skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my mind there should be a refund from Steam either way:

- If Steam has a thorough quality control, they (sort of) tell you that the game is OK, no obvious bugs. But there could still exist a serious bug that you can find, and I think they should give you a refund. They said it would work and it didn't.

- If there's no quality control to speak of (i.e. they just sell whatever the developers are shipping) and it turns out to be crap, it's still Steam who has sold it to you. In my mind they should still give you a refund, apologize a bit, and then deal with the developer.

I can't see that it's Steam's responsibility to test the game, but it's in their interest to provide high quality, so they ought to do some smoke tests at the very least. But no testing (from Steam and/or the developer) can guarantee that there's no problem with the software, and if there is, I think it's obvious that Steam should handle the refunds to the customer (since it's Steam's customer), and then Steam should handle it with the developer.
Discussion of the Steam store's implications for SteamOS does not preclude simultaneous conversation about SteamOS. You can find such alternative conversation by scrolling down past this first thread. I can heartily recommend doing this! I'm sure you'll enjoy it more than focusing on the fact that there's an entire one thread of people not as bored with the topic of the steam store as you appear to be.
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Yes, the US founders opposed democracy; naturally, if the country were run by its population, the vast majority of whom aren't wealthy, they'd abolish debts, redistribute land, etc. (http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s15....)

Then Andrew Jackson used the term democracy as political marketing (probably had the same impact as calling yourself "anarchist"), and the US system co-opted it and rebranded itself as a democracy. Because people naturally would like to govern their lives, rather than political and wealthy elites.

I recommend Graeber's _The Democracy Project_ for more on this; he's an anthropologist who helped found Occupy, and popularized the 99% slogan.
You can use Flash or Livestreamer on Linux and presumably OSX. There are also apps for Android.
The site has the format of a product presentation site rather than a designer's portfolio site. Its format is intentionally misleading. And that sort of disingenuousness is grating.

If this were on DeviantArt, etc., clearly framed as a design, the reactions would be more muted and possibly positive.
It's a different report (bbc.co.uk), but there's already discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6904717
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Sheriff, as in head of police? Why should he or she be chosen by the public? That seems like a big, red flag to me. In my "western european country" they are selected as you would hire a boss to a company, and they hold no "political power", they should do what the government has chosen (as a boss would follow the order of the board/owners).
Junior Position is a euphemism for "job that's not going to pay market rates". My experience in tech is that most true "junior" roles are covered by internships...
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It's a project that aims for the future, not the past. Or can you play PS3 games on a PS4?
Fewer destination IPs is not a pro.

Also, google already has this data so why is that a con?

There is no national security reason.

Bottom line: Christmas came early for spammers this year.
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I've heard someone in Northwestern is trying to do hybrid materials with cement + graphene. Why is way beyond my imagination
Also great to watch - very different approach.
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I care only if I think the candidate was actually unemployed, not working, and trying to cover it up with a fake business.

I've actually come across that situation. It speaks to character. If you genuinely were consulting, or even trying to form a consultancy or freelance business, but ultimately failed, that's one thing. Making a fake business and doing the minimal paperwork to "make it legit" so you don't have a paper gap on your CV is quite another.
That is way more information than they should ever get.
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Ok, so it's a concept for a gaming OS that might become viable in the future, provided that developers decide to build for it.

I still feel like there's a ton of misadvertising and misleading in their ads, making it look like it's a full blown OS. Hence my question.
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Add this one to your list: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/07/jezebel_proves_scott_...

It takes down media feminists and sexually inadequate cartoonists, so you get to feel doubly superior after reading it.
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if the surface you stick it on is actually full of (conductive) dots:

. . . . .
. . . .
. . . . .

and your sticky thing has two panels for data/ground with dimensions larger than the width between the dots then wherever you stick it you can be guaranteed of two separate connections
What does this mean for robots.txt?
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All I see is "totally stuck! BRB". How long has it been there?
About 15 minutes since your post. I guess you have to take breaks when you program for hours straight.
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I knew someone writing books on this concept. He was trying to extend this into quantum mechanics where the underlying foundations are not inanimate particles but information. Science has been taking information out. It requires a long discussion, but let me know if you are interested and I can forward his paper.
> millions of devices with billions of applications that would simply stopping working

[citation needed]
> Does that happen in other countries, too?

