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I'm currently playing Dark Souls under Windows (I bought it during a Steam sale some days ago), and don't understand this. When the game launches it needs and account in "Games for Windows Live". I created an offline (local) profile without any trouble. Honestly, I don't know if my saved games are going to the cloud or not, but the game is working and I didn't have to sign up for any service or give an email address.

Here's a short (less than one minute) video on how to create a local profile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_jRZ_Sic4k
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it is however a really good question - not just good on him, but inspiring to us all.
Isn't the problem that in most real-world problems, the optimization function is never convex? At least in many Machine Learning problems (e.g. optimizing a neural network), it will not be convex.
I think the badge is. I've seen it on two cars so far in Palo Alto.
healthcare and education in your country aren't free - they are paid for by high taxes on the middle class
Hehe, when I started reading I was very appreciative of the fact I was prewarned by the "DESIGN CONCEPT" lettering.
Yet there are DirectX state trackers in Gallium3D. I doubt that Gallium developers are drunk all the time.
> If you don't trust me on this, that's fine.

For the third time (might just be the charm), you contradict yourself, it's not that I don't trust you it's that you're internally inconsistent.
300 to be precise.
Not at all - a "socialist" system involves doubling taxes
On the middle class - that's really tough to sell to....the middle class, shockingly
Much better, the biggest remaining problem is that all annotations disappear when the "add annotation" button is clicked for one paragraph.. Then when you scroll away, you'd think there are no annotations at all!
As long as they aren't giving you refunds for games that don't, yeah, it's their duty to make sure that games which are technically unreliable don't make it to the store. Either that, or hand out refunds.
Lets not forget about the shitload of unsolved security vulnerabilities in the v8 engine used by node.js

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224/...
The Steam Store has been around longer than the iOS App Store. I guess that's why I was hoping for a discussion about the OS that came out today. I guess we can just talk about the OS some other time.
If that were the case, to 'make an ask' would in this case mean to make the cookie, which it doesn't.

It seems like 'ask' is a verb, not a noun - in which case it is synonymous with 'request'.

People seem to be arguing that it's a 'more specific' form of 'request', but I can't really see how you could make a nonspecific request.

Edit: Ha! I even confused myself... 'Ask' here is indeed a noun - like 'request' when used as a noun - but it still seems to refer to be entire request, not just the object (which is the point I was trying to make).
This is the link to Wildcat video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g#t=69 , one of the product of Boston dynamics.
I have no idea what are you talking about. Infinity Ward put out Ghosts; they also put out MW2 and MW3.[1] TreyArch is not in charge of Ghosts, if they were it would not be so awful. I used to be a die-hard CoD fan and then IW rolled out the turd that was MW3. I played BF3 that year and I am playing BF4 this year.

I don't remember World at War being very "AFY." What parts of WaW did you think were bad?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Ward#Games
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Besides RoboVM [1], there are also other solutions, like Codename One [2] that's based on XMLVM [3], or Avian [4] which is a new and very promising lightweight VM that can also compile code to native. And there's also J2ObcC [5] a compiler that's being developed and used by Google to share code between Android and iOS.

You know, Java can be many things, but you can't beat its ecosystem ;-)

[1] http://www.robovm.org/

[2] http://www.codenameone.com/

[3] http://xmlvm.org/overview/

[4] http://oss.readytalk.com/avian/

[5] http://code.google.com/p/j2objc/
Alright. Go ahead and test that. Have your machine connect through a proxy, leave it open for a day, see what you get
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The situation is that hiring is determined by managers, that is to say people who define success as moving into management as quickly as possible. They see someone who hasn't "made it" in a long career of remaining hands-on and by their value system that person is a failure.
> Because people don't buy CoD for the single player campaign they buy it for the multiplayer.

I assume 'people' means a majority. While I'm not privy to statistics specifically for CoD, one of the first games I worked on (Unreal Tournament 2004) was explicitly focused on multiplayer. It didn't even have a single-player campaign. You could play versus bots and that was about it. In spite of that, comparing sales with server data showed that only a small minority of our customers ever went online, let alone played predominantly online. I'd be surprised if CoD wasn't skewed even further in that direction considering its extensive single-player campaign.
This is somewhere where android fragmentation is truly an issue. iOS didn't have granular switchable permissions a couple of versions ago but as the OS moved forward so did the apps.
For many machine learning problems you can find an equivalent problem which is convex. This seems to be the method of choice for dealing with things like Support Vector Machines. Many academics seem to dislike neural networks because of how easy it is to get stuck in local minima and how hard it is to say anything useful about the result. This won't happen with techniques based on convex optimization.

