skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't do that on the production realm, but it's kind of because we are a game and patches are a big deal for our community. It's not like most websites where you often don't know when patches are coming or what they changed. We keep full change logs here: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-forum/366

It's worth bearing in mind that we are actually deploying an application that they play on their desktop machines, it's just that our website is tightly integrated with the live realm so they are deployed together in the same deployment system.

What we do have as a game though is the ability to have a separate alpha realm that we can deploy to for testing a release and we have a trusted set of our player base that is allowed access to it.

So here is the list of realms we have:

Testing (Local continuously integrated deploy of trunk. Updated every commit)

Staging1 (Local staging for the next major patch)

Staging2 (Local staged copy of whatever is on production. This is used for when we want to test bugfixes to production)

Alpha (Deploy of the next major patch for some community members to play and test in advance. This is deployed alongside the production realm on the live servers.)

Production

All of that said though, we are adding the ability very soon for the backend to be able to spawn game instance servers for multiple versions of the realm. This would mean that we can deploy a game patch without a restart (assuming the backend didn't change). Old clients would get old game instance servers but as players restart their game client and patch, they will get on new game instance servers.
"Ancestry.com has been acquired by European private-equity firm Permira for $1.6 billion, which is a little over 1.5 Instagrams"

Is "Instagram" the new word for a billion? I like it. It sounds like a unit of measurement.

It will be interesting to see how this grows. Some of my family members are very into family history and genealogy and want to get their DNA tested as well to see where we are from. If nothing, it's a good way to at least pique the curiosity of a large population, so I can see it going for as much as it did.
SoftLayer that we use seems to be much more reliable than Amazon. At least more reliable than that particular Amazon's datacenter in Virginia.
>When your PC is docked with a keyboard attached, it's a workstation with tablet features. When it's not docked, its a tablet with workstation features.

That's definitely a good way to look at it. I really enjoy how Windows 8 is the mixture of the two and compliment each other very well.
The Curse of Seeing Potential
UCI Strips Lance Armstrong of 7 Tour de France Titles
Just because a company is successful doesn't mean it has a good name (just as a good name doesn't make a company successful.)

Ebay is a terrible name, but they had other advantages.

Braintree is a poor name, which may explain some of their struggles with entering the broader market. PayPal and Stripe are much better - emotive and associative.

If github were called snaggletooth, they would have struggled much much more.

Regarding your experience, the point where you lose customers is generally before they talk to you. You would not know that you were losing them.

I don't know what Matasano does, and truthfully if I am honest with my emotions, I care less because I don't associate with the name and initially discount the company because of the naming choice. This is a base emotive response btw, not a conscious judgement. You may have a fantastic product that I would ultimately select if I were in the market, but you are starting at a disadvantage.
I don't see anything wrong with having a genuine appreciation for a quality product. You, my friend, are a hater :) And you can put down your pitchfork.

In regards to your actual addressable comment, yes people have more choices. That's called competition, and there's a lot of GOOD competition out there. I'm speaking to Apple's communication strategy that's lacking in certain areas that are really making holes in their public perception.
Maybe I'm just impatient, but after the third consecutive cut-scene I just closed the window and uninstalled it.

I think you should give the option to the user to skip the cut scenes altogether.
> Clearly, there is a gap. This is a problem.

I grant you your first point.

...but that doesn't remotely prove your second point, which you've just asserted.
The only native desktop app that the web has "disrupted" for me is email. I still use Lightroom, Photoshop, VLC, MS Office, various native video & audio editing tools, etc.
JS does run outside of the browser, many people are creating games on several platforms. Appcelerator's keynotes this morning at Codestrong included an OpenGL ES wrapper for Appcelerator. Exciting times for JS.
Is it, though? Can I compile Python modules with it?
Blue Origin Completes Pad Escape Test
Well yes, that's exactly my point. OP was arguing that the $300 fee should be mandatory.
What Facebook precedent? I only know of the Facebook vs Ireland stuff and that works well.
I had a conversation about the idea in 1987. Hell! In 1993 me and a group at a company were spitballing ideas for the video technology we had and came up with a home DVR. Hard drives were not quite up for the task for that so the idea got shelved.

