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I think that's true, and actually what's triggered a series of current backlashes. "Gamer culture" is no longer one thing and people make lots of different kinds of games, targeted to many different audiences with different values and interests. One backlash that triggers is from people who feel a need to defend "gamer" as some kind of turf being invaded, with community norms that can't be violated (people who make "casual games", "games about queerness", or any range of other things outside a norm of hardcore+fun are "not real gamers"). Some people observing the turf-defenders of "gamerness" conclude those people are unsavory, and take this as an indication that gamer culture is unsavory.

I see some possible ways that could play out, but I'm not sure how it will. Gamer could expand, or people doing other-than-traditional things could just dissociate themselves from gamers and label their stuff something else. I personally am wary of wading into gamer culture, because I see a lot of 4chan-type people with a lot of time on their hands harassing people who they find objectionable, including some people I know. So I prefer to label my game-ish stuff as something other than "games", and culturally target it at other audiences (like technologists, or interactive-art fans), so I can hopefully avoid attracting the attention of the more toxic parts of the gamer community. In that sense I'm kind of pragmatically aligned on the "end of gamer" side maybe.
Ah, a troll. Nice to meet you.

In case you aren't a troll (in which case I'm sorry, my mistake) and are just ignorant let me remind you about tablets before the iPad. They were big, bulky, plastic. Ran Windows (not touch optimised). Required a stylus. There was little to no custom software for them. They were expensive. And nobody bought them because they sucked. Then the iPad came along - good software, good hardware, affordable price.

Smart watches seem the same to me so far. For something you wear - a fashion accessory - they all look terrible. Even the Moto 360 (which is by far the best looking) doesn't look great. Apart from the Moto 360 all of them have managed to have horrible watch face designs. Moto are the only ones that look decent. The functionality is ok but not great. Not $250 great. Not enough to make me want to strap something ugly to my body.

Apple could screw up and produce a piece of crap nobody wants. But my guess is that they will come out with something vastly better and every single smart watch manufacturer will have copied them within 6-12 months.
Not sure that is totally fair, especially as Oyster allows you to go into negative balance over a journey as long as you have enough for the minimum fare on your card when you touch in.
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No, the point is to incentivize people to keep their cards, ie: conserve. It's a good thing, just like the charge for a new card. I'm a New Yorker, so at least some of us like it.
This maybe a bit off-topic but I fail to understand why the top 2 textbooks on Distributed Computing - Tanenbaum and Coulouris - don't have a dedicated section on Consensus Algorithms. I learned distributed computing from Tanenbaum and can't recall encountering it.

Contrary some of the folks here, I found the presentation very cool. But that maybe because I'm a slow learner.
Ah, old times.

This weekend I will retire my last desktop machine running Gentoo (still have some servers running it). It's been serving my mother for almost ten years with only minor hitches along the way. The machine is an AMD Sempron at 1.8 GHz so updating Gentoo is such a pain that in the last few years I would only update when she was away for a few days. So she would leave it on and I would update the computer remotely which creates its own set of possible problems.

Why didn't I switch to some other distro? Well, I tried, but this is the only machine I have ever used where there is a significant effect of all the Gentoo toiling involved. Ubuntu would take minutes to just display the login screen and starting firefox meant a whole different dimension of time for grabbing a coffee (lunch, rather). After a brief attempt, back to Gentoo it was. So the trade-off up to now is usable everyday speed vs. excruciatingly slow updates.

The new machine will run Ubuntu, though, because my mother wants to be able to update her computer herself these days (parents grow up too fast, sigh). Still, I owe to Gentoo much of what I know about Linux and computers, in particular to only shoot myself in the foot very carefully when the docs warn me that whatever I am doing is a bad idea. Chasing bizarre build failures taught me that not all hard- and software is created equal, no matter what some "standard" says. Sometimes hardware implementation of some feature is plain broken and sometimes I tried to install that singular combination of software that just won't work. Or I forgot to include drivers for, say, mass storage...

It's good to see Gentoo is alive and kicking.
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This is exactly why laptops got retina displays before desktops. Need more bandwidth? Add another twisted pair. (LVDS.)

With DisplayPort and HDMI, we have to wait for the world's least competent standards agencies to add more twisted pairs. HDMI only cares about TV, so they're useless. DisplayPort is merely very very slow.

