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> is possible that we do not have pessimistic video games. I do not mean that we don’t have games with a down tone or with a general sense of negativity. I mean that video games, for whatever reason, have a hard time committing to the hell of life. They can be depressive, but they have a hard time letting go of the thought that there might be something good at the end of all this difficult.

I don’t know if I agree with the premise. Spoilers ahead.

The Dark Souls series is, in my opinion, essentially about futility. It could be said that many of the gmaes monsters are just other players who eventually gave up. Its implied that the world goes in cycles and no matter waht you choose, ultimately nothing really changes. Bloodborne is about cosmic horrors that are beyond our comprehension and that we cannot do anything about. The Last Of Us ends with the entire quest having been for nothing. The Last Guardian ends with the kid and the creature both getting severely injured, getting separated and never seeing each other again. Shadow of the Collossus ends with you killing solitary (and harmless to the world) creatures, freeing the big bad and getting killed in the process, before you ever get to see the princess revived (which was the entire reason you were on the quest to begin with).

Many games tie up their stories, but don’t particularly end on a high note exactly. Many games are pretty damned bleak. Hell, I’ve been finding that what I really want to see is more games that are more upbeat and are about more mundane things. For example, I loved the mundane (before the main plot kicks in) aspects of Night in the Woods, just because they were so normal and didn’t involve some dark, bleak, depressing story nor did it involve murdering people. I actually wish that the plot didn’t happen in that game.
Congrats on the launch ( and HN's hug of death ;) ).

Some feedback:

- Body copy on the cards might not be easy to read for some folks - it has a really low contrast ratio... just checked... it fails AA.

- Using Industry Demi at that size doesn't help with legibility either.
Ha, good to know. I've discovered that the pinch-outward-to-fullscreen gesture is disabled on the YouTube video player (you get a "Full screen is unavailable. Learn More." notice).

But if you:

1) go to shitty-fullscreen
2) hit picture-in-picture
3) go back to fullscreen
4) close fullscreen back to normal view
5) pinch-outward to zoom

It will put you into the native iOS fullscreen player. So I think I'll keep doing that rather than learn the mystery meat navigation.

Dear Googlers reading this: you may be tempted to go out of your way to fuck it up further and remove this workaround. Pretty please don't? Thanks.
If people are looking for a lightweight Ruby webserver, I'd highly recommend checking out Roda https://github.com/jeremyevans/roda

More related to the article, the author mentions that routing order is a problem with Sinatra. Is this not common to all route matchers?

What different behaviour would make sense? Obviously once a route is matched it should be executed, so is the issue here the way route ordering is done? What order would make more sense than ordering in the way the routes are defined?
You could conceivably have different algorithms at different layers - e.g., early inputs directly from sensors vs deeper representation layers.

You could also easily have different algorithms for different senses, evolved at various historical stages...
> I find that games are incredibly easy nowadays, there is little "effort" to actually reward.

While I agree with the general comment, this part made me laugh a little. Games (and TV/movies) are designed to cheat your brains reward system and make you feel like you are achieving something. This is why they're fun to play/watch.

I would argue that it's more insidious to require more work out of the player because it's prolonging the inevitable realization that you're not actually accomplishing anything. Games that cut right to the chase and reward you from minor accomplishments allow you to get that quick rush you were looking for then get back to your life.

Think about people playing World of Warcraft (especially vanilla days), sinking untold days of play time into grinding out gear/rep/gold. What are they actually getting from this? Versus just about anything else they could be doing with that time? The easier games make it to be rewarded, the more honest they are as a game. You could argue that you want a game to feel like a job because you can't get that satisfying sense of hard work paying off in real life, but I seriously doubt anyone would be happier with a productive, rewarding game life than a productive, rewarding life-life.
Nice! MIT and a lot of the other elites would cover up.

I'll be interested to see if the professor keeps their job. I suspect so. A little fraud is rarely met with more than a wrist slap at the elite schools.
Fantastic article. This is the stuff I like to see on HN.
We're in agreement on the facts, but not apparently on what we want to do about them. I have no problem that this would take most supplements off the market, as I think the current system makes companies exploiting consumers very likely.
The "people" in this case is Oracle.
But in Oregon trail you can win, so I'd call it a normal game.
Some other (relatively pessimistic) that I happen to have in my Steam library:

Don't Starve, Banished, The Long Dark, Frostpunk, This Is the Police, Orwell..

There are also many other from survival/horror genre.
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Favourite pet peeve: People who mention me or DM me to get my attention, and then patiently waits for a response before asking the non-critical question they could just have typed out and left for me to deal with when I have time. That kind of behaviour seems to be considered acceptable on realtime environments, and it's 10 times more disruptive than sending an e-mail..
With a bluetooth connection and a nice soft diffuse texture, I could sell lots of these in Cali for 1k a piece. With some Chopra co-branding, 2k.
That's right!

