skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to read up on what AVS actually does :

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

AVS doesn't work all that well outside the U.S. (Amex declines it outright) And services that do work outside are often value added (read: expensive) and for businesses that primarily cater to U.S. customers, isn't worth the price. AVS isn't just a "bank service". It's only available to merchants that use a gateway that supports it (same for CVV/2) :
https://support.mivamerchant.com/supportsuite/index.php?/Kno...

And of those gateways, some don't support AVS outside mainland U.S. or only partially.

Those businesses aren't "losing money" by not catering to you. On the contrary, they're saving quite a bit by focusing on