To quote Heinlein:

“When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.”
Thanks for the feedback, sorry you're having issues. How is it reloading? Have an example url? Which browser? (dev here)
ELB is also fucked. Seen that nobody mentions it. Some of our load balancers are completely unreachable.

Just one multi-AZ RDS instance claimed the automatic failover. However, the 200+ alerts over the automatic failover due to internal DNS changes to point to the new master shows that things aren't as easily described by the RDS DB Events log.

Some instances reported high disk I/O (EBS backed) via the New Relic agent (the console still has some issues).

So far, this is what I see from my side.
Agreed, the cutscenes are way way too long for a demo! The dialogue took forever to change, as well.

(Probably too long for the game, hard to judge.)

For a demo, I think the ideal length would be under 5s, just to show the artistic style. :)
I don't know about generating code from unit tests, but there's Djinn for generating code from type signatures.
On the language comments - Have you looked into any higher level languages that compile to JavaScript, such as the newly released TypeScript? It is a superset of JavaScript with static typing and structural types. [Disclaimer: I was a test intern on the TypeScript team.]

You also say this is the last huge game with JS. Why is that?
Arbitration sounds like a really good idea, but the problem is those arbitration systems are typically paid for by industry, run by industry appointees, and they don't have any incentive to see issues from a consumer point-of-view. I think the solution for books will come from lawsuits and consumer backlash - the same as it did for music.

There are still many problems with the Music industry (and RIAA), but they really are leading the curve for the other content industries. Right now you can purchase DRM-free music for relatively cheap from a number of sources. (Apple, Google, Amazon, as well as many independent publishers and artists)
If you go to mapofcpan.org and click on "Need more help?" it explains more about what the map is showing you.

Only namespaces that contain 30 or more distributions get a colour and a label - to keep the map from getting too cluttered. The remaining modules are submerged under the light blue "primordial soup".

Since the individual distributions are arranged alphabetically and laid out along a Hilbert curve, adding an extra distribution to 'Acme' pushes every other namespace along.

And yeah - the Hilbert curve probably isn't ideally suited to being animated :-)
awesome, thanks! I'll definitely give it a more complete try soon :) Immediate impression though was that it badly needs some kind of key explanation - so far I've figured out arrow keys, and space or 'x' to fire, but I have no clue if that's everything or if I'm missing something important (like that sign before the save point - can I read it? it looks interact-able, but I can't figure out how).
I don't know if you've looked at it, but I'm pretty sure Unity allows you to use Javascript.
Though Ancestry.com has some agreements to share resources with the Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, it is a completely separate organization and a for profit company. It was founded by Mormons, many of the employees are Mormons, and lots of the customers are Mormons and driven by their religious interest; but it is distinct from the work you are discussing.

The efforts of the Church of Jesus Christ are all non-profit and publicly available at Family Search (http://familysearch.org).
But her account was cancelled and her Kindle is broken, so she can't retrieve any of her books if she gets a new Kindle. Which is practically as bad really.
> If you're removing code or changing an endpoint,
> be careful you don't screw the Google bot, which
> might be "viewing" 3-day-old pages on your
> altered backend.

An interesting proposition. Personally, unless I was operating in some sector where keeping Googlebot happy was key to staying competitive and there was solid evidence it could hurt my page rank, I don't think I'd be prepared to go to this length. Google is doing quite an atypical thing here compared to regular browsers and I'd like to think Google engineers are smart enough to account for this type of thing in the early stages of planning.

They have a difficult cache invalidation problem here. The only way to find out if the Javascript in use on a site has changed is by checking if the page HTML has changed. And on top of that, the Javascript can change without any noticeable change to the HTML.
Netflix recently launched here, and I've been unaffected so far.