Yes. Donations from corporations are legal in nearly every country, in mine, in the USA, most likely also in yours. That's really nothing to bash america over.
You might look at the Neato robotic vacuums. Unlike Roomba's random wandering, the Neato bots have 360-degree LIDAR on top and a wall-finder on the side to do SLAM. They also have a USB port on the side that supposedly provides raw data from the sensors as well as direct motor control. They get a good 1-1.5 hours of run-time per charge with the vacuum turned on, probably longer with it turned off. All that robot for under $200 if you watch for sales.
God is perfectly just.

C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

and
enquired early after God.

78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God
their redeemer.

78:36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they
lied unto him with their tongues.

78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they
stedfast in his covenant.

78:38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and
destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did
not stir up all his wrath.

78:39 For he remembered that they w
Looks like he went out to get himself some chicken :)
You can already do something like this with smartcards (stick them on a reader/writer), although the data transfer rate and capacity is much lower...
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True, but at least lobbying is transparent and there are rules to it. Those that donate money for an electoral campaign are required to make those donations without strings attached. Of course, there are always strings attached, that's implicit, but if somebody tries to coerce a politician into doing something, that's as illegal as bribery in other countries.

In functional democracies, making bribing illegal works, in theory at least, but in semi-functional democracies like the countries from Eastern Europe where oligarchies happen, dirty politicians are untouchable and mass media is owned by the rich that are part of the ruling parties. Basically, if a politician is bribed, at most you'll only hear rumours and nothing else will happen. And if some big-profile case does indeed happen, those involved will just keep a low profile until the public forgets about it and then you'll see them back in the next elections. There is no real opposition either. They fight against each other only on TV. Note that I was born and still living in Romania. It's not so bad here as I describe it, but not that far either.

The real underlying problem in every country is of course that the public is so freaking stupid, lacking long-term memory and being easily swayed by electoral alms.
Yeah, that's totally reasonable. Just tell people to torrent a couple of terabytes, then sift through the pictures on their hard drive, using only the file system to guide them. The hardware cost is probably several hundred pounds and the download should take about two weeks if they've got a good broadband connection.

But, hey, you cut out the evil evil American company Flickr (boo), so everybody's better off.
I don't want to built a SteamMachine, I want to buy one.

Now, hear me out. I got into computing in the late 80s. The first computer in our house was a serious one, an IBM PC clone in 1985. It had a short stay, but in 1988 we got an AT&T 6300 8086 and a 2400 baud (lightning fast) modem. In middle school I was coding databases in Turbo Pascal, by 1996 I was making websites (one of which is still up), palmtop apps in the early 2000s, running Linux, etc. I've built many computers, done some electronics projects, etc.

Now I'm in my mid 30s and the last thing in the world I want to do is spec out and put together a gaming PC. When consoles finally got Good Enough, I was overjoyed - I didn't have to deal with the all the crap inherent to PC gaming anymore. Memory problems, graphics card issues, driver issues, poorly designed input, etc. I moved from PCs to consoles because when I play games, I want to pop in a storage device and I want it to work flawlessly every time. I don't want to source parts, spec them out, find deals, etc. I just want it to work.

My current work computer is a year and a half old, the one that it replaced was purchased in 2008. That's how I like it. It might not be the latest and greatest, but the value of not having to care about it not being the new hotness is, to me, quite tangible.
Ask HN: Any thoughts on this?
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What sort of "we never meant to release this" feature would get merged into stable tree and even get into the production builds that get shipped on the actual retail hardware?

I thought if feature's meant to be solely experimental it'd just sit in a separate feature branch.
In which case they'd find themselves sued if they pulled that on me, and that's the approach everyone should take to that kind of customer hostility.

Small claims courts / magistrate court filings are cheap pretty much everywhere, and does not require a lawyer. But it would tie up some exec and someone at their law firm for enough time that it'd be a loss for them whether they in or lose.

And in the EU at least they'd also face a near guaranteed loss in most countries if they tried to punish a customer for taking advantage of their rights to return a product that did not work as advertised.
How big is the entire collection?
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Possibly related: http://priceonomics.com/mattresses/
"Every nation gets the government it deserves" -Joseph de Maistre

If (enough) people really wanted it to be different, it would be.
More like two connections plus a ton of short circuits...
I suggest caring less about code being "bad".
Uruguayan here.

