to spend money there, but I assume all the tools are in place to control this sort of behaviour. Apple really need to make it clearer and easier for people.
That’s an awfully easy position to take when you don’t have to work at an Amazon warehouse. How many times have you been fired for using the bathroom?
I get your point, but Samsung is a manufacturer, it sells products. Google and FB can have much more impact leveraging the data they have on everyone, which is why we need as a society to be cautious and keep them in check.
I've loved DDG forever, used it since 2010 I think.
I suppose there are games that only spam ads for monetization and don't ask for your credit cards?
Why I’m staying with Hugo An “interesting” learning experience
Marx predicted this with his theory on Entfremdung (alienation), in a system of highly optimized division of labor those laborers are going to be for a lack of a better word: bored.
These sound like two different kind of posts. Either way, make sure the canonical location is some place that you or your employer (whoever owns the content) have control over.
I'd suggest:

- Post your personal stuff on your own domain.

- Post your Google Cloud stuff on the company blog.

- Syndicate / cross post to Medium, LinkedIn, Twitter, wherever etc. if one or both make sense for the topic.

- You don't need to cross post the whole post if the platform doesn’t warrant it (lots of eyeballs, but hostile to the content-publisher, i.e. Facebook). You can put 2 paragraphs and a link to "read more on xyzblog". You're mostly using these services for discovery. In general, treat platforms you don't control as discovery-only.

- Encourage and enable readers to subscribe and engage directly at the canonical location (if practical), and not on the edges, as long as that doesn’t create a poor experience for them.

- If you find that more people want to engage / or the conversation is higher-quality at one of the distribution points (say HackerNews, vs the comments section of your blog), then provide a link to there from the canonical location and encourage conversation there.

(edit: Formatting)
Brendan, thanks for writing the book. Will definitely get this. As someone looking to always expand my skillset, do you think there will be a lot of demand for programmers who know BPF in the future/now? I'm always interested in low-level OS/internals. Current job is in HW design.
It sounds like conditions are more of a problem than pay. Maybe there should be less that enforce regular breaks for workers doing monotonous jobs, and maximum hours.

Good luck getting a that kind of law passed in America though. Far too socialist.
But that's most port standards that have ever existed.

What can a device do with a parallel port? A serial port? A SCSI port? A Firewire port? Who knows? It's up to the device. It can certainly send signals over that port, of some kind. But what kind of signals? Up to the device. The host can hopefully probe a device-class out of the client and stand up an appropriate driver to talk to it.

A CD player has a 3.5mm audio jack. Pop quiz: does it support SPDIF? In fact, is it line-level or phono-level output? (An important question to avoid blowing out your equipment!) Answer, in both cases: who knows?

You find a random CAT-6 drop in the wall. Does it contain Ethernet? Does it contain Power-over-Ethernet? Does it contain both? No way to know without asking someone or plugging it in.

Or, for a slightly more interesting example of a "port": what can a random peripheral board do with a motherboard's PCI-e (or PCI, or ISA, or any historical equivalent) port? Well, whatever it likes. Does anyone expect every PCI card to be simultaneously a network card, graphics card, sound card, RAID card, etc., just because those are all things PCI can carry? Of course not. PCI-e is a single port, and a single protocol (sort of), but that doesn't mean it's a single set of exposed capabilities.
They could make that the default behavior. But I suspect someone whose mandate is moneymaking would veto it.
Show HN: Open-source simple powerful Envoy ingress config with cert generation
But a canoe floats, as a horse stands.

A bicycle simply does not stand up on its own.
Other jobs are just as vulnerable to protests, strikes, and boycotts, so I don't see why they couldn't all be pressured to treat workers better.

By your logic, workers should never fight abuse, as they'll "just get another job that's just as hard". But the history of labor shows this to be false, and that collective action can achieve improvements.
I mean they practically can become that if you include the networking events and dinners but the listed hours in the exhibition hall usually are closer to 8 hours.
You can get a 2TB SSD for that price these days. Apple charges $800 for that upgrade...
Why transfer 36% of a fire's energy hundreds of miles away to heat your home, when you can simply burn fire locally, and get 100% heat efficiency?

In cold climates, it's far cheaper to use gas heating.
As with all the examples I listed, doing nothing would be better than pouring on massive amounts of toxic chemicals.

I'm not saying "experts have been wrong, therefore listen to me", I'm saying "Using toxic chemicals to fix a problem is often a very, very bad idea".
Attorneys are regulated internally, by the bar itself. So the bar has set a number of ethical rules/regulations that attorneys must adhere to, otherwise be sanctioned/lose their license. For many attorneys, they must practice without help and without the option to stop. They cope by drinking/drugs.

One rule speaks to zealous advocacy of clientele. An attorney can't "quit" without doing so carefully, lest they face sanctions from the bar for hurting a client. Even when done carefully, many states won't let you out of a criminal case because you need out. Someone's freedom is depending on your availability. Complicating this is the fact that some areas of practice are not conducive to building large firms. Criminal defense, for example, is not the kind of practice where you can build a large firm. Most practitioners are solo attorneys. Generally, these attorneys practice without backup and without the ability to stop.

Another set of rules speaks to attorney client confidentiality. A disgruntled client now has infinite platform to complain (check out avvo.com which behaves a lot like Yelp does in every way), while attorneys have no recourse for most public complaints, lest the bar consider their speaking on the subject a breach of client confidentiality.

Bars in most states have tried to reach out with hotlines for lawyers. Seriously.
Don't worry. (Almost?) All the traditional drugs that are effective have been stolen by Big Pharma and are now produced in mass and distributed in a more pure form (or perhaps with some chemical tweak to make it more safe, reduce the side effects, make it cheaper or easier to produce, or as part of an evil trick to get the patent).

