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So, I was personally involved in a HL mod called The Opera, which for some of you who may vaguely remember, is a mod based on the high action shoot 'em up films by John Woo, also known as the Hong Kong Blood Opera genre. The game was the first ever example of animated fabric(trenchcoats) in Half-Life, a tech that carried over to Action Half-Life.

At the time it was kind of a big deal, but I also remember another big deal during that time: when Valve bootstrapped Steam and forced everyone to start picking up Counter-Strike updates through the software. Of course, mirrors were provided a few hours after the main release, but, Steam was the first place where the data was available.

This was a time when the main features of Steam were "preventing hacking" and providing a better CDN. The little known game Day of Defeat managed to be scooped up by Valve and the community couldn't wait to see what happened when Valve and the Steam platform supported a game out of the gate -- Team Fortress 2 looked a lot like Firearms mod with sentries, and the communities were on fire talking about Valve meddling with the mod community.

That time, a time I fondly remember growing up during, strikes me as strangely familiar when I look at the conversations around paid mods in Workshop. The funny thing is, though, every game has paid mods now in the form of DLC. The silly hat bullshit in TF2 should never generate real world dollars, this is the virtual equivalent of a mod that your buddy can see you activate. Content like new guns, maps, skins, models, etc used to exclusively come from the community, and infrequently in some "expansion pack" release from the game developers themselves. There's a different problem with game development companies and the incestious publisher relationship; but suffice it to say that the primary game publisher, at least (over) a decade ago when I was more involved with the community, was hugely flattered and took joy when their game was modded.

Not that running a mod team is easy, it's not. I remember distinctly when one of the main map builders for The Opera was hired by Raven. I remember too, when model and skin engineers spent hundreds of dollars on gun rentals and sound equipment to get the "bang" noise for each gun just right. I wish there was a kickass way to pay him on the spot for that kind of investment, but now there are so many "better" ways to run a grassroots development team (crowdfunding not the least among them) and if you actually kick ass and produce high quality game content, you'll just get a job in the industry like other people who kick ass at it. Or the community will bootstrap a development shop and you can try your hand at running a team "for real".

Instead of trying to open up a bespoke "skyrim mod" shop and peddle high resolution horse genitals for $3.99/testicle.
A lot of this mirrors what I've seen in the real world.

"...except for the additional maintenance task of “understanding the existing product.” This task is the dominant maintenance activity, consuming roughly 30 percent of maintenance time."

I've definitely lost a large chunk of my programming life trying to understand unclear code in large systems!

Edit: removed ambiguous quantification
I'm glad this trend is so far limited only to a few companies that I can easily boycott. There's even a group on the "Buycott" app against anti-GMO companies.

It would really be great if there were a three-letter code we could use to demonize Monsanto and Syngenta's harmful patent practices and shift the discussion to where it used to be and still should be.

edit: just adding a link to a recent John Stewart segment, which will hopefully stop some of the fearmongering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY-UPHLJ31A
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I'm the last person to be for surveilance/censorship but in such a situation as I described one would have to become creative or leave the country. That's all I'm saying.
no GMOs while eating a burrito bowl with 1.5k calories
So if someone does not use his brain for long he/she becomes demeted becuse he does not need a brain?
Well, as Eric put it

At this point the strongest possible language and the strongest possible push back are being used because everything else is routinely swept under the rug.
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Hispanic means a lot of different things in a lot of different places. The root word comes from Hispania, which was the Roman name for the Iberian peninsula. That includes Portugal, so some people consider Portuguese descendants to be Hispanics, although most don't.

However, (AFAICT) nobody considers Hispanic to be "mixed" peoples; most include mixed peoples in the category but there are some who only use the term to refer to white peoples in Spanish Central & South America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic
My argument is not about Catholicism, but religion and social organization itself. Most of these countries have either a homogeneous population or a common gathering element(Catholicism for Hispanics)

Most non-Hispanic Americans end up not having a common element or belonging to such a community. The effects on health may vary from less binge drinking to a more helpful family.
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Am I the only one who avoids Chipotle because it's crappy, even if they used organic/free-range/grass-fed/constantly-hugged meat and vegetables, only?
How do the AMQP frames increase in size indefinitely? (I use DLXs and message TTLs to do timed retries, without issue, although at a very low retry rate, so maybe I'm just not hitting your purported issue with increasing frame sizes?)
Antidotial, but my mom's side of the family is hispanic. Her ancestors arrived 1850's. None of the women drank, nor smoked much. The men drank, and smoked like cast members on Mad Men. They were all surprising healthy? Even the one's who did get bypasses and diabetics--all lived into their 80's and 90's; functional--driving, working, and even dating. My grandfater drank 12 beers/day and smoked two packs of cigarettes/day, and ate fast food(loved Taco Bell), and lived to 80 something. Plus, he lived most of his life in the smoggiest parts of LA.

