skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RTS exist, they collapsed and were renamed by the new generation "MOBA's"

League of legends, dota 2 and Heroes of newerth were just real time strategy games with the heroes and the lack of complex base management.

They collapsed into hero deathmatch if you will. So RTS didn't really disappear, the dumb masses merely renamed them MOBA's.

So if we're going by popularity, RTS for newbs (LOL, dota 2) are still very popular.

Complex RTS are definitely rarer things but that's because companies couldn't execute. Supreme commander 1 had a lot of good ideas poorly executed, supcom 2 was just a disaster because they were making it cross compatabile with console...

Company of heroes 1 was great but relied too much on hollywood wow and you can tell that the company of heroes 2 team had no idea where to take CoH after the success of the first one.

Often times game developers stumble into success. Then have no idea what to do once they have that success. Like they just hit a brick wall creatively.
The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)
Medical privacy is fucked by the payments model
They shouldn't, which is why the corporate tax rate should be raised.
Or the creeping normality of focusing on game devs crunch when there are other project based jobs with close deadlines as well
Considering that after RHEL took over CentOS, they are again significantly behind RHEL, and RHEL isn't cost-effective... he could find equal support and probably much more from the Ubuntu community. CentOS or RHEL doesn't even have a public package search, and for good reason. When you find out that they are using an outdated kernel, and outdated qemu/libvirt components, you'll quickly find yourself installing RPMs from a bunch of different locations from Google searches.
I'm old. Dune 2 was my childhood. Thank you Westwood.
If they are buying it from investors what do you think the investors are doing with that money then?

That borrowed billion doesn’t just then disappear into the ether. It gets reinvested.
> or do the shareholders just hoard the money, taking it out of circulation without either investing it or using it to create more demand?

Hoard as in like, under a mattress? No. Investors keep pretty much all of their money invested pretty much all of the time, or the banks that they store their money in do by proxy.
Please explain, how do you think making a promise not to read your messages is different from making a promise by the same company to have a working end-to-end encryption and not willing to compromise it, given the company has a complete control over the app and updates you receive? You can't verify any of it nor that it will be like that with the next update.
Related question: do you know how leveraged GPUs are in shortest path implementations and research?
tl;dr? /me sets mode: -verbose article
In the retail crisis, the shutters are coming down even in New York
I have seen a lot of very good indie games in some genres, but not in all. Can you point to some good indie realtime strategy games?
Brothers who were originally born in Russia made it. What’s with your bigotry?
Unless that company is also sitting on billions in cash reserves.
That sounds like a reasonable way to know it for yourself. But how do you know it for pigeons though? Do they shake violently? Do they show various uncommon behaviors?
>I don't understand why it's okay for such an influential and powerful company to also control how 70% of users accesses the internet.

It's not. This is an anti-trust case waiting to happen.
Who exactly is calling for tax breaks for the wealthy?

The fact they do it doesn’t mean the people were calling for it. A "Trickle down" tax system isn't in any economics textbook or taught/debated in economics courses.
I suspect this is effectively a an aerial copper cross connect / distribution location
Isn’t this the logic behind trickle down economics? Is that theory so uncontroversial now that it speaks for itself?

Or is there a different step in this “giving rich people more money means it finds its way to poor people” s/rich people/investors/ s/poor people/jobs/ ?
They could but a lot of features would break. The app communicates with a closed source API. Plus, we still own the name and the brand and would likely send a take down if someone didn't remove them.
I'm pretty sure that's the first time I responded to you, but whatever... If you concede that it's not unique, what makes you think it's special? I don't feel as though you are making a good faith effort to express your ideas clearly, and are instead choosing to nitpick the precision with which people paraphrase your argument.
Model S and X with the new Raven drivetrain is already pushing 370 miles of range. Very few people are going to drive 4 hours at a time without a break, definitely not going 600-800 between stops, although I could see this as beneficial to the Tesla Semi and their truck offering (where higher energy density is crucial).
It looks like you’ve had some bad experiences with doctors. I myself am a doctor in the UK, and my experience differs from yours. I would say like all humans, some of my colleagues are arrogant, and some are not. I would agree we tend to mention it early in conversation, but more because for many their whole life revolves around it (it makes discussing your life difficult if you ignore it!).
The term used commonly is functional. Some people (like yourself and the article author, as well as some doctors) take this to mean they are ‘mad’. This is not the meaning of functional. It implies a lack of recognised organic pathology, with a likely cause within the brain. This is a very heterogenous category due to the lack of known biological pathology, and includes those with rare and undiscovered diseases, those with true psycho local issues causing somatisation , and those simply lying. Due to the difficulty in treating these diseases, often people attempt one of the treatments that can work for some of these people (somatisation): psychotherapy. Of course this doesn’t work for everyone, but given the low risk it poses it is worth trying.

