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Blizzard makes the game on their dime, and then charges us to actually play it. CIG is not making the game unless you pay for it, so it really is a fair comparison.
They indeed pay folks to do this.

One Professional Russian Troll Tells All: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9269760

The rest of your comments is directing blame on the victim (the journalist).
"[David Cole, head of the Windows 95 production team] grumbled… ‘Can’t we just get a game of pinball or something like that?’"

I can't decide whether to deride the lameness or celebrate the pragmatism of this statement. It does capture Mr. Cole perfectly, though -- and perhaps hints why everything he touched after Win95 turned sour.
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A friend of mine in college did this, but it was even simpler- there was no barcode, just a number that increased by one for each ticket sold. He went the entire year just making his own to avoid paying $3 per day. Just take the last three days tickets, increment by the average difference, print and display.

When they caught him (he parked in the wrong lot or something) he admitted everything, paid $80, and offered to help them catch others doing the same thing.

He told them to change the end-of-day expiry time to 1 minute earlier than normal, tow everyone with a ticket that expires at the usual time.
Interaction accomplishes the browsing of information, just like scanning a picture or looking through a card catalog.

And when folks make broad appeals to interactivity, they are saying that somehow the interaction of the gamepad is fundamentally different from turning the page of a book.

But that isn't what we are thinking about as we get immersed in a game experience - we soon forget that the controls are there.

It is the simulation that people turn to next - a believable world that responds to your actions in complex ways.

But again, there is a problem - more than one problem. If the simulation is as chaotic as reality, people lose track of the hooks that kept them involved - they no longer have the ability to make extensive plans or strategies, neither are there any puzzles to solve cleanly and gracefully. And if the simulation adds detail without purpose, it dilutes any designed intent. The small differences in situations are vastly overwhelmed by a few key elements that control the real outcomes - leading to a noisy experience. Only a few kinds of games can survive the extensive sim treatment - the kinds of games that you play with the intent of telling a story about later. Put to this purpose the details rise back to the surface as important story elements.

If not those two things, what is it that is grabbing you about Starcraft? Here I would pause to consider what unifies chess, science, and literature. It is the conversation of being posed problems and arguing your case and proving your points, given a factual situation involving arbitrary rules. There are different interactions involved in each case, different skills and levels of execution needed. But it is this thing of being posed interesting problems with variety, one after another, that drives both the best liked games and stories. They don't have to be hard or deep problems - "who will the main character hook up with" drives countless stories and "which team will get the most points" drives most sports - but they give you something to chew on.

And so a writing focus is, in this light, an equal partner to a mechanics focus - either could be taking the lead role. The writing could pose a question that the player solves mechanically - that's a very typical model. Or the writing could usher you in one direction, only to reach a mechanical contradiction, leading the player to a critique of the system, a desire to escape the rules.

What we don't ask people to do in games is to design, from scratch, large parts of the experience. That takes us out of the realm of immersion, browsing, and strategizing, and into "hard" creativity where an intentional vision drives large bodies of work.
Not paid for - sourced from. She asked people who had experienced such trolling to come forward and interviewed them. The work was funded by her employer.
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Anyone want to comment on how safe this download site is?
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It doesn't sound like Sacks had a "life-long enjoyment of this area of mathematics" from the article:

> Sacks mentions another algorithm to test numbers for
> primeness. But his description only shows that he has no
> real mathematical knowledge that matters in this case.
No, those are the deaths cause by the extra pollution due to the cheating.

In practice, as a society, we indirectly decide on pollution standards by voting in politicians who nominate people in regulatory roles. If we are unhappy with those standards, we can vote in other politicians who will alter them. The system is not perfectly responsive of course.

In this case, those 50 deaths can be directly attributed to the decisions made by a director that wanted a flashier career, a bigger bonus, or higher social status. Those 50 deaths are on his conscience, and I hope when he goes on to retire in his expensive villa paid by his ill-gotten bonuses his conscience reminds him of this every single instant. It's not likely to happen.. but hey, I can hope.
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Kind of the same thing with Obamacare.. Nearly all the politicians who voted for it didn't even read it.. By their own admission. John Conyers of MI comes immediately to mind.
And my question is if these people (who had experienced such trolling) were anonymous, and how biased the "series" was. From the view of somebody who understands Finnish.

