skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cory Doctorow and Neal Stephenson both have entire novels featuring in-game markets of MMOs (‘For the Win’ and ‘Reamde’). Hopefully the authors have done more research than I did, but the claim is that MMOs have multibillion-dollar markets of in-game items and currency, with the companies running the games thus controlling the flow of money. And the markets can be used for supranational transfer or laundering. And plenty of people in China, India and elsewhere are farming in-game gold full-time.

Would Blizzard give up such a segment to let some dudes make a few loud comments?
I think we'll get a pretty good indication of whether this will blow over in 3 weeks at Blizzcon. I fully expect at least some attendees will bring signs/symbols to troll China - we'll see how Blizzard handles it.
Tencent bought 40% of Epic Games at some point: what's different between Blizzard and Epic's relationship - is it, as the CEO said, he is the controlling shareholder?

As many gamers are saying however, him stating this, because Tencent will profit from their ownership of Epic - they will boycott Epic's games as well.
it sure accelerated but technology has always been progressing since tool-making primates exist
It helps if you consider China has millions of little baby whales who will grow up to spend tens of billions of dollars in Activision Blizzard titles that leverage dark patterns that western countries are starting to outlaw.
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So it was “a joke”, factually incorrect, but you still defend it and say that by pointing out that you were factually incorrect, it prevented you from “getting anything useful done” and that it was “regressive”.

And if you are aware of the “etiology of diabetes” how was it useful to spread a falsehood?

You asked which fact was proved false - here it is.

Would the book you want to write also be full of factually incorrect “jokes”?
The Ribbon is context aware, unlike the old toolbars. So if you're in a graph, you'll see the graph design Ribbon, if you're not then you won't. This gives users less they need to scan and or ignore.

Is the Ribbon a panacea? Absolutely not. But I'd respectful disagree with anyone who claims it is "just as bad" as the old toolbars. They made a lot of accessibility improvements and reduce the training curve substantially.
because Russia is not as relevant internationally.
Is this simply because manufacturing is offshore?
> The younger generation is much more focused on economic well-being and safety over liberty or freedom

This is perfectly reasonable when you consider it a personal decision. Sure, trade away some of your freedom for better economic well-being.

But how do they justify this when their personal economic well-being requires trampling the freedom of other people?

By that logic, would pro-China people would support China going to war with and taking over other countries if it brought them "economic well-being"?

(edited to make the last statement more clearly a question since it's something I'm genuinely curious about.)
Listen to about 2 minutes of this podcast, starting about 55 seconds in: U.S. forces have begun withdrawing.

https://overcast.fm/+LHycEbYIU/00:55
Not sure what you want from me, I don't have internal company memos or anything. I'm just sharing what I read in news articles.
Why have the League of Legends announcers stopped saying the words "Hong Kong" in phrases such as the team "Honk Kong Attitude", and instead only say HKA?

Does Tencent control the broadcast/streaming?
Many topics discussed on HN inevitably have some political overlap. That doesn't make it ok to post flamebait, cheap one-liners, and so on. This standard is well established here, and if you read the HN guidelines you'll find much there that expresses it. For example: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." In other words, when the topic becomes political, that's when the guidelines matter even more, and commenters need to abide by them. Otherwise we end up with internet flamewar the same as most other places on the internet, and that's not interesting. All scorched earth is the same.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You might also find these links helpful for getting the spirit of this site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
The biggest clue that you're involved in a strawman is your quoting a part of the other poster that I didn't quote and applying it to my response.
I certainly enjoy being able to access my phone as a USB drive from linux, being able to put an sd card and run (real) firefox. Wouldn't want an iPhone. I think this kind of capability will be more and more relevant.
> Good luck producing iPhones without the chips

They wouldn't produce iPhones without the chips. They'd just keep running the lines. Apple has limited leverage in threatening to walk away from China.
Investors know long public outrage lasts.
Ignorant westerner here. Is this a recognizable symbol to Hong Kong residents in general, or only to the much smaller gaming subculture (assuming that it is, in fact, much smaller)? I mean, I know e-Sports is much bigger in the east, but is it that much bigger relative to the populace as a whole?
George Bush killed a million Iraqis in a war based on fabricated evidence of an Iraqi WMD program
It's not a great default behavior in the first place, and indicative of other issues.
In related news, walking one or two times per day, for any duration, reduces cardiovascular disease.
Unlike some people I could mention...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspy_Engineer
Very dramatic
This figure includes the employees of Apple contractors. It’s a representation of how many jobs Apple supports in China. Of course Apple is not directly manufacturing anything in China, but the factories and parts suppliers are very much dependent on Apple’s business.
Ok, what about this scenario?

