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So, to be clear. He wants a game. A game that he knows is is fun and high quality. A game that Nana will enjoy for hours, hopefully months. And he wants it for free. Presumably with no ads. And, he already has exactly what he's hoping for except for one detail: he also want to hide all opportunities to give money to the creators of the game. But, without "breaking the fundamental experience" of the game.

Sounds to me like what he actually wants is to do the footwork (research effort) to find a high quality, pay-up-front game. And then pay for it, up front, so that Nana can enjoy the game without being confronted with iaps.

It is unfortunate that the vast majority of market apparently prefers instead to wade through 9 f2p games until settling on 1 that they like enough to pay into. That market environment makes it much harder to find a good game for Nana that does not involve iaps. I wish him luck in his search for that game.

But, as for hiding iaps in f2p games... I don't see how that is tenable in any way. Creating the game he wants requires a surprisingly large up-front and ongoing investment on the part of the creators. A major, if not the major, part of how the creators can expect to recoup their investment is in the opportunity to pitch you on iaps. Disabling that pitch changes the business model to "I'll pay them when I'm compelled by overwhelming guilt/appreciation". That's an incredibly idealistic business model which even the world-class awesomeness of Wikipedia has difficultly maintaining. Frankly, I doubt that any of the games he enjoys would survive it.
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Glad to see someone else here has seen Dennou Coil - IMO it should be required viewing for anyone interested in AR! It's not perfect, but has some fascinating ideas about where AR could go.
[edit: I appreciate the constructive example, should've mentioned that.]

Which unfortunately looks like crap, as there is no (standard) way to get browsers to hyphenate words in a sane way :-(

[edit: I wish CSS Regions was (or was likely to become) a viable solution, as it actually does what a lot of people want: a sane and standard way to lay out text, based on experiences from dtp. Sadly, afaik, it's unlikely to be accepted, and I'm not sure if there's even a decent way to get it to work with a polyfill (suitable for production):

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-regions/Overview.src.html

https://github.com/adobe-webplatform/css-regions-polyfill

In theory css-regions along with hyphenator or hypher should be enough to have layouts that are both semantic, look good, and are simple to implement. It's been a while since I tried to get it to actually work, and I don't remember it as "just working" (that would include proper pagination both on small screens and on print outs, without too much effort):

http://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/

https://github.com/bramstein/hypher

]
Wow, that's already a huge endorsement.
So, do you think that posters here should refer to it as "Golang" in order to boost search results for that term?
>The first is that it rests on the usual assumptions of a competitive market, and we are discussing situations where this isn't the case: people are looking for work where there is none, or very little - there is no competition for their labour.

And this is the root of the problem I am trying to get at. The demand for labor is pretty low. Blaming the few companies that are hiring workers isn't fair, and forcing them to raise wages doesn't fix the problem.

>The second problem is that your analogy is imperfect, because it switches round to the demand side rather than the supply side.

I think that people thinking of supply and demand sides separately is where a lot of people get confused, especially when discussing labor markets. There really isn't any difference and the same economic principles apply to both sides.

>companies (often, and in the case we are talking about) don't need your labour, they will simply be less productive without it, but you do need a wage, or you will starve to death.

Another good point and what I am trying to get at. The problem I think is that people depend on the value of their labor for their income. That's hardly fair to begin with (some people are simply worth more economically than others), but it's especially problematic if some people's labor becomes almost worthless due to automation or whatever. A basic income would be an ideal solution.
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Whenever we can, we build extensions in PHP https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/tree/master/hphp/system/php

Many of the older extensions that were imported back in the HPHPc days are in C since they were much easier to port from php-src if we didn't have to translate the language.

As for why this was't in PHP, two reasons. It was easier to stay in the language since our event loop code was already in C++, and most of the gains we get from writing library code in PHP comes from not having to cross a language barrier from userland code. The event loop is not the best place for that.
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I'd happily take a pull request if you want to get it working.
Interesting to me that US tech firms are more bothered about US international reputation that the government.

Anyway, I have said a few times these tech companies should step up to the plate and it looks like they are. Good.

People might criticize their motivation, suggesting that its all about money, but from at least my non US POV, the US is all about money, its as pure capitalist as it gets. There for the US its self is all about money. So, what else is going to motivate US people or bushiness? It was always going to be about money.

What I think is needed now is for these tech companies to use some of their immense wealth to put up some sort of political opposition, campaign, candidates or what ever. Talking and finger wagging is good, but they need to put their money where their mouths are.

But over all, positive. Lets see what happens.

