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This is just a power play by Riot. League of Legends is the most popular of the games in the genre of "Aeon of Strife-Style Fortress-Assault Games Going On Two Sides," with tens of millions of players. The professional tournaments attract hundreds of millions of players. It's understandable, from Riot's perspective, the want to lock down the golden geese. The threats emerging from other ASSFAGGOTS games and the console-centred streaming are legitimate threats to (one of) Riot's income streams.

Consider the next-largest ASSFAGGOTS title, Valve's Dota 2. They have started having prize pools at their annual invitational tournament, The International, that exceed several millions of dollars. This, for a single tournament! Plus, mainstream "professional gaming" is still a pretty new phenomenon for the western world. Riot would be foolish to assume that they aren't going to be threatened by other competitive games, some of which haven't even been created yet. It's a monopolistic move, but it's understanable.

That being said, I think that it should be up to the players to choose whether or not they want to do this. Would you really want to lock yourself out of another game? Competitive fighting game payers often "play the field;" they may be really, really good at one or two games, but most have played several, even in tournaments.
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marcofloriano: you're hellbanned. Everything you post shows up as dead.
I disagree with Eric Schmidt that the solution to the problem is banning drones. There are many, many methods of surveillance or recording that can compromise a persons expectation of privacy/safety/security.

There is plenty of legal precedence for civil and low-level police enforcement of complaints between neighbors. e.g. "Peeping Tom" over the fence would be actionable.

The fact that a drone is the tool used to commit the privacy breach doesn't change existing law with regard to expectation of privacy.

The "potential to 'democratise the ability to fight war'" point is misguided. 'war fighters' have been able to design and build various Remote Control Weaponry for many decades, and certainly predating WWII. The availability of a drone design on the internet might make production easier, but I don't believe internet publication is an enabling factor for weaponry.
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Use a passphrase with punctation. Throw in a deliberate tpyo or weird capitaliZation for good measure.

Easy to remember and easy to type.
A simple, but insightful comment. When you consider the phrase "inner peace", you realize that it must actually be the natural state.

After all, what could cause a person to lack internal happiness/peace except external influences and, perhaps most importantly, their own judgments about those influences? Even judgments about themselves must be based on external factors, otherwise what is one to consider deficient in his/her own existence?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloured is fairly accurate.

"Coloured" refers to (and is used self-descriptively by) a subset of people of mixed race of generally one or more of usually British and Dutch ancestry on the "White" side, and generally one or more of various Bantu groups (mostly Xhosa, Zulu, some Ndebele, &c.) or Khoisan ancestry, and sometimes also of Malaysian or other South-East Asian ancestry (from ex-Dutch colonies).
I doubt they would even go that far. It would take a very strong overpowering argument why software is an abstract idea, one that has not been argued before in the many cases that touched on software patents. I think they will make a modest attempt to make things more clear cut, but given the history of such cases in lower courts, there is a decent possibility that they will make it more cloudy in the attempt. And given the uncertainty and the absence of a strong new argument, the natural lean is not to upset the status quo of the thousands of issued software patents. So much ado about nothing in the end.
How about this quote to reply to your post, and we remain on topic as well?

"Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them." - Nelson Mandela

I encourage you to read about how illiterate people were before Castro, and after Castro. Also if there was hunger, if people could afford to go to a doctor, and how unequal their society was.
Believe it or not, if you're eating a variety of junkfood you are probably not on the road to malnutrition. A diverse diet of pretty much any quality of food is likely to get you every nutrient you need, including the ones we don't understand. Most of the cases of people getting malnutrition from junk food seem to be from people who do something like eating nothing but ramen dry packs every day. I think that's usually part of an eating disorder, as people tend to get bored of the same food all the time.

This is why the concept of a general meal replacement (as opposed to an occasional meal replacement) is scary. It has absolutely no diversity. If it's missing something it's missing it for every meal, and it takes a long time to find out that something's missing.
I would have used these a few years ago, and would in the future. This is now my convertible notes worked out so far, in practice - we offered to pay them back, or let them continue indefinitely, after they expired.

They were written as classic notes, for just friends and family, but we haven't raised yet. We dealt with the expiration in a non-official way, via email - basically like a SAFE, but still accruing interest. If my investors weren't as close as they are, or if it would have been more money, this might have been an expensive issue to deal with.
Arch Linux builds the package from source too. https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/t...
Drones are unmanned planes. They're not time machines or matter annihilators or teleporters. What makes these devices so scary to certain people?
For me no other framework or language can be compared the speed of deployment on php. If an idea I've got is simple and don't want to take weeks deving, LAMP is there to the rescue. For example I built (http://vinetuber.com) in 3 hrs. But for bigger projects, I django.
Hide does look interesting.