And +1 for the slideshare page.

Their techblog is also worth following: http://techblog.netflix.com/
Using async/await in .NET 4
I'm not arguing that Moby should not try to do better.

However, there should some acknowledgement that an almost identical product has existed for years and how this differs (better UX?, more features, etc).
I did originally have the option to skip cutscenes, but removed it.

Is holding X to skip through dialogue not enough? Because I could re-add skipping.
Is it possible that people are looking at the page from Google's cache? I'm thinking the 3taps kind of 'web site scraping that doesn't look like web site scraping'
Yeah, looks like they've set this up as a single page app but they are using Disqus for comments, which was not really built around that concept.

I have a feeling their are some loose ends in their code where a user visits Page A then navigates to Page B and posts a comment there, but Disqus wasn't properly updated and the comment therefore gets filed under Page A.
As an Italian PhD and fledgling entrepreneur, leaving for sunnier spots, this hurts :).
Adding insult to injury: when trying to view instances in the console I now only see "Rate limit exceeded".
Possibly the most relevant:

"Source of Amazon is tell me best monitoring strategy is watch Netflix. If is up, they can able blame customer. If is down, they are fuck."
Why the fuck do the two most critical services (ELB and Console) have depends on their historically most unreliable pile of shit (EBS)?
I'm impressed by how quickly they've been able to add much of the significant features of C# 5.0 and .NET 4.5 -- in particular, async/await. Visual Studio 2012 has only been out for one month.
Which proposals are controversial to the general public there?
Apple's Licensing Offer To Samsung Raises Questions About FRAND Rates
Isn't it worrying that there are so many services/sites that are so dependent on Amazon EC?
It's tapdancing on the line between "creative wording" and "outright deception". They frontload the FREE CHARGING FOREVER part, then lightly skip over the fact that a Model S owner is still going to be spending a whole lot of money on power. (Gasoline is going to get more expensive. So is electricity! Until we figure out how to paint solar cells on flat surfaces, energy will never again be as cheap as it is right now.)
In a demo it should be skipped by default.
Having been to a number of "geeky" conferences, I was surprised at how large the number of women there were at the conference.

We should also keep in mind that this community has always been aligned more with the engineering side of entrepreneurship and less on the all the other equally important functions, which tends to make the community somewhat insular and under-represented.
Indeed, any act the living take on behalf of the dead is solely for the benefit of the living -- usually for emotional benefit.

We are objects, after all, and death returns us to an inanimate state.
It's not discussed in the article, but wouldn't a clear reason on Samsung's part for breaking this agreement be to build its own devices using retina-quality displays? Unless, of course, there are agreements between Apple and Samsung preventing this.
Definitely like the responsive nature of this site. Nice work appendTo() team!

One question: where's the large screen layout? I use a 27in monitor, and I really appreciate it when I can get more bang for my large screen buck!
If you're willing to spend more than $100K on a car, then yes it probably is.
But this is part of the problem: we have multiple web properties, and the fact that AWS issues can affect all of them at once is a huge downside. Certainly, if we ran on metal, we would have hardware fail, but failures would be likely to be better-isolated than at Amazon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm
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The issue with Survivor Bias is that we don't really have other great guides for doing startups. It's natural to ask a great writer what they did to get published or a programmer what they did to build their first app. While we should take the retrospective stories of winners with a grain of salt, there's probably more good than bad to be gained from following what has worked.
Typical cost of a SIF integration is well out of the budget for all but the largest districts in the country. From what we've seen it typically takes 6+ months to do a full implementation (faster if you hire some consultants). Clever is free and takes 5 minutes. From that perspective it makes a lot of sense for schools.

From the perspective of a software company, something like SIF adds needless additional costs. Want to plug into SIF? Get certified: http://www.sifinfo.org/us/sif-certification.asp. API docs? Support? Good luck finding that.

