skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh it's getting even more interesting!

Do you have any plan to add hygienic macro and coroutines? AFAIK, coroutines were always supported in traditional Smalltalk, but if you're based on objc runtime, it may not possible. So I am asking this.
I don't disagree with you, nor do I have any problem with creating constitution-level changes that would in principle bind governments in similar ways. I just think these are two different issues, and a win on either one of them is still a win, even if the other one is still a problem.
Or, perhaps, it's easier for someone of means to emigrate to a country where they can earn more money than it is for someone with few means to emigrate to a country where they would be better off.
Makes sense, thanks for your answer :)
Ahh that is a subtle but useful distinction. Didn't pick up on that in mdn. Thanks for the tip.
The effect on bullying is likely minimal - in my school, everyone could do whatever they wanted and there were still plenty of assholes that made life hell.
Actually, the effect is much more exaggerated than you are suggesting. According to Tim Rogers, the mythical average player pays $1.70, but it's really made of 95% of people who spend $0, and a power-law-esque distribution of people who spend >$0 to hundreds or thousands of dollars.[1] Most of the money is made off of "whales." Technically he's talking about social games and not mobile games, but it would be surprising if the economics were significantly different given that the mechanic (pay to make things go faster) is identical.

1: http://insertcredit.com/2011/09/22/who-killed-videogames-a-g...
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Developer @ appear.in here. I've been following this thread today, answering some questions and reporting bugs back to the team. I would just like to say a big and sincere thank you for this comment. I just posted it to our internal mailing list. In all honesty, feedback like yours truly make our day, motivates us, and makes us work even harder to create a kickass service. So again, thank you!
Not to mention in an arcade you're playing on someone else's machine, using their electricity, their space, their air conditioning, and occupying a spot that could be used by another customer. It's very much not the same thing as playing a game on my own phone.

Comparing that to IAPs is like justifying a coffee maker that makes me put in $4 for every cup because that's what it costs at Starbucks.
Considering that it's generally harder (legally speaking) to migrate to a rich country than to a poor country only strengthens my point.
From a financial perspective there is a lot more downside to "no rules".

Imagine a child dying from hanging in the "lynching game". When teachers are asked if they knew about they said yes, but there are no rules.

Even if it underestimates the effect of bullying (which I'm skeptical about), it certainly puts the school at much more risk for easy lawsuits.
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ah nice , similar to what I expected. Its also very nice to see a new way of doing things. I will have to look more deeply into your implementation. I really hope you keep up with this and not abandon it. I would love to have an objective C alternative.

Is there support "out of the box" for obj c libraries , or wrappers will be needed to do so ?

I see you support the to: message for loops, is there also a do: message for iterations ? I really prefer it instead of for loops :)

I see the syntax really looks like smalltalk and that for me is a huge plus compared to Objective C, well done and as I said I really hope you keep working on this. I am definitely going to try it :)
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No it doesn't. And it's quite laughable that you seem to be calling Germany and Sweden poor countries.
That sounds awfully like Popcap games, with Plants vs Zombies...

PvZ 2 was a total waste on me. I hesitated a long time before downloading it, and only did so because the reviews said you could play through the whole thing without buying anything. I played it until I got bored, and spent nothing. Throughout, I retained a vague sense of annoyance at the purchasable upgrades.

I would happily have shelled out £10, maybe £15 to play it (and my wife and my mom would both have done so too), and would have played it through without any sense of annoyance. Result? Popcap game annoyed me despite all the effort they put into building a great game, and left £45 on the table.

If their conclusion from that is to double down on IAPs, then quite simply they are saying they don't want users like me and my family, but want, as the second "Dungeon Keeper" iPad review from TFA, "fuckwits". Sorry, I don't buy games for fuckwits.

I look forward, with little hope, to a PvZ 3 with no IAPs but a good upfront price.
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Sure! Gaming is definitely a bigger world. I suppose games that are being made for "steady progressionists" also are those with "and here's a cash money way of ensuring the steady progression, so you don't have to work too hard".

That seems to short circuit the reward for playing.

Example: Angry Birds is has their Eagle that beats a map for you. Beating a map unlocks another map. Assuming a steady progression, being able to buy your way past a map removes any requirement that the game designer creates a steadily ramping progression, and instead encourages them to put up as many "little roadblocks" as possible.
I agree with you. However, most consumers just play the free part and then move on to the next game. Everyone's busy, and there are so many games to try!