Nice blog BTW. Any issues controlling comment spam?
Again, that is not the same thing as ordering Soylent.
As a marketing person I had to do a double-take when I read this:

> The conclusion I’ve drawn from this is that paid advertising, even highly targeted paid advertising, is no match for actual user outreach.

What you did was not "highly targeted." Nor does it make sense to draw a conclusion about an entire form of advertising from a single attempt. Paid advertising works very well for some companies (I've run them dozens of times), and can be optimized over time to do even better.
In his own words:

Four forms of violence were possible. There is sabotage, there is guerrilla warfare, there is terrorism, and there is open revolution. We chose to adopt the first. Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/23/nelsonmandela

The entire speech is worth reading.
Are people using bitcoin to buy stuff anymore?
.. or are people just buying and selling bitcoin already (and not spending it to buy say, pizza, movie tickets, etc.)
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This is really where eSports will come into its own, in these (I prefer to call them MOBAs) games. Just like in professional sports, the players here will need a union.
3rd generation full stack web frameworks (django, rails, etc) are optimized for 6 month happiness, not 6 hour happiness

They take longer to get set up, but as your project grows the incremental work to "change one small thing" stays relatively constant, whereas coded from scratch php or lightweight frameworks tend to have complexity of a change that is exponential with the number of lines of code.

It's a question whether the investment is worth it for what you're trying to do. Sometimes, quite reasonably, the answer is no.

I've got my django routine to the point where it takes me about 30-45 minutes to spin up a new stack that I'd be happy to code on for years -- to me that's a relatively minor investment for huge rewards.
The code I write is a framework for testers and developers, though. So it won't run on many similar machines but on many very individual machines. But I guess it might even be possible to transform APT/RPM packages in each other and my guess would be that even yum can read one or the other, even if it's not its main package format (don't know Fedora very well).

You guys really got me excited about this. If I can get any air soon, I'll try to learn more about it!
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Free Open Source Software. End of discussion.
And while his parents weren't millionaires he certainly came from an upper class family, which helps...
RIP MSN. When I was a teenager I used to spend all day in a group chat with some friends. I think the feature I miss the most is the custom emoticons.

I've since moved onto Skype's group chat, but nothing I've comes close to MSN. Maybe I'm just being nostalgic.
Look - its just a crappy permissions system in the OS. I'm looking at my app and we have all these scary-sounding perms:

android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE ==> needed to write images to external storage
android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE ==> pretty much anything that needs to have a working internet connection
android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE ==> link tracking
android.permission.GET_TASKS ==> crash reporting
android.permission.READ_LOGS ==> also crash reporting but probably doesn't work in 4.3
android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS ==> Google Cloud Messaging...seriously
android.permission.WAKE_LOCK ==> also GCM

etc.

And when you add ad networks it gets worse. And, they also pay more for gender, location, and age so thats why everyone wants you to sign in with Facebook, etc, because otherwise you can't pay the bills.

I don't know why this is a big deal. Isn't Google already vacuuming up this information from their Android users anyways via "Google Play Services".
Ha, Ok. In the context of the monastery it makes sense. Thanks!
Alright so this only concerns SPONSORISED STREAMS, and it's not that big of a deal (calming people down before they go crazy on articles that do not provide full details to a story)

This means they can stream other games during the LCS they just can't be paid to put company logos. It's just a commercial agreement more than anything
I'll settle for being able to build a desktop with such a CPU in it within a few years.
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It seems like a simple generator like http://www.wisdomofchopra.com/
This kind of behavior needs to be publicly shamed and banished back to the pre-industrial age. Immense social pressure should be brought to bear. Failure to vaccinate your children against something like measles should be viewed as one notch down from child abuse.

I'd also support eliminating all public welfare programs for people that refuse core vaccinations. If you want to be a voluntary threat to society, you shouldn't get to piggy back on it.

It's beyond an absurdity that America should be drifting backwards on something like this, given the progress we've made in the last century toward understanding why/how vaccines work. Gates will help eliminate polio in India, just as we're reacquiring it here.
I think in practice it's exactly the opposite. Just look at Silicon Valley. Who is doing the really revolutionary stuff? Self driving cars are Google + the DOD. Space X has burned through about $1 billion in capital, with half of that coming from NASA. Tesla is burning $50-70m per quarter on R&D.

Small companies certainly invent new things, but even then there is usually a lot of money involved, from government contracts, university spin-offs, etc. The wireless tech company where I used to work started out in a basement, and has probably spent $10m+ over the last decade developing its technology (bootstrapped with DARPA contracts).

