skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I 100% agree that F2P was the key ingredient in this case and that's why Epic Games made the right call while PUBG Corporation is struggling to control bleed-out from almost two years of failed promises to fix some fundamental issues and bugs.

Instead, PUBG Corporation doubled down on extracting revenue and added lootboxes, a similarly broken mobile PUBG (yeah let's totally rewrite the game in another engine before we bother to fix the one we've got) and in-game cosmetic purchases.

This angered people twice as hard, because A) the sentiment surrounding in-game monetization with paid games and B) the fact that a free game had less buggy game logic and mechanics, while constantly adding new features and refining gameplay as it settles into its market.

> But the F2P, that’s the real unprecedented aspect IMO.

Not unprecedented. There were already F2P battle royales, they were just shitty and not marketed well.

> If the App Store market has taught us anything about today’s game market, it’s that F2P titles (esp quality ones) will outperform paid upfront apps in sheer volume by multiple magnitudes (100-1000x if not more)

Ok, that's just not true. I mostly play paid games on mobile. F2P worked for Epic Games because the Battle Royale genre was exploding and they provided the path of least resistance to becoming part of the scene, but after things have died down people will end up gravitating to more niche expansions on the genre which refine the gameplay in ways they prefer. Don't take this one data point and form an entire conclusion. That's bad business.
Replied to your similar comment as well, but here is a Medium post that I just wrote on the topic:

https://medium.com/@sib1013/writing-docs-at-amazon-e02580861...
Not sure what you mean by "attract developers". Attract implies competition, but when a startup releases an app, there's no choice but submit it to the Play Store, due to its 80% smartphone market share.
I know some train drivers. None of them have engineering degrees or are particularly technically minded in any real way.
Exactly. It's always been the same bargain as with government.

'We the people / customers / market recognize that it's in our interests for your functions to be centralized (whether through functional necessity, efficiency, etc), however, in return for our granting you a monopoly we demand some say in how you run your affairs.'

The alternative should be, if Google isn't willing to accept that, then they deserve a lot harsher anti-competitive regulation. The GDPR would be the tip of the iceberg, and would continue into preventing their leveraging their size and customer knowledge into new related industries.
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At first I thought the teen was underage. He isn’t. So, really, “adult gets vaccinated for all the stuff crazy-mom didn’t”

An “it’s a wonder I’m still alive” suggests that his mother’s inability to judge risk is inheritable.
Lol no... it was based on an earlier mod by the same developer.
And lose all the emails and Google docs associated
In just the last few months they've made it possible to preserve these snapshots after destroying the database: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-rd...
In the American system it is often politically easier to force people to do something in order to get something - such as force people to get ultrasounds before having an abortion - than it is to force someone to do something in order to abstain from something else (note, I don't say it's impossible many examples do come to mind, just it's more difficult).

IIRC some places have tried to tie getting required vaccines to public school enrollment, but that is problematic because solu5ion is at state level and not national.
> To me, the fact that we didn't until now is maybe the most interesting thing.

Back then, people were smashing the stack for fun and profit. Think about it! Executable stack! No canary! No ASLR! Can't be more fun.
> "It is useless to talk to such people. You are using the scientific framework, they are not. Trust me, I tried."

It's possible to get through to these people if you're willing to argue in terms they understand, which means dropping "scientific framework". You might be unwilling to do that, but if you can stomach it, it works. Constructing persuasive irrational arguments for positions that are correct takes some practice, but it's not exactly difficult.
What agreement. They hire offshore developers. They do not know who these people are, if it is a person, or a group of scammers.

He asks for an app, but lets the offshore "developers" do everything including store deployments. He could take the codes, and take care of the accounts. Heck, he could even study a few hours to understand what's going on the app before submitting.

He just depended on some random company he found on a freelancer website, dumped all the money, then got punished because he let those people take 100% of control.

Good luck with lawyers.
Sometimes people giggle when they feel emotionally overwhelmed. It is often taken as an inappropriate response, which an experienced actor has probably encountered. A number of times, in a rehearsal of an intense scene, we would all lose it like that. You learn to work through it as you develop a sense of your character's role in the whole process of storytelling.

(Some HN readers may not recognize the name of the author, Charles Petzold. He wrote many crucial Windows programming books, most notably the first standard tome of Win32 development. Our instructor referred to Windows UI programming as "the Petzoldy stuff".
I'm quite fed up with Google's monopoly. Antitrust thank you please!
Pleasingly old-school site. Minimal JavaScript (in fact, none), maximal content document (not app) that loads quickly. It's on the colourful side, but there's no lack of contrast. Judging by the source, it's probably handwritten HTML too.

