skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They always try to make it interesting by making it sound like it's about stories and people and stuff. When really it's about cats and food and silly quotes of not so famous people."

I don't think it is Facebook's fault that some friends post this kind of things and I can't see how this comment is constructive in any way.

"Great. It isn't Schadenfreude exactly, but I hope big changes ups (that they have to make because doing nothing is not an option) like this accelerate their decline.
I don't think Facebook will go away any time soon but it will become another Yahoo and that can only be a good thing for the ecosystem in terms of opportunities."

This one is like wishing Michael Phelps dies so you can win some medals.

These are just some examples. If you read the Linode thread you will also find that the top comment is negative, has nothing to do with the content of the blog post, and does not offer any constructive criticism that people from Linode could use to improve their service. In all fairness in both threads there are also a lot of positive comments and constructive criticisms but for some reasons those tend to get burried.
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They can't do that for all their games.
Ok, so you're going to be scp'ing your binary over manually every time? Do you manually do your other build tasks too?

No, you would have a build script that minifies/concats assets, runs tests, maybe generate docs, then finally deploy using whatever method you happen to be using if everything passes.

This might be a git deploy, or scping files over to some server.

In either case you're never copying 1 file over because that is abstracted away from you by your build script. In return you type 1 command and let your build script do the dirty work for you.

Typing this one command is the same if you're using Go or Node or any other modern language. It doesn't really matter that I have to add a few extra commands to my build script because these are things I only have to do once.
> HN is generally pretty good when people rip off a design.

Remember Svbtle?
Yes and no - the Americans I know who live here are generally very happy with it. Some are so used to being able to speak English everywhere in Denmark that they live here for years without getting to know the language. But I would definitely recommend people who live here for a longer time (two or more years) to learn a little Danish. It's not that hard, and they can use their knowledge of Danish to easily learn similar languages like German, Swedish, etc.
Meh. I don't really have the time to worry about $80. Maybe someone could go class action or something.
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I think the claim that this could be used at dusk and twilight is a little silly. Maybe it could have, but then again, figuring out where the sun just set, even under cloud cover, doesn't exactly require a "sunstone". (Hint: it's that glowy part of the sky.)
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Yea. Everyone screaming Moore's law (a historical observation that isn't guaranteed to continue) must be also saying that the Bitcoin economy won't double from its current size every couple years.
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After spending a non-trivial amount of time on HN and various other resources for years, people are definitely intentionally being mean. Not all of them, but a significant amount of people posting harsh comments could do it in a much more constructive way, but that's not what they want. They want to be mean. Sucks for discourse.
It's worthwhile if it can be blogged about. EA might take real action to prevent a wave of small claims cases.

You may already have given up the right to a class action in the EA ToS.
If the game is as they say it is and can't be played without the server, due to critical game logic being done there, I don't think they can get away with the pirating excuse as easily this time.
You're running a business, not taking part in a coding competition. Make $$ and then come back to worry about writing cool code.
Ok, let me state that I work for Google. That doesn't make me automatically defend them in every thread, it's not an echo chamber like that. For example, I'm not a particular fan of the Chromebook or Chromebook Pixel.

> What does this have to do with what I said?

Well, you said the only wannabe adopters are going to want to use glass. And I disagree because I see extra utility in the device beyond the apocalyptic days of people stalking me and recording me. An example of that is giving the device to the hard of hearing. It's just a logical argument backed up by an example.

You also say something about "glasshole[s]" getting punched in the face and it seemed to me that you were projecting so I just wanted to point out that it turns out that you are in the wrong if you assault somebody for wearing these because you have no idea what they're using them for.
AFAICT (not authoritative, please correct me if wrong on the way it works here, my understanding is a touch shaky)

The 'mining' operation is basically a race to produce a valid block for the blockchain and have other miners accept it. The hash input data for the block is transaction data. Per-protocol rules, any miner is allowed to ignore any transaction they want to. Partly this is so that they can (if they wish) concentrate on processing transactions with a decent fee attached. This is thought to become a more significant thing as the built in reward for block discovery shrinks over time.

Therefore there is no guarantee that any transaction will be processed at all, and certainly no guarantee that it will be done in a timely fashion. Though it probably will. This is part of the wait for confirmation.

If a large miner group ignores satoshidice it doesn't mean that they disregard satoshidice transactions, it just means that they won't use them as input to the blocks they're attempting to mine. Others will still use them as input, and if the successful block comes from one of these others then the whole ecosystem counts the transaction.

However, If everyone did this, then satoshidice would indeed find it close to impossible to get transactions into the system.

