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Nintendo has historically never made adjustments to the pricing of their products, except for when the games enter a "nintendo selects," classification, or only after extended periods of time (Mariokart 7, 2011, is worth $29.99)

This has the effect of not trampling on the resale market as well as keeping sure that sales don't slump because people are waiting for a price reduction. If you want to buy a Nintendo game, then you just buy it.
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This is correct. The Microsoft apps on android are phenomenal. I think it speaks volumes about the android toolchain and development scope when a direct competitor can make better apps than for their own platform.
Advertising has held fairly steady as a percentage of US GDP for ~100+ years (1-2%). However, GDP has grown so there is room for more players esp if the growth is in a tiny sector of advertising spending. Further, It's at the low end of it's normal 1-2% band we might see a bounce back if the economy starts taking off.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-03/advertisin...
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I'm curious, has anything ever improved as a result of being bought by Microsoft?
It's still deplorable to me that you can force someone into solitary confinement for anything over a couple of days.

Well, a lot of the mechanisms of prison seem pretty counterproductive... 23 hours in the same room.

My understanding is that members of the military sign away a bunch of their rights but I don't understand how throwing somebody in jail for 20 years is a thing we came up with.
So, only the computer owner can authorize someone to have a password. Problem: the owner of most devices now is the manufacturer, not the purchaser, who is only a licensed user.
It's fine on android. And since the app is on android only, maybe they tested on android only.
I wouldn't be surprised if most of the people she has to deal with 24/7 are self-professed "patriot" types who would not be troubled to lay plenty of indifference and insults upon her.
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Cost of living is actually not as important as local market rate. The two are correlated, but it's about 20% lower in London than SF, despite London being more expensive. There are places you can look up market rate.

- Negotiate. That accounts for about 20-50% of the compensation difference between new hires.

- Job fit: Side projects/tech blogging will only get you in the door, not materially affect your income unless your position at the company overlaps heavily. For example, if you are being hired as a security researcher, then good tech blogging in that space may significantly affect new-hire salary. For UI work, having a good portfolio is far more important. For backend/new-grad, neither is particularly important.

- Company: Different companies have different market rate targets. Google is about 90th percentile, Apple not quite as high, unless....

- Competing offer: Having an "exploding offer" (basically a time sensitive competing offer) will get HR scrambling. This gives you some negotiating power.
This really puts the whole Hillary Clinton email scandal into perspective, huh?

The message seems to be that if you leak classified data to the American people you get a big punishment, whereas if you leak classified data carelessly (Clinton) or for your girlfriend's book (Petraeus) the most you can expect is a slap on the wrist. That's f ed up.
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You're getting plenty of feedback here, but you might want to read up on "category error" as to your sense of the privacy concepts you use.
I thought it was better than average in that respect. But I think general HN consensus is that it would be better if discussion of Wolfram's writings about other people weren't always dominated by talking about Wolfram's ego, resplendently magnificent though it is.
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I just finished "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman!" this morning and it was in that one.
It's also possible that Microsoft might have been less willing to open the language if it had become an integral pillar of the Android ecosystem.
> Ask yourself what value to society do Chelsea create with her leak?
> Then ask, what value does broadcasting her health status everywhere provide society?

(Not who you replied to, but...)

I believe Chelsea Manning deserves privacy for an issue such as this, but also hope that the situation will (at least) make more people contemplate the extreme nature of solitary. I would be undone fifty times by now if I were isolated by force.
Well, if you want to sell it legally, testing and validation with the relevant government departments. If not, eBay and "intended for novelty use only"?
I don't know. The thing is I don't tell people my revenue, and it's not like I go to great lengths to try to find people. I've met up with a few in person, and it's just been a waste of time - none of them are willing to take the risk, and I can't blame them, there are too many biz guys with worthless ideas out there. And yes, it seems that great devs/designers are usually more interested in working on their own ideas, it's very hard to get them to work on someone else's vision.
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I'm not a fan of her, but no one has showed Clinton leaked it, to my knowledge. She emailed it insecurely, but to people with appropriate clearance.
Majestic was a great concept, but unfortunately, it launched a few weeks before 9/11. Here's the trailer[1] and press kit[2]. You can see why this was a problem after 9/11. It's still a problem - before 9/11, there was no government department looking for vaguely suspicious activity, and the police were not as militarized.

Majestic's slogan was "it plays you". It played on its schedule, not yours. The pressure made it more compelling, but limited the potential audience. It was like having to be on line for a raid in WoW, or LARPing.

Pokémon Go is a casual augmented reality game. It's not even multiplayer. Simple wins in casual gaming. (Angry Birds, anyone?)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcTDMYq3xCw
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG0oY8obuGU
To be fair, it's pretty standard for crimes to have differing punishments depending on whether they were accidental or purposeful. Sometimes they're even considered different crimes entirely (i.e., murder vs manslaughter).

