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I was all up for Civ6. Except they didn't release Civ 6, they released a windows version of Civ6.

Steam however sells me Civ6 which works, which costs about £3,000 (£15 for the game, £3,000 for the lost time I know it will cost me if I install it)
This was one of the groups hired to conduct some of his harassment: https://citizenlab.ca/2020/06/dark-basin-uncovering-a-massiv...
It's not that horrible, even with large displays and a challenging dual-head output:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdKNugT-mTQ
Or, maybe don’t sell at a loss?
With the important caveats of 1) the implicit costs of murder-for-hire are probably pretty high (risk of going to jail, e.g.) and 2) killing someone doesn't necessarily make the lawsuit go away—though that doesn't help the person being killed.

So the utility formula is something like:

(p[c] * c[f] + c[a]) ÷ p[l] > c[l]

where:
p[c] = probability of getting caught
p[l] = probability of the lawsuit being dropped
c[f] = value of your freedom
c[a] = cost of an assassin
c[l] = cost of losing the lawsuit

You can layer in additional probabilities—like the probability of the assassination being successful, or the probability of winning the case. This is just fun to talk about the utility formula of assassinations on HN.

But it's probably true that as c[l] increases, c[f] increases as well, and p[l] drops. So it's rarely (never?) worth this trade-off.
Earth-like planets and ocean worlds could be common in our galaxy, studies say
The password rules don't even enforce a strong password. It let me use "Password123!". It just ads friction to the signup process and protects nobody.
Try getting a non-notarized VST to run in your DAW. At least in my experience, even after allowing the plugin in security and privacy it still never loads in Reaper. It's entirely possible, even probable, that I'm doing something wrong. But what a headache.
But with a “just works” vapor!
Apple 'not told' about UK's latest app plans
Arguably the first iteration of that was Sketchpad (1963). You had a template with rules, then you could change parameters (e.g. size) and it'd apply the template rules to the new input.

Here's an Alan Kay talking about it in 1987: https://archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987?start=249.5
No, I think they're suggesting that console makers need to open up their app stores and that may result in them no longer being able to sell at a loss.
working code can always be refactored to meet conventions
The problem is the change with success. Page and Brin where once idealistic hackers and even came up with a catch phrase of "Don't be evil", fast forward and it did not work and the reality is it probably had very little to do with them. Success and size whittle away at idealistic visions. You need to put together a framework before you are successful, on how you are going to enforce that your core values reflect with success and size and it has to have teeth. I am confident you are a good person and you are idealistic. The problem is, that you won't always be steering the ship.
I think it's the conflating of "religious" and "ritual" that gets out of hand.

So if your family has a tradition of Sunday Morning Waffles, then sure it's "ritual" in a very minor sense. But it's not religious. You don't make waffles every Sunday morning to appease the Waffle Gods, or because of some superstition that the next winter will be terrible if you don't. But these are the sorts of things that get associated with "ritual".

Archeologists being lazy about their interpretations leads to a view of ancient civilisations that they were all "permeated with magic and superstition". And I don't think the evidence actually supports that.
Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia
The value here I mostly see is comparative - would you rather smoke N cigarettes or have Y steaks? That kind of tradeoff comparison tends to be what people are better at, and is what tends to modify my own behavior the most.
Greece financing terrorists: https://www.counterextremism.com/threat/kurdistan-workers-pa... . Please scroll down to "Financing". They also have links to their sources.

As for refugees, they weren't forced. The border police just didn't stop them. I agree Erdogan coming on TV and yelling it out openly was a below-the-belt tactic and after that people started transporting refugees by the bus to the border.
We're in the process of stripping out Code Climate at work. Since it's difficult to run locally, the whole "let CI run to see if your code lints" isn't a great experience. And when first running prettier on our codebase, it stated something like 8 days to "fix" it.

Just a poor experience all around.