When we're at it, I also don't understand the story with the "Official of the Finnish Parliament Peter Saramo." Again, not enough details.
Harassment is not acceptable, regardless of whatever cynical-sounding excuses you come up with.
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To be fair: I could preorder LOTV for a while now (unreleased, will be released tomorrow it seems?) and just got a mail that tries to sell me on Overwatch (unreleased, closed beta: I'd buy something and get nothing for quite a while).

That said: I'm mostly on your side here (as a SC backer..)
Just, anecdotally, I knew a startup in northwest Arkansas (the walmart region) that won seed funding of about $100,000. They squandered the money relatively quickly, and immediately decided the only way to salvage their business was to head to SF. It only took a few months after renting a house to keep everyone in, and they managed to secure another ≈$1.3M. To this day they swear up and down, the only way to turn a business idea into reality is to live in SF/the valley. Seems to be a very common concept, regardless of the realities.
>> there's at least some anecdotal evidence that workers are not always working at work

>This made me go look up whether hypobole (dramatic understatement) is a word yet.

Well... Is it?

No - http://dictionary.reference.com/misspelling?term=hypobole&s=...

Yes - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Hypobole

No - http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/spellcheck/english/?q=hypo...
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All international agreements are generally discussed in secrecy. In most democracies even laws are discussed for the most part in secrecy.

This prevents unexpected surprises, allows for a straight forward process, more honest discussion and makes it possible to reach compromises without appearing weak to constituients. It also acts as a filter for bad ideas and makes it easier to figure out, if something has any chance at suceeding without it becoming a public failure.
"Bespoke software development using Java, Javascript."

I suppose this means from scratch? Seems like a very important criteria for writing applications with few external dependencies.

That also makes me curious about the approval process for selecting JavaScript frameworks at an organization like this. What is the leading factor -- maintainability?
I agree with you. But realize that having "players who don't even understand enough about the game to recognize they are bad" makes those players happy with little effort. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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"Not only that, but I think the conclusions are frankly incorrect."

They can't really be "incorrect", because they made up the rules. It would be more accurate to observe something like this definition of trivial is itself rather trivial and useless.

It's a fun word game, and nothing more. As this appears to be a recreational math column in the Guardian, there's nothing wrong with that. It's no Martin Gardner, but it's not being put forth as some sort of major result or anything either.

A lot of people here seem to be taking it a great deal more seriously than any of the relevant authors.
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First, your screenshot "welcome to my site" is deceiving. Make it more clear that is a screenshot, not your website. Actually, I don't see the need for this screenshot to exist at all.

But about what you list of diferencials:

- Try without login to prove it is easier to use
Great! You will just have to make sure it is indeed easier to use.

- Edit and format posts 10x faster than your current editor
Good value proposition. But only the easy photo inserting and editing (with resizing) lives up to it. It indeed looks great.
But (3) Add Topics and (4) Publish your page on social networks look like commodities on blog platforms (and not related to the value proposition of being easier to edit).

- Built-in site search with relevant results.
"Your posts will never get buried in the archives again." Is that a problem? For who?? One do not enter at a personal blog to search for something. And why add another value proposition?

- Discover users with similar interests
Again: why add another value proposition? And hint: you won't solve this problem. You won't get a critical mass of "interesting people" for a looong time. And until then, having this feature will just disappoint your users and make they feel this is a pretentious amateur site no one cares about.
Instead, why not make this feature as a tool to discover interesting people posting interesting things on Twitter/FB/LinkedIn/Medium?
And make the posts on your platform to be "related to:" posts on those bigger platforms.

So my personal advice would be: cut the search feature and decide if you will focus on being really easier to edit or if you will focus on having a killer discovery feature (allowing people to answer or at least point out to other posts on other platforms).
I wish some of these could be translated to English. Would probably help clarify some huge misunderstandings. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu_Manuscripts
Does this mean the end of the double-O program?
Here "crowdsourced" means that Jessikka Aro solicited for experiences from members of the public who have been targeted by trolls. As far as I can tell, any resulting articles have been written by journalists and have gone through the usual journalistic process.