As for American healthcare, there is an incentive to overinvestigate and overdiagnose. Not all pathologies found are relevant or explain the clinical findings.
What are some good ideas for a B2B SaaS product?
> I don't remember Tesla ever claiming that their vehicles were the "fastest production car"

Here is Tesla making that claim about the Model S. They say, "New Tesla Model S Now the Quickest Production Car in the World": https://www.tesla.com/blog/new-tesla-model-s-now-quickest-pr...

Here is Tesla making an even bigger claim about the future Tesla Roadster with no "production" qualifier. It's claimed to be "the quickest car in the world", which is plainly false: https://www.tesla.com/roadster
You failed to reply about it not being a Russian company.
I wish there were a real uber black service with professional drivers and better cars.
Do you think that all of those people are insane? Surely you must realize that shares of non-dividend paying companies are valuable because they are expected to eventually begin paying dividends.
In addition to a neighbor comment's reference to multiplayer games this also might have to do with some more popular games not being on Steam these days. Fortnite and Overwatch are unbelievably popular and not on Steam.
I (25yo), also had pain in my right pinky and wrist, starting about 2 years ago.

I spoke with a friend who had surgery for Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, and knew a lot more about this than me. What he told me:

* Carpel Tunnel Syndrome affects the thumb/index-finger; pain in the pinky side of your hand could be caused by uthe ulnar tunnel or the cubital tunnel.

* He does sets of 10 of these stretches every hour
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cl-rpkmgPqI/UeUWdH4oMUI/AAAAAAAAAJ... https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/8a/a4/2c/8aa4...

* "One of the biggest things you can do is splint your wrist at night. This is one of the best wrist braces I've found: https://www.amazon.com/Mueller-Fitted-Wrist-Brace-Number/dp/... "

My experience:

- I got a foot pedal, and put Alt, Ctrl, Shift, and Enter on it (and for a while pulled those keycaps off the right side of my keyboard, to force myself to learn to use the foot pedal). This allowed me to keep using a computer while I recovered, and allowed me to avoid stressing my pinky after I recovered. I wrote a bit about that on Reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/7remed/has_anybody_u... .

- The tendon gliding exercises were very helpful. The other stretches didn't seem to make much difference. While I was recovering, I tried to do them hourly. I now only do them if it's acting up.

- I second his endorsement of those wrist braces. When using them, I wear them at night, and when typing if I can (I can use a desk keyboard with them, but can't use my laptop with them). While I was recovering, I used them all the time, now I only use them if it's acting up.

- More recently, I got a Keyboardio Model 01, which puts the modifiers on the thumbs, not the pinkies. The foot pedal is entirely unnecessary with it; it puts much less strain on my hands.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cl-rpkmgPqI/UeUWdH4oMUI/AAAAAAAAAJ...

Nowadays, my wrist acts up maybe once a month or two.
Careful conflating privacy and anonymity
I will ask the ignorant question, why Kaizala and not MS Teams? It also has groups, DMs, picture messaging, office integration, etc... I feel rather overwhelmed lately with all the various messaging options on the market with the same company often having multiple solutions.
In México we say "It's in chinese".

Interesting that so many comments here talk about spanish being used as equivalent for "greek" in their culture.
> This heats up the nanotubes, which then emit visible photons

Critically these photons are not heating up the material. It’s like saying photons reflecting off a mirror heat it. No, the photons that are not reflected do heat the mirror, but not the reflected ones. (At least mostly.)
As to the first bit, I don't think I said it's preventing anything. This is about good defaults that maximize benefit for the general user.

I struggle to imagine it too, but I think that's fine with something new. If I wanted to figure out what it would do, I'd start with having humans do it and look for patterns. (Which is how I suspect they built automated direction-giving systems in the first place.)

E.g., I'd put an out-of-town friend in the driver's seat, sit in the passenger seat, and then give them directions to somewhere, trying to educate them as I go. (I've certainly done this plenty before, especially with someone new to town.) Once I had a basic feel, I'd do the same thing but with other people while I sat in the back.

Up front, I imagine including 2 things for sure. Before we go, a short up-front summary ("we'll take Van Ness across the city, Lombard to the Golden Gate Bridge, 101 around half of Richardson Bay, and then surface streets down the Tiburon Peninsula"). Then along the way I point out key landmarks, major changes in direction, and other useful information. That reinforces and anchors the initial structure.

And yes, I think it could include the things you describe as well.
Supply and demand balance out. The wheel spins slower if the money flows so disproportionately to the supply side that it lowers demand.
“Boys, do you want to do some action in front of the camera?” they said the Russian journalists asked them.

Mr. Saleh later took a Danish journalist to meet two of the young men. After searching online, they recognized the logo of the Russian state-owned news channel NTV, along with the Russians who had made the offer.

