DarkShikari

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by DarkShikari 15y ago
I think it's important for people to realize that facebook is completely within their rights Yes, it's within their rights, so it may be legal , but... however, there is nothing illegal or unethical about them doing so. How does this i
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Of course, StonyVision needed content to share and he wasted no time in getting it directly from source – The Scene. He’d gained access to this elite network Who is writing these articles?! The "Scene" is simply a generic term for piracy
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
But will this last? With the phenomenal cost of running a retail establishment, it's probably cheaper to run an online store -- even if you offer free, shipping-costs-paid returns for any item that doesn't fit! More and more people I know
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Everything Twitter does, Tumblr seems to do better. The main thing Twitter seems to be used for is retweeting amusing or interesting tweets -- often from comedy accounts, like "madeupstats" or "shitmydadsays". But Tumblr has way better con
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
You are making a categorical error: One proves algorithms and tests programs. You can prove programs too, not just algorithms. That's what the entire (exorbitantly expensive) field of verified applications lies upon. Even my college cla
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
It is not sufficient merely to prove a program correct; you have to test it too. Moreover, to be really certain that a program is correct, you have to test it for all possible input values, but this is seldom feasible. This statement is t
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Beating PNG is not actually hard; zlib is not fast at compression, nor is it very good at compressing anything besides graphics. It doesn't even do RGB decorrelation, which can be a really big win (e.g. YCgCo). Ironically, on non-graphic
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Because they have higher standards for themselves (HN startups) than for movie pirates?
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Coal can't be "clean" unless you can find a place to put the vast amount of carbon dioxide.
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
What does "caught playing pirated games on Steam" even mean? Cracked versions of Steam games typically have the Steam portion stripped out, so one would not play them "on Steam" at all.
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
But the DRM is not what's protecting themselves from piracy; it's the quality and convenience of the service. Every Steam game is trivially cracked within hours of release, regardless of the DRM, yet most people still choose to buy the gam
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
For fun, I attempted to analyze a function with a friend who's a total Pokemon geek and came up with the following, which I figure I'll post here (no guarantee on accuracy): DecrementPP: ; after using a move, decrement pp in battl
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
See: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Barefoot_running http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Biological_determinism (logical fallacy)
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
min() is a special case: on most modern architectures (x86, ARM, etc), the naive code will compile optimally. Example on x86: cmp eax, ebx cmovg eax, ebx The compiler will likely not understand the insane bit-hack method, wh
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Even if DNSSEC and SOPA were mutually exclusive in all aspects (which they are not), being pro-SOPA does not mean Comcast cannot also prepare for the case where SOPA fails to pass.
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
I really don't get HOW and WHY people want government regulations, the same government that is pushing for SOPA. Opposing SOPA --> "I don't want corporations regulating the internet." Supporting net neutrality --> "I don't want co
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
This also reminds me of the idiots who paid into the Groupon investment just so they could pay off the original investors (who happen to be largely the Groupon CEO): http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-30/groupon-has-raised-... . See
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
I think what the GP means is that it won't mesh well with certain outdated marketing methods used for certain target audiences. The genre itself is merely correlated with this, not directly linked. Which is perfectly okay. We're in an age
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Even as a non-physics-major, stories like this tend to be terribly lacking in meat. The article says almost nothing about the topic: only a general description, without any technical information or exactly what the theorized effect on Hawk
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Extremely true, and very important from my experience too. Hiring other people to work with you isn't just about having more bags of meat to write more code, but about having other people with different perspectives . This can be about i
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
It is -- and that book should be required reading for anyone making any comment on this subject. It's shocking how often I see posts, especially on Hacker News, that take for granted "gender differences" that have been proven not to exis
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
(By the way, if you ever want a conclusive argument that girls being raised to love pink and hate math is societal The most staggering thing about these assumptions is not merely how they contradict current scientific understanding, but t
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
Cave Story+ is an updated-engine version of what is probably the most famous indie game of all time that basically started the modern indie games movement. It would not be unreasonable to say it's one of the best action/platformer games
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
One of the original H.264 proposals was to make Baseline Profile royalty-free -- unfortunately this kind of died (I don't know the details). The goal of making a royalty-free standard predates Theora by at least 5-10 years. Theora is an
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
I don't understand why the W3C even allows this. When companies submit any documentation whatsoever as part of, say, an the ITU H.264 standardization process, they are required to sign off on a form that states whether they have patent cl
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
That the AI can always get out of the box is a very strong claim. But it's not necessary. The only claim necessary is that the AI can convince some humans to let it out of the box, and we cannot identify a priori which humans will an
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
It might be interesting to split this by exactly what sort of exit -- a talent acquisition is just as much an exit as an IPO or a high-priced buyout, but probably won't give nearly the same payout.
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
At first I thought this amounted to a claim that the halting problem had been solved, That's not what the halting problem means! There is no rule that says you cannot prove a program is safe: the rule is only that you cannot prove any
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
I'm not so sure this is true anymore. I know many people who have practically become addicted to websites like Milanoo, vastly preferring them to the experience of shopping in a store. Issues of fit are reduced by providing detailed measu
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by DarkShikari 15y ago
There are a few core problems here. The first is that dating sites typically don't care about people actually finding a good partner, because there's a negative economic incentive for it. If you find your perfect man/woman, you won't come

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