skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm reading the document correctly the "on-premise technical support" refers to any products not in the cloud. Microsoft will still provide support incidents to partners for cloud based products. Microsoft is screaming "GET INTO THE CLOUD" as loud as it can...
1. I was simply trying to clarify what 'shared account' likely actually meant.

3. This I didn't consider.
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Or rust.
Ubuntu is making a lot of money from cloud and they probably see that as the future rather than enterprise. (They get a few pennies for every Ubuntu VM spun up on AWS etc).
In order to have a conversation about this, we need to separate the different scenarios conflated here:

1. Actual second-hand reselling of bought games

2. Tactically/strategically reselling keys legitimately acquired cheaper (giveaways, review keys, differentiated pricing between markets)

3. Fraud and money laundering (e.g. stolen credit cards)

I think that the reasonable position and that of anyone not being incentivized to say otherwise would be that 1 should be allowed while 3 is already illegal and should be cracked down on.

On the 2 my position is that this is not something that should be addressed by regulation but that it's the responsibility of the publisher. Don't want to see review keys ending up on second-hand sites? Put in restrictions (like limited time) on those licenses. If the second-hand market for keys you ave away for free ends up eating at your margins, maybe you gave away too many free keys or price too high.

As for regional pricing, IMO it's both counterproductive and futile to keep national markets separated.
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This may be a very cool hipster topic and I don't want to disregard the art and skills involved with concocting a great line of soap bars... However, soap bars are not particularly hygienic. This is due to the fact that

[1] they are shared between people in the wash basin and the shower or tub

[2] they are used repeatedly but in reusing it, the user is potentially exposed to old grime and bacteria.
Well, agreed, in last instance, the letter was responsible, but it wouldn't have been written if the authors were not concerned about the autrian boi misdemeanors.
Repodiff: A Savior for Comparing Repositories
there's more CP on twitter than TOR but nice meme

edit: nice meme bc who actually uses TOR? theres so much more cp on surface web liek chans, tumblr used to be a pedos dream, twitter etc.

no one uses tor zzz
Is it less risky? Say a decent chunk of your portfolio in a single stock? And something weird happens during due diligence , not only is the acquisition over - the stock will bomb.

Not sure how often acquisitions fall through after being announced, I assume very low. But still seems similar or higher risk then a stock fund.
Devs are the ones selling the keys that Steam issues to them when they ask. So they are the actual seller who needs to deal with the problem, not Steam. G2A doesn't care because they're not the ones hit with the fraud report.
I thought for a moment this was going to be about SOAP - don't remember there being much joy to forget with that!
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It's not that hard at all, actually. The reason why stores like Steam charge a 30% fee for their services is so they deal with issues like this for you. I released my game only on Steam and had to deal with zero chargebacks because Valve handles it for me. What these indie developers complaining do is release their games on their own store, attach a Steam key to it (which you can generate for free), and then sell their game + Steam key externally. This means they get to circumvent Valve's 30% fee at the cost of having to deal with things like chargebacks.
Joel also had a good essay on this, fire and motion.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
Yes? But they don’t. So until they do, tiny 2-person studios plead with their fans.
In what field does he work during the day?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20391180
They’re not incorrect. They are, however, wrong to think that users not caring about security means they don’t have to care either. Product makers have a duty of care beyond what their customers have.
When I was a kid it was quite normal to pass around floppies and later CDs full of warez. These contained viruses more often than not especially since an infected machine would auto infect any writable media it got hold of.
I sort of agree with this. Either Microsoft will purchase Ubuntu outright from Shuttleworth or they will just create Microsoft Linux, in whatever form that is, probably something more container focused than a general purpose OS.
I've never had prepaid cards declined for physical items. Abusable SaaS (hosting, email sending, telephone gateways) is another story.
The article is too sloppy on details: these can be found in the specifiation and are not what the journalist writes.
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A few more links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20391293

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20391180

Probably that's enough stories about this on the front page today?
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How realistic is the fear that Big Blue is going to screw up Red Hat?
This is awesome!

Are all commom programming languages with syntax highlighting if execution within the browser is not required? Can the syntax highlighting in that case be static (precomputed, without requiring Js)?

Are charting libraries included by default?
Congrats on crossing the 1000 users mark! Reetro looks like a really cool tool. There aren't many good retro tools, I'm definitely going to have my team give this a try.
I really hope IBM can keep their fingers out of Red Hat, if not it does not matter how many promises they make, they will run it into the ground. If they actually manage to do so, and let their cloud business grow without old school IBM values etc; they actually have a chance to grab a big piece of the cloud business.
Yep, but from the original https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20387298 it looks like zoom uses zipow.com for re-install
Considering that back in the 1980's we figured out that you should use some kind of 'integer' or 'bcd' based type for financial calculations; it is astonishing that by almost 2020 people are making these same mistakes over and over again.