This is not to say that small-time inventors don't have revolutionary ideas. But in practice, the stuff that happens in a garage isn't inventive but rather application of well-understood technology.
Gentoo definitely builds from source: http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-...
Keep in mind, the so called peaceful protests in places that will result in authorities using violence are nothing but violent acts themselves! If you know your action will result in violence you are in fact participating in violence, so the "peaceful" actions are merely forms of inciting terrorism cynically calculated for maximum favorable spin in the weak minded!

Don't even get me started on the economic terrorism of strikes and work slowdowns. People not following the rules is just plain wrong no matter what!

/sarcasm
The point about fighting game players is spot on. I wonder if Riot will actually try to enforce this against popular players who stream Starcraft II custom maps or something similar.
In case anyone sees the (rather derogatory) term "ASSFAGGOTS" and is wondering why it's all caps, it's ostensibly short for "(A)eon of (S)trife (S)tyled (F)ortress (A)ssault (G)ame (G)oing (O)n (T)wo (S)ides".

No, I didn't make that up.
Not that I can see. So the it's up to the parties in that eventuality to work things out.
Just the first item on your list is enough to change everything. If we can make computers as smart as humans, we can automate so many jobs, and then vastly scale them simply by building more computers. If you make those computers faster, you speed up the entire world's economy that much more (which speeds up the computers that are designing better computers.)

If you make those AIs smarter than human, who even knows what is possible.
This is where the marketing of various energy options comes into play. The discussion might be different if it was "burning uranium laced coal" vs "controlled nuclear generation"
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25k cases in Europe every year? Can anyone provide any context around what appears to be a shockingly high number?
This is awesome. I like the way the vertices are automatically moved in a way such that they do not overlap very much and that the edges are easily visible. It is also good that "similar" vertices are automatically collapsed into a "multi-vertex". I think this is very useful functionality to inspect a big graph locally.
It's funny, I have a WP7 phone and the lack an MS-blessed messaging system sticks out. You use Facebook account if you want to send messages through the Internet instead of SMS using the built-in features of the OS.

They bought Skype after the OS was created and never gave it the kind of deep bindings into the OS that other popular social networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter) got.
MOBA has essentially won as the acronym for this genre, despite having such a vague meaning that it also describes every MMO, every worms-style game, every online FPS, some MUDs, every online fighting game, every RTS, and probably some other stuff I haven't thought of.
Thanks for the info. My condolences for your home land and family.
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I support Murder charges for anyone failing to vaccinate there children resulting in an infection and death even if it's indirect. Aka your kid infects Sam who infects Bob who dies, your now up on Murder charges.
Useful articles do not fall under copyright, except for the separable portion that can be considered purely aesthetic.

E.g. if P&W disassembles a Rolls-Royce engine, and copies the shape of the turbine blades (which are the result of very expensive R&D), Rolls-Royce can't assert copyright because the shape of turbine blades is functional, not aesthetic.
You can think of a convertible bond as a bond, with an option on the stock. So the bond may be worth $100, and the option to buy the stock might be worth $20. Since convertible bonds aren't liquid, and the implied option may be hard to short, the $120 combined price is really just theoretical. If the convert trades at $110, then the buyer will buy the convert, and then try to short the debt (either shorting another bond from the same company, or with CDS), shorting some amount of stock (Perhaps a half share per option calculated with Black-Sholes or another option pricing method, or perhaps going short a similar option).

Does this make sense? If not, I can try to write it in more clear English.
I don't know about you, but when I decide to do a project, I'll often use a new technology that I'll struggle with, because I want to learn and grow as a developer. Giving up because something is hard is a poor excuse. Period.
You can actually use fread on a buffer after opening it with fmemopen(). (POSIX).

I'd rather just do the overflow checking before arithmetic.
http://abbottstore.com/sub-brand/Ensure-Complete-31.aspx

Ensure Complete has an interesting nutrition panel: it's 25% of everything listed, if I remember correctly. A four pack is 1400 calories and everything you need for a day. In my local stores, it's about $8. Jevity isn't marketed in grocers like Ensure Complete is.
Thanks for your post in a world where it seems horrible things were ever done only by one side in second world war. The fact that white homo-sapiens aren't extinct in SA is good enough to convince me that not just Mandela, but many other people in that country are better human beings than I am. The words of a dutch friend keep ringing in my ears where he suggested that the aggressive group will always be better off regardless of morality, I wish he was wrong but I am still waiting for the evidence to the contrary....
On equality, I'm not so sure of what I wrote above. I seem to recall having seen some early reporting (late 1950s / early 1960s) which suggested at least the pretense of equality. Could well be misremembering. TIME or National Geographic stick in my memory.
With the progressive reduction in the cost of creating a startup, there is a shift in the leverage fulcrum toward the entrepreneur away from investors. This is a milestone that marks this progression. Yes it's marginally worse for investors, but honestly the investors who would care about such minimal edge-case benefits typically don't understand how startups work, and are thus not the ones you want anyway.
he broke reasonable and justified laws

