skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep arguing with people about this. I just don't understand the hang-up.

I was one of those people who, many years ago and despite my own machine always having an online connection, would complain about these sorts of things. I would imagine all sorts of scenarios where my machine would lose a connection and I'd be unable to play for an hour or two, and I'd be upset.

Then WoW came along. And Guild Wars. And Diablo 3. And games like Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2 which didn't necessarily require a persistent online connection to play, but in the absence of a massive LAN, were virtually useless without it. I still enjoy single player games, but increasingly (and almost without my even noticing it), lots of the games I play depend on there being an online connection, and a pool of other people to play with.

So while I understand that SimCity is traditionally thought of as an offline game (and always really has been, with few exceptions), I don't understand the problem here. You're probably always online. It's awesome to have your city saves in a place where they won't be wiped out if you re-format or your hard drive gets corrupted. And if you lose your connection for a while, then do something else.

I think as long as customers are aware of this requirement at the outset, there's no harm in it. It's like any MMO, and when you think of it in that context, it's not weird or awful at all.
It's the antithesis of the tightly scripted goal based game. Players are tired of the 'do this' , 'now go do this', 'now go do this' type games. Even so called 'sandbox games' like grand theft auto/skyrim, have highly scripted/predefined gameplay. Where a game like minecraft or scribblenauts, or crayon physics deluxe, says: Here's an engine with really fun toys, go play with them. Interestingly enough, that's all you really need to have a good game, million dollar cinematics optional.
> finding any arbitrary job isn't hard but finding a good job takes time and effort.

True. If I found myself in this position, I would focus on getting any job first to protect my status, and then working on finding the right job. Which sucks for my new employer of course :(

> Now, the 180 days rule is a hard limit

Actually, it doesn't even come into play until they declare you out of status, and from there you have 180 days. But this is completely playing with fire. I would start to get worried after 30 days, personally.

> another number which is usually tossed around is time between latest paycheck received from previous company and potential appearance of the next paycheck

Totally. When you apply for a new H1B position, they ask for pay stubs from the old one to prove that you're "in status". If you have a good visa lawyer, they should be able to solve this for you. Always always use a good lawyer.

> Also, I believe people's paranoia is mainly because of issues that being out of status for a period of time might pose during the green card process. [...] the details are the devil and a visa officer can screw you over if they want to.

Very very true.
Amazon's not amazing at announcing useful timelines for their products/services. There are presumably a bunch of internal factors at play, but spending limits aren't the only thing that's been "in the works" for ages. If you're holding out for something that may or may not be coming (eg DevPay in your region, hard spending limits, long-term-queues, scheduling, ability to cloudfront s3 'subfolders' etc) it's frustrating, but on the other hand, they do tend to release well thought out services that make sense.

If it's any consolation, I have heard of individuals getting huge bills and having them cleared by Amazon when it became apparent that they hadn't willingly racked up that many fees (like the guy who included his S3 images in a google spreadsheet causing several TB of requests - http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2012/04/google-attack-... ).
There's a Python version here: http://www.llvmpy.org/llvmpy-doc/dev/doc/kaleidoscope/index....
Google Street View Catches Couple Going at It in a Dressing Room
The new journals will lack the prestige and career-boosting qualities of the established, old-guard journals.

It will take longer than just providing another avenue to publication.

The incentives for publishing need to be addressed adequately. It's relatively easy nowadays to figure out how to produce articles for publication cheaply.
True, the UI could certainly use improvement.
Having a way to easily search your stuff and also view the recipes in-game would make it much more pleasant.
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Here's how U.S. authorities can spy on EU cloud data
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Minecraft-sized space game? Where you have to program your ship?

Yes please!
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You could do prior probability conditional on not being available on a US keyboard, or at least make that an option.

edit: just read your comment elsewhere on the page indicating that you do something like what I described.
Well said. The more you teach, the more people will trust you. Focus everything on sharing valuable information and it won't be hard to build a business around that.
It would have been better to link to the actual article, which contains the actual changes:
http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=40defc09-2337-...