Now, my dad's Irish side of the family, at least the men, died in their 60's. I have a feeling I will take after my Irish ancestors. Maybe, I will get lucky?

I am glad to hear something positive about Hispanics--too often it's negative. I always leave out my Hispanic heritage because it's just not worth the stereotypes.
My mistake. Point noted.
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I am not advocating staying in a job you hate in lieu of other options. I am however inclined to point out that startups should have technical debt and that understanding why and learning how to cope with it is a valuable skill if you want to live in the world of startups.

Technical debt is leverage...the analogy is to capital access. Kludges today allow the company to grow. The second worst case [1] is that the growth requires unkludging the code base for continued use. The best likely case is that unkludging is avoided because the whole architecture is wrong for the larger scale design necessary to handle the growth paid for with technical debt...that is even the best engineered small scale system can't handle the larger scale success brings. YAGNI.

Good luck.

[1]: The worst and most likely case is that the startup fails. The good news is that the future forgives the technical debt when that happens.
The larger narrative is the commoditisation of education, degree-mills, disgruntled educators who find they are no longer able to educate (the word comes from educere - to lead or to draw from, and implies a two-party process) their disengaged students, and the even larger narrative is the result of entitlement culture, which is part of the broader narrative of social change in north america, 1770 - 2015.

I know far too many talented and insightful educators who have found themselves either unemployed or fleeing to commerce.. those who remain are increasingly embittered, embattled, or just don't care.

Things will get better when and if folks stop believing that all of their dreams will come true because they're a unique special flower, and start realising that most of life requires knowledge and hard graft, if you want to achieve anything worthwhile - and that you are just another head of corn in a field of billions.
So just so I understand where you're coming from, you linked to an op-ed piece in Scientific American as proof of what you're saying?
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And don't forget they were trying to minimise the potential competition and challenge to their revenue streams that modding represents.
This exact question turned up in reference to the Sandy Hook school shooting. A few of us asked why it was so prominent on HN given then guidelines, and in particular I said:

Yes, this is important, yes, it's newsworthy.
No, it's not "Hacker News". It's all over the
news, and there's nothing specific about hacking,
or start-ups. It's not even of "deep interest"
in any real sense. It's tragedy, pure and simple,
and then it becomes politics.[0]

PG replied (in reference to the guidelines you quote) with:

Note those words most and probably.

Another accused me:

Try on a little human emotion and sensitivity for
size: this isn't your site to police. Even pg has
pointed out the precision of the wording which you
seemingly ignored.

I usually stay out of discussions about on-topic/off-topic now. There's nothing to be gained. I just flag things according to my own criteria and move on.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922380
as much as I hate the anti-GMO stuff, cause in reality, we've genetically modified everything we eat through thousands of years of forced selection, I am all for better bread. I bake my own with minimal sugar and gluten, and it is soooo much better then store bread, and really makes a sandwich amazing(note, when I say minimal gluten, I mean no extra gluten, not gluten free flour).
1. This is not new in the corporate world. Large companies like GE have patent-buying departments that do something similar, except they are are a lot more flexible (you can sell entire portfolios and even unpatented ideas) and a lot less efficient. The big difference is, other companies advertise their intent as being "driving innovation" rather than starving patent trolls.

2. This is not new for Google either. They have been quietly talking to and buying from various kinds of patent holders for many years now.

3. I'd be very interested to know what kinds of patents they're hoping to buy. Are they looking for "bad" patents to really "disarm the trolls"? Or are they just hoping to get good ones for cheap and use the "patent troll" narrative for PR? Unfortunately, I doubt they'll disclose the results of this promotion.
And it's funny you should mention Sun Microsystems, because this is the influence behind Java's endian-ness, and subsequently Dalvik (mentioned below in another comment), which happens to be... you guessed it... big endian.

So the big endian gene lives on in the JVM and its relatives.
I'm not sure the hyperbole is helping the debate. Chipotle using non-GMO foods probably isn't causing anyone to go blind, right?
Someone from the Maryland National Guard was in front of cameras this morning emphasizing that their presence was not under a declaration of martial law (which is a perhaps pedantic interpretation of "activate military powers", but there you go).

The situation in Baltimore (a city of 600,000, a metro of several million) looks to me like it is limited to at most a few thousand people. The idea that the media fanned these people into action is silly. They see large crowds of people (that are not rioting or looting) engaging with the police and see it as an opportunity to do whatever they want while hiding in those crowds.

