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Cool. Thanks. So I take it you primarily write code leveraging the Unreal engine but the point-n-click functionality of the Unreal editor is more utilized by people doing the world design and artists?

I've explored Unity a small amount but I was really turned off by the overly simplistic approach to game development. The whole scene-first approach where you'd just drag in your hero object, set some attributes, drag and drop some enemy objects, etc. It reminded me heavily of Flash game development 15 years ago.

Curious, do you guys use an engine (unreal, unity, godot, etc) or something in-house?

Hah! I'm in a similar position. I have a really old machine at Rackspace ($20/mo) from about 2010 that's running websites for some family and friends. I could easily transition to a ~$5/mo VPS elsewhere but I really don't want to deal with the migration hurdles.

AirBNB: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=426120

lambda gets incredibly expensive for anything that approaches even modest usage levels. Once you exceed about 10 requests/second, you'd be better off with the lowest tier virtualized instances ($2 - $5/mo from most providers including AWS)

If the lawsuit fails he could always create a employer review site, post a bunch of negative reviews of Yelp, and then offer to remove the offending reviews if they purchase an annual subscription.

My guess is the inventory data itself is real but stale. The developer was using a static dataset to build out the forthcoming "purchase cars from inventory" and it was inadvertently pushed production before it was ready. So the dataset is a mixture of actual inventory cars and cars that had been produced but simply hadn't been received by the new owners as of the snapshot.

Hah, yeah they did. I had them open when I typed up that comment. I guess that argument is moot now.

> Notice this guy joined Twitter in December.

Leakers have good reason to protect their identity. Especially when Tesla fans get so clearly agitated about anything that can be even remotely construed as negative toward Tesla and/or Musk.

> particularly the one saying there are tons of RWD Long Range cars just sitting. The claim that they have them in inventory but aren't selling them just beggars belief.

Why do you need to be "suspicious" of something as obvious as the below. These are just 3 examples that appear like you can place the order. Those are all LR RWDs (they only comprise 2.4% of the dataset, so I agree that LR RWDs are basically non-existent)

* https://3.tesla.com/model3/order/5YJ3E1EA7JF136358

* https://3.tesla.com/model3/order/5YJ3E1EA9JF118167

* https://3.tesla.com/model3/order/5YJ3E1EA0JF062734

> I also wonder if he's sure they're US cars

The sixth digit in the VIN is a '7' for European cars and '1' for North American Model 3s. 100% of these VINs have a '1' in the sixth position. There's also 10,848 vehicles listed, quite a few more than the 8500 in the headline.

> For 3 weeks solid I saw at least one transporter full of Euro-spec 3s going up 101 to SF to be shipped overseas.

Yes, they have sent 5 ships to Europe and 4 to China so far. Estimates are 2,500 cars per ship. A 10th ship just arrived on Sunday. So yes that's ~25,000 cars going to Pier 80 in San Franciso so far this quarter.

A bot absolutely can, you just need to use a more sophisticated bot. This article [1] is from August 2017, so the arms race has escalated and techniques improve, but the gist is the same: You just do a better job of simulating the "human" characteristics they monitor. Gen 4 bots (bots that run on an infected user's machine) can circumvent these measures as well.

[1] https://intoli.com/blog/making-chrome-headless-undetectable/

It claims to cover IAP [1] only, which wouldn't include Amazon nor Uber as those payments go directly to those entities. Also many companies who formerly relied on IAP, like Netflix and Spotify, are starting to bypass it entirely [2].

[1] https://developer.apple.com/in-app-purchase/

[2] https://musically.com/2018/08/22/netflix-joins-spotify-in-by...

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I'm not following how $380k is the baseline. Were the grants based in dollars or in AMZN shares? I assume it was based in shares and if the stock had fallen you'd have made less?

No, not in the slightest.

https://www.mattermost.org/why-we-made-mattermost-an-open-so...

We're under no legal requirement but I simply don't trust Slack employees to be good stewards of our data. On a UI/UX basis, Slack and Discord are far superior to Mattermost, so hopefully they can use this funding to close that gap.

1) People can travel between states, or even to other countries, during a lifetime.

2) MA legalized medical usage in 2013.

3) "Drug abuse" has nothing to do with the legality of the substance. It's whether or not the substance impairs the individual and that it was used for non-medicinal purposes.

> "marijuana abuse"

> "illegal drug"

Holy fucking bias.