--edit-- obviously this doesn't address your anonymity concerns, but others have done that.
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Easily. You claim the company didn't deliver the product as ordered and is refusing to refund your money. That's what chargebacks are for.

That said, chargebacks aren't a blanket get out of jail free card. Some CC plans offer consumer protection insurance, which goes above and beyond simple chargebacks.
Oh the irony of this comment. And I get the irony of my own comment, too. Well.
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I think it's fair because a lot of JS code is highly coupled with the DOM which isn't really going to be that useful for the server except for projects like phantomjs and other similar libs.

The only benefit JS has over Go for adoption is that people are pretty much forced into using JS or something that compiles into JS.

I think Go's take on concurrency is less confusing than callbacks. It's not like the language is massive and close to impossible to learn.

People had a ton of time to create interesting web dev related libs for Go but no one has. There's only a mix of libs that are pre-1.0 (dead), really low quality (missing extremely critical things), or bad performance because they haven't been tweaked under load because no one is using them.
Someone on Reddit recently dug up this email from the early days of bitcoin development, from Satoshi Nakamoto (the founder of bitcoin).

He anticipated this problem and foresaw that eventually only specialized hardware would run full nodes, and everyone else would run on a highly simplified system requiring a lot less bandwidth/storage.

http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg099...
thx for sharing! having a clear vision of what you want to do is really important in keeping things going. can recommend this video from arnold schwarzenegger on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_VL5QVszq0
Both good answers. I suppose that "serious" was unclear, and my point really was that there seems to be bias against these solutions. I'm trying to find out why and where the best developers are who use these solutions.
What seems like the obvious solution to me: let EA stop making city sims if they're bad at it, and fire all the ex-Maxis staff who they put on them. And then, let some other company get into the city-sim market if they think there's demand, and then hire all those same staff for their expertise.

Or does EA now hold all the patents on drawing roads and zoning buildings onto an isometric tilemap? :)
See parallel comment for my (shaky) understanding. As an analogy.... I can't think of a good analogy!

Everyone still stores the hashes, some just don't use these transactions as hash input. May cause problems with satoshidice transaction processing and yes, could result in slow transactions and potential double spends if a large proportion of miners did this.
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I do like the HTML5 version, but i don't want to install flash so i can't compare them.

But thanks for porting your game. Gives me hope that flash might die some day.
> I meant countries where English is not already the native language.

English isn't the native language in the Scandinavian countries or Finland, and yet most of us speak English fluently :)
As the man in orthopaedic shoes said, I stand corrected

Still think it's not a particularly good or necessary commentary, though.
Any noteworthy changes on 5.5 overall? I'm happy the language is moving forward with a seemingly faster traction than before (github effect?), but I haven't heard of any game changing feature getting implemented yet since quite a while. Still waiting for a object literals syntax myself.
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Bitcoin is not anonymous. Too many people make this wrong assumption. It's the least anonymous currency/payment system I've ever seen. After all every single transaction is public.

Of course it depends on who is trying to get the data about you. If it's the hoster then yea, he wont get it. But if it's the authorities/government then they'll get it. Plus theres a chance of you by accident exposing all your payments with your name...
Another big obstacle is that there is no way to run tor on iOS without a jailbreak.
On the 7th page, the OP posted that his ticket has been closed, and he's been given his refund, more or less without a word from EA.
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When comparing Flash and HTML5, Flash wins 4 out of the 5 criteria but the balance scales end up with them both equal.

Also, Flash gets a 0% for mobile browsers as new phones don't get Flash Player. I'm willing to be that a higher number of smart phones in use today have Flash Player installed (all but iOS and recent Android) than have a browser that supports all the HTML5 required for the game.
Bitcoins are not anonymous, they are pseudonymous. It works, by announcing a transaction from one of your accounts ( defined by public and private key) to another account. So if you can keep your Bitcoin address separate from yourself, then you are anonymous. But there is nothing in Bitcoins which protects the identity of your address. In fact the entire point about the Bitcoin protocol is, that there is a method to find a consensus of the contents of each individual address.
Considering how litigious America can be, I'm surprised EA and the other majors have not been slapped with a lawsuit. Under the Uniform Commercial Code, the product fails at least the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
I have no personal experience, so I'll defer to yours, but my impression comes from stories like this one: http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
If you are hosting your own wallet and not using an online solution yes.
Is Diablo 3 EA game?
Very smart. The cost of maintaining roads in cold countries is crazy. This technique should bring substantial savings. Or an incentive to have better roads as it's cheaper to maintain.
Also, some contracting companies now give their long-time folks paid vacation. The "vacation" rate may not be as high as the "working" rate, but it still beats a blank.
Thanks for the link

This prices are not expensive

Ok, let me be more specific

- Sw developer makes how much, and that's how much after taxes?