It would have been bad for any company to come up with that design at the time, but it was especially tragic coming from Apple, because it scuttled their sterling and meticulously earned reputation of purposefully designing user interfaces to be easily usable and learnable, and of going the distance to adapt to quirky human behavior, physical and physiological limitations, etc, and then documenting those designs and the rationales behind them, so other people can understand and apply them, and then actually applying those rules themselves. (But also unfortunately patenting some of those designs.)

QuickTime 4.0 marked the end of an era of great user interface design at Apple.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17404345

>The original 1987 version of the Apple Human Interface Guidelines can be checked out from the Internet Archive, and should be required reading for serious user interface designers, the same way that serious art students should contemplate the Mona Lisa, and serious music students should listen to Mozart. Even though it's quite dated, it's a piece of classic historic literature that explicitly explains the important details of the design and the rationale behind the it, in a way that modern UI guidelines just gloss over because so much is taken for granted and not under the control of the intended audience (macOS app designers using off-the-shelf menus -vs- people rolling their own menus in HTML, who do need to know about those issues):

http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf

For example:

pp. 87: Hierarchical Menus: https://i.imgur.com/RrEDo3m.png

pp. 88: Figure 3-42: Dragging diagonally to a submenu item: https://i.imgur.com/a0gNWHh.png
Saw it on Firefox on Fedora. Today at work it works with Chrome on MacOS.
A major use of USDT is that you can sell your cryptos when they're high, converting them to USDT, which holds it's value. Then, when the crypto prices drop, you buy in again, and repeat.
By keeping it entirely in the crypto space, your country's tax system can't charge you for capital gains.
The Guardian gleefully posts anything poking fun or criticism at men but doing the same to women is totally off limits. OP is totally right in that sense.

Even above the fold of their homepage they usually have one or two pieces about social justice. Then there's a steady stream of columnists that publish a daily stream of outrage pieces.

It's almost not a newspaper anymore but more of an activist-paper.
Another article by a tactless westerner that doesn't want to understand the country he's visiting.
all those projects are dead on the water thanks to DRM.

I look into them from time to time. If your source is a topbox or smarttv itself, you can't get any signal because those things use drm protocols that only allow one source. you can get around it with chinese hdmi splitters that will have their own problems.

if your source is a computer, then all those hdmi solutions are overkill vs doing it on software and then output to usb to a dumb and extremely cheap LED controller.
Is this the future of advertising?
Great to see the founder of Mozilla/JS taking on one of the biggest problems (IMO) of Web 2.0
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If you listen to natsec or intelligence Podcasts you'll hear these people stressing over quantum. We need quantum proof algorithms today, not ten years from now. For symmetric encryption this is easy, unfortunately the vast majority of our encryption protocols bootstrap with PKI.

I've come to the view that because we have a physical safety problem with cyber now (cars, drones, etc) we should be shipping devices with hardware enforced one time pads and the update procedure should incorporate them with a layered approach (ie, encryption + OTP).

Yes physical security is hard and OTPs shouldn't be used most places, but if the factories or update servers for Tesla are physically owned we're fucked anyway so we already have a physical security problem. Why solely trust in cryptographers that have routinely underestimated the risk of algorithmic or side-channel breach? I really want my mind to be changed here, because I don't like having opinions that are way outside the mainstream, but no matter how I dice it I don't see why we shouldn't be employing OTPs.
Video website's pretty obvious to guess. Hint: it's not youtube (duh), and there's like two other video websites.
> +1C from pre-industrial times. Apparently we are at +0.8-1.2 in that measure.

Which all depends on how you choose "pre-industrial times" and how accurate you think temperature readings from those times are. Since even today's thermometers are only accurate to within half a degree or so, I'm not sure how we can even know the change from "pre-industrial times" to within less than half a degree (four tenths of a degree according to your statement).

> The report says 0.2-0.5. The +0.6 from 1990 to today is at the lower end of that range.

Yes, that's true. But as I noted, that's not the only comparison between models and data. Looking at comparisons overall, the statement I made, that the data is outside the lower end of the models' confidence interval, is correct.
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There was a recent blog post following KotlinConf 2018, saying 27% of top 1000 google play apps use Kotlin. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/10/kotlin-mom...
>And besides: If Sinatra starts a server listening for incoming traffic, why does it still seem common to run a regular webserver like nginx in front of that server?

This is a common technique used for tls-termination and management of 'virtual hosts', among other things.

The mentioned "issues" don't seem to be Sinatra-specific, but rather about the authors shallow understanding of the topic as a whole
One key point in this - long term vs short term thinking.