Sadly I find myself feeling the same way (as a consumer). I don't really want to pay > $5 for a game. Yet, I don't like microtransactions... so I generally just play the free part of a game until I get bored and move on.
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What would be the point of penetrating YC? There isn't much useful intelligence to gain from a startup accelerator. Things might change now that there are a lot of foreigners in the program, but even then, it's a relatively small group of people.

As much as people on this site like to think they're important, I highly doubt that anyone here (with the exception of the infrastructure/security people) matters enough to the intelligence community for anything more than your run-of-the-mill passive wiretapping/eavesdropping that all Americans are being subjected to.
Although I agree with you, as others have pointed out you're selling IRC short for certain use cases. Language or domain specific channels are great for getting rapid responses to well thought out queries.

> To me, IRC has always been a "grapevine" tool, where etiquette, social pecking orders and gossip are shared amongst a smallish close-knit social circle. IRC always feels more like a social scene, and a distraction.

This is certainly a problem is many IRC channels, but I have no idea what to do about it. One thing that is annoying is watching interesting conversation get disintegrated by the regulars taking over to talk about banal everyday topics like what they're currently eating or just ate, etc. If you hang out in any room for long enough you're likely to experience the "I've been here since..." pissing contest.

IRC is still massively useful though. Don't sell it so short.

Edit: I forgot to mention that IRC is also a base for lots of open source project collaboration. Look at the mozilla irc network for an example. Getting rapid responses to check your assumptions is really helpful if you have to touch an unfamiliar section of the code base for a patch.
They could still allow free apps, for FLOSS software and glorified web browsers.
Scaloid 3.2 is released
While you provide some solid arguments, I feel that you are overlooking certain key elements. I myself feel that the likelihood of Argentina switching to BTC after its upcoming financial collapse is quite low. However I feel that certain niche sectors of the economy could well jump to using BTC.

The points that you overlook are:
[1] The USD is currently being deflated like never before and could potentially collapse without warning. Thus making it increasingly unattractive to hold over long periods.
[2] Argentina's online economy has recently suffered a huge blow with taxes for online purchases outside of the country. BTC is already becoming the international 'money of the internet'.
[3] Most importantly, Bitcoin volatility has been decreasing over time as the price & adoption increases. This is something that shouldn't be overlooked as it has huge implications for the pricing of goods and services in BTC.
[4] Finally, there are many ways to do fast transactions in BTC. Have you ever tried sending BTC from one android wallet to another? It comes through instantly. Granted that larger BTC transfers would still require more confirmations though. Off-blockchain transaction services could also kickoff soon.
[1] http://mises.ca/posts/blog/murdoch-tweets-about-money-printi...
[2] http://www.npr.org/2014/01/23/265195791/argentina-imposes-he...
[3] http://elidourado.com/blog/bitcoin-volatility/
[4] http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/11602/how-does-bi...
Do they have public numbers on how much they make with this model?
> I'm sure that would probably result in less money overall for Google and Apple, so it would never happen, but if customer expectations were at a higher price point, maybe the developer options would increase.

Given Apple & Google take a flat 30% of money coming in, if they get less money, that means developers are also getting less money. So I don't know how that would increase developer options.
BigQuery in Practice: Loading Data Sets That are Terabytes and Beyond
I wouldn't mind hearing a snippet of that discussion. Why would MS regret XMLHttpRequest?
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Why is that not the most lucrative path?

That seems to be the most lucrative path by far. There are always more whales that make serving the 99% of players worthwhile.
His computer was infected after clicking a (bogus) LinkedIn invitation of a non-existent employee of the European patent office.

Just goes to show how effective phishing attacks are. If a professor of cryptography does not check SSL certificates, far less people do so than we think.
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I don't mind trying to come up with less boilerplate syntax, but how does the reader of the code know when something is a HOM or a normal message?
The above example is valid syntax in existing Smalltalk, a Smalltalk developer would interpret it as collect returning a value that would be added to 5. I think this ambiguity is much worse than any advantage compactness might bring.
I wasn't calling Sweden or Germany poor. That would quite obviously be a silly thing to say.

The US, Sweden & Germany are all pretty rich and they all fairly restrictive in terms of how difficult it is to legally migrate to them. I thought that was what you means when you said "it has been tremendously difficult for me to get here" and "it's quite hard to just move to Germany or Sweden if you have no connection to those countries."
Who killed videogames? (a ghost story) [2011]
Ah, but what is the value of 'this' when those handler functions are called?
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