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I still can't get over the Cartoon-like art style of Diablo 3. It's not a bad game, but the graphic style is such a massive contradiction with the subject matter, it could have been a much better game. The story was similarly butchered, having a degree of good execution but just full of demon-cliches, if that makes sense, without really ever being interesting.
Which is an implementation of S
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> And there are just so many things related to China that are worse than Blizzard. I know this is whataboutism and I know you can boycott more things than one, but I just can’t help feeling silly boycotting Blizzard while I’m using an iPhone.

I don't think it's stilly. It seems like we've reached a bit of a tipping point on CCP appeasement with the NBA and Blizzard, and there's nothing wrong with hitting while the iron's hot. Hopefully the heat will spread to other areas.
Relevant (to TFA) quote from the interview:

> A related piece of advice is: Learn the relational model first, SQL second (doing it the other way around is hard). Finally, read either or both of Ted Codd’s first two papers every year. (Those papers are “Derivability, Redundancy, and Consistency of Relations Stored in Large Data Banks”, IBM Research Report RJ599, August 19th, 1969, reprinted in ACM SIGMOD Record 38, No. 1 (March 2009), and “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks”, CACM 13, No. 6, June 1970, which you can find online.)

Ed:

DERIVABILITY, REDUNDANCY CONSISTENCY OF RELATIONS STORED IN LARGE DATA BANKS E. F. Codd:

http://domino.research.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/papers/B...

A relational model of data for large shared data banks:

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf
Yeah, after they were raked over the coals by everyone from their own fans to the US Congress. Perhaps a bit too late.
Cloud also means access on-demand by API.

Private cloud usually refers to that same abstraction layer. Hardware provisioning is abstracted away from use and available on-demand from a pool, and likewise deployment works automatically via the same or an equivalent API.

That's very different from the operation of a typical company-owned datacenter from a couple of decades ago.
Thank you. The sheer volume of blatantly false comments on this thread is astounding to me.
Isn't abstract (flat) art kind of an idol itself? I'm not sure how they equated "false" with "3D". I suppose that was just their particular interpretation of the commandment, but I find it rather derived and not inherent. If you forked Earth and reran that commandment over different cultures, I doubt the flat interpretation would be the majority.
This is one of my favorite books of all time! I built an 8 bit ALU and a few KB of ram and misc other parts of a computer in Minecraft using the schematics in this book and it was one of the most fun things I have ever done.
Yes, on desktop. Harder to achieve with the mobile app.

And as it happens, I don't use a desktop OS to play stuff that helps me fall asleep.
Will they? Wouldn't you need to not only do them, but do them better than average? So it's not just that you need to work hard, it's that you need to be working harder than average. But also if someone was already ahead of you, they could work less than that and still wind up ahead of you.

So now, is it the hard work that determined the end result, or just the luck again?

There are tons of people right now trying really hard to do all sorts of things. Many of them will fail, for a myriad of reasons. That's the idea of "luck". You can't know which reasons will lead to your downfall, because reducing labor and life to "hard work" is so absurdly reductive it's meaningless.

Basically, your individual circumstances are your own and comparing yourself to others might be helpful but it also might not and nobody can definitively tell you one way or the other if luck is even real.
I think he made a logical leap based around the US political parties and wealthy elites' influence over the fourth estate - sanctioned political debates on CNN, sources of information with perceived authority such as Fox News, etc. While I also think it's explained poorly, there may be a connection here to his point about the largest advertisers (politician and large corporations) who fund the media which is meant to check them.
My experience with raising kids is that you develop more compassion, empathy, forgiveness, giving people room to make mistakes and correct them -- extended towards people outside your family too. It's all very humbling.

But I am sometimes surprised when people tell me that's not a universal feeling. At some point I came across some study claiming to show that it made people less trusting of people outside of family.
Shouldn't we say "Activision-Blizzard"? At least that would make Starcraft 1 look like it was coded by a separate entity...
Almost every activity can become addictive to some people. There's a difference between that and addiction so pervasive that it becomes a public health concern. I don't think IMs, or before that texting, or before that teenagers spending hours daily talking over landline, reach the latter level.
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I would be on board with this, except that Blizzard is directly making money off of that "subversive" message. It's not a greater good situation at all, it's just Blizzard making money with the aid of an authoritarian government.
I think modern scientists are a lot less likely to call any empirical relationship a law. Theory is still pretty widely used, and not for things that could be called laws.

You can say the "the theory of quantum chromodynamics," but not "the law of quantum chromodynamics". 'Law' implies a small number of simple equations, while theory allows for a much larger scope of complexity or rigor. The meaning is absolutely different. Modern science is pretty complex compared to what went on 200 years ago, so it's not surprising law has fallen out of favor.
To laypeople (like management), 'programmer' means 'a technical person who (for a living) tells computers what to do'. Terms like 'developer' or 'software engineer' are unfamiliar.
Znpy?
Because this is what the market agrees to bear.

