skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two main solutions (given that the article mentions that they have huge machines already):-

A) Allow a single solar system to span multiple machines. Very hard, especially if the server software isn't architected for this. Retrofitting this can be nigh on impossible.

B) Have a few huge machines that can be used to host scenarios like this and, more importantly, have a way of migrating users over to the huge machine seemlessly.

The latter can be done but it's tricky, especially if transferring game state between instances of the server is not simple (I'm not talking about transferring the VM itself with something like vMotion). It comes down to:-

1) Being able to make the bigger machine act as a temporary proxy pushing connections data back to the smaller machine.

2) Having a way of telling clients to make a new connection to the bigger machine and, once that connection is made (and the data is being proxied to the smaller machine) cut the connection to the smaller machine. Users see no loss of service or reconnects at all.

3) Once all clients are now being proxied by the bigger machine; pause and transfer the game state from the smaller machine to the big machine and then continue. Obviously it works best if a chunk of state can be transferred in the background and then the final transfer (and pause) is as short as possible in order to transfer over the bang up to the minute state.

Option (A) is always the proverbial "In v2 of the server we'll do it a completely different way..."
Sheesh... Let me translate the post for you:

"This woman is so good that a certain physical difference between genders that has historically been regarded a prestigious male trait can be made even more of a compliment by giving it to a woman".

I don't understand the obsession I find online of people searching for insults and controversies that don't exist.
The filter is worthless. I've known lots of disinterested CS grads who coasted through school and fight anything that requires any expenditure of effort on their part (like using a new library, etc.). They went to school and now they feel entitled to their seat in a bloated corporation where their lack of contribution can't really stand out against the larger background.

The best way to hire someone is to sit down and chat with them on multiple occasions for 1-2 hours at a time. Another programmer can generally tell when someone is incompetent and/or BSing. It doesn't guarantee the employment will work out, as working styles can be incompatible, employee can be/become depressed and/or unmotivated, etc., but it at least allows you to discern the competence to a reasonable degree of satisfaction.

When I interview programmers we're so busy talking shop that school doesn't even cross my mind. Thus far very few mention anything related to their schooling as a qualification while we're discussing, i.e., not a lot of "Yeah, I did a project like that in school once...". If one is hiring for a heavily theoretical position, academic credentials may be slightly more meaningful (though it's still about the final output, much of the personal research/development for that type of thing would occur at a university, whereas "working" software engineers mostly go through school as a formality), but for most other things, it's so irrelevant that it never comes up after several searching technical interviews.
Thanks for the replies! Ruby on Rails and Backbone it is, then!
Right now, I'm advertising on Bing Ads. Currently planning on writing some articles about using ThreeBar to promote content and increase conversions, as well.
The Unsuccessful Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln
I don’t think that’s going to work, since the data URI is inherently local (and only works on Chrome), and you can’t use the Chrome file-system API or even localStorage when you're viewing a local file, unless chrome was opened with `--allow-file-access-from-files`
If you know more recent data, I would be interested (I made the map).
Also, don't forget that agriculture only arose recently, in the grand scale of things - somewhere around 20,000 years ago, and these folks had agriculture - in fact, their suffering is largely based around the fact that they're attempting agriculture in isolation, which doesn't really work with a "tribe" of their scale. You have to have trade, as, as we saw with them, if you lose your seed stock (carrots, almost rye), you're up the proverbial creek. It took second generation wilderness upbringing for what sounds like a instinctive hunting technique - i.e. chase the animal for days until it falls over exhausted, and kill it - this is how some Sub-Saharan cultures have hunted (and may in fact still) for millenia - Khoi, for instance, and is likely actually how humans have hunted since we descended onto the plains. We have no claws or fangs, just a physiology perfectly adapted for running long, long distances. I digress.

Another factor is that crops have changed vastly since the start of agriculture, which is also a major factor in the relative growth rate of human population (along with disease, which arose hand in hand with agriculture, of course) - see Teosinte vs. Corn, and Emmer Wheat vs. Durum. Same plants, shaped by man's hand since time immemorial by selective breeding.

So, yeah. These guys actually had it really well off compared to historic humans, as they had agriculture, but it doesn't function well in isolation, particularly in such a harsh environment as the taiga - don't forget the place used to be inundated with hunter-gatherers before everyone migrated for the cushy disease and war-ridden life agriculture offers.

