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Cheating in video games is extremely common. It is a huge issue with online video games.

I tend to be "that guy" when playing games, pointing people out when I believe they are cheating. Sometimes they are, sometimes they are not. Unfortunately it's become impossible to tell due to the sophistication of the hacks:

- You hit a button, triggering your aim-bot, and it will swing to hit you in a natural looking way.

- You toggle "auto-cast" on in a moba, and suddenly your zoning becomes completely unstoppable.

With cheap games like Overwatch and FREE games like Fortnight or League of Legends, a ban is a very minor inconvenience. You're already paying $10/mo for the hack, so having to re-purchase a $20 copy of Overwatch is not seen as a huge burden. PC Bangs are popular in many cultures, so all of this might even be included in the hourly fee you pay.

It's a crisis in the industry, where competitive online games are hugely popular, the drive towards "balance" is obsessive, and people want to play a fair game.

I suspect the amount cheating is a dirty secret in the industry, much more prolific than they decide to let on. Thousands of people are banned every day.

Nobody publicly releases the number of people they ban, but you get little nuggets of information occasionally:

- https://kotaku.com/pubg-banned-over-1-million-cheaters-last-... ( This number was later raised to 1.5 million accounts )

OR I've adjusted my tin-foil hat to be a bit tight, and there is no issue.
Nothing changed. More people are sick, but the sickness is not new.
Just get an old pair of headphones that don’t work and put them on over your ear plugs.
I wonder how many high-level employees will choose to commute to Foxconn by Amtrak from downtown Chicago or Glenview.
Note that the bufferbloat choice for me is whether or not I want my packets to arrive 1.5 seconds late, not 30ms.
OP here. What would be the advantages of moving to fastmail.com instead of staying with my Dreamhost-hosted email? What do they do better than those hosting providers that also provide email? Since I already pay Dreamhost for hosting, what would justify the extra $5/month? Are they inherently more secure?

A lot of people are commenting on owning your own email and having backups. Perhaps a compromise solution would be to have Gmail handle my domain email? I won't get rid of the advertisement/parsing, but at least I would be able to migrate to something else if they ever for some reason block my account, and I would keep their top-level security and anti-spam services. I don't know...
I'm somewhat amazed by the amount of votes writing apps like this get here on HN. That is the second time I see such an "app" on the front page.

It's a nice little project, don't get me wrong.. I just don't see the use case to be honest.
I switched to Fork a few months ago from GitKraken. Fork is faster and it's using much less memory, it's nice to see developers who still care about usability and performance rather than about development speed.
>I did take calculus in high school, but I barely remember it

Probability calculus, not calculus in the sense of integration and differentiation.

>So I don't understand your notation

P(x) is the background probability of x. P(x|y) is the probability of x given y.

>I'm not sure if this would compound over generations

It's already had plenty of time to compound over generations, to whatever extent it does.

>the chance for birth defects goes from around 1% to 3-4%, about the same as a woman in her late 30s/early 40s having a child.

Indeed, which shows how silly your theory is. I mean, are you really suggesting that a slightly higher incidence of e.g. cystic fibrosis in Pakistani communities somehow makes it more difficult for them to integrate? That's such utter nonsense that you shouldn't be surprised if people infer some kind of malicious intent behind your comment.
OP here. Sadly, SVG file size is not as small as I'd want it to be. The main problem is that a few attributes (x, y and lengthAdjust) have to be repeated on each text tag to position each character at the right place. I can't use CSS for this since those attributes are not styling attributes.

Using SVG definitions efficiently to avoid duplication is also not as easy as I thought it would be.

I have a few ideas on how to reduce file size, this is the next improvement I'm planning to work on.

For the examples shown at [1], file size ranges from 56kB to 252kB, the worst case scenario being lots of single characters with different colors.

[1] https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg/blob/master/examples/exa...
Wisconsin even gave Foxconn concessions they didn’t ask for, mainly around environmental impact.

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2018/07/02/the-state-of-politics-...
I'm not really convinced cost is the driving force. A lot of tech companies with open-plan offices throw around money pretty lavishly, and programmers feel so strongly about focus that I suspect many would accept a direct offer of "no raises this year, but you all get cubes/offices instead".

If you're taking the whole company on an international vacation, or paying to do their laundry and offer daycare, or offering whatever other widely-mocked perk you care to name, it's hard to imagine that worsening employee experience to cut costs is the goal. (Especially when you see open-plan offices even at non-urban companies.)

