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> the No. 1 player worldwide in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer.

I smell so much bullshit in this. How can you be number 1 when matches are 5 vs 5?

edit: Okay it's on Xbox live (hahahahaha), on FFA (hahahahaha) and for a few minutes at most. This is just a big joke, the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l...!

edit2: I know it's a very tiny part of the article, but I just bugged me that you could write something like "Kim is also the number 1 player in Call of Duty", it's just plain false and sensationalism.
Running a DB on a single spindle, and they have performance problems?

I couldn't imagine why.

2 TB OMG, thats almost a decent sized SQL Server instance. Yeah, it should take about an hour or two to replicate. I'm assuming they have a 10Gb enet on their DB server.
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Fascinating (and strangely inspiring) that after ~550 days in office, every single president on the chart had the explicit disapproval of at least(!) 16% of the country.
Ask HN: Can you get a J1 visa for your startup if admitted to an accelerator?
Hello, immigration is a perennial question here on HN. Does anyone have any experience of sponsoring themselves as a J1 visa? Is this possible? We have been admitted to a relatively prestigious accelerator in the bay area which I think should qualify for the training requirement for the visa. My co-founder is American and with advisors and others my share is below 50%.
the ideal way for GitHub to handle this would be
to introduce a separate docs repo for each project

In a GitHub project you can create a gh-pages branch. In this branch you can place HTML files that will get rendered at http://username.github.com/project-name/ ... This is automated by GitHub in the Admin tab of any project. Simply select the option GitHub Pages and it will generate a branch with a basic index.html for you, that also has a download link.

See http://pages.github.com/ for more details.
I'm on holiday here at the moment (lovely country, btw? :)) and it was nice to see that reaction on the news and radio. It's similar to the UK reaction to the kid the US started extradition against a few weeks ago.

It was interesting to see it "on the ground" as it were - I had not idea he was NZ based.
Exactly, (almost) no such thing as bad publicity. Nobody is surprised by what McDs is, and is not. At least they can sort of take a joke. Unless they screw it up and try to track people down for libel.
Losing 20 lbs. changed how I feel everyday in such a positive way.. I can't even imagine 100! And like the poster said, you can eat amazing food and lose weight.
I'm not the one saying never. Why do you anticipate progress with flash storage but not with optical storage?

If we have the optical technology to render a certain number of floating gate transistors in a certain area, we also have the optical technology to render 10-100x as many bits of raw data in that same area.
'Cause he hired that model. And loosing weight has a lot of benefits other than just the ladies too.
China's skyscraper craze 'may herald economic crash'
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I've only got myself as a single data point, but I'm 100% sure that in my early 20s I could interview much better than I do today when it comes to on-the-spot interview questions like implementing tree insert/walking algorithms, reverse this structure in the least steps possible, etc. Yet as a 38 year old I write far better real-world code today than I ever have.
>Go Daddy

You must be new here.
Hilarious. I'm amazed by the fact that they didn't know what they were doing, their marketing dep. and "social media director" should have expected that.
Well, it doesn't work. These 'people' that they are trying to convince still have the same knee-jerk emotional reactions to the words, only now to our disadvantage.

As the parent says: for a bunch of smart guys, we keep doing stupid things. Stubbornly, with the excuse that it 'should work'. It doesn't. It's preaching to the quire.
That's kind of a revealing statement, in fact.

It's about ownership.

If game companies need to hurt their customers in order to "protect" what they think they're selling, then what are the customers buying after all?

The companies think the customers want to buy a copy of the game, so it logically follows that thus, making copies of the game must be restricted. But the customers obviously are buying something else if they feel hurt even after they've rightfully received their copy and even go lengths to "fix" the situation by turning to pirated versions.

It is my guess that what customers want is the abstract concept of ownership.

People buy games and music and movies because they think those games and music are good, and they admire them, thus they want to own these products.

Anecdotally, most of what I own is because I wanted to specifically own it. I own movies on physical DVD disks that I still downloaded from Piratebay for viewing after I bought the DVD because they have better DVD rips and it takes less time to download than to rip myself.

Whatever games I bought and my friends bought when we were teenagers were the best ones that we thought we wanted to own. We wanted to have the game, we wanted to own the game to feel good about owning something we liked. All my game boxes were like that. Monkey Islands. F1GP. Eye of the Beholder. Obtaining a pirate copy wouldn't have satisfied my need to own those titles. Me and my friends pirated stuff that we didn't feel for, and if we hadn't been able to pirate them we wouldn't have bought it.

