skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gizmodo coincidently published a similar "the internet dun goofed" post http://gizmodo.com/the-xbox-one-just-got-way-worse-and-its-o...
I've dealt with many people who say they're 'technical' and 'work with programmers' only to have them say, "Hmm.. let's change this module to this side, and then add this functionality." not knowing those small changes will cost several days of work: static changes, backend peeps changing the api, circling through people trying to get things done. It can be a real issue. The best designers I've ever worked with would dive into the code with me and ask questions. On one particular iOS project, a designer would actually make custom views after showing him the basics.. it really helped me, and I can tell he learned a ton about approaching developers/ making sure a design is truly done before implementation.

In other words, I totally agree with you, but it's up to a programmer to decide if the designer fits, not the other way around.
Pretty sure they would be limiting that to one IP address. There would be restrictions.
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I wish they coined another term for this rather then digital downloads. How can a download not be digital?
I just want to say that anyone who follows the "code organization in a file" levels should get kicked in the nuts and shown the door. I like consistent white space but regions, comments and license headers are generally signs of horrible incompetence.
This really just looks like sour grapes from Microsoft to me.

There's no reason they couldn't have both...

Buy a physical disk? Trade use it like you always have, but you don't get to make use of all the fancy cloud features.

Buy your game online? You'll need to phone home every once in a while (24 hours was a bit harsh, maybe more like 1 week), and you can't trade it like physical media, but you get the fancy new lending features.

Decide you like the new way better? Convert your physical copies into 'cloud' copies and throw out the disks.

Problem solved.
I feel like you would like this, to punish society for not "giving them a better option".
The success of Valve and Steam distribution show this is absolutely true. As far as I'm concerned its all that needs to be said on the piracy debate. The proof is in the profits.

Valve are a private company but certainly worth billions and $500-800m annual revenue. Gabe claims, per employee, they are more profitable than Google and Apple. See the forbes article for more analysis [1]. Note its from 2011 and Gabe has said elsewhere that Valve had a huge 2012, approx 50% revenue growth.

Here's another short article with Gabe commenting on their entry into the Russian market. [2]

GoG is also a private company, but well established and popular with netizens. I'd be very interested to see their financial figures.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverchiang/2011/02/15/valve-an...

[2] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111023/22062816484/just-a...
You used a lot of the right words, but not in the right context. Could you share your source do we can get the full picture?
Microsoft's "family sharing" (terrible name) allowed you to share games in your library with up to 10 people, regardless of where they were in the world[1]. It didn't just extend to people in the same house. With this announcement we lose that feature.

[1] 'I could name a friend that lives 3,000 miles away as one of my "family members" Mehdi said.' http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/microsoft-defends-the-...
We need (maybe not) a constitutional amendment that prevents

- retroactive legality
- retroactive il-legality
- immunity

I don't / can't even understand how immunity can be a thing. Sounds like some kids making up bullshit rules on the playground. To even suggest it points directly at guilt.
No. They have a problem with the taxes and the services, but they don't have a problem with realizing that taxes pay for services the way protomyth here seems to.
You can submit a language specification as a standard without outside buy in. It becomes an open specification that anyone is free to implement. You seem to interpret every open initiative Google tries to do with Dart as a bad thing. What else can they do? How much more open can they make the implementation to appease critics? What haven't they done yet to make it any more open? V8 was open sourced and its now powering node, running server side procs in PostgreSQL databases, creating rich cross-platform Desktop apps with node-webkit - what has Google done to stop it's pervasive use? Before V8, JS performance was orders of magnitudes slower than it is today, with little focus on performance - and now there's an arms race.

The web doesn't have to worry about the strongest companies making too good compelling open-source solutions that people fear will end up owning it, we're in 2013 and web development is still fragmented, inconsistent and progressing at a glacial pace. The biggest threat is coming from proprietary native apps in walled garden mobile platforms being developed behind close doors without a standards body in sight and no desire for any open or interoperable initiatives.

Without any attempts at any new initiatives trying to make web development better, in the next 5 years we'd still be building buggy web apps on a broken language running at similar to todays performance - but hey, at least we waited for the standard bodies to create all possible solutions. All other attempts that stray from the script be damned.
I have been an atheist since about the age of 12 when I was kicked out of confirmation (Lutheran) for "asking too many questions" as a young teen, I had a lot of questions about Dinosaurs, what young person doesn't, specifically in relation to the story about Noah's ark. I feel for this person at a deep personal level having experienced rejection at a young age for silly reasons. I wish there was some way that I could help her, this is something I feel very deeply about.
Do you mean their prime minister?
Gifs are a horrible format for video, but yet people love them for their simplicity. Vine is smartly capitalizing on this. Definitely think this was a stylistic choice here -- a narrated video is a completely different experience.
Have you played with PowerDNS? It would be awesome to see RubyDNS rewritten as a backend.
It would be an extremely safe bet to say that will be the case within a year of two of launch. They're scrambling too much to change what they've got for the difference to be possible in 6 months, but the differentiation will definitely happen.
Seriously?

