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I see Let's Plays as the new shareware, and it could be a very good thing for the developer if approached correctly.

The game industry has long struggled with the chicken-egg problem of getting a gamer to make a purchasing decision without actually giving them the whole game to try first. Demo systems like shareware and freemium are some of the more successful solutions to this problem. At the beginning of these models, there was tension because people were getting something for free and might not ever pay for the full game. The counter-argument is that gamers that don't buy the full game after playing the demo were unlikely to have purchased the full game anyhow.

Development studios should be looking at Let's Plays like demos, and it sounds like the author is doing that. The problem his team faces is that their game is highly narrative in nature, and once the Let's Play is finished, the viewer of the Let's Play attains the narrative satisfaction and thus has no reason to purchase the game.

There's a few ways I can think to combat this, without falling back on copyright laws:

For this game:

Sell merchandise alongside your game, and buy advertising on the Let's Plays. Furthermore, send free merch to the more popular creators of the Let's Plays, creating more brand awareness and street cred. A good narrative will create bonds between the characters/story and the viewer - find ways to monetize those bonds for those who don't buy the game.

For the Let's Players that do interviews, go on their shows and do interviews, or bring them onto your own show and do an interview. Sell merch, sell advertising, and make the same pitch you made in this article for tips.

On the next game:

Create a demo anyway, and send exclusive, pre-release copies of the demo to the more popular Let's Play creators. Then sell pre-orders of the game, so those who are anxious to experience the full narrative will buy the game.

Do your own Let's Plays. In fact, do your own Let's Develop and Play - making realtime changes to the game that users can watch you experience. This will give you a competitive advantage over other Let's Players while also allowing you to vertically integrate the entire revenue stream - game sales, merch sales, and advertising.

I think it's clear from the popularity of the Let's Plays that they've created a hit, but a hit that's doesn't have an obvious monetization strategy for a game developer. I say, steer into the skid and find more non-traditional means to monetize.
Async/await doesn't only work on promises, it works on any object that has a method named `then`. What's problematic is that you have no control or extension points in the runner so you cannot implement something like Go's defer statement. With generators (which can be made work like async/await, only you say yield instead of await) you can implement the defer statement and more.
Any deviant act or view is probably anti-authoritarian if by authoritarian you also include the "authority" with which mainstream views and regulations are imposed, sometimes by law, more often by majority pressure.

Yet everything mainstream isn't somehow bad. Humans survive only by cooperating and banding together. It's just that we need to strike a golden mean between listening to authority and being unique. It's a matter of intelligence, applied on a case-by-case basis, and will work only if the most people in a group practice it.
Please don't link to previous submissions that inspired no discussion whatsoever. It's just noise.
You're misunderstanding how gene flow works. Consider one individual with one advantageous mutation that has 1000 offspring. In an asexual organism all 1000 will contain the mutation (minus any small frequency of the mutation spontaneously reverting). In a sexual organism only 500 will carry the advantage.
Even hunter gatherer societies had social structure and norms. And in those societies people far outside the norm were probably treated much worse than they are in today's society.
>I think we're starting to see the effects of this, games that try to sell themselves on their narrative, which simply end up taking the player through a series of corridors and cutscenes, are losing. Games that sell themselves on their gameplay and build narratives around the player are winning.

And that's exactly the problem - it creates a monoculture of genres even though those "losing" genres are still popular enough to be at least watched.
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Isn't it really great how we can now have this totally tangent discussion on how you got downvoted, right in the middle of the gigantic singular top-comment dumping ground that always appears on HN discussion threads?

Please, do go on :)
Even though I hardly use C++ nowadays, concepts and modules were two features I was looking forward to see in C++17, as a language geek.

However if it wasn't for my goal to write portable native code across mobile OSes or the occasional weekend dive into LLVM, I would hardly touch C++ nowadays.

Waiting until C++20 for them, will mean 4 more years for alternatives to slowly erode C++'s usage where its features aren't really that critical for fulfilling the customer's use case.

On the other hand, people are still writing new Fortran code everyday, so maybe those 4 years won't make a difference to those highly invested into C++.
https://perch.co/ is useful for us.
Miele. Top-notch quality.
I use /etc/hosts, the slight friction of having to open the file as root and comment/uncomment acts as a nice bar.

I have reddit, twitter and facebook blocked all the time and HN some of the time.

I've found that over time I use the blocked sites less and less as I break the habit.
All that is probably true, but the thesis has one flaw. While the benefits of sexual reproduction tend to be subtle and become evident only over many generations, its costs are heavy and immediate.

But isn't the "flaw" already taken care of: the heavy and immediate costs are very much compensated by the pleasure and high stimulus which are as immediate as anyone who has gone through puberty knows. (And which are not unknown in the non-human part of the animal world either.)
I've always thought a society where (current) laws are enforced absolutely would be dystopia.

