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Honestly, if they don't add in enough modding support, the game may very well split, with the last Java editions never receiving official updates but with all modding continued to be done to them. It'll be odd since the source itself can't be split, but I don't see the modded experience dying.

Personally, modded minecraft is the only type I continue to pay. If I didn't have the choice of mods, I'd rather go with one of the better options among the infinite number of minecraft clones.
I have that problem with Comcast and their data cap notifications being injected into HTTP web sites.

Yesterday I called them and agreed to pay their $35 extortion fee to get "unlimited" data along with being removed from their proxy system. :/
You're welcome to your opinion. What you see as "open-source and cross platform" offerings I see as a few cheap baubles being given out to buy developer good will. It seems to have worked in your case.

Node.js isn't particularly relevant to their primary business, nor is keeping Visual Studio proprietary. Opening them makes developers happy at a time when fewer non-MS developers are writing for their platform (they moved to the web and mobile).

Microsoft's bad behavior with Windows 10 (including the drama involving the back-ports and strong-arm upgrades in 7/8) suggest the company's behavior hasn't changed much.

But as I said, you're entitled to your opinion. I would love to be proven wrong here. Unfortunately, experience has taught me otherwise.

The real question - that you ignored - was this:

> I suspect that "always get updates" promise I paid for years ago will be ignored.

Given that Microsoft already restricted a C++ version of Minecraft to Windows 10, do you really think they will ever ship this new C++ version of Minecraft for Linux and Mac? At the same time, not years later? Or will they split the community?
I disbelieve.

That said, I don't contend that some people are not at some point 10 times more productive than others. I contend that anyone can be just as productive, and often are, were or will be, although the manner in which they should be productive is absolutely not clear-cut. Society as a whole shapes how we act. Diversity in its composition allows what we rely upon.

For instance, I would not be as productive at work if I had to take care of a few children on my own. Similarly, I am extremely unproductive while gardening, and don't intend to spend the time to improve.
Ugh! Thanks for the warning. I can't stand Wil Wheaton.
I'll admit my comment was overzealous. I just couldn't help but laugh when he was "splurging on a $10 case" to put his $600 phone in.

If you already have the equipment, I don't see any difference between already owning a $600 phone and already owning a $600 vr headset. Both are probably purchased for reasons other than the DIY project
The creator emerges: http://nooga.com/172237/chattanooga-man-responsible-for-worl...
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Nah, not really. Hard-right evangelicals have been dwindling in power in America for decades, and I'd be surprised if most conservatives could pick "Christian Dominionism" out of a police lineup.
Switching from Java to C# doesn't offer any HUGE advantages to the end user. Switching to C++ does, granted with some drawbacks depending on how mods are handled, if they're going to be portable or not.

If Microsoft is only making a Windows version of Minecraft, then they don't have to worry about the portability of mods, which would be a shame.
> That's also part of our philosophy anyway.

True. That's why I said you guys can handle it. ;)
I'm sad to say, but it's true. AMD has been claiming "this is the year we really open up" since at least 2007[1]. Well, I'm happy to hear them recommit, but I don't believe them anymore.

Now that they are losing ground in the marketplace on the GPU side with deep learning, and their CPUs can't compete with intel on the performance side, their claims ring hollow.

Imagine where we would be if they open sourced their drivers in 2007 like they said they would do.

1. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/05/amd-launches-the-hd-2...
They don't. It's a lot easier to provide modding for a game that runs on the same platform it was developed on. You don't have a java compiler on an Xbox. You don't have modelling software. And in terms of Xbox I doubt you can get VS running on it. Best you could do is take mods from PC, but that comes with its own problems.
Did you even read the post? The whole thing talks about how this is AMD's new version of mantle which is specifically for gcn cards. It even says who its written by at the bottom, the senior manager of engineering at AMD.
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I remember asking my 4th grade teacher what the difference between fractions and division. She clearly didn't understand what I was asking. That was the moment I started seeking my own answers and stopped trusting my teachers blindly.
My wild speculation is that taking equity in exchange for the money simplifies legal and tax status for both parties by framing the relationship between the company and YC in a well precedented way. But I am neither lawyer nor accountant.

Anyway, my gut suggests that pressure cooking a company to go public or raise a big round for the sake of a possibility of $1.5 million probably isn't highly ranked among the ways YC can direct effort for return on capital. That YC won't have a stake in a $50 million dollar acquisition may indicate how pennies and nickels are seen by YC.
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> [APNG] should be a better alternative for GIF-like images (including transparency and low bit depth), and MP4 + H.265 should be the alternative for movie-like content.

H.264/H.265 are good for both Gif-like and movie-like content. Bandwidth isn't cheap. Although APNG has inter-frame compression, it is nowhere near as sophisticated as H.265 let alone H.264.