1) There's nothing to support that the study participants were abusing marijuana

2) Medical marijuana was legalized in California in 1996 and numerous other states until recreational legalization began in 2012. This study was conducted from 2000 - 2017 so it stands to reason that many of these users were completely legal under their state jurisdiction at the time. Obviously it's been illegal on a federal level the entire time.

3) The 55% is the percentage that had ever used it. A study by the National Institute of Health [1] conducted in 2017 found that 45.20% of the 12yr+ respondents said they had used it at least once in their lifetime (and 52.7% of the 18-26 cohort).

I'm not even here to defend whether or not this study in particular is rigorous or not, but you need to drop the 1971 War on Drugs propaganda.

[1] https://www.drugabuse.gov/national-survey-drug-use-health

Disclosing security vulnerabilities that aren't part of a bug bounty program takes a large amount of either courage or ignorance. Until there are protections in place for a given jurisdiction, far safer to leak it anonymously or just stay quiet. I was surprised that GDPR didn't contain any sort of protections for security researchers. The fines collected are hefty enough they could easily run a very successful bug bounty program.

Unless it was for the sheer joy of doing the work yourself, is there any particular reason you didn't buy a gently used motorhome for $15-20k and upgrade as necessary (e.g. the solar array and lithium batteries)? You cite the $50k cost but that sounds excessive to me with considerably less work.

Unless you've also ceased usage of Google search, maps, and YouTube they didn't lose your business. You're still helping deliver 84% of their revenue.

> It's great at what it does but I think you've out grown it.

There is absolutely no justification for him to be running into these sort of issues at such an incredibly low load. Let's pretend he gets 50,000 hits per day (he says 50k per month but I don't know reqs/sec). Than's less than one per second. The $5/mo box over at DigitalOcean can handle 100 times that with the most poorly optimized PHP, Wordpress, and MySQL installation.

The problem is entirely due to a shitty host and/or grossly misconfigured server. No CMS should run into load issues at the microscopic traffic levels he's complaining about. He doesn't need Cloudflare, either.

So, yes, a static site would indeed perform better but to imply that he's actually reaching the limits of a simple CMS is absolutely ridiculous.

On the contrary, I didn't go far enough. I didn't talk about Apache Gearpump, NiFi, Beam, Ignite, or Trident.

I know there are subtle differences in each specific technology, and that's probably the same justifications used to support the thesis when building yet another very similar framework.

> What's wrong with that?

I believe it drastically reduces adoption of these tools because many of us avoid what appears to be bandwagon technologies as we don't want to consciously add layers of future technical debt when a majority of these projects will be abandoned.

Apache Flink, Flume, Storm, Samza, Spark, Apex, and Kafka all do basically the same thing. I feel like this is a bit overboard. And this is before we talk about the non-Apache stream-processing frameworks out there.

* Apache Flink is an open source stream processing framework

* Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available software for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data.

* Apache Storm is a distributed stream processing computation framework

* Apache Samza is an open-source near-realtime, asynchronous computational framework for stream processing

* Apache Spark is an open-source distributed general-purpose cluster-computing framework.

* Apache Apex is a YARN-native platform that unifies stream and batch processing.

* Apache Kafka is an open-source stream-processing software platform

Open borders simply means people can travel freely, similar to the Schengen Area [1] in western Europe. It doesn't mean they have some sort of automatic dual-citizenship or whatever it is you're talking about here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area

As a kid, I earned a considerable amount of money (sometimes $5+ per day) riding my bike around and collecting cans and bottles during the summer. Those bought me a lot of MTG cards and layaway payments on the latest SNES game. Now I just set them alongside the recycling bin for the homeless as well. I feel like the neighborhood kids are really missing out on a lucrative opportunity.

GraphQL has nothing inherently to do with graph databases. It's a client-side declarative syntax where you specify what result you want, usually including composite relational objects.

The server-side database would be any supported datastore.

> I'm appalled by the number of ressources I see online which are using the old mysql api

Recently authored articles? We have an internet filled with 20 years of PHP tutorials, and unfortunately for beginners there's not an easy way to evaluate if something utilizes modern best practices or is an Experts Exchange post from 2001.

I'm not following your logic. Game companies copy other successful games all the time. Why would using their engine make it more vulnerable? They don't own your game nor gain access to your code.

I know correlation doesn't imply causation, but I'm going with it: https://i.imgur.com/fyveqs3.png

edit: chart of AAPL stock price for the past 12 years

Ah, totally missed that. Thank you