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>It was not long before Herzstark's financial backers, thinking they had got from him all they needed, contrived to force him out by reducing to zero the value of all of the company's existing stock, including his one-third interest.[1] These were the same people who had earlier elected not to have Herzstark transfer ownership of his patents to the company, so that, should anyone sue, they would be suing Herzstark, not the company, thereby protecting themselves at Herzstark's expense. This ploy now backfired: without the patent rights, they could manufacture nothing. Herzstark was able to negotiate a new agreement, and money continued to flow to him.

Plus ça change with startups...
So the way I see it, when modding became a thing because back in the 90s and 00s, the barrier to entry for a new game was really high, but the barrier for entry for making assets and such was really low. The situation is reversed now-anyone can pick up Godot, Unity, Unreal, etc and start making whatever they can imagine but they can't just start making AAA quality content. That's why you see lots of assets for a few titles where the community has really gone in deep, but also plenty of games that nobody even tries to mod-without the developer tools there isn't much hope, and if you just want the basic gameplay of, say, a FPS building it from scratch is no longer insurmountable.
> - heaps beyond 32g can be beneficial but you’d have to go for 64g+, 32-48g is a dead zone

I'm curious why that is the case?
Ghost: The Startup Building OSS for Journalism
There are many constants in the Universe, but evaporation isn't one of them
Java's market share is declining fast.

Ruby and Clojure are dead, literally for Clojure, most libs are from >7 years ago.

Javascript(and TS) and Python are the tools of the trade to achieve most common things.

Devs are starting to realize how they got fooled by Rust's marketing/hype train for general purpose programming/exploration/prototyping and productivity because it's too restrictive and its compile times are atrocious.

A more accurate Rust slogan:

A language empowering everyone
to build reliable and efficient software at a very high cost.

Which is fine is you really need that efficiency.
GameSnacks brings quick, casual games to any device
Options are priced by the same market forces that a speculator attempts to time. You can always lose the price you pay for the options, although you can avoid insolvency by not buying more than you can afford to lose.
That's why they want LISA, as it can sense much lower frequencies[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Ant...
Not the OP but I know that in San Francisco smash and grab car break-ins have been at epidemic levels for a while and it doesn't require having anything visible. It's simply that the large number of urban tech workers increases the odds that any reasonably nice, recent model-year vehicle will have a high-end phone, tablet or laptop hidden within.

I parked my car overnight in a large, well-lit city-owned structure with cameras and live attendants 24/7. I parked right under a light, near the elevator/stairs in a higher traffic area and it still got a window smashed by someone despite nothing being visible. Nothing was stolen because there was nothing to steal but still annoying to file insurance and get repaired.

I know people that have reinforced metal lockboxes installed in the back of their SUVs to secure their laptop bag. Most people just take their laptop backpack everywhere but bag-grabs are increasingly common and even more scary than car break-ins. One guy I know who lives and works in downtown SF doesn't have a car because he can walk just about everywhere he regularly goes in the city. Last year he stopped taking his laptop anywhere in SF and doesn't carry a backpack anymore. He now just keeps a system at home and an identical system at work.
I turned off custom fonts and find some websites are much nicer to read.
This is a misnamed article. There is nothing zen about this article. A better title would be “I’m mad that no language is perfect” because that is really the gist of the article. Author has nit-picks with every contemporary computer language. “If only someone would write the one true language, here is why every other language fails to be that, blah blah blah.” Pure opinion piece.
You must be living in an alternate dystopic 2020 media landscape where the problem is something else besides radical fragmentation of markets, instantaneous elevation of social media anecdotes to national coverage, and widespread agreement to disagree about matters of fact.

The one thing we can’t criticize our media for is a lack of diversity.
What looked like acceptance for a while was mostly ignorance, and that's changing fast as people start facing consequences. I prefer a world where no one is tracked or profiled, because every step down that road increases the difficulty of turning back exponentially. This is not about convenience, this is about creating a future no one wants to live in.
The last bit is what has me most concerned, services getting more expensive because everyone is expected to subsidize with their data. I guess then it’ll just be time to build something that drips realistic data about me to the pod.
Then... why don’t we act against it? Isn’t it, then, more urgent than other topics? It doesn’t seem like we care, given we always treat male complaints as crybabies.
You still pay a lot in IV even if you do a spread, i.e. the reward/risk is not that great (2022 puts on SPCE have an IV in excess of 100%... that's too much for me). And I don't have the stomach to sell options. But that's all my opinion, go ahead and do it if you think it makes sense.
* "Human"? Almost everyone is ambitious and idealistic when young. But people change, 11 years is a long time. Mortgages, college savings and retirement pull those dreams to conservative ground. Depending on your obligations, turning down 2.3B USD could be irresponsible.

