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GP outright stated that Blizzard's games are better than Valve's and Bethesda's because of their strict control over quality/lack of community content.

My point is that Hearthstone is an objectively worse game than Counter-Strike is, in the same way tic-tac-toe is inferior to Chess in almost all respects. I'm not denying Hearthstone is fun, and makes a metric ton of money. I play it a reasonable amount and have spent money on it. But it's not a good game.

I don't see how providing a direct counter-example to an argument is 'generalising', but whatever.
You search them for gold masters of source code on CD-ROM?

I found one on Lincoln, but it was just some cat photos and backups of selfies from the cessation of the Civil War at various Reconstruction projects.
> It enters the same ethical flexibility as things like wikileaks in my opinion

I agree with you, it is completely unethical and totally self-serving.
Yeah exactly - last time I went through the trouble of setting up my own e-mail I decided it just wasn't worth it between PTR records, dmarc, and SPF. It's possible, sure, but takes away all of the old-fashioned enjoyment of quickly setting up a Linux box with postfix and on your way you were.
Metrics are useless without philosophical and psychological commitment to the process. Many mediocre value investors can do valuations all day, understand moats, and then allow tons of biases to cloud their thinking and panic at the worst times. Then there's the guys who do valuations, then look at the charts to pick entry/exit point s, as if they can predict price action. With so many people doing it wrong, is there any reason to doubt the market is still inefficient?

Buffett has never used computers. He reads financial reports. He doesn't want to know the market price until he's estimated a valuation, so he doesn't bias his decision. He's not staring at the tape or CNN so he doesn't get wound up to make knee jerk decisions. He sits around and reads and learns.
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> Germany couldn't run its huge trade surplus without its currency appreciating

The Euro policy is not German monetary policy. Germany has always asked for a harder currency policy.

Germany also had a huge trade surplus long before the Euro. The economic numbers were going down after a the reunification and its problems (collapse of the East German economy). Germany is now back to the same success West Germany had before the reunification. Now with a larger market (the EU integration now is deeper and with more countries), simplified exports to the larger market (mostly) with a common currency, a much better access to east Europe as an emerging market, ...
Actually, fundamentals radically changed.

Last year, litecoin was stilll "the first altcoin historically, which is just a duplicate of bitcoin and is mostly unmaintained". This year, it suddenly became bitcoin's staging area.

For those not aware, there's an ongoing heated debate in bitcoin about scalability issues that just seems to be unable to find consensus between several concurrent solution propositions. Litecoin came and implemented one, so we now can see how it performs. They are now moving on to implement lightning network, which is an other feature proposed for bitcoin for a long time. That being said, it will stop being "bitcoin's staging area" the minute bitcoin will go with an other choice that the one that was tested in litecoin. What litecoin would do? I don't see it asking miners to rollback a feature.

There's an other fundamental to consider : as for now, litecoin is more scalable than bitcoin. This means that should bitcoin fail spectacularly because of its scaling problems, litecoin would be the safe replacement choice, as it's exactly the same thing, but without scalability issues - due to mentioned features recent add. It would be a bit sad not to replace bitcoin with a more modern coin, like ethereum, but that's still something that could make litecoin relevant.
tinypng is actually based on pngquant + more optimizations not in pngquant
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> Returning it to Blizzard directly is good for Blizzard. Returning your code is good for you.

To expand on this, it's good in general to return leaked code of active-development projects because that helps the social contract of turning work into something that can be sold. So if I found jakebasile's 2015 code in an alley, it would be in some sense good for everyone for me to return it.

But that doesn't apply to a 20 year old master for starcraft. There is no promotion of the useful arts in returning the CD in this specific case, and it's a hugely relevant cultural artifact.
Overwatch is a far, far better game than TF2 (also a far better comparison) and I would definitely say that one of the drivers for that is Blizzard's quality control.
Liberating proprietary software is a moral good. Full stop.

The number of hopeless herbs on here who have so thoroughly internalized "legal == moral" is depressing.
World tensions are high. Apparently whenever there's bad news, the cryptocurrencies spike? It's kind of like a safety net similar to gold.

The current thing driving it might be a combination of factors, among which is the North Korea situation with chinese investors moving funds into cryptcurrencies?
Get to work on a Webassembly compiler and your wish might be granted.

http://webassembly.org
Most cars (from my experience) in Germany have separate tyres for winter, so changing them is something you need to do twice a year. Back in New Zealand I drove for about 12 years and never had to change a tyre.
That assumes that the person's work has an inherent value, and further that this inherent value is equal to the highest amount it can be paid in any market. That hardly seems reasonable.

