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There goes all hope of Minecraft being released as open source.

Microsoft has been releasing more and more of their software platform as open source. It's not outside the realm of possibility that some bits of Minecraft would be open sourced.
It's also odd to switch from a (likely) higher resolution screen on Android to a lower resolution screen on the iPhone 6 (the iPhone 6 is about 720p... Moto G territory).
Humanist Interface 1.3 the Cult of Invisibility
Intel Developer Forum 2014 – Core M, DDR4, Overclocking and Robots
I have an iPhone 3G, that was released six years ago, and the latest supported OS is 4.1.2. Not that it is usable with this version, latest usable version was 3.x.

It inhabits the drawer for several years already.
Relentlessly resourceful only makes sense/sounds good in hindsight.

Before that there is simply "relentless" and "resourceful"--which are straight forward enought.

The "problem" is there is a tension/contradiction between the two: relentless meants "stopping at nothing". And resourceful means working within a set constraint (ie, an externally-imposed limit).

Needless to say, bringing/finding hidder or non-obvious resources to bear on problems with obvious/unavoidable constraints is the general gist of this problem.

"Never bring a knife to a gunfight" is also another take on it, although a bit more from the perspective of a negative proof.
82.205.128.0/17 belongs to Horizon Satellite Network.
The IP from the slide might be something like:

82.205.224.2 - 7206-1.CGN.horizon-satellite.com (CGN is the airport code of Köln/Bonn, close to the Stellar office) or 82.205.224.16 - Border-7206.NetCologne.horizon-satellite.com (Netcologne is mentioned on the slides as well) or 82.205.224.250 - loopback-1-7206-3.CGN.horizon-satellite.com

Fun fact: The Cisco 7206 router was last sold >12 years ago and doesn't get support since many, many years: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/routers/7206-router/in...
Ugh, talk about an article needing a SavedYouAClick.

So ApplePay might finally make mobile payments worthwhile, because of Apple's pressure on merchants. Which is nice because credit card fraud in the US accounts for 7-15 billion dollars per year, which is not enough to warrant changing all the POS systems in the US. But maybe not right away.

Also, we will randomly mention sub-sahara Africa because they apparently use a lot of mobile payments already, except not with ApplePay.
If they were made free, they wouldn't be getting all the publicity.

It seems like big artists are now using quirky ways and partnerships to release albums in order to drum up publicity and increase reach.

Jay Z pre-released his last album with Samsung as an app. Beyonce released an album completely by surprise. Now U2 releases an album where iOS users just get it by default.
Then why didnt he just open source it? That question deserves to be answered by Notch.

I watched my kids grow up on Minecraft, and how I led them to learning technology, enabling their future. Minecraft is more than just a game, and really the users own it, it's not Notch's anymore.
This is actually quite fun. I would suggest that you make it simpler and more straight-forward to get to the game part, though.
This was an interesting marketing failure. Looking at the Twitter feed for 'u2 iphone', it was clear that a lot of people took umbrage at what they thought was an invasion of their music library, or thought they had been hacked, or otherwise felt it was a mistake.

Then the word spread that the album had been given away for free. But U2 and Apple had gone to great pains to explain that Apple "bought" the album for its users as a gift.

I feel sorry for the support people who had to field calls about this stuff this week. What a half-baked marketing stunt.
I love their variety of slightly racist humor!
Voice Hero: The Inventor of Karaoke Speaks
This is mostly why the Galaxy Nexus no longer gets updates.