Survival was a bitch until we figured out farming and trade - and it's improved over the last 150 years or so due to modern medicine (lower infant and adult mortality), improved crops (green revolution), improved productivity (industrial revolution), and all the rest.
So basically marco assumes a standard that punishes bundling? A windows 8 tablet that comes bundled with a full office suite needs to advertise itself as 5-10GB smaller than the identically configured but less functional tablet without the bundle? Using 66% of shipped free space on a 64GB tablet is clearly wrong, but you can say that without coming up with some synthetic standard that nobody will ever follow.
Maybe you could have it show all the "official" job posts as well
The Secret of Selling Less for More
EBU standardizes rightsholder metadata in wav files
When you post, you invest your karma. If you have a lot of karma, your post starts out with more, so the likelihood of front-paging is higher for users who have a track record of quality posts.
I was unclear in the description - my datadump gb's tend to be sql or xml.

Turning syntax off helps; simply it's a real pain to switch it on/off manually every time, as I'm working both with small and large files of the same type. I'd like the software to do that automagically based on file size or loading time estimates.
I'll check out the loading time issue.

I may run an A/B test to see if one phrase or the other converts better, but I'll also do some research to see what some other businesses are doing.

Thanks for your feedback and compliments :)
This is interesting to me for one reason: the need to apologize.

My, perhaps heavily biased, impression is that this is a typical American thing. I mean, what are the odds that all those people who did bad things (or things considered as bad) feel truly sorry? E.g. Lance Armstrong.

Why not be honest and say "I lied"/"I cheated", "deal with it"? That would garner more respect from me than an apology that is going to sound false.
>For anyone other than recent graduates, I wholeheartedly agree. But for recent graduates, you may have little else to point to.

They should skip a few homework assignments and write a few simple yet interesting tech demos and upload them to GitHub.
Git: A Nightmare of Mixed Metaphors
I also see this as a huge problem. Without the "credential crutch", identifying talent and true ability is nearly impossible for a hiring manager who isn't deeply involved in the business on a day-to-day level. The problem is, the managers who ARE deeply involved are usually too busy to spend time searching for and hiring new employees (GREAT managers though, will always find time for this).

Hiring is especially a problem in tech, because there's an even bigger disconnect between the hiring managers' understanding of the actual position.
Wow, that's a low blow.
Ask HN: Rude Smart People Locked in a Room?
I'm curious. You know all those super smart people you didn't want to be apart of your team because they had personalities which was horrible to work with.

What would happen if you took a bunch of them, lock them up in a room, and told them they can't leave until they created something interesting? What would be the output?
And Microsoft doesn't go out of the way any more than any other company at "hiding" that information from you.

No, but the problem lies in the valley between the Surface's maximum capacity and the capacity available to users.

Have you ever bought a device advertised with XGB, powered it up, then discovered it really had X/3 GB? That's kind of outrageous.
What is sound? - Learning Music
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* Dark background
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Now that the body of knowledge has been collected and distributed, now that the lead time has diminished and colleges are teaching skills in almost real time, a college degree has a benefit of sorting those capable of finishing a 4 year project and those that don't.

I would feel better about this new status quo if there were more meaningful overlap between what they teach in universities and what skills one needs to be a successful software developer.
Considering the large quantities of Viagra some people are already taking on a regular basis, shouldn't any weight loss effects in humans been noticed by now?
Pfizer will use this as a way to extend their patents.
Survive multiple serious (but not overly specific) technical interviews, have a decent and/or interesting body of work online, and demonstrable involvement and working habits from contribution to open-source projects, mailing lists, tech journals (my last hire had several Linux-specific articles carried by an online publisher over 10 years ago), etc.

A degree is honestly one of the least useful metrics for actual talent out there. Its value is basically limited to showing a tolerance (but not necessarily an aptitude) for bureaucracy and corporate mind games.
An article I would like to promote on writing: http://ninazumel.com/2012/10/11/i-write-therefore-i-think/
Actually, horsepower is rated in SAE net numbers, which includes a full accessory load.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower#SAE_net_power
http://www.IslamicEventFinder.com - launched late last year - would help Muslims easily find and make use of all those Islamic events that happen around them all the time.

So far, finding the audience to adapt to this new medium is the toughest part. They are so used to just emails and word of mouth that it's getting really harder get some traction. I know there is a need for this but still struggling through to get some traction.

Any thoughts/suggestions on how to get past this hurdle would be much appreciated.
Are there any benefits included with the position? Are there any fun things you do at the office of PrivCo. Maybe get a concrete example of some interesting project they have done recently.
At the moment, it serves a very similar purpose to HelloBar. We also track metric such as the number of times a bar is closed, and I have some additional features to make the "action" in the bar more diverse (add options other than opening a URL). The actual Javascript component that runs the bar is very flexible and allows for some pretty deep customization-- not all of the options are exposed in the designer yet. Hopefully these features and some additional customization options will help ThreeBar stand out a bit from the competition and make it more enticing.