I was a groupon user / and higher value to restaurants I'd like to think (ie, strong income, would go out to eat at a nice place, if I liked a new place I'd go to it more) but also someone who doesn't want a lot of hassle, time is money etc.

Groupon went from actually good deals, hassle free, to endless marketing emails / wall to wall shlock deals (50% off supposed $300/hr personal trainers? 20% off the latest MLM scam) and lots of scammy / scummy merchants who did everything they could to rip you off.

These dying places pulled every bogus trick. I'm sure there are cheap customers willing to fight through it all, but the money is probably in the folks able and willing to pay bigger $ just looking for an excuse to try some place new.

Then you read all the crap the groupon sales managers pulled to get folks on board (ignoring do not call, threatening bad yelp reviews).

Yuck.
Some routers- I think hapi in node might be one- match in order of specificity, not definition.

Edit: here we go-
https://hapijs.com/api#path-matching-order
If that's the best technical talk you've ever seen, I have to feel sorry for you. Cantrill may rant all he wants about Oracle but he's not exactly doing better, with all the peddling of node.js to the masses. It is rare for me to see someone come up with so much bullshit in one talk:
https://vimeo.com/230142234

Since I don't want to end with a negative note, here is a personal favorite as far as best technical talks go:

https://tinyurl.com/hzpccxj
"Need" aside, someone has to pay for those pessimistic games. In the end, that's the biggest impediment to experimental games. Games simply cost more time and money to make than a book, and sometimes more than a full blown movie.

If you want more pessimistic games, you will need to fund them, somehow.
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You can change the font in plan9port, you know? The default font looks terrible indeed.
Forgive my ignorance, but how do you know that what these tools show is good or bad at representing what you see?
Your username is well suited to comment this article.
I probably like pessimistic games a little too much:

Papers, Please - http://www.papersplea.se/

This War of Mine - http://www.thiswarofmine.com

Beholder - https://beholder-game.com/

The Castle Doctrine - http://thecastledoctrine.net/buy.php

Orwell - http://fellowtraveller.games/games/orwell/

Headliner - http://unboundcreations.com/games/headliner/

We Become What We Behold - https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb

Some survival games have a dystopian (therefore, pessimistic) premise, but might not be pessimistic enough according to the article:

There Are Billions - http://www.numantiangames.com/theyarebillions/

Frostpunk - http://www.frostpunkgame.com/

Plague Inc. - https://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/22-plague-inc

Even 'Dwarf Fortress' in fortress mode almost always ends with your fortress being overrun - http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
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YMMV but a former coworker had a 2016 XPS 13" and swapped out the wifi card for some Intel one and Miracast still worked for him.
Late to the party but:

Friendly reminder that IPv6 by default uses your mac address as part of your address and hence you are recognizable to any server in the world to track you around.
This guy promotes evidence based education, meaning you can't "guess" or "hope" that an educational technique works, you have to be able to prove, demonstrate and repeatedly get effective results with your education. Direct instruction (from the little I know) works, and has been rigorously tested scientifically.

http://measuredeffects.com/

The quote on the home page:

>"Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

--J.Tukey, 1962"
I think they are suggesting that the invasion of privacy going on here would be more obvious to us if the images were of women.

And your implication that these men don’t deserve for us to respect their dignity is absurd. Making choices you don’t agree with doesn’t invalidate their humanity.
Far Cry 5? I mean the game ends by you being trapped for the rest of your life with a creepy guy you tried to defeat for the previous 30 hours. Also all the people yoy've been helping in the main/side quests are dead.
As I understood it (I'm not a physicist so probably wrongly) dark matter is the proposed answer to reconcile General Relativity Theory (which is the current gravity theory) with actual observations of the universe.

So there is two possibilities:

- There is no dark matter and the general relativity is wrong.

- There is dark matter and the general relativity is correct.

And maybe a combination of both: there is something we don't detect but the theory is also wrong.
An OpenJDK fork would be covered as Sun released it as GPL, meaning everyone could fork it. Google based its "Java" implementation on Apache Harmony, which was never licensed, never passed the official conformance tests and would have cut into Suns Java ME business.
pardon my ignorance, but wouldn't you eventually convert your USDT to 'real'/fiat currency at some point? It would be taxed then as 'other income' right?
Nice. Would it be possible to add the ability to sort by price?
I didn't know this. Is there an alternative?
Isn’t one of your site’s main description points is that you don’t charge people until they sold their car, unlike other sites. Wouldn’t it be unfair to advertise one thing first and then change it later?
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I'd love to see a game that takes us through the choices and options available to a homeless person - and especially get the feeling that nobody cares about you and spits on you. I don't think the general population realizes this aspect of life. So start there but make sure there is something to attain. Like a homeless person that could be rewarded 1 million for saving the life of a kidnapped teen. But after the reward is given, even then mistrust happens and people think you kidnapped the kid... Would be fun for me if not depressing at times.