The Galaxy Nexus was also born from a not-so-great partnership with Samsung, who was at the time maneuvering into a position to compete directly with Google (e.g. Tizen).
"Most people don’t believe me when I say this, but I don’t think karaoke would have grown like it did if there had been a patent on the first machine. Besides, I didn’t build the thing from scratch. I had the idea for the business model. The amp, the microphone, the eight-track player—even the ¥100 box machine—all had patents on them. Today, I could take out a patent on the business model, have someone else make it and get the royalties from the original idea. But at the time, getting a patent for a business model just didn’t seem possible."
I think a lot more bugs are introduced from people trying to make their code too generic rather than too specific. The complexity of the code goes way up when you stop being able to rely on certain values being certain types. If I "hardcode" my ID to be an int64, there are a lot of assumptions that become safe to make, like the fact that it's a relatively small value, that I can bit shift it, that the keyspace is of a particular size.... if you then take the same code and decide that the ID should be genericized so it can be anything, now I have to account for the fact that the keyspace could be unbounded (as in the case of a string ID), I can't assume it's safe to copy around the value (it might not be thread safe and/or it might be a really large value).

Saying having less information about the data makes for easier coding is almost always not true.
Yep, seems like Playboy interviews are more important today ( less points, less comments, more hours ... how does the HN algorithm work?) ...

Reopened for our timezone, with better link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320292
(is that ok?)
Are you aware of how presumptive and insulting it is to speculate about someone else's life and tell them how they should be living?
Please don't do fake voting and commenting on Hacker News.
I'm guessing that this decision had a lot to do with U2 looking at their legacy.

With this push release, they can claim their album is on the most devices ever, most listened to album ever, etc, while still collecting a large pay check from Apple at the same time. If apple wrote the contract in such a way that each download is considered a sale, then U2 suddenly has the most successful album of all time in terms of "sales".

I don't think there is anything wrong with this if its the case, but with their history of success and age, its understandable if they start looking at their career in terms of how they rank against bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

To clarify for some people, this in now way is to "blame" U2 for this. I'm just trying to see this from the U2 perspective.
He's Swedish. He didn't need to strike it rich to escape worries about a roof over his head and health care.
I don't confuse talent. I understand that making a video game fun is completely different from raw programming talent or whatever.

But merely looking at what Notch has done, it looks to me like he got lucky rather than having some vast talent for making fun games.
In my experience, older Android phones can be fairly useful. There are some great audio recording & guitar tuning apps which work offline, making the devices handy for capturing musical ideas. Keeping the devices in airplane mode dramatically increases their battery life. Additionally, if you want to bust out a dedicated charger, they can act as IP cameras. Great for watching your motorcycle when it's parked outside in a city.

Here's a KickStarter which aims to use old Android devices to passively collect audio in rainforests, with the aim of halting illegal logging. [1]

TLDR: If people choose to write software for these devices, they can remain useful for a long time.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/topherwhite/rainforest-...
> "3) Based on your other comments below, it sounds like, if you had been my parents, you would have banned everything I loved for my entire childhood. My childhood was defined by a series of obsessions up until I graduated high school. A large portion of my early life can be summed up by Legos, Power Rangers, GI Joe, Sonic the Hedgehog, Scooby Doo, Dragon Ball Z, anime, and live theater (think Shakespeare). None of those things have any direct real world application, but they did give me a series of common frameworks for social interaction. "Oh you liked Scooby Doo when you were a kid? Me too!""

It's not necessarily entirely bad to restrict what your children can do, since it encourages them to find ways to disregard your rules. My childhood was basically 10 or so years of a sort of cold-war escalation between myself and my controlling parents; the end result was me being independent by 17 and a skilled enough programmer to get into and work my way through university by the time I was 19. Controlling parents lit a fire under my ass; it gave me a reason to seize control of my life.

In case anybody is wondering, my relationship with my parents improved when I moved out. We now have a healthy respect for each other as adults.
It was the first time I wrote a grid so they're not perfect nor complete. If you feel inclined, please submit the suggestion in ( https://github.com/picnicss/picnic/issues ) or feel free to push the edit.
Are you familiar with the rates of birth control failure?
It's interesting how many of the things make me think, "This is awesome!" (like the "boolean awesomeness" one that JoshTriplett linked), and yet so many also are such examples of hatefulness (e.g., top ones) and the kind of things that I would not want anyone to read.
I'm sorry, but this sounds like you have little shits for kids. Boo hoo they got a full, free record by a world famous band on their pocket computer that they probably pay nothing for. I can only imagine snotty, spoiled little brats snorting and scoffing about how you put U2 on their devices.
package it with http://squirt.io/ and suddenly we can read everything
Quite a lot of psychiatric drugs affect different people in different ways; I would be very unsurprised if the people the grandparent post recounts describing it as "turning into a soulless robot" are fairly describing their own experience, while the parent post fairly describes that poster's experience.

