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You're probably correct that it's the language barrier. The message has very little to do with the messenger, and I can't see who's claimed otherwise.

The difference seems to be about whether we SHOULD discuss the messenger. Assange still has the power to decide what to publish, and maybe more importantly when to publish it. Everyone who has a message to convey will wait for the right time to do so. This is true for political statements, for press releases, for when you ask your girlfriend to marry you or for when you tell your parents that you failed an exam. It would be silly not to accept that Assange cares about timing.

A discussion about the messenger shouldn't be seen as a dicussion about the truthfulness of the message. For example: The Russian government accused the Ukrainian government of being fascists, and one of their excuses for entering Crimea was that they needed to protect the Crimean Tatars from these fascists. But the Tatars are pro-Ukrainian, and many of them fled when the Russians took control. Those who remained are being harassed, and there are Tatars who were even denied re-entry to Crimea after having traveled to Ukraine. Sure, there are far-right extremists in Ukraine. Of course there are. But the Russians didn't want to admit that the phenomenon is far more prevalent in Russia. Knowledge of the messenger helps us to put all of this into a context.

All I'm saying is that we should be generous enough not to censor discussions just because we're not interested in them. In this case, it means discussions about both the message and the messenger. When combined, the outcomes will provide us with even more information. Ad hominem arguments like "you're obsessed with the messenger" are designed to silence one of these discussions.
"Is over 100% of the original debt "justice" or exploitation?"

Would it make any difference to your reasoning if the individual was financially illiterate as opposed to financially educated? Because from my point of view, it's neither justice nor exploitation, but agreed and consensual contract. Now whether those individuals made a good decision to get into the contract is a different discussion entirely, and is why I ask the above question of you.
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Ok. That makes sense. You've changed my opinion.

It's very far from our classical view of what a group is (where members are generally aware of other members, there is some semblance of leadership, rules, or hierarchy, etc.), but I understand your point.

I'm not sure people who read the general news about Anonymous think of it that way, I think they believe it's an actual group in the way they think of a club or something with more structure around it.
I'm reminded of the _Nicomachean Ethics_, which, if I recall accurately, begins with an analysis of what you're calling instrumental activities vs terminal, in order to show that the end goal of any activity is happiness, which is not instrumental for any other purpose.
Until the ski resort closed due to lack of snow from global warming, his business failed as increasing amounts of financial capital were required for ever falling returns on new energy exploration, globalization collapsed due to increased fuel and energy costs making shipping child-labor textiles and fatuous electronics 12,000 miles uneconomic.

If your model of the world suggests that fishing isn't a sustainable activity, I suspect you'll find that the rest of the economic system is going to fail not too long after that.
If I cared about downvotes I wouldn't post on HN :P
I like the idea of niching down for a use case, but I've never met a lawyer I thought had the time or energy to devote to learning programming. I'm also having trouble understanding how a lawyer might use their programming skill to improve their daily lives. It seems to me that other folks on a lawyer's staff would be more likely to be interested in this subject and use it to the firm's benefit.
It's all well and good having a "pure" open source project; but at some point things become too big for someone to run in their spare time.

Really, it should be about having proper project governance. If a project is big enough, there should be some sort of board of directors with a combination of technical people and some representation from the user community, which is where I see "community managers" fitting in. Like it or not, the companies these community managers often represent ARE users of the product, and often provide funding to support open source projects. IMO, funding open source projects should absolutely get you "special treatment" because it incentivizes companies to support open source projects financially (see OpenSSL for what happens when they don't.)

Apache seems to run this model the best; but there are a lot of projects under their umbrella and some are run better than others. And it still depends heavily on the management skills of the project leads; but that seems to be what the development community wants.
Notch selling is pretty much him going in Creative Mode in real life :)
I understand. When kids are fooling with electronic devices online, they're not active nor really very social. They may be creative and cooperative and that's something.

But contrast playing legos with friends, or playing a ball game, or building sand castles. Those are active, creative and they can be social.

Now, I'd consider a mix of activites to be acceptable; a ban may not be my choice. But I understand it.
yes. just right.
If only there was an OnLive-like roulette-like way going from one game to another without download and install times, that'd be neat.
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Look at what Microsoft was able to do with Bungie. They took Bungie, who was effectively a one-hit shop, and milked the Halo IP for the better part of 10 years. Hell, they were centimeters from spinning it into a Hollywood blockbuster.