Speaking of monsters.... https://monster6502.com/ (discussed previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17969472 )
No, you let them use your name and sign the papers for them while they are committing the crime. You are now an accomplice.
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Forbes Crypto Billionaire Claims “Kelsey Coin Is the Only Currency in the World”
Rating TOS: Big Tech must be held to account over user consent
Those people have a strong financial incentive to remain wrong. Many of them may even know they're wrong but don't care because they enjoy money more than they enjoy the sensation of honesty. And since you can't differentiate the ones who are stupid from the ones who are sociopaths pretending to be stupid, there is a decent chance you'll be wasting your time trying to persuade somebody who already agrees with you and simply won't admit it.

Consider for instance practitioners of "psychic surgery." All practitioners of 'psychic surgery' know they are frauds because 'psychic surgery' is sleight of hand. With something like acupuncture or homeopathy, it's certainly plausible that some practitioners believe they are doing something real, but with 'psychic surgery' that form of self-delusion simply isn't a possibility. This demonstrates the existence of frauds who know they're frauds. There's no reason to believe similar personalities aren't operating in any other form of 'alternative medicine'.

Don't waste your time with nuts who've made careers out of being nuts.
Nothing is missing, from Google's perspective, the 3rd party took care of everything, and the investor (the writer in this case) was just a name in the account.
I read with interest the recent case of the Google Developer who had his account terminated for frivolous reasons. Terms of service specify the legal parameters within which a company most operated. People don't read them, they are broad and one-sided. We need companies to incur an economic cost for user abuse. Read my full article at the link above in the Financial Times. (You might need to Google it to get there directly without hitting a paywall). In a nutshell, we need a rating system for terms of service. If you are interested, hit me at carlos@recordtv.com.
It's a good thing that these people's young children may contract violent whooping cough, or may die a miserable death, because their parents have freedom? It's good thing that others who can't vaccinate or otherwise benefit from herd immunity are getting sick while we let these parents play out their experiment?

I suspect you didn't mean that, but I think we need to take this more seriously, again, per the grandparent, given the broader public health risk that this movement plays, particularly outside its adherents.
So right now they have an appeal form. It didn't work in the case above.

The difference after your change, is now you lose $50 and STILL have to post to twitter to try and get your problem solved.
Do you really need to “develop together” to do most features? Most work that developers do isn’t writing complex leetCode algorithms. Are you really saying you aren’t capable of turning requirements into software design by yourself?
Unfortunately, because vaccines aren’t 100% effective and not all people can handle them, their experiment is also sacrificing others, not just themselves.
Hey, let the writer get rich with his "own app" he used freelancers to "develop" and published under their accounts. I am surprised he didn't price it $1,000.
Translation in Malaysia
Love the broken image icon :-)
> That's not what cloud based means here.

Ahh, I misunderstood then... I hear cloud and I think server based.

I would think cloud-hosted "gaming" - as in RDP type gaming?... the latency alone would kill it for me.

I stand corrected :)
I'm not sure how you guys qualify "large" forms, but our application is pretty much all inputs (dynamically generated somewhere between 25 and ~300 visible on screen at one time)

We're also investigating hooks, we think we'd get some benefits from not having so many HOCs... specifically as our application is a _large_ form, unmounting components can sometimes be very expensive for us (common example: switching between two React tabs). Excited to see when you guys can release this change since it IS breaking, hopefully a major version change will suffice here :)
Too bad Starforge was abandoned. The multiplayer gameplay promised to be quite revolutionary but they never cleaned things up. You can build and you have to protect your base while others gather building supplies, and launch offensive strikes on the enemy's base. Honestly a really cool idea and more engaging and deep than a battle royale.
Cloud gaming was tried before, with a company called OnLive. Interest peaked shortly after they announced in 2012, and then they crashed and went bankrupt because nobody cared enough to pay for it.
Income taxes aren’t paid by apple. Those are paid by the employees.
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>The only hope is to out-crazy them.

Or just outlaw all exemptions except medically necessary and block unimmunized children from attending school.
This is why people get excited about decentralization. Exactly stuff like this. What if you had an app platform that would never shut out your business?

We're not there yet, but fixing things like this is the future of the decentralization technology being built today.
Lisp can be surprisingly productive. What kind of projects have been made with OpenLisp?

Anyone remember /r/place? https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/638zsn/high_res_fina...

I wrote a clone of it in a few hours using pg's Arc lisp: https://bit.ly/2UNwwpP

Hopefully the server doesn't melt. It's holding up pretty well so far.
I'm sorry to hear you don't understand how democracy works.
In this multi-cultural society where more or less 100+ nationalities are living together, the requirements of document translation is an important issue. All the documents being submitted to Government departments should be in Malay language like birth certificates, marriage certificates, college/university degrees, contracts, etc.
Embedding base64 images isn't really more efficient on HTTP/2 servers. Base64 adds overhead, and multiplexing mitigates the cost of additional network requests.
Maybe because the article was talking about undergraduates:

> Could one devise a university-level question that would catch a significant proportion of people out in a similar way? I’m not sure, but here’s an attempt.