One probably should avoid hastily generalizing one's own experience to what the drug's effects are like generally.
That's interesting, thanks. Why do you think the talent pool is a huge problem? Is it about cost? Lacking of skills (if so, which ones are these, for instance)? The best people are already taken or...?
I also had no idea how to play initially because my mouse was over the game area and so the how to play instructions disappeared before I could read them.
Ask HN: Do you easily come up with new ideas?
I'm interested to know if it's easy for you to usually come up with new ideas.

It's not just about new businesses ideas, but also about the every day life or at the existing business/job you're currently working.

It could also be the ability to think about ideas to solve a specific problem (ie. problem solving skill)
In his prototype he used an 18v angle grinder, which I think would do a decent job blending. Given the blender setup seems to be one of the key features, I think more of the feature budget will go towards the blender. If they upgrade to a higher rpm motor for production, I believe it would be sufficient for making drinks.

Prototype build: http://www.instructables.com/id/Cooler-with-Blender-and-Blue...
It still has to be moddable at all; don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
It must be a setting, it didn't automatically download for me. It just added it to my 'paid' music section, but I still had to select download.
It's a very good sign that Comcast is posting this kind of correction. It indicates that they perceive a broad social consensus that supporting internet anonymity is a crucial responsibility of an ISP, and lends credence to the ongoing importance of net neutrality.

It also, as a secondary effect, might incline us to look more favorably on Comcast's arguments regarding backbone capacity negotiations.
Minecraft was at the right place at the right time, it had already occurred in nearly identical forms earlier yet failed to "pop". http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Infiniminer
Google reports surveillance requests up 250 percent in US since 2009
It's worth remembering that the DSM is not intended for use by the average person. It can and will use technical terms - like "delusion" - that users of the manual are expected to understand as technical terms.
Until it was nearly universally loved. You can take away a bunch of different lessons from the Steam story.
I'm feeling a bit ignorant - could someone give a bit of background about bash.org and its history?
I'm not sure if it's paywalled so here's a link to the author's site that has the full article plus a nice summary:
http://gking.harvard.edu/publications/randomized-experimenta...
Responsive Layouts in Android Without Copy/Paste
Comcast seems to get negative press on reddit - at least as much as Netflix has positive. The site must be very easy for marketeers to game.
Don't even need to use a VPN. DNSCrypt encrypts DNS queries.

http://dnscrypt.org/
Why would open sourcing it screw his co-founders? You can open source the code, interact with the community and improve Minecraft, while still selling the game. You don't have to open source the artwork and assets.

Piracy is not an argument in this, because pirating Minecraft for single player has always been and will always be piss easy, and multiplayer will still be impossible.
Ask HN: What are the worst possible side-effects of net neutrality legislation?
We see a lot of posts about the need for network neutrality legislation. Warning that if it is not enacted we'll see things like raising the barrier to entry for startups, content gardens, billing content providers for access to consumers, etc.

While I find these issues compelling and worth worrying about, I'm also curious about some of the possible downsides of enacting net neutrality legislation.

What do you think are the worst plausible side-effects or unintended consequences enacting net neutrality legislation?
If I were under 20, I'd be very upset at being caught listening to the elevator music that U2 churns out these days. I'd have to explain to my friends what it was doing on my iPhone.

Being under 50, I'd only be mildly upset.