The most common type of small riots in the US are sports related, those riots are certainly not the result of the media fanning flames, they are a result of small numbers of people feeling like they can hide in a crowd.
> "The strongest scientific evidence calls for Americans to increase their intake of fruits and vegetables.

This. Hint: the problem isn't the GMOs in that Big Mac you're eating
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It's frightening how many people don't understand the arguments against GMOs.

Read this: http://fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2.pdf and before making arguments, make sure your argument hasn't already been responded to in the "Fallacy" section.

Of course, there are many non-scientific arguments about GMOs. I'm not talking about those.

EDIT: Someone asked for a tldr. It's a useful skill to learn how to read a paper (start with the abstract and the conclusion), but I'm pasting the conclusion here anyway:

This formalization of the two different types of un-certainty about risk (local and systemic) makes clear when the precautionary principle is, and when it isn’t, appropriate. The examples of GMOs and nuclear energy help to elucidate the application of these ideas. We hope this will help decision makers to avoid ruin in the future.
"the police said some firefighters were reportedly having cinder blocks heaved at them as they responded to emergencies."

That's pathetic.
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But do you eat fast food? In the fast food world, Chipotle is pretty high up on the "brand perception" scale. Sure, it's not incredible, but it "feels" better than eating Wendys/McDonalds/Burger King. (I don't eat fast-food much, but my bias is towards Chipotle when I do.)
People don't think random mutations are good either. Ironically, though, we may get more of that due to push back against GMOs.
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-11-21/monsanto-vs-...

Yet to be fair, GMOs still produce changes that aren't possible through mutagenesis. Also GMOs are not without their own random mutations since the process of transgene insertions often produce their own random set of side effect changes.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1559911/
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This is a very risky business. People won't put money if reward is only 10%. And you are talking about successful products. The overall return would be far lower.
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My wife and I live in Baltimore, in Mt. Vernon. We were having dinner the other night in Bolton Hill (a quiet residential area), and four guys ran by the restaurant and tried to throw a chair through the window (chairs turned out to be heavier than they thought). People vandalized the Rite-Aid a few blocks from our apartment, and set fire to a building we could see out our window.

Being from Bangladesh I'm not worried (what's happening in Baltimore happens in Dhaka every other month). But it's a reminder of how fragile the social order is and how close we always are to its collapse.
and before that we genetically modified them through forced selection. Modern crops(pre-GMO even) bear little to no resemblance to what they were originally. Anti-GMO sentiment is bullcrap.
Paid mods are fine, they should have led from the back, not the front, somehow. The rates were bad, and the launch mods were just... crap useless crap.

The people leading the charge were useless idiots too, they are happy to pay for Skyrim and not for quality mods? There should be opportunity for content creators to contribute in a significant way and get paid to do it.

This is just awful execution of a good idea, with the wrong rates for authors and the delivery mechanism. It should have been 15% Bethedsa, 15% Valve, 70% Creator.

I lament.
Lol. Seriously though, it's tough to get to 1500 without the tortilla.
Did I see the Mayor of Baltimore at a press conference saying they "gave room for people that wanted to destroy"?
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Another name for a similar mechanism.
Please understand that Daily Mail is nearly their equivalent of The National Enquirer. I wouldn't extrapolate too much from that source, in particular.
and their fire hoses vandalized, apparently
> Remember that "GMO" opposition is anti-scientific nonsense,

What is scientific nonsense is generalizing, either one way or the other

Golden rice looks like a great invention, but being in favor of it means that we can't oppose any GMO or any company producing GMOs?

Each case is different.
Another company folding to bad science isn't helping people either...
>the women knit large woolen sweaters called “ganzeys,”

Now that's fascinating. 'Ganzey' is a perfect phonetic pronunciation of the Irish word for sweater which is 'geansaí'.
TL;DR please. I'm definitely not going to read this and I would be surprised if many did. Just being honest.
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It at least lends credibility to anti-GMO activism.
> Concretely speaking - the population increases from 150M to 300M and that population now enjoys XBoxes, MRIs, restaurant meals and larger houses. Why have the number of feasible research projects suddenly quadrupled? Why should there be a relation between restaurant meals and research projects?

Those Xboxes and MRIs came from research. Tomorrow they probably want holodecks and cures for cancers (selfish peasants!).

> Why should there be a relation between restaurant meals and research projects?