Outside of machine learning solving a convex relaxation of a discrete optimization problem and then trying to round the result is one of the standard techniques in optimization. This is used all over the place, from straightforward linear relaxations for ILPs through the semidefinite relaxations of problems such as max cut. You start with an intractable problem, embed it into a tractable problem and use the result to gain information about the solutions to your original problem.
"It is now possible to configure the number of concurrent requests served by each of your app's dynamic instances ..."

Wow! This is huge!

I wonder if other platforms (Java, PHP, Python) will also get this. Go is wickedly fast, starting up and instance as well as serving a request. And now that an instance scales to much more concurrent requests it even scales fantastically. Awesome.

EDIT I just saw in the documentation that Java can do this as well! Our main business runs Java on App Engine and I never heard about this ... odd.
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The thing is, anyone who plays CoD for a reasonable amount of time (and I know I did, until MW1) spends half the time killing Americans, because the single player is only a footnote compared to the multi player.
Check Rackspace and DeviantArt, I recall they had remote positions.
Are you incorporated or acting as a freelancer?
> What you are saying is indeed a common conventional wisdom opinion taught in grade school. Thus, people who believe differently might do so because they've thought more about it than an 8-year-old. Perhaps they've looked into the history or the economics of the situation.

Congratulations on that cheap blow suggesting there's something childish and immature about understanding history, government and law.

> With or without government to enforce your rights, you can make it hard for people to take stuff away - and even in a government based system we expect you to do that to some degree. You can lock stuff up - put it behind walls and gates. You can guard it yourself. You can get a dog. You can ask or pay other people to guard it. You can install streaming security cameras to help identify miscreants. You can pay private patrols.

You do realize that this means only the rich and powerful can defend their property, right? You create a system of might makes right, with the rich and powerful as substitute government. And if you lack the power to defend your property from those more powerful than you, you need the protection form someone who does, which leads to feudalism. Feudalism can certainly work, but it's not preferable to the rule of law, with justice for rich and poor alike.
It's still called Infinity Ward, but it was completely torn up and reconstructed in 2010, in between MW2 and MW3, really a completely different company after that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Ward#Dismissal_of_sen...
I seriously recommend you read on on the Gutenberg bible. It's arguable that without it we wouldn't have printed books, or wouldn't have had them until much much later.

It was the "killer app" of the printed word.

Think of the information dissemination that became possible because of this, the increase in human empowerment and knowledge.

It's an incredibly important artefact of our collective history and culture.
That's why trying to reduce ethics to a few words is.. tricky.

> Ethics are not reducible to lexicography.

Nor is anything else, which was kind of my whole point.
This is the first time I am really discontent that I can not downvote yet. you stink.
Good to see someone heating up the space race again. Hope to see awesome retaliations from other agencies.
Just because the company has the same name, that doesn't mean it's the same. When all the heads of the company and half the employees (including lead designers) leave at the same time and the company is "fully reconstructed", the fact that they kept the name is irrelevant.

That said, I suppose it's not Treyarch's doing, it's just Activision doing what it does best.
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Idea for improvement:

Add an e-ink display and show the contents of the "readme.md" located on the stick.
Listening to notch umming, ahhing and changing stuff at random in a desperate effort to get his program to work makes me feel so much better about my own (similar) programming process.
This works! I tried it and was able to see my DM in the DM window.
If I'm not explaining it properly, see the test and work it out yourself. Touch & pointer events happen before double tap (and can prevent it) click happens after all those and can be prevented.
It's incredible how many of my colleagues work with Matlab.

Many enjoy the high integration of the environment. Thus it's somehow predestined for prototyping. I'm not sure if Octave can compete, considering the GUI features. However, python, especially ipython, is a real alternative to me. In fact, I use ipython for my prototyping which evolves into Fortran for the following implementation on the high performance cluster late on.

As one of the other commenters mentioned, Boyd or -- more likely -- his PhD/u/grads wrote CVX, so I'm not sure how much this course allows you to implement and play with ideas presented using python instead of Matlab.
I believe there was some typo or deviation of the regular format in the functional design once or twice, which I fixed by hand. There was also a clear error in the logic specified in the design, which I was required to implement anyway. I pointed it out, explained them how it should be, and it took a remarkable amount of bureaucracy and responsibility dodging to get it fixed, but it was no problem for my work.

Generally after generating the big amount of code, I still checked everything manually and added the needed boilerplate. It's just the initial generation of hundreds of if-then blocks to build texts that I automated.
The problem is, that if you tried to take a PC game back for being faulty at a GAME/Gamestop brick and mortar shop, more often than not, they will only give you a replacement game of the same title. If it's faulty because of software bugs, probably the BEST you could get is store credit, and only after you've shouted at everyone for a while.