Let's see what happens to him.
It's already out in nginx 1.9.11.
blogger redirected to subdomain (blog.startup.com)
Misread this as "Sex is a Copying Mechanism". Thought "duh!".
> Humans survive only by cooperating and banding together.

Or, more realistically - by enslavement, the threat of violence and killing off everyone who challenges your authority. It seems history is tirelessly cyclical.
(Almost) everything that’s wrong with nowadays software development
It wouldn't even be on his credit report any more. Madness.
You are absolutely right.

This is my opinion, not a rebuttal. I don't need to collect formal evidence to leave my comment. This is the Internet, not an academic panel.
Huh - this would be a great website to check laws, to compare what laws are used for and what we were told they are for, maybe have some sort of score + highlight the best and worst (also trends, too see if scope is being widened or narrowed for certain laws).
"The attack requires measuring a few thousand ECDSA signatures" - so not quite feasible by bumping into the target in a crowded subway.
I wonder, is this more efficient than Microsoft's implementation?

DateTime.Today.DayOfWeek;

public DayOfWeek DayOfWeek {
get {
Contract.Ensures(Contract.Result<DayOfWeek>() >= DayOfWeek.Sunday);
Contract.Ensures(Contract.Result<DayOfWeek>() <= DayOfWeek.Saturday);
return (DayOfWeek)((InternalTicks / TicksPerDay + 1) % 7);
}
}

public enum DayOfWeek {
Sunday = 0,
Monday = 1,
Tuesday = 2,
Wednesday = 3,
Thursday = 4,
Friday = 5,
Saturday = 6,
}

http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#mscorlib/system/dateti...
http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#mscorlib/system/dayofw...
National Lottery players in uproar over five-number £15 win
The Brabham was made illegal after one race IIRC.
I was going to go with the Dyson handheld. But found the laser gun hard to use in tight corners.

Ended up going with the Black and Decker. Slightly lower price, bigger battery, and the wand is a detachable hose
Why compliance, certs, and “security” seals aren't working
My understanding is that Google did that to cut down on the amount of time they spent responding to DMCA requests, not because they were worried about legal issues if they hadn't.
They do offer a good warranty ... the cyclone unit on our old one got so clogged up after cleaning up from some DIY that it didn't work adequately. We phoned them up, they listened to the noise and diagnosed it there and then. A few days later we had a brand new cyclone unit delivered. The thing was 4 years old at that point.
got a 404 because of typo in submission. Correct link: https://binarypassion.net/almost-everything-that-s-wrong-wit...
While it is definitely too soon to consider this hypothesis even close to settled, it's not as far out as it might seem at first glance. Indeed, what we evolutionary biologists have always said is that the cost of sex is compensated for by robustness in the face of evolutionary pressure.

All this group is saying, in essence, is that instead of that pressure coming in the form of infrequent external events (plagues, floods, asteroids, etc.), it is present for every generation in the form of dealing with mitochondria that don't quite fit any longer. An interesting idea, to be sure.
Good that it works on any object with then. Shame that it's not more flexible.

What I said was more general argument about what each new syntax should support at minimum.

What you are saying is like having operator overload, but not ability to define new custom operators, or not being able to define 3 or more arguments operators or default arguments for operators, or quoted arguments for operators. Or regretting that C# foreach works on every Enumerable but takes every item one after another (preventing from implementing collection that would have parallel behaviour with foreach)

It's good if you can do a lot with new syntax but that's nice to have and case by case. What I was talking about I consider general and pretty much mandatory.

Lots of people feel that if you look at the piece of code you should be immediately be able to tell what it's doing without any context. It's intuitively attractive goal but I think that most measures that achieve that also result in putting obstacles in software usual evolution making people do very contorted things when they need to add yet another feature with limited time.
A large portion of my dissertation revolved around the original C++0x concepts proposal. There are some amazing things you can do with concepts; I think the most important part of '0x concepts were 'concept_map's. However, I don't think they're anywhere near as important as truly lightweight coroutines, modules, etc. Mostly, they added a great deal of complexity to both the compiler implementation and, more importantly, day-to-day coding. One thing I don't see discussed is that if you don't want concepts without ugly & nonintuitive "holes" (backdoors), they tend to leak everywhere---especially into code you'd never expect to find them in.
ah, game makers and musicians mad because they realized they went into the wrong industry when they could have just made potential thousands by playing video games and stuttering poor commentary over top of it

how long before they target female twitch streamers?
There is no free lunch.

2 parents can have more children than 1 parent. Hermaphroditism means twice as many offspring with 1/2 as many copy's of your DNA.

Even single celled organisms will exchange DNA.
This individual invariably carries ten of disadvantageous mutations too. It will pass all ten to offspring when reproducing asexually, but only five of them on average to every sexually-produced offspring, and a dozen will only get 2 or 3 such bad mutations.

