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Ask HN: What is your opinion about the sale of digital games?
A company that has won, multiple times, the title of "Worst company in America" (EA Games) allows their customers to refund games within a 7 day period. Companies such as Steam, Microsoft, and Sony do not have allow refunds under no (Even if you meant to purchase the game as a gift) circumstances.

I am sure there are many points of discussion here; piracy being one. I would love to hear more from you guys.

P.S: Some "recent" events - http://www.gamespot.com/articles/valve-sued-by-australian-consumer-watchdog-over-st/1100-6421983/
FWIW, I've been to Shenzhen and actually ended up in a hotel across the street from the big Foxconn campus where I assume Xu worked. At shift change time an unbelievable army comes rolling out; I believe it's over 100,000 workers per shift although most live on-campus. But they looked pretty much like any group of blue collar workers I've ever seen getting off work. They were talking, smiling, laughing, eating snacks.

15 years ago I saw some of rural China. I saw a lot of dirty, leathery, gap-toothed people, and it seemed most couldn't afford shoes. The population density was incredible, with entire families working plots of land that weren't any bigger than suburban yards.

These days, to be fair, it's gotten quite a bit better in the countryside as the Chinese economy has boomed, food prices have risen, and many people have moved to the city. People look healthier, wear shoes, have plumbing. But for the sake of comparing the "indigenous" life I don't think it's fair to look at the post-industrialized state.

I guess in short I'm saying it's not fair to over-dramatize the difference and think about shackled slaves vs. native warriors riding around grassy plains. I think ultimately it's only fair to ask the people themselves and I think you will find that the average Chinese worker is far happier with the direction their life and country are moving in than the average American.
The first two games in the XCOM series, UFO: Enemy unknown and Terror from the deep ([1] and [2], but you can't not know them) use the same kind of layout. Unfortunately this gave rise to a series of issues, largely for the same reason that you wrote about[3]:

> If you mind control them, you'll mind control only one square which will become hostile against other parts of the alien and may even attempt to attack them via reaction fire. Control all four sections, and they'll not try to shoot themselves.

There is more, mainly caused by the "fixes" to other bugs, and frankly on the whole the results are quite hilarious. I guess that you should really really cover every corner for this to work well.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_Enemy_Unknown
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM:_Terror_from_the_Deep
[3]: http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Large_units#Large_u...
Thanks @dreamweapon. I like the hands on approach.
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As long as no laws are violated, tax arbitrage is responsible corporate behaviour. These companies aren't "cutting tax bills", so much as they are arbitraging between different tax regimes across borders. It is their responsibility to their shareholders to do so. Market forces will dictate that if they don't, a more nimble competitor will and will subsequently take market share.
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Agreed:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/01/24/the-botmaker-who...
The Universal Fund is a rebrand/official launch of monthly donations. Your next month's donation will be automatically matched because you were one of the first thousand to join (thanks for being a Universal Fund OG!).

You'll get an email about this tomorrow morning (we didn't intend to launch today, but it got out on HN a little early :)

Sorry for any confusion!
There was also some work by Bungie earlier this year to keep Halo PC (11 years old) online after GameSpy shut down.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-05-12-bungie-to-updat...

(disclaimer: I work for Bungie, but not on that project)
No. The printf() requires that one has read K&R. That's not a high barrier to clear. Pointers are chapter 5.
At no point in the article do they mention how long is the sentence Sunde has to serve. It's important because a few months in prison (less than a year according to the article) is ridiculous compared to most prison sentences.

Of course, that doesn't mean that even a few weeks in prison isn't atrocious. But a lot of people have been through much more, sometimes when they weren't even guilty, and didn't have a voice to be heard.
Seizing the "moral high ground" in an attempt to get flappy birds back!
One anecdote point: there's like zero chance I'm reading a book in my phone (or anything more than a couple paragraphs for that matter), I read on Kindle, I don't even read on a tablet.
@Jimmahoney thanks. Just browsed through it. It's an interesting approach.
I haven't got a clue. But it was her choice to have a (pretty) background that made the text hard to read unless it was at the bottom of the photo.

If she could ruin the readability by choice, I would certainly expect her to ruin the zooming behaviour too if she could.
I immediately had to re-watch this pretty awesome video after reading the article:

http://youtu.be/2aCOyOvOw5c

It goes from liftoff to space and back to earth in a handful of minutes, and the enhanced (but real) audio is pretty creepy.
They have "dead": true. "Deleted" means the commenter deleted it (or asked us to).
> I was expecting something moderately legible.

Is human handwriting anything more then repeated patterns with lines and shapes on a 2d plane?

A computer program designed by humans to assist with human constructs can infer meaning from what appears to be mostly noise to humans. It hits us hard because communication through complex language is the defining trait of our species. It manages to do what we do, and many people are intrigued by the results.