This is the exact same play and frankly, they're pretty good at it. They're going to turn the Minecraft franchise into a Xbox/Windows exclusive. Obviously that's going to piss off a lot of folks, but it's still going to result in a ton of XBox sales - at least as many as Halo was responsible for. They'll iterate on this for the next 10 years and my guess is they'll do it quite successfully.
There is no need to litter your HTML with non semantic div tags that just represent rows and columns.

I'm a big fan of using a framework like Susy (there are others as well) that just lets you assign the number of columns an element spans.

Something like:

.logo {
span (3 of 10);
}

nav {
span(7 of 10);
}

So you can get columns without touching your HTML.
0x10c (that space game) would have been incredible if he had completed it. It would be the next step up from Minecraft for kids who liked Minecraft. Can you imagine?

Maybe that's really why he stopped the development.
J++, but that didn't work out so well

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B.
Lego had the opportunity to buy digital lego ( http://blockland.us/ ) Blockland's creator went to Lego to see if they were interested in his game while he was working on the retail version, but for whatever reason no deal was made and Blockland was released without external branding. This all happened much earlier than Minecraft: Blockland was featured on the Screen Savers in 2005, and had a retail release in 2007, two years before Minecraft development started.

I think Minecraft goes beyond digital lego though. There are many little pieces of minecraft's design which came together to make a game better than one would expect. I honestly wonder how many of those choices were intentionally done by Notch, and how many were arbitrary choices which happened to be right.
> - We live in Turkey.

Merhaba Bodrum'dan!

I'm reminded of a refrain that seems to be going around recently: the computer revolution is just getting started.

When people today talk of how computers can empower change, often they're thinking about getting better taxi service. In reality, there are entire cultures that have yet to fully engage in the revolution. With Turkey in particular, I am so excited by the possibilities. Turks have such a natural hacker-mindset, it's just that thus far it's been mostly limited to "real-world" hacking. Imagine what can happen when a population that is naturally curious and creative is given tools to effect great change.

At the same time, for this reason I'm wary of Microsoft as the buyer. In many parts of the world, Microsoft successfully monopolized business and personal computing, but even at their highest height they never fully monopolized developer mindshare. Contrastingly, Turkey's developer community was effectively "colonized" by Microsoft such that, if you were a programmer in Turkey it was just assumed that you worked with Microsoft technologies. That is starting to change...and I wonder if that doesn't cause Microsoft some small amount of concern.

I think it's not an exaggeration to say that how Microsoft serves as steward of the Minecraft community will be telling as to whether they've changed their ways, and are willing to be participants in a larger community, or whether they remain the Microsoft of old.
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This isn't a perfect analogy for this situation because Notch is already wealthy enough to retire. He's worked hard, and made something people love.

It would be like the fisherman worked 2 years can captured a solid gold fish. It's really the CEO that wants something out of the fisherman in this case.
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>acclaimed hit series Kinect Sports

Ahahah. That article is golden.
Nicely done. I'm sure it is pretty fun to debug. All my walking robot experiments (mostly with RC servos) have had some pretty hilarious not-actually-walking moments when the gait software gets confused :-) Should be interesting to see what additional work comes out of this lab.
We at GiPStech are developing a solution based on anomalies of geomagnetic field (similar to Indoor Atlas) integrated with RF (wifi and beacons) to get precise to 1 meter / 3 ft with little or no infrastructure :-)
In the meantime, depending on the localization accuracy you need you can resort to wifi tracking (10-15 meters) or Low Energy Bluethooth beacons (2-5 meters, perhaps adopting the Apple protocol called "iBeacons"). Some solutions are available "off the shelves" in the market, look at Indoo.rs or Estimote or Loctronix, but there are many others
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I think it's sad to write something like that (abandoning something as soon as it seems to gain traction). Isn't that what games are about? Writing great games that a lot of people love to play and talk about?
And in the case of Minecraft, hack and mod in unimaginable ways?
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Getting off-topic of course, but the key insight here is that Bruce Wayne does NOT really want to 'reduce crime'.

Instead, he wants to take revenge on criminals, like the criminals who killed his parents. 'reduce crime' isn't the same as 'fight crime', he requires the FIGHT part, and the revenge part.

Yeah, that makes him somewhat less sympathetic, but isn't that what everyone likes about batman these days, the darkness?
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Ugh. Parables can be used to demonstrate just about anything.

There once was a fisherman, much like the one you describe in the parent comment.

One day a businessman approached him with a proposal that would require more work, but would, in the end, result in much more financial freedom and stability.

The fisherman declined the advice and went about his life, happily fishing for the days food and spending the rest of the day playing with his kids and drinking with his buddies.

