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Finally, a topic I'm somewhat of an expert in on HN!

>Even in "regular sports", ratings rise when narratives like rivalries or dynasties are in play. We saw the decline of viewership in Starcraft:Broodwar in Korea when such narratives fizzled and when the old stars faded from relevance, despite the considerable increase in overall skill level.

There were new stars and new rivalries. This totally leaves out the Savior scandal, competing games, and how unique and what fluke BW actually was. A game never meant to be played competitively, pushed to it's limits for years and years and years by the players and map makers, broken mechanics that turned out to balance the game near flawlessly. The list goes on and on. BW was an anomoly in the esports world, a game being played competitively 10 years after it's made is not normal. Melee is the only game that comes to mind that is similar. Counter Strike is still being played of course, but not the original game, no patches, like BW or Melee.

>Starcraft 2 has arguably suffered from the relative lack of such a narrative, due in part to the fragmentation of its competitive scene.

I disagree 1000%! SC2 suffered from horrible balance decisions, a battle.net system that was objectively worse than BW and WC3, no LAN, and an over-zealous Blizzards-Activision that wanted to extract as much money as possible as quickly as possible. Things like putting limits on how much a prize pool can be before Blizzard takes a cut actually encouraged tournaments to stay smaller the first year or two of SC2. No LAN meant games would crap out and couldn't be restarted with tens of thousands of dollars on the line. No automated tournaments, no clans, no nothing. Battle.net 2.0 was so bad, such a monumental fuck up, it shows that Blizzard literally had no idea what they were doing and did not care what the community thought. We begged for years for things that were not that hard to implement for a gigantic company like Blizzard. Finally, the balance. When you balance a game for the lowest level player, it may bring a short spike in players but the reward of a high skilled play is gone. There is no reason to work hard and figure things out. The competitive scene suffered due to these decisions. Finally, the worst choice of them all, to let Wings of Liberty (vanilla SC2) fester and die while they developed Heart of the Swarm (the first expansion). Broodlord/Infester became so boring and dull to watch for months and months while Blizzard didn't do anything. They waited for HotS. And guess what? Want HotS? You have to buy the original as well! Good call! Not greedy at all. So many truly terrible decisions killed SC2 and it's a damn shame. As you can tell, I'm bitter. SC2 had great narratives. Huk vs Korea, Boxer coming back, Nada coming back, Idra (love him or hate him), the EG/TL stuff then Huk going to EG!, so many great runs through GSL or MLG, White-Ra beating MC at that worlds game!, MMA the prodigy of Boxer, MMA vs MVP at Blizzcon, so many great stories. The scene died because Blizzard fucking killed it. My beautiful Starcraft destroyed out of greed and shortsightedness.
I really appreciate this :) Seems like Skeleton's greatest benefit is sometime to newcomers to RWD and knowing it helped someone learn a little means the most to me.

Also rad that you extended it. That's what it's about - making it your own :)
But is there actually enough demand to justify the middle ground?
My point is that she doesn't go beyond stating her views (and it's not like she has done anything of value that would make me respect her views on their own, sans proof).

Let's say I believe something that most people do not. If I want them to give me a chance, perhaps I should start with demonstrating why my theories are valid. If you read 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions', Kuhn describes the process by which a scientific paradigm changes. And that starts with observations that do not fit with currently established models (as opposed to upstart scientists showing up and labeling everybody else a racist idiot).

Ie for every point you raised, where is the data that demonstrates that commonly held beliefs (that she disagrees with) are wrong?
This announcement gives me a very nostalgic comfort - As a former competitive Counter-Strike player turned eSports tournament organizer and co-founder of an (in the end) unsuccessful eSports organization, this really reaffirms much of my time spent and makes me really regret leaving eSports when I did. I'm very happy to see Alex Garfield, who I looked up to when almost nobody knew who he was, help turn eSports into a true professional sport that it deserves to be, and even happier to see the huge amount of support that Twitch is providing to the entire community.
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An alternative video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKOrpyO0z48
You seem to think there are only two options: Piracy and artists living in poverty, or no piracy and artists not living in poverty.

Personally, how I want things to be is that authors freely release their content and still make a nice living. That's not necessarily natural and certainly not easy but you asked how I want things to be.
I'm working on a project like this. Could certainly use co-organizers if you're interested. Feel free to get in touch.
> Plenty of artists have successfully adapted and are doing great.

Exactly. The artists that have adapted are the ones whose art is actually valuable, rather than artists who work with the people who control distribution channels. Distribution channels are a lot more prone to disruption than creators of art.
That'd be wonderful. Find a way to make that happen and you'll be rich and famous.

