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Not everything is a conspiracy. I know the author of this article and he is a straightforward person.

The game industry is a big place with many different kinds of people in it, all of whom have different motivations.

If you build a picture for yourself wherein everyone is That Guy At EA Who Put Loot Boxes Into Battlefront 2, then that picture will probably get in the way of your understanding what everyone is being said by everyone else in the industry who is not that one guy.

This article is targeted primarily at developers, not at gamers. It is an "oh crap what do we do" article, because believe me, that is a big problem and in general we do not know what to do.

This was not some "cost of games need to go up because blah blah" justification article ... it is a straightforward look at what has been happening and some musings about what we can do about it, with "cost of games will probably rise" thrown in as a 6-word aside near the end (at which time he also points out that nobody wants to do this, which is true).

You're reading the article you want to read, not the article that the author wrote.
‘What happened at JFK … was unacceptable’
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The actual article title starts with 'Your'.
Exactly, Personally I believe the "Trusted Traveler" program should be unconstitutional on is face, every citizen should be a "trust traveler" until such time the government as a clear and articulable reason to consider them a safety risk, at which point it should enter into some kind of Administrative or Court process where I person can defend themselves against set accusations

Treating everyone as a Terrorist, then "clearing" some people that choose to pay the government money, and go through their privacy invading process should be Unconstitutional and abhorrent to all free people
You cannot always scale a piece of software horizontally to multiple servers (think running Postgres), so your only real option for more performance is more resources on a single box. You pay a premium for that.
I think there's a huge difference between "take an existing system design, and declare it open" and "design a system in the open". This article isn't suggesting Intel make x86 open to all, for example. You get a completely different design when something is designed behind closed doors as a black-box product, versus designed in the open.

Linux and Windows have drastically different designs, based on how they grew up. Early Mozilla releases were open-source, but still "bore the scars of many rapid cycles of closed-source development" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Application...]. From the recent news, it seems that StarOffice is finally becoming somewhat hackable for us mere mortals (who don't speak German). It's the process, more than the license. An open license enables an open process.

"Magic bullet" implies you've got something evil (x86, with bugs!) and want to magically transform it (x86, with no bugs?), but nobody is proposing that. It sounds more like they want to put Conway's Law to work for us (e.g., RISC-V).
Yeah, this is a little odd. But in the writer's defense, I read a lot more than I speak, and I often comically mispronounce a useful word when I have to use it in speech, so while I'm familiar with this particular word, I do wish writers would do this with words a little more often than they do.
Part of it goes to the state in the form of higher property taxes due to the increased property value.
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Intel is behind on the patches... 6 months is not enough time apparently.
Ask HN: Why don't we volunteer as much anymore?
I've noticed that a lot of my peers and coworkers have a lot energy and interest in causes that are the hot topic of the day (e.g. recent migration crises in 2015), but would lack execution.

Even myself, I would be incredibly passionate about a cause in my local community, but would fail to connect with a local nonprofit and see how I could help. I decided to talk to my friend who's a volunteer coordinator at a nonprofit, and she informed me that of the 800 volunteers they had, 90% were aged 65+, and the number of volunteers signing-up are declining!

Is this a trend in our generation? Where we aren't incentivized to volunteer/engage with the community unless it somehow supports our own personal motivations (e.g. personal brand, networking...)? If so, are nonprofits doomed?
The thing you should worry are your little sisters and nephews who have low skill jobs and might end up at Amazon. They have terrible work conditions.
I am suggesting that other engineering disciplines produce much safer products without opensource and open design. How it is achieved is another question. Bridges are not safe because of any government agency but because mechanical engineers design them to be safe.
Can someone with more knowledge than me contextualize this result? It appears to be making progress on the Riemann hypothesis, but why is this particular effort getting attention on HN?
For me, the difference is that with congestion charges, there is typically another way to achieve the same end - alternative transport methods, or routes which avoid the area in question. I think that's not necessarily true with schooling - even just having to travel further because the nearest school is chargeable may have an impact.

I also think that there are reasons to avoid it with schooling even if the educational outcomes are the same -- I think separating schools into "can/will pay" and "can't/won't pay" would be bad for social integration/cohesion.

Further, a congestion charge applied to road usage is probably, partially, intended to discourage use altogether. That clearly isn't the case for schools.
Very unlikely. Linux distributions are based upon Linux, and the whole architecture of the Windows Linux Subsystem, after all, is not having Linux there.
What you're describing is not unlike howdoi: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
> Would you say ChargeBee is also a good solution for small one-time-payments?

My startup uses ChargeBee and deals with one-time-payments as well as subscriptions. It's definitely geared towards the subscription model, but you can make the one-off payments work by using the API and utilizing add-on products.