A 64-bit integer is big enough to express the US National Debt in Argentine Pesos.
What a glorious response. “Your product is broken.” “We know, we did it on purpose, and we’re proud of it!”
&c. is my favourite :)
What are Facebook redeeming? I don't think I'll need Facebook to transact with someone else for goods and services with stolen Libra. Goods can then be exchanged for USD and the theft is complete.

They can mint, and that's not a direct debit from Facebook's wallet, but it would devalue the currency ever so slightly.

But that raises the question of 'How much needs to be stolen before I activate the minting process?' If they mint for low theft values, then I can find a way to steal from myself and that's probably a decent amount of passive income. If they only mint for high theft values, then that only helps rich people who suffer the least from theft (unless they cram all of their life savings into it).

All of this depends on how Facebook works with law enforcement to manage the criminal parts of Libra. Working closely with them means we move closer to a corporate state. Working loosely with them means Libra is more vulnerable.
This is a great move for both companies. The doom and gloom in this thread is depressing.

RedHat gets access to IBMs massive sales machine and IBM picks up a number of key technologies. Win-win.
> So game developers want to keep their users from re-selling what they have bought.

No. The article clearly points out the following scenarios:

1. A game is priced differently in different markets / geographies, and they only want to prevent reselling from a cheaper market to a more expensive one. (The obvious solution is to price everything at the highest price point, but if you think that's good for either sellers or buyers you're very confused.)

2. A game is purchased, re-sold, and refunded via a credit card chargeback. The issue is not with reselling but with voiding the original sale.

> if this is really such a big problem, just track where your keys are being used

I suspect developers don't have access to this, as these are e.g. Steam keys. (And again, "Avoid Steam and implement your own copy-protection" isn't good for anyone.)
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The epubreader addon for Firefox is not perfect, but it is pretty good. It would be better if it would:

- reflow on window size change

- allow me to pick any system font to read in
You mean like if the keys were being bought off the developer's own website? G2A claims they're offering a 10x refund to the developer in such cases:

> The site said it would also start offering developers refunds worth 10 times the sum lost if they could prove keys had been sold on G2A after being bought with stolen credit card details.

The developer interviewed in the original article claims that doesn't matter because the stolen keys are being bought on Steam, not on the developer's own sites:

> Mr Rose responded saying most developers relied on sales via Steam and other third-party stores rather than their own sites, so G2A's refund offer was a "red herring".

But again, shouldn't Steam be the one dealing with the problem in that case? Why do the developers care?
I really hope IBM can keep their fingers out of Red Hat, if not, it does not matter how many promises they make, they will run it into the ground. If they actually manage to keep away, and let their cloud business grow without interference; they actually have a chance to grab a big piece of the cloud business.
I have an intuition about library design that I’ve been slowly trying to formulate into a set of guidelines. I have extremely high standards in this area and not being able to state them concretely makes communicating them a struggle.

One of the ways I complain about particularly bad decomposition (the sort of practices that lead to parodies like Enterprise FizzBuzz) is the ridiculousness of stacktraces for errors in these systems.

We tell people to use delegation but many have trouble differentiating delegation from indirection. You know things have gotten particularly bad when you have traces with the same sequence of three or more functions appearing three times. Debugging this is a nightmare. It’s literally a maze of logic. This type of code has to be memorized to be understood, which further makes an existential threat of a saner person’s attempts to refactor it - moving things around to be discoverable and debuggable comes at a cost to the people who already memorized it.

There is also DAMP vs DRY and “desertification” of code, which is related to the good versus bad indirection problem.

When you get a prolific “clever” person who suffers from these problems, the whole team suffers with them (which is why I need a new job...).

Someone above mentioned flame graphs, which is a trace of every call in the system, typically for the purpose of visualizing where time is spent by the CPU. In thinking about this thread, I now want to look into using them as a measure of time spent by the reader.

My overall philosophy on code is that we should use our best days to protect ourselves from our worst days. I expend most of my clever on trying to make things look easy, which is a bit of a challenge come review time because one of the hallmarks of really clever reasoning is that people react by saying things like, “well of course it works that way”.
> A Tesla spokesperson claimed Maggie Aranda’s termination was due to cellphone usage at work, and Carlos Aranda was terminated over a tweet that violated Tesla standards.

Way to bury the lede: Tesla now fires people over bad tweets! Who will be the next CEO?

More seriously, I don't doubt that Tesla treats its employees badly. The company went through a self-described period of "production hell." I don't get the sense that anyone was treated well, and replaceable hourly workers tend to be the most vulnerable.

