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This is only true if you are talking about level-based systems.

UO had a skill cap, which you could reach rather quickly (less than a month if you had no life, a few months playing casually). After that, there was no difference.

And you could even close the gap faster, by focusing on skills which made the most difference. You alchemy could wait.

Also, there was a stat cap. There wasn't that much difference between a new player and a veteran. The veteran would have like 2x the amount of health compared to the newbie. This is in constrast to WOW, where it is not uncommon to have a 140x difference, or more. You actually had a decent shot against veterans, if you knew what you were doing.
Seems like we get a site like this every few days. Are they making crazy money or is there some other reason everyones is making one? Are they just really easy to make? Maybe because payment process disruption has occurred? What's up?
Come to Oakland soon please. My girlfriend is tired of folding my laundry. Also, LA seems like a curious place to launch versus the bay area as it is sooooo much more spread out and seems to have a much lower concentration of people who would love a service like this.
I believe they are in the process of updating the Arch image (started sometime this week) as it is no longer listed on the list of images.
Even if Apple removes it, you get to keep it on your device unless it's something you don't want anyway (i.e. malware). For example, that flashlight app that allowed free tethering a while back got banned from the App Store, but users who bought it got to keep it.
They don't use the same CSS or the same content, although they do share design elements. So what. Lots of sites share design elements, because those design elements happen to work.

You need to revisit the definition of the word "cloning."
I like XNA, isn't it defunct now though?
WoW has similarly minor downtime most weeks, but the point still stands: MMO players are willing to tolerate significantly longer and more frequent interruptions due to the nature of the games and the architecture necessary to support them.

I don't know how much simulation is being done server-side or how resource intensive it is, but if the Sim City of 10+ years ago was possible without it, I'm pretty sure EA could've done this one without it as well. Smells like an excuse to me.
Turn by turn directions.
Microsoft-internal Chuck Norris facts
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...

Also, ampersands are common in company names. (Procter & Gamble, etc)
> This is the future of gaming

It's a future, but not the only one. There could be crowdfunded open source games, for example.
Even so, "a recent member of X team with Y role and Z complaint" is pretty uniquely identifying.
The only serverside aspect is saves and social

Am I misunderstanding what you mean by saves? That seems pretty important to me.
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Who is your competitor? PayPal, Gumroad, Shopify, Stripe, Square?

How would Chec work for the following cases:

* A non-profit selling shirts to raise funds.

* A freelancer charging for his work. Essentially, a money transfer.

* A SaaS style service charging $5 a month.

* Charging for a PSD.
Yours is better, FWIW
Are people using C++ to access web services?
Which one was announced yesterday? (And do you have a HN link for it?)
I absolutely agree. Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts. I hope that leaning into a (sometimes impractical) extreme will teach me some things that I haven't seen yet :)
All your city is managed in your local PC. Everything runs fine, only saving is cloud. Proof is that people have played though server crashes without noticing, up to 40 minutes.

But, region management is server side.

So basically, if one manages to skip log in and makes save-s local then one can play single city offline.

This is as much information as I have at the moment.
Oi... Don't get me started. I loved when my cousin would bring his PC over and we would just sit there playing CnC, Diablo or SC in LAN. Now we have to go online for everything and there is frequently issues.
(I've made this comment before on CasperJS/PhantomJS postings, but I've never gotten an answer.)

I love the idea, but I'm a bit worried that it's just webkit. Aren't all the other browsers important too? This is why I feel that Selenium still has a place, even though I agree that Casper is easier to use. Perhaps browserling is an appropriate answer?

I don't mean to disrespect CasperJS or PhantomJS, they're certainly wonderful tools, and any final automated functional test like this is infinitely better than none, but it's bad enough that people are developing for Webkit, do we really have to make it explicit by only testing on Webkit? ;)
My take as an iPhone 5 owner ( & every other iPhone before it.) iOS 6 is such a dud. I don't care about a larger screen or NFC or wireless charging as much as I am disappointed by the fact that iOS has barely evolved since it was first launched. unless Apple cleans up its act & gets moving again, My next (everyday driver) phone is probably going to be a Nexus.
We thought we fixed that bug. might just be some left over JS validation. we'll get into it.
Interesting. I guess one person didn't see this coming.
I have helped a friend who does small, static marketing sites. In addition to needing a server for only thing (forwarding contact forms), I've noticed that mail from the low-end shared hosting her clients generally choose is extremely unreliable. So I've wondered if there was a need a service exactly like this. However it seemed so basic I thought... nah.