If I want animation, why would I use a format that puts a burden on users, when alternatives already exist?

Don't get me wrong, I totally acknowledge that we still have the issue of mp4 files not autoplaying on mobile browsers. However, once that is solved, I would avoid APNG and Gif, in favour of said video format.

Here's hoping that one day, BPG is adopted widely, so that I can forgo mp4 and APNG/Gif entirely for use cases that cover short animations for aesthetic reasons.

Albeit, I do admit, for the time being, I will resort to using mp4 and OGG on the desktop browser, and either a static image or APNG on the mobile browser.

edit: some clarification
Yep, here's hoping it stays that way. Although Occulus has already dropped support for Mac and Linux. They said it's just temporary. I really hope that's the case.
The maintenance side of things is always what gets me. I always see something cooler over the horizon, I hate updating old code.
By domain. However, with a requirement for HTTPS, it doesn't matter if MITM hijacks that domain and points it at another IP, because the server on that IP can't present a valid certificate for that domain, so it won't load at all.

Pinning makes that even more secure, but even without pinning, requiring HTTPS raises the bar from a simple MITM to obtaining a fraudulent certificate from a trusted certificate authority (risking a blacklist of that CA in all browsers).
Sorry about my sloppy use of terminology.

I agree that my comparison is not very accurate. I didn't mean "far-right" in terms of neo-nazi and other extremist ideology, but parliamentary far-right - strictly geographically speaking. (And although they like to create a martial vocabulary, I tend to disagree that the SVP/New Right is anything close to neo-nazis... at this point in time - after all the SVP-styled conservatism does represent at least a quarter of Swiss votes)

It strikes me as the biggest parallel between US- and CH-far right (as described above) that their voters seem to be less critical of the political suggestions their political leaders make. Harsh punishments and swift deportations of foreigners that are pictured as potentially criminal/dangerous/job-threatening are just an example of this kind of rhetoric.

So, when journalists condemn a certain "deportation/punishment" ideas of such a politician, IMO all they are doing is giving him a platform to communicate those ideas. Which was the point I was trying to make in terms of the original post about punishment.

Guess, I got lost :)
Fred, really interesting article! Thanks for posting it.

For those in the Bay Area, if you'd like to hear more about Kudu, I'm giving a talk about it in Palo Alto tomorrow (Wed) at the Big Data Application Meetup at 6PM: http://www.meetup.com/BigDataApps/events/227191025/

Also presenting are Julien Le Dem of Dremio on Apache Drill and James Taylor of Salesforce on Apache Phoenix. Should be a really interesting evening!

(Don't mean to hijack the thread, just thought this might be relevant to some folks. :)

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If I read that article correctly it seemed to be pointing out that sometimes calories are literally mislabeled. That is - a sandwich from a vendor may be labeled as 400 kcal but actually it turns out it was closer to 500 kcal. Casey Neistat did a special for the NYT a couple of years ago about this very problem [1]. The ArsTechnica article you linked did go into other things - but there's definitely a difficulty in dealing with things where labels say one thing and can be 10-15% wrong pretty easily.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/13/opinion/calorie-detective....
I'm actually amazed that you were able to get an IHV to give you that access.

Interestingly, most console developers currently have this sort of access. If they are just targeting consoles (or better, a specific platform), they're able to get a lot done. The tricky part is if they have to target PC and consoles. They have the access they want on consoles, but can't replicate on PC.

Actually, on top of that, replicating that task on PC would mean giving developers a nightmarish mix of varying, quirky architectures to target. Realistically, what most _engine_ devs want on PC are more current and lower level access APIs (DX12 and Vulkan) and maybe even an OSS shader compiler. The compiler wouldn't be even for them to poke at. I think they'd hope that the OSS community might do a better job than the IHVs at maintaining the compiler.
Similar experience here, but I have a different take: I believe that the cesspool of malware, buggy code and incorrect documentation has been invaluable in allowing me to teach my kids about computer and network security from a very early age. They now know about sandboxing, testing suspicious code on a throwaway VM, port forwarding with client IP address filtering, and the perils of interface version skew.
I've read articles (that I can't currently find) that talk about how different groups use Twitter very differently.

It's more likely to be the primary social network, meaning the way you stay in touch with your real-life friends, for people who are younger or more immersed in the African-American community.

Also, Facebook has been taking some very direct shots at Twitter lately in the arenas of public and real-time posting.
I can't quite figure WORKING-STORAGE out from the docs I found, maybe because I'm not sure what a "run unit" is—I'm assuming something like a Linux process group/session?

To contrast, LOCAL-STORAGE seems like a regular global variable (.DATA/.BSS) segment. So is WORKING-STORAGE basically like a set of seeming global variables, that actually point into (the equivalent of) a shared mmap'ed file, such that other processes in the same session/pgroup end up mmap'ing the same file and thus sharing memory that way, without having to clone around the memory handle itself via forking/threading/IPC?