This quote is also misleading:

> Nevada is a right-to-work state, so they didn’t need any sort of reason for firing me

"Right-to-work" means that employees can't be required to join a union as a condition of being employed at a company. What she's referring to is "at will employment" which is the norm in most US states (including California.)
I would recommend you look at the current crop 9750H + 1660Ti laptops with relatively larger battery.

Eg: Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED or MSI GS65 Stealth

Or, buy a Intel ULV processor based laptop like the Thinkpad and get a beefy machine in place like Hetzner Cloud
Why not base64 them?

Do you actually use serial numbers anywhere else?

Why not generate a random name instead?
I bet it is trained to do that sort of thing.
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Yeah, I was focussing on the webcam thing. That piece, taking individually, isn't a big deal.

But the web server / CORS bypass is completely fucked up, nefarious, and unforgivable.

Accordingly, I edited my post.
> The industry needs rather a proper fix. How this would look like, I have no idea.

How about they stop being so obsessive and controlling and just accept that

A) People have a right to re-sell games

B) We live in a global world; you can't sell stuff 4 times cheaper in another country and expect to be able to prohibit export

C) When you give keys to an influencer (fake or not), the keys will be given away for free anyway; whether its on G2A or through some twitch giveaway does not impact your sales in any meaningful way. Unless you were expecting that the giveaway would reach mostly people who otherwise wouldn't have bought the game, in which case, you should have done some research on said "influencer" anyway.

D) Many people buy games only because they can get them for cheap. Of course this doesn't apply to 100% of transactions on sites like G2A, but a significant percentage of them.

E) If your game is good, people may pirate it and later buy it if they think you deserve the money. Harsh DRM drives would-be pirates into the hands of key-resellers; and once you "own" a game, through whatever means, you're less likely to buy it "again" from the actual developer.

All in all, I'd say that the big game developers are steering people into the wrong direction (DRM, inflated prices, etc.); away from pirating and possibly eventually buying the game, towards key-resellers; and it's the indie developers who suffer the financial consequences of it.
Her description of "right-to-work" had nothing to do with what the term actually means. It just means that employees can't be required to join a union as a condition of being employed at a company. What she's referring to is "at will employment" which is the norm in most US states.
Open source creates market share, that's the foundation on which money can be made. Red Hat's business model wasn't charging for the open software, it was charging for the expertise we have in supporting that open software. The more market share the open source software has, the greater the monetary opportunity for us and the more we can put back into the communities. Red Hat has offices in ~40 countries and IBM is in ~175. That's a lot more touch points for us.
I agree. I also don't think it's useful to use the term as Zuck explicitly evaded answering to that. What is more useful would be the answer to the question how easy for them is to aggregate information about a person not using FB and whether this information is used in any way (I have no hope of hearing any meaningful answer to that, but it can be amusing to see how they evade it).
From what I understand, it's the same whale. (Not joking.)
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Red Hat is already making money with the current business model.
Do you feel better about paying a small amount of money for dubiously-legitimate software than none at all for definitely-illegitimate software via well-established piracy channels?

(Genuine question. It sorta seems to me like one appeal of this market is it doesn't weigh on the conscience like piracy.)
This is mostly a problem for devs who do bundles. A users pays $20 for 10 games but only wants 3 of them, so they sell the other 7 keys. G2A has done some shady things (including trying to buy favorable press coverage), but I do think it's a bit fishy that Mike at No More Robots is stirring up controversy juuuuuust before he's got a game releasing.
In our computer lab we got viruses spread by disks.
Slack /remind on drugs Task Reminder has been installed by Adobe, Walmart, etc.
I get how you could not see it as useful, but I'm baffled by going all the way to being literally HAPPY it's not there.

If it's there, and you don't use it, it doesn't cost you anything.
Hes my direct report-to and has ears of everyone that matters, so its really just my decision of who to pester to get it up the chain.
nooo, I don't want the touch bar
Humble is not a key re-selling store: The developers are the ones that make the choice to put their games there.
It'll be propaganda for Facebook, not Simple Analytics. If anything, those fears about this roundtable tarnishing their reputation may not be so unfounded...
The proposed format has changed several times since 2015, so not all those threads are discussing the same thing as this one.

Posits are Type III Unums IIRC, the original proposal was with Type I Unums.

Previous proposals were variable length formats, which is pretty much a nonstarter for a variety of reasons. This proposal (posits) is a fixed length format with variable length fields.
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“- IBM preserves Red Hat's independence and neutrality; Red Hat will strengthen its existing partnerships to give customers freedom, choice and flexibility”

Already now I can mention one bank where I work where RH and IBM account teams are fighting tooth and nail over revenue. It won’t end well.
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If only people would be less set in our ways, you could use the same calendar every year:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Calendar
They also fucked up real bad with Chernobyl. And that was spewing out a Hiroshima’s worth of shit hourly.

