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The cookie variant didn't work at first for me either. I had to delete the cookies, refresh the page, and then try to login. Then it worked for me.
Why is there nobody explaining the reason to send some nearly random people blankets?
As mentioned in other comments, we also ran other UE3 games, like Sanctuary. We demoed that in a booth at GDC last month where people could play it. That's a full UE3 desktop game with bots, AI, normal FPS mouse control (not tablet-like), etc. etc. You can see it in action in the 2nd half of this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV32Cs_CMqo&feature=youtu...

And it's using the exact same code as this demo. You literally use the same compiled JS, and just swap in a different set of game assets.
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Your children’s profile photos and names (added during registration when the app is first installed) are included in the email. Isn’t that cute? This immediately grabs the interest of the recipient.We think this makes it incredibly more likely that they will use the app.

Make the pictures bigger, and include a picture of some art. Also, don't think. Test. You can't guess your way to success. I see some issues with the ad you are currently sending, and testing would allow you to discover which (I'm not telling).

Also, this is a bit creepy. Once you start spamming the address book of your users, a lot of people will get pictures of the children. People who should not know them.

But when the recipient downloads the app, there is no way for artsnapz to know that they were invited by you. And this is where the Invite Code comes in - that’s the alphanumeric code ‘123ABC’ above. This code is generated uniquely to track each invitation you email out.

Can't you use an URL? The extra step typically reduces conversions.

I think this is a rather creepy product, and has many potential legal issues. Though the financials look good, given how this "company" can start selling overpriced printouts of the "art" to family members. Given 10,000 families. Three users per family (uncle, parent, grandparent). One printed art per month. Say $5 per printed art. That's a good amount of money for a simple social sharing app.
I doubt it would be generally successful as a layman's explanation, but here's my attempt.

http://www.bringhurst.org/2013/04/03/how-does-bitcoin-crypto...
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How about keeping track of the e-mail invites internally and as soon as an "invited e-mail" signs up, connect them with the users who ever sent an invite to that e-mail address? This way you don't need an access code (which can be very annoying, especially with mobile apps) or special links at all.
Not to imply that what you describe is a great strategy, but I wouldn't describe it as pointless. The password "12345" has the same entropy as "b0g4p" but it would be a mistake to think they are equally secure.
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Didn't help here either.
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No, I was thinking the latter, but the data should in that case be encrypted with the public key, which can be copied to the web-facing servers.
At best, one can master positive and negative.

At worst, the tendency for people to reward people who tell them what they like to hear is the fatal flaw that will make humans wind up like the dinosaurs.

Look at how nothing gets done about global warming, or how CNBC never explains exactly how HFTs make money (it's because they use undocumented order types, not just because they're fast.)

For a long time I've suggested that we draft people for congress. If you approach any "respectable" politician with an offer to be corrupt, at worst they'll politely tell you they're not interested. Try that with ordinary Americans from the left or right and perhaps 20% of them will get offended, go the FBI or go to the media or give you a black eye or pull a gun. "Respectable" people who go far learn to be tolerant of this kind of BS.

My ten year old has learned (from me and my mom) to be world class at arguing, complaining and bargaining. From dealing with him, I've improved my negotiating skills which means I get 5-10% better prices on many deals I make.

The thing is, he habitually finds something negative to say about any situation, any product, any person. The main thing I've been working on is making him conscious of it. When he's really insufferable I'll sometimes make him say more bad things, as long as they original, until he burns out and can't say any more. We both do the exercise of specifically thinking about good things to say about people, companies, services, etc.

In a healthy marital relationship, people say good things much more often than they say bad things. You should try to say seven good things for every bad thing.

This can (and should) be applied to the workplace. It's a good habit to get into to have frequent praise. It doesn't matter if you liked a subroutine somebody wrote, feel that an ops guy was really on top of a situation, or if you just like somebody's hat.

A major university once planned a Peoplesoft implementation, and the project manager involved estimated that it would cost $100M to implement all five modules.

They told him this was too much and he'd have to get it under $30M and they pushed him out. They hired some young guy who said yes to anything. Years later they spent $65M to deploy one module (in a barely satisfactory manner) and stole huge amounts of time from other IT projects that wasn't properly accounted for. Heads rolled.

The PM with integrity moved on to a more responsible position at a big school on the west coast. The fact is that people who tell the truth in tough situations are like gold and they're the people you can trust with the most difficult situations.
In the US, you couldn't trademark the word "Apple" in the food category since it is the term for a group of fruits. It is valid in other categories.
Well maybe it's a guerrilla marketing campaign by the Google Translate team?
Finally worked for me when I purged the cookies and restarted with no cache.
Path's Debacle Sheds Light on Children's Privacy Online
Wait, so they just rendered an iframe of a random product on ebay that contained their affiliate information on a bunch of widgets they hosted ... and this lands you in prison?