I haven't actually read many of her articles, but my assessment is that she is not strongly biased. It is widely accepted as fact that pro-russian trolling is rampant also on the Finnish web.
And maybe the writing is what gets "society to understand and comprehend the medium." If you ask any adult who does not play video games what they think of Mario, they are more likely to say "oh the cute chubby plumber" than they are to say "I heard that game is well-designed."
As jzwink said, you don't have any guarantees with a hotel either ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10531693 ).

I've had positive experiences every time I rented through AirBnB, the same cannot be said of hotels - I actually trust AirBnB a LOT more than hotels (as long as the property has some reviews).

Maybe in the U.S. things work, but in other countries they don't... I've had the roof leaking BADLY on a hotel in Brazil (with lots of positive reviews in TripAdvisor), all guests' property stolen (also in Brazil), and I never had any recourse. People thinking about starting a lawsuit have never experienced 3rd world judiciary systems... (it can take a lot of time and money for very little returns).

I fully expect you'll have a positive experience with your AirBnB in Taiwan, let's hope so :)
Thank you for clarification, I stand corrected.

Still, not "written by" but "getting input from".
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Compression is a tool, not a style. It has existed almost as long as recording itself. It solves fundamental problems.

Problem #1 - Audio speakers are not the same as instruments! If you've ever had the pleasure of getting your hair blown back by a cranked guitar amp or a drum kit... well, you just can't reproduce that experience through a set of earbuds. You can't exactly reproduce the sound of an acoustic guitar in your lap, or a violin in a beautiful hall. Speakers just aren't up to it. A recording is a miniature of a sound. Like all miniatures, it exaggerates some details and obscures others.

Second, most modern music consists of many instruments of different volumes and dynamic ranges played together. Mixing the sounds so everything sounds clear and balanced is extremely difficult. Some of the most important instruments are the worst about it - acoustic guitars and drum kits in particular walk all over everything else, with wide dynamic and frequency ranges that compete with steadier sounds. And certain harmonically-dense sounds like female vocals and violins can easily distort the audio amps used in reproduction. Compression, and its close cousin equalization, help engineers "carve" spaces for each instrument to live in.

You have probably never heard a recording without extensive compression, unless you've mixed records. And if you've been actively involved in recording, you'll already know all this.
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Politicans generally won't read most of the laws they sign and why would they? There are many laws on incredible wide range of different topics and you only have so many representatives. You can't possibly expect every lawmaker to be an expert on every of these topics. That's why they have experts and colleagues that they can talk to and why lobbying exists and is not an entirely bad thing.
Not even the members of the Mountain, the last left wing (and most extreme) political coalition before the authoritarian left wing took over, were against commerce itself.

When the various revolutionary governments were managing government lands seized from the church, they didn't just open them up all French citizens, they sold them off to fund the war they started.
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Okay, fine, but in this case N=7. What are the constant factors?
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You overestimate people's ability not to be offended, and underestimate the diversity in people's actual beliefs.

For example: When someone on HN said over the weekend "I don't see anything inherently wrong with colonialism. Remember that scene from Monty Python -- What have the Romans done for us? A lot of good has come out of colonialism", I was almost certain (almost) it was trolling. Once I saw others agreeing, I reconsidered. What you may consider trolling, may be the other idiot's actual views.

I bring this often on HN, and I will do so again: such trolls (and people who actually believe what they say) are really really threatening to the internet, and everything it has mostly stood up for. When every woman is threatened with rape and murder, and every person of minority is humiliated (often under the pretension of 1) irony, as in reddit, and 2) strictly unemotional data-based Vulcan objectivity (as is often the case here)) , the internet loses its most powerful component: the diverse group of people using it.

I absolutely believe <500 low-paid shills with medium-level English can bring down sites like the likes of reddit. Bringing down does not mean putting them out of business -- that's rather incidental -- it means creating fear and terror amongst a large part of the users to convince them that the majority of the internet is against them -- the internet is not the place for them. It is not just threatening women or minorities, obviously -- it could also be pretending to be an extremist feminist, and suggesting men should be hanged, burned etc, provoking the other group, and causing conflicts.