Consider two countries, A and B. A has limited economic development, low technology, poor infrastructure, low education. B is far more advanced. A and B lie on opposite sides of the globe and have essentially never had trade or direct contact. (This is an accurate scenario before the Age of Exploration, where travel was far more limited than now, and there were already large differences in the relative level of development of various lands.)

Person Pa mops the floors in country A and gets paid $0.25/hr. Person Pb mops the floors in country B and gets paid $5.00/hr. (You may wonder how we can define both of their incomes in dollars if the two countries have no contact; you can define a virtual exchange rate based on respective purchasing power, for instance).

Your interpretation states that there is a transfer of wealth from person Pa to... person Pb? Everyone in country B? Everyone in country A? It's not clear, but any of those conclusions seems unreasonable. There is no causal connection between country A and country B, so there can be no wealth transfer between them. And how can the existence of country B, at the unknown and unreachable recesses of the earth, cause a wealth transfer within country A?

The more reasonable interpretation is the opposite: it is person Pb who is receiving a transfer of extra wealth. From whom? From the past and present inhabitants of country B, who have created the wealth, technology, infrastructure and knowledge that allows Pb to receive more for the same amount of work. This interpretation, unlike yours, is backed by clear causal connections.

I do agree, however, that people often fail to account for this transfer of wealth.
Ask HN: What are the current Design/HIG trends in Web Development?
I have started with front-end web development recently. While looking around many popular websites, I found couple of things common between them. Such as:

1. Header now have font-weight:100 or become thinner,
2. Primary colors are used rarely and smooth color ( such as #333 instead of #000 ) are used normally.
3. Semantics tags are used more then ever.
4. Light blue color is used for link.

So, what are others Design/HIG trends or practice you follow while doing web development for front-end view?
Hi, is there a problem with the location? I put "Bangkok" and the post in whoishiring is showing in "Orlando, FL"
I just changed to "Bangkok, TH", hopefully this will help. Does the scraping update the posts when there is a difference found?
Wait, is the "32 year old white male computer nerd" just a drive-by stereotype, or did you actually research the real life information of this person just to be able to post this? I'm not sure which is worse.
Complexity doesn't reduce security.

Complexity can both improve and reduce security depending on specifics, and thus generalizes to "no correlation" demonstrating that generalizations are often misleading.
As far as I can see energy markets work well in Europe. It started in Norway as far as I know (not exactly the bastion of free markets) then spread across Scandinavia and down to Continental Europe.

How it works in Norway is that all power producers sell their power on an exchange where before 12 each day they specify the volume they will produce depending on the price for each hour the next day. All bids are compared to see who will produce how much. Price your power too high you don't get to sell any power, price too low you loose profits.

Among the buyers on this market are power resellers that sell to consumers. As a consumer I can buy from any reseller regardless of my grid provider. This makes resellers highly competetive and a consumer only pay a few cents above the exchange price per KWh (depending on contract and the type add ons the manage to sell you)

The grid owner charge a fix connection fee together with a per KWh fee. My guess is that both fees are regulated.

I guess the markets in other parts of Europe work quite similar. It is hard to know what the prices would be if the market was not in place but energy production has in the last few years gone from being very lucrative to be much lower margins.

This is not an argument against net neutrality though. Only wanted to point out that energy markets can and do work.
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RPython, to be more accurate
There are threats against the US that are more than a few crazy people. The rise of Islamism is real. But the reality is that the number of casualties due to terrorism in the US is dwarfed by those of gang or drug violence, even including 9/11 (which is now more than 15y ago...). We do not hear anyone suggesting restricting civil liberties to reduce gang violence. It is kind of a curious massively asymmetrical tolerance to crime.
We already require corporations to preserve all their email, voice, and other electronic communications in case the government wants to investigate it. Maybe you're irresponsible for losing your key, and need to be held accountable.

We also require people to document their finances to accurately tax them. You're presumed 'guilty until proven innocent' in the sense that you're taxed on income unless you can document that it's untaxable(a business expense). There are penalties for failing to document things. What's wrong with requiring you to document your private keys, along with your receipts?

If you sell apples under the name "Loving Apples", you have to pay your state government to register that name. You can be fined for not registering your name, and your bank or other financial provider will want to see the government approval document. You could have the government maintain a central registry of all private keys, and make it a crime to encrypt a document with a key not documented in a state agency.

If you receive a document that is encrypted, you may be further required to tell the government who gave it to you, to ensure compliance with the encryption law; similar to how giving someone money requires you to tell the government about the transaction for compliance with tax law.
I think the situation you mention has a significant distinction: Fraunhofer (or whoever) would presumably advertise that they expect you to get a patent license to use the code in a product. Either they'd explicitly state that up front, or their lawyers would say it with the first politely worded letter to someone who starts using the "open source" code.