Thanks for your feedback-- I really appreciate it!
No, I think his analogies are terrible because this an issue with people because of the amount of the free space, not the general concept. Like there is no outrage when we lose 10-20% of our space to the system. But in his analogies, those are all cases where no one would tolerate anything more than 0% lossage.

Not that my vegetable analogy is not terrible, but at least it's a case where lossage is normal, and it's just excessive lossage that we would be upset about.
How Content Marketing Grew My Audience
As a benchmark, I know that University of Waterloo Computer Science and Computer Engineering Co-ops are making $60/hour for similar work. That's a good starting point. If you have any kind of portfolio, you should be able to leverage that into a higher hourly rate. In finding clients, its important not only to build a portfolio, but also to build a network that can help you find new work with interesting clients. So if you have a portfolio of two or three apps, along with a few people who are willing to serve as a reference for you, then you should be on your way.
But you're not getting short changed.

Yes I am. As an unknowledgable consumer, I would never expect two thirds of the advertised space to be unusable.

And as an unknowledgable consumer I will never need to know what an OS is, or why it is taking up the advertised space on my shiny new toy, which is quickly looking much less shiny, and in all honesty I am now beginning to dislike and mistrust.
Approximately 0% of Microsoft's target customer base will wipe and install Linux. People buying this thing want Windows.

I would normally agree re: Marco (I've had to move on as he further embraces Apple linkbait), and there's no chance the FTC intervenes here, but this is absurd. We're not talking about losing 4GB on an iOS device--users are losing two-thirds of the Surface's advertised capacity the moment they set it up.
Personally, I stay for the drinks and ambiance. :)

More seriously: tptacek hit it on the head. This isn't an invite-only club where I was required to apply. This is a community where you may be banned for bad behavior (as I am acutely aware), but otherwise you are somewhat free to exist as an independent vendor in the marketplace of ideas.

An online community which is exclusive enough that I need apply is probably not going to line up nicely with my preferences or with (I suggest) the idea of offering free debate and discussion.

This is especially true given their karma model, which as others here have pointed out somewhat encourages hivemind attenuation especially since it is annoying to get into and join.
$24,000 Eve Online Battle...
Thanks. I collect any that come up since its really such a dark area. I should probably write a blog post about it since I have a few more I have since dug up. Glad you like the articles :) it was something I had been writing for weeks and then finally got my act together and finished it.
We're two high schoolers in Portland who like to build all kinds of things.

https://github.com/JacksonGariety
https://github.com/ColbyAley
That's a part of the reasoning I used to get over my needless over-comparison.

The movie trailer analogy is perfect, by the way. Thanks for that.
Firebird JDBC driver ported to Android
Any reasonably experienced engineer should pull in six figures in the Bay Area at this point, or close to it. Honestly the range should go a lot higher than it does for GOOD engineers; a good engineer who can accomplish 10x over an "average" $80k engineer should be able to make more than $120k or so. But I'm not bitter... [1] ;)

[1] Actually, I'm not. I took my ~$120k salary to another state and worked from remote for 3 years, getting the lower cost of living combined with the San Francisco salary, and giving myself an "effective" raise of about 80% (it wasn't Atlanta-cheap or it would have been even better). I kept everything well documented, but they still knew they couldn't easily replace me. YMMV.
This Just In: "Average content size of spam emails expected to double"
As a people and a nation we have paid a price to learn
That in any exploration, there are some who don't return.
We are neither fools nor cowards, to be shaken now to know
What our founders could have told us, twice a hundred years ago.

-- Echo's Children, "Columbia"
700 billion iSK is about $24,000....
http://isk.thealphacompany.net/?isk=700%2C000%2C000%2C000.00...
I sense a broken thermometer
If they have so many Titans, why not bring out ten of them and sweep the battle?
Oh, I got one! Not a vegetable, but lobster is sold by the pound, but it's only 20% edible meat.
Yes, precisely: Microsoft has never had an issue with releasing a product that eats all the RAM, CPU cycles and hard drive space it could get. Every new release of a Microsoft product had not just the pains of learning a new layout and dealing with the bugs and security holes, but also going through the upgrade cycle, yet again, because Microsoft doesn't seem to care (or be capable) of writing efficient software. Only now that storage on desktops and laptops has given us a glut of capacity do we not care.