In any case, people who make money on the backs of other peoples' work explicitly against their will are still assholes.
> Geneva Convention states clearly - either POW status or suspect in the judicial system. There is no 3rd option.

None of the Geneva Conventions actually say this. OTOH, torture is subject to a universal prohibition under international law independently of the status of the tortured person, whether a protected person under the any of the Geneva Conventions, a regular criminal suspect in a domestic court system, or any other status that may or may not exist.
Ah, it's getting stuck on /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup

Rerunning with "-D skip"
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Ultimately useless because Trolls are now writing their own trivial patents. In addition to this, tons of solo practitioner attorneys are out there writing patents on their own hoping to sell some broad bullshit patent to a troll.

Still, this is a good effort in that it gets people thinking about the problem. That's the first step before real reform.
You need some help.
General rule? No multiple editors. That doesn't mean no specialized tools, but no one offs. On one team a member wanted to use VIM for most of there stuff. I thought fine. Unfortunately VIM's formatting is different than Eclipse's. The result is files were hard to read in both tools.

Besides, to the point at hand, my rule is no dicking around with how the Romans do it. IntelliJ has its own rules. Eclipse another. The same is true for Emacs and VIM. Trying to make one the other overly complicates the matter for the team. Think how many people get confused by Emacs in Evil Mode.

A team requires that we work in concert. They should argue and defend tool selection. Once decided stick with it until its been played out.
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Are you not familiar with the distinction between manslaughter and the varying degrees of murder? Intent plays a huge part in the legal system.
Yes, you're absolutely right. This report is making me want to kill people in cold blood. It's probably better to keep it secret so nobody finds out about it until it's too late.
There's a difference between "always uses the same seed" and "can be seeded for reproducibility". You probably want the latter and probably don't want the former.
So that's who is responsible for those horrible popup ads that TPB has been using. I fear for anyone browsing pirate bay without noscript and adblock.

Edit: typo
Huh? Your original post is not appropriate, that is what I am referencing.

Ugh. This isn't complicated.

The guidelines state: Don't comment about how an article isn't appropriate for HN, just flag it.
> Crimes aren't suddenly legal just because you do them for reasons besides profit.

That's decidedly not true.

Per your example:

> Otherwise the only murderers in jail would be professional assassins.

The people responsible for dropping the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima were not considered criminals and did not go to jail or get punished at all.

War acts are always rationalized by their consequences and the intent behind them.

But this is way off-topic.

Someone already mentioned that copyright laws do indeed distinguish between "commercial and non-commercial copyright infringement".

Actually, I'd argue that even ethically they are treated differently.

If I bought a movie then shared it with my friends, no one would think I'm doing something that's unethical.

If I started selling or renting that movie to my classmates, it's more controversial.
Like going to war with two nations over an unrelated terrorist attack?
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So you want to skew the conversation from a discussion the legitimacy of torture, to "is violence bad in it's biological essence".

The reason people come to stark conclusions like "all violence is bad" is because they experienced real war, or real violence.

Read post war literature.

I would rather dismiss violence completely, even though it would be slightly intellectually dishonest, rather than indulge in quasi philosophical conversations on violence in it's biological essence (when the context is war or torture).

To me, it's obscene, a mockery of the millions that has lost their lives to war, and a self masturbatory intellectual privilege of the few wealthy enough to live far from the unimaginable horrors of real war.
This is actually a great apology.

I agree with you that it's troubling that a new model for monetizing free work isn't coalescing -- in art, open source, writing, and more. I've personally felt the sting of all of these.

However, I don't blame the downloaders or the Pirate Bays. People want what they want, and Pirate Bay managed to provide that to people: a download index for the price of an ad or a drive-by download. I congratulate them on their success.

I think if you can't convince people to hand over money for what you've made, then what you've made simply isn't valuable, even if it maybe was yesterday. Perhaps this means that the local band will have to pack away their guitars while the one-hit wonder Gangnam Styles rake in the bucks, but nobody is being screwed here.

What society wants from entertainment has evolved, and holding onto a static definition of what constitutes "art", "quality", or "enriching one's life" while ignoring what real people are clearly demanding from their entertainment is, I think, pretentious.

I don't think the internet is destroying anything or screwing anyone. It's just closing gaps and optimizing every industry towards exactly what people want; if that's thrown-together garbage delivered for free at the cost of promotions shoved into your eyeballs, then don't blame the internet, or Pirate Bay. Blame people for consuming crap and blindly selling their souls to ads.
I agree that we need an alternative where the artists can make a living and do their art, but I think trying to stop people doing what they feel is natural is not going to work.