About the populist act: the presidential palace itself was not used as a homeless shelter, just the barbecue (has a roof) (that is kind of "luxurious" for the poor standards of living down here)

If you're planning to move, please note that we have a state that charges you 23% of taxes on ALL products and services, plus a 20% to 35% of taxes over your earnings.
And what you get for free if you're middle class? nothing, you just pay for lower class benefits.
Also real state is crazy, properties on the nicest neighborhoods (nice for the standards here obviously) cost more than an apartment in Manhattan.

Everything has a ton of taxes because upper class must support lower class.
The problem with that wonderful idea is that lower class gets now a lot of benefits for free, and they don't want to work more to get out of lower class and start paying to help other lower class citizens obviously.

Since Mujica is the president more and more stuff is getting taxes to help his social help strategies, making worker class people flee the country.

I won't be worried about working and paying taxes if some of that is reflected around in the country, but all the money goes to pay state employees or health care to unemployed people (health care system which is about to collapse) or the state retirement system (since there's lower and lower workforce this one will collapse in a few years too).
If you want to buy anything imported, you got a huge tax over that too.
For example cars have 100% of taxes, if you buy a car for 10k in other places here it costs 20.

Public spaces are dirty as hell, and the level of security is very low (you can get mugged because somebody wants your sneakers).

Mujica may have good ideas, but the execution is very poor and the outcome is terrible.
He is the kind of guy who fixes the world chatting on a bar, not a president.

my 2 cents
Scott Adams is obviously very intelligent. Most people are taken aback by his confrontational net-persona. However, if you try to look at this persona as something constructed, as a fun project, and as a tool to drive traffic to his blog, you can see the brilliance.

Yes, he has covered just about any extreme position you can imagine. He's gone to anti-feminism caves, to anti-religion deserts, to abortion hell and recently dived into the "I viscerally hate anti-euthanasia people". So what? He raises valid points, and he raises them in a fashion that drives traffic to his blog, therefore maximizing the probability of discussion. As a side effect, he weeds out from the discussion those people who are not rational enough to see his extremist position as fabricated, and who respond emotionally. Win-win.

He's a dialectic genius.
Debian with EULA? Hell no...
I believe people buy CoD to compete online.

When I played it, that's what it did for me. It was replacing other competitive outlets (pool, poker).

If that's not what it's about, I'm not sure what it is about. Most people I knew didn't even play through the story. Just endless leveling in multiplayer, only to reset it when you finished.
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You are correct, those people are not 'savvy' if they are just spending 1000s to make a couple extra bucks.

However, I need to buy groceries, I'm sure you do to. Are you getting 6% cash back?

I don't live in a big city and require a car which requires gas. 5% cash back there

I sure do buy a bunch of the things off Amazon and get 3% there

Then you have 2% for your everything else bucket and 5% in those rotating categories cards

There is a reason Coin was invented: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6733615

I'm not buying anything I wouldn't and I am getting easily over $1500 in total cash back each year. To me that is being savvy when you purchase something you need at the expense of very little effort.

Anywho, like I said, when I old enough to have credit cards we were already in the state of rewards. You can take "advantage" of it or not, either way you are (or were until this law goes in) paying the same as everyone else. $1500 isn't exactly making me rich, but why not take it while you can?

I'm certainly not going to use a rewards card if it costs me more net money in the future.

technically you can get more than 3% with Amazon but involves converting points to giftcards or something and I'm too lazy :P
They are working on streaming games from a windows pc to a steambox. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream
In addition to all convention others have mentioned, I expect a lot of oddities have to do with hacks to make justification and spacing perfectly uniform. The 42-line Bible font was composed of well over 200 unique characters.
Or drag them in front of a magistrate and watch them try to explain why they think it is acceptable to scam people by selling a product that does not work as expected.

The reason they have these policies in the first place is because so few people stand up for themselves in these situations.
Since the production of cocaine shifted more southwards to satisfy the always needy users of the Western nations after it became harder and harder to produce in Colombia all countries in the region have rising problems with security.
Average income, average net wealth and now average inheritance. I'm sure that numerically literate HN readers understand why these numbers are misleading. Especially when you use them to compare America to other countries.

Arithmetic mean does not give you look into life of average American. Median should be used instead.
Seems to be #1 of the global threats to humankind...
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It is interesting that "make it legal or else we'll break the law and do it illegally at a greater cost to society" works for politicians and not for drug users.
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You do realize that there's a difference between an object with identity (ddd names it entity) and the one without it (ddd names it value object).