Lets imagine I publish an eBay widget (I don't) to promote products I think people should buy. Lets say the widget just renders products in my sidebar. Lets say thousands of blogs then install this. Would I be then bound for prison?

I'm struggling to understand this murky situation based on how you described it.
(Some parts of) Amazon used to do a similar thing for new hires - use the recommendations system to make up a personalised "book bomb". Of course recs is pretty good at "give people something cool they might not have yet" but sometimes it did err on the side of quirk (I would never have bought silicone oven mitts but they actually turned out to be a big hit)

And there's some great ideas on Quirky - I wish I'd thought of Digits (http://www.quirky.com/products/37) amongst others.
I've heard this case for Shanghai, not so much for Shenzhen. Interesting. The one thing I personally think is holding HK back from further flourishing is the pollution (thus Singapore seemingly having an edge at the moment). I imagine Shenzhen will face similar issues as it continues to grow?
I suspect that nearly everybody already has a blanket or two unless they live in Borneo or the like. It's a little like Google giving out food. A blanket is a basic necessity and aside from destitute street bums, people generally already have enough. I'm wondering if Google is subtly suggesting that open source devs can't pay their own bills?

Then again, it's also a little like Google giving out t-shirts. Maybe they're assuming that everybody could have one more?
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Their transparency hasn't been awful; it should be better. I am for now giving the benefit of the doubt that they'll be releasing further details as they become more certain of them and/or investigations conclude.
This worked for me after clearing cookies alone didn't work, even several times. Thanks!
> I've read that Valve just ignores emails from game developers they're not interested in

Details on that would be interesting. I have to say my first thought is that they probably get a lot of indie developers that want on the Network, and don't want to devote and entire position to explaining why not every publisher gets in Steam just because they want to.

> In Team Fortress 2 ... they ruined the game's integrity through introducing a microtransaction economy

So, they take their free to play game, and add the ability to customize your characters in ways that don't affect gameplay that make them money, and they have all of a sudden ruined the integrity of the game? Is it ruined because they want to make some money from it? I seem to remember that when they were just starting the hats, they were also putting out large updates for the player classes, for free.

> take advantage of to promote other Steam games.

You state that like it's bad for it's own sake. What's wrong with them promoting their other games?
Lean to far into the default "NO" territory and you risk limiting new and innovative ideas. Best to keep an open mind, be analytical, and go with your gut when then data doesn't have an answer.
Does not look like it's enabled right now -
http://spdycheck.org/#news.ycombinator.com
add Safari on OS X to that list. Made me do a bit of a double take since the login was taken until I clicked the comments link at the top of the page.
It's a great essay but this passage highlights to me the sillyness of philosophy:

> I learned that I don't exist. I am (and you are) a collection of cells that lurches around driven by various forces, and calls itself I. But there's no central, indivisible thing that your identity goes with. You could conceivably lose half your brain and live. Which means your brain could conceivably be split into two halves and each transplanted into different bodies. Imagine waking up after such an operation. You have to imagine being two people.

Take a living person and excise part of their brain, and they will continue to live. There have been accidents, injuries, and surgeries that have proven that. I don't know about fully half, but I would not be surprised if it worked.

BUT - take half a brain and transplant it into a different body? There is zero evidence today that that is even possible.

One might say that such technology just hasn't been invented yet. True. But maybe it will never be invented; and thus it's really science fiction disguised as philosophy. I think quite a lot of philosophy ends up being disguised fiction--science or otherwise.
Took a few times of clearing my cookies, then it eventually just worked, no idea why though and I guess it'll stop working again.
Looking forward to trying it, however requested an invite and the scanner on the Thank You screen mentions my @gmail.com account got a thumbs down for Deliverability and being 'weakly secured'. Kind of a bold statement to make about gmail, no?
Which, sadly, we've had to do in development as something has been introduced into Rails or sprockets that makes our development environment so slow it's unbearable with asset debugging enabled.

It really hurts not having the ability to dive into the separate files.
Groan. Do you have any notion of how small of percentage of our debt they actually own?

We owe most of our debt to ourselves.
I was baffled by the title, after some consideration I decided it was probably a metaphor relating to the diseased blankets given to native indians and that google was offering to help open source efforts while covertly killing them.