http://blog.linkedin.com/2011/01/11/open-source-linkedin-kaf...
http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/03/20/project-voldemort-scalin...
Microsoft and Sony get a cut of every game sold for their platforms, while the consoles themselves are sold for a loss, at least at launch. That's how it has worked for the last two generations and I think it's the same this time around.

The exception is Nintendo, who sold the Wii (and presumably the Wii-U) for a small profit.
Dolores Vividos.
I'm pretty sure for MS and Sony, they were selling software. Sony was selling every PS3 for a loss 6 years into its product life cycle.
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Very likely. Even if it was for a specific case.
ztomy.com is part of the DirectI/ResellerClub/etc. group of companies. They operate paid domain parking programs for registrars.
Historically speaking MS and Sony hardware is sold for a loss which is covered by the cut they get per game sold. I'm not sure how big of a loss, if any, the PS4 and XB1 are being sold for. It could be close to even.
Minor quibble #1: Alexander has roles other than the NSA, and techdirt invented the NSA connection without evidence. See my cousin comment about USCYBERCOM.

Minor quibble #2: "blanket immunity" and "spying on citizens" are deliberate fabrications of what was proposed. Separate paragraphs "deduc[ing] what is possible" would be well-and-good, but actually saying he said things that he definitely didn't say is not okay.

KEY POINT: When it comes out that Alexander/NSA/whatever didn't commit/advocate the particular abuses/crimes that some liar (e.g. Masnick) said they were committing, no one will believe you and me when we tell them the truth. And the truth is BAD ENOUGH!

Dishonest shysters posing as journalists always rates a "fuckety fuck" rant.
The success of the Valvemobile will be in no way affected by the hood ornament, I suppose.

To un-knot the twisted metaphor, I'm saying Valve already got past the wailing 10 years ago. Their Steam model already enjoys widespread success and approval, while Microsoft is, well, Microsoft.
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What is your server naming convention?
What is your server naming convention? Anything interesting or unique? What do large companies with 1000+ systems do?
Nobody would try to fly one of the original Wright brothers' kites or planes, yet, this does not diminish our ability to admire their contribution to the aviation industry.

I find it ironic that a buddhist laments the lack of permanence of the product of his work!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impermanence
The problem is that Microsoft put a saddle on the car by offering physical discs. I really didn't see the point of it if it was always online, given that MS has their music and movie stores.

Moreover it didn't really give consumers the main benefit of always on DRM: lower prices for games. This is why consumers don't care about the DRM on iOS or even Android.

Another major problem is that for all the features offered for Xbox One that apologists like to keep repeating (family sharing, trade-ins, lending, selling), there was a really big caveat: publishers have to approve that feature for their respective games. Even if they did approve it, I can imagine all the restrictions they would have imposed (trade-in approved stores, minimum time & publisher set prices for trade-ins, and so on)
I live in a rural areal, and the local recycling center recently stopped accepting glass. Apparently the cost of transporting it to someone who has the facilities to recycle it outweighs the price the recycler will pay. For a time, the city picked up the difference, but they aren't doing that anymore.

My point is that whether or not something is economic to recycle is at least in part dependent on where that thing is. I suppose it seems obvious when put that way; but I don't think its obvious at the outset.
I think confluence-networks.com may be apart of Network Solutions (which is whom LinkedIn is registered with).

I had a domain (nitren.com), that I let expire after 3yrs and confluence-networks.com back ordered it, I remember looking it up a while back, but if I remember right, all the ip and domains were registered or associated with netsol.
Scala may be a safer solution because Kotlin is newer, but that doesn't stop Kotlin being a better choice than other older languages like Groovy.

Today the Groovy P.M. announced they're adding statically-typed traits (http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Adding-Trait-to-Groovy-td...) to Groovy, talking about them like they're an innovation. But they were already implemented by former Groovy++ developer Alex Tkachman (https://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/wiki/Traits) 2 years ago. Groovy added static compilation into Groovy 1 year ago by copying it from Tkachman's Groovy++ codebase, then announced it to the world as "Groovy 2.0" without crediting him. Now they're trying the same trick again, laundering the Groovy++ Traits and passing it all off as "Groovy 2.2".