Software distributed under those terms would no longer adhere to OSI's definition of open source (I think it violates points 1, 3, and 6) nor the FSF's Free Software Definition (points 2 and 3).

It might not stand up in court, but I do think it's obviously unethical to release patent-encumbered "FOSS" without mentioning your patents and then demand users obtain a license after the fact.
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Robotic transportation could also greatly increase the demand for cars and actually increase traffic on the roads, even though less total cars would exist because they would be better utilised. Even public transport could disappear if robotic cars could meet demand, if they can't, they will probably stay more expensive than public transport.
I suppose it's useful if you're really into wild camping. Realistically how often would the average person, even someone living in a rural state, need to catch, clean and cook their own food? How many decades has it been since a significant portion of the population has needed that skill? Probably several generations at least. I bet less than a fraction of a percent of the population lives in a situation such that they don't procure most of their food through purchases of the products of agriculture or animal husbandry. A town has to get very small and very remote before periodic trips to the grocery store become so onerous that it's actually more efficient to set snares or sit in a tree for days on end waiting for a deer to wander by.

I suspect that any scenario in which hunting/trapping becomes a valuable skill for a significant portion of the population is also a situation where knowing how to operate an animal drawn vehicle is also a useful skill.
Anyone have any suggestions for a map view extension for VS Code? I like how it looks in sourcegraph, wouldn't mind having it locally but haven't been able to find one.
Now you have to show that the 'hidden champions' the author talks about are using 'wage suppression'.

Actually the midsize manufacturing companies offer long-term employment, fair wages, jobs in rural areas, jobs which require high-qualifications, ...

These people who are working in these midsize manufacturing companies are in high demand and that they have low wages or participate in low-wage jobs is completely wrong.

We are talking about companies like the manufacturing company bought by Tesla.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/8/13561146/tesla-acquisitio...
Iconomi does this already and much more.
> What about "the good of the many"?

That's like saying that robbing Bill Gates and distributing the money to millions of poor people is morally good because it's good for many people.
It should be noted that the Bitcoin protocol is more difficult to change, compared to other crypto currencies, simply because it's the most widely used. The more users/implementations a protocol has, the more expensive change will be, simply because it affects more users (more software needs to be rewritten).

Similarly, changing the SQL protocol is orders of magnitude more difficult than changing, say, the GraphQL protocol, but does that mean GraphQL is likely to take over SQL? Or is it just a symptom of the fact that SQL is more popular than GraphQL in the first place?

A crypto currency that no one uses is really easy to change, because no one will be affected. Framing this as a significant competitive advantage, however, misses the point, since the nimbleness is a direct result of no one using it.
Your ethic smells bad.
There's lots of penalties, like having to spend millions in legal fees defending your billions in fraud and spending several days in a stuffy court-room trying not to trip up in your own web of lies!
Your request has stayed on my mind over the past few days, so I put this together for you: https://github.com/pdmccormick/sample-socketio-chat-app

Enjoy!
But you can get into infinite loops with templates!
I struggle to understand how a service that costs pennies to deliver that earns Uber dollars from each fare can't find a path to profitability. I think people are too hung up on the awful financials they have now, and ignore the massive buildout they are doing.

And Boeing could easily compete with United and American right now, the extra costs of hiring pilots and crews are minute for them. But it doesn't make sense on many levels. I'm pretty sure car makers will focus on making the self driving tech, and sell it to customers like Uber. Uber will have to win like car rental companies do today, brand and location. If it is installed on the most phones that will winin the near term, at least until how we use our devices entirely changes.
That's the funny thing about the gig economy. You're instantly replaced.
Hi, HN!

It is my first browser extension app. It makes a little difference from some instant dictionary extensions. You just start read your story and mark new words, keep marking if another one pops up, and lookup for all in the end. Besides that, it tells you more data about your current reading.

Really excited to hear feedback from you all :)
Sometimes, not most of the time but sometimes, the wishes of an author are bad for the public. In a hypothetical scenario where an author wants to destroy all traces of their work, it's a bad thing to help them.

And this is about the data, and possible copyright violations, not the theft of property. Him returning the physical disk is perfectly fine. So throw out that argument.

It's really very straightforward. No gymnastics.
Yeah, but he was wrong on CPU counts
If you bought a new Ferrari because you were tired of the old one, and someone steals your old Ferrari do you just let it go, not charge them with theft?