The journalist contacted NTV, which denied the whole thing. But besides Mr. Castillo, the night watchman, The Times found other witnesses who backed up Mr. Saleh’s account.

Elvir Kazinic and Mustafa Zatara said they were in the square a couple of days after the clash when they overheard another group of young men talking about Russian journalists and a 400 krona bribe to fight.

I learned something from this: fake violence paid for by Russian journalists.
harryh's argument can be modified to work regardless of how the market is valuing the company. Cash is easy for accountants to measure. Some other assets, such as the reputation of the company's products, are hard to measure even when they account for most of the company's market value (as in the case of Apple, Inc, whose stock price is currently about 9 times higher than its book value). So assume there is $100 of easily-measured cash. Don't consider the other assets; don't try to measure them; don't pay any attention to the attempts of the accountants to measure them (i.e., don't pay any attention to the company's book value). Assume the market values the company at $200. I.e., the company's market capitalization (stock price times shares issued) is $200. The argument continues by assuming or pointing out that investors are rational and that the SEC and the financial-accounting profession operate to give investors accurate information about how much cash the company has, so the market will value the company after the buy back at around $100.

One reason an investor might buy shares is to try to take over the company, i.e., end up with all of its shares. Well, it is well known that the people executing a takeover often depend on getting access to the target's cash and other easily-measured (and consequently easily-sold) assets to help pay for the takeover. Specifically, if the company has $100 in cash, the takeover artist can afford to pay approximately $100 more for the company than if it has $0 in cash. (Specifically, if the target has $100 in cash, the takeover artist can go to one of his friends and says, "Loan me $100 and I'll pay you back with the cash held by the company I am planning on buying.) So since market cap is approximately what it would cost to buy the whole company, it makes sense that a reduction in cash would cause a reduction in market cap of approximately the same amount.

Note that even investors who would never contemplate taking over a company can profit by selling their shares to someone who would and does, so they have the same incentive for valuing the company's cash as the takeover artist does: namely, the takeover artist can afford pay more for a company with cash, so the price paid by the takeover artist to the investor will be commensurately higher.

Now the fact that management decided to buy the company's shares rather than deploy the cash in some other way does send a signal to the market that management believes the company's stock is good value with the result that the price might end up at $103 instead of $100. We might call that a "second-order effect" of the buyback. Another second-order effect is that fact that if the market knows a buyback is in progess, they'll tend to hold out for a higher price. (In other words, a big purchase tends to drive up the price; the company will spread the buying out over time to try to limit that effect.) But these second-order effect are limited in magnitude; they are very unlikely to cause the price to end up at, e.g., $200.
> What have I missed?

I think there are many other possibilities, but unfortunately, we may never have a more conclusive answer than the one we have now. Without trying to give any particular weight to any of these:

Perhaps he unintentionally died during an "enhanced interrogation", and death by suicide is an officially sanctioned coverup.

Perhaps he died naturally of a heart attack, and for whatever internal reason (to cover for the lack of proper medical response?), the prison decided to report it as a suicide by hanging.

Perhaps he was poisoned by a guard or another inmate simply because accused child molesters don't fare well in prison. The prison decided that declaring it a suicide was better than explaining why their security was so poor.

Perhaps the rumors are true that he was working for an intelligence service (US or foreign) and he was sprung by his employer. The apparent suicide is merely a coverup to explain his sudden absence, with the prison deceived as well.

Perhaps nothing at all has happened to him, but for some reason the prosecution and defense decided that a false story about this was the best way to "flush out" some other offender.

I think the real pressure should be on obtaining proper video evidence of whatever did happen. Who knows if it's true, but there are rumors of camera malfunctions. Like police body cams that seem to avoid recording crucial moments, this would seem incredibly suspicious. Was there ever any video found for his "previous suicide attempt"? If nothing else, perhaps there can be a change in policy so that at least the expectation of video evidence will prevent some future recurrence.
This seemed obvious to me, but not from the "skater" analogy.

Almost every atom entering the event horizon goes in tangentially, because the target is so small, falling from effectively infinite distance, which means it should be going only infinitesimally less than lightspeed at that moment.

The only consumers of kinetic energy would be other particles that happen to enter orbit at a different angle, and collide; and electromagnetic interactions, producing e.g. AGN galactic jets. How much of the kinetic energy gets diverted into those?

I see assertions that the singularity is toroidal, so the actual center of the black hole is not itself singular. Can we posit a fully toroidal event horizon, with a hole through it? Might we expect almost all black holes to be that way?

It's not hard to imagine a black hole spinning one way to get an accretion disk going the opposite way, so I would expect to find the occasional not-spinning-much hole.
The national anthem is not a military symbol or related to the military and neither is the national flag. Perhaps interpretation of symbols is the cause of this confusion.