Meanwhile, there is a 5k monitor on the market but no way to connect it to anything reliably. MST is a minor disaster. (I have the Asus 4k display. I did get it working at 60Hz, but only by intentionally triggering a bug in the Nvidia driver, which triggers another bug that makes the monitor look like one monitor instead of two. SIGH. Meanwhile, ChromeOS can't handle this correctly at all, because the Intel video driver does not have that same bug. Remember how multiple monitors never worked with Linux, and they would both appear as one big display and windows would pop up in the middle spanning both screens? They fixed the glitch. Now that's exactly what we want to happen, but all the code to support that has been deleted. SIGH.)
An updated version of this is available at http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-08-23/linux-perf-tools... . Much much more is available at http://www.brendangregg.com

Credit where credit is due, I think.
What a horrible article by a horrible journalist. Its Disgusting how the "gamer" stereotype is used in the same sense as hatespeech would use "them blacks".
I'm an existing Moto X user. I guess I'm in the minority here. I like it in spite of its small size, not because of it.

The bigger screen on the new model is a good thing, IMO. I can still one-hand most everything and the only thing I need to reach the top left corner for can usually be accomplished with a swipe from the left. Better resolution, more screen real estate, still manageable size. What's not to love?

(If you've got small hands, I feel for ya, but just buy something else. Don't hate on Moto for appealing to the larger market preference.)
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I think pitcher pace is one area that the umps could enforce better. When you get a guy like Mark Buehrle pitching (avg 16 seconds between pitches) the games going to go a lot faster than somebody that averages 25 seconds between pitches.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/pitcher-pace-time-between-pit...
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>This makes sense on the surface, but the confounding factor is that the NYC MTA cards are rather flimsy. Bend these cards just a little bit and they sometimes don't scan as smoothly.

I have plenty of criticisms about the Metrocard system, but I've had no problems keeping my cards operational until they expire. I keep the card in a regular card slot in my wallet, use it 2-4 times a day and refill it once a month. No issues in years.
Not sure where the scam is. At a glance it doesn't seem to be exploiting some kind of rounding bias past a threshold. It just happens to keep a strange remaining balance that you keep anyway. Nobody throws away the cards anymore because now it costs a fee to get a new one. So you end up always spending the money you put in.
Seconded on the DC Metro. Flat fares would improve the experience greatly. Not only would it make it easier to calculate how much you need, but it would avoid the hideous backups that occur at many stations when the flow of people exiting the station is constrained by the fact that everyone has to scan their card again before they can get out. The idea gets proposed quite often, but it never goes anywhere. I recall reading something a couple years ago though that said for a flat-fare system to be revenue neutral in DC, the fare would have to be $2.90. Apparently the concern is that that would end up decreasing ridership, particularly among people who are just traveling around the urban core of DC.
I don't think that is possible, given how many different colors this generates.
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That's pretty much my thoughts exactly. Isn't gamer just a term for someone who plays videogames a lot?

Sounds like the article is conflating gamers with "internet assholes", who can come from almost any group that exists online.
What would you describe as a "needless depiction of violence"? Realistically, the only way for video games to avoid "needless content" is if they're linear, scripted and on-rails experiences.

In this case, you would have an interactive film. There's certainly room for such games, and there are already plenty of them. But to focus more on that is to miss the entire point of having video games in the first place.
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Nooooooooo! funroll-loops.org got spamparked? _Russian_ spamparked?

Oh well, at least it's still Asian, I suppose.

But talk about losing part of your .... well, in my case, second childhood (I'm presently on my fourth or fifth).
Doesnt this $2.45 left over money make the bookkeeping more complicated for them? Because in theory someone could come back after a couple of years and refill his card so its not possible to book those $2.45 as profit.
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My friend pointed me to an iOS app[1] that can generate tables based on target remaining balances.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/metrocalc/id328570105
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Not sure I understand. A node in each split cluster would need at least 4 votes to be elected leader. Hence no node can be elected leader since all split clusters have strictly fewer than 4 nodes.

Theorem. With 2n + 1 nodes, there can not be two separate majorities after a net split.

Proof. By way of contradiction, assume there are two separate majorities. Each separate majority would contain at least ceil((2n + 1)/2) = n + 1 nodes. This implies that there are in total at least 2(n + 1) = 2n + 2 nodes in the system, contradiction.
TIL there is a .cat domain
Look, the culture exists, maybe not for you. The true test is:

If a criticism of your favorite video game makes you angry, you have a problem. Hell criticize any game I play, any operating system I use, any hardware I use, its all good. But this is not true for all people.

Also the article rings very well with abuses seen in the video game industry. Why is it that working at a wall street firm making 200-300k a year while working ~ 10-12 hr shifts is seen as horrible, exploitative work, while working for a video game firm making 100-150k a year while working 12-14 hr shifts is seen as glorious work making stuff you love?