First, the customer would need to be signed up for a subscription plan that has a trial set to expire X years out (I think the maximum is 10). ChargeBee's pricing model is based on the total number of invoices per month (or at least that's how our plan works), so signing them up for a trial does not result in an invoice being generated.

Then you would set up an add-on product in ChargeBee that is of the "Quantity" type and has a price of $.01. When the customer makes a one-off purchase, you would call use the ChargeBee API to purchase a quantity of X of the add-on. So if the total charge is $10, you would use a quantity of 1,000 (1,000 x .01 = 10).

If you have products that have a set price, you can just add each one as an add-on and reference that product ID when calling the API.

It sounds kind of hack-ey, but I'm very happy with our decision to go with ChargeBee. Their customer support is awesome as well.
>Beer nazi

You may want to reconsider this phrasing.
Maybe games like this are the education. Part of me wants to see Instagram/venmo allow these to continue to happen because it's better for these kids to lose $150 now than $10,000 later.
> $100 to commute a week isn't to high?

Only counting gas and parking it would be ~$50+/week in my smallish town/city living 10-20 miles away. If you add in all the other car costs it would quickly reach $100/week.
I just noticed that Stella Artois is 650 years old!
FWIW, during the last year Fedora frequently had newer kernels than arch.
This still breaks TLS, since it will fail with client-supplied certificates and so can't be used if you need to support TLS.
>If you do a serious amount of travel each year there's no substitute for a good quality piece of luggage.

A private jet and a butler would however do quite fine. ;-)
The entire subject of what you're talking about, is a non-issue. Five years ago it was barely a legitimate concern. It has no legitimacy at this point. The problem, isn't a problem, it's solved.

See: Boeing and SpaceX. Add 8 to 12 months. Done.

And just like that, NASA has access to superior human launch capabilities versus Russia and China. And that's before Blue Origin builds out its New Glenn monster. Russia will fall very far behind over the next five years, only China will be able to afford to keep up over time.

SpaceX already passed Russia in launches this year. That's going to get a lot worse.
>I would imagine downloading a 'pirated' copy of the work is not piracy when you already hold a valid legal license to that work, by definition.

You are not necessarily in the clear; it depends on type of license you have, and whatever personal copy/fair use protections your country has.
I agree - I think the way you 'cure' cancer is probably by doing this.

1. Understand the handful of oncagenes and their mutations that lead to cancer.

2. Sequence every patient's cancer

3. Work on finding drugs like herceptin that nullify the mutations exhibited by the patient.

4. Craft drug cocktails tailored to the patients specific mutations.

5. (In future) - edit the mutation code directly with something like CRISPR.
Not necessarily. There's a good chance there was just someone who knows nothing about UX and is never going to actually use the software approved it for others to use. Or it might be that despite a poor UX, it's still the only product to do what you need. Despite a poor UX, it's better than the other guy's even worse UX, at least for now.

There's been loads of software that has been successful just by taking the idea from already existing software and making it more user friendly.
their most famous in the US is a hefeweizen, though.
"Early on, Valerie realized that she unconsciously thought of literally every single job other than software engineer as “for people who weren’t good enough to be a software engineer” – and that she thought this because other software engineers had been telling her that for her entire career."

Literally? As in, Thank goodness some people aren't smart enough to code and have to become neurosurgeons?
There are so many exemptions and discounts--e.g., for taxis and private hires and residents---that only a fraction of traffic is charged.

Also, London has changed its road network a lot to favor buses, pedestrians and cyclists. Speeds today are about what they were in 2002 before pricing, but there is more capacity for other modes.

Also there is tons of road construction in London all the time. That harms capacity a lot.
It represents what, two days of work at minimum wage? Sounds like a cheap price to pay for falling for a scam. You could lose a lot more in this world. A lot more.
can't say too much but I work on the stats side of liquid biopsy. Been in genomics (on the cs side) for the last 6 years. the encouring part to me is 1) we can predict the effect of a treatment given the tumors clonal composition, 2) we can test the effects of drugs much more quickly thx to crispr 3) easily profile a tumors composition with cfDNA.

1 and 3 imply we may be able to drive clonal evolution to a place where we can indefinitely treat patients. 2 gives us a lot more options.
In the United States, policy debates about implementing this sort of body led to them being referred to as a "death panel".

There is no logical reason why we shouldn't prefer an older generic medication if it treats the symptoms of a condition just as effectively and with fewer side effects than a newer option that is no more effective and has more side effects, but doing what is best for patients has to compete against the profit motive of our pharmaceutical companies.
Traffic causes negative externalities: pollution, wasted time, noise, etc.

Public education causes positive externalities: educated populace, a third party to help ensure kids are well taken care of, encouraging people to have children who will grow up to continue society, etc.