To me it's very similar to the war on drugs... Policy and business models need to change. There are always people resistant to change as they want to protect their revenue streams.
Necessary, but not sufficient.
> Crimes aren't suddenly legal just because you do them for reasons besides profit.

Plenty of specific crimes, do, in fact, have seeking a material reward/exchange as a required element of the offense, and the act that is criminal when done for profit is legal (or, if still illegal, illegal under a different provision which often has a lesser punishment) when done without that exchange.
Seems like the US imports quite a bit of stuff from Asia.
Lots of interesting comments here. My biggest bit of advice to someone asking if he or she should get a PhD is to phrase it differently.

If that person got into an elite Medical, Law, or Business School, they should ask "should I get an MD, JD, or MBA". The reason it's ok to phrase it this way is that attrition rates are typically below one half of one percent in those degree programs at the elite (top 10) level.

Science PhD programs, even elite ones, often have attrition rates at 50%. Engineering is a bit better, at around 35% attrition rates, though this varies by program.

So you should be saying "should I take a 50% shot at getting a PhD" - or, if not, take a very objective look at why the 50% doesn't apply to you. I know, if you got into the PhD program at Berkeley, you justifiably think you're really good at this sort of thing, but really, everyone's good. The 50% who drop or fail out aren't slackers or unintelligent. They're often exceptionally smart and motivated people.

These degrees are very different from professional degrees at the elite level. They are extraordinarily difficult to complete.

On a personal note, I was a PhD student in Industrial Engineering at Berkeley, and I felt there was far too much failure and attrition for such a bright and accomplished group of people. Nobody I knew ended up in an insane asylum (as mentioned in other posts), but it was an emotionally rough experience for many of them, and I could see it getting there. I felt the system did border on being cruel at times.
> We've gone from the old pre-Internet system, which screwed artists most of the time, to a new system that screws artists all the time.

In general you make some valid points and I think I understand where you're coming from - as an artist. I strongly believe though, that the pre-Internet system screwed artists because the Internet itself did not exist.

The screwing is coming from the music industry itself. People are still paying for music, it is still (and probably more than ever) a multi billion business. Yet, true, authentic talent don't get the attention/compensation they deserve, why?

Because the big players control who gets what. And that's what they're trying to do when fighting internet piracy, control the distribution. They're not interested in small time artists, they're not fighting for you.

I truly believe that all small time artists should embrace the internet, it's their only true hope to get the attention they deserve, for free. Money will come afterwards. After all, a few companies and a few more monkeys probably get more money than the rest 95%, the internet can split some of that more equally.

EDIT: syntax, trying to make sense
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Disabling all the JS crap that modern sites layer on top of content - reduces memory and CPU usage. I paid for the memory and CPU, and I don't want several hundreds of MBs spent caching JS interpreter/optimizer data structures and analytics scripts wasting my CPU compute power - decreasing the battery life of my device.

While you may be right that the privacy angle is something that few users care about, there are real tangible benefits to disabling some of this stuff.
Huge difference man.

Google's business is not centered around providing pirated material. The fact that it happens is accidental.

The pirate bay, on the other hand, (as clearly suggested by its name), does infact center around providing access to pirated material.
FLOSS currently gets extra scrutiny ("BOLO", which usually means "no") when applying for 501c3 status. The reasoning is to avoid a situation like the following:

Google has some extremely-Google-specific work they want done. Google spins up a project to do it as an external entity, and "donates" the money to make it happen. Google takes that as a tax deduction, and meanwhile the 501c3 gets all the other tax benefits a 501c3 gets (often property tax exemption, for instance).

This is a fair objection, to a point - an organization whose sole purpose is to benefit a for-profit company should probably be paying property tax. I think they take it too far - "Be On Look Out" is appropriate, but it shouldn't mean "no" when projects are genuinely creating value that is broadly accessible.

Your narrower program described above also solves the problem, albeit arguably in a patchier way. The money from Google that would be spent on business expenses anyway wouldn't have been taxed anyway.
I'm going to file this under: I've always wanted to know this, but never knew I did.
Seems to be in the same market as Pure: http://purecss.io/

Would love to see a compare/contrast.
I'm in that world right now. Most here are like corporate employees, with a few exceptions. In most cases people _will_ do a nasty project to help the company, because in the past the company has turned away the nasty projects even when they looked profitable, because they were more interested in slower growth of interesting work than quick money from boring work. When that boring work becomes necessary, people are prepared to do it on the assumption that there'll be interesting stuff around the corner. So, here at least, the trust flows both ways, and that's a great thing. (edit: since I'm replying to you Michael, it's probably worth stating that in your terminology I'm currently working in a "guild" environment, and that's rare enough that my experience is probably the exception not the norm.)
And how shall we proceed?
Oh you're right. But the key must increase linearly with the size of the plaintext that is being decrypted. So I don't think it has any advantages over a one time pad.
I've spent much of the last twenty years teaching math to middle and high school students who had previously been burned out on math. I teach in an environment where I get to let students progress at their own pace. Everyone gets a clear set of math milestones laid out, and they earn their credit when they reach those milestones. Students see me mostly as someone who helps them reach objective milestones, not as someone who tells them they can't do math again.