No matter what you do, identity does not change. You commiting a crime yesterday was an event that included you as an object with identity and today you have the same identtiy so you are clearly responsible for what you did yesterday.

GUARDS! :P
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I think this is a big part of the different views of democracy between the US and Europe. Should the laws themselves be the reflection of the will of the people, or should the way those laws are enforced be a reflection of the will of the people?

Personally I believe enforcement should be neutral and unbiased, whereas the creation of those laws are the realm of politics and where the will of the people should count. The US clearly has the opposite opinion.

Personally I think that leads to arbitrary and unreliable enforcement, justice only for the majority (or even the rich).
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But... putting a man on Mars takes a good chunk of his life for no gain to anyone. Why not "first country to build a 700-foot traditional stone pyramid"? "First country to paint 30% of its land area blue"?
Looks similar to Lumosity.com

Read the science on this, it's not yet fully conclusive about what benefits come from these types of training.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/do-brain-games...
It's funny how people blame the language when they are the ones who made a mess. :)

On the other hand, there are languages that make it easier for you to screw it up and the ones that try to prevent that.

But there's no bullet proof language.
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Ask HN: Where to find Free/Open Source (low-level) remote jobs?
Hi fellow hackers,

I am seriously thinking about leaving my current development job (which is
mostly writing open source code on Linux in C.)

I just see that it is not getting me closer to doing what I would love to ie.
working on lower-level problems like networking stacks, linux kernel, embedded,
crypto, virtualization, drivers, codecs etc,. In other terms, hard stuff that
keeps on challenging my mind, instead of just filling my bank account.

My question is: Where can I find remote development jobs in the open source /
linux related space ?

I have a college degree, 1-2 years professional experience programming in C (and
Python), self-motivation and discipline to work harder and experience with home
office setup. However, I just happen to live outside the US (and Europe.) where
most of the interesting jobs are located.

I am open for contracts, part-time, full-time or any other format as long as the
work deals with (low-level) open source software and (at least occasionally)
being good and giving back to the community.

Edit: I have checked boards like WeWorkRemotely and Wfh.io but so far, most of the gigs are web (front-end) development and "remote within the us"
> As a non-American, I find it quite absurd that corporations can "donate money" to change a Congressman's opinion on a law, and then support them in Congress when passing new bills.

Let's be clear: Under US law, a corporation cannot donate money to a candidate under any circumstance. They can, however, spend money independently of a candidate, for example, to produce newspaper or documentary, write and publish a book, hire a billboard, produce and air an ad, etc.

On the other hand, in Australia, Germany, the UK, corporations can make unlimited donations directly to politicians.

My, that does sound absurd.

(Really, I'm not sure what's worse: Your lack of understanding of how US law works, or your lack of understand of how non-US law works. You may understand how your local election laws work, but the world is a big place. Sweeping statements just make you look silly.)
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"This article relies largely or entirely upon a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources."

We may as well find some better-quality writing about the one author's idea, rather than using an article from the Encyclopedia That Any Point-of-View-Pusher Can Edit™ as a coatrack to open up a discussion on Hacker News. Hacker News can be a community in which people use much better sources than most Wikipedia articles (I am a Wikipedian, so I have seen the sausage made) if we let it be.
That's why you build multi-billion dollar corporation. If you see cool stuff on the internet you can just go and buy a company that makes it.
I lived in Uruguay for almost a year, before moving on to Paraguay.

When I left Uruguay 2.5 years ago, applying for residency was changing a bit. Apparently, nowadays, you need to show you have "enough income to support yourself". The people I know say that's usually around $1500/month. Also, expect it to take at least 18 months to finally complete your residency. It took over 2 years for some people I knew. However, you can still live there while your application is in process (no visa runs needed).

If you've been reading anything that says it's "cheap" to live in Uruguay, it's probably several years out of date. Inflation seemed to be around 15% a year. Personally, I was spending about $2000-2500/month to live there by myself, and I wasn't living extravagantly (other than living in a decent neighborhood).

Uruguay doesn't manufacture much of anything, and imported goods have a 60% duty, along with the standard 21% IVA (Value Added Tax). So, electronics are about twice the price of what you'd pay in the US.

It's also not a very entrepreneurial place. There is some software development there, which can have some tax advantages. But prepare yourself for a very bureaucratic place, where things don't move quickly, and taxes/fees are high.

Uruguay may be a place you'd end up loving, but if you base your views about it on what you've read from International Living's website, you're going to be in for a big shock.