Alex Tkachman is now one of the Kotlin developers (along with Groovy's creator James Strachan). So which codebase would you trust: one laundered without credit from someone else's implementation (Groovy), or a second try from the actual person who wrote the first attempt (Kotlin)?
I'm on Feedly for now, but looking forward to the Digg release.
Thank you for this. The nginx documentation is the biggest joke of anything ever written.
Talk about good timing.
+1 on a roadmap. Excited to try this out!
thank you! i was looking everywhere for this!
There are actually several other casual gaming startups in Hamburg e.g. Bigpoint GmbH which followed a more American model of growing as fast as possible and selling out early, so I don't think it's a German/European thing necessarily. Given one of Jimdo's competitors Wix is IPOing this year after an enormous marketing spend, it doesn't seem industry niche-specific either. (Disclosure: I work at Jimdo, feel free to ask me anything)
It came up with that slogan before it monetized (i.e before adwords)
Sure, but why let proper data visualization get in the way of link bait?

The original source, which I'm assuming you got your images from directly, is much more interesting: http://www.mapbox.com/labs/twitter-gnip/brands/#9/40.1358/-7...
I'm confused, I thought they used a similar approach that MS365 uses: "Issuing a random 4-letter string with 4 random digits. ohms6021 for example.
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Thanks very much, this gives context to the video.

Interesting, I always compare the internet, and more specifically instant access to a huge area of knowledge to the invention of the press.
-3 points down-voted?

Sorry, I didn't realize how offensive this comment was!

I will try to refrain from commenting from now on.
Thanks for responding. It certainly makes a lot of sense for a business model like Lyft or Sidecar where their is a significant relationship between the company facilitating the payment and the service providers receiving payment.

For the OPs case though there seems to be a huge amount of risk: a 'couple' sign up, then other 'friends' start sending them money.
I was an engineering intern there for a summer. The interviews were as difficult as any other tech company in the valley, as was the workload. It is most certainly a tech company.
The reason why I never had a GPG/PGP key is that I don't know where to put my private key. It's an identity that's supposed to reliably identify you. In other words, it is you.

Computers can be hacked; cloud services are not trusted because they can easily access to it if forced by government or whatever. Could've use a passphrase but brute-force it is just a matter of time.

Burning into CD or store in USB stick and keep it safe in your house? What if it gets stolen? I feel like I need to use something like this: http://worldsbestflashdrive.com/ but not sure how hard it is to brute-force it. Yes it "reset on multiple incorrect entries" but if you are targeted, people who try to hack it certainly will research the product first and won't be stupid enough to try multiple times to cause it "reset". It probably can only be a hassle for you when you forget your password.

The problem is that, once you published it, you can't regenerate a new one and claim the previous one invalid/compromised. That'll break the trust system. I guess the safest way is to memorize the private key in your brain just like some people memorize PI. Oh wait, what if you are hypnotized?
From my reading of Balanced documentation, its on_behalf_of parameter allows a fledgling app to lean on Balanced for accounting.

"in order to determine how much money you owe a specific merchant, you can easily query and all the outstanding debits tied to this merchant and subtract the payouts you've already done to the merchant."

This seems like a nice advantage of Balanced especially if you don't want to go the Stripe connect route.
I should have said, _the_ top seller, ahead of the Xbox One.
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Thanks, that makes sense. (Shudder.)
Openstack already support LXC.

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix
Valve doesn't have to do anything about messaging because Steam already works like the XBox One was going to.
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Off-topic, but related to your post. When I found out hp.com had a website at www2.hp.com I thought I had discovered the second world wide web, and I tried to go to every single other domain I knew and add www2 in front in hopes of finding out more about this second world wide web.

Ah to be young again.
Sounds like politics. I'm sure we're not hearing the whole discussion. There's nothing stopping a Steam-like DRM option to link a game key to your account or a Steam-like offline mode once you've authenticated once. These schemes are not some fabulous new invention. They have been implemented in the real world for the last decade. If you like them, I suggest buying a Steam box.

Analyses like these seem to forget how much the software of consoles has changed over the last few years. This next generation likely to evolve much faster. The hardware is already obsolete, and it hasn't been released yet. The software is what matters, and it will change. Both Microsoft and Sony have clearly stated that they intend to grow their server farms and make them integral to the experience. So whether you're connecting to Smartglass 2.0 or iPSN, the experience in seven years will not be the same as the experience today.

I found physical media authentication unnecessarily cumbersome in the 90's. It's pretty funny that it's still necessary in some cases, but that's DRM. Too bad that just offering incentives for connecting to official servers isn't the standard means of encouraging legitimate sales. People are lining up for content they could easily get for free on services like Netflix, Spotify, and Steam because they provide superior experiences. I've never downloaded a legally questionable game copy, but I'm still not interested in these backward console DRM schemes, whether through fragile optical discs or constant surveillance. I can do better elsewhere. But I'm looking forward to what they come up with next.
I disagree, deeply. This is simply a different medium — this is basically an illustrated article, where the illustrations happen to contain motion.