Is this a real pain point for enough people?
The answers in that thread seem to be reasonable. XP is a decade-old OS, we should be glad that it will finally pass on April 2014. Supporting multiple operating systems takes time, especially for one that old. At some point it's best to move on.

If your company is affected by lack of XP support in this PHP build, it should be a temporary convenience at worst. What are your plans to migrate off XP over the next year? As of next April there will be no patches or security fixes coming for XP. Is your company planning on paying Microsoft for continued support, or will it negotiate extended XP support in return for buying company-wide Windows 8 licenses and start the ride over again?

I suspect that many of the people using XP today are frozen and wouldn't upgrade their PHP anyway, for the same reasons they're using XP and IE6. They either don't want to change their software because of cost/risk issues or the people who wrote it moved on years ago and they have no idea how it works.
For sure! Though, to paraphrase Clarke, I'd say HFT is reality's way of asking "how's that anti-fraud legislation coming along?"

Unfortunately, the people being asked seem to largely be in the pockets of the banks anyway! Oh well...
The first half of the article is good, the second half totally miss the point.

You CANNOT fix what is happening in the western world now (not only US, but even Brazil that is not a developed company is facing the same issues) by fixing the economy.

The economic problems we have, are a symptom of something else, that is the degradation of our culture.

You cannot have infinite economic growth like the author advocates, when you population is dwindling, also, the growth that matters is not really GDP, more money does not always translate to better living conditions and power.

Many people say that Malthus was wrong, because now we have a world full of fat people and the "green revolution" that saved us from starving, yet, he was not wrong...

Yes, we have a world full of fat people, we can produce total calories, mostly in the form of carbs, in amounts that are much more than we need, but several other nutrients are lacking, and we are running out of the material that allowed the "green revolution" in first place (for example, natural fertilisers are not enough, and we are mostly mining it, and it already peaked, we WILL run out of fertilisers, at least the one that we can mine on land, and the only option that will remain is figure how to retrieve from seabed the stuff we threw and discharged there).

More technology and better ran economy is not the solution. Yes, it can be part of the solution, but it is not what really matters. What really matters, is the rebuilding of a behaviour that is less greedy and selfish, we need to recover the urge that people felt to help others, specially their family, the urge to seek happiness of other people, not your own at the expense of others.

Yes, we are in a zero-sum world, but because we put ourselves there.

The changes that rippled on the world in the last century, happened because we could change, prosperity allowed them, and not the opposite, it was not our culture changes that allowed prosperity. The cultures that reach the growth that the author wants, are the ones that understand that they must work for future generations, not for themselves.

We need more sex (with less partners), seriously.
Quality of life should improve for everyone; the bigger issue will likely be that people are very sensitive to relative fairness.

It seems like such a blasphemous thing to say, that there is nothing wrong with the top 1% of people owning 99% of stuff. But it's true, as long as their ownership has not come at the expense of others. Why is that so hard for most people to grasp?

99.999999% of sports TV coverage and endorsement income goes to the top 0.000001% of athletes, but its hard to argue that the world isn't a better place for it.
>it narrows things down to just a few wallets where the funds might possibly have originated.

This can be defeated, either manually or via a tumbling service to make the link chain so huge as to be useless for evidence purposes.

Again, it's easy to link me to wallet A assuming I just buy from a service with links into the traditional financial system. It's significantly harder to prove I own any of the wallets I send money to.

>If they look back a few links in the chain and the find bitcoin exchange where you initially got the money, they now know that you exchanged just the right amount of money to make the illegal purchase.

This could be defeated by sending more than the amount required when you fund the second wallet.

Again, nobody knows that I own wallet B. Given a sufficiently plausible public exhibition on a trading site, it may look entirely like it's owned by another person outright, and if your goal is to avoid legal scrutiny, so much the better.
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How would they benefit the lowest user? The dumb parent who is rarely on wifi, not even with an 8year old often enough to deal with all the badge numbers on the first home page?
Given that you're using CoffeeScript, is there a reason you're not using @ instead of this.?
The former is a real problem too. If your game is likely to just stop working sometime in the not-too-distant future, that drastically decreases its value to me. A game that I would have paid $60 for suddenly becomes at questionable deal at that price point, because you're essentially renting it to me. I would never pay the full price of a game for a rental. A lot of the people I know like to enjoy games for a long time, so if you take that guarantee away, suddenly I'm getting a lot less out of my purchase.

TL;DR: If you're willing to charge in the single-digits for your game, sure, make it as limited as you want. If you want to charge like a real game, don't try to shortchange me with brittle DRM.
Good point. Craigslist is a hotbed of spammers and phishers, especially in the housing section. They employ some pretty transparent tactics: amenities that are too good to be true at the given price point, pictures that you can easily reverse search, etc. They're looking for people who won't ask too many questions.
Can't... parse... anything.
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So, its a service for dry cleaning and laundry with pickup. Cool!