GitHub's approach here seems much more sane.
That's not a reduced margin on IAP, that's a different serrice with a different model, and 15% is only after a (quite high) threshold.

Very few mobiles games can be sold using the subscription model.
Love this but please for the love of everything holy make a firefox extension. The bookmarklet works but you only see annotations if I click on the link. It's sad and clear chrome is the new IE and mozilla is again the underdog.
Show HN: Quarantest – Human-testable frontend builds for every pull request
Electronic credit card processing was born in the 70s, a few years after the ARPA research project was started and decades before the modern internet was born. At first it took a five minute phone call to authorize charges, so the infrastructure to support credit cards before commoditized networked computers was substantial. The credit card processing fees have gone down substantially since then with improvements in technology.
You’re putting words in my mouth.

How would you write the rules to get what you want? It’s a complex question.

I used to always buy Mancini roasted red peppers for salads and sandwiches. My grocer did a strategic sourcing exercise and now carries a house brand and some other brand. Should they be compelled to carry Mancini?

WalMart requires that vendors be able to fill orders on tight timescales. If you can’t, your out. Is that ok?

Costco requires that I pay them to shop there. Is that ok?

My wife owned a mall kiosk, and part of rent was a cut of the gross. Is that ok?
Can you enlighten me on why people think Epic is evil? I just haven't really kept up with news about them.
Linux is making everything worse for Linux gamers...

The packaging story, the driver stories, the market share...

The stores don't lose anything when a developer supports Linux, Epic's own engine supports Linux as a target

The problem is the support costs don't seem to add up at all, and I fail to see why the store fronts would be to blame...
Ahh yes, the Buddha teaches us that the root of suffering is desire.
We make four to six times as much through the Windows Store than we get through donations on the krita.org website; with about 80,000 downloads through the website, and about 2000 downloads through the Store...
Well... We really need to figure out FTL travel...
2020 has given us a lot of crazy stuff, so I guess I won't be too surprised if it also gives us the return of webrings :-)

I'm calling it now, the hottest startups will be "disrupting search using artisinally crafted rings of websites"!
Or or or...
Every now and then the balance of power shifts, global/regional powers fade and rise and now it is China's turn.
OCR technology can increase business growth
I found the Andreesen article interesting in the first few paragraphs, where he says, essentially, that you need to look beyond your own city, state, or national government, since all of Western society was caught unprepared for this. Then he spends almost the entire rest of the essay talking about aspects of America specifically, as if they were an explanation for the problem. It's like he didn't read the start of his own essay. Whatever the source of the problem, it cannot be something uniquely American, as France, the U.K., Italy, Spain, Belgium, etc. all had the same (or greater) state of unpreparedness, as measured by per capita mortality.

But, if you look at countries like South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, etc. that had far lower per capita mortality, it's not clear what they have in common. I think it is more important for us to be asking "why were those countries better off, what do they have in common?" than to be trying to answer what we should be doing different. You can't find the right answer until you've asked the right question.

Most of the things that Andreesen says we should be building (like many more nuclear reactors, or mile-higher skyscrapers to increase population density) are, to say the least, not something for which there is a consensus. I wouldn't want to see most of what he lists. Including, by the way, flying cars, which would make our current fatality rate from transportation even higher.
this is really just self-congratulation by them about how they have strong deal flow.

they also use this as a disingenuous/insincere way of rejecting founders (we don't want to invest, but you're probably one of the other unicorns we didn't invest in! check out out antiportfolio!)
Well, that was a chilling and terrifying look into the future.

But, to be honest, I’m not really worried. It doesn’t really change the tactical situation of today. It just makes the attack vector cheaper.

The USA already uses drones that loiter from 30 miles away, and has a high resolution camera that can see you. Then you’re targeted and a Hellfire missile is locked on, and shot at the target.

Same effect. The target is killed.

However, this technology increases the critical retaliation magnitude.

