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>And I suspect it's because most of the public don't care either.

I think that may be the effect rather than the cause. Public opinion is shaped to a pretty large degree by what the media tells people to be interested in.

And with the media mostly telling us that it's happening but that's it's not important, it's for our own good and that anyone publishing details about it (like the Guardian) is threatening national security, that's what a lot of people accept as fact.

It makes me angry because this is the exact reason why freedom of the press needs to exist - not to allow papers to publish details of some celeb's romantic life. But it's only the latter that 95% of the press in the UK seem to be prepared to battle to defend.
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Oh wow. Minecraft. I have an 8yo boy, so I spend a lot more time thinking about this than I would like.

I think Mojang has it's priorities slightly wrong here. At the moment much of the interesting stuff in Minecraft is done via mods. But the user experience for that is pretty close to pre-Google search: browse through random forums to find links to dodgy download sites that attempt to push malware or porn to you.

Then when you find a working download, you have to install. Inevitably that means clashes with existing mods, and hours trying different versions of things that some random person on a forum claims work.

FFS, I'm a Java programmer, and I can't work out how to make this shit work most of the time.

In my view Mojang should do the following:

Build a working, stable official Mod API, which at least attempts to make it possible to determine if different mods will work together

Implement an in-game app store, and let mod authors sell their mods.

I'd much prefer to spend a dollar on a new mod rather than the horrible, horrible experience it is now.

Rant over..
Now I wonder if their older consumer drives like the X25-M (which used in-house controllers) become read-only instead of bricking themselves.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SS...

X25-M G1 dies at ~883TB written (without TRIM, so in reality much more), also by just failing to be detected.

On the first page of that thread you see an X25-V (40GB) with 1.5PB written and apparently it is still alive as of earlier this year...

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SS...
I believe existing IP law already covers this. Disney still maintains exclusivity over Mickey as one of their trademarks (and will forever). It's the Steamboat Willie shorts themselves that would be going into the public domain when the copyright expires.
>>It wasn’t that the poor participants were doing better; it was that the rich ones were doing worse.

I reminds me of a sentence from a recent study of breastfeeding vs. formula milk - "It's not that natural milk is better for babies - it's that baby formula is worse for the babies".
I don't really care either for Mickey Mouse specifically.

But somehow, I think it is impoverishing what's is added to global culture, and in the long term is self-defeating.

Look at the very bottom of this article, the graph about available books by decade.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/25...

The Twentieth Century has a big hole in the middle, because copyright holders tend to stop publishing what is not profitable enough, but do not release their rights just in case, something could put the book back at the forefront.

In the long run, if Mickey Mouse remains the sole property of Walt Disney, it will disappear with the company, while something entering the public domain has much more chance of being revivified. You just have to look to the Sherlock serie. Again, I don't really care for Mickey Mouse specifically. After all, we can't remember everything and some thing will be forgotten in a century or two. But since the law is the same for everyone, there are plenty of works from the 1940's or 1950's that are languishing unpublished, and could have be made available, especially now with the rise of e-books.
This phenomenon was identified in the academic literature on entrepreneurship some time ago. It is called "effectuation". This site has a decent explanation of why and how it occurs: http://effectuation.org/
Have a look at this Q&A: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5226550/can-i-override-th...
Another thing that amazon can do with a phone is offer better service:

1. It could deploy it's mayday service , to get you a customer support rep on your mobile , which will help you install that TV. Rep would also have access to the phone's camera , so he could "see" the problem.

2. Amazon could develop an augmented reality app to make this process even more efficient and simple. Having 3D augmented reality might also make it simpler and more effective.

3. Combine 1+2 to gain better cost efficiencies in support.

If this succeed, amazon could implement another step in it's mission of being a complete business infrastructure solution.
Following the link on that page to the "translated" version of the new EULA, their reasoning seems to still be "we don’t want our players to be exploited or to have a frustrating time unless they pay." [0] I find a lot of things wrong with this mentality, mostly in that it assumes that the servers that charge for gameplay have some kind of monopoly over the servers. If you don't want to pay for gameplay, just visit another server. You don't have to put up with them. Heck, if you really wanted to you could host your own. The bottom line is you don't need to pay anyone, they're not exploiting you. If you're getting frustrated because they're charging you then that's your own dumb fault for visiting that server and putting up with it. If you want to pay, go ahead, support the server hosts. All of this is under the false assumption that people are being forced into paying, which simply isn't true.

[0] https://mojang.com/2014/06/lets-talk-server-monetisation/
It still doesn't come close to read hardware / single level virtualisation.