But in the mobile space, where resources are obviously more limited, Microsoft is a joke: they are so laughably far behind the open source solutions (and Apple) designed to run stably, smoothly and without upgrades for years (decades, even), that we really shouldn't be surprised. 20GB on a desktop or laptop drive where 1000GB has been the norm for a while? Sure, no problem. But even getting Windows 7 down to 17GB so I can get it to fit (along with a few other essentials) on a 60GB SSD for my work development machine was a PITA that shouldn't be necessary. There's no excuse, even if we are "used to it."
After some mix-and-matching of the awesome code snippets posted in the comments, I came up with something easy on the eyes (with a nice little color transition (for webkit-enabled browsers):

data:text/html, <html><head><link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:100,200,300,400,... rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'><style type="text/css"> html { font-family: "Lato"; color:#e9e9e9; background-color:#222; } * { -webkit-transition: all linear 1s; }</style></head><body contenteditable style="font-size:2.2em;line-height:1.4;max-width:60rem;margin:0 auto;padding:4rem;">
I know that's what you meant. Regarding male-only traits as prestigious implies that they are superior to female-only traits. That implication is sexism. Whether or not you think sexism is insulting -- and it appears you do not -- it was definitely sexism. And other people find sexism insulting.
How Facebook Survived 34 Intense Days Of "Lockdown" To Build Graph Search
A subtle but neat feature on the ST3 download page -- http://www.sublimetext.com/3 -- there's some JavaScript that automatically detects your platform (eg "Windows 64 bit") and highlights the correct bullet point.
Microsoft meet buyer's remorse! Go Microsoft!
You could use this Chrome extension: https://github.com/jwaterfaucett/textpad
This is pretty interesting research but how this plays out in humans could be very different. Mice have significantly more "brown" fat than humans. I could see that playing a role in the rate of conversion. Anyone with more knowledge of the topic care to comment?
As you can see here http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility , there is about 44k people online at this point, probably a bit less since most people have more than one account.

That seems like a fairly substantial amount of users in a single world. Is there any other game world with this many active users in a single world?
Nose introduction - Python Testing
> but have been really struggling to come up with any good reasons to buy one

Recently my friend said that he considers buying a tablet and thinking about a Win8 tablet.

He already owns two quite new laptops. So I asked why he needs a Win8 tablet which main feature is the ability to run desktop apps? If you want a tablet then buy a tablet which has apps designed for tablets.
It all depends on the market you are selling to. Nothing else. I have launched things on HN and it all boils down to if the market wants it. For example, my last project (marketing bits) has had a very high HN acceptance and adoption. Would it enjoy such success in TC? I don't think so because it is not the target market.
Not bad. Not bad at all.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JIKasELNRc
I think you make good points and was all ready to disagree with the OP until I read your points.
People you want to bang aren't always Facebook Friends
I would invert the causality. Why would I spend six months outfitting a carrier if I had no intention of using it in combat or even flying it anywhere where other people would see it?
Cool, thanks for sharing that. I new it from the Pearl Jam song 'Bushleaguer' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nhyhlzLwIw
This is a really heartbreaking story. I've never heard of this studio, nor do I play these sorts of games but I feel just terrible for this guy.

There is a warning here. Kickstarter has proved that gamers, particularly veteran PC gamers, are great at remembering the good old days and missing the kinds of games we played back then. We are great at imagining how wonderful those games would be if they were made today, and we’re great at helping those legendary designers make a return. Watching Wildman adrift at $350,000 while the lights go out at Gas Powered, it seems we’re less good at knowing when something is in the process of being lost.
I didn't follow this story, but if she did "help herself" to someone's credit card without their permission, then she is a thief. How does that constitute a "low blow"?
The tip here, as written, suggests that it works because there is an implicit endorsement:

"As soon as your prospect sees you were referred by their superior, you become important. The likelihood they respond skyrockets. Put yourself in their shoes…what’s worse than someone potentially wasting 15 minutes of their time? Blowing someone off who their boss wanted them to talk to."
Prismatic releases Graph/Plumbing for Clojure
American Airlines International 'Economy' Class
I would imagine peanuts in the shell probably have close to half the weight being the inedible shells. What about a coconut? I'm sure there is some kind of vegetable product where you don't eat 2/3 of it.

For instance; Peas. I hate peas, so I consider them well short of one-third edible.

Maybe the Surface Pro should be called the Microsoft Eat Your Peas.
Methods of concurrency — GCD, agents, tasks and invocations
Some of the capabilities (and past HN discussion) can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4641465