> Which of the following is not a vector space with the obvious notions of addition and scalar multiplication?

> ...
This is why I have a global npm config flag to install the exact versions of packages. I think it’s a huge mistake to install “anything over X” versions or even have that as a feature.
Check out the history of the 'pole star'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_star#History

In classical antiquity, Beta Ursae Minoris (Kochab) was closer to the celestial north pole than Alpha Ursae Minoris. While there was no naked-eye star close to the pole, the midpoint between Alpha and Beta Ursae Minoris was reasonably close to the pole, and it appears that the entire constellation of Ursa Minor, in antiquity known as Cynosura (Greek Κυνοσούρα "dog's tail") was used as indicating the northern direction for the purposes of navigation by the Phoenicians.[1] The ancient name of Ursa Minor, anglicized as cynosure, has since itself become a term for "guiding principle" after the constellation's use in navigation.

Alpha Ursae Minoris (Polaris) was described as ἀειφανής "always visible" by Stobaeus in the 5th century, when it was still removed from the celestial pole by about 8°. It was known as scip-steorra ("ship-star") in 10th-century Anglo-Saxon England, reflecting its use in navigation. In the Hindu Puranas, it is personified under the name Dhruva ("immovable, fixed").

In the medieval period, Polaris was also known as stella maris "star of the sea" (from its use for navigation at sea),
Because the manufacturing jobs they represent were the embodiment of the American dream. A man with relatively little education and a good work ethic could earn a good wage doing an honest day's work and still be home in time for dinner. It's not just the jobs that are disappearing, it's also a way of life.
It's just naming. The patterns are there anyway.
The law has been a fearsome weapon in the hands of its interpreters since 1776.

Stop acting like this is new.

We need to reform our broken system.
The idea is to have a vetted word of mouth so the legitimate way is to personally know someone who has been invited there.
I guess that would be a proper reason to use the word 'kafkaesque'
After learning more about how to write well for your audience I've become more forgiving for this kind of thing. Writing well involves a lot of tradeoffs.

The article is more of a story and explaining axial precession distracts from that story. It is better suited explained later in amongst the rest of the diagrams and illustrations.

The problem then is how do you tell your story and include axial precession?

For readers like me who already know the term and sort of grok the concept we don't need early explaining. What I did need is the later graphic / explaining once the author started to link the concept in with other concepts not discussed until later.

So either follow the rigid explain first rule or have it clustered where it is relevant and useful.

Im not particularly going to judge either way there.
Wooping cough vaccines have full effect for about 10 years. Adults get it, but a lot don't consider wooping cough since they assume the vaccines last forever.
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I like it.

roenxi's law: "In any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy, all oversight degrades to tautology".

We did it therefore it was right otherwise we wouldn't have done it. Case closed.
This is another reason we want as many as possible to be somewhere predictable.
German mint released unspeakably ugly coin commemorating 70 years of currywurst
How Bezo's dick pics might've been exposed
App stores, Google and Apple need to die.
Disappointing that they would go for a 5 digit year, and not use the HE calendar, in which the current year is 12019
They'll homeschool them. In the worst case, you're punishing the kid, not the parent.
What's messed up is the CEO had the access to do so, and was allowed to retain that access after the incident.
83% of Consumers Believe Personalized Ads Are Morally Wrong, Survey Says
While it does not include filings, Google Scholar does have legal opinions. However, as far as I can tell, the collection of material has always been a bit random to me. By this, I mean Google Scholar includes published cases with proper citations (though I'm not sure for what years and its completeness) and a random collection of unpublished cases (not sure the rhyme or reason for some rulings being there and others not).

Random side note, Bloomberg Law is the only service I am aware of that allows you to do a pretty complete keyword search of PACER (at least for federal district courts, state courts vary). I'm pretty sure Westlaw and Lexis do not do this (also they charge an exorbitant price to do a search, while Bloomberg charges the PACER fee for the first time a document is pulled by anyone plus the seat the license fee). Docket Navigator is a pretty good product too.
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What you have said is indeed the direct implication of what I said. And I did mean to say what I said.

I've got to wonder if the sensationalist panic of our times isn't simply due to people not being able to accept mild sarcasm in written form. Humor is a coping mechanism - read some horrible less-mediated truth, shake your head, sigh, and build some consensus based around calming rather than outrage.

What I am plainly sure of is that getting more and more worked up ("take this more seriously") about the actions of people I can't control isn't going to solve the problem either.
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Can someone with a finance background explain why this is happening?