3-4K IOP/s is actually pretty poor, for example I have two USB keys that can do 39K IOP/s (given thats at 4K, not 16k) and my laptop has a SSD that does 95K.
Well I'm no lawyer, but one legal theory you could argue is the one from MAI vs Peak. This is the one that holds that loading a computer program into ram for running is a copy that requires permission from the copyright holder. Therefore one would argue that by running this program, they ratified the EULA, or else they blatantly committed copyright infringement, which is probably worse than simple breach of contract.

I know there are lawyers who seem to argue otherwise, for example the GPL states "You are not required to accept this license to receive or run a copy of the program". But I don't know if that statement has any legal basis in general, or if it's just the FSF granting permission to run covered software without accepting the GPL. As far as the US goes, I think it's the latter, but it may be different in other jurisdictions.

I'm not a lawyer, please go hire someone if you really need to know.
I'd be surprised if these aren't already deployed. I visited a logistics trade fair in Stuttgart and was impressed with the concept. That said, it will work for things in the "library" aka small goods, but let's see how they scale these up to deal with pallet sized goods. I've got no doubt they will, though developing these machines will not be cheap.
A document that large must have some kind of a structure that you and your team can use to break it apart into smaller, more manageable chunks. One thing to consider is to place the content into a content management system of kind (a wiki comes to mind) to allow the content to more easily be maintained and grow without the limitations Word creates.

The decision may not have been up to you to keep it all in one Word document but making the case to either break apart the document or find a better system in which to maintain it ought to be easy in the face of the usability issues you mention.
Initial text is in German, form is in English. I don't know how you're picking a language, but stick to it!

Why do you insist names must have at least four letters? Plenty of people have shorter names.
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What does a mod API have to do with the monetisation of servers? Not saying you're incorrect but it doesn't really seem relevant to the story posted.
This is more interesting: http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/06/16/how-a-mining-monopo...
Indifference always gets us in trouble.
The first is basically a rather complicated workflow that is handled for instance with plain text documents in git. I doubt Word can do that (wouldn't know, haven't used it for a long time), after all it's core thing is being a word processor.
Now I didn't read your rant, but ranting that something is a pile of junk and then using a rather far-fecthed missing feature as an example of why it is a pile of junk, as a counter-argument to someone questioning your reasoning, is not proper logic. Can't think of a proper analogy atm, but claiming git is a pile of junk and then coming up with git diff not being able to deal with Word files as one of the reasons would probably come close: it makes no sense.
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I consider myself an educated, well-informed person, and I have no problem whatsoever with government surveillance. Like anything, it can be abused, but I don't think that outweighs the benefits.

I think it's sad that it makes you 'angry' that some people simply disagree with you. We have a democracy, and obviously only a minority consider this to be an issue of concern.

If you have a problem with it, stand for election.
> Then you don't understand why copyright was created.

Just because someone disagrees with you, doesn't mean that they don't understand the issue. Your post would have worked just as well without this line.
No, actually, collaborating in office as compared to google docs or tex + git is hell.
I suspect something much more mundane.

Politicians love to shout about their successes. Only, this government hasn't really got any to shout about, so they're falling back to the old standby that all governments do in situations like this. Wave the flag and be proud to be British.
(Nitpick: Carlos is not a family name. Roberto Carlos is the full given name. His surname is da Silva Rocha).
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Did you have a say on the choice of language? I ask because I remember those posts http://blog.reverberate.org/2009/12/torn-over-c-question.htm...
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Is the modding community not offering enough for you? Just wondering, as it seems quite unusual for such a big hit to have modding encouraged the way minecraft does. (I know that part of this is due to Mojang being an indie studio). Other big studio with big selling franchise are barely having what would be considered as passable ten years ago (yes I am talking about the omni present call of duty x): no dedicated server and no modding capability.

I am more concerned about minecraft being still running on the JVM and being such a slow cow running on a half decent modern hardware when C++ is still the main language for written game engine. You would have thought that in 4 years, a new iteration of the game optimized for rendering and speed would have been made available.

/off-topic

Back on topic, I think Notch is taking this too much at heart and should just ask Mojang to put a huge notice exonerating themselves from private server charging their customers.
> We have a democracy, and obviously only a minority consider this to be an issue of concern.
>
> If you have a problem with it, stand for election.

There must be a name for this kind of fallacy.
I keep folder and files like I would code.