In this case, it sort of reminds me of the OS-level version of an anonymous Erlang ETS table held by a supervisor and passed to all the worker children to manipulate.
I pointed out this article to him, and he decided to (finally) take some credit for it. http://nooga.com/172237

I sincerely hope it doesn't lead to any legal troubles.
>Obesity is peoples' fault in the same way car accidents are. That doesn't mean the proper response is to simply blame people, instead of using science to devise solutions. //

But if obesity is primarily the fault of the person who is obese lacking will power then shouldn't we start by doing things directly addressing this.

For example, I snack late at night - except when there are no snacks in the house. Sometimes I'll still make food, but mainly I'll just wander around feeling tetchy and eventually get distracted enough to not think about it. For me it absolutely is lack of willpower (which is much better recently probably due to antidepressant meds) to avoid eating things I know aren't healthy for me; or indeed just to eat less in general.

If we're looking to prime cause then for me willpower seemingly fits the bill, as you say that revelation may not help to fix things for me - if I can do outdoor pursuits for a week then I can lose weight no problems! - but healthcare workers looking to help me should perhaps seek ways to enforce diet that don't rely on my willpower so much rather than just ignore willpower deficiency altogether?
>everyone of us does possess the ability to control your weight.

Yes, buy only to a degree.
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There is a wikipedia entry on the concept:
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Using Forge as a starting point is basically what I meant. That has to happen if there is every to be compatibility with the existing mod ecosystem. Where future development goes from that point is another question. Forge itself hasn't stopped developing either, and they've had a focus on "fewer mod updates" for a while now (i.e. Forge properly isolating changes in Vanilla).
And here is why it wont:

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The C++ version of Minecraft in question is literally called Windows 10 Edition, and as you might expect it and its derivatives like Minecraft Education Edition are Windows-only based on the announcements so far.
Oh, don’t worry, we are already rioting.

Mojang already announced that "deep modding" won’t be supported. They’ll extend the stuff current resource packs can do, but they want to avoid modders replacing or extending any game mechanics directly.

For example, modifying the rendering pipeline will be impossible.

What modders expect: Minecraft as a whole engine, similar to the API Unity presents to developers.

What Mojang is willing to deliver: A modding API that’s glorified command blocks.
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Nope, it has to do with the fundamental memory models of Java vs C/C++.

In C++ you can arrange your access patterns so you don't cache miss, much harder to do that in Java.
> Continually reiterating the thermodynamic dietary hypothesis to me (energy eaten minus energy expended) does not help.

There are those who would deny it, unto their dying breath. You do not appear to be one of them, and that's the first step. The saying I like is that weight loss is simple (subtext: simple to understand), but not easy (subtext: not easy to execute). Sure, there are tonnes of factors that go into what causes someone to overeat. And fad diets, or even the whole concept of "dieting" need to DIAF (it's lifestyle changes or nothing). And shaming people for being fat might actually be counterproductive. But being at a healthy weight is there for the taking, if you want it. If you choose not to be a healthy weight, fair enough. Just don't complain when you have to (rightfully) pay for two airplane tickets because you take up that much space.

And just for the record, there are many of us for whom weight loss had nothing to do with good fortune. We were fat, we had bad eating habits (snacking unconsciously, bingeing on soda, etc, etc). We've been there, we recognized what caused us to be fat, and we turned it around through hard work and perseverence. Didn't even have to get a gut biome implant or exercise like a fiend, just simple reduction of intake.
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With SSL how can they know it is a video? At best they can either slow down everything that takes a while to download or they can selectively harrash some of the video services, which might get them negative attention in Washington.
Now I wonder whether there are more animated GIFs out there or 1×1 tracking pixels ...
Is it global or US-only? I guess US C Corp needed for this?
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Not that I prefer Java where performance is important, but profile based optimization combined with optimizing across translation units is non-trivial. C/C++ compilers have been increasing support for these more recently. Jan Hubicka's blog has a good example [1].

I have to wonder if they plan to keep the codebase portable though. One of the major benefits of Java was that nearly everything has a JVM.

[1] http://hubicka.blogspot.com/2014/04/linktime-optimization-in...
Can H.264/H.265 do that in a lossless fashion?
I would have to link that up to analytics just to see how many people clicked on it.
Glad to hear this is at least being considered. The optimizations for data warehousing you mentioned are my use case. I understand the it is a very active project with a lot on the road map. It's a very cool project and I follow you guys on http://gerrit.cloudera.org/#/q/status:open
I read somewhere that it was a religious issue not providing AOT compilation.

It always saddned me not to have this option in the reference JDK, only on commercial JDKs.