Maybe Google thinks they can drive a wooden stake through the vampire heart of Uber with that LIDAR claim. Perhaps they will if this turns out to be a valid claim.
> Blizzard instead pays for the expensive flight, hotel, con, and drinks for a 32 year old white male computer nerd who accidentally found a CD in a storage unit

I'm all for charity, but wait, so rewarding a person _actually involved_ and who actually did the good (for the company) deed is somehow bad these days?

Also, white male computer nerds are people too, you know.
The joy of the contract is that it is a non-moral document.

Its a contract. Success or failure in being able to meet the conditions are all mapped in.
You're the one who is making that connection, not me. I never implied it.
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>The source is Blizzard's intellectual property

The tomb and its contents are the property of the Pharaoh in it.
It's now builtin as an option.

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_10#_preview-minimap
> The high taxes on assets in France and the inheritance tax in the U.S. prevent the accumulation of capital necessary for the formation of a strong mid-sized sector.

How can you write stuff like that and stay serious?
When Windows 95 was the Mainstream OS 32 MB was what most people had and 64mb was plenty. Most people used PCI or VLB 2D graphics cards. There was simply not enough memory on the board for IGU. Most PCs had not even got USB by that point.
All three of the mention countries have pretty much free, capitalistic enterprise - which is the total opposite to what mjevans suggested.

That said, there is a huge government ("public") sector and the taxation is high on most things. Especially income and consumption.

Basically, all of the socialist programs that's currently going on in the Nordic countries rely heavily on taxing free enterprises (private sector) and would work a lot less without them.
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> competent Bitcoin broker

That's the entire problem. Bitcoin has existed for eight years, and for a long time virtually nobody knew about it. Not a single bitcoin broker could demonstrate competency yet. It's better to stay out of this market if you think you can trust them.
So it's ok to take other people's property, as long as it's "culturally important"?

TBH this makes me think of the old practice of smuggling jade artifacts out of China. Hey, it's culturally important, so clearly that means it's ok for other people to take it, right?
> has the largest low-wage sector in Europe .

That's easy, since Germany is also the largest country in Europe (not counting Russia), has the largest number of employees, has a lot of people from East Europe coming for work, ... The alternative would be to move many of these jobs outside of Germany, which sits right next to a lot low-wage countries.

The low-wage sector was also expanded, because politics wanted to reduce long-term unemployment and thought that a low-wage job with some social security is better than not working.

We should also remember that Germany with now 80+ million people has taken in 20 million people from East Germany (with its economy mostly collapsing) and many of them have still a harder time to find jobs, which has a lot of reasons. One of the reasons is exactly that this eastern part of Germany now lacks this large based of mid-sized companies who are competitive.
Well, at least i'm not the only one who smells this way:

https://iapp.org/news/a/ethics-and-the-privacy-harms-of-wiki...

http://www.npr.org/2010/11/30/131699467/is-wikileaks-release...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-wikileaks...

http://theconversation.com/wikileaks-journalism-ethics-and-t...

https://www.seeker.com/wikileaks-the-ethics-of-revealing-sec...

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2011/02/11/februar...
Is being able to catch, clean, and cook a wild animal really a valuable skill for most people in the western world? If you enjoy it, fine, but for most of us, the skills that earn us money are going to be much more valuable.
Yeah, sorry, I didn't at all intend that as a slight against you specifically.
> Ali had previously sold the Chevy but still held title to it and it was registered in his name. When the buyer was arrested for a DWI and drug possession, police seized the truck and filed a civil forfeiture action against it, even though Ali was not involved. In order to regain his Chevy, Ali was asked to prove his innocence.

If Ali sold the car but kept the title what the heck did he "sell"? This sounds like a poor defense against civil forfeiture. It seems like he'd have to claim he cheated the person he sold the car in order to assert ownership. I wouldn't want to touch that case either.
You're saying that there are only 8 Germans alive who can do it. Between 90 and 99% sounds more reasonable.
The difference is that Wells Fargo does not brag about its crooked nature nearly as much as Uber (or its sympathizers), at least on this forums. Not many people are openly sad that more companies are not more like Wells Fargo (because hackers mentality, maaan) nor them being praised as role model as Uber was.

HN is visited by people in tech who are naturally interested more in what happens with technology companies. Therefore there is more focus on Uber then on Wells Fargo.
Do you have any papers you recommend to learn more about symbolic execution? Can you describe a high level overview of the process while citing the relevant source files in Prepack? Cool stuff!
Wouldn't the same reasoning apply to all communication? Do you keep transcripts and/or recordings of all private conversations you have (in meatspace) so that you can hand those to the government when they show up with a warrant? Would you like to live in a society where not keeping such records is a crime? If not, why should communication "on a computer" be held to a different standard?