The logic here escapes me. The purpose of the laws he broke was to support the unreasonable and unjust ones from being challenged. Right? The difference between something like apartheid (or the 3rd reich) and something like a dysfunctional democracy (which will have some bad laws) is the centrality of evil in the core of the system of idendity of the state. Clearly, in SA the apartheid regime was central to the concept of the citizens of SA. Similarly, was the situation under the Nazis.

That being said, the country of SA has not integrated gracefully by any means. The crime and apalling violence has led to many of the best and brightest fleeing the country for the UK and other anglophile countries. One of my classmates from Uni had his wife mudered in a most horriffic manner. The sad realizaton is that there are not really any good success stories in sub-saharan africa, in terms of ethical governance, economic prosperity, and the rule of Law. It boggles the mind that the only way to make things work is (apparently) political strongmen and what are in essence forms of exploitative labour arrangements under one guise or another.

Hopefully it will one day be a better place.
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It's almost exclusively due to the lack of vaccination.

"In 2007, 3,104 (87%) measles cases in Europe were unvaccinated"

"However, this controversy [autism claims] resulted in the proportion of children in the United Kingdom who received their first vaccine dose by 2 years of age decreasing from a high of 92.5% during April–June 1995 to a low of 78.9% during the same period in 2003."

http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/204/suppl_1/S353.long

And

"In the year ending April 30, 2012, a total of 17,448 measles cases were repoted in the European Union and Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway"

"Vaccination status was known for 84 percent of the cases, of which 82 percent had never received the vaccine, 13 percent had received one dose, and 4 percent had received two or more doses"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gerganakoleva/2012/07/02/what-re...
How about creating a test email a\c by yourself to see if the email goes to spam or not? Your existing email a\c may also work.
I know the author emphasizing a point, but the steps that he's described end with two vastly different results:

1 - A php script on a server with a script with some code on it.

vs

2 - A full featured MVC framework, complete with version control, database integration, easy deployment, which is easy for other developer to jump into, etc etc

How can these two options be equated?
The core mechanics and metagame (footsies) of many fighting games are similar. But the top players that actually do well in tournaments in multiple games spend significant amounts of time studying details of game-specific culture, matchups, and tricks.

Fighting games suck these days though. I hope for an open source Street Fighter III derived engine someday. Open source game engines and commercial leagues are the future.
> True, but it doesn't always play well with non-msft tech stacks

In what way?? I mean thsi honestly.

We use linux vms on azure with no problems at all. What non-msft tech stacks doesn't it "play well with"?
I remember there was a huge advertising campaign back in the '90s around the fact that Bo Jackson was an all-star player in both the NFL and MLB.
To expect that something volatile is anything other than volatile is, in general, folly. BTC may stabilize with time, but people throwing large quantities of money at it quickly doesn't help.

If BTC gains worldwide acceptance, it will be at the begrudging reluctance of governments.
>Western Europe has had 25,000 cases of measles every year for the last three years… in great part due to vaccine hesitancy.

Apparently Europe needs to get its act together. They have already caused 175 cases in the US, I hope we don't have to start screening Europeans.
Which probably accounts (in part) for Reddit's low conversion rates— a significant portion of the page-views will be from people not in `programming-mode', compared with almost none from HN.
I would get scowled at using that term when I first moved out of SA. It is referring to a specific group of people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Coloureds
From my understanding, fear of vaccines is closely tied to Thimerosal content, which is a derivative of Ethyl Mercury. The idea is, "there's Mercury in the vaccine, and Mercury causes Autism" - which is scary thought for a parent. If there was empirical data showing zero correlation between Autism rates, and Thimerosal, I think we'd see more people accepting vaccines.
http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/wiki/What_Happened_Part_2...

"After completing the test each solver was sent the following email
to the address they had inputted. [...]

'In the programming language of your choice build a TCP server
that implements the protocol below.
The server code must be written by you and you alone,
although you are free to use any modules or libraries publicly available
for the selected programming language.'"

Sounds like a very elaborate hiring process for a global organization. After solving all those sophisticated puzzles, being told to implement a TCP server is rather anticlimactic...
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