But: What has this got to do with Uber?
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Worse, because they almost certainly will look for some way to sue readers of those sites. On the other hand, it might give you not-so-free front row tickets should they be sanctioned by the judge.
He's a great counter-example to stereotype of the absent-minded or socially awkward genius. He was the rare combination of genius level scientist with powerful personal charisma.
You are right.

People have managed to play trough server crashes without noticing.
Only after they quit to region, it disconnects.

City is managed locally. Only region management save files are server side.
Google controls much of what web users see. Not only through its general search engine, also through YouTube, Google News, Blogger, and its many other sites. Google decides which results are shown and in which order. They have the power to change public opinion, one person at a time, without anyone noticing it's happening. The more information they know about you, the easier it is for them to manipulate you.

"The problem with social search and personal results is that it biases the results based on the perspective of your friends. If I had a lot of friends who worked for Chrysler and I asked them to name the best car on the road, chances are they’d pick a Chrysler car. But if I asked the general public, I’d probably get a different response. It’s like that old joke Democrats use to tell after the 1972 election, ” I don’t know how Richard Nixon got elected, all my friends voted for George McGovern.” I’m sure many Republicans felt the same way after the 2008 election." [1]

Oh, and "I have nothing to hide" is a well known fallacy. [2]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2012/01/13/how-and-wh...

[2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=i+have+nothing+to+hide
How would you explain planes then?

The FAA decrees lots of safety equipment to be present and used on commercial aircraft. It's worth noting that plane autopilots are not at the door-to-door level that we're talking about with autonomous cars. Also, Pilots are much better trained than drivers, so there's less impetus to get them away from the controls. Sooner or later, though, planes will be flown completely by wire. When it's demonstrable that autonomous planes fly better than real pilots gate-to-gate, that will become legally enforced.

Anyway, the question is who is liable

In this sub-thread, I was just addressing the previous poster who said that he would never own an autonomous vehicle.

Just to throw my two cents in... in all likelihood, Google will need to demonstrate that their vehicles are more safe than "normal drivers". When you buy a Google car, you will need to buy auto insurance that covers an autonomous vehicle. Depending upon actuarial tables, that insurance will be more or less than your current insurance. Google's liability would likely only extend to extreme defects in the AI and/or death-causing defects that are systemic and can be shown to be the result of negligence or not disclosed to customers.

politics and power rather than right and wrong

I object to the immediate contention that you or anyone else really knows what's right or wrong at this point. Your statement above "to shift liability to the owners of the cars" gives away where you think liability lies. I don't think that's at all clear. If Google creates all the cars from here on out and deaths on the highway are cut in half... does that mean that they're liable for the deaths that still occur? That number of deaths would have occurred anyway. Google did nothing wrong, they actually saved tens of thousands of lives. So what's that worth? Suing them out of existence for the deaths they didn't prevent?

In order to book those lives saved, we'll all need to pay for our own insurance for most accidents.
Companies.. yeah, you're right. Although the whole site feels to me like it's mainly focused on individuals.
I've had problems with email delivery on a domain with a CNAME'd root. I'd avoid it if you can.
Works for me now as well!
My theory is that the game speed was reduced because at regular intervals your PC needs to check in with the server to: a) transfer resources between cities in a region, b) update leader boards, c) save your city.

The slower the game, the less often they have these hits to their servers.
Link based selling has been around for years. 2checkout, 1shoppingcart, ejunkie etc...

I started working on Chec in late 2010/early 2011, before groad launched. (https://www.facebook.com/checkoutbyswipe, if you wanna trace down to the day that page was setup) - It's a long story between then and today.

Short Version - University in England -> AngelPad Incubator -> Raised large seed -> Founder Split -> Had to rebuild new company.
Important yes, but also presumably fairly simple to reverse engineer.
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So you are arguing that "SimCity Online" does not sound different than a regular SimCity game, but "SimCity" does?

Does not compute.
> a person couldn't take your argument and do something useful, like convince a group that he should be allowe in

Have you heard about civil war? That was one group trying to convince another that some people should be allowed in.

And anyway; I wasn't making an abstraction but the very evil segregation such as rape victims meetups excluding men. Unsurprisingly these meetups don't exist in reality; there are some about violence or abusive relationships in general.
"a curious place to launch"

this may come as a surprise to you but there are people who live in LA and start businesses here because this is where we live, not because we are choosing to "launch" here.

i just checked out the site, they service SM, venice, MDR, basically where all the startups are.
You could use Google Forms. Extract the POST URL,build your own static form and put the POST URL there. Then you query your data with Google Docs
Unfortunately the way this often goes is that someone who was responsible for not using AWS correctly blames AWS instead of himself and EA stops using them, or using them for future games.