Pot. Kettle. Black.
"I am a developer and I have no problems with pirates because nobody is losing money or time. I have a problem with key resellers because they cost me time while they earn money for something I made with my time."

How is that possible if you received the money from the first sale, is better to see your games in "The piratebay"?

I understand if the purchase were illegal but the article/g2a says is very low amounts and punishable.

Maybe I don't fully understand the problem or how the key's are generated.
You don't spend $34B to not interfere.
> The whole targeted advertising thing is 100% a gimmick that advertisers don't care about.

While many advertisers don't care about it, to others it's very important. For example, if you visit a product page but don't complete a purchase, showing you ads for that project on different pages [1] is much more likely to lead to a sale than showing untargeted ads.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_retargeting

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google. Speaking only for myself.)
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Noise is another point. Diesel engines are louder and if there's one thing you want to be as a military submarine it is silent.
The instinct to want to help seems normal, natural; and examples such as this even seem to serve as a tool for reflection for the face of the modern state of humanity.
If the TSA is 95% ineffective, that would mean 20x the amount of loaded guns made it through (in reality guns are probably found more often). This would still be tens of thousands of loaded guns that made it through without any incident. People forget about guns in their bags all the time. This statistic is orthogonal to what I said before.
Somewhat: you want the number to be as unsmooth (having few small factors) as possible. Since the factorial is the product of all numbers up to a given number, that happens when the top number is a prime, since the next number is necessarily divisible by 2 (and therefore more likely to be smooth).
They don't? I was under the impression Steam would simply revoke keys when they receive a CC charge-back for them.

What is it, specifically, that devs are having to do when a fraudulent key gets used? The article doesn't make that very clear.
Classic tragedy of the commons. Everyone wants worker's rights protections but no one wants to chip in and pay for it.
When developers generate Steam keys, it allows them to sell their 'game on Steam' elsewhere (their own website, HumbleBundle etc).

This means Steam doesn't take a cut of the sale price. But the developers still get the benefits of Steam community, Steamworks drm, and potentially having a unified update/distribution channel.

Similarly, some gamers prefer to have games 'on Steam' rather than DRM free so that they have a single unified game library.
Red Hat's business model and open culture isn't changing. We will remain independent and I look at this as an opportunity for more people to engage with our stellar support and field teams.

For some context you can read the email our CEO sent out to the whole company today: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/jim-whitehurst-email-red-hatt...
Possibly that all the odd factors of 5040 are prime and they are all the primes less than pr equal to the largest prime divisor of 5040. Only happens for 7!
Life expectancy started to drop in 2015, right as the uninsured rate reached its all-time low. They numbers don’t correlate. It might track to the increased cost of coverage and care, but not the uninsured rate.
I also think we're conflating use cases. Email is likely more efficient, I don't debate that. Yet I don't want it because of the time I do spend in a PR/MR UI (be it email or web ui) is so minimal that I want the process to be nearly fire and forget. The thought of learning some CLI based email client just so that I can merge a branch from someone else once a month feels.. well, it screams that it'll become like a Unix tool I rarely use.

I feel like he's asking me to open up Emacs every time I want to PR/MR, but I'm a Vim user. I don't have any email workflow currently, and I don't want to have to figure it out for a problem I don't have. He's telling me it's more efficient, but most cost vs savings ratio seems very off compared to what I imagine his is.

I don't disagree with anything he says about email, yet I have zero desire to try it out. If I was getting multiple MRs a day, or god forbid dozens a day, yea I'd be dying for something more efficient. But in the Emacs example, I wouldn't mind opening it if I was going to be doing it regularly.

Being required to use a workflow that you rarely use and is always in the "how did I do x?" part of your brain is a hard selling point for me. Even if that workflow is better, if I never remember how to use it what does it matter? It's still worse for me.
The bit with `ping 0` is sadly unexplored, as the nature of "any host in network" and "any host in any network" addresses are sadly unmentioned these days.

Then come the joys of debugging someone's configuration because a tutorial told them to "connect to 0.0.0.0" instead of localhost...
Developers are in fact accepting E, they say as much in the article.

D is basically the model of set-your-own-price stores like Humble Bundle, and more generally the model of sales (in any industry): you temporarily sell a product at a discount to catch the people not willing to buy at full price.

For B, is your preferred solution that games are sold at US prices worldwide? Who does this benefit?
Same for me with Firefox and chromium on Ubuntu. Guess they share the cache with private windows?