I think a lot of people really do believe the hype about open plan being better, especially if they're the boss and don't have to actually experience it.
I actually think most people do use Skype or other video chat on their laptops, either for personal or for work.. that’s been my experience in any case.

I’ve never had any trouble with webcams working on Windows. Linux is another story...
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Surprised the article didn't compare the situation to sports teams' incentives. There's a similar problem in that space, where the teams try to extract benefits from the municipalities.
This is an old urban legend. Feel free to Google it, and you will see everyone who has worked near trains knows a guy who knows a guy who this exact thing happened to.

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I'm really curious as to the degree of cheating. In one respect, there anti-cheat system seems to actually be pretty good. Forums of such are full of people who say they are banned and have found no way around it.

However, as a casual player, I'm amazed at how good everyone seems to be. Everyone seems better than me. Especially at aiming. I'm one shot killed all the time. I also casually play Quake Champions and Unreal Tournament. However, in those games, I generally am somewhere in the middle. Most games I find at least some people not as good as I am.
These are long-term strategies and they're not very exciting which is why politicians don't engage in them. My mid-sized Midwestern city also has a contingent (which in my estimation is a vocal minority but I could be wrong) of people who want to be like the metropolises - NYC, LA, Chicago - and they seem to have a strong influence on local politicians which drives those politicians to engage in these give-aways to prominent companies.

It also seems articles like these are really talking around the issue when the answer is right in front of us. Let's just ban cities and states from handing out these tax-breaks.
I was curious about this too. The source is on GitHub (https://github.com/350d/stylish), but who knows if Apple checks that they're the same when they're approving it.

Edit: I should note that it collects analytics, but it can be turned off in the preferences. I don't remember if it's on by default, but I suspect it is.
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In the '90's, I worked as a software/systems engineer "upgrading" factory process lines (think 100 year-old paper mills, plasctic bottle processing, pharma) from big old buttons and knobs to industrial touch screens. It was a Disaster! Things that operators used to do in a few twists and pushes now required toggling between multiple screens. Small on-screen touch buttons that were the perfect size for computer nerd fingers were way too small for the big meaty fingers of the operators. Conveyor speed feedback that looked steady on an analog meter now looked unstable on a digital display with three decimal places of (un-needed) precision. I should do consulting for these car companies. I could tell them that a volume control should always be a physical manual device. :-)
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> One open office I worked regularly flew in parent company executives from around the world so they could watch all that geeky brainpower under their command grinding away at our Macbooks.

Might as well put you all behind a big glass wall, with a placard underneath that says “Developers” and toss a few bananas in every once in a while.
It still isn't.
You might want to talk to Leslie Blomberg of the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse. He's doing research into the kinds of noise ordinances that have been enacted in the United States and how effective and enforceable they are. In particular, it seems that giving police officers sound meters is more complicated than you'd think (they require special training) and not all that effective.
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> Undoubtedly, Wisconsin scored a political and commercial victory by winning the Foxconn bid. But by virtue of its location, Illinois came in a close second and that's pretty good.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/g00/business/columnists/ct-fox...
I don't think "it's my channel" changes the ethics or legality. It's just young men have been doing dumb shit for decades.

The only difference between then and now is they're filming it because filming technology is ubiquitous.
Really wish I could downvote this post. You must be delusional to think zerohedge is some kind of Russian shill site. It’s clearly just negative about everything
It's been happening to everyone. Spread the word.
Because of signal sighting rules in the UK, we experienced a lot of trouble upgrading lines to higher speed. All of a sudden, that signal that you could see for 10 seconds could now only be seen for 8 due to a bridge or whatever. Muchos dollars relocating signals and in some places not being able to increase the line speed at all.

Boring but very real reasons why we "can't just update things"
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A good chunk of Manhattan is low to mid rise with pretty sweet parks interspersed -- the skyscraper madness that is midtown is fairly contained. Hell, I used to rent a floor in a two story house on a fairly bucolic street in Harlem.
Right, I agree on the intention of ADA. But buildings should be allowed to make reasonable tweaks.

My building was built before recycles and computer became a huge thing. Trash room only has a trash shoot. To dispose compost, I need to take an elevator 30 floors down to dispose compost, which takes a lot of time.