We didn't buy games to get a copy, we bought games for ownership, we wanted to own them and cherish them. And that is exactly what DRM games don't want to give you: ownership.
Combining multiple commits into one using git rebase
They should wait until the suicide ratio gets more alarming to do something about their employees conditions?
I remember around 2001 - when he started his digital "Jihad" against Bin Laden - his web server was hacked several times with a public FreeBSD telnetd remote root exploit.

I won't deny that you have to give him some respect for being able to pull all these stunts and acquiring the money from investors, however as it seems most if not all projects where at least partly illegal.
If you're not a criminal, why are you in jail?

And it works in the exact reverse. They think: "I'm not in jail, why are you? Probably because you are a criminal."
Gumball 3000 is in the US this year. I wonder if it's fun to watch it go by.
You can enter Meyrin site through gate C - the one in the North, close to St.Genis - during one hour in the morning
to facilitate transit.
Yeah I did the same and it quickly became very boring as I just held down the x button. This issue is largely due to the bounding box set on the sprite being far too small. As long as you avoid a bullet through the center of the sprite, it doesn't register as a collision... There will need to be some tuning as well as without the safe zone, it would take far too long to defeat the boss. All in all though, pretty decent considering it was made using construct 2...
> If we know something of your interests (based on G+ and/or search), isn't suggesting more relevant content to you on Youtube (as a purely hypothetical example) a good thing?

No absolutely not, a search that is more relevant occasionally is only slightly useful maybe getting a slightly better link a few percentage points of the time(past a certain amount how much more relevant can you get. If you go to far in trying to guess the persons mind based on persons external history rather then their search it seem like you would get more way of answers and if you don't the answer would likely have been near the top anyway), keeping less information on users for shorter amounts of time should be preferred.
now this is the kind of thing i come to HN for... but why oh why sourceforge?
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The key is to recognize that when you're getting something for free that you are not the customer. Fastmail provides a great product at a reasonable price. Spam protection and support are both top notch.
Being knowledgable in internet marketing, the first thing I spotted was that the context of this article is to be an advertisement at hackernews et al.

I am tired of "marketers" posting content here, and I suggest that we should downvote the post and upload the image at an imagehost.
Thanks, didn't know about these.
Philippine Presidential Political Adviser, CIA of buying pirated DVDs
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You just copy the WAL log to another server and replay it. It takes a day to setup and test. Once that is setup you have two options async replication (which means you'll lose about 100ms of data in event of a crash) or you can use sync replication which means the transaction doesn't commit until the WAL log is replicated on the other server. (that adds latency but doesn't really affect throughput)

I'm not exactly sure how the failover system works in Postgres, the last time I setup replication on postgres it would only copy the WAL log after it was fully written, but I know they have a much more fine grained system now.

If you use SQL Server you can add a 3rd monitoring server and your connections failover to the new master pretty much automatically as long as you add the 2nd server to your connection string. Using the setup with a 3rd server can create some very strange failure modes though.
What's Obama's long game on signing NDAA 2012? There's no excuse for that.
> What I am trying to illustrate is that the alleged relevance of a set of results biased on the basis of an individual's profile is incredibly insular (and harmful) if it's there at all.

> Boiling it down even further: I believe that search results should reflect what is on the Internet, not just that portion of it that Google deems 'relevant.'

And what I'm trying to illustrate is that you're taking an overly simplistic approach to the question. Google takes in a lot of signals (links, country and language, past behavior with respect to previous queries, sites you've asked to be blocked, ...) and now social signals. Where do you draw the line and why? And why isn't a user responding with more detailed guidance ("I didn't mean X [even though I often do], I mean Y right now") a reasonable exceptional flow some of the time?
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This seems to be happening with many presidents in their first 200 days. See Johnson, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Bush Sr. for examples. Also check out Nixon, who manages to go up on both metrics for the first 200 days.

The numbers support this: on average, 32% of the population is neutral towards a newly elected president. After 200 days, this has gone down to 19%. The same numbers for approval ratings remain steady: from 64% to 63%, while those for disapproval necessarily go up: from 4% to 18%.

This means that even the people who voted against the winning candidate (always between 40% and 60% of the turnout[0]) are initially mostly neutral towards them. But while the people who voted for him stay loyal for a bit (possible because they don't want to feel they've been deceived), the people who voted against him have no qualms about voicing their disapproval.

I have to admit that this "let's wait and see" attitude was pretty surprising to me. It seems like people refrain from judging a president until after he has actually made policy, as opposed to immediately upon taking office, as I would have expected them to do.
I was surprised by the fact that Google no longer passes along the search query for logged in users. Checked my analytics account and it is now about 7.5% of all organic search traffic and climbing up.