After reading and discovering that it was literally just blankets I am as baffled as before.
Not everyone has a Kindle. Giving more choices should be the default. Amazon doesn't do it because they want you to buy their hardware.

Until there's a standard every e-book reader abides to publishers should try to provide for everyone.
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I'm gonna call bullshit on this one.

The world isn't black and white and not all managers are assholes and employees never divide neatly down "yes" and "no" lines and any manager worth their salt knows this.

And the secret of success doesn't lie with saying "yes" or "no" or making the team think a certain way, the secret of success lies with finding a way for the team to say yes to the right ideas and no to the wrong ones and kick ass in the process.

If you work with or for people that think as half as shallow as the people described in the OP, run - don't blog about it, run.
Clearing browser cookies in IE9 does not work for me. After login it just puts me back to home page and I still see the login link on the right.
You are right, that may not be a fair characterization. The problem I see is how a list of trademarked words becomes blacklisted for use in advertising. I am fine if Germans want to let any word be trademarked, and then sort it out later in the court system. But we have a situation where the trademark list is auto-uploaded to Google and stops the word "hackathon" from being used in ads in Germany, thus a real problem.
I imagine Mcdonalds actually employs a lot of very skilled "chefs" (for want of a better word) who design food that will appeal to the largest cross section of people possible and can be cooked by people on minimum wage.

You could analogize that to developing software that is easy to use, has mass market appeal and is easy to deploy.
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So the vast amount of free online recipe sites is somewhat like StackOverflow?
It depends on how many words you have in a string.

XKCD's oft-quoted comic uses 4 words. That would be 100000 times stronger than using just 3 words, and vastly superior to your example of a random 9-char password. The article's own example, "golf kangaroo crispy halitosis", also uses 4 words.

I agree with you that long random passwords are the way to go, but even in that case you need to remember at least one password: the master password to your password manager. It would be a good idea to make that a string of 4 or more words. My LastPass master password consists of 5 words with a bunch of symbols sprinkled in between, and my banking password is 4 words in a foreign language.
I researched this last time the topic came up on HN. Based on some investigation in Google Books, what books actually do when quoting text containing [sic] is use a footnote: "blah blah [sic] blah"¹

¹[sic] in original.

(And keep in mind that [sic] is not shorthand for "ha ha you're stupid" even though that's how it usually gets used on the Internet.)
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They had server infrastructure for an estimated 50,000 players. 18,000 players bought the game and were trying to play. Over 5x that number in pirates logged in, and because they didn't use any multiplayer authentication (accounts or some such), they had to support them like paying customers. In other words, going DRM free caused an overload on their server. It sounds like an underestimation of the amount of pirates they would get more than anything - they had over 250% capacity for paying customers.

Also, only Ubisoft claims piracy rates over 90% as far as I can tell.
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Contact me at amfy (at) nerdsein.org I might have something for you :)
Well, when you have blankets sitting out on couches and the like all the time, at some point they become part of the decore. So even tho I have many blankets, I really would be OK with another. Additionally the ones that get used get worn out, dirty, or even boring (like tshirts) so a rotation is nice.
...and yet you posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5649704
it's up to them to create a facebook app that will broadcast messages on their page whenever someone donates. And I can help , they can hire me since I can do it ! ;)
I've gotten this reward from Google devs twice now. First time it was tricky to find some things on the Google store: But I managed to get myself a nice medium-weight Google jacket and a Google cutting board (!). The second time was even trickier, I already had everything I wanted. I ended up getting my girlfriend a Google jacket as well - thankfully she liked it! Amusingly we get asked all the time if we work at Google, because of the jackets, which is not true. I considered lying to the strangers that asked but reconsidered and went with "I have a friend that works there and he got me the jacket." I've even had one lady on the subway start asking me questions about the Google search engine, unprompted. Tech-branded outerwear definitely results in some weird conversations.

I should mention, weird Google loot not withstanding, that I think this program is awesome. Giving Google devs an outlet for giving something back to the Open Source devs that they like is really appreciated. Obviously financial contributions are even better but that can be logistically tricky and this seems like an easy middle-ground.
Really glad this wasn't just me.
I was having trouble on Safari/Mac OS X but it's all better now. Thanks!
> So this "Cult of Positive Attitude" really does exist, can be pervasive in a company to the point of being toxic, and sometimes the best solution is to just leave, which is what I ended up doing.

This. The solution to the Cult of Positive Attitude is not to lament positivity, or long for the day when healthy cynicism is more highly valued. It's to go somewhere where you have legitimate reasons to believe that things are better than they are worse.