Although that won't tend to work if EA is already using AWS a lot.
The transactions are public, the actors are not.

This makes it anonymous.
Same here, I love re-visiting old titles. Even dead-ish MMOs these days, such as Everquest, have 3rd party servers that still let you play something similar to the original game.
Something else worth noting: the most recent release of PhantomJS actually has an implementation of the Selenium WebDriver protocol, so you can use that, if you wish:

http://phantomjs.org/release-1.8.html
Very rarely, maybe once or twice.

And even if they do that, you still have the apk on your harddrive, you can back it up.
Rajat Taneja of EA on what gameplay data they collect and why
So if/when they add Python 3.x support they will announce that they're deprecating 2.7 a year later? Moving from 2.5 -> 2.7 is no big deal for most people. Moving from 2.7 -> 3.x is a big deal for many people.
IANAL, but I don't think that "too inspired" is really the sort of thing that is covered by the DMCA, and in any case, you can't file a notice to take down the whole project just because you think three icons are derived from your work.

As for the newspaper icon, it has already been pointed out that LayerVault's version is far more similar to this icon from The Noun Project (http://thenounproject.com/noun/newspaper/) than it is to the Flat UI version.

The other claims I've seen are that the gears icon (not even close), the "talking head" (not even close), and the color palette (not something you can copyright).

More importantly, this fork doesn't seem to contain any of those disputed icons, so I don't think there's anything improper here.
Yeah, a todo inbox seems like a good description. I use it for stacking ideas, links and other things quickly. And then of-course I have to work through my inbox and perform action. That action might be adding the item to a task manager which will have more functionality.
We're talking about "functional test" here.

Most likely your front-end/UI uses other libraries to handle cross-browser issues so your automation tests will focus on the functionality of the application as opposed to catching cross-browser bugs or performance issues.

The problem that PhantomJS solves is to run headless browser which is very useful for organization that runs their build/tests on their CI-server and would prefer minimal setups (as opposed to have "testing-labs" like the big guys [yahoo, ms, google]). That itself reduces the cost of development/testing cycle.
What is longtail ecommerce?
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Sims 3 (an EA game) is also known to be hampered by its DRM, though it's not in the "always online" category. It's one of those games where pirated copies with the DRM code deactivated run better than the version you get on the disc.
It implements the Selenium WebDriver protocol, but still executes it under WebKit.

The point of the parent is to test on multiple browsers.
You beat me to linking to that. Ars has great coverage of this as well, as in their most recent article on these clowns:

Porn trolling mastermind is the world’s most evasive witness
Prenda-linked lawyer testifies for seven hours, gives no useful information.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/leading-porn-trol...

Anyhow, I get the feeling that these guys are being too clever by half and that the judge is about to make them answer for it. Thankfully, Ars has promised a reporter on the scene. Personally, I'm betting that they come up with some lame excuse for a no show, but we'll see.
just that its on demand and we come to you. just for explanation purposes
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"iOS has barely evolved since it was first launched"

That's like saying laptops have barely evolved since they weighed 15 pounds. iOS has evolved a hell of a lot since 2007, and it continues to do so. Just because Apple hasn't slapped new paint on it every other year doesn't mean that it doesn't continue to have new features and improvements every year.
Just imagine once drivers of autonomous vehicles take manual drivers to court for causing fatal accidents "that could have been avoided by using a cheaply available autonomous vehicle". The word "negligence" will be thrown around. Some law suits will succeed in some states. Insurance rates for manual driving will rocket skyward, making buying that new autonomous car or kit for your current car cheaper than buying the insurance for 2 years.
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> I fear the game might just in general not be good enough for this to happen.

My thoughts exactly; Giant Bomb's hour-long video review was pretty telling of the issues in the game that a lot of people just haven't been able to deal with yet. Problems that are only around because so much time was spent trying to implement the multiplayer aspect rather than focusing on the core gameplay itself.

I want a new SimCity game just as badly as everyone else, but at this point I'm looking towards other offerings in this space - hopefully by smaller companies - to hold the torch (any suggestions here would be excellent).
Could I link to one of my blog posts today? And then next month link to a different blog post? And so on? My biggest thing is I don't want to screw up any relationship I have with HN. I don't have much of a relationship now because I am new to HN. But I don't want to screw it up.
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