Either way it's totally inappropriate for Apple to push unwanted content at their users.
Fair enough. It still seems safe to say that diagnoses based on criteria like "meets at least two of these five symptoms" are less than an exact science.
Almost every credit card changed their terms so that cash equivalent purchases no longer accrued perks.
My Question for the Apple Techies
Don't they have to download it to everybody's library for U2 to get the credit for a digital download/purchase?

This looks similar to the way Jay-Z sold a million+ of Magna Carta Holy Grail a year ago. Get a deal with a smart phone company to bundle their album with new units. Then show the RIAA the digital download stats, and bam! Platinum status.

I guess in this case the album is pushed to existing devices, but as long as somebody pays for the sale (even if its 'pre-bought' by a company or through a deal) it still counts. Seems like the new way to fudge numbers.
I bought a Moto G specifically for its claim of staying up-to-date (and some other cool features), so I hope that I'll get major updates for years to come, lest I have to go to Cyanogen.

People in this thread are shocked, SHOCKED! that people would keep a phone for more than two years. Except for my gaming habit, my 5+ desktop would still have its original components, and my laptop is from 2010. Replace the battery, and it's a champ.

Annual hardware upgrades shouldn't be a "thing" unless desired.
Quick and Small Exponential Scaling on the MSP430
Functional Programming Principles in Scala By Martin Odersky
>They both seem like perfectly good places to write a BitTorrent client.

Except they aren't. Web APIs don't provide the facilities necessary for a complete bittorrent stack. TCP and UDP sockets are essential (this thing uses webrtc, so it's not even bittorrent-compliant). Additional facilities like mmaped files, epoll-based socket IO and inotify make for more efficient implementations.
A good bittorrent client on a gigabit connection can push a lot of data around, hashcheck it and so on.

Some torrents also have thousands of files open simultaneously, this can push the number of filehandles the browser process has to keep, possibly conflicting with other files the browser also wants to open, e.g. its cached files.

You also need to talk to local network devices (UPnP routers), enumerate network interfaces to bind ports to the correct one so you can tell other clients your alternative addresses (this is part of ipv4/ipv6 compatbility) and a whole bunch of other sort of low-level stuff.

Browsers simply do not provide the same access to system APIs. They are not a libc-replacement.
Simply embedding the type and writing whatever additional methods you need is actually incredibly easy. The boilerplate beyond what is required to actually define the new functions is really tiny

type Foo struct {
pkg.Bar
}

func UseIt(b pkg.Bar) error {
return otherFunc(Foo{b})
}

I think that's actually one of the places Go works really well. It sounds like you want something like C#'s extension methods, which I don't think are a good thing (I used them a bunch in a past job). The problem with them is that it means your code can spontaneously and mysteriously break if you move it somewhere else that isn't including the project that has the extensions. Extensions seemed nice, but they really only made the code a tiny bit cleaner, and the added complexity did not really make up for it, in my opinion.
They say:

> anecdotal chat room evidence

You say:

> you record our reps [...] those recordings

I'm curious which recordings that you listened to, because it sounds like they don't know about them.
Apple Pay, EMV and Tokenization
How is what he's doing not ambitious? I really don't understand the majority of comments in this thread.

He's taking the exploration path, instead of iterating on something which has already proved successful.

I can't wait to see what Notch does next.
This. The whole thing could have been handled so much better so easily.
Talk – An Innovative AAC Device for People with Developmental Disabilities
A lot of that is also just physics, but again the voxels are really quite easy to work with.

Moving to C++ is always a PITA, I hope this isn't an optimization made so early, especially when there are other things to do.
Whether or not a tech company is a good investment seldom depends on valuation, and I suspect it will be the same for Mojangosoft
Wait, let me make sure I am understanding this. So Tramadol was given to cattle in such large amounts that it made it into the soil and enough got soaked up by trees that it was thought that Tramadol came from those trees.