One of the most significant issues I see is there's often no way back into math if a student gets off track early on. My students typically got confused in 2nd-5th grade, and then math never made sense again. When given the space to work independently, with support, at their own pace, they get to clear up old confusions and realize how much they're capable of when they're not under pressure to keep up with everyone else.

One of the things I enjoy most is taking students who haven't understood math since 3rd grade, and bringing them to a place where they can start to use algebra to solve problems they care about. From then on, they are set up to make good use of math the rest of their lives.

I have a 3 1/2 year old son now, and it's fascinating to watch his development after having been a teacher for so long. He's in that wonderful stage now where "22" is just as big as "a million", and when he wants to describe a large number of things he just strings random numbers together: "Dad, there's 23 45 8 17 100 stars in the sky tonight!" Just the other night he asked, "What do you get when you add 3 and 3?" It's fascinating to watch that understanding develop, and to just keep answering his questions honestly, with the mindset of giving him a strong foundation for more advanced concepts later on.
Do we have figures about how many people have been tortured? Even if 1 is too much for me, many people think in terms of "It's ok because it's a remote risk".
Some explanation.

This is a completely free version of Codea. It's quite powerful — though missing some advanced features. My hope is to bring creative coding to more people.

I have no idea how it will affect sales of the full version of the app (if at all). I hope it increases them; but would just be just as happy with the app being used by more people.
That's true, but doesn't actually change my logic at all
The earlier message in the same thread explains more concisely why he did not implement namespaces: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-12/msg007...
Is this basically Unsplash for videos? That would be really cool.

-When you say "Curated HD Video Free For Your Personal and Commercial Use" does that include the ability to cut the video apart?
-When you get these videos from people, do you have some sort of agreement that they agree to distribute the videos under these terms?
-It would be better if I could click to start/stop because I dont want my mouse in the way and I want to do other stuff while watching the videos.
-Lastly, is it just me or is there no sound?

Sorry if I seem critical, it just looks really cool and I want it to work! Good job so far :)
Have you benchmarked that? Last I tried some not-so-rigorous microbenchmarks, *printf beat C++ << streams by a factor of 3 on msvc 11 (VS2012).
Ekiga is open source, using the GPL. Skype is a proprietary protocol. Plain old telephone service is at least an open standard.

It doesn't bug me, because without people pushing as hard for freedom as RMS has, we'd wouldn't have what we have today.
I totally need this...having suffered from several manic episodes that usually ramp up over a period of a month or two before I become straight up psychotic, completely lost. It would change my life to be able to check in with my psychiatrist after several alerts, rather than when I get to the point that I need to be admitted. its also not the type of message that friends and family like to give.
Cassettes were used to copy music in the past, are you saying that cassette manufacturers were committing a crime?
Best of luck to them. I wish they would have thrown more weight behind webOS when they acquired Palm, but oh well!
This might help.

https://www.jetbrains.com/upsource/
So the guy who took over from Linus doesn't mind Qt. The guy reiterates how much Linus does not like C++. I want my 12 minutes back!
I think this is the reason: http://www.cameronmoll.com/archives/2006/12/gridding_the_960....

960px was the "standard" for so much time (before RWD was a thing) that I still use it as the default width when designing new stuff. Maybe this is a bow to the old masters of our craft.
Its something yes, but considering no one will be charged at all for well documented and extremely grave crimes well... Its hard to take solace in being a little better than a full on totalitarian regime.
39 people were subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques", according to this report.
"ninja" and "rockstar" seem to have faded in popularity. Now one is expected to be "passionate".

I like to stay awake for days on end, writing. I mean like essays, articles and stories.

Sometimes I even write poetry!
Or to look at it another way, Google made their search experience faster on platforms they control Android/Chrome, but slower (or normal speed, whatever you want to call it) everywhere else. I'm pretty sure if MS did that they'd be (rightfully) criticized for it.
"Cell phones can do X" is so link-baity. This is really "microphones + signal analysis can hear depression in people's voices."