Hell, I can work at a "normal" development job (I do) working 8 hrs a day, and have the rest of my day dedicated to enjoying myself (which can include playing games, making games, making hardware, hacking hardware, human interaction, family life, you pick it).
I don't think it's black and white, and I don't think there's a way for any of us in our present society to do anything that isn't in some way "tied up with consumption", it's the sea we swim in.

But there are matters of degree and quality, different aspects, etc., and the passive/consumptive/based-on-purchase aspects of culture are worth critical attention. There are also interesting arguments to be made that video games (at least some of the time for some participants) may challenge the consumptive mode of cultural participation _more_ than other forms of mass culture.
I find it ridiculous that 4.6" is considered "compact". I clicked the link hoping for something around 4".
Depends on what OS you use. If you use Linux, yeah, you're screwed. They are still arguing over how to support monitors that expose themselves to the OS as two monitors. The current answer is "that's dumb, maybe they'll go away." It is dumb, but they're not going away.

Over on Windows, Nvidia has some hacks in the driver to work around this. With a $70 current-gen card, I can drive two 4k monitors at 60Hz. One monitor connects via two HDMI cables; the other over Displayport MST. (I don't actually have two 4k monitors, but I did convince my computer that my one monitor was two to test this.)

You're right about getting 4 monitors working. Probably possible with an SLI setup, but the current generation of video hardware makes 1-3 monitors easy and 4+ monitors hard. 3 monitors is better than a few years ago, though.
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MetroCards expire about two years after the date of sale. The balance from an expired card is still transferable (but rarely is ever transferred) for 2 more years after expiration. After that, it's fare :) game for the MTA.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/nyregion/unspent-metrocard...
I thought about that, but could something that large have evolved in the face of perishing so easily due to its size?

Extreme example: could an organism evolve to withstand a 4000K temperature? How would it do so, if regardless of its genetic mutations, all individuals are vaporized?

I suspect that the hypothesis is false; 65 tons or not, the animal in fact had a way to lie down and get up again.

And evolution could select for that: evolution to huge sizes occurs under the condition that those individuals survive and pass on their genes who are able to get up.

There is another possible hypothesis: maybe this particular dinosaur had an endocrine disorder, leading to something similar to acromegaly in humans.

How do we know whether we are looking at a large type, or a large individual?
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Do you have any arguments, or are you just saying you personally don't like the deal?
Show HN: Twitter bot that tweets bad ball and strike calls in MLB baseball games
@MajorLeagueUmp or @[TeamNickname]Ump

You're watching a baseball game. The pitcher throws a pitch right down the middle of the plate, but the umpire calls it a ball. Was it really a bad call or did you just have a bad angle.

@MajorLeagueUmp or @[TeamNickname]Ump tweets bad ball and strike calls in realtime and includes:

- A picture of the pitch location
- Percentage of the time a pitch in that location is called a strike
- How far the pitch was from the edge of the *real life* strike zone

On TV, FoxTrax will show you where the pitch went relative to the rulebook strike zone, but it won't tell you if pitches in that location are typically called strikes. I found this frustrating because any baseball fan knows that the real strike zone is different than the rule book zone.

To find the actual zone I:

1. Downloaded Pitch F/X data from the last four years.
2. Built a fine-grain heat-map of called-strike percentages.
3. Applied some gaussian filters.
4. Converted the heat-map into perimeters
(inside this line it is a strike 78% of the time, etc).
Polar coordinates finally turned out to be good for something.

The tweets are updated by:

1. Nodejs server on heroku that monitors Pitch F/X data in real-time.
2. Each pitch is stored in Firebase.
3. Compare the pitches to the actual zone from above.
4. If the call was really bad, generate an SVG and tweet.

I've been researching the strike zone on and off for the last 5 years. At first, I wanted to answer two questions.

1. Where are balls and strikes actually called?
2. How consistent are umpires in making those calls?

Some quick answers:

1. They widen the plate a tad.
2. They really round off the corners.
The strike zone is closer to a circle than a square.
3. Left handed hitters face a much larger strike zone
that extends well off the outside of the plate.
4. They are actually pretty consistent, but not perfect.
Gentoo user since late 2002 here.

I agree that the state of stable is quite poor of late. I surmised there're a variety of reasons behind this: I'd say the explosive growth of Arch Linux is part of this, personally I've seen much of the community move there. If you look at the state of Arch Linux's community and documentation, you'll see strong parallels with Gentoo a couple years back. Another is Docker leading many people to want a homogenous environemnt using Docker and Debian, Centos or Ubuntu.

That said, I've no plan to move away from Gentoo and found that sentiment mirrored amongst a substantial core of Gentoo "power users" for the lack of a better description.