It's not that text and video are that different in terms of information, it's that they differ in timing. For example, a narrated video will likely linger on some images, then cut to something else, and so on, all the while being edited in a particular way, with a particular tempo. And video presents only one frame at a time. With text, I can choose my tempo, and since everything is presented in two dimensions I can skip or skim much more easily.

It should also be said that text can be read much faster than a narrator can give me the same amount of information. Video is seldom information-dense (in terms of useful information, not raw pixels).
> Don't agree with the humor and tact of this letter even though "it worked".

Personally, in the UK, I would have written: "We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram".

The reply in question was "Fuck off". This is well-known in the UK amongst journalists, lawyers and people who follow media law.

http://jackofkent.blogspot.com.es/2010/05/reply-given-in-ark...
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I think the problem happens when Person A buys a game disc and lends a digital copy to Person B. Person A then disconnects from the Internet and plays using the game disc and Person B plays with the 24H online check in. Now you have two people playing the same game at the same time with only one copy of the game bought.
there is jeforth running on js and have canvas support

http://www.jeforth.com
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Yeah, that is a much more reasonable way to think about it, and frankly the way it was presented was fuck you guys we are getting all of ours.
I still dont think it was a messaging problem, it was a microsoft having a money boner problem. Plenty of people will be wailing about anything on the internet anyway.
They doing something? You dont like it!
They did something else to mollify you! Their cowardice has cost us great features!
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5909844.
O365 uses that for resets, where a lower quality password doesn't matter. Plus, there's no offline attack available.
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That page is for the first edition of the book.
This is fairly disgusting and should be shut down by Kickstarter, IMO.
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I once worked on a site that used the periodic table element abbreviations for servers. Good way to brush up on your chemistry knowledge.
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Not entirely. For one Steam has offline mode which is certainly better than what MS was proposing.
physical discs are useful for people with always-on-but-still-painfully-slow internet, and it also was a way for MS to compromise and not piss off all the physical disc retailers, who happen to be the same people who will retail the console itself.
If there had been a video with narration I would have instantly closed the page. Video is just too information-sparse.

I thought the GIFs were tastefully done, although the bottle-top making one is confusing. Still images would have been just as good, especially for the front-end loader which isn't exactly a new concept. I did like seeing the hot glass bottles visually cool down, though.
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Not that I don't agree that a moral objection is at least equivalent to a religious one, but what if she agreed to take up non-lethal arms to defend the United States? Would that suffice for the USCIS?
For glass and aluminum, energy saving is the whole game for recycling. If energy were free there'd be no recycling of either.
Glass bottle recycling could be much more efficient if we (in the US) still did what we used to do: wash and sterilize the old bottles and then reuse them. (of course, collection costs might also be higher since you need to get used bottles back to the right bottler without damaging them).
Isn't that the point of OAuth? (versus HTTP basic auth)

Your secret key shouldn't be compromised, because you're supposed to keep that secret. Also if you use HTTPS for requests you'd still get a cert error even if DNS was routing incorrectly. You're probably fine.
fidelity.com is also not accessible. Currently traffic is routed to some domain parking page.
dsl, no offense, but you seem to have a problem with any company that doesn't hire/provide employment to your average local community college CS grad and instead hires globally based purely on merit.

Linkedin interviews are on par with facebook/google et al.
The problem with convert to cloud is that it would require every Xbox to go online in order to check with the mothership before running the game, even from a disk. Otherwise you'd be able to share the disk with offline users who could continue using the physical copy.

They had two choices:

Require an internet connection before running a game. (the 24 hour check)

or

The disk must be present at all times.
While I love your HTTPS anywhere extension and thought (cough) have it installed, I was dismayed that I was allowed to connect to http://www.linkedin.com/.

Then I found out it wasn't synched over last time I changed laptops.

Installing it now. Thanks for the great work!
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One thing I have noticed is that NYC has a lot more homeless people on the streets than just a few years ago, or at least more such people that are visible in the urban landscape. I don't know why, and my colleagues don't, either, but there seems to be an increase in the number of homeless people in general [1], which may explain it.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/nyc-homelessness-ri...
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Looking forward to the iTV or SteamBox. I live in 2013 in the U.S., and I am willing to buy a device that requires I have Internet access in my living room, and leverages that fact to let me buy and share games in an innovative way. I guess I'm a rare bird!