- Senior Sw/Tech lead makes how much, takes how much home?

For reference, here's Dublin:

- Sw dev jobs pay around 3k to 5k per month, taking home btw 2k and 3k for that interval

- A small flat, city center, 1 bedroom can go between 600 to 900, if you go a little further you can have a better price per bedroom. (even get a house for 1400 in some locations)
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Just for the record, I was being facetious. My apologies if I misjudged the freshness of the wound.
Just cue up stoplikingwhatidontlike.jpg and be done with it, man.
prolog is also on my list of "to learns", and just this week i threw "progol" on there, too. i explored datalog a few weeks ago and enjoyed it, and like martinced notes i'm also eying datomic.

i have been bitten by the AI bug.
Braintree.js cuts down PCI scope as much as tokenization. We've worked with banks and auditors to make sure that this doesn't add any headaches for our merchants.
This sounds a lot like what we currently call "philosophy"
OK I don't see those comments as being in the slightest bit mean - I would be appalled at anyone wishing any kind of harm (or even directing criticism at) an individual rather than their work.

NB

I am British and the apparent ambient meanness level in most banter probably appeals to be quite high - in reality it is just the fact that we probably waste more of our time on attempts at humour than most other nationalities....
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For anyone looking to learn prolog, I highly recommend the ciao [1] system. It has many features that help both with exploring the language and with solving actual problems. It also supports some additional constraint programming stuff that I think is really cool.

[1] - http://ciao-lang.org/
I emailed you about meeting up at Pycon but I never heard back.
I would like to say this means I won't buy an EA game but considering how many good franchises they own that would just be a lie. I was going to pick up Sim City. I remember playing it years ago and I loved it. I thought this would be awesome. Now I am definitely not getting it and I can confidently resolve that I will not be buying any future Sim City title.

It is a similar situation with Diablo 3. I was going to get it but after friends abandoned it after about 10 days I figured it wasn't worth it. It also had the same problems as Starcraft with requiring you to be online to even play 'offline' game modes.

A couple of friends and I decided to have a games night a few weeks ago. We lugged our computers to one person's house like the good old days. Got them all running. Installed a bunch of old games and were disappointed to find the majority of multiplayer servers were shut down. Today I read that Sim City stores your saved games online. (I don't know how true this is.) What happens in 5 years time when EA cut back or disconnect their servers? Won't the game be completely unplayable?

Its only in digital good's that you can get screwed like Sim City users are. If I brought Monopoly and found the board was missing I could take it back. Buy a game which doesn't work.. well suck it up fella. Similarly, Amazon can ban your account and you lose access to Kindle books you legitimately paid for...

I might have my facts incorrect here but if an App is removed from the Play / iOS app stores isn't it removed from users devices? What happens to any money you put into those apps?

Pretty much any digital good you buy cannot be resold. Usually reselling your account under which you made such purchases is also not allowed. All in all its a shitty deal for anyone buying digital goods.

Yesterday I read how the EU is getting ready to fine Microsoft presumably for shipping Windows 8 without a browser select screen. I would have thought investigating how consumers are treated by companies offering digital goods should be a far higher priority.
If you run a full client, yes.

It is perfectly possible to not do this, but doing so requires that you trust someone (the one running the client for you).
You can play the game without liking anything, can't you ?
I never worked for EA, but I know people.

1993 EA has nothing to do with EA from 1996 onwards...

EA screwed Origin (that then they already owned, just read stuff about development of Ultima 8 and 9... there are lots of documents about how executive meddling made U8 a meh game, and U9 a totally ruined game), then bought and ruined Westwood, and so on.

Also as the time passed they got more and more problems with employees. Then we had crazy shit, like when EA closed a studio in LA, and people found out that the studio had more middle managers than grunts, and this is why the studio could not decide what to do, it simply had so much people giving orders and so few people doing, that doing stuff was impossible.

The EA that wrote this: http://chrishecker.com/Can_a_Computer_Make_You_Cry%3F doesn't exist anymore.
AFAIK Satoshidice has some clever behind-the-scenes cross validation that makes a double spend impossible even without confirmations. That's how they're able to issue payments so quickly.
Another example. . .deliberately inserting grammatical and other errors to distract the red-pen weenies. And, of course, you already have the corrected version ready to go. . .you're just waiting for management to return the red-lined version.
The few people I know who have spent time in Amsterdam also had the same comment. To the point that it was a running joke.
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No. Nearly all (99.9999% or thereabouts) of the work you need to do to mine bitcoins is independent of the size of the block you mine. You want to run large blocks to collect as much transaction fees as you want to.
I could believe this only when related to TV Shows.