If the attacker chooses to assassinate the political leadership of the enemy country by suicide drone, then the victim country can retaliate with an all out nuclear assault.

So, we are now basically at the same situation we were at before. MAD principles still apply. Nothing has changed.
If it is, no one has done it yet. If someone manages to, I’d love to jump to a non locked down system.
Are they the same? They have to run and maintain payment and subscription services, and I'm sure there's additional overhead dealing with payment problems/chargebacks/etc.

They don't need any of that for free things.
4. Any kind of application that needs to interface with a server that doesn't support TCP (webRTC kinda solves that, but not really, at least not yet)

5. Any kind of application that needs to feel fast. I have a pretty fast phone & computer, but I really feel the difference between a web app and a native app. A bit of data viewing is alright on the internet, but real productivity for prolonged periods of time? I'd rather have a native app.

6. Anything at all that needs to interface with your device. Web apps are extremely locked down, and for good reason, but this does mean that you can't use them as a file manager for instance.

Applications that only need to display, search and edit some data are absolutely fine as a webapp. Anything else gets a lot harder. Although I do feel like we are slowly shifting to more and more web based apps. For better or for worse.
Good article explaining how they use k-anonymity here:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with...
Peter Jackson’s Visual Effects Company Weta Digital Launches Animation Division
It's staggering the amount of things I can do on Linux. One basic feature that I can't believe isn't on macOS or Windows is in Xfce, where I can right-click a window titlebar and put it always on top. I'm sure Windows has the capacity to do this - WinAmp iirc lets the user toggle this in the app - but I can't do it for programs like Firefox.

It's the little things that make me like Linux, things like that. It's endlessly customizable, and if nobody's made something I want yet, I can just make it myself. Nobody's stopping me. Plus, it doesn't have Candy Crush preinstalled in the year 2020.
I don’t see why this is downvoted. It’s simply true that since the original MacOS the Mac was less controlling of software installation than Windows before gatekeeper and the App Store.

It’s completely reasonable to argue that this is no longer true, but it’s denial to say that it has always been this way.
Huh, you are right, they do specifically call out Vise blocks, though they also specify AR-15/M16 vise blocks. I wonder if it's possible to just add an AK trunnion pattern to it and still list it, since it's no longer AR-15/M16 specific...
I can’t see the examples on hash.ai’s front page without creating an account.
thank you for these! definitely checking out Peopleware and Psychology of Computer Programming. Appreciate it!
That article has one of the most inaccurate uses of the word "exponentially" that I have ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them.
The server can put messages into whatever folders it wants. Different folders can even put the same message into multiple meta-folders. The whitelist can be stored as a message (as basically a file) in a config folder. This is pretty straightforward IMAP.

Again I'm not arguing that IMAP isn't creaky and clumsy but let's not pretend that lack of power is the reason they didn't use it.
The CEO of Wirecard resigned after the company acknowledged $2B had gone missing
> pour millions into a world class engine for devs

That developers pay millions to license and use. This isn't charity work.

> build out the first "full house" competitor to Steam

So they can control the market as a replacement for Steam, a superior platform that has (a) an instant return policy [1], (b) the ability to emulate input for any game for the disabled[2], and (c) the ability to share your entire game library with family without having to share accounts and save files.

[1]: Obviously hasn't always been the case.
[2]: Via Big Picture Mode, which allows you to use any controller for any game and remap inputs for games that have no such settings. A total blessing for anyone disabled or with a preference for different controls.
I love how it uses multiple threads

Dramatic time saving!
Yes. As an example, think of the juicero debacle. They tried that game, and failed miserably because the whole offering was not attractive. Most of your ad absurdism examples fall along these lines. I have no problem with restrictions that improve overall experience—-if it sucks, a competitor should be able to do better.
I opened the Microsoft Store and had a look at the top 50 items in "most popular". It includes items with such mainstream appeal as the Windows Terminal, Ubuntu 20.04 and the VMWare client.