Edit: Just to add, Im not making a moral judgement about the US being all about money. That is another conversation.
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I am with you. ACM Champions mean a shit to me, and I have enough publications in crypto and secure communication to claim that I am a ACM Champion, and BTW I have a PHD actually related to security and crypto. But, NONE of my credentials is a valid argument about how secure my protocols are.

This kind of attitude (trust us, we have enough credentials to show) seems to be a universal problem with people in academics. Come on, don't do this. We all get the sense that you have to bluff to get your paper published, but this is not going to work for a product to be accepted.
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That's exactly what I would have expected, which is why, I suppose, that it hasn't ever happened since primary voting became open to full registered party members.
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When did you try it last? We spun up a whole team (which I'm on) who's entire goal is to make all of the world's PHP code runable on HHVM. All of the top 20 PHP frameworks work on HHVM now.

http://www.hhvm.com/blog/1499/locking-down-for-performance-a...
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A friend of mine was on paid leave from her public school job just a couple weeks ago, due to an investigation that she'd violated a school policy.

[details: she set a misbehaving 3 year old on a stool. Officially, it's not permissible to "use force" on a child unless it's to prevent them from causing physical harm to themselves or others; placing a child on a seat where they don't want to sit qualifies as "using force" in some peoples' eyes.]
Yeah, what happened to the units that were supposed to ship in November 2013?

They were crazy to announce such an early ship date. Maybe none of those 25 people know about manufacturing...
“Mirror All Your Devices“ is just plain stupid. Skeuomorphism in the next generation.
Suddenly? Of course suddenly! The relevations were sudden, the consequences are sudden.

On a macro level tech companies are not interested in the government invading the privacy of the people who are using their services because at the very least it doesn’t benefit them in any way. It might even be an inconvenience to deal with in some cases.

The problem is, however, that at any moment large tech companies deal with many issues and problems and they prioritise some over others, on a macro level probably mostly depending on how much money they stand to make. Now, the government invading the privacy of their users certainly doesn’t make them any money – but most of the time it probably also doesn’t lose them any money, or only very little.

However, now everyone is talking about it. More people are starting to care about privacy and the companies can expect to lose at least some customers. Many medium-sized businesses in Germany have already been banning any and all US online services for company use, but the revelations might increase their number even more, for example.

So now companies are becoming more active. On the macro level because they stand to lose money. But I’m pretty sure that the picture will be very different when looking at the micro level. I’m pretty sure that when you look at the people leading the charge for these companies you will find many who feel passionately about this and always have been. It’s just that now there is both enough political capital inside the company to actually start lobbying and the revelations have also put pressure on the government, so moving the status quo got (even if only ever so slightly) easier.

Many people you will hear speak for these companies will actually feel passionately about this. It’s just that now is also the opportunity for them to do something.
> Ultimately I think the largest problem is the militarization of the police force. An army is supposed to fight an enemy, the police are supposed to protect citizens and mixing up the two becomes very dangerous very quickly

Completely agree with this.

Over the past few years I have noticed this militaristic attitude creep into the Australian police force (and private security businesses, as they always copy what the police do). It is as though they are all just waiting for some massive global uprising that's never going to happen.

What bothers me is the attitude that comes with this new uniform tends to provoke responses from drunk idiots that are inline with these unspoken fears.
is it childish that i giggled at the name?
You can promise that :)

I'll re-run anything that you need to re-run if you tell me what to do.
Think I could pick your brain about working remotely for Treehouse sometime? My email is nathan @ [my HN username] .com
That's probably why I didn't understand derivatives until Calc 3. I barely passed Calc 1 and 2 because my professors just told us to ignore the details. My Calc 3 professor actually showed us how everything worked, from intuition to theorem to proof.

In my experience, it's best not to delay learning the details. You don't have a real understanding of something until you understand the details.
Thats... well, that's not what I got from it.

He paid for some of the IAPs in the game, but if those developers are monetising it correctly there will be dozens of other ways to buy more IAPs

Do you have kids? I don't, but I'm very close to my 5 and 2 year old cousins. My Aunty would love to be able to turn off IAP, temporarily, for a session so the kids can play and not worry. You can do that sort of already, but the buttons and UI being hidden would make it better.