If the building could allocate a third of trash rooms to store recycles, rotate them if a resident became disabled, we'd be in a situation where able bodied people are better off and disabled people are no worse off. Instead ADA is too restrictive, so we're in a suboptimal spot
> Now Europeans all use US services. Amazon, Ebay, Facebook, Google, Dropbox, AirBnB, Uber...

Well, to be fair, everyone (sans China) uses these US services too.
Blaming the system works in urban environments or corporate engineering processes. Vast swathes of the world have no "system" to protect you, except for maybe a sign if sufficiently many people have died from a hazard and somebody cared enough to make one (and overcame pushback about disturbing the environment). Examples of such environments include backcountry travel, rural living (even in developed countries), and most certainly caving.
> Novels are written to satisfy the social milieu of the time in which it's written.

Some of them are, some of them aren't. It's easier to see this with movies. Pop-culture references and characters using the latest technology are easy ways to make a movie more ephemeral.

A character popping memes holding an iPhone X will not age well.
Agreed! I'd much rather have a GraphQL-based headless CMS to the WordPress backends I usually work with, but everything I have seen is a hosted service rather than something I could download and host on my own. Usually isn't cheap, either. It's been a real turn-off for me.
mypy has gotten a lot better and I wouldn't discount it because of one bad use case. I went through the exercise of applying type hints to a large code base and uncovered several latent bugs.

That being said, mypy supports type hints in Python 2 code, so that really just adds to your argument.
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that may not be entirely true; if you imagined a universe where xanadu exists, and was popular as a general tool, then you can envision that open-source primary documents would be preferred over closed, simply on the basis that you can actually consistently link to them (in the same fashion that, today, non-paywalled sites are naturally favored over paywall for sharing on HN).

And if xanadu documents were more useful (because of their interlinking and history) than the close-able flat documents (or perhaps closed documents that only link to closed source), then naturally things would slowly trend towards open documents by default, as it becomes more difficult to constrain yourself to the closed-source world.

The problem today might be then, that everyone already accepts that primary documents are likely to be sealed off, and there's no significant incentive otherwise. But if the idea of having a sufficiently useful document upgraded from a flat pdf to a historically-archiving xanadu document...
> a ban is a very minor inconvenience

At least for fortnite. They do HW ID bans. So it is a substantial inconvenience.

However, I wonder what are the limitations to architecting a game like World Of Tanks. One of the reasons I have really enjoyed that game is the inherit limitations on cheating due to the fact most of the games runs server side. The client can't do magic cheats like in games like Fortnite.
>benefactors create at least some n number of jobs with a total comp of $x for employees living within the same town, city, county or whatever municipality.

Directives like the ones to create more jobs in order to reach an arbitrary target set by the bureaucrats in the government adds needless pressure and thus might stifle the potential and resources for innovation and experimentation in an organization, especially for a startup.
I live in mine. The increase in value and dividends paid each year far outstrip my rent and bills.
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As an aerospace engineer, grades matter for your first job, maybe, then no one cares. After that, they are looking at your professional success/experience. Personal experience, having graduated with a ~ 2.5 GPA myself. Employers #2, 3 and 4 haven't asked about educational experience beyond formality, and are more interested in post-education body of work.
Glad I picked up Netflix during the recent dip. It was my play money, and so no huge loss if it falls.

Lets see how Disney offers them competition.
I made something similar for Belgium a while back [0]. Unfortunately, all I had were the official resources. How much is earned for most of the positions is not public information (or is well hidden in opaque structures). This form of information augmentation has an enormous impact on how you can consume the news.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hoeveel-verdient-e...
Best part is that Illinois taxpayers don't have to pony up a single nickel. In a very real way, people in LaCrosse, Independence, Pardeeville, and Spring Green will be subsidizing jobs for people in Illinois.

I don't know how Chicago does it, but they always come out on top in any big deal that seems to happen in Wisconsin.