Whereas we already had Java like safe languages with Eiffel, Oberon and Modula-3 compiling AOT to native code, and with JIT also available before 1996.

Oh and with value types and proper generics as well.

Now maybe Java 10 will become what Java 1.0 should have been.
He explained in a talk how after Netflix sent an engineer to work with him, the poor lad had to quit of exhaustion and go back home. Carmack's colleague said something like "hey you broke the Netflix guy"
This is OpenWRT, not the same thing as DD-WRT. It's basically a full embedded Linux distro with extra emphasis on networking and complete with its own package manager, so the answer is yes you can do quite a lot with it.

It's possible to do more general purpose stuff with DD-WRT as well, but it's not quite as flexible . IIRC you can install your own packages there too, but it is set up to be more streamlined as a SOHO router.
I completely agree - Javascript is cool, but it's also a security risk that needs to be limited.

For the moment, unfortunately, we're stuck running noscript (or similar).
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> The fact that the US govt happens to be the strongest bandit in a region where hookups are easy

The U.S. government, and the American public on behalf of who it spends tax money, did not just come along and take over an existing liberal productive society. It created that society. That society wouldn't exist without it.

> Second, if growing up/being born under the US/German social order were actually important, then there is a very easy way to measure it. Take people born outside this order but give them permission to work in global markets and compare their income to natives. Indian and Chinese immigrants tend to outperform Americans, which pretty much solidly refutes this claim.

The U.S. immigration system, by design, is very selective about which Indians and Chinese it allows to emigrate. Their performance says nothing about the value of growing up in the U.S. Besides that, your argument proves the opposite of your intended point. If there is no value to the U.S. besides the economic value of the government services people receive, why would the best and brightest from India and China struggle to come here to start their careers? Is it because of our fantastic public transit?

> Third, you seem to be conflating the purchase of services with equity investments. All your critiques of freeloading should apply equally if I build V1 of my software on AWS but switch to Softlayer for V2.

Amazon will charge you $X for AWS whether or not your product ever generates any revenue. The U.S. government's investment into education, infrastructure, and the social safety net will be there for you whether or not you succeed. It's much more like an equity investment than a simple exchange of services for money.
He says:

over the course of the century that followed, a few progressively simpler forms of it were found

and

But in the context of George Boole, one can say that it’s a minimal version of his big idea

Since this is an aside, he doesn't cover it in depth. However, he is clearly saying (1) that his claim is a derivative of Boole's idea, and (2) that lots of other people made simplifications before he did.

This doesn't sound to me like "implicitly or explicitly taking credit for results he wasn't the first person to discover".

And the last time I saw such a claim on HN, it was clearly wrong.

In passing, my own favorite simplification is G Spencer Brown's Laws of Form, which has mostly been forgotten now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Form
Tekkit client, Curse client, and FTB client. If the mod isn't on one of those, they aren't getting it.

I use to do custom installs of mods and even a little bit of patching to make mods play nice together (namely recipe conflicts), but the time it takes just isn't worth it when you can grab a Direwolf20 or Tekkit pack and play right away. I do kinda wish Mo Creatures was still included in packs because my little sis loved the horse breeding to get endgame horses.
I didn't mean to up vote, sorry; less than 25% of women are CEOs, and there's no indication of overlap between these two groups.
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> One of the major benefits of Java was that nearly everything has a JVM.

This was a big deal in the late 90's as C compilers were still catching up with ANSI C and ANSI C++ wasn't done, with each compiler supporting a different flavour of the ongoing work.
I did not watch this show so I have are some questions.

1. Was the skinny individual monitored the entire time? He could have regurgitated his food.

2. Was the skinny person's poop analyzed for complete digestion of the 4000 calories?
Command blocks don't even come close to replicating the capabilities a mod has, and they are't portable across maps.
"What are mods?", same as every other console game.
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> I'm skeptical that's a significant factor, because right-populists seem to be gaining even in countries, like Denmark and the USA, which have a large portion of mainstream media and politicians hostile to mass immigration.

The populist complaint against rightist politicians in the United States is that they claim to oppose illegal immigration, but that's actually just a scam to fool the rubes into voting for them. When push comes to shove, they quietly endorse the current (Democratic) administration's policies on the matter and make sure that efforts to block them always fail. Given that, the factors behind Trump's support aren't so different from the factors behind support for populists in Europe.
True, but it will hopefully change in Java 10.
Classic ad-hominem.
How would applying for both work?

i.e. First, we review the app for YC Core, then we review it for fellowship if they aren't accepted to YC Core?

Or is it a single review, then bucketed into two categories.

Or is it one quick glance, bucketing, then review.

I ask because each one can pretty dramatically impact the outcome. For full disclosure, I'll be applying to both anyways, but I am curious.