Also, I've bought games, expensive ones, that have even more IAP in them that I won't be purchasing. This is not just free games we are talking about.
Late to the boat but would love a code if you are sparing anymore
The price is steep but Steve Mann (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann) is there chief scientist. I think if anyone we can trust about AR, Steve Mann is the guy. He's wearing those glasses before it was cool. He got a lot of experience, and troubles with those glasses (see "steve mann mcdonalds"). He really know what he's doing.
Wont that increase sales volumes, resulting in prices going down? Wont that help the poor? Its this actually a result of that in the first place? Rich people bought lots of expensive pads, volumes go up, production gets cheaper, and so on.
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Is $2000 - $5000 too low to ask for a convertible debt loan? We are looking for money for our startup to get past our first round of development. Would this type of dollar amount even appeal to investors?
> the recent trend of officers moving from "the beat" to patrol cars ...

Isn't this a 30 year old complaint, at least?
Apple already offer the ability to turn off in-app purchasing. It's a global setting (which can also be password protected if you're setting up the device for your kids, say) and does the job well. It sounds exactly like what the author needs.
It says right before the demo part that those views were filmed through the glasses using this http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcin... and not cgi.
Very insightful comments.
Thanks for continuing the conversation - I don't think I've ever seen a thread continue on for a week here on HN. :)

I suspect that ultimately the truth lies somewhere in between the media's portrayal of the NSA and the administration's own description - there are likely privacy and/or oversight issues at play, but I don't buy the prevailing attitude that the NSA is a rogue agency that is sweeping up everything it can simply for the purpose of sweeping up everything it can.

As a journalist, any time Greenwald wants to release information he needs to evaluate what effect his reporting will have on his journalistic reputation alongside the profitability of his reporting. I think he's unlikely to ever write an article that states that the NSA is doing something beneficial to national interests - it won't bring in nearly as many readers as a story on overzealous infringing of privacy, and it could potentially call into question his previous reporting.

That's not to say that you can't have reporting that's both balanced and worth reading. I've found some of the NY Times' reporting on the NSA to be fairly interesting. In particular, "No Morsel Too Miniscule for Consuming NSA"[1], despite the sensational title, was fairly balanced; definitely not propaganda, but at the same time not falling into the trap of saying "the NSA is likely watching you, your friends and your family 24/7". They go on for 7 pages describing the NSA's problems and successes, inefficiencies, bureaucracy, etc. They manage to ask the reader to call into question privacy issues and ask whether we're getting our tax dollar's worth in terms of foreign intelligence delivered - and they managed to do it without whipping their readers into fear-driven frenzy. It astounds me that two different news agencies can look at the documents that Snowden leaked and get such different interpretations.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/world/no-morsel-too-minusc...
> "How about an after school "chess club" where the kids who attend get free dinner"

These sorts of clubs exist in some places, such as in my school [0]. They include everything from tutoring to other academic activities to free meals to summer programs.

[0] http://www.bgcmd.org/clubs/beacon-neighborhood-centers
Can you explain? I am genuinely curious as two the line of your thoughts now.
I'm writing a middlebrow (lowbrow, really) dismissal because this actually deserves it. This is... shamelessly phony. "Your laptop is now a hologram"?[1] Do I have to 3D scan my laptop in? Are they going to mind-upload my Intel CPU to the cloud while they're at it?

Your use-case for AR is a ghostly 5FPS replica of my laptop or phone that I can vaguely gesture at? Tracing in the air to lathe a rocket hull will bring me closer to the world? Meta has access to non-rendered pages of app icons inside the iOS sandbox? "ROCKET COMPLETED"? "500+ Meta Applications in development"?

They say this is real footage, and have a big red "BUY NOW" button. What target audience is this supposed to convince?

[1] http://i.imgur.com/unxD96I.jpg
He doesn't demand free. In the TFA he states that he bought some of these games, and purchased in-app stuff in some of the others. He just wants control of spending. Doesn't seem like too much to ask for.
Oh wow. My guess is that you and I had the same idea following the "Started a stupid company. Failed" thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6806428

I actually started working on something similar - but quite honestly I don't have the skills to do it in any reasonable time frame. I am glad I stopped when I did because yours would have crushed mine.

I hope it works out.

FYI one of the reasons I stopped is because I knew it would be really hard to get solid content because it was based on things that most people want to never talk about again. If this platform can get them talking it would be massively helpful to the community. On the order of Quora.
Could I chat with you about Treehouse sometime? My email is nathan @ [HN username].com
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Thanks, I didn't know this. This doesn't stop the popups and inside-app advertisements, though, does it?
You entirely missed the point of the parent comment.

Amazon isn't making anyone's live's worse off. They are better off than they would be if Amazon didn't hire anyone at all and they became unemployed. If Amazon is wrong for hiring them at too low a wage, then every other company in the world is also wrong for not offering them to hire them at all.
Animated PNGs? (Or is IE support still a problem...?)
Thanks for the link. I've had both 507 Mechanical Movements and 1800 Mechanical Movements for quite some time now. This seems like a great reference for mechanisms.
What? It's minimal effort. 'Found' a gmail address? Drop everything after the + sign.