This is the issue why a lot of platforms have struggled with harassment and bullying issues, and it tickles me when the HN crowd --predominantly libertarian-- drones on about 'free speech at any cost' (suggesting that any removal of extremely offensive content is tantamount to utter censorship), not realizing that an absolute free-for-all arena is most likely to be used by the parties with the most available resource to shape the conversation easily. To put it differently, if Russian trolls can reshape (partly?) the conversation, so can the American government, and so can any agency, with enough resources. To reiterate, it is not necessary to completely change people's point of view -- just scare a targeted population away from a location, and identifying that is NOT as simple as 'calling out the trolls'.

I'll offload something tangential too here. When women say 'there are issues for women in technology', fellow HN users, the least correct response is to offer 'well maybe if they worked harder instead of wasting time complaining, they'd have less issues'. That actually happened in one of the last few discussions about women in tech.
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Well, I think they are indeed trying to turn into 4chan, but they don't understand that 4chan users understand trolls and know how to filter them.
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western news saying russians pay trolls to spread pro-russian opinion on the web while russian news are saying exactly the same thing for western trolls.

It just depends on which side you see it. if you look at the big picture she is not a victim but someone fighting an information war
I think your comment is the most retarded one I've read on HN.
> What I'm thinking is UBI (or whatever it might be called in this system) vs. wages. Pick one. This would automatically make the minimum wage > $30k

The problems with such a system would be:

* even higher threshold for actually seeking a job because you lose BI (yes, the other side of higher minimum wages)

* either the BI is sufficient for a decent life or it isn't: if it is, it's probably too expensive because a large part of the population will receive it. If it isn't, it will be a program for the poor/disabled only and enough people will be seeking jobs to drive the effective minimum wages down to the current level.
300M years is a very long time. Unless there is some continuity in the use of the stored information, in a way it's documented, translated and reinterpreted, there is no hope something alive 300M years from now, something that will not be remotely human, will be able to understand it any more than we understand the songs sponges sing each other.
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She states: the "high level Finnish Parliament official Peter Saramo has been spreading lies about me – Saramo said I put all Finnish journalists to shame and later spread false information about me."

Does she claim that the member of the Parliament is a paid Russian troll? Or that he believed some false information to be true? What was it? What are the "lies" he have "spread"? I only see something he wrote using his own name on the Facebook. And we actually don't know what's behind the claim that she "puts all Finnish journalists to shame."
> The TensorFlow Python API requires Python 2.7

The whole scientific Python stack is available for Python 3. This seems like a somewhat backwards thing to do -- or perhaps the requirement is intended to mean at least 2.7?

Edit: added context

Edited again: More careful wording
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I use Standard and love it. Every project I build gets standard as a devDependency in my package.json and I use linter and linter-js-standard plugins for Atom to automatically detect it and lint my project as I write it.

Then have some hooks in place that will run code through standard again in a pre-commit hook, and then PR's on GitHub are also ran through standard.
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I read the 100 best fantasy and sci-fi novels and they were shockingly offensive
That's funny because Grocery Gateway was founded in the 90s and delivers groceries in Waterloo. It's not the same day, but you can often get it the next day. I use it because I don't drive and it's simple to get one big delivery at the start of the month and have most of my groceries aside from a few perishables like fruits and vegetables.
Not that I have a survey, but I'd imagine most users would be against on the grounds of it distracting us from substance of someone's points and arguments.

We're all influenced in some degree by visual bias, and not always consciously, whether we like it or not.
Blizzard doesn't make the game that YOU want to play. You play on their terms, you have no power over the development of the game. Once you bought and played the game and you think it is crap, you cannot get a refund.

Your input is truly valuable in the development of Star Citizen since they are creating the game YOU want. They listen and change features once they get feedback (e.g flight model 2.0). If you don't think it is what you want you WILL get a refund.
Thanks, I wasn't even aware there was another definition besides "superficial".
Why not? The point is to be able to distinguish the cases.
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I think your comments are spot-on. I'll admit that as much as I would like to play an amazing space sim again, I am sort of munching on popcorn while watching SC development from the sidelines. When the project comes crashing down, I wonder how much it is going to hurt the crowd-funding model for video games.