The most popular app is Roblox. It has 164 reviews. The second most popular app is Spotify. It has 57 reviews. On Android, it has 19 million reviews. Their Android TV app even has 200. The item with the most reviews is Minecraft, with 1000 reviews. On Android it has 3.5 million.
His channel is great. I _really_ want to go to one of his live talks one day.
The part that has been open sourced is essentially UI. Some of the most consequential parts are in the Bluetooth metadata, and how this leads eventually to an average attenuation over a certain time period.

This has epidemiological consequences, as acknowledged by one of the leaders of the DP-3T team to the BBC:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52995881

Apple (and Google?) retain higher quality signals than what they make available to the apps.

It introduces new security issues, because Apple and Google have had to make choices that degrade the qualities of the protocol. See Sections 3.5 and 3.6 in the report. The Swiss Cyber Security Centre expressed negative sentiments towards the fact that Apple and Google didn't implement some of the recommended protocol improvements:
https://www.melani.admin.ch/dam/melani/de/dokumente/2020/Rep...

Finally, this Bluetooth layer becomes a covert channel for transmitting information between phones. There is a lot that we can't tell from this outside.
You then end up with no body buying the console. It would cost $999, and everyone would have problem justify that price tag. And the total market would shrink, which means for Game developers their Games would also have to be priced higher in order to make a return of investment. Normally that wouldn't work because pricing it higher also means less people are willing to buy, so the solution would be to lower the cost of making games. And less ridiculously expensive AAA titles.
Reading the comments and is no one missing out on the irony that simply choosing "Imbox" over "Inbox" got all of the people on this thread talking about their product, and onto the front page of HN? Yeah it's goofy. Yeah it's controversial. That's absolutely the point and that's what gets people talking.

I think it's genius.
Thanks for buying! Any money I make eventually works its way back to Malawi where I grew up, so it not going to be squandered :)

A few weeks ago a high school physics teacher who used the book for some extension classes sent me some python code he says will do all of the calculations. I have asked the family friend who maintains the book webpage to put it on there, and I am sure she will when she gets a chance. However if you email me - terry @ qisforquantum.org - it would be great to have someone look at it - I don't know python at all and can't even run it to check it. (I also have some atrocious octave/matlab code of my own which anyone is also welcome to.)
Lighting-Up a Flutter Application on Microsoft Surface Duo
So, basically Yacy?

https://yacy.net/
Even earlier than MSN Messenger was the RTF document format, promoted by Microsoft as an interoperability format to allow them to co-exist with Microsoft Word in a market dominated by WordPerfect, WordStar, etc.

And of course Microsoft dropped RTF like a hot potato when they managed to use their new Microsoft Windows platform to leverage into a huge market advantage for Microsoft Word. Other vendors were obviously initially reluctant to spend enormous resources to port their software to Windows, a competitor’s platform, but Microsoft could spend hugely on developent of Microsoft Word for Windows, making it very impressive graphically, and when the Windows platform was successful, all other word processing software vendors were left behind, forced to play catch-up. I also remember hearing that Microsoft were using secret Windows APIs to get nice things like toolbar icons in color, not available to non-Microsoft companies.
In a way, Nextcloud is a silo (even though it's open source and can be selfhosted). If you annotate documents there, you'd have to snapshot the page and move it into the app which kills the social function?

In contrast, Hypothesis only keeps track of the metadata and uses fuzzy anchoring to make it resilient to the markup changes.
Page load times are a trailing indicator for web performance, they're not really the core issue I'm talking about. The original iPad could render even large HTML documents at a usable speed, including styles and inline images. Once a page was loaded and rendered the scrolling, tapping links, and interacting with forms was all usable fast. Even while the content was loading you could interact with the page.

The video you linked showed this capability. That TechnoBuffalo page was a pathological case for the iPad rendering and it was still interactive fairly quickly even if all of the resources weren't finished loading. I had the original iPad and browsing worked just fine on it. Even when pages took a long (multiple seconds) time to load they were scrollable and interactive. I could read the content as everything loaded.