Jack sets his password to "ImgoingtokillyouKaren".
Tyler is talking with Jack in his cube and sees Jack type in the password and goes to HR. Is that an asshole move, in your opinion? Is the violation the reveal of the password or something else?

In my opinion, he has an obligation and responsibility to say something if he thinks someone is in danger or being harassed.
Everyone building AR glasses has known this for many years. I worked at one of the leading AR glasses companies in the mid 2010's. The platform was taken from a smartphone, and many of the existing ones – Google Glass have an Android backed ecosystem.
The far more common approach at the moment is to use Electron though hopefully Google will create Linux, macOS, and Windows targets for compiled binary Flutter applications in the future.
> Yes, a person alleged to be a creepy sexist deserves some protection and due process.

I agree with this. Everyone deserves due process.

It sounds in this situation like they got their due process. (HR didn't fire them based on the password report, but rather used diligence and due process to investigate/corroborate and only then terminate them.)
You're right! Now that I think about it, my comment could have been a snarky joke. I didn't think it through. (^_^)
> That was a stunt, to remind us of the old, bad movies that used to do that.

Not bad, simply low-brow, which is not the same.

And what about Memento? It simply doesn't work without dialogue, and it's a wonderful movie.
I don't see how you can possibly get that from the comment.

Socialism, yeah okay. Pro-censorship?
I think our idea of what progress is needs to change. In my mind, the following are not progress: facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices. And handheld devices like iphones are a very minor progress. the problem with these things is they don't really enable anything new. So what if the diaper tells you that it's full, I could've done that just by sniffing it: bluetoothing it is NOT progress. Facial recognition on my door: now I don't need to pull out a key, big deal. Iphones: wow, now I can get a map on my phone. I used to just print them out and that worked fine, I could still get to my destination. admittedly having on the phone makes getting there a little easier - this is minor progress - saves me maybe a few minutes at most.

Here are examples real progress: (these are all examples that save thousands of hours of labor, not just a few minutes)
- being able to get to work faster or more cost effectively

- lowering the cost of housing and bringing housing prices down.

- technology to allow remote work (as if you were there in person)

- lowering the cost of medical insurance and medical costs in general.

- lowering the cost of education (this can be easily done if we get rid of the monopoly of the current institutions -> there are a ton of online schools and programs that would happily teach people at a much lower cost, if not free.)
> This is a measured and well-thought out response.

No, it's a repulsive hypocritical corporate PR that tries to justify putting profits over people suffering.
> Yeah, but it's a gimmick.

Yeah, but it's also a proof of concept. Nobody is claiming the device as is should be commercially available.
If it gets the job done, it gets the job done.

One of the CNC machines in our workshop was controlled by a MicroVAX until recently. Did what we asked it to.
Overwatch is a fantastic game.
> I won't be here forever
I strongly disagree with the shoehorning of the term "privilege" into basically every situation that involves any level of inequality, but I think the idea is vaguely sound.

I don't use Facebook, or LinkedIn, or whatever else.

I can do that because:

a) I have enough personal wealth that I am comfortable with working for reasons other than money.

This is distinct from simply being able to afford it at a minimal level.

b) I have a level of self confidence, hard won, that allows me to stand up to people and say no.

This might mean, for example, interrupting a conversation at a bureaucratic firm about how "all X are required to do Y"; or just not doing it; if I think it's wrong.

I don't agree with calling it privilege - it's more like a personality trait, or perhaps even a talent or skill, because it's developed rather than bestowed.

But not everyone is in that sort of situation. A checkout worker, for the most part, just does what the boss says. Regardless of the actual personal power they have, that's just "how it works" out in the real world.

Society is not full of hyper individualistic people. If it were, it would look radically different, if it even functioned.
Thanks and sorry to have you look something up that I could have easily done myself.
datamining or collecting metadata is a big business which may soon require governments world wide to protect and treat their citizen's data in a manner like a utility such as water and electric.
the consequences of large scale data collecting are not yet understood but we have witnessed the real world impacts of cyberwarfare. most citizens world wide do not comprehend the amount of
data they share nor the amount of effort brought forth by the telecommunication industry, silicon valley and government.

with rare exception no individual has increased their security by giving leverage to another individual or entity.
what truth and past actions? seriously I see lots of vague references but no one actually links to anything concrete. I get a very "it is known" vibe here, which is usually baseless.
Do you have any sources for your claims? I saw the article about the pesticide on HN or reddit but not anything else you claim.
Is this a phenomenon that occurs outside of college campuses?

(I assume you follow FIRE, and know that this problem isn't contained to the "speech is violence" people; there are numerous right-wing attempts at suppression on campus as well.)
Ask HN: Do you have any technical book recomendations?
I have enjoyed many books the past months from HN suggestions:

- Release It!