Are we just observing the results of our actions or did we just take one more small step towards the singularity?
Great looking theme, although I'm a real fan of Brogrammer. Dodgy name, but very stylish.

https://github.com/kenwheeler/brogrammer-theme
Very impressive!

The author published an open source library -- RNNLIB [1] used for his neural network research but is the actual code for this hand writing demo published somewhere?

[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/rnnl/wiki/Home/
How about hp per pound? Isn't that the advantage of this thing?
It might be helpful to note that a major reason for armed guards could be the inability to keep money in proper banks, due to federal laws. When one doesn't allow law abiding citizens to participate in a seemingly reasonable manner, I don't think it is any surprise that criminals and other societal outcasts tend to fill the void....

(As an aside, even with the change to federal regulations earlier this year, it is unclear that it even affects and allows California dispensaries to legally deposit money as they are not state regulated, which I believe was a stipulation, but someone more informed might be able to correct me.)
The People Who Run Wikipedia
Nah, hipster rhetoric didn't fool enough people.

But using the word is a good way of introducing a joke.
> What if we didn't buy electronics,

I'm on this wavelength, but I don't think we can all dial down our behavior to nil quickly.

Instead, I think a good start would be to buy less electronics, e.g. only when they wear out, instead of just buying the new thing b/c it will outperform other people.

Also, to repair the electronics we have and buy electronics that are designed to be maintainable and long-lasting.
What kind of programming technique did you use to implement the handling of the protocols? Did you implement them as finite-state machines, or did you use coroutines, or some other technique?

Do you think that C++ is a well suited language for this kind of processing? Is it possible to say, now this project is in a mature state, that other languages (e.g. Rust) could have helped make your implementation simpler?
ok, that is a bit creepy. Wondering when the bandwidth gets to the point where you can send multivalued data.
Yeah, since DRM makes it simple to disable refunded games there's really no good reason to disallow refunds. 7 days might be too long since many games can be finished in that time.
That then begs the question of what in fbthrift needs so much memory... is it mainly due to heavy use of C++ features like template metaprogramming?
The best naturally aspirated piston engine is 166 hp per liter. The best naturally aspirated Pistonless rotary engine is 188 hp per liter [1]. The Duke is at 71 hp per liter; it has a long ways to go but it's already better than a naturally aspirated Diesel engine (44 hp per liter).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_superlatives...
"The problem isn't big-endian, its just platforms where sizeof(size_t) != sizeof(int)."

To be honest, my memory is failing me, so I would appreciate it if someone with a fresher understanding of the standards or BE compiler behavior would clarify.

Does a cast from (pointer to int32_t) to (pointer to int64_t) change the memory location referred to? My assumption would be not. If it does not, then there is a problem with this code on big-endian systems that does not exist on little-endian systems:

On a little-endian system, you are only reading/writing the low bits of the lengths. If anything won't fit in an int, that can be a problem. It seems plausible that other things (buffer sizes?) guarantee that can never occur, though it would still be better code not to rely on it.

On a big-endian system, you are only reading/writing the high bits of the lengths as if they were the low bits. That will almost always be wrong.
Encrypt/decrypt photos, files and text online
That's a subset of the objective. The objective is to detect all humans because they wouldn't spot the 'face' in the coloured circles. Whether or not it's coloured doesn't change that.

Unless you're concerned about the rights of colour-blind computers for some reason.
The case for optimism and risk at startups
If you consider Second Life an MMO (not sure if I'd consider it a game as such, more of an avatar chat), then I think it would apply in that case.
The innocent until proven guilty approach to traffic violations is already a farce. If you have a job, it costs more to dispute a ticket than to pay it. I'm in favor of changes to the legal system that would allow rapid turn around in low stakes cases. Start with something very informal and quick and have an appeals process where the loser pays.

Cracking the local monitoring device can be disincentived just like speeding. If an officer sees you speeding and you're not self reporting it, bam. Bigger offense.

The thing about more effective enforcement in any setting is that it can increase justice (lower the lottery effects) but it makes it that much more important that you got the laws right to begin with.
Does anyone know of any software products that use this model at their core?
And what happens when you have to use the terminal on a machine that hasn't been "badassified"?
I don't think that's even a scope issue...

ng-model will auto-create scope variables if they don't exist. That's a handy shortcut.

But if you have two inputs that can auto-create variable you're asking for trouble, and you should probably initialize it on the scope constructor.