Is the issue that there is loads of money in the system with not enough productive and/or low risk opportunities to invest it, so people are basically wiling to accept close to a zero return?
I'm really close to my mom. The difference between us is that I'm a militant atheist (not agnostic, there is a logical reason for that but it's off topic) and she's a hard core jehovahs witness. Imagine the conversations we have.
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For exactly this reason browsers don’t send a Referer header when an HTTP request is made from an HTTPS page. (Nor for any kind of request made from a local file.)
doubletake...

OpenLisp is a commercial product that is sold with
binaries and sources (excepted memory management and
evaluator). Full source licenses to make ports may be
discussed.

judging by the linked charts, though... it's VERY fast.

i recently bought a book about learning Lisp, and i'm enjoying it very very much. it's weird though.
I would acquire the source code from the developer, audit it, and then release it under a new account. It's better than trusting Google to do the right thing.
So be it. Fundamentalist Christians have the highest rate of home schooling now. At least the general public will be protected -- I'll take a slight uptick in home schooling for a huge increase in vaccination. And besides those truly committed to the cause the moms doing this because they're just followers will most likely not home school. Too much trouble.
They bought up Stelco here in Hamilton hollowed it out and pilfered the client list, then dumped it.

Sounds like they're being every bit as ethical in the USA.
> That also goes out the window when you want to read a 283-page filing including attachments.

PACER has a $3 cap per document (no matter how many pages).
And there is also delete protection by default for new prod databases:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/amazon-rd...
Internet pioneer says the construction of the web is crippling our thinking
Aren't bits just bits? Yet some arrangements of bits are illegal.
Is huh a universal word? (2013)
Its just not possible in general to know a priori the legality of 100% of your actions. Companies have entire compliance departments to attempt this and still cant always get it right. There are tons of grey areas and edge cases so what actually happens is the relevant authorities and advocates get together after the fact to figure out the legality. I don’t know how anyone would propose to write a legal code that covers 100% of circumstances and doesn’t need human interpretaion but I feel like it it would be akin to the problem of general AI.
If banks don't need to be concerned with criminal activity by their patrons, does the same apply to pawn shops? Casinos? Scrap metal dealers?
Are there any examples of small/simple projects or pieces of code released under the GPL, with a non-GPL dual license being sold for $X000?
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Software is unlike any industry we've had before. Software is now the craft of developing extensions of our minds, and it is evolving rapidly.

It's easier to delegate responsibility and enforcement rights to some higher authority, but since software is so complex, a much more powerful and robust solution in the long run is to embrace personal responsibility and agency. Complex systems evolve faster without or limited centralized control.

For example, the cryptocurrency space is already providing us with a playground where we can experiment with the next generation social systems. But like I've mentioned earlier, we're just beginning to scratch the surface and no one truly knows what will come next. But the beauty of it, is that we have the freedom to thinker, and figure out what works best.
I agree that full pairing does make remote working harder, and the hours should be fixed, but we've been doing promiscuous pairing for a few months now to achieve 'beginner's mind' and that has been just as effective as 'flow', and more consistent to achieve. https://engineering.itpro.tv/2018/12/07/our-first-experiment...
Measles is incredibly bad. What people have found is that the introduction of measles vaccination in a country inevitably leads to a significant decrease in all cause mortality, which doesn't seem to be explained by a reduction in measles cases alone. It has long been known that those recovering from the measles are effectively in an immunocompromised state for several weeks, there is now increasing research pointing to the measles basically knocking out existing acquired immunity and resetting a person back into an immunologically naive state. This "immune shadow" then leaves individuals vulnerable to secondary infections (flu, rotavirus, etc.) which take their own toll and show up in different columns in the statistics down the road. Additionally, a very rare form of encephalitis can develop up to a decade after having the measles and is invariably fatal.

Get vaccinated.
The magic of opinionated and reasonable defaults.
Contrary to other comments, I like it, but the title is creating a completely wrong expectation of what the actual product is.
The study you linked talks about saturated fats.

>A diet very high in fat and saturated fat adversely affects insulin sensitivity and thereby might contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes.

It's well established that sugars are responsible for type 2 diabetes.

>Isoenergetic 1000 kJ (240 kcal) servings of 38 foods separated into six food categories (fruits, bakery products, snack foods, carbohydrate-rich foods, protein-rich foods, breakfast cereals)

This is a badly designed study. It doesn't test the macro level satiety. It says "fat content" which I am going to presume is in the snack foods which are also high in semi-complex sugars.

The thing with all of these studies is that they are easy to try at home on yourself. It's well documented that the sugar industry paid to give fat a bad name but if you eat a high fat, plentiful protein and low carb diet for a month you will now the truth. You can feel it, you can see it.