In the case of movies, Demonoid is more likely a cause.
That sounds very similar to here; although here learning the language usually starts closer to the 4 or 5 year mark.

Once again I'm forgetting Denmark as 'the other country that is so much like ours.'
Awesome work. A simple suggestion: make clear that the labels point to the right picture, say with a horizontal line separating them, since the description for the next image is right below the one before it.
Here's the actual subpoena: https://dietrolldie.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/automatticwo...

It looks like they domesticated it to California, so they (wordpress) would need to file a motion to quash.
It should be noted that the release of 5.5.0 could be delayed a bit, due to the late addition of Zend Optimizer+ [0] (an opcode cache) being included into the core release like APC.

However there's a lot of arguing on php.internals about whether or not the right number of votes was reached (based on a not-specific-enough RFC on voting) so it may not even make it in.

[0]: http://files.zend.com/help/Zend-Server-Community-Edition/con...
I don't think it's that one. Time-wise, it doesn't add up.

It's more likely it's the other link that's posted - the official FB Feed announcement.
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The new changes I'm looking forward to are the password hashing API, scalar type hints and generators.

I'm also looking forward to 3 things that AREN'T going to be there: register_global, safe mode, and magic_quotes
Once upon a time there was a single father and his son. Every day, the father was overprotective and worried about his boy. One day the boy went out on his own, and got kidnapped. Because of that, the father went on a quest to find him. Because of that, the father had a lot of new experiences, met lots of new and different people, and realized what was important in life. Until finally he rescued his son, and they lived happily ever after.

I'm sure you could write it up other ways, and do a better job with more time, but basically, that's Finding Nemo.
A little off topic, but Iceland Spar features prominently in Pynchon's "Against the Day"[1]. It is a pretty amazing book that might appeal to this audience.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Day#Doubling
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I'm quite certain implied warranties are disclaimed in the EULA.
I can't claim to have followed the LV fiasco on HN in all of its detail, but the parts I saw were mostly respectful and pretty well balanced. The "Designer News sucks" post was not, but that particular battlefield is a distraction. The main thing is still the Flat UI debacle, without which none of this would have happened.

Is Flat UI a ripoff? Yes, sure, and they come across as more than a bit sleazy. But are they in clear violation of LV's copyright? Absolutely not. In design as well as in pretty much every other human endeavor, all things are derivative. That's a core truth about technology and civilization in general. The Flat UI dude did not straight-up copy LV's stuff though. Still, he re-implemented it and he deserves to be called out for it. He should at least have given LV some credit for inspiring him.

That's where it ends though. The rest is all on LV. That DMCA abuse was stupid and unnecessary. Sure, you can blame HN for making that observation but that doesn't change the fact that it's not the observers fault you screwed up. Failing to admit that (and apparently making DMCA jokes on Twitter in bad taste) only serves to emphasize why people are upset with you.

LV, you used a bad law in questionable circumstances to shut up something that was no threat to you. Then you doubled down, smugly and with not a small amount of self-righteousness, when people called you out on your ethics.

The saddest part of this is that you could have easily turned this into an ad for your stuff. If you simply had come out and graciously acknowledged the similarities between Flat UI and your icons, people would have sided with you. Your implicit counter-argument that it doesn't matter if you're acting badly as long as it's the other guy who broke the law is interesting, but it's also far from certain things will actually turn out this way in a court of law.

This was a failure on many, many levels. Doubling down on bullying while at the same time crying "not fair!" is just one of them.
I don't. Can you explain?
I wasn't remotely talking about money; about why Maxis sold, whether they had to or anything along those lines. You're projecting an argument I never made.

I'm talking purely about the games and the people who make them.

EA buys studios and squeezes them. Why the studios subjected themselves to it is irrelevant to the fact that it happened. Repeatedly. Pretty much non-stop since Trip walked out the door. EA's long-standing treatment of their employees and the properties they owned, in the pursuit of a release schedule that burned out both in short order, is not revisionist history. It is EA's history.
It doesn't help in the Twitter client use case, but it will help in the user/password compromise scenario described in the parent comment.

If I compromise the keytab, I can impersonate the domain member server and presumably the active tickets... but the username/password is on the KDC/DC.
No it is not. I was just using their terrible launch as an example of games with terrible launches.