Or at the very least, use an ng-init so that you know where it will be created.
I own a Unicomp, and I'm a very happy customer. Their support is first-class too, especially for small or one-off orders (like custom keycaps).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/duncanbayne/12295182336/
Mysterious, eh. How long have you spent on an airplane? 12hrs, 27hrs? Imagine how awful living in a space station must be.
Well, she just says that people are selfish and following selfishness (your own) in the sphere of economy makes economic sense. You guys have your own delusions, like utopias were people are equal. And if not -- we will put them into reeducation camps, so they don't want to have more than their neighbor anymore. This never worked. What I like about Right is that it takes people as they are, the good, the bad, and the ugly and tries to build the system using what it has at hand. The Left usually expects people to be different than in reality they are. It's good to dream, but exchanging dreams for reality (i.e. utopias) ends up with tyranny. What, they still have private property? Shoot them! Bam, 7 million dead kulaks. What I don't like about Rand philosophy is that it is like the Left in the sense that it is a bit utopian, dream-like. People will go there and vote for nonsense, we need to remember that. We can't get pure capitalism as we can't get pure socialism too. But the important thing to remember is to know how the markets and economy work (Right). And to live and let live others (Left).

Then the rest of your rant really is, like, what do you mean? What did you expect? The government spending to be effective? To have people busy working in zombie banks or unionized companies? Sorry, turns out doesn't work that way. Socialism doesn't work, the only rational thing to do when working at zombie bank and is to put your time to more productive tasks. If a dreamer like you voted for that spending and is ready to spend his tax money on it... who am I to judge it? I'll gladly take it. Sure it is better than sweating 80 hour weeks at productive place like Apple. What did you think? Where Im coming from we have this saying: if someone wants to fight with you, run away. If someone wants to give you something, take it. Thank you! And don't forget to vote for even higher taxes and even more Government spending. 120k/year with all the slacking I do still doesn't get me the Land Rover I wanna have.

And if I can't afford the payment because the bank goes bankrupt next year. Please don't forget to support measures to "distress families with debt"... I mean I didn't want this car, bankers told me to buy it. We did that with housing, why not continue once this bubble pops? Raise taxes, pay even more, so I can still stay at the house I can't afford, driving a car I shouldn't have bought in the first place, all from your tax money already. But you don't care, as you know -- it is all bankers fault!!! - so bail me out brother! ;-)

Must be stinky rich to have this type of philosophy in life.
I look forward to the day they have a vote on PEDs.
It's kinda weird to see an article that I'm meta-mentioned in spread to the sites I read.
I see this: "It looks like we're full up. Every single IPython Notebook is in use right now! Try again later and maybe you'll have better luck. Sorry for the inconvenience!"

Can someone tell me something about the notebook? I want to decide if this is something I should bookmark, and visit at a later date.
I'm not sure this is what GP was addressing, but there is a very real phenomenon of getting so depressed that you can't even manage to kill yourself. You actually see increased risk of suicide at the beginning of therapy for some patients, where they come up enough to get just enough mental energy to successfully kill themselves.
One can open an account with scrape.it, pay for the enterprise option, and then share login credentials with other people for a small fee. For example, an enterprise account costs $899/month. You could "resell" it as described here to 100 people for $9/month each, and make $1/month in profit.
Most of the minecraft money comes from selling copies of the client, not from server subscriptions as in the case of WoW.
One downside to that is that cooling everything will add to NOx in the emissions. A nice hot exhaust is needed for the catalyst to complete clean combustion. Not that it's a bad idea, just that it has an emissions tradeoff.
The things that beginners want are often diametrically opposed to the things experts want, and since everyone is by definition a beginner before they are an expert then they will tend to gravitate toward solutions that are beginner friendly (and therefore expert hostile).
Strange Eyeless Fish Creates Its Own Sonar Signals to “See”
Well you're right. I've been using Inbox for over a week, and I like it. No email clutter, and it matches my flow pretty well.
Happy Birthday Twitter? Looking Back One Year After IP0
Got it, thanks for the explanation. Keep up the good work!
The Forgotten History of Mace
Who's talking about killing or abusing animals? Only you are. I'm talking about eating eggs, butter, and for the few cultures that eat it, cheese.

Even in the u.s. you can eat animal products where the animals lead healthy lives.
Not much. If you do this you are usually pretty used to a normal terminal. I usually just tab way more then i should in bash. Thats it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Party#DemocracyOS looks similar
It uses tmpnb (http://lambdaops.com/ipythonjupyter-tmpnb-debuts) to spin up docker instances of a relatively basic IPython demo. I guess they are a bit overloaded right now. Pretty nice gateway drug to show the benefits of IPython to non-technical folks.
If you read the article, you'll see that isolation and claustrophobia aren't necessarily involved.
"The only answer is to decouple them, and introduce something like basic income"

It should be noted that BI is a partial decoupling of revenue from work, not a full decoupling.
An Art of Air and Fire: Brazil’s Renegade Balloonists
S3 is quite limited when it comes to listing a subset of objects as scope using prefixes. So can fetch all objects starting with "2014/10/10" but you can't fetch the last 30 created objects for instance.
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I wonder if that is related to what happens to people that wear the "god helmet". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet
Just post a Bitcoin address already.