Future GDP growth depends on basic research, and so vice versa.
I've been recently moving back and forth between Italy and France and there is one thing that bothers me with eurotariff: if I'm in Italy, a French friend is visiting me, and I send them a text with my non-roaming Italian phone I pay about 30 cents and this sum is not regulated anywhere. If I fish out my French SIM card then that amount is capped to 7 cents. Funnily enough once I finish my monthly allotment of SMS's, I can still message my Italian friends, from my Italian phone at 10 cents per message, which is more expensive than what I'd pay roaming and is not regulated.

So what I'm saying is that already today, without roaming charges being abolished, using a foreign phone is generally cheaper than anything without a plan in Italy, and I know that Italy is one of the cheapest countries in Europe for non-monthly deals.
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Selective breeding, the ancient form of GMO, which these people interestingly don't seem to object to, uses inbreeding and other techniques that are in fact known to produce unhealthy organisms.
I gathered my thoughts in a comment on the Bethesda blog post:

http://www.bethblog.com/2015/04/27/why-were-trying-paid-skyr...

TL,DR:
Bethesda doesn't deserve the 45% of the sale, specially when they are charging 60$ for the game. IMO, they deserve 0%, for they have created nothing (and were already paid for the game/tools). And mods had value to the game, and increase it's lifetime.

Two problems with paid mods:

1 - most modders are heavy modders (about a hundred mods at a time). Knowing that, I can see some players realizing they will spend more than 100$ in a game.

2 - This can becomes Bethesda's business model. It can lead to a Elder Scrolls 6 with lackluster content, waiting to be filled with (paid) mods.

I don't have a problem with paid mods. I just think Bethesda is getting greedy. Does adobe get a cut from Photoshop plugin sales? Does Unity get a cut from Unity developed games?

How to implement paid mods:

- Help modders choose a copyright license

- Help track/prevent copyright infrigement. Many mods use other mods or are "mod compilations". And track unauthorized mod uploads to the market.
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In practice these days we have a lot more choice of government (there are dozens of reasonable countries you can move to without changing your lifestyle too much) than of particular corporations (avoiding apple, google and microsoft would involve substantial changes to most people's lifes).

Ownership doesn't have to be absolute to have meaning. You've always been forbidden from using your property in illegal ways (e.g. just because you own a knife doesn't mean you have the right to stab someone with it; just because you own a field doesn't mean you're allowed to bury toxic waste there).
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I think it's decently price for the amount of calories you get.

I get it's 1.5k but it's not the corporation's responsibility to regulate how a much a person eat. I'm glad that we have laws posting calories count and I think it's good enough. You can eat half and save the rest or if you work out for 2-3hours then 1.5k calories is pretty nice.

I did body building for a bit and I use myfitnesspal to count my calories. I had a food scale and a measure cup too. I don't get why we have to shame a food place for giving us a good deal. If anything have social programs to raise awareness to obesity.
Along those lines, if you're interested in the legal history of distribution and "copies," Ars Technica put out a great summary article during the Aereo fight last year.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/20/antennas-for-u...
I haven't been paying extra close attention to the whole fiasco, but there's something that I don't understand.

Are people really more in favor of modders getting 100% of $0 rather than 25% of $X?

Is there more to this debate that I'm missing?
I would put that title even more pointed: Surveillance makes us all criminals before the fact. We're being made suspects 24/7, from birth to death. It's only a question of time until avoiding surveillance will be a criminal act in itself.
I'm a bit more optimistic about industry, but you probably have a good point. Academia can be a big circle jerk also, with the applied science being replaced by theoretical science in the big circus. Almost everyone is fake in this game, except for the few who aren't.
Seems broader than just GMO's:

Pepsi announced it was getting rid of aspartame
Kraft announced it was dropping artificial dyes
McDonald's said it would start sourcing chicken raised without antibiotics
Nestle declared it would dump artificial colorings and flavorings

It seems blanket statements are bad for healthy GMOs but also have a secondary positive effect elsewhere within the food industry.
As someone from the US, I think the examples you gave (how degrees are perceived and TV series) also apply here. However, I feel like while STEM qualifications are well-regarded as challenging yet necessary, they have lost some of their glory from a few decades ago during the Cold War, etc. (as portrayed in history textbooks, anyway) when it was more of an immediate national security priority.
Like many here, I'm confused with how people could be upset with GMOs but not random mutation. Either could result in the same vegetables.

It turns out - when talking to strongly GMO-opposed persons - it's usually not the genetic modification they're worried about. Instead, it's that a crop has been showered in roundup before we eat it. Saying "anti-GMO" has become a simpler way of saying that you're anti-roundup-sprayed-crops.

Even though I disagree with this redefinition, I've found it to be common among anti-GMO parties. I also consider their real argument much more respectable than actually being opposed to arbitrary genetic mutations.
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