Your phrasing implies this is unexpected, but I find this almost basic to humanity, though sobering.

* or the German translation, if you wish

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ninja edit: I regret this comment as soon as I submitted it :( but will let it stand. I come to HN to find exactly this idealism that runs counter to the human nature of money-above-all. No, it should not be normal to "sell-out" and the participants I find on this site are the ones I hope will counter that tendency. Continue being disappointed in those who settle!
If one is responsible for ensuring security, they won't be very effective unless they realize malicious actors masquerading as the incompetent exist and are active.
I know about delve, but it's an extremely basic debugger. You can't even pause program execution on demand or execute an arbitrary function while stopped at a breakpoint.

Beyond that, the complexity of a language has nothing to do with how much you need a debugger. If you are writing a complex program, you sometimes need a debugger to quickly figure out what is going wrong, instead of endless theory -> change/log -> rerun cycles.
Go getting generics is definitely surprising. I used to even argue in favor of Go the way it is.

If there's one thing I got from these responses, is that I should look at Kubernetes.

Thank you for your answer.
Well, this part didn't age well :

> Another extremely strong network effect is proprietary chat systems like ICQ or AOL Instant Messenger. If you want to chat with people, you have to go where they are, and ICQ and AOL have the most people by far. Chances are, your friends are using one of those services, not one of the smaller ones like MSN Instant Messenger. With all of Microsoft’s muscle, money, and marketing skill, they are just not going to be able to break into auctions or instant messaging, because the network effects there are so strong.
> And how many of them required anything but the standard response from authorities?

What do you mean by "standard response"? It seems to me that you have a working definition that is less an objective standard and more a subjective, circular definition of "anything that didn't fail."

Take Hurricane Harvey for example. The rain Houston received was record-breaking: ~30" in the course of a day or so, when the previous monthly record was 19". Does that require merely the "standard response"?
It seems like most articles discussing Elastic search administration read like an instruction manual for something like steam locomotive - describing just how to constantly shovel the coal in, relieving the steam pressure in just the right way, etc.
Healthy 29 year olds die, regularly, everyday. They are just less likely, though.
Yep! As-such a lot of people like myself only solder in well-ventilated areas and/or use fume extractors, ie: https://www.amazon.com/Hakko-FA400-04-Bench-ESD-Safe-Absorbe...
We were hit by this on Kibana 6.x as I didn't read the x-pack trial properly. I thought at least login would be there. My bad. We added Nginx auth after that.

But x-pack security is actually free from some point release in version 7. Though x-pack is not open source, just free to use. So our nginx Kibana auth is still there.
Because it’s true, it’s a terrible piece of software. The account sync is unreliable, the automatic tagging of expenses is horribly off most of the time and on top of all they sell your data to creditors and other third parties. No, thank you. Look at Copilot if you want to do all of this but much better!
That's why it was so good
Because the great majority of users would choose Chrome on their iPhone and not Firefox, just like they do everywhere else.
Isn't record low unemployment in the face of "record Trade deficit + record fiscal deficit + record govt debt + record corp debt" a massive problem? Where do we go from here?
I agree. I think filter bubbles will be to blame for delaying the next recession.

Maybe the corona virus had an impact in terms of showing investors that big news can transcend filter bubbles and we are not immune from global panic.
I think part of the article's point was that communications to the overall public is kind of lack luster. One of the key bits of the article is that we need to get the individual citizen mentally and physically ready, and that involves helping articulate (ahead of time) what the types of actions and behaviors may become necessary. What does living through a pandemic actually entail? What are the actions to take now, and what actions will I have to take?

Communities aren't just made of public health organizations and hospitals and emergency workers, they're made of individual citizens and their families and friends. Communities should be made prepared from both the top down, and from the bottom up.

But yes, definitely less edgy and out there.
Developers: Defeating Impostor Syndrome with Tickets
> COVID is probably worse than the seasonal flu, but it's not outside the reasonable range of what a flu pandemic could do.

I think the issue is that we don't know yet how bad COVID-19 is. China is hiding stuff and it's not clear what is going on over there. There are also some uncomfortable, if true, things about it: like asymptomatic transmission for 2 weeks and ability to survive on surfaces for 5 days on certain conditions.
Nice work, will be trying it this week. Like many others, i am using Paw.

I have a comment about the UI, it resembles a lot to Table plus and Postico

Table Plus UI
https://tableplus.com/assets/images/postico-alternative/dark...
You should give it another try. New versions of Java have made great progress in the memory area.

I feel like a lot of hate Java gets nowadays is largely due to historical reasons.