This arithmetic becomes ugly fast for asexual reproduction.
No, that is not correct. A hermaphrodite species will all things being the same have twice as many offspring as an asexual species, in your example 1000 from its eggs, 1000 from its sperm. In a strictly male/female species, a successful female will indeed likely spread the genes half as fast, but a succesful male can spread them much faster.

But this is with only one gene. Imagine there are five a, b, c, d and e. An individual with all five will arise much sooner in a sexual species.

The evolution of sex isn't a mystery any more than an eye is a mystery. It's not all or nothing. Life didn't go from bacteria to peacocks in one step. You can have something like optional hermaphrodite sex (in mollusks, I think) where you can exchange genes when the conditions arise, but it's not mandatory. The costs are virtually zero, but the benefits are still there. But then it becomes advantageous for idividuals to cheat and impregnate others, without producing eggs themselves and you get separate sexes.
Show HN: Geoparser.io API – sentences go in, GeoJSON comes out
If possible you want to bring the whole team together for social time face to face. Something includes beers and games works best, the more informal the better. Then after that as frequent face-to-face time as reasonably possible. Sending the whole team to a conference is also a good way to kill two birds with one stone.

Other than that daily stand-ups where remote workers are included, group chat such as slack or hipchat as the main communication for both work-related and non-work-related. help the remote workers feel they are part of the general conversation.
I think it's actually happening all over the developing world. Same thing was (is) happening in Romania.

The thinking is: why buy it if I can pirate it? Especially when it costs something like 1% of my monthly income (for just 1 MP3) or 20%-1000% (for software). Even the most ethically minded tend to think: who loses if I pirate it? Most of the times these products come from faraway corporations making billions of dollars (frequently more than the whole GDP of the country you're living in). It's hard to muster empathy for that.
So basically the absence of things, and things which have no user fee? If a subway system was 100% tax-funded with no user fee, would it become a public good in your eyes?
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I want C++ to have a built in SMT solver expressive enough that it can do concepts and a whole lot more. Maybe a new keyword constrain?
Shakespeare Euler Diagram (image)
Now implement Javascript in a Turing machine, and run it on this, so you can run Internet Explorer on Windows 95 in the Emscripten version of DOSBox on it. =)
I don't think you really understand the Sharpe Ratio -

Sharpe = E[Return - Financing] / StDev[Return - Financing]

You could only have infinitely high Sharpe if the standard deviation of your returns, minus your financing cost, is zero. That means that Return = Financing + Constant. Now, some people are able to achieve that because they have abnormally low financing (e.g. they are an insurance firm with a large float, or a bank which is able to loan money at a higher rate than it borrows) but for most investors, the only way to make that equation hold is if the constant is zero or negative.

Going long 3 month T-bills does not give an infinitely high Sharpe Ratio (if it did, everyone who could would lever it up and do it in large size).

As an experiment, I simulated holding a long position in the nearest to expire Eurodollar futures contract (which give a return similar to the 3 month T-bill return) and rolling every 3 months, which gives a Sharpe of 0.92, an annualized return of 0.65% and annualized standard deviation of 0.7%.

Similarly, a long position in nearest-month two year treasury futures contracts gives a Sharpe of 0.94 with 1.59% annual return and 1.67% volatility.

These are attractive Sharpes (better than equities!) but they are certainly not infinite, and to juice up the returns to anything approaching an equity investment you need to be looking at 5-10x leverage.

Your point about selling puts, with skewness/kurtosis risk which is not priced by Sharpe, is a fair one, and probably the most common method of gaming returns, but it is a side-issue.
Sure, but meaningful samples are randomly selected. 4chan is not a randomly selected sample of humanity.
I really like this idea for our office, but I'm afraid if instituted, it'd be perceived as just a way to ensure remote workers are butts-in-chair during the day. How useful do you think this would have been as a one-way stream (i.e. remote workers can see the office, but the office can't see the remote workers)?
Bacteria get around that by swapping genes with each other, so they don't have to reproduce to spread genes around.
Nothing as it is today. If you could hunt or gather you had a place. And you were related to everyone in your tribe by blood. So it is a similar relationship to the one that you have with your family or extended family.

So yes to an extent you are right, but at the same time the social cohesion was much greater. In modern society if you are out you are out, you have no recourse at all. Hunter gatherer societies probably not as much. But I am sure if you did certain things in some of those groups that were out of the social norm they would kill you.

But lots of things that you would get in trouble for today would not raise a brow in their societies. There are lots of trivial things that you can get in trouble for in mass societies that are of no concern to someone living in a tribal setting today for instance.
> We are deeply concerned that automated filtering could lead to taking down many materials that are being used in reasonable, legitimate and legally protected ways—especially when the underlying purpose of the complaint is not copyright related but rather an attempt to silence critical speech.