Folder - > class
Files - > functions

This way I keep all my folders concise and relevant.
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Try the resident-rise mod pack (or the yogcast one, based on it) on ATLauncher ( official website for the launcher: http://www.atlauncher.com/)
I wonder if they added the dozenal sigils (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal#Duodecimal_digits_o...) are available on it. Did anyone find them?

Edit: Nope. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2150.pdf
If you have a server that could use some nice monitoring, install newrelic. They'll send you a nice T shirt.
This.

I'm a UK resident and I note that the propaganda machine is running on overdrive. The batshit sheep majority (sorry but it's true at least where I live) of the country is almost calling out for anyone with a beard and a turban to be hung and the armed forces are constantly in focus in the media and in public word. If you look around facebook it's terrifying some of the rants you hear yet at the same time these people are slating the Nazis for their prejudice. It's literally:

"Kill all the muslims", "support our boys", "Nazi's bad m'kay".

I will say that none of these people were alive when the Nazis had their gig. Those who were are suspicious and aware of the consequences of thinking and acting like this.

I too am suspicious of anyone who holds a noose.
Goodbye, Silicon Valley... Hello, London?
I just now realized the double-speak of their name, the Guardian. I thought they guarded the public. Silly me.
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Doffs tin foil hat.

I see this a lot on a variety of forums whenever topics like this come up.

It would be interesting to do an analysis of the age of the average commenter’s account by topic across popular comment type sites.
The military are well drilled in rules of engagement and waiting for fire orders. Far more so than your average bouncer or off-duty police officer. I heartily wish the police force were trained and disciplined like the military, it would remove a lot of the individual variation in responses.
Minecraft does not have an API currently. If you are making mods you are decompiling the original Minecraft java source code, modifying it, and releasing a modified version of their original works.
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Fair enough. I'm definitely just drawing from personal anecdotes and logic for what I think society would do. Just like everyone. Even though studies are done on societies, I personally think it's hard to factor in every important variable. And since most studies these days just skew their data to try and prove a point, it's hard to trust in those either.

I'd be fascinated to see such a model of society, it'd be incredibly helpful in economics, finance, social policy, education, fitness, law, etc, etc.

I suspect if you could make a machine that could predict human behavior that accurately, you'd want to keep it to yourself, while you became unfathomably rich and powerful.

That is why I pointed out colleges as a case study. The thing is, colleges weren't always that way. Sure students have always played pranks or messed around (I think of John Quincy Adams at Harvard getting caught streaking on the lawn drunk), but it's clear that sort of thing was uncommon. Compare that to today, when the only thing that changed is the way society treats college. I'm not sure how we can predict and change things in people's lives enough to make society as a whole take college seriously.

Compare how simple that is to the problem BI is trying to solve: some people can't find work. It boggles the mind contemplating how big an issue that is, and how much we'd have to change people for it to work.
What are these benefits?
This topic deserves a separate entry but cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7900597
> not an Italian expression

It is. It's just a misspelling of "capisci" - second-person singular form of the verb "capire"[1] (to understand).

[1]: http://www.italian-verbs.com/verbi-italiani/coniugazione.php...
In fact, Unger is mixing up various positions of Wittgenstein over several decades. Usually, Wittgenstein is treated as two authors, numbered Wittgenstein I (the author of the tractatus logico-philosophicus) and Wittgenstein II (the author of the Investigations and beyond). Now, the position of rather teaching, was Wittgenstein's position after he thought of having ruled out any questions that would matter to be answered by philosophy (in the tractatus). The Investigations are quite opposed to the project of the tractatus, starting to investigate the production of meaning by language as a social process, dismissing most of the notions of the tractatus. (In other words: While the tractatus was using meaning for asking, if any traces of "the mystic", the spiritual meaning of the world, were to be derived by logic – short answer: No –, the Investigations have an all together other topic, how meaning itself would be derived, contesting the very basis of the tractatus.)

And on metaphysics in general: We have learned so much more from Kant than, say, Da Vinci; what would Unger have to say on engineering? If philosophy isn't about easy answers, it isn't about easy questions, too ...

P.S.: I may be biased, since I've a degree in the field. Yes, there's much crappy philosophy, esp. in the 19th century. But then, there's much crappy software, too. Should we give up programming, just because MS failed again?
I do the same thing - with the extra rule that directory names have their first letter capitalized - and files are always lower-cased.
ToneLoc author here (mthreat), checking in, 20 years after the release of the last version. I didn't manage to avoid the federal prison part, but somehow ended up fine in the end. My path, roughly: BBSes -> saw WarGames -> wannabe hacker -> warez boards (Public Enemy) -> cracking games (learned x86 asm) -> hacking voicemail boxes -> wrote ToneLoc (learned C) -> real hacking -> COSMOS access -> physical hacking (burglary of Southwestern Bell, learned lock picking) -> federal prison -> back to college -> startups -> ... I wouldn't change any of it now.
Me too, but I remember I didn't like when the rules allowed jumping. :)
Ask HN: Best CMS to set up a price comparison website
Hey HN

I am interested in which CMS you would recommend to set up a price comparison site? WordPress/ Magento / Something else.