They want you to keep all of your data in their cloud, do all your processing there using their services (because doing it elsewhere incurs expensive egress fees), and get paid handsomely for your need to actually serve the data to your customers.

This also makes a migration additionally expensive, because you would need to egress all your data (old logs, some fresh backups, etc) in a short while.

So it's basically a soft lock-in.
> RADIUS secret key also leaked, so propably it is possible to break into EAP session which infers session secret key for StrongSwan.

Could you elaborate on this? I am familiar with PKI so the first part makes sense, but I am not familiar with the intricacies of VPNs so I am not sure what this means.
All Amazon reviews should be considered highly suspect by default, until determined otherwise.
Okay that makes sense. I read differently, like they had fabricated the story about the service provider's management console.
I called it out as an idiom, because the non-idiomatic use is worse. And, while not qualified initially, I was speaking specifically about Xí Jìnpíng use of it.

That said, when the leader of a country uses a phrase, it is going to reflect on the entire country. And yes, that includes various Trumpisms as well. I knew plenty of perfectly nice people who voted for Trump. Some regret it, others do not; but both are tainted unconsciously by their direct association with Trump. And even though I had no (practical) say in his election, his words taint my presence in the eyes of others.

EDIT: Most things are complex. However, I can not come up with a scenario where China's actions against Hong Kong protesters can be considered to be "correct" and "good". At least no scenario that doesn't involve a lot of lying to others and to oneself.

And Xí Jìnpíng's use of the idiom feels a bit literal when it comes to what is happening in HK.
oooooo, the grandparents video is very different in tone than the version I watched, which is the same talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

I'm sorry, I had assumed I had seen the exact video, but I had just seen the talk from another venue.
The only thing worse than the data transfer costs is explaining them to your non-cloud-savvy stakeholders. Go ahead, try explain this sh*t to your board.
Azure is part of Cloudflare's Bandwidth Alliance[1]. If you use Azure's serverless functions and put your service behind Cloudflare, you'll get free egress.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/
A native app? Native to what?

I'm trying to search the web... from a web browser. I'd be interested to hear what EU-based search engines are out there that have privacy as one of their values.

Also if Google is heavily controlled by law, then what laws don't apply to DDG that would make me safer using Google?
Try running a traffic or packet monitor on a WiFi network. Now tell me how much of that traffic is going over SSL

And even if I don’t run my own VPN, I’d prefer to “move the problem”. It’s so much easier to attack machines on public WiFi than compromise a VPN provider... and much more anonymous, and less likely to incite law enforcement activity. Public airports, libraries, etc are hotbeds of nefarious activity.
I agree with you and edited my wording.
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Yes. It's a scam.
I'm sure there are plenty of people who identify as on the spectrum here on HN; I'd like to ask y'all:

If this were available tomorrow, safe for human applications and without any side-effects other than what it says on the tin: would any of you opt for this?

What are the ethics applications of using a treatment like this on people who are so deeply impacted by autism that they can't meaningfully give consent?
Fairly large optimization if you're smaller and a large amount of your data out is cachable is to run a varnish cache on some of the clouds that give you "free" bandwidth.

ie a $20/mo instance on linode gets you 4TB of transfer -- $0.005 per gig. Scale enough of these in various DCs around the world and you have a pretty cheap self-hosted CDN.
> I'm personally curious if the amount of profit is being overstated. My guess is that video game publishers in China grow to similar quality of western publishers and Chinese nationalism means the gamers from which Blizzard is hoping to glean their "profits" turn to supporting China's home-grown games.

China is not turning out to be a land of milk and honey for western corporations. The best business decision for a Western business with regard to China may be to give up on it, because the PRC wants your local competitor to succeed, not you.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-is-losing-the-chinese-s...

> The shift signals a possible end of an era. For years, it was customary for Western executives to tout their plans for dominating China—a market they felt they had to win as markets elsewhere matured. But foreign consumer brands now hold a smaller market share in the categories tracked by McKinsey & Co. than at any time since the global financial crisis, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of research from the U.S. consulting firm, incorporating data from Euromonitor and IHS Markit. Market share losses were particularly evident in categories such as pet food, passenger cars, videogames, smartphones and appliances.

> ...

> Some Western companies, including Carrefour SA, Amazon Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc., have decided China is too complex or costly to win for some of their major businesses, and have closed or sold them off after facing powerful local rivals who were able to largely control the market. Ford Motor Co. , Apple Inc. and others remain committed, but are struggling to meet expectations. Amazon said it continues to serve Chinese consumers through its cross-border e-commerce business and remains committed to China. Uber didn’t respond to requests to comment. Ford didn’t comment. Carrefour provided no further comment beyond its press release detailing the transaction.