This blog post seems like spam.
Yep. Seems unlikely that someone would rent this type of equipment from a kiosk at the airport too.

Is there any product that this would work for.. that is the question I'm asking myself.
> your nuget can't ... Run unit tests

One tool that does everything has never been my taste - a package manger that runs unit tests wouldn't be a good idea at all.

You're not saying anything of interest or useful to me anyway.
"Programmers think you're a designer. Designers think you're a programmer."

"Is the new person a fellow Programmer?"
"Nah their code is really awful, they must be a Designer."

"Is the new person a fellow Designer?"
"I don't think so, everything I've seen is awful, must be a Programmer."
It could have succeeded without being in Java... it's the game's design and concepts that make it successful. Though to be fair, it helps make multiplatform availability easier.
Is a non-AdWords PPC account right for you?
As advice for newbie travelers: make sure you have the relevant visas well before you enter a country, it can be a huge hassle in the event that you didn't luck out with something like "we have an American on board".
Was it popular? I had never heard of Linkedin Answers before today, what was it exactly? Something like stack overflow?
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U. of Michigan catfishes its own athletes as a lesson
>I believe bounty programs are good, but they aren't a replacement for an actual security team.

Of course not, I don't mean to suggest that it is. I'm suggesting that this is marketing with potential for cheap labor more than a real commitment to security.
No, they're terribly, embarrassingly bad at Photoshop. Their missile launches, drones, etc., are all just shitty photoshops that don't fool anybody. Typical of the attitude of the incompetent dictatorships like Iran and North Korea. They think they are the greatest force on Earth, but they are really just fools.
Ideas I like, for the taking
Not quite. These people, perhaps foolishly, took out loans denominated in Euro. When these banks imploded, they took a huge chunk of the Icelandic economy with them, and the Krona was heavily devalued.

Yes, people should have been more wary of taking out foreign currency-denominated loans. These banks were the reason they could never pay the loans off, though.
MIT dropped trespassing charges. (JSTOR also dropped their charges after Aaron deleted the files and promised not to do it again or something.) The feds got involved with the "hacking" because it crossed state lines, and the district attorney in Boston continued the criminal case after both JSTOR and MIT had settled with Aaron out of court.
You're welcome. I made them just for you :)
Which sport players are the best at what they do?
I don't disagree... it was merely an observation. The largest-selling game currently available just happens to run on desktop Java... and the consensus I see recently around here is that Desktop Java is dead -- I like to point out that millions of homes are actively using it, even if only to play a game that really isn't dependent on what one would typically think of when they think 'desktop Java'.

Probably a few users of Eclipse out there, as well.
Tech.Pro Launches Alpha With Tutorial Writing Contest Giving Away $10k/mn
Don't forget about scrolls!

http://scrolls.com
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We're growing exponentially so my team's looking to add another Ops engineer to help handle some of the load. If you come hack with us you'll own a core piece of Rackspace's cloud infrastructure. In the morning you might work on release automation, and in the afternoon you might be performance testing a shipment of the latest and greatest SSD's. There's huge opportunities to make a meaningful impact on the product in whatever your area of expertise is.

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Salaries and Raises
This reminds me: why is Subway still using a stolen logo?
s/entreprenuer/entrepreneur/g
It wasn't JSTOR's fault, and it wasn't MIT's fault.

Why, it can only be the government's fault!
Yeah, it's pretty common practice to disable the root account from SSH access/never log in as root.

Linode has a pretty good getting-started guide for basic Ubuntu VPS security: http://library.linode.com/securing-your-server
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I think it can be seductive to engage in this kind of thinking but it's no more conclusive than "Sillicon Valley is in the US because of low taxes".

Other European countries with strong social safety nets don't necessarily have large startup scenes.
I'm a fan of Riak but like "sonabinu" said. It's more about why you are considering these two options.
Great idea. Perhaps in the next version of SimCity points can be awarded to those who design cities in accordance with the ideas in A Pattern Language.