(I'm not defending Chelsea's treatment here. I just think it's odd that grizzles has singled out this particular aspect of the situation as worthy of outrage.)
I'd say it's pretty tough to approximate a sibling relationship. Now, I'm very close to my siblings, and we were raised extremely family-first, and my experience is entirely my own and not someone else's, but no, even my best life-long friendships that I cherish dearly cannot approximate my relationship and shared growing up with my siblings.

YMMV I'm sure.
I was confused as to why I have a downvote button now, I just realized I barely passed 500 few days ago, woo.
There have been many threads about this but it is a real pain.

I was only a day aways of being forced to leave the US. I got one of the last H1B visas in 2010 before the quota was reached and my F1 expired. Now, happily I got a green card but things could have been much different...
"Person-first language" is a thing in special education- I wouldn't be surprised if that were preferred here. The idea behind it is that the adjective isn't the defining attribute of the person.
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Now if only they made some claim about how they were using ML the parody would be 110% complete.
Personally I have no problem with stuff being corporate branded and/or juvenile but I am surprised that the cock-fighting element isn't mentioned more often in relation to Pokemon. Maybe it is because I have seen a little real life cock-fighting (and its horrifying) but I find that aspect quite repellent.
Atomic clocks? You can beat high-speed traders by only settling transactions, say, every five minutes. Whenever the time is nn:n5:00, look at the roster of orders and match bids with asks. Make it a complete black-box; no information is available about the current orders, only those from the previous five-minute period.
You have confused human rights with governmental rights.
Chris Date's Introduction to SQL [1], or Edgar Codd's last book [2].

Actually both are worth reading to discuss differences in philosophy (e.g. "no NULLs" vs 4-valued logic including "unknown" and "not applicable" NULLs).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-SQL-Mastering-Relational...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Relational-Model-Database-Management-...
>considering smoke from kitchens as source for CO2

Mushrooms expel CO2 and intake O2; there are several products such as [0] but you could just as easily grow some edible mushrooms to raise CO2 within the enclosure.

[0] http://www.planetnatural.com/product/exhale-co2-bags/
“The axle count of trains in Switzerland must not be a multiple of 2^8”
Yeah, sadly the bit just before that about them putting their heads together "to create something that could have a real impact on the lives of millions" doesn't really give it away. It's too believable that a real startup offering this product would use that language these days.
when does one get down vote power? edit: never mind i read below.
Very unlikely that would happen. Sega generally takes a pretty relaxed view to the emulation community and to my knowledge has never pursued anyone for releasing firmware from their systems.

He does claim legal and professional risks as his reasons in the assemblergames forum thread[0] though.

[0] http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/saturn-cd-block-rom-dump...
Most of my Googler friends had never heard of it (I've mentioned I've been playing around with it for a project lately). I imagine that it's like any large tech company with a well-educated workforce: you'll have some folks who like to keep up-to-date with the latest tech and try it out in side projects. Even Haskell had a few passionate supporters while I was at Google.

When I left 2 years ago, there was no "pressure" to use Go for new projects but a number of projects were adopting it anyway, since it had been blessed with "official language" status and a lot of Google infrastructure worked with it.
BUG! I get a strange response whenever I hide the bottom-most item in the page.

Appears gone now; it reproduced consistently just a few minutes ago.
As far as i can tell, you're not required to fight. you can just run around and collect everything. I haven't played ingress in a while, but the only way i remember it was possible to advance was by blowing stuff up.
8 bits should be enough for anyone
Wow. Based on an initial review this looks amazing. Congratulations! This could come in handy for future projects.
It is f ed up, but that's not the message.

The message is that if you're a powerful person in DC, and if your leaks are not intended to embarrass or shame the big power structures of DC, you can expect a slap on the wrist.
Which doesn't answer the question he asked. CuDNN provides efficient convolution and RNN kernels. It is not a framework itself. There are plenty of ways to screw up aspects of a framework other than its convolution kernels.
When the whole official world is against you, it'd be comforting to hear that there are people, even if strangers, who believe in you and appreciate you.
Definitely shipped too late; no one would be embarrassed by this.

(fully aware it's a parody)
When people want your game so bad that non-gamers are sideloading it illegally in countries where you haven't launched, there's going to be bugs.
#neverforget Color once raised $40MM pre-launch... anything can happen in SV.
A superior restatement of this would be "Don't support or reject any law unless you are willing to sustain the sum of all features."