- Designing Products People Love.

- Refactoring UI

All are great books and I will keep refering to them in the future. Do you have any other suggestion for me?
Why do you believe people in China are watching this? Does south park usually have a lot of chinese viewers?
No, it's because these things have been replaced by plastics.
I don't think people understand what you mean by "recovery moment". At least in American English, it's not a standard phrase. Personally, I've never heard it before. Maybe you could try an alternate phrasing?
Sounds like trying to change what metrics are used to separate people. In the past it was based on blood lines, now it's bank accounts. Social credit could help those that aren't anti-social to increase their upward mobility.
Any software has bugs, more so for games.
That seems less like changing his mind and more like recognizing that if you act like a piece of crap you will (deservedly) be treated that was, and having to censor yourself to not act that way isn't a free speech violation.
It's no longer Blizzard, it's Activision-Blizzard, which explains the clusterfuck that the company has become.
We all have friends we disagree with, but Ellen deserves catching shit for palling around with a guy who started a war that killed nearly 5 thousand American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians for absolutely nothing.
Cloud services are actually still very fragile and vulnerable to being replaced.

(Granted, it will be annoying and painful to find new ways to do things like search the web, manage files/emails, or stream videos, but I think those can all be solved from the technical side.)

About the time the proprietary OS was finally declared dead, new competitors arose with convenient, cheap solutions that made money exactly because "you don't own the hardware the software runs on."

So we have another proprietary "open" operating system and it can capitalize on free software but still be proprietary.

When it becomes inconvenient (or painful) to use the proprietary solutions, there's a flood of new users to the free software world. I plan to just keep polishing the free software offering. That deprives the proprietary versions of oxygen, because it raises the bar for what is Free.
> But if the passphrase is already strong (6 random words from the Diceware wordlist), you can use MD5...

Is this actually true? Note that you don't need the actual password, just a hash collision.
If HR found a file called "Personal Diary 2019.txt" on the computer that is owned by the company they work for, there is no expectation of privacy. This is not the user's personal computer that they hacked into or gained unauthorized access to. Courts have ruled on multiple occasions that you do not have an expectation of privacy on your employer's hardware.
Our democracy has enacted laws that ICE is tasked with enforcing. ICE agents are not really the bad guys here for following those laws -- the American voting public is the problem. Your (and my) representatives made this possible, and continue to allow it, because you (and I) have not made it a priority when we vote.

No one in Nazi Germany could vote to rein in the Gestapo, and the Gestapo did not follow anything resembling fairly applied laws. ICE targets a well-defined legal category of people and follows well-defined legal processes. The Gestapo could arrest almost anyone for any reason and mistreat them however it pleased with impunity. That is obviously untrue of ICE, which cannot tomorrow kidnap Joe Biden.
> That is how western society works. And for very good reasons.

Is the implication that non-Western societies don't work that way? Or that somehow it's only Western societies that came up and all of them practice this behavior?
Why not just "Colleagues"?
Al Eisenstat, who accompanied [Steve] Jobs, recalled him talking about creating AI simulations of Soviet revolutionaries: “The one thing we can’t do is to ask them a question and get their current thinking. Ahh, but in the future you are going to have artificial intelligence and you’ll be able to ask Mr. Lenin a question or Mr. Trotsky a question.”
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Well, they aren't.

You might notice the part where the people who offended china are lauded and the cowardly companies are being lambasted for failing to stand up to china.
I’m not sure what my habits have to do with my expectations of US corporations. They sure don’t have any constitutional pressure to support our first, second, sixth, and other amendments, but nonetheless, I expect them to.

It doesn’t have to be so polarizing: if I make an effort to value our constitution, I expect at least the corporations that impact and influence our society to too. If I don’t like it, I start a dialogue to change it - but I certainly don’t censor or violate the rights of others.
How to search the web using macOS Catalina’s voice control
Isn't that a good thing? Use less real resources folks.
If Apple didn't cave to the US government, what makes you think they're going to cave to China?

Because it has, occasionally, in the past.

Apple doesn't have a perfect record when it comes to China. It's OK. I'm not sure I'd call it "good."

But between the Taiwan flag emoji, and the Chinese iCloud fiasco, my esteem for Apple is at an all-time low.
Ah you mean apple can't stop producing in China quickly. Well that's what you get for putting all your eggs in the same red basket.
It's the same thing as giving fandoms names, pretty manipulative and creepy.
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Totally agree. Who thought that hiding regular menus is a good idea or using flat styles without any hint about what is a UI element you can click/interact with.