Anyone know the rationale behind this one? How does this help in fighting the spam? Or how does it improve search experience?
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On stickiness: search settings - turn off personalized results.
WOW. I haven't even gotten my hands on 4s. And unannounced iPad3 tablet. I wonder what they'll produce next.
I wonder if the outcome would've been different if he were to have kept a much lower profile and didn't seemingly thumb his nose at those who were seeking his downfall
Web based TeamViewer alternative
Interesting. I wonder how a GPU could best be put to use in a database engine. Joins, I suppose? Would be cool to read more about this implementation, however the readme is a bit sparse.
His arguments, and many here, are moot because of the political ramifications of disenfranching such a huge number of voters. The average worker, by definition, commands by far the biggest voting block.

When their minds are concentrated on this one problem, irrespective of their normal voting choice, they will vote for whoever offers them a way out.

It will end in tears as almost all wall-papering does, but not for a decade or two.

FWIW, I think this is the beginning of the China-induced global economic realignment. But we won't begin to see the real ramifications for a couple of decades because of the above.
Actually, I would think Googles new social search stuff will help promote small brands. If your friends are talking about a product it will be pushed to the top of your search results.

Could be great for a little games company like mine. I make very niche games and have no hope of being ranked for a term like "strategy game". I hope that if people are talking us in their circles we might get a few more hits.
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That looks absolutely brilliant. So is the database all stored in the GPU memory? Or in main memory? Or does your engine handle storing to disk as well?

Pretty novel use of a GPU though, and if it's quick, it could be really useful.
Interesting. I'll definitely work on trying to get specific people to use the app for their business. It sounds like I'm going to be knocking on a lot of doors.
I hope you aren't alluding to anything as ridiculous as "search neutrality". There is no such thing. There are certainly less optimal results, in several dimensions with a poorly defined fitness landscape, but that complexity is exactly why its so ridiculous to talk about any search results "reflecting what is on the Internet".

You have provided no metric for that statement, so how could it even be measured?

There is too much on the internet for you to read it all. Finding what you want at some particular time is going to require a curator, and they are going to be biased.

(besides, the overfitting you describe isn't exactly the hardest problem to figure out and fix (just mix in some other python results and that related results thing that's already there). The hard part is quickly identifying that you actually are affecting users negatively and not just the guy that thinks everyone should have to look at nextag results)
Looks like a cool little product, sandwich video deserves a lot of praise for their work. However after wanting to learn more about the product I found myself picking a lot of nits about their website. The product's website doesn't tell me whether this is a paid or free app, the News div of the page has a series of links that go nowhere, the contrast on the paragraph text makes it unreadable (switch from gray to white), the background colors look better if they are inverted (hit control+option+command+8 to see it, keep the accent colors as they are works in chrome on mac), and the navigation doesn't know whether it wants to stay at the top of the page or follow you as you scroll (pick one and stick with it) which is visually annoying.
It's a budget bill; it gets enacted every year to fund the military. It must be signed eventually (and in this case, on the very last day). Blame your entire government for putting things like the infinite detention of citizens inside of a budget bill.
"Apple typically asks suppliers to specify how much every part costs, how many workers are needed and the size of their salaries. Executives want to know every financial detail. Afterward, Apple calculates how much it will pay for a part. Most suppliers are allowed only the slimmest of profits."

"Many major technology companies have worked with factories where conditions are troubling. However, independent monitors and suppliers say some act differently. Executives at multiple suppliers, in interviews, said that Hewlett-Packard and others allowed them slightly more profits and other allowances if they were used to improve worker conditions."

The article clearly explains that Apple management does care, but that their drive for secrecy and control makes it much more difficult for them to affect change. Maybe he typed it on an HP computer instead.
> You have many interests, but a finite number

I'm not even one person. We have many computers in our home; I'm logged in to all of them, Google-wise, but they are used by my wife, the woman who looks after our kids, our children themselves, etc.

It would be very impractical to have each person log in as herself before they can search anything on Google (and my kids are too young to even be allowed to have a Google account!)

For now, customization seems to be attached only to the computer (browser), not the account; I have a computer that I use for work that no one else has access to, where Google searches work fine; I practically can't use the other computers to search Google.

If some day in the future, results are customized according to the account instead of simply the browser, then I won't be able to use Google at all.

> Google's an AI company

Ok, fine. Here's what they could do, then: detect topics in search results (and in query terms) and let one cluster or filter results by topics / domains.