Though come to think of it, if you're talking about ES itself and not Java, then I have no idea, I never used ES in prod.
It's owned by Murdoch and faithfully trumpets the party line:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post#Influence

Good luck suing them.
I’ve been away from tech as long as OP and trying to get back into the industry I completely second this.
Technically that is the same thing google and Facebook do.
>> "except Joe"

Very easy to avoid this: just don't put abusive clauses in there that Joe's lawyer will inevitably redline, and don't count on him signing it without checking with a lawyer.
Muñeco Maldito EN Morelos (Mexico)
Every time this frontpages I feel super shitty about not getting back to it. I've learned a _lot_ about how to teach TLA+ in the past three years, and there's a lot I know I can improve about this guide. One of these days, I promise!
Earlier in the week I went to large university library. There were at least 5 people there severely coughing. Everyone else was sitting around like it was perfectly natural, no masks, no attempts at containment or isolation.

Yes, we're in cold and flu season, so it could be just ordinary cold and flu (which is bad enough, as the flu kills lots of people as is, so spreading it is irresponsible at best), but the US is hardly doing any testing, so for all we know it could also be COVID-19.

The amount of complacency around the US right now is stunning. People are just burying their heads in the sand and acting like it couldn't happen to them, relying on the media or government to tell them when to take it seriously, and both the mainstream media and the government flat failing to get people to prepare or take any measures to slow down the spread of this disease apart from telling them to wash their hands.

The numbers coming out of China are not reliable, but given the numbers we do have (including non-China cases) it seems COVID-19 (aka SARS2) is far worse than the regular flu (for which at least we have a vaccine, though not nearly enough people take it).

We should be doing everything we can to slow the spread of this disease, to buy some time for medicine to study it and come up with treatments, but instead outside of countries that are already obviously seriously affected people are acting like it doesn't exist.

That kind of complacency provides the perfect breeding ground for this disease.

For those of you who want to keep a closer watch on what's going on, see:

https://old.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/ (more lax moderation)

https://old.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/ (more strict moderation)

https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/ (science-oriented news and discussion)
A small minority of unusually smart inventors is all you really need to explain impressive past technological achievements. This doesn't really prove anything one way or the other.

I'd be surprised if people hundreds of years ago were as smart on average as people today, just because of the much higher rates of malnutrition back then.
> Any serious company is not going to (1) allow arbitrary code to be pulled from github/etc.

Parent said "Git/Github". You can use private git repo, you can use private github repo.
Code review. Lots and lots of code review!
Pod owners will have to do things like api client libs developers are doing; creating a bunch of adapters.
It’s right in the link what is assessable:

Kitchen - structural changes, upgrading of plumbing and/or electrical systems, changing the floor plan, increasing the size, replacing cabinets, countertops, flooring or built-in appliances with upgraded material and finishes

Replacing old countertops with same material, but new, would trigger an assessment, but upgrading them would.
Thank you so much, everyone, for your feedback! Appreciate the encouragement and constructive criticisms equally. We understand and share the shortcomings you mentioned as well. As one of the co-founders and the key person to take the blame, I wanted to answer some of the common concerns and admit our weaknesses as well.

Why build your own platform instead of Woocommerce/Shopify?

The countries we were targeting in south Asia were countries like Nepal and Bangladesh where debit card purchases aren't really a thing. Most of the transactions are still in cash, bank transfers that require using local payment gateways or locally popular app-based transfers (which resemble Venmo and Square Cash in the US). And also, we needed to use a combination of shipping services since worldwide shippers like UPS and FedEx don't ship to the doorsteps in these countries since home addresses aren't easily GPS-able due to organization issues. Some of us grew up in these countries, so we've experienced this personally. These were just some of the custom situations which wouldn't have been addressed while using Woocommerce or Shopify. So we decided to build our own platform to customize it as per our unique needs as we go.

Licensing

We would appreciate feedback on this very much. We went with MIT License since that seemed to be the only one that allowed people to use it without much restrictions. I admit I didn't spend much time on this, but now looking at all the forks and engagement, it is something that needs refinement for sure.

Shortcomings in the tech and tests

There is a fair share of shortcomings which we are aware of - like missing tests and antipatterns. We wanted to get the initial version to the market quick, so a good portion of the work was rushed. We're working towards addressing these issues now, since we never thought someday Veniqa would be open-sourced and others might end up adopting it. Also, the engineering team for 80% of the build was just two of us, and we had a third member join us after. With regular full time engineering jobs during the day, the only way to finish building Veniqa was through caffeine powered insanity of 15 hr coding marathons during nights, weekends and vacations.

Future Plans, Contributions and Developer Documentation

We are currently in the process of building test suites, docker images and writing extensive documentation to speed up startup time. Hopefully, so we can encourage code contribution from other smart fellow engineers like yourselves. Also, there are areas like shipping where the logic is heavily geared towards fitting our custom needs, we are looking to generalize that. In general, we aren't aiming Veniqa at people for whom Shopify or Woocommerce gets the job done. It is for the engineers or bedroom startups who have custom needs due to the nature of the business or want to use it as a baseline to speed up rapid development.