I made this same comment elsewhere, but it's relevant here, too.
I've been seeing this for at least a couple of months. Especially speed trap warnings.
Get outta my dreams. Get into my cloud.
What should someone google in order to find out more about this? (i tried, i got lots of information about the samsung phone, even with -samsung and various incantations of 'init', 'processes', 'linux', etc)
I think this has more to do with collusion than consumer behavior. On average consumers are very rational, even if their rationality is hard to explain.

The issue with per-bit pricing is that a fair agreement for network use would probably look like paying a fee that makes up for the amortization of the network equipment. Anything else is an artificially restricted market created in an attempt to extract more value out of consumers by having them bid against each other.

At some point, yes, we will run out of places to put the switches and routers and then the cost of connectivity will be closer to the cost of land use and will mimic rent, but we are a ways away from that.
Small businesses have an option to not overengineer in the first place.
An ellie app to play around with:
https://ellie-app.com/6YQNRR4MmmZa1
> it wasnt till GPRS that you got faster speeds

Forgot to mention, GPRS uses the same time slots as voice calls do over GSM. Each time slot is still limited to about 9.6k useable data rate as with using a modem, but GPRS allows bonding to use more than one time slot. As such, using three time slots would get you 28.8k, using six gets you 57.6k, etc.
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What is Google’s Soli chip and how does it work?
So it's almost doubling your horsepower, not to mention the full torque of an electric motor, which is to say you get all of your torque available from 0. A Midget with this 110HP electric motor would absolutely destroy your 65HP petrol engine Midget!
Projects that give me hope are local governments taking up "open data" initiatives, and things like this:

https://designsystem.digital.gov/

Finding politicians who are willing to understand tech is hard, but enabling new services/businesses with open data seems to be helping. Politicians understand business I suppose.
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100% true. No idea why you were downvoted.
who said the project was late? You get a new customer or want to get to market with a new feature fast you still need new people.

On the other hand, you have a few “full stack developers” on hand and you need someone to concentrate on one part of the stack so your current developers can concentrate on other parts.

I’ve found it remarkably easy to hire a front end developer who knows the stack we want to use, who doesn’t know anything about the business besides - here is what we want from the website, give us some mockups and we come up with the APIs you need.
Yes, you can run your own VPN... that’s a great solution.

Also public WiFi attracts low hanging fruit sort of exploits. Incentives for the VPN company that already makes money, to actively hack and exploit your machine are significantly less.

It’s not a privacy issue, it’s a security issue.
Legally speaking, age discrimination can not exist if you are under 40. There is zero protection with respect to age discrimination prior to 40 years of age, and the younger you get, the more enthusiastically age discrimination is accepted. Get under 18 and discrimination based on age is fully supported and actively encouraged.
The sky is not falling!

Everyone is discounting one thing - State actor possibility behind this attack.

With state actor comes completely different ball game - totally different budget and capabilities to crack things. NOBODY knows what their unpublicized capabilities could be! So it is good practice to stay vigilant!
It's not just the fear of buying a computer, it's also the fear of hiring staff...
That reminds me of one of the cell phone radiation studies that I see get bandied about sometimes. People that are skeptical of cell phones like mentioning it because they found that rats exposed to massive amounts of 2G and 3G signals were more likely to die of cancer. However, what the study also found is that the rats exposed to the signals actually lived longer than the control group.

If cell phones give me cancer because they make me live longer, then maybe I should start carrying around a second one.

https://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsroom/releases/2018/novemb...
The fact that you think this is some sort of puzzle makes me question how far you actually got with Elm at all.

What's even the "good luck!" part for? Good luck knowing about List.map?
> Tanenbaum's Modern Operating Systems

I found Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces to be better.

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
Yes, you are right! The community - elm users - are wonderful and very nice and helpful! I was speaking about Evan. He doesn't really engage with the community (for example: https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/elm-shadowing-change-issues... - no response, it's always like that) and we don't know what he is working on and where Elm is going in the future! But don't get me wrong, I know he must be very busy and I understand that, but he could maybe delegate work (he doesn't have to maintain the website, the language, the documentation, code examples, and so all by himself). (I am just trying to be constructive by the way, I don't want my post to be offensive.)
Regardless of anonymity or privacy, my ISP almost certainly deprioritizes some traffic (video), so a VPN at least ensures I can use my full bandwidth for whatever I want to access on the Internet.
Absolutely. Being on the spectrum is socially miserable enough that I'd gladly trade an unpleasant chunk of my personality for it.
I have in fact read from libertarians that the government has no business doing such a thing and that's the rightful place of private militias and police to enforce.
This seems a little deliberately obtuse -- for example, showing two arrows from an EC2 instance to an EC2 instance that exits the VPC. But I generally don't find this too hard to follow? Traffic within an AZ is generally free, but there are some cases where it's not and they generally make sense to me (leaving the VPC, pushing data from your CDN back upstream, etc.)