Supporting some law could mean some cases interact with those of dubious mental resilience, or with unnecessarily deadly cops, which results in irrational escalation or death. It could also mean that, on the sum of all things, including people dying, society experiences net benefit.

Supporting a law which benefits nuclear energy and rejects fossil fuel or coal energy could mean people dying as well, but it could also mean a better world where fewer people die from energy policy.

Unfortunately, some people stop at the idea that an unjust death occurs, and only focus on that, without recognizing that more people may be already unjustly dying with a status quo policy. To borrow an example, people would rather a man made train barrel down its existing man made path to kill 3 people than to redirect the train to kill 1 person.
Depends on how you look at it. With games: Minecraft and Halo didn't get any worse so far. On the business side, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SQL Server, and Analysis Services all got better, often to the point you don't remember them NOT being Microsoft products anymore. Microsoft also created a better Java, they just called it C# (ok, a bit snarky in that last one)
Why isn't this a real thing? It may be a joke, but services that play a game for you are a real thing. WoW players have for years been able to hire firms to level-up their characters. Having someone walk your phone seems far more honest than sharing your login creds.

(I don't really understand the necessity of walking. Does this game reward distance travelled?)
>TECHNOLOGY
Our technology stack is a unique use of complicated algroithms...

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Same reason I have a landline, so he and his friends can talk. He's 8.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12071240
Petraeus did it for sex. He got a fine, and no prison time.
Or just sign in with your e-mail address. It's an option provided by the app.
The real tragedy of Pokemon Go is that it's essentially a glorified Cow Clicker. The core gameplay (battling and leveling to strengthen your team, then using them to collect ever-stronger Pokemon) has been replaced with mindless swiping. Toss Pokeballs until one works, then move to a new spot and repeat ad infinitum.

This "game" had so much potential, but they removed all the gameplay!
GDEMU is for the Dreamcast, but the same person/group also produced Phoebe and Rhea which are similar products for the Saturn. Those don't have a separate home page, but most of the menu entries at the top of the page have separate Phoebe and Rhea options.
Having to deal with multiple frequencies and protocols is a fucking nightmare on an emergency scene. God forbid you have multiple agencies from various counties and states, plus something federal mixed in. It's really a bad experience and messages do get lost.

Source: former firefighter and 911 dispatcher.
I can repro this. Thank you for the instructions.
Water? Nation has natural resources. Valley does not.
Possibly because they actually cover this topic as one of the main quest lines in at least one of the games. They're pretty self-aware about it these days and the shows are big on morality and battling only when the Pokémon want to.

People definitely bring it up, but what are they meant to do? Collapse a media franchise worth many millions of dollars?
I think, they did. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with Mozilla Firefox. The font size has a big size than the previous one.

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073109
See also shmup: https://github.com/fabiensanglard/Shmup
I'm surprised it's just an ingress reskin. There seem to be lots of issues with the networking code. For example forcing login when the server's are down. Why bother with the OAUTH when they know it's down? Many states seem to require server interaction to progress to the next state, which makes sense, but there ought to be a timeout to return to the map. Many many times the game isn't non-responsive, but dosn't appear hung... a little X to abandon the current state chain would make the game far more usable.

I haven't played ingress in a couple of years. if it was simply a reskin, they'd have avoided so many "the network is always available" errors.
That's exactly what I said, yo. Just formulated a different way. So much for the 14th amendment.
I am in the US and I would be happy to chip in to help pay for health expenses of a poor person, who has no family, etc.

What I am NOT willing to do, however, is pay enormous overhead to the the insurance/healthcare/bill-processing complex which sucks out the blood out of this country.

I bet most people in the US object not to some kind of a social contract to help the less fortunate, but to the completely broken system.
I do remember the 70s and 80s, and I also bothered to take enough of an interest in criminal justice to know that crime subsequently decreased in both the US and in Canada, without the rampant increase in incarceration in Canada, or anywhere else.

Oddly, repeating the sound-bites issued by "law and order" politicians does not magically persuade those of us who live outside of the conservative talk radio bubble.
Ian Bogost is a professional critic, so I think he'll exaggerate how he actually feels. He probably really likes the game and still thinks it's super cool.

Frank Lantz is a really positive guy overall, so again, I think his negativity overstates how he actually feels. His company Area/Code was not acquired for its location based games, and Area/Code never made a game where you look through a camera and see a thing superimposed in it. Suggesting Area/Code 'got there first,' as Ian does, is a bit of a stretch. Honestly, it's doubtful anyone at Niantic has actually played a single thing Area/Code has made, not even Drop7. Nobody would put a screenshot of Plundr in their pitch deck and say, "We're going to make the next big version of this." Besides, Plundr was never released as a public game anyway, so it would be absurd to compare this actual thing Pokemon Go to what is basically a design fiction.