Then the kids grew up and his buddies started finding other things to do with their time, so the fisherman got restless. But he had no money saved up and no other skills, so he was stuck. Then there were a couple years during which the fishing turned bad and the fisherman and his poor wife nearly starved. Rather than spending all day fishing in frustration, it sure would've been nice to actually retire somewhere. But the fisherman was well past that point. It was either fish or go hungry. Or possibly both.

And then his kids were all hit by meteorites and his town was invaded by aliens and the entire ocean dried up and everyone had to move to Mars.
There is a similar version of this told from an Australian perspective. Same moral.

I experienced this attitude and culture first hand when I spent 2 years driving from Alaska to Argentina [1]. It's impressive how happy people are when they're not trying to "
get ahead".

[1] http://theroadchoseme.com
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https://www.google.com/search?q=fishing+unsustainable
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While the ski resort was closing, the businessman created a simple video game called Minecraft which he later sold for $2.5 billion. Now he has fuck you money and doesn't give a shit what happens to the economy.
We weren't born in a goofy time. We (the people who frequent this board) largely exist in an industry where in certain markets you have enough leverage to some of the worst elements of wage slavery.

But 98% of people on this planet at this time aren't in the same position and even in our industry if you think you are I suspect you'd be surprised how far you can really push your freedom from your bosses will it before you find you've got problems.
"Give me two billion dollars, and I'll endorse your crap."
That is such an odd tweet. I wonder what goes through one's mind when writing this. What's the background story there?
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Sure they did. So what?

Just because we always had to do something, doesn't mean we should continue to do so. We always had to die from random stupid illnesses until one guy stumbled over penicillin and the other one figured out that it might be a good idea to wash hands before performing surgery.

The whole concept of progress of mankind is the idea that we should strive to get rid of stupid shit that caused harm, misery and death since the day one.
I find it amazing that there wasn't a clause tying Notch and the other founders to the company, at least for a transitional period. Usually when you buy a games company it isn't the product you buy so much it's the creative talent. But to counter my own argument, few games companies have a product as strong as Mojang.
I would accept 'centillionaire', because 'centillion' strikes me as a decent way to say one hundred million. A centurion is not 1/100th of an urion.
Your argument is from authority, but authority is trumped by empirical fact. The kind of strategy you advocate was, yes, the right thing to try back in spring, when there was reasonable hope that it could work. It conclusively failed, at a time when the outbreak was far smaller and more tractable than it is now. It cannot possibly keep the current epidemic under control, because the current epidemic is already not under control, hasn't been for months. Meanwhile, hundreds of healthcare workers have, despite training, been among the dead. No amount of training can compensate for the fact that with a caseload of this magnitude you get overworked to the point of exhaustion and start making mistakes.

By contrast, the strategy I advocate has thus far been working.

Nigeria? Cut travel to the affected area. One idiot had slipped through, causing an outbreak. Because it was only one small outbreak, it was possible to contain it.

Senegal? Same. Tougher problem because it has a land border with the affected area. In response, citizen groups have been supplementing the security forces, patrolling the border and turning back people trying to enter the country, thus far successfully.

Ivory Coast? Cut off travel from the affected area. Thus far, no Ebola detected.

Do you believe in results? I advocate abandoning the strategy that has been proven not to work and focusing on the strategy that has been proven to work.
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I wonder if you could turn his work into a preprocessor, so you could just compile a more general source code into a Pixma binary :)
I would argue the Pronghorn Antelope is actually a better model to replicate since Cheetah can only maintain their speeds over short distances - as opposed to the Antelope which can maintain their 60mph speeds over much greater distances due to their larger hearts and lungs.
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Microsoft counter offered with $2.5 Billion and acquired Minecraft. EPIC TWEET.
I expected an article on electronics when I clicked and took me a while to understanding what was going on.
obsurveyor, I'm the lead developer. I've been doing ruby forever. The .cur is going to go away, along with .or and .and I'm in the middle of a big refactor of the reactive stuff to simplify all of that.
I was recently thinking about this. IIUC the gold IPhone was added especially for the asian market right ? If so someone may be rolling in his grave.
Ask HN: Practical formula for being relentlessly resourceful?
Paul Graham wrote that good founders are relentlessly resourceful.[1]

I am starting a startup[2], so I am wondering:

Can you make a conscious effort to get better at it? Are there conscious ways for being relentlessly resourceful?

So far I've come up with one promising technique: try to think of new clever ideas/hacks assuming their cost of failure is zero. It seems to work. It allows you to see ideas you would otherwise miss because of some sort of block(though I am not 100% sure it's not an illusion -- I've been using this technique for only a couple of days).