Then again, I worked for AWS for years, so maybe I'm just used to thinking this way so I'm not really surprised by it.
It's not only possible to do this, but should be expected for any security product. Nest is equally at fault here for allowing a user to use a known-breached password.
In SA it's the opposite—govt entities are pitifully incompetent and in debt; Naspers, one of the only state owned companies that went private is I think now close to the most valuable company on the JSE (although they spinned off Prosus to compensate for undervalues Tencent shares).

In any case, maybe Naspers is not what you would want all the state owned entities to turn into? There is always an argument for the risks of privitasation as well...
Work actually is a social club. You don't need to love everyone, but you shouldn't feel uncomfortable. If you're unhappy at work, your work will suffer. If you're excited about what you're doing and you have your team's back, then you will deliver more value. Excellent engineers can be a good find, but teams build excellent things. There is a reason everyone doesn't work in isolation.
Wow, does it really cost 4-5x more to download a 1 GB file from S3 or Google Cloud Storage than it does to store it for a month? That is mind-blowing.
I might have the wrong 'Albert' in mind, but if you mean the 'quick launcher': how is that related to a search engine in any way?

One is for navigating apps, desktop and offline content. The other for discovering online content.
having a certain level of wealth throws you into a world where everyone wants a piece of you, friendships become very difficult because are they friends or are they just after some money?

I've never been rich. Most so-called "friends" have wanted something from me while having little or nothing to offer me in return.

This became crystal clear while I was homeless for years. People continued to want something for me, continued to act like I deserved nothing in return and used my poverty as justification for why the things they wanted from me "weren't worth anything" and shouldn't lead to money.

Wealth just makes it apparent you can't trust people. People tend to be assholes. It's not like poor people are all surrounded by wonderful, loving, caring friends who would go to the ends of the Earth for them.
As long as the allocation size is bounded (due to alloca/VLAs lacking any mechanism to signal allocation failure), what's the problem with that?
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Do you not have a CAPSLOCK key?
Would love to hear about their compensation and benefit packages and how they compare to industry- and NY-averages.

(Is the competitive edge of neurodiversity being properly carried through to living wages, benefits for people who aren’t full time, promotion processes that support differences etc)
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They seem to have sustained this far.
> AT&T has retreated from competitive pricing and said goodbye to more than 2.3 million TV subscribers in the past year.

I know that accounting-wise this "makes sense," but marginal costs after rolling out the physical network are pretty close to zero, right? How is shedding 2.3 million TV subscribers a profitable move?
> You don't know anything about my setup, so you have no basis for claiming this.

Sure, but the discussion isn't specifically about your setup, it's about the advertising claims that a VPN will help prevent tracking. Which is totally bunk.

> On the other hand, if you have an exclusive sticky IP, you will be tracked all the time. And even if they don't do extensive fingerprinting right now, they can always go back and look at basic HTTP logs.

Tracking with IP is honestly hardly tracking at all. With local network NAT and CGN your device IP will not be unique at all. With modern tracking, your IP will be just another couple bits of entropy, and most certainly not enough to pinpoint traffic to individuals in a robust and scaleable way.

The only tracking protection that a VPN offers is preventing your ISP from seeing your traffic, and making it harder to pinpoint web traffic to you as an individual (assumging you VPN provider doesn't have logs)
Right, I'd be sympathetic to this liability argument if they weren't extracting profits and neglecting maintenance. Obviously the fire issue is bigger than a single utility, but their actions here leave them little public good will.
You're arguing for a style of moderation that has never applied on HN, because this isn't that kind of site. Rather than complaining about that here, it would be in your interests to find a different forum that is more aligned with the kind of moderation you want to see.

There's room for lots of different kinds of internet forum. It's good for different sites to make different choices about how they operate—that gives users get a richer set of communities to choose from. The thing to realize, though, is that there are tradeoffs. For example, you can't both have a site that's dedicated to intellectual curiosity and allow aggressive comments and flamewars. If you try, the flames will burn out the curiosity. That has significant consequences for moderation on a site like HN, where curiosity is the core value. In order to preserve HN for its intended purpose, we have to respect that reality.

It isn't "authoritarian supremacist mentality", or any of the other things you describe, to want to maintain a particular kind of internet forum. If your job was to maintain a public garden, you wouldn't allow drag racing in the flower beds.
Ops, there's a bug with Safari: https://github.com/xojoc/games2d/issues/10

Sorry for the confusion!