It is GAME's policy in the UK to NEVER refund/allow returns of PC games after they've been opened because of piracy, and quite frankly, is exactly the same reason Steam have their own similar policies in place.

If you don't like it, buy console games.
I was hoping that it would have a "streaming only" mode, with much lower hardware requirements. I have a decent spec gaming machine in the study, and a low spec HTPC in the living room that I was hoping I could just stick Steam OS on and stream from the study machine.
I'm a really big fan of having inspiration like this to start learning a new language. I'm happy he choose Dart over Java for a change of pace.
> Node is pervasively asynchronous

Personally I view that as a drawback. It's all fine, until you end up with CPU-bound tasks or until you end up talking with backend servers that don't support many concurrent requests.

The JVM support for multi-threading is absolutely stellar. You've got true 1:1 kernel-level threading, with no GILs and you've got access to the best primitives available for dealing with multi-threading issues, atomic references, re-entrant read-write locks, fork-join thread-pools, non-blocking data-structures, asynchronous I/O guaranteed to work well cross-platform, all of them backed by a guaranteed memory model that also works well cross-platform, plus garbage-collectors that are the most advanced garbage collectors in mainstream usage. G1/CMS are amazing for servers and if you've got cash to spend, Azure's pauseless GC is probably as close to real-time as you can get with a GC.

And on top of these you can build whatever concurrency handling architecture you want. Including Erlang-style Actors (e.g. Quasar, Akka), STM (Clojure, Scala-STM), persistent data-structures (Clojure, Scala), asynchronous streams (Play2's Iteratees, RxJava Observables, Scalaz Machines, Scalaz Streams).

Even when speaking of Node.js's strengths, like asynchronous I/O, I still think Java is better because of the foundations (e.g. NIO, Netty, Mina). The only reason people don't work much with asynchronous workflows is because the language is so freaking painful for that. But that will change with Java 8 and people are doing wonders in Scala/Clojure.

I've personally built an entire web-service, designed to handle thousands of requests per second per frontend instance, with responses generated in under 30ms, with a completely asynchronous workflow, on top of Scala/Akka/Play2. Node.js people don't know what they are missing.
Yes!

For instance, a very simple example: When you travel from A to B you sometimes can reach that destination in the same time using different paths. "Same", in the sense of a certain threshold or uncertainty considering Real World (TM) applications. Furthermore, there can be constructed academic problems, where you have an infinite amount of solutions. Say, traveling from the north to the south pole in shortest time over the surface of a perfect globe.
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You suppose its not 3arch's doing? What else do you need to see to be convinced?
If GAME wont give you a refund, you issue a chargeback on your credit card to get your money back.
There are robot stories by Asimov that explore a lot of these questions. The Three Laws were a basis for storytelling more than anything.
That's actually what the people at Valve did (GDC 2013): https://developer.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/akamai/game...

Performance improved as a result. The number they give is ~20%. The other nice thing was that you could use D3D10+ on Windows XP...
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Ask HN: How do you measure your software dev productivity?
As a software developer, when you create tools to play around with data, in one form or the other, it does become important to measure one's own productivity.

There are several tools as rescuetime, harvestapp etc. that tell you how much time you wasted/utilized doing what, but then if your code editor is open they say the time was productive.

Your code editor being the main window, is by no means a measure of the productivity. Couple of parameters that I have thought are -

1. No. of lines of code that you write.

2. No. of features that you have implemented.

3. No. of bugs that you have solved.

4. And the list can go on.

But each of the above are pretty subjective terms, and are not a good measure.

Just curious how people measure their software development efficiency.

Thanks for reading it.
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I'm really confused...
I remember feeling the same watching a lisper (who I always assume being uber flawless gurus) being confused about something trivial.
How's your business going with this approach? I actually suspect your reasoning here is correct, but I'm always curious to find out how a business is faring using this customer-friendly approach.
I like FPS games but I dislike those that have realistic or even historical features; I prefer futuristic (PS2, firefall) or fancy (TF2, Sauerbraten) ones. I find it plain disturbing to pretend to be a real soldier in a real war.
If everyone works on the same project, there's only so much work to go around. If no one wants to work on something, it's probably a sign that it's not worth doing.
Always wondered; if there is a god, is stuff like this a demonstration of his contempt for humanity or proof that he does indeed have a sense of humor?