Also, I suspect it should work better for social stuff(talking to users, acquiring users) than for programming.

HN, can you please share your own hacks/algorithms/techniques/methods, even small ones?

[1] «A couple days ago I finally got being a good startup founder down to two words: relentlessly resourceful» www.paulgraham.com/relres.html
[2] In case anyone is interested: http://perunity.com (yes, we want your feedback)
There is also a somewhat newish approach in addition to the venerable ones mentioned: a Katahdin-style syntax extensions, built upon the natural PEG extensibility.
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Got it on eBay for 1 Euro. Eats standard HP LaserJet cartridges that you can find on eBay for just a few bucks.
This is tangential, but as a medical device engineer and one that works quite a bit with Ultrasound, the title of this article caught my interest, but it turned out to be about something completely different.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasonic_sensor#Transducers
Until the economy collapses and he realizes that money is just an abstract concept that works as long as the economy exists. He dies from hunger trying to fertilize his field with banknotes and get bees to offer him honey in exchange for an electronic cash transfer.
contact me at gianluca [@] Fabrica.io - I've got some interesting things to tell.
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I have a couple of APIs that I want to play around with. Does anyone have any good resources where I can learn how to browse data in APIs? I have very minimal coding skills. I just basically want to look at the data and put it into excel spreadsheets and such. Simple things like that.
Aren't they a little late?

Halo wasn't released anywhere when they bought it, so they could use it as a cash cow for the XBox.

Minecraft is already everywhere.
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I know a lot of people like this - smart, talented people who want a lifestyle business. Being able to afford to do what you love for a living is awesome. Good for Notch, now he can.
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Brand == Perception.

You can't argue that their brand is based off the perception of grand innovation. Take a look at every Apple keynote ever.
I think it's funny how HN likes to think of themselves as free-minded, creative individuals

I'm not!
I think we're talking at cross-purposes about what we mean by 'No DRM'. The devices you're talking about would only run DRM free MP3s so in that respect they 'had no DRM', but they would be incapable of running DRM'd muic e.g. copied from a Zune or iPod.

But then Zunes and iPods could also always run DRM free MP3s copied from other sources as well, so I'm not sure what you think the difference was, or what advantage you think these independent players had with respect to DRM.
Yep. See Watchmen (the book, not the movie) for an extended look into what kind of batshit people would ever want to be a "superhero".
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With laser like precision WRT exactly one topic my wife yells at my son when he plays minecraft youtube videos containing non-mom-approved language or highly questionable behavior.

Its important to note the vast majority of lets play type videos are mom approved. Almost all of them. But once in awhile one comes up in rotation that's PG-13 or worse rating wrt language or behavior (serial killing in game pigs while making cop killer jokes and then uploading it anyway, wtf is wrong with you, boy?) (and edited to emphasize, the "big name" video guys are virtually all "mom-approved" the worst behavior and language is usually some goofball one off not a semi-pro show host wanna be)

Unless kids have dramatically changed in the last decade or two I know he's heard worse on the playground, its not the end of the world. Its better than watching TV, for example.
This is in an interesting contrast with Apple's Swift. It seems that Chris Lattner and the Swift team are very willing to listen the input from users in this early phase of the language. The whole way the Swift is being developed is unlike anything else Apple does. Swift core team responds to you in Twitter. The product is released in such an early state that it is frustratingly buggy and slow to use. But it has a regular release schedule and it gets improved in both stability and speed every other week. I don't know if this was agreed on the top level, or did Chris just has enough decision power to just go with this more modern style of release cycle.
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It's realistic. Minecraft is this generations pokemon. In fact I think it's bigger. Not only boys but a significant amount of girls play it. Not only does it have cultural value it also makes money (which instagram doesn't)
> If Bruce Wayne truly wanted to use his money to reduce crime, he would be donating it to preschools and after-school sports programs.

To be fair, Bruce Wayne does, in most versions of the Batman stories, incredibly vast amounts of local charity of that type (and others), as well as personally going after criminals one by one, and there's probably limited capacity to productively absorb those funds (Wayne's pump-priming charity would probably also be increasing that capacity and enabling Wayne to shift more money into those approaches productively, were it not for the fact that it is somewhat counteracted by the rather extraordinary frequency of supervillian-initiated civic destruction in Gotham, which probably has a negative impact on capacity-development efforts.)
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I've seen too many times in the past where big organizations do things that don't seem to be in their best interest. Microsoft is made up of many people and one VP may decide that short term profits for a quarter (which increases his bonus for the year) trumps the wellness of a community. And he'll rationalize his decision as being better for the community.