Why don't they do that? Why don't they even try?
I absolutely love your calling the site Cheekswab, a constant, subtle reminder of how easy and painless registration is. However, I agree with others that what's missing is a clearer action call. Also: will non-minority donors ignore the site as soon as the purpose of recruiting minority donors is stated? edit: grammar
sigh

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3512413
If flash memory gets very cheap, the USB drives will still have the same price (but they will come with 80 GB instead of 4 GB capacity).
Haskell makes some array access operations cumbersome due to syntactic issues with the library's API.

It is not inherent that Haskell's quickSort is harder than quickSort in C.

Take a look at Augustusson's imperative language DSLs in Haskell:

http://augustss.blogspot.com/2011/07/impredicative-polymorph...

Haskell is so versatile at this, augustusson managed to implement an old BASIC DSL!

http://augustss.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-basic-not-that-any...

I think Haskell can be a great vehicle for all our current day imperative programming needs (even if due to some library issues it's not quite as nice for all tasks yet).
What is the point of using "å" instead of "a"?
So you're tired of "marketers", yet you think the image has some value, so you want to rip it off the origin website to remove the attribution?

I'm guessing you're also vehemently against copyright laws.

Also, with a new account you're talking about advertisement at hackernews and being tired of marketers posting content here?

I'm just fascinated by how 80% of all complaints about the degrading quality of HN come from new users.
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Ask HN: How to not get burned with Adwords and PPC?
Hi Hackers, Anyone here with PPC experience?

I started a website hosting product website and now have an approximate conversion rate of 5% that I plan to milk using adwords. Is it a good idea to test the waters with dirt cheap bids? The last thing I need it to get burned by automatic bidding!
IQ test for humans and for computers
Glad to see you guys going strong. I attended the meetup back in 2010 at that small coffee shop. I'm no longer living in the area however; I wish you guys lots of good engaging conversations.
Here's an article from back in 2007 about folks doing this, so you can imagine where they are now.

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2007-06-08/high_frequency_tra...

Exegy is one company I'm familiar with, based in St. Louis, MO.
I believe that all applications that support this do so by exporting their menu structures over DBus at all times, not just when they are focused. For context, a launcher could provide access to all application menus, but prioritize results based on which applications were most recently accessed. Or just keep it simple and go with only the most recently focused one.
>What you are scared of is some hypothetical situation that there so-far is no evidence it could happen

Ecio78 outlined a scenario in which relevance targeting "outed" him in a way he didn't want. I'm analogizing Facebook relevance ads with Gmail and search ads.

I didn't think Ecio78 was saying that emails are going to pop up explictly, only that Google would present information that is relevant to him in a situation where he didn't want that relevant information.
I hadn't used DVDs in years either, but when I did need my DVD drive yesterday (I wanted to try out Arch Linux) I found out it's malfunctioning :/ I can burn the disc with it, but for some reason it refuses to read anything.

To top it off, for some reason inserting my USB stick crashes the bootloader. rEFIt works perfectly fine until I put in the drive, then everything freezes.
This is because people came to the table with unrealistic expectations. They were used to dealing with mature software based on decades old proven ideas and coming into very experimental territory expecting to get a smooth experience.

Cassandra has enabled Reddit to manage a highly scalable distributed data store with a tiny staff. This is not to say it has been trouble free, but it has enabled them to do something that would have been infeasible without pioneers in this space (Cassandra, Riak, Voldemort, etc) making these tools available.
Start Up Help: Mathematical Baking Applications
I believe I have a great product but it merges two disjoint fields: math and baking. Is there an angle I can work to marry these two fields and reach a good market. http://www.whatsthesequency.com

I thought about a mobile application, I would have to pick up Objective-C and still only reach a fraction of my mobile visitors.

Also what is the best way to preview the application without giving it away (monetize).

My current visitors seems to be 45-60 year old, male lawyers, doctors, and engineers.
Does anyone know what kind of hardware those 240 servers have? I wonder how much they cost.
For those who wanna keep a copy out of scribd, here's the original http://code.haskell.org/~dons/talks/
> It's a budget bill

That got to be the stupidest excuse to introduce new horrible laws.
The saying is "preaching to the choir"[0]. :)

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[0] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/choir#Noun
Thank you !
The data are stored on a disk and only the columns necessary for transformations are brought to GPU. In case the data does not fit into a limited GPU memory, it is processed piece by piece. I tested it on terabyte sized files so the data does not have to fit into GPU memory .
What about IndexTank? They dont talk about it in this blog post. Have they stopped using it?
You blew over .08; I'm rescinding your Internet license. You can apply to the MPAA to get it back in three months.
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