So the effective ancient drugs are now part of medicine. Only the leftover are still classified as "traditional" medicine, so don't expect to find too much useful things there.
This threw me on a bit of a tangent to learn about iron and steel, and I came across this good video about the history of the two including the Bessemer Converter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E__zqy6xcw
Bicycles surely played a considerable role in inter-village traffic in the earlier parts of the 20th century. Maybe not in particularly poor or sparsely populated areas, but where villages are close enough to touch each others at the very edges of their walkable productivity zones? Maybe they got their bikes a few years later, maybe their cars a few years earlier than in the cities, but that still leaves quite a few years of cycling.
You can see the images in emacs with org previews. http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2016/11/06/Justifying...
iOS should let you put value limits on in-app purchases.

Even just a setting or prompt when first opening an app:

"Dont allow in app purchases for this app to exceed $XXX (per day, per week, lifetime)"
> For one thing, the ur-comment never even allows for the possibility of non-"armchair expert" criticism of this approach. "Experts who make this their livelihood recommend this course of action." So? Experts have never been wrong, or made egregiously compromised choices, based on the facts and resources they had available?

I don't see how you could read the comment to suggest that. It is quite clearly criticizing the nature of the reaction using language such as "silly quips" and "very little rational discussion" instead of criticizing the fact that the reaction is happening at all. Anyone critical of the plan had ample opportunity to post a substantive complaint instead of a handwavy dismissal of the idea of root comment.
Ask HN: I have a lot of time, how should I invest it?
I've been reading NH for many years, but this is my first time posting, I hope this goes well.

Here is my little story. I'm in my late 20s, have no Bachelor’s degree and no job. I've been applying for various positions in software engineering for quite some time, to no avail.

The thing is, I have a lot of programming experience. I started coding at the age of 12: first in C++ Builder, then I moved to Pascal and C. At the age of 14 I've become obsessed with low-level programming and reverse engineering. I've spent my high school in IDA and SoftIce, writing programs in wasm. Subsequently I've also become interested in web development, and my first real job was a Front-End Developer. At different points of life, I've written programs in C, C++, Pascal, ASP.NET, x86 assembly, php, python, Octave, Haskell, OCaml, coq, Isabelle.

I guess I pretty much stopped coding at the age of 21. I've become interested in mathematics. I've spent a lot of time studying university-level mathematics, and at some point I've actually enrolled in a program in pure mathematics, but eventually dropped out. I've also discovered the world of formal verification and type theories. I actually managed to find a job in formal verification and worked at this position for one year.

And now I'm stuck. I'm not a mathematician, and I obviously can't find a job as a mathematician without a Bachelor's degree. I also can't find a job in formal verification. In my country this market is narrow, and you need to have a PhD to squeeze in. And I'm not a software developer either: all my skills are rusty or obsolete, I haven't really been doing this thing for a while.

So, I have a lot of time, I have a strong background in mathematics. I want to find a job. What do you think are my best options?
Well, 3 years is a long time (though some of your concerns may still be valid). That said, the point of comparison is between the two platforms as they are today.

> unless a platform is doing work outside of “the server”, I don’t believe it can offer hard multi-tenancy.

I admire the work AWS and others are doing to harden the hardware base, but I'm not sure how software would contribute or not contribute to that line of defence.
Can't you buy him a gift card?
> When it came to hiring women for engineering or management, NASA “had a few women, and they kept them hidden,” says Ms. Densmore. “At the lab it was very different,” and there were opportunities for women.

Quite amazing what an important role women like Margaret Hamilton played in the Apollo project, given how hard it is nowadays to get more women into engineering positions. You may remember the famous picture of Hamilton next to the stack of code she and her team wrote for Apollo: see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_...
Yeah, there are also gift cards you can buy at the grocery store (for a $5 activation fee!), but I've actually found that a lot of merchants don't accept them - they have some way of telling which credit cards are "unlimited" and which are gift cards and just rejecting the gift cards as "suspected fraud".
I’m using Firefox and DuckDuckGo and it’s okay. But, for example, I naively made gmail my work mail so I’ll be stuck with that for a while. But a few idealists on the Internet going through the effort of de-google-ing their lives doesn’t change their grip on society.

It’s rather obvious and there’s a lot of google employees on hacker news so I don’t really see the point of arguing further. You’re having a giant part of the defining tech of the 21st century controlled by one company. How’s that healthy?
Some ways to merge vertices by distance (aka "remove doubles"), in edit mode:

1) Mesh > Clean Up > Merge by Distance

2) F3 operator search. Start typing "mer..." and hit Enter.

3) Ctrl-V to show vertex menu, then Merge Vertices > By Distance

4) The quickest: Alt-M + B (show vertex merge menu, B to select "By Distance")

I scratched my head a bit first too, but frankly "merge vertices by distance" is far more descriptive than "remove doubles".

The UI that pops up is just the operator parameters that used to appear when you hit F6 (eg try adding a Circle, see the parameters that pop up) It's better this is visible to users, rather than hidden behind some secret hotkey. As with previous Blender versions, operators are "applied" by default - you can change the parameters via the UI until you like the result. Once you switch operator, move on, or change mode, the UI will disappear and the operation becomes undoable.

To make objects visible/selectable/renderable etc... open the filter menu on the Outliner (top right, looks like a funnel). This lets you add more toggles to the items.

To move the view/selection/snap settings to the bottom just right click, Header > Flip to Bottom/Top.

Collections replace layers and groups (eg you can instance a Collection), though I haven't completely got my head round them yet. But they look quite powerful.