The reality is that most of the standards you're talking about are free money for high-priced consultants.
We're in the realm of anecdotes now, so let me just add that I wouldn't want my last fully conscious decision -- asking for the morphine drip that might make the final few days of my life tolerable -- marred by the feeling that my resolve had suddenly failed. I think I want to remain open to the idea of a pain-reduced death at least until I know for sure how intense that pain is going to be.

(And this just focuses on the pain aspect. Similar arguments could be made against limiting last-minute surgical options, as well.)
Their CoLo space is the same space shared by AOL and a few other big name tech companies. It's right next to the Greenway, just before you reach IAD going northeast. That CoLo facility seems pretty unreliable in the scheme of things; Verizon and Amazon both took major downtime this summer when a pretty hefty storm rolled through VA[1], but AOL's dedicated datacenters in the same 10 mile radius all experienced no downtime whatsoever.

Edited: [1] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/06/30/amazo...
The Difference Between Referencing a Website and Copying a Website
Bought a copy. Good stuff. Some feedback:

- get the option to skip cutscenes back in
- these octopus dudes come way too close. It is too hard to dodge them.
- if you get killed, you should start over in the sub-area you were in, and not the main level.
Nice! These two are also good:

Startup School and Surviorship Bias -http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4685042
My Key Takeaways from Startup School 2012 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4681791
$162M operating expense? Is that normal?
Would you be willing to provide a follow-up on how your launch of the game goes? Always interesting to hear various metrics after a product launch.

Good luck!
Hmm, that's interesting. I don't think so, though, because the user-agent on the requests is the googlebot:

From: googlebot(at)googlebot.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
An iPad costs a couple hundred bucks, and is tiny. A Tesla Roadster costs tens of thousands, requires a full-time employee to babysit it during a test-drive, has to be insured, and fills a room.

You're not comparing apples to oranges. You're comparing a paper airplane to a 747.
Oh, and it's worth noting we work with planners (http://WeddingPlannerLove.com) — we're not about replacing the planner, since we do recommend planners within the app. :)
Heroku could mean '6 farts'[1]
You'd have to open up something other than a book of Japanese plant names to come up with that :p

[1]http://www.quora.com/What-does-Heroku-mean/answer/Matt-Van-H...
Facebook most certainly does not have my social life. D:
I don't think you are appreciating the world view of believing Mormons.
German publisher heise.de has build a 2 click solution jQuery plugin to protect users privacy which works cross browser:
http://www.heise.de/extras/socialshareprivacy/
But interesting move.
The New Sound of Music is a vintage BBC documentary (1979)
You make it sound like releasing an ebook is somehow cheaper than releasing a paperback. I think in many cases this does not hold true. As long as ebooks represent a minority of all book sales producing paperbacks will be cheaper to produce than ebooks, just by law of mass production.
The issues you had with dedicated servers are easy to fix:

Traffic Spikes: Implement caching (most spikes are read-only). Implement queueing of expensive but less essential operations, so they can be delayed during traffic spikes. Make sure your CPU & RAM are 1.5 - 2x what you need. (Don't worry, it will still be cheaper than AWS)

Plain Old Downtime: Network outages happen with cloud hosts too.

Focus on development: Cloud servers are unmanaged too.

OS Updates & Security: This is no more an issue on dedicated servers than it is on cloud servers. It's an OS issue. Were you running Windows Servers. That's the problem!
> You appear to not understand the concepts you are attempting to participate in a discussion about.

I would be more demure. This way, it wouldn't look this bad when I'm wrong.
From a quick glance of the data, there's something very odd: there are no speed camera tickets on weekends. These make up more than half the data... something to look into.