Spammers spend a lot of processing time on their emails (e.g. testing them against spam filters to tweak them to get through), so this extra step is so small as to be insignificant.
A user experience thing for his particular use case. I see why he'd want it, and can think of another reason why as well (see my post above), but it's not something that will be implemented IMO.
Didn't their website used to say shipping November 2013? What happened to the people who ordered with that promise?

Anyways, that was a crazy ship date they were never going to meet, even if their CAD had been completely 100% finalized and locked, it would have taken them that long just to make the tooling, let alone manufacture a run of parts. Maybe next time they hire 25 people at least one of them should know manufacturing.
Nope just makes it so you can purchase anything. The UI for the IAPs still exist.
> As all data increasingly goes digital, it is wrong for our society to present a conflict of interest: either keep my data myself, and lose out on modern technology; or use modern technology and be subject to omnipresent surveillance.

This is a false dichotomy regardless of the state of fourth amendment jurisprudence. There is no inherent reason why you have to store all of your data on Google's servers rather than having your own storage device(s) just as you didn't need to keep your papers in your associate's office a hundred years ago. There is no insurmountable technical reason why your data can't be stored and processed locally.

The problem is really economic. The problem is that you are about to buy a television and it won't change your life one bit whether the television is made by Samsung or LG, whereas that decision of yours will change Samsung's bottom line to the tune of a couple hundred bucks. Which means that Samsung et al are willing to pay more to influence your purchasing decision than you are willing to pay for e.g. email service, and allowing them to doesn't cost you anything. Which means that it's more profitable to offer "free" ad-supported email (and document hosting and blogging etc. etc.) than it is to sell you a product that allows you to seamlessly operate the service using your own hardware. That's the problem -- economics. The fact that the economic value of invading privacy in order to target advertising exceeds the value of not having it invaded for that purpose.

But once you have a system designed to allow surveillance for the purpose of targeting advertising, which most people have no significant objections to, you get every organization and government lining up who wants to do surveillance for purposes people do strongly object to, and the infrastructure to do it is already in place. So now there's trouble: Either you have exclude from government surveillance the data shared with corporations for targeting advertising, which governments don't like, or you have customers withdrawing that information from the advertisers in order to keep it from being exposed to government surveillance, which cloud companies and advertisers don't like.

Somebody is going to be unhappy. And there's a good chance that it will be the cloud companies -- even if the US government relents and announces that it's going to discontinue SIGINT operations against Americans without a warrant, there is very little chance that they'll actually stop against foreign citizens (though they may claim to officially), and even less chance that China and non-state actors (i.e. organized crime) will refrain from doing something similar. Which means that the cost in privacy is no longer just privacy against targeted advertising, it's also privacy against surveillance by governments and criminals.

On the plus side, new market demand for data hosting products without third party central servers.
I agree. This is a good period to be able to reflect and improve on services, coding and fix bugs.

Doing a soft launch could start your way to getting power users whose input and feedback is valuable to improve the website in the future.
Regarding only your first point... I can't agree with that.

Aside from the lotto and other truly marginal edge cases, I'd say that hard work is not sufficient for success but it is required.

That is, if you take 100 successful people, you'll have 100 who needed some luck to get where they are. And of those, you'll have 99 who also had to work their ass off.
its so well known and common, I would be surprised if spammers already weren't ignoring dots and the plus for gmail addresses
Ryan, why did Treehouse choose fewer days over fewer hours per day as a way to reduce total hours worked? Anecdotal data says most information workers find it hard to actually get more than 6 hours of work a day, so that would suggest a 9-6 day not being optimal. Just wondering what made you choose one approach over another.
Same here, but its better than what I hit the other day - the ptrchase form accepted my +'d email, but the sign in form wouldn't. I had to get their staff to change my email in their database just to get the thing I bought...
Always great to see new rails releases. The message signing looks pretty useful.

I'm curious when people would use `Module#concerning` though?
The worst thing is when a big customer becomes dependent on a buggy behavior, and after fixing the bug you need to add a configuration option to preserve the buggy behavior for the customers who rely on it.
I use the same approach. The only unfortunately side effect of doing so is that I have to deal with spams targeting at randomly generated addresses at my domain. Luckily Gmail's spam filter finishes most of them after some training.
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The comments from TFA doesn't say a shit but full of "you are wrong, because you don't understand it" without debating the technical details.