The issue today is there's no page to start rendering in the bloated JavaScript way of the world. The HTML received from the server is just a reference to load all the JavaScript which needs to parse and execute then fetches and renders the content. A relatively low powered device, like the original iPad, needs to do vastly more work to display even just text content than a static HTML document.

It's not shocking that your modern iPad renders pages faster than the model released a decade prior. Not only does it have far more power and memory but the network (both last mile and far end) is faster. It's also got an extra decade of development on WebKit. The web is more bloated but the modern iPad has ramped up its power to compensate.

Look at Reddit versus old.reddit.com. The "modern" Reddit page has poor interactivity even on my current iPad. The old.reddit.com site, which is similar in complexity to 2010's Reddit, renders damn near instantly and has no interactivity issues.

> Conceptually, I agree, but every image and video we use for content in websites now is significantly higher resolution and quality than they were back then. If you just want to read text, then you’re correct.

Using huge images and video for "content" is part of the problem. Images have been used on the web since Mosaic, older devices can handle inline images just fine. It's the auto playing video ads and tens of megabytes of JavaScript executing to display a dozen paragraphs of text that's problematic.
There are ways to figure that out based on average infection chains and risk, and I've done this for flu. But you couldn't do that now with available information. The value you'd get is highly dependent on the R_naught (which you can get a reasonable guess of right now) and the percentage of the population which ultimately gets infected. (Which is a much more uncertain value.)
For those interested these are the changes to v1:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/104/materials/slides-10...

So v2 now also uses packet loss as a congestion indicator and supports ECN.
Right (likewise commenting on your note, and not on this product)--we need development down multiple tracks... maybe:

1. data/info-skepticism

2. data/info-literacy

3. soundly interpreting data/information

4. data/info-interpretation skepticism

5. data/info-interpretation literacy
This feels like an ad. I'm not sure I can trust this writing.
>Let's be honest the real reason to use Telegram wasn't security

Yet the VERY FIRST feature presented in Telegram's front page is privacy: "Telegram messages are heavily encrypted and can self-destruct."

Heavily encrypted is a complete lie, but people who want privacy don't know that, they will download Telegram thinking it's secure. You're wrong and you're doing harm by spreading claims like that.

>or his advocates) pops up and tells us it's trash and we should all use signal instead.

Yeah, everyone should fight the propaganda machine shilling a really, really dangerous product.

Every time someone recommends Telegram it's due to features, the marketing strategy is clearly "if we can get them hooked on features, they will forget about the fact every feature is designed to spy on them".

>The real reason to use telegram is that it's miles away the best messenging program out there.

Ooh you're one of them. See here's the thing: the features that aren't really private, aren't really features. Telegram is a collection of trojan horses: seemingly useful things that actually hurt you by spying on you. When you measure Telegram's E2EE features against that of Signal's you'll immediately see who has more features. Telegram doesn't even have group messages.

>It's as user friendly as whatsapp while having completely seamless desktop/mobile integration

It doesn't. There is absolutely no desktop mobile integration for anything that's E2EE. For Signal, everything is.

>Then you have all the gravy like cool tools for groupchat admin, channels, and bots of course

No there are no private group chats with any kind of management in Telegram.

>Yeah my texts are probably being read by the FSB. So what?

To me it sounds like you're a privileged person who doesn't have to care about these things. You're not doing anything that will ever rock the boat, so you're pretty much immune. The only real question is, what is your legacy?

Also why did you come here to tell us about your privilege and to list Telegram's dangerous features? Because you're a good Samaritan?
A Filmmaker Got the #1 Movie in America During a Pandemic
I did. I'm using a Galaxy Note 9. Apple device owners shouldn't have to abandon their favorite phones though. They should have software freedom and choice.