Anyway, thanks for posting, it was hilarious.
Sure, the president can't. But since the size of the country is much larger, there's the governors and mayors of large cities which govern about as many people as the head of Uruguay and I'm fairly certain that each of those has a "palace" about as big as the presidential palace in Uruguay, a motorcade, a security detail larger than 2 armed guards and neither of them showed up on a vespa after elected or - for that matter - any time at all.
As I said I am a long time fan of the franchise, so I'm fully aware of the history. I think MW2 (aka pre-restructuring) was where IW lost their way. There is a giant difference in the gameplay/feel of MW2/MW3/Ghosts compared to BO1&2. It is really strange how easy it is to tell whose year it was to put out the CoD release.
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Actually it happens all the time: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(word_formation)

Relevant: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25
It is a very good idea. If the tags are visible and pleasing it might take off!
That's not true. I was one of the idiots who bought it on release day but I eventually got a (Steam credit) refund after a lot of back and forth. And there were several other people on the Egosoft forums who got a refund as well.
Which often doesn't end well.
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

"Within a year they had two demonstration projects that got a lot of media attention. The first was an autonomous humanoid robot that, given an apartment number, could walk through a city, find the building, ride the elevator or walk up the steps and knock on that apartment door. The second was a car that could drive itself door-to-door in rush hour traffic without any human intervention. By combining the walking robot and the self-driving car, the researchers demonstrated a completely robotic delivery system for a pizza restaurant. In a widely reported publicity stunt, the research team ordered a pizza and had it delivered by robot to their lab 25 minutes later."
The flip side of that coin is that poorly paid elected officials are much easier to bribe.

In the US Congress (& even Presidents) view elected office as a stepping stone to a better paid corporate retirement. Look at how much Clinton gets paid to speak at Goldman Sachs' events.
It's been ten years since Shirky wrote/said this, and sometimes it's worth re-visiting to see how what he said is or is not still relevant to the on-line communities today. How do his observations stack up against Reddit, HackerNews, and others? What is still true, what has been seen to be false, and what has changed?

If you're going to build an on-line community today, is it still important to take this into account?
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Your parliamentary debate chamber looks like an overgrown classroom though. Quite austere I thought.
I thought the pandering to the underbelly ideology would only be celebrated among the reddit crowd. Sad to see that hn has been increasingly infected with these ideas as well.

Sure, I am all for supporting the homeless and needy, but come on, re-purposing the presidential residence as a homeless shelter? That is the epitome of a populist gesture!

If he is the president, he should act like a president, dress like a president and live like a president. I, at least, would want my country be represented among equals.

Inviting over other heads of states to your two bedroom apartment in the suburbs might be cute if you are pandering to certain segments of the voting population. But unless he wants to become the Mother Teresa of international politics this is just a joke.
They just finished a round a couple of weeks ago. Seems to come up every couple of months.

Maybe you're just not getting notifications?
No mention of GreaseMonkey? I'd put it at number one, simply because it gives you a way to write extensions that run on every browser with a *Monkey compatibility layer. Half the stuff I use is just userscripts.
> Status-4-Evar

Status-4-Evar is a nice little helper:

" ... status bar was removed in Firefox 4.0. ... Status-4-Evar aims to bring back (some of) the old status bar items, give you more control over the built-in Firefox features, and provide new alternatives."

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/
Do you even know where the parent poster is living?

Since healthcare in _my_ "socialist" (from a USA point of view) country certainly isn't generally paid for by taxes but by insurance fees. (Exception: the unemployed are covered by social security, which is an insurance system partially backed from the tax pool)

The only "socialist" part here is that they make it hard to avoid the system (that is, leech off from others when you eventually get sick and end up in the ER, incurring costs higher than your net worth)
Not sure why the ideal world is one where veterans become executives. Military service is pretty explicitly an escape hatch path from lower-class to middle-class. From a market perspective, making the rewards too high might actually destroy this essentially necessary social purpose via competition.
Google really is building Skynet, isn't it? And the Terminators, too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD6Okylclb8
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It's interesting to read Gutenberg's lifestory in the context of this. A man on a mission, relying on several investors to create what most deem essentially as the last millenium's greatest invention. After he launched, the investors kicked him out and he lived his last years in relative obscurity.
He got redeemed in later years, though.
Yeah, it does seem a bit weird to "make an ask" if the ask is the object.

As to the "more specific" bit, I think people mean it has a slightly different meaning than a request.
It "often doesn't end well"? It hasn't ever happened!

Stories about it often end in a way that makes for a good story. That's not saying the same thing at all.
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Slick, although I found it a bit simplistic. Funny how these things work, just a few days ago I uploaded a mockup for a similar idea (but with lots more options). It doesn't "work" but you can see all the steps in it if you want: http://cofounderagreement.com