Cool site btw, it's a good interface to quickly look into the data.
Quicker than if I was on AWS and needed to scale it up tonight :)

Seriously though, because the costs are so much cheaper you just over provision the main machines slightly and keep a spare box or two ready to go. If that isn't enough to smooth out the spike then I guess at least you've got a nice problem to have.
I just re-added the ability to skip cutscenes by hitting Return/Enter.
You missed the most important one by jl :p

http://www.teespring.com/fundraising
Double ditto to all of these points. Also, it might be nice as a feed rather than one static quote with left/right buttons
I think Heroku is a terrible name actually. Same goes with Ebay.

The only reason these names make sense at all is that you already have identified them with a very popular product. That doesn't mean the name is good, it means the product is succeeding despite the name.

That of course raises the entire point of names not being that important overall.

Pinterest, for example is a wonderful name for that company. Microsoft is another. Oracle, even better.
Perhaps what is more insidious is that you don't always realize that there is firmware in there. I mean chipsets where there is a processor in the chipset running emulation code to make certain things behave like they did when they were implemented by the 286/AT, its firmware all the way down.
Kindle user claims Amazon deleted whole library without explanation
Solar concentrating thermal plants only work in direct sunlight, and their mirrors don't like to be dirty. They're not terribly commercially attractive outside the Mojave.
libgdiplus is fairly stable - you can find use the latest zip from github if you need a source release:

https://github.com/mono/libgdiplus/commit/3ddf7ff28e0876dc39...
This looks really cool and $2.99 it really wasn't a hard decision. I look forward playing it!

Well done for getting it out, 2 years is a bloody long time!
I guess I should have specified, I was thinking of the benchmarks vs non-invokedynamic JRuby. No intention of starting a benchmark war. Ruby 1.9 is fast too.
October 2012 ThoughtWorks Technology Radar
iPhone 4S = 330ppi
Samsung S3 = 306ppi

I think this is just Samsung trying to save face, it's like watching two kids in a school yard, embarrassing really.
Fighting Like Cats and Dogs
I thought this while watching them too: everyone here is doing great. As someone who publicly screwed up my first startup, and doing well on my second, it would be good to see more stories like that.
D3 Cloud : Create word clouds in JavaScript & Html5
"Why they should make the intellectual leap to embrace writing and then at the same time re-invent it in a different local form remains a puzzle."

There is an example from a much more recent period of history that is well known to scholars of world scripts. Cherokee writing as developed by Sequoyah was based on the example of English writing known to Sequoyah from European settlement in America, but the letter forms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary

are not entirely identical, and indeed Sequoyah's writing system is a syllabary rather than an alphabet.

The work on Proto-Elamite described in the submitted article is quite interesting.
Are others also getting a loading sound when navigating between pages? It's nice to see blogs pushing for better design but for Javascript pages site I would expect faster loads
Extremely happy that Mono is doing so great recently.

Politics aside, the MSR people did a beautiful job designing the system and it's very saddening how it's currently misused by the mother corporation. It's good that it gets a chance to thrive beyond their suffocating grasp.
No, just straight up EC2 and RDS. It seems not all the RDS instances are affected, but it's just frustrating that they all haven't failed over.
I like it. Wear that to a partner meeting!
This kind of thinking is poisonous. I know it's in good fun and it's fun to look for connections in things, but it is actually preposterous to think that Amazon would purposely disrupt wide swaths of highly paying customers for much of a day to bury one story about bad customer relations. My guess is there are a lot of people working very hard to try and solve this problem right now, let's not belittle their efforts because of a conspiracy, let's belittle their efforts because of bad systems design.
Stop thinking about regions as datacenters.

us-east-1 was 11 different datacenters last time I bothered to check.

us-west-2 by comparison is two datacenters. The reason west-1 and west-2 exist is because they are geographically diverse enough to prevent low latency inner-connections (and also have dramatically different power costs so they bill differently).
IMHO the eInk people are missing out by not getting their displays in the hands of more hobbyists. There aren't any reasonably priced development kits anywhere, they're nearly as expensive as the end-user devices. A lot of the end-user devices aren't hackable or have other compromises. Correct me if I'm wrong.
True. Everyone laughed at that one. How are sales? =)