How would "notice and staydown" (vs. takedown) work with systems like IPFS which use content hashes? Would there be centrally maintained blacklists against which which all hosting companies would need to screen inbound content?
Oh, this is so true. Get free access to Wikipedia, use it to download the latest popular movies. This is going to make them really clever.
A mental disorder means a stable cluster of symptoms in a population such that it is (1) statistically abnormal, (2) distressful to a degree (clinical significance), and (3) not ameliorated by a reasonable change in environment.

Statistical abnormality is one point that is debated among professionals today because some might say that if obesity becomes pandemic, it's still a disorder. Deafness is also an interesting discussion because there are deaf communities now, so a reasonable change in environment is possible.

One does not use science to determine if a cluster of symptoms warrants classification as a disorder. There is no inherency in the universe which demands that. Science can set arbitrary statistical brightlines, study the etiology of a stable cluster of symptoms, if it can be found, and then study a range of possible interventions to the distress.

Perhaps in the future, mental decline at age 90 will be considered a disorder, because everyone is mentally sharp even at age 100, the mental decline causes a lot of financial and social distress, and it's not ameliorated by a reasonable change in environment. In the past, it's comprehensible how homosexuality was (1) statistically abnormal, (2) distressful to a degree, and (3) not ameliorated by a reasonable change in environment.

People want a concept of mental disorder that is "objective". That's not possible. Disorder is absolutely context-bound.
Indeed. Asexual reproduction is basically like being 100% inbred.
Interior HFDF?
But it could, at least in theory, expose the game to a few more people who will buy it. Whether that's a net gain depends on a lot of factors, but in this case, it seems clear they're losing sales.
Yep, Jaguar Land Rover (Birmingham) too. And (IIRC) a lot of engine design for various manufacturers still happens in and around Brackley.
In my current project we were using async/await even before they appeared in Babel (via homegrown transpiler).

Been happy so far.
Hrm, it's always seemed natural (and not frankenstein) that a function would be input as much as a number or string is. 'My name is Steve, my age is 7, and here's what do to one the database has saved'.

That said I see how the inconsistency you're talking about with how expressions return values with callbacks and you've certainly put the point very well.
I don't understand how you can run standalone. I just installed it on Windows 10. The only executable is the uninstaller.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like Lightroom (or Photoshop, maybe?) is needed to use the Nik Collection.
Nothing is "confirmed" by mathematical models, ever. Things are confirmed by experiments run in the real world.
> Renaissance Medallion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies#Medal...

> "From 2001 through 2013, the fund’s worst year was a 21 percent gain, after subtracting fees. Medallion reaped a 98.2 percent gain in 2008, the year the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index lost 38.5 percent."

Holy cow, that thing is kinda crazy. There has to be a catch, right? (Or everybody would be doing it.) Or is their algorithm genuinely so clever that nobody else has ever figured it out?
If they purchased an option then Virgin paid for it. Optioning purchases is a common instrument traded in aviation finance. The option to buy this aircraft at some point in the future at a price specified today is worth a lot. The fact that it's a moonshot only means the price of the option would be reduced. If the plane is as magnificent as promised, Boom's order books will be filled for decades and other airlines will be second in line to Virgin.
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Sometimes it's not about how long a movie or game is. It can still be really powerful to experience it even if it's short. Anyways $15 seems like a reasonably small amount for a game that took years to develop.
The current generation of decision-making aged adults grew up watching Road Runner cartoons and know that you can run off the edge of a cliff indefinitely as long as you never look down.
They're asking viewers to donate, which is a little different :) It's manually fixing the broken revenue sharing with the streamers.
>It's louder then any other and cleaning results are worse.

On the contrary, I bought a refurbished Dyson two years ago and I find it: 1) much quieter (I don't have to yell to speak over it); 2) it is much more reliable at getting everything out of my carpet than any vacuum I've ever owned.
No, those standards dictate how many organizations beyond the military adopt security protocols.
Great! But sadly, I must keep working with IE8 compatibility. Government related clients update at glacial speed...
My mother has had several Mieles and they are quite good and durable but after trying my Dyson, she wants to change...
How is this a problem? It shows that even limited free Internet access is hugely beneficial for sharing information.
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I've been running Docker on Hyper-V since the start (VBox never worked for me as I had a requirement on Hyper-V) - can you provide a little more info on how unikernel experience was used to make a difference? Is this a custom compiled linux kernel with Alpine distro on top?
How would volume mounts compare to something like using the netshare (cifs) with a samba share from the windows host? (which is what I'm currently using)?
That's not its premise. Its premise is that the benefits

tend to be subtle and become evident only over many
generations, [while] its costs are heavy and immediate

and so

sex *seems* like a waste

emphasis mine. Your reading of the article is extremely uncharitable.