Also in the style of GTA obviously.
I thought foobar2000 had long replaced Winamp as the canonical music player on Windows.
I had to reread your post. I’m assuming you mean “develop at the lower level” of the stack and not “be a junior developer”.

I usually groan at the leetcode style interviewing questions because as an “enterprise developer”, you’re mostly going to
be working with prebuilt libraries. In my last ten years worth of interviewing, I’ve only once been asked an algorithm question - and that was to write a merge sort. I got the job offer but didn’t accept it. I figured that any company who has interviews for senior developer/Architects where they care more about low level algorithms than high level architecture is not a company I want to work for. If the interviewing and filtering process for a company is broken, that tells you s lot about the company culture.

That being said, when I was a bit twiddler working with a cross platform (x86 and mainframe) C code base, we did have to write all of the low level algorithms ourselves and had to know how to write highly optimized code and analyze the compiler output.

In that case, knowing how to program algorithms and understanding the “how” was very important. I probably would try the leetcode and other interviewing suggestions for working for a FAANG.
> By keeping it entirely in the crypto space, your country's tax system can't charge you for capital gains

This is blatant, willful and permanently-documented tax evasion, an amusing combination of illegality and stupidity.
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I have had an experience similar to what you describe. When marketing doesn't go well or the product doesn't get a fit, they always will look at you.
In case anyone else wanted to quantify "huge":

> “Polluted air can cause everyone to reduce their level of education by one year, which is huge,” Yale School of Public Health's Professor Xi Chen, one of the report's authors, said in an interview published in The Guardian.[0]

[0] https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/air-pol...
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Interesting, it’s always been my assumption, and unless everyone is operating in good faith, if don’t have board control (and/or >50% of equity) it’s a possibility that I might well get diluted to nothing.

As such, unless I’m confident that I trust everyone involved, I would value equity quite low (and I’ve certainly been screwed out of equity in the past...)
I don't understand why the vending machine would trust the client to tell it how much credit the user had without first verifying from an upstream centralized db. This is bad design in my eyes...
I agree. Make time for the gym. Eat less crap food, and get consistent sleep.
1984 is more than just pessimism, it's a warning that Orwell wrote because he hoped that there was time to change. Games like Mirror's Edge have a similar message: dark times are ahead if we don't take action. I read and play them in the spirit of preventing disaster and I can't imagine other people are much different.

Kunzelman writes that "pessimism, crucially, does not see a way out." The world cries out for a way out of global warming, food insecurity, nuclear proliferation: does it do any good for us to paralyze ourselves with imagined impotence?
I honestly don't see how the world of BNW is really a bad place at all. There's huge advantages to it: as you said, no one is homeless or jobless or denied medical care, there's no violence, etc. Even better, kids are raised better: instead of having children raised by complete amateurs as we do today, which causes all kinds of horrible problems (abuse, neglect, teaching poor values or insane belief systems), children in BNW are raised by trained and experienced professionals.

Really, I don't see what the real problem with BNW's world is, aside from deliberately creating idiots to do boring jobs. But that's one thing Huxley missed: in our future, we're going to automate away all or most of those jobs, so we won't need a bunch of idiot Deltas to do them. The main problem is that we won't have much to struggle for, since that's when humans seem to do well, but along with that struggle always comes a lot of horrors, so is it really worth it?
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Vending machines could be in buildings that blocking cell reception. I bet one of the requirements were that app should work offline.

And there you have it. Most people don’t understand security. The business can say they are MVP and “secure enough”.
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> Nah, when something has large negative externalities you set the tax to the point of mostly discouraging it. That'll be pretty high. It's supposed to be.

you really think each pack of cigs does $5.35 worth of damage to people other than the smoker?
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Do they really charge a 9.50 transaction fee?
Not sure, AFAIK there really isn't one.

SimEarth can be made to simulate global warming, but it is very dated (and the Gaia hypothesis is wrong).

Some versions of Civilization can somewhat simulate AGW, I believe, too.

From the recent ones, Eco and Block'n'hood have ecological themes. Haven't played the first, the second is only local ecosystem.
> The college, Ms. Nobles said, offers the possibility of a renewal for humanities studies at M.I.T., where students flock to computer science and engineering.

Do MIT students major in humanities subjects, or is the department's purpose to make engineering students well-rounded through taking electives in their department?
Which is a shame, because desktop YouTube is one 8f the best video player UIs that I have ever used, and I'm still searching for a desktop video player that is as usable.

Although the mobile version is unconscionably awful, I almost always have to guess at what the controls do and avoid opening the app.