But some of a city's inhabitants would prefer, for various reason, to live in a typical development, so an even more interesting model would be to create some citizen archetypes, which would feel differently about meeting people in the street versus shopping at a familiar chain, or living in a condo versus commuting to a large house they own. Then the scoring would be based on citizen happiness versus other attributes.
oooh, have you seen pi version? Its purpose is for teaching children programming (its scriptable with python). It doesn't look like its quite ready, but here is the link to watch:
http://pi.minecraft.net/
What's left that Apple hasn't patented or trademarked?
I've struggled with this issue a lot. I think when you are still learning or have free time it is good to code or design your own solutions. But after a while you learn that you could spend 40 hours (or more!) coding something, or you could pay $50/month for it. If you value your time at more then a couple bucks an hour (I do), then paying for software is a pretty easy decision.

Also I'd far rather have a team working on making it the best software for the job, rather than what I could do on my own.
I'm a Ruby dev with no feelings about Java (never programmed in it).

I've gotta say these kind of posts piss me off. A programming language is a tool, nothing more, nothing less. Certain tools are better than others for certain jobs.
Does this mean if you don't ask for a birthdate on your service, you're safe, or are you required to ask for birthdate and reject anything that comes in under 13?

An easy fix for this: dynamically populate the date drop-downs so you can only select (today - 13 years)
Does the Agile Manifesto read like a Deceleration of Independence?
Maybe you actually know a lot about dark pools, but by expressing fear without expressing knowledge, you give the impression that you're mostly afraid because the name "dark pool" sounds like some kind of unregulated secret exchange run out of a meat locker by the Russian mafia.

I think Kid Dynamite (a retired trader, non-HFT) has some pretty reasonable articles about dark pools:

http://kiddynamitesworld.com/dark-pools-are-not-scary-shady-...

Disclaimer: my employer helps mutual funds, pension funds, universities, etc. place large orders on the market, using a variety of techniques (including dark pools) to try and smooth out the market impact of these big trades and minimize the the amount clients lose to market participants who are trying to anticipate their short-term trading behavior.
I use window tiling similar to what Linux users use in xmonad, awesome, etc. I usually have documentation up, a few VIM windows, IMs, etc. on my screen and it beats sorting through windows.

The point is that not everyone uses your websites the way you want them to.
Paypal hates bitcoin and routinely suspends user accounts that are suspected in trading bitcoins.

Remember: bitcoin adoption means death to entities that likes to tightly control monetary instruments and transactions. There is lots of resistance for bitcoin
Agreed, but if you're spending 5-10% of your income every month on repaying student loans that has the same effect as a tax. I think the cost of healthcare is a much better example though.
It was a bit MIT's fault. It was a bit less JSTOR's fault. And it was a whole lot more the feds' fault.
Don't any of you have kids? This is like crack cocaine for middle-school boys. Creating houses, weapons, hunting monsters, creating traps, exploring scary places...etc, etc, etc.
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Offline transactions are possible in the near future with a semi trusted third party:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91732.0

All the deanonymizing work done heretofore is wrong because of multi-sig transactions
Apple trademarks "Rectangular tables arranged in a line"
How did you dig through the source code? Dissasembling or is it somewhere available?
I totally understand what you're saying. However consider you make a piece of software with tons of adoring fans and paying users. You make a ton of money (for arguments sake lets say...$92 million). You probably wouldn't find it hugely necessary to invest in making the improvements to annoying bugs that detract from immersion.

I've never used Minecraft and actually I haven't a clue what it is. I just know that from a business perspective it sounds like there is no need for the makers of this program to invest in correcting its problems. The market seems to think the software is fantastic.
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In most other languages, the second form makes more sense. But jQuery is doing things under the surface that make the syntax change inconsequential.

In my performance tests (Win 8, Chrome 25), the chained method actually performed faster than the object method. So while the idea of passing multiple arguments to a single function call (as opposed to making multiple function calls) might make sense for a general programming best practice, when applied to jQuery it fails.
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sitecheckout.com seems like a solid domain that you could get some money for!
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