Now please excuse me while I go recharge my account to pay Illinois more of my money for the pleasure of using their iPass system on the weekends. :(

(Maybe I should change my HN screen handle to "AnotherWisconsinSucker"?)
For me, I've never been able to get over the internal conflict of wanting to build a useful tool like a map of fishing spots and releasing it openly, with the downside of good fishing spots getting overrun should the tool become popular. I also started working on a similar idea as yours a couple years ago, but for Instagram instead. It turned out the GPS tagging on Instagram was fairly inaccurate, and sometimes intentionally misleading, especially amongst anglers who tag incorrect locations since the number one no-no is spot burning.
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Is it just me or is

.where(p -> p.getCategory == 2 || p.getCategory == 5 && isProductUnderDiscount(p))

and

if (product.getCategory() == 2 || product.getCategory() == 5) {
boolean yes = isProductUnderDiscount(product);

not functionally equivalent due to && precedence?
Reset his player stats and he will get the message.
How much time have you spent with poor families? You seem to think it's merely a problem of will, which is absolutely not the case. It's kind of hard to sit down and do a Khan Academy series when, for example, you have to spend all your time helping your mom raise your siblings because she's working three jobs since your dad left home. Or if you're a girl, your parents tell you not to waste your time on studying or STEM things because you should just be trying to be pretty and get married.

And even if you did get out of those traps and spend the time on free stuff, it's not even going to come close to getting you on par with a tutor who knows what they're doing spending 1 on 1 time with you and parents willing to spend thousands of dollars on electronics, flying lessons, or whatever other enrichment activities support you. And where's the free equivalent of your dad getting you a high school internship at his prestigious company for kids who need to work minimum wage service jobs to help pay the bills?

"A more level playing field" is not even close to the same thing as "A level playing field" today, and it won't be for a long time. That's why diversity programs are still important.
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>show growth at Google, and if you are hired as an entry-level engineer. It isn't about what you did up to that point.

Wait, do you mean: IF you are an entry-level engineer, they want you to show growth at Google upon getting hired at Google?

What about NON entry-level? That's my point-- career trajectory is, I am told, very important to them.
I guess I would fall in the 10%. I have a desktop I use for most stuff, and the only Mic I have is in a USB headset. But if I'm going to video chat with family, it's almost always with the built in hardware of my laptop. I wish it had hardware switches.
....and criticising statistics is the laziest kind of scientific criticism....

A/B tests are fine. They work. They allow inference of causality. They are easy to understand, and can be fun to run. They get you 90% of wherever you want to go, and such over-the-top criticism just seems like badly executed pretentiousness.
The problem you're describing is precisely why containers are so popular. You can install and deploy any app even if it doesn't provide user-level installation choices (such as php native extensions)
Same problem in Javascript. There's actually a yoda lint rule that encourages you to write your code like (1 === a) instead, so you don't accidentally make that mistake.
Firefox and Chromium are both open source. If you don't like the way it works, then work with the teams to build a better experience.
They do that? I never noticed anything like that. Do you have a source?

And while this bill indeed is a disaster, I really don't mind some extra regulations. They might not get it right the first time, but seeing how normal Americans get screwed and exploited over and over by internet companies, I think it's better than having no regulation at all.
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This. It has always seemed pretty nuts to me the slippage between the sort of idealized multi-armed bandit mechanics of A/B testing (the theoretically sound basis) and the actual real-world situations with enormous hypothesis spaces and gnarly sampling problems. But I guess even finding local minima / maxima is useful?
Trade policy (protectionism) can co-exist with an open web, so Chinese tech companies could not only exist, they could serve non-Chinese customers in an open web, growing their market and competing globally with Google/FB/etc.
The original Word for DOS had a user interface (for command selection) similar to MultiPlan, which was (similar) to VisiCalc.

Windows was not yet a thing.
Yes, I'd be interested if I could self-host. As others mentioned, having this externally hosted introduces another potential point of failure.
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Iceland isn't really high latency. In many ways it is perfect for serving Europe and east coast US from one place (if required).
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Why would they? Who would pay the insane realestate and tax prices plus an hours-long commute? Sure there’s more to do in Chicago, but you’re not doing anything during the week if you’re working ten hours and commuting 3. Better off to live in Wisconsin and visit Chicago on the weekends.
Looking at the sample code makes me wonder if Java does not have type inference like auto" or "var" in C#/C++? LINQ like code (or STL in C++) is much nicer if you don't have to explicitly declare variable types.
Interesting data there probably for a social psychologists/sociologist to dig into. More interesting than the amount of cheaters in a population or whether thats a fixed amount is how many go on to win and influence gaming culture (both the player and the designer).
Cool! Which model?
I've been farming the development work out, so I can focus on the design, functionality and big picture items.
I definitely can understand this point of view! But this is actually the case for all SaaS's out there. I would even say that this is also the case for open source projects if there aren't maintained anymore and the costs for trying this yourself are too high.

One benefit of the nature of a headless CMS though, is that there can't really be a vendor lock-in on your content.
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