Even people who aren't making direct use of public education receive the benefit from it, so it makes sense to encourage it as broadly as possible, not to try to restrict people from it.
Until you provide some criteria that would allow us to evaluate "beat them at their own game" for a particular body of photographs …

Eugene Atget or Walker Evans or Dorothea Lange were doing their thing in their now -- so beating them at their own game would be doing your thing in your now.
No one ever claimed that GPS was necessary

The context of this thread is Android and Apple's tracking of location history and I'm just trying to stay on topic. Not without downvotes, natch.

This isn't Reddit, I'm not an idiot, and I know how cellphones work. Try to be more charitable.
I use Amazon a lot and I don't have the same experience. I've trended toward buying more through Amazon than elsewhere for things like clothes and various sundries like soap, toothpaste, etc. and overall it's been a good experience.

Granted, I try to use Prime whenever possible, and as much as I can, I try to buy items that are fulfilled by Amazon. Where I have run into issues are things shipped directly from China. Those can take weeks, but generally speaking I know ahead of time.

Fake reviews are a part of ecommerce so I'm not too terribly worried about that, but some of the reviews can be funny, too. Mostly I try to use the stars a product has received as a barometer and then vet the 5-star ones to see if they seem real. Ditto for the 1-star reviews, because often times people will complain about something that is outside of the seller's control, or even something that is subjective.
I’m presuming from your wording that you’re already aware, but for the benefit of others, ARM is bi-endian and can be used in either of LE or BE modes. However, most “in the field” configurations deploying real-world operating systems use it in LE mode as that makes porting everything so much easier.
Also, Global Entry includes the same benefits as TSA Precheck - so when you get Global Entry, you're also automatically allowed to use the expedited security lines as long as your airline supports it. (Most, not all do.)

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/frequently-asked-questions/what-d...

It also expedites entry back into the US via land crossings.
They're probably most known for their lagers/pilsener, maybe he meant he also likes their wheat beers?
Chill out. Nobody's killing anybody here.
I was thinking there would be a very good case for the Vatican to occupy the number one spot.

Whether seen solely as the papal organisation , or as a kind of continuation of the (Western) Roman Empire, these guys have been in day to day business for at least close to two thousand years. And have the archives to prove it. Wanna check up on some royal correspondance from the year 500? They may well have the actual letters stashed away somewhere.

Also: I don't really think the for-profit filter disqualifies them here.
It does actually have a fluid grid, so it is responsive down to about tablet width. It does not display correctly on phones however, which I suppose is a fatal flaw for a hotel site.
Why ICOs rarely make sense?
Timeless would probably include "timelessly legal" as a component.
4 or so years ago, I remember a frustrated Dev printed out signs on our floor at Zynga that was focused on the then early-mobile efforts that said “It’s a tap not a click!”
Quite right. Here's an example: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskLEO/comments/2klr4p/have_you_eve...

> In fact, in my jurisdiction a 3rd party saying you said you were going to kill yourself is enough to detain you in a psychiatric hospital for a few hours at least.
They seem to be functionally the same, though CBP has different web pages for the two programs.
In the US, this blood test is expected to cost $83,000.
Consider mapping right-click to erase or draw with a secondary color. MSPaint had this feature and it was ideal for "pushing around" pixels. I've sorely missed this functionality in most pixel art tools.
I agree with the concept here, but some of the examples are strange.

The AirBnB and Etsy ones in particular - they show there is demand and a limited number of spaces/inventory/etc. That's useful information to me!

How annoying is it to find the perfect place to stay but when you go to book they're sold out... and you just missed the last spot? Same thing for buying something.

Now you can argue they could communicate those differently but it's a good feature.
A bit rusty on the math, but taking a quick gander at the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn%E2%80%93Newman_const...):

"In brief, the Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the conjecture that Λ ≤ 0."

This result seems to imply that the De Bruijn-Newman constant (Λ) is non-negative, i.e., >=0. Thus, were one able to prove that Λ=0, then one would have also shown the Riemann Conjecture to be true? Similarly, if one were to show Λ to be not equal to 0, then the Riemann Conjecture would be false.

Again, just a quick reading. Sure others who are better/smarter can chime in!

Update: Tao expands on this point in the bottom of his blog post.
Personally I see crispr more as a tool for functional genomics. It took like two decades to knockout all pairs of genes in yeast. With crispr I've seen people do it in a single experiment.
Trying to explain this to people who are "certified" is exhausting.
I think even the salt crystal will have some ionic bonds broken- smashing it with a hammer should generate a bunch of kinetic energy which converts to heat, some of the heat will exceed the ionic bond strength, and break bonds.... right?
Little endian is also better for multi-word addition/subtraction. Your first operand will be the low word, which your pointer conveniently already indexes. This was a classic trick in the days of 8 and 16 bit systems, and assembly code for modern modular crypto systems still uses it.