That is just incredible.
But in case of a browser-extension you just substitute "python" with "chrome" as a runtime.
You are certainly right, in my opinion, but I think that it's even more important to note how tone-deaf this move was in light of the recent iCloud leaks (I'd argue, in fact, that all of Apple's recent press conference was similarly confused).

Nobody wants to think about the idea that Apple can do/see anything they want at any time to our music collections and phones. Even if that isn't strictly true, and even if they probably wouldn't, it's a perception that's being confirmed by recent events, and this stunt re-enforced it.
Great read! Thanks, Timothy.
This is very unwarranted of Apple to push content without user permission. Just because it's free doesn't mean I want it. There's a reason many parties have a "no gift" policy. People don't want stuff just because it's free.
KaTeX: Math typesetting for the web
Re: Latest response on Ethereum blog (https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/comment/6169#Comment_6...)

I get it, resource management is a big a problem that applies to CPU, RAM and storage. Capabilities to do such resource management exist, though they may not be refined to the extent the blockchain needs. We will be reaching out to ZeroVM, Docker and other sandboxing projects to better assess the ETA of feature-completeness in this domain.
Thanks for pointing this out. I'm past the edit window, so I can't fix that :(.

It must have come out from the fact that in my native tongue toilet paper is "papier toaletowy"; the same two things but in different order. Therefore my mind didn't spot it on re-reading. I'll be more careful in the future.
I don't think that's true - at least not for children.

My kids are fairly young, but both of them play Minecraft on the Xbox purely for the creative outlet. They've only played a few times with other kids on Xbox live.

I suspect as they grow older they'll be more interested in online multiplayer. However, like most parents, I haven't figured out how to let that happen and still shelter them from the frothing insanity I used to regularly encounter when I'd play Halo back in the day.
Have you used Project Spark? I don't think it was.
Thank you for the suggestion! It works great with that style!
A) you don't need a complete bittorrent stack

B) you don't NEED a more efficient implementation

C) many torrents do not have thousands of files open

You're confusing "is a complete replacement for bittorrent" with "has uses." This definitely has uses.

"Worse is better."
Cost is fairly cheap is more about security and vision. No one is really interested in equity just a pay check. Skill is also a problem we are actively trying to hire developers for the SP office but besides .net and php we have had no success finding python / django or some of the modern framework guys.

Its like the us in the 90's
Nielsen's SoundScan rules prohibit reporting any album purchases that weren't made for 50% or more of retail value.

That said, they broke the rules for the Lady Gaga album that Amazon sold at a massive discount while making public statements that they weren't breaking their own rules.

Not sure if Jay-Z's sales were counted as well but I would definitely consider it Platinum* with an asterisk.
Also, I feel that people are reluctant to say "thank you". They'll join if the crowd is cheering, but are hesitant to say it out loud by themselves.
What exactly makes you think he's not talented? Because I on the other hand think he's extremely talented. That's the opinion I have based on occasionally watching his streams and reading his writings, not even considering the huge success that Minecraft is.
App Store Comparison: GooglePlay vs. Apple Store vs. Kindle
I agree. I have to play whack-a-mole to keep songs out of my library that I'm no longer interested in.
What about employee happiness, productivity and stress levels?
Notch went from having trouble with Paypal over a poultry $750k to being a Billionaire. That's awesome.
Stereo to Mono Using the Side Channel
> many of which are believed to be caused or triggered by the modern Human diet (refined sugars, grains, other (sometimes highly) processed foods et al.) by a growing number in the scientific community.

Links to studies published in peer-reviewed journals or GTFO. "Modern diet" is the medieval humorism of the last decade.
The Case Against Everything on Demand
The main problem is likely to be cost. Net neutrality sets a minimum quality level for Internet service and there is a certain cost to provide that level of service. If you can't afford that then you don't get any Internet access at all.

This usually comes up in rural areas (cf. Brett Glass) or the developing world. In the Android One announcement it was mentioned that people in India are probably not willing to pay for metered data to download OS updates, so they would just never update unless Google pays for the bandwidth, which is what they are doing.