> My problem is that if you don’t bend over for these meaningless gestures, then you get branded as unpatriotic or worse.

I suggest worrying less about what ignorant strangers think.
Why dismiss as conspiracy-minded those who raise the possibility of foul play?
Fascinating exploration.

It seems the ‘eternal adolescence’ of the modern mind is effecting class dynamics.

At MIT I remember being told that we were expected to be the best in the world at a particular technical subject. I remember a mixed feeling of awe and trepidation at being told of the responsibility we held to society.

I hope the elite can improve and practice sacrificial leadership for the betterment of all.
> The best way to spur economic growth is to give money to people who will spend it quickly whether rich or poor. In general, it turns out most very wealthy people have little incentive to spend money quickly. Instead, they save to hedge against and profit from recessions.

Right, you're talking about the velocity of money (https://www.aier.org/article/what-money-velocity-and-why-doe...) which I find a fascinating concept.

It does feel like money is pooling, because as corporations buy back their stock, there is also less stock for others to buy. Since a lot of retirement vehicles in America rely on buying stock, specifically the S&P500, this can really be tricky. Many companies have resisted going public, get bought out by private equity, etc. Private companies are very hard to invest in, requiring a certain amount of wealth and connections. But I think this is why we're in a huge easy VC money startup economy. The money is looking for a place to be invested, and as some analysts say, TINA - there is no alternative, that is, they need to be invested, but the price of assets they can purchase is getting worryingly high.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-09/where-...
Haha...the less successful forerunner to Esperanto (which I've been having a blast with on Duolingo).
Signal might care about the privacy of my information with respect to themselves or eavesdroppers but it is not very effective at protecting my privacy with respect to people I might want to talk to because I have to give them my phone number, which reveals my location and potentially my identity if it is linked to Facebook or something similar.
Is One Concern responding to emergencies, or sucking up a quarter million dollars a year in funding to paint a map using "AI"? That's a lot of actual boots on the ground, saving people.
Anything related to optimization that can be done tractably with heuristics, intractably with optimal algorithms.

You end up going from a first customer tweaking what they want, to fulfilling feature requests from a group of customers, to evolving an entangled behemoth of heuristics that no one can entangle again unless their process goes through similar time commitments.

It's customer oriented and eventually the heuristics get good enough and selling is the main deal.

Heuristic optimization is antifragile by nature (you tweak the solution, vary the inputs to the heuristic to find something better), just like the business model of the optimization service is, in times of crisis people reach for a tool that saves money, unlike other products that lose sales because there's no money to spend recklessly.

So, the problem is building a good tool for other businesses.
Kubernetes isn’t exotic?
The Mixcloud playback experience is changing
Good luck forcing everyone to work for minimum wage. They’d leave for other industries, we don’t have a command economy.
Make them surprise spawn in like Doom
From what I've read, it was developed in India under Microsoft Garage. It's being used more for business.
prose is pleasant when it's good
I think of it like Microsoft Windows. It isn't open source, and truly auditable at-will by independent researchers, so I have no reason to trust it.
The New York Times is at least as guilty in stoking ethnic tensions as Putin is, but probably has more power to do so. Witness their absolute propaganda reporting on the Duke Lacrosse case, Ferguson, their willingness to hire Sarah Jeong.
It may be true that Russia is trying to orchestrate disinformation campaigns around the world, but it is simply preying on feelings that are already quite strong in the West. It is not creating these feelings.

Can they be explained by feelings other than "hate" as the Left often likes to clumsily portray? Of course they can. It is reasonable to have a problem with huge waves of people entering countries in unchecked masses, often people who have very little skills and come from cultures very different from the ones they are flooding into. That would be a problem in any country.

Additionally, the far Left believes in "salad bowls" instead of "melting pots", that one's native culture is valuable and that it should be preserved. The combination of mass immigration with these regressive ideals leads to division and distrust within nations.

It is the entire Leftist ideology of identity politics combined with mass immigration that causes so much frustration and anger among people, who get even angrier when their reasonable views are labeled "far right".

Immigration must be legal and controlled and steady so that assimilation happens naturally without coercion, which would certainly backfire.
Any examples of specific industries?

I agree with the OR approach, I have some secret sauce which I add on top.
It would have been wonderful, but I hardly see anyone trying, alas.
This article argues that Uber is a good business because it did not lose as much money as stated in the profit and loss statement and it's a growing business. It was really 1.6 not 5.2 billion.

The argument is stupid. Whatever the loss was it is still a large loss. Why invest in a company that does not have a clear way to profit and keeps on losing money?

I think they might eventually find a profitable business model but it will be a much smaller luxury market above public transportation and taxies. But at this point, they are still searching for a profit. How is this a good investment?
It was submitted several times, and instantly flagged to death each time. Disappointing.