But even if you allow that all these advertisement game footnotes are genuinely cited/used in Pokemon Go, you're forgetting that none of that really matters in gaming as an art form. The only person's opinion that really matters is the consumer's (and to a limited extend the Google Play Store editors and App Store editors). Players are less interested in who invented what concept. If you're going to reference the past, reference familiar control schemes (like nearly every console shooter references Halo) or properties (like, well, Pokemon). It's surprising that professors of games-as-art like Ian and Frank would seem to get this wrong.

People on this forum are probably most critical of the bugs, but again, none of that really matters. Other commenters have said it more succinctly: if you have something great, people will deal with its problems. Forget DeNA games (like one commenter noted); have you ever tried to play Minecraft on an iPhone? You're moving around your FPS head with your finger and using a virtual joystick, which is literally the most horrible control scheme for touch possible. Kids still deal with it, they really don't care.

Why are there people looking to assassinate Pokémon? I think the Niantic team was given multiple opportunities to do something unconventional, which basically never happens, especially never in any of the jobs of people on these forums. They're kind of rubbing in all your faces that you really don't have to be making elegant hierarchies and making the world a better place all day, if only someone trusted you to do something weird.
Tesla model Y, an electric scooter. Then their line-up will be S3XY :)
I wouldn't pay for this ... on iOS it's very simple to spoof your location with Xcode. Xcode even has a feature where you can upload a list of GPS points and it will "walk" your device along the path over a period of time.

Here's a video showing how it's done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqOWCNuZD4

I'm sure something similar exists for Android.
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Ask HN: How do you access your dev environment away from home?
I have a fairly usable dev setup at home. I run Windows and have Gentoo Linux running in a VirtualBox VM to do all my development work on. I run Emacs and IntelliJ in it. It's essentially the same setup I've been using since the mid-2000s but inside of a VM instead of the machine's native OS.

Unlike the mid-2000s, I now travel a lot! This is also the era of easy and cheap machines in the cloud. Surely someone has come up with a great solution by now for moving your dev environment to a place you can access anywhere you go!

My preferred solution would leave my dev environment unchanged (Emacs and IntelliJ) and be able to have a GUI, not be strictly CLI based. I don't want to expose my VM to the network because I don't want to deal with the security headaches, and also I like to turn my computer off to conserve electricity.

How do you, fellow HNers, solve the mobile dev environment problem for yourselves?
I love Dilbert. Then this.

Feels like that time I stumbled upon Orson Scott Card's blog.
I'm curious to hear your thoughts on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12063597! The long thread beneath it basically convinced me that calling them 'nominal' was a bad idea, but perhaps if we had a chance to do C over again we should replace the dichotomy between signed and unsigned with abort-on-overflow and wrap-on-overflow?
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Reminds me of setting Gambits on my characters in Final Fantasy XII...
I'd think a news gathering operation would have their own recordings to check and verify.

I don't see a quote from the attorney in support of the claim that the stop was called in.

If the call was already broadcast, I don't see why it couldn't be confirmed. Is this source the only one recording?
> Locked in solitary confinement

I thought she was out of solitary?
So, if I unknowingly used a public library computer that had been left logged into an administrative account...
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And I would buy a couple. Nintendo is one of the companies I trust.
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> Haskell is not Elm

A service isn't a client though. They work in different ways and solve problems differently
Many people have cofounders, but Scott is their particular cofounder.

It's like saying "my dog" or "my house". The use of my doesn't change just because the noun changes.
To be fair "elite" here means a child care facility that can stay overtime when I am stuck in the office on production duty till 9pm, which is like every week. This isn't a government job where I'm guaranteed exit at 5pm on the clock.
But in Haskell you can get anything done :-)
On Android the font is big enough to read five or maybe ten meters away, from my 5.5" phone screen. Not sure this is really how it's intended.
It's funny seeing all these people vehemently defend their $15/mo. In the bay area, where this launched, that's like what, two beers at a bar?

I don't get the money argument at all. Negotiate yourself a $15/month raise, if you feel that bad about it. And yes, no shit, in some places in the world (like back home for me) this won't make sense -- so what?

The one thing I'd want to have is some kind of ceiling on the gas price. I checked this morning and the prices seemed quite good, but what guarantee do I have that they won't randomly jack up the price when I'm not looking?
That's news to me. The last release was just couple months ago.

Knockout is pretty much feature stable with most stuff in place, so it won't have as frequent releases as younger frameworks.
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> You can collapse comments in threads.

Thank god we're finally having this.
> Then I killed it trying to mod it.

Ugh, don't remind me. My brother fried our n64 and our ps2 trying to mod them into handheld's (with built-in screen).
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