Why?

Ebuilds, when you want something "just so", you roll 'em "just so"
Use flags, ties into the above
OpenRC.ymmv, but systemd is an anathema, there's been much discussion on the topic so I'll leave that out
hardened-sources
Given privacy and concerns I will never trust a binary only system any more than I trust the organistion behind it. With gentoo I need never trust a binary blob should I choose not to

It's worth pointing out that this current state of affairs is relative to the pinacle a few years ago, and that even in its current state the Gentoo community is way more responsive than many comparable communities. I had Firefox 32 (~amd64) within minutes of release, no such luck on my Macbook.

I'd still never recommend Gentoo to new Linux users that lack the curiosity to find out precisely how all facets of their system fit together. If you want a system that "just works", Gentoo isn't it. If customisation uber alles is your battle cry, then you'll find no parrallel.
To be fair, it's a less relevant tactic now that they charge $1 for the card itself. This is essentially seigniorage.
After a certain point the number of selectors does affect parsing time and selector matching time, in a very significant way.

Performance has improved a bit since this post but it's still relevant: http://perfectionkills.com/profiling-css-for-fun-and-profit-...
No, you're not allowed to do that. You should feel guilty for your privilege of being a man.

I recently had an identical complain in another thread [0]. It turns out I'm apparently an evil hypocritical misogynist.

There's no escape for us, we're collateral damage.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8260719
Once you read the book, the docs and have built something I recommend checking out the source code too. It's very readable.

https://github.com/meteor/meteor

I've checked out the packages, the ddp, the binary json stuff, etc it's all in there. Except for all the var self = this; stuff, I quite like it. They have really smart people over there.
Ah, okay. Yeah, that's about the only way I've seen them fit jeans. Sorry to disappoint.
I distinctly remember a scenario in GTA which was not sandbox: two men are beating and raping a woman on the side of the road and you can either stop them or watch. There was no connection between this and the game's story, so the developers had to actively decide that it was a good idea to put that in the game.

This is not uncommon, and the videos of Anita Sarkeesian, if nothing else, give long lists of games with these features.
From Gandi.net (http://en.gandi.net/domain/cat/info?lang=en):

.CAT is a TLD reserved for people promoting Catalan language and culture.
No local presence is required for the holder,
however you have to publish a website
within 6 months after the registration, in Catalan language.

Is that cat speaking Catalan?
If you've got small hands, I feel for ya, but just buy something else.

You mean... normal hands? I have fairly average-sized hands (as determined by the highly scientific method of having compared hand sizes with many friends over the years), and the Nexus 4 with its 4.7" screen is uncomfortably large. I can reach the top left corner with my right thumb, but I always feel like I'm going to drop the phone when I do it.
I can think of a lot worse companies than Facebook they could have been picked up by. Google, for one. Then, Oculus as we know it would have been absorbed and we'd have never heard anything from the people involved again.

Am I the only person on Hacker News that doesn't have this pathological hate of FB?
Movies rely on persistence of vision (or motion blur) to pull off the 24 FPS. I don't want motion blur in anything I use a computer for aside from games - and only then if implemented properly. I haven't seen a good implementation of that yet.
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I was one of the first people in DC to get the Smart Card. That original card lasted for more than ten years. The first (much thinner) replacement card failed after two months. The second failed after three months. I complained to WMATA and they completely denied any change in the card design. I've been back on paper fare cards ever since.
Better still, just get the card that links to your bank account and automatically refills when it gets low.
I just keep a $5 balance available on my unlimited use card. That way even when the unlimited time limit runs out, I don't have to go and stand in line to refill my card while I miss my train.

I just put the $2.50 back on it (and renew my unlimited) as I'm leaving at my destination.

I guess for those who don't ride enough for an unlimited to be worth it are gotcha'd this way.. I ride 20 times a week, though (break-even on a 7-day card is 12 times a week; monthly is 6.4 times a week. I tend to lose my card occasionally, though, and the hurt from losing a $112 card is a LOT higher than losing a $35 card. Yes, they have a recovery system. No, I've never gotten it to actually work).
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The thing is consoles historically let you close to the metal, which means if there's a problem it's either likely to be in hardware or your code. Since the 360/PS3 era the amount of software between the game and the hardware has exploded, and on smartphones it's in a whole other league again. When you have a problem on Android establishing who or what the problem was, especially on under development firmware, is nightmarish because of how many things are going on. The inconsistency between philosophies of different components is what makes this task truly evil.

That said, the problems of handling screen size diversity and just getting your C++ OpenGL code with touch input wired up and working are greatly exaggerated by many.