This requires signup which completely defeats the object of Bitcoin donations and leads me to the conclusion that this site is a thinly veiled attempt to attract users to Beam.

I know only this because I genuinely tried to donate.

Am I missing something or are you?
I wonder how arguments between people would change if you could truly understand things from the other person's perspective. It would be interesting to say the least.
Bill Watterson produces a new comic for a promotional poster
What he's saying is that it is extremely suspicious that the TPB guys are saying they made no money from running TPB, when they had easily less than 1% of the costs of businesses running similar types and volumes of ads (i.e., adult websites), and furthermore, when they were allegedly hosting TPB at another company that they also owned.

It appears that the TPB guys are claiming that the hosting revenue earned by the second company should not be treated as the ill-gotten revenue earned by the TPB, even though they owned and controlled both companies. And indeed, there are laws in most nations and internationally addressing precisely those sorts of sketchy relationships.
In this model, what would stop a politician from paying voters to delegate their votes to his supporters and thus directly buying the election?
As worded, I think it would. Every bit of the map geometry and audiovisual content in WoW is client-side.

Server only handles chat (via hybrid-ircd, I think?), and via the main daemon (which seems like it might have been Lua-based at one point, or at least link into it like the client does), state coordination including item looting, and creep behaviour. Creep/boss behaviour and looting have been studied closely enough by tactically-minded players to be effectively black-box reverse-engineered, and fully reimplementable to a high degree of fidelity and precision.

(I'm not going to do it, I quit a while ago, but I did make a pretty popular addon, and did look into things a bit.)
You missed one - perfect balance. The CG of a properly designed rotary does not move. It's the reason it can rev so high. And flat torque across most of the RPM range is the reason for the power density since torque*speed=power you increase power by spinning faster. Oh wait, you did say smooth power delivery. It does go together with the others.
I have read the original PRL paper, and I think that the significant issue with it is that it conflates the complexity (C5 in the paper, a measure of the clustering of the gravitational objects) with entropy. I don't think that this leap is warranted.

Complexity, as defined by the authors, is primarily a spatial dispersion measure without a corresponding measure of energy dispersion. As far as I can tell, this system should be subject to Liouville's theorem, which means that the apparent entropy decrease (the decrease in C5) that occurs when the system contracts is just hiding the entropy in the phase space of the particle velocities. So, as the particles get closer together, their velocities get farther apart.

This same kind of effect occurs in particle beams when you try to squeeze the particle beam tighter. Assuming you aren't using some kind of beam cooling (like adding cold electrons, or using stochastic cooling), every time the beam gets squeezed, the beam gets tighter but the phase spread in the particles increases. When the beam spreads out again, the phase spread usually goes back down. It can get as low as its original value, but no lower. Just like entropy (cause that's what it really is).

That's just my thoughts after a brief perusal. Feel free to point out any obvious errors in my logic.
The second poem actually gives quite a bit of insight regarding his situation. Translation from Chinese to English is hard and much is lost in translation. I'll translate the following to prose as to minimize what's lost in the translation:

《冲突》
"Conflict"

他们都说
They all say

我是个话很少的孩子
I'm a child of few words

对此我并不否认
This I don't deny

实际上
But actually

我说与不说
Whether I speak or not

都会跟这个社会
With this society I'll still

发生冲突
Conflict

"They've always told me that I was a quiet child. I do not deny that fact, however, whether I speak up or not doesn't alter the fact that I feel incompatible with this society."

The main beef I have with the translation is that conflict is a very explicit word whereas Chinese is much more implicit. It's pretty obvious that there was a large disconnect with what he wanted out of society vs reality. This is unfortunately quite common in China.

Being someone who grew up reading Chinese novels extensively, I can attest that the culture itself is heavily romanticized and when compared to the modern subversion influenced by the communist party, it's figuratively night and day.
Exactly ... Back to basics.

Just learn how to use the terminal in its default form. We've been doing it for years efficiently.
I always thought that people should have more built-in search power when they code. It's funny that Microsoft is taking the lead over Google on this, though I guess Google doesn't have their own IDE.

Soon, modular projects will just consist of searching and plugging in components...
I don't know that dragonwriter meant to exclude government employment from "the market". If we include it, the question remains approximately as strong. If there is useful work to be done, we should employ them to do that work, but we should do that based on the work we see to be done, not based on some notion that people having freedom to choose how they spend their time is bad.
The Coast Guard has a very interesting set of law enforcement, military, and regulatory authorities.
Much faster testing in Django
The Price of American Eugenics
Of course. Thanks again for the support! You're helping a lot of patients.
The linked document describes all the obvious parts that have been known foreer, but doesn't mention the interesting part: what webservices respond to user input (URL) by serving a previously nonexistent (server-side) document with a name derived from the URL.
Wouldnt you have to buy at least 50% of the votes sounds expensive