Needs to be able to list items in price order and have a good search feature to find the most relevant results.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7902924
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Do you have a link to your site that works? Your Twitter one is down.
Thanks for chiming in. It's always great to see the original author show
up in HN threads.

As you've already noticed, HN can be a fairly rough and critical crowd,
often too much so. Though you aimed for a more simple example, by doing
so you made the example more accessible to software programmers without
a hardware background, and hardware engineers without a software
background. I enjoyed your blog post, or I would not have posted it.

Also, with your work on C~ I suspect you are in a great position to
write something excellent about the differences between how parallelism
is approached (hardware versus "common" software). The less frequently
used (but still popular) languages like Haskell, Erlang, Idris, etc. are
really the exception that prove the rule.

I'd also love to see more on C~. As for you not promoting C~ my question
for you is, "Why not?" After all, as a founder you do have a business to
build, and I doubt anyone here would hold that against you. ;)

BTW, since you work between hardware and software, you might enjoy these
recent posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7902817

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7902575

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7899220
The head of GCHQ last year during an inquiry: "If I asked my employees to spy on UK citizens they would walk out...they would quit their jobs"

- Perhaps he should quit.
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I believe it helps ensure security. I don't believe they'd bother doing it if it didn't. I think you're a bit arrogant for assuming they give a fuck what you write to your girlfriend on iMessages.

I know you probably disagree with that, but this is my point - not everyone agrees that surveillance is bad. And I'm not alone - I think most people don't really care about surveillance. And this isn't a conspiracy - it's just a simple case of people not agreeing with you - this happens - get over it.
In the post that awjr links to above the author claims that a Mojang employee has interpreted the previous EULA for them as allowing this ("I personally discussed our rank system with a member of your business team at Minecon last year and he confirmed we were in compliance with the EULA. The only rule was to not sell Mojang IP [...]"), although it does not make it clear as to how official their discussion was.

With my question I didn't mean to imply that I have an opinion on this matter either way. I'm mostly wondering if the big server networks could try to cut out Mojang based on their shared (I assume) interpretation of how to the EULA has changed over time, whether it be right or wrong.

Edit: clarified last sentence.
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the server is modded and you don't have to install a mod client side.
What could you do with £5?
There hasn't been any evidence to support these 'benefits'.
Yes, it does; this is common knowledge. Using drives with similar serial numbers will seriously degrade the expected benefit of RAID mirroring.
or since it's already broken you just bash it with a sledgehammer a few times.
I think the recent Oracle vs Google case is relevant here as it involves the question of whether APIs are copyrightable. The case is about a subset of Java APIs included in Android. Note that the Android implementation exposed by those APIs is new and did not involve copying code from Java standard libraries (modulo rangeCheck()).

The district court ruled that so long as implementation is different you are free to provide the same API. A federal circuit court reversed this ruling this year. The case is now back in the district court for consideration of whether the use of the API falls under the fair-use clause.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_v._Google
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Modding API - (Community worked) There was work done since Alpha to implement this called "Plugin API." It had a github page and was eventually abandoned.
From what I understand they want to persist the trained model in a language independent way, so you can train the models with whatever language or framework you wish and then save it to a format that can be used by any other language or framework to classify unseen instances.
I worked in the defense industry. The employees don't give a shit if the pay cheque turns up. It doesn't matter if they're making guns, bombs or reading people's emails. Someone told them it was good and they're getting paid so screw it to ethics and morals.
Oh, it's mostly just a rant!

But I think Mojang's focus on keeping things cheap (whether it be with the problems monetisation servers - especially now with competition from Minecraft Realms - or the lack of an official way to download and install mods) shows a slight misalignment of priorities.

They should be trying to make playing Minecraft as enjoyable as possible, not as cheap as possible.
I don't know what else to say apart from that I've seen the same coverage as you, and I'm not bothered by it.

I'm sorry that this seems to infuriate you people so much, but that's my opinion. If I'm happy with it, I'm happy with it. So are many people.

Your indignation isn't going to going to change my mind, or many other people's minds.
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