Really I think consensus is that the industry focus on big endian systems was actually a mistake. It prioritized programmer comfort in a regime where it never really mattered.
In an ideal world, I'd agree with you. In the real world, government funding (at least in the US) is often administered by bureaucrats without relevant scientific expertise to ensure proper oversight. Furthermore, the checks and balances for grant awards are lacking at the NIH/NSF/etc. The panels who decide who gets funding and who doesn't comprise researchers who are far from disinterested judges. Some grant approvals are less about scientific merit and more about rubbing elbows with the right people, which ultimately means that political capital becomes more important than substance in a lot of cases. I've seen large grants funded for experiments that from a methodological standpoint, made no sense, and yet the PIs who submitted the proposal were well-established and had connections.

Corporate science, in contrast, just wants results that work and earn money and as a result is more geared towards weeding out fruitless avenues of research. My general impression is that this is sometimes at the expense of creativity, since companies are more risk-averse generally speaking, which limits what is discovered to mostly non-sexy stuff. I also suspect (but am not certain) that replications are performed more routinely, and are just file-drawered / kept as trade secrets and that the current reproducibility crises in some fields (such as cancer research) have been known about for a while in industry.

Rich people just want to cure cancer, childhood obesity, condition X that afflicts them personally. It's hard to get funding for just basic research because philanthropists generally lean towards the applied side of things as well and don't go for the moonshots. It's not the best, but typically there's some common ground for researchers to get money out of them (or some way to make basic research look applied to an undiscerning eye).
That won't have been the issue. Win16 programs never ran in v8086 mode, even on DOS-Windows 3.1. They ran in the normal 16-bit protected mode.
>> No money is lost, it just moves. Admittedly into fewer hands.

> I mean, that describes literal robbery too.

I mean, that describes capitalism pretty well too.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16188347
I am a big fan of scrum precisely because of the word commitment (I hand't realized it was removed).
Forecast means we need to use a larger estimate next time. Commitment means: "how can we still get this live". In a good culture the answer to this should rarely be work extra hours or reduce code quality - it should be reduce scope of functionality. Without the commitment you often get micro feature creep, where a bunch of non-essential micro features are added. A bit like this (https://lawsofux.com/parkinsons-law.html). It is also the obvious moment in time to tell a product owner "we need to remove functionality x or not ship". Without the commitment that important conversation is never had.
In my experience micro & macro feature creep is one of the biggest issues in sw development.
Obviously you can still do the above with the word forecast, but forecast empowers you less to actually change anything (apart from better aka higher estimates next Sprint).
On a general note:
I feel scrum is often misused to "manage" engineering teams, when it is really a productivity tool that the team should use for itself.
The copyright date is 2006. It's amazing that a site design like this would have been built as late as 2006. It looks more like something from 1996.

Oh, and I just noticed that if you change the language to German, there is a link to a photo gallery:

http://www.luebeckaltstadthotel.de/tischbein.htm
Probably they do not make much money out of the 5 dollar droplet, they see it as a way of introducing you to DO.
So its in the thread... https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/24/got-... is the reference for many of the points of numbers.

> To receive the state payments, Foxconn would essentially have to hire a sharply escalating number of workers, starting with at least 260 next year and rising to at least 5,200 in 2022 and at least 10,400 by 2027.

> Foxconn would have to pay a worker at least $30,000 a year to earn the incentives on that hire, with a required average salary for all workers of $53,900 annually. If Foxconn lies to the state, closes the plant or falls below certain jobs minimums, the company could have to repay some of the incentives.
> Instead it encourages newbie practices for everyone, forever.

I feel like YAGNI is similarly abused, I don't know how many times I've said "You know what, while we're at it we should...." only to be overridden with "YAGNI!", only to be proven right 3 months later, only now the cost of refactoring > value of the feature, and saying I told you so isn't being a "team player", so no one ever learns.

I very often wonder if I am the only one that feels this way.
SPARC still exists, and is big-endian
Tip of the iceberg... building up public opinion going after low hanging fruit first, then raiding the big US exchangers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16183454
Go ahead and think the EPA has done lots of good, I'm sure it has. Go ahead and disagree with what he is doing. To call what Trump is doing "censorship" is completely asinine and not at all what it is.
As mentioned below, Automated Passport/Mobile Passport allows US citizens returning to skip the long immigration queue without paying money/being interviewed for Global Entry. But it does not provide Trusted Traveler/TSA Precheck.
Do... do you live in the US? Because federal minimum wage is $7.25, and 16 hours at that rate is $116... before taxes. And don’t forget that if you’re working for minimum wage, $150 is a LOT of money. If you make minimum wage, you make $15,080 annually gross. $150 is 1% is your annual salary. Hardly paltry.

God, Silicon Valley is hilariously out of touch.
Pedestrian attacks self-driving car