The problem is that each new generation of managers/ designers have to try to change shit around just to lesve their mark. "Lead the redesign and modernization of XYZ" looks much better in the CV than "maintained status quo" even if it means just coming up with total shite.
The US issued sanctions against Venezuelan government officials known to be be corrupt; the sanctions don't apply to all, or even most, of Venezuela. Adobe simply used those sanctions as an excuse to cut off support for everyone in Venezuela so they could pull out without having to refund anyone.

Also, with respect to both countries, we aren't trying to use our US economic power to force a Venezuelan or Cuban company to do what we want.

The US government has made its stance toward both countries clear for the last several decades, it's not like they tricked US businesses into going into Venezuela or Cuba and then tried to pull the rug out from beneath them.
Putting it on the official GitHub blog seems to violate GitHub's Privacy Policy. As much as I support GitHub's approach to dealing with ICE (and as much as I despise ICE) I have a problem with a company making the details of a customer's private transaction public. It's the government, and the government should be open and transparent, so that makes it a little easier to swallow but I still don't feel it's appropriate for GitHub to comment on a specific customer's services/total contract value.
It's not how you create an atmosphere conductive to discussion. The downvote-related addendum (which I would edit out if I could, but the edit window has passed) was thrown in due to frustration. Writing a post skeptical of climate alarmism on any social media feels like pissing in the wind. On HN or Reddit it gets instantly down-voted into oblivion without any meaningful responses. On Facebook or Twitter it just gets you categorized weird and future posts shown to only fringe denier cranks. I knew you would see it, but probably few others, so why bother? And sure enough, the thread got collapsed by a moderator. We should reward posts that think critically and bring up facts you might not be aware of, even if they're arguing against something you thought was settled. Doing otherwise is not healthy for the utility of the platform :\
Oh won't someone think of the poor women...
The changes aren't random and generally small. It's closer to Lamarck than Darwin.

Remember that successful products aren't necessarily good or beneficial. Tetraethyl lead in gasoline is one example. The Late nineteenth, early 20th century radium craze was full of other examples.
I doubt it. This is just, like, my opinion, man, but I think the Chinese would walk away from any company in the world in an instant if it suits their security needs. If their economic ministry is doing its job then they will have detailed contingency plans to address the loss of any of their major foreign benefactors, and if required those jobs can be replaced with state handouts, at least until the crisis passes.

If I were Tim Cook I'd be real worried about being shut out of my own supply chain right about now.
> How they've (mis)handled this will be studied by business and PR students for years to come.

I doubt it. The internet has a very short attention span and online activism is pretty much useless.
I think the details that you mention wouldn't be so important in the media narrative (although maybe they would in the gamers' perception). The ban alone probably speaks to the imagination the most.

I am, for one, moderately optimistic looking at the Western counter-outrage and people ditching Blizzard. We need strong and widely held convictions to defend our basic liberty. Coming from the former Eastern Block, I can easily imagine what is it like to have an unfree government convincing the world that we want to live under its "protection", applying material pressures and pseudo-patriotic propaganda to make it appear so etc. If clumsy Chinese silencing play will trigger more popular defensive reactions, it's good. And in economy, historically totalitarian regimes can be extremely good in catching up (see Stalin's industrialization), not so good in outrunning.
Not without your password. The comment I was replying to specifically referred to the phone number as a 2nd factor. This excludes services like Twitter where a phone number can be the sole factor used to reset your password (which is awful security, obviously).

Also, you're specifically talking about SIM-jacking. The vast majority of people have upgraded phones, or broken or lost and then replaced a phone, far more times than they have been SIM-jacked. What do they do about their TOTP tokens in those scenarios?
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This is pretty cool, and the first I've heard of the SOS Fund. Was this something that you actively sought out, or did they come to you?
I have a similar anecdote. I had a password that was 14 characters long, for a school system too. One day I mistyped it and it still worked. I was puzzled and discovered that it actually took only the first 8 characters into account. From that day, whenever someone was around, I typed the first 8 characters as fast as I could (pretty fast as it was something I typed in quite often) and then I continued to type random stuff like crazy for a few seconds then hit enter and loved to see how people face when they saw it working like if what I typed actually was my exact password.
Hahaha - the end result would be Blizzard games with only villains
Tencent owns Riot Games who made LoL.
Fuck you, open border Marxist.
Wow, that is such a refreshing monologue. Yay Ellen! Right now this is what the world needs more of, not public lynchings and outrage-driven firings. Really happy to see someone with such a high profile take this stance.

Love thy neighbour folks!

(EDIT: this doesn't mean i don't have a problem with GW Bush's needless war, as pointed out by a few sibling comments. It's more like, I think that if people mingled a bit more with people from other camps, then there would be more understanding and, ultimately, less hardship in the world. So much of the shit in the world comes from lack of communication!)