Any github issues, code contributions are all greatly appreciated.

I have detailed some of the lessons I learned in the process in this article.

https://medium.com/swlh/why-my-startup-never-went-live-despi...
I mean, it only takes one failure to kill you.
You posted similar comments before and I asked you for a comment on your affiliation with saaspass here, but got no reply, any chance you will get to that?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22173634

It might be good to clear this up.
The author forgot to mention Brexit.
No joint announcement with other industry 'leaders' like Google and Microsoft? What is their stance on this? Will they be making similar changes to Chrome/Edge? And Mozilla? And maybe I am wrong but compromised certs are game over very soon aren't they? Reducing their lifetime to 'just' a year is still plenty of time to do enough damage seemingly, so what exactly does this high-handed change bring to the table? Another reason stated that it will keep the cert management folks busy and alert also sounds like grasping at straws to prop up the decision. I wonder what the entire reasons are...
Can you elaborate on “huge long-term correction?” Are you speaking towards the global economy or specific countries?
You can check out https://vector.dev/ to replace Logstash. Not sure about replacing Elasticsearch with something non-Java. Especially for the search use case -- Lucene is fairly dominant. For metrics you have prometheus (Go, not sure if that is better for memory issues with the non-tunable GC). You will probably want/need a clustered storage backend for prometheus. For that you have lots of options: https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-en... . Of those, TiKV (Rust), InfluxDB (Go), and TimescaleDB (C - its a Postgresql extension) seem like decent options.
The paper cites GISAID db as their datasource. I wonder if at present the db includes sufficient number of early samples prior to the mentioned Dec 8), given the widely described massive efforts by official China to silence the early reports of the outbreak [0]?

0: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-information-crackdown-...
I generally agree with your points, with one exception:

> If the next release window is a year away and/or if people are harmed by a faulty product then you probably want it painstakingly manually tested.

No, you manual testing should only be for the things which are difficult to automatically test. But I think you should _always_ strive for extensive automatic testing. Even with hardware which doesn't yet exist, mocks are perfect for that.
Doesn’t that kind of argue the point though that you don’t need government to interfere with tech to avoid monopolies and anticompetitive behavior? The market took care of that.
I used to work in a school system where numerical answers weren't required in physics. Usually, the only reason you'd calculate a numerical answer was to help you check it for reasonableness. If you calculated a wrong numerical answer and didn't explain it, then your grade would be lower than if you had just stopped at the formula.

If a question asked you to compare two machines to see which produced the most power, you'd get a top grade writing a symbolic inequality and pointing out in words that some factors are common so they don't affect it, but one of them has an x^2 while the other only has an x, so that for large values of x, that one produces more power, while for small values of x, it's the other one. You'd get a lower grade for calculating two numerical results and identifying the bigger one.
Should clarify that first statement.

Java market share is declining but the JVM is still as good as ever. Instead everyone is moving to Kotlin and Scala.
No, their thesis is "There is almost certainly community spreading in the US that is going undetected," which is based on observations that the US is doing less testing despite having much greater populations and higher incidence of risk factors. Do you contest that statement and its supporting arguments?
> it's not outside the reasonable range of what a flu pandemic could do

Being both more virulent and having a fatality rate at least 20 times greater means it is definitely outside the range of what flu does.
Why We Run
If this concept gets popular enough eventually the majority of users will start using the same old model Android phone(Nexus 5, etc.). That's when all of the unpatched vulnerabilities will become a serious problem that's difficult to fix.
There is nothing in the news that should ever affect your investment strategy as a regular consumer. Emergency fund, max Roth IRA/401k diversified according to goal retirement age, and save separately for other stuff (house/car/kids).

If it’s more complicated than that you 100% need a progressional to do it for you, even if that means calling fidelity/etc and having them take a look.
Maybe the person said that to test if you were the type that would just blindly agree with someone because they are "senior".
If you are young and healthy, staying more than usual at home should be more than enough. Unless you think this virus is going to kill 1bn+ human.
One of my favorite war stories was losing a client after we spent two days trying to model their problem and discovered they didn't actually know what they wanted and they decided to just scrap the project and do something else
I use hrblock online for taxes and at least there you can opt out of information mining.
I think it depends who go is competing with. C, Java, Python, etc, it makes a different set of trade offs.
why 10 mil? where the number come from?
As an alternative, there's an open-source OpenDistro for ElasticSearch [1] that offers X-Pack-like security with some other X-Pack-like features. Although it is not officially supported by elastic.co, but it's a pretty good alternative and is supported by Netflix, Amazon, et all. Worth giving a try.

[1] https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/