Put simply: the problem isn't positive attitude. It's positive attitude that is in direct conflict with reality.
What area do you work in though?
Fist myth is that passwords provide security. The human brain is crappy rng so it cannot create proper high entropy passwords. No way getting around that - whatever your password is if it is "derived" from something - someone else is using it too.

The only viable security I can think of is if we have distributed public key infrastructure. Bitcoin style wallets. And securing the "PK wallets" is up to the end user. Persona is close I think - so if the app fad/insanity finally dies we will be on a good track.
(artsnapz founder here)
Thanks for the feedback.

We don't (now or ever) plan on spamming the address book of our users.

We didn't show the entire flow, but the user chooses who the email is going to - it comes up in the standard email dialog & they see it before they hit 'send'.

Try the flow, we don't think it is creepy at all but if you still do, shoot me an email with suggestions - ajay@a4labs.com.

We are parents ourselves and are very sensitive to our children's privacy.
Well, Actually I don't think that's the intention here.

Though I DID immediately think of this when I read the story title: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epi...

Giving out blankets has a nasty connotation.
Any concern with running Ruby 2 in development and 1.9 (presumably) in production? I'm doing it now for the startup time boost in both console and thin but worried I'll inevitably introduce some code that will not play nice.
Seriously. If you need 12k just get a real job for a bit and save up money.
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Chrome on Windows 7 with ABP here - had to disable ABP to be able to log in.
Worked like a charm, thanks for the tip!
Looks like an interesting product with its use of WebRTC
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I guess the problem is that if they enter their email address, they want to verify that it's actually the owner of the email, not some random person. So they need to eventually send the code.

They may want to give the user a choice of clicking a link in the email once the app is installed that enters the code for them.
Cleared cookies. Still can't login. FF 20.0.1 on Windows 7.
Agreed - the only concern was that the user would sign up with a different email address than the one used to invite them with - in which case we wouldn't be able to link them together.
Yes, that way madness lies.
From my limited understanding of cookie stuffing you are trying to get the ebay cookie on someone's computer without them knowing and without actually promoting anything for ebay. In your example you would actually be promoting ebay products although i'm not sure if that is sufficient to be legit. Haven't looked at the ebay affiliate terms in a while but you might be limited to placing cookies only when they click through in a link.
Oh that's neat! I usually have to re-login every day on Chromium, HN never remembers my session past a few hours. I think it's got something to do with multiple devices - HN only allows one or two logged in sessions I think, and tablet/phone/laptop/desktop over the course of a day messes that up.
It's the same agency that does http://www.nerd-zone.com/, which seems to be partially funded by public money.

Edit: The agency also has a word mark on "Nerd Zone", both seem to be motivated by this: http://www.nerd-zone.com/hackathon.
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Ditto, on FF20, except I had to delete them twice.
> Communal ownership almost always leads to neglect of the owned thing

I'm not really sure that you can make that kind of blanket statement. How ownership and care is organized, communal or not, has more to do with how properties end up.

> Likewise, your criticism of private ownership is too extreme. The vast majority of landlords take excellent care of their properties for example. Others take the right amount of care so that the place isn't great, but can be rented for less. Some landlords let a place decay until it's unsafe, but that's usually when incentives are set up that its in their best interests to do so. Such incentives are the opposite of private property rights and are usually in the form of rent controls, etc, where you can raise rent only when you drive tenants out, or its not profitable to use a property as housing and the only way to change its use is through its destruction.

This is really contrary to the history of housing property ownership in the US. Pre-housing reglations saw that properties used by the poorest members of society were not well taken care of and were often extremely dangerous due to lack of adequate plumbing, structural integrity, lighting, etc. Even today we have issues getting landlords to obey regulations and provide adequate housing as they are required to by law, although the state of housing will vary by locale. Also, landlords have no incentive to fix property issues until there is a legal threat that affects their ability to operate a property and even then getting action may be difficult, esp. if you are a poorer tenant and do not have the resources to take action against your landlord to suddenly move to a new place.
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That's why I specified that the primary difference was that it's difficult to tell when the device is recording.

The comment I was originally responding to was about the ability to record and distribute video evidence of behaviour and how it alters the power dynamic. That is not new, what is new is the panopticon-like system where you don't know if you are being recorded.
I love this company. Since I've bought from them in the past, I get their weekend promo emails every week[1], and they are SO tempting. Wing Commander 1+2 for $2.39? I could buy 4-5 games from that list, spend less than I usually do for the Humble bundle, and actually get a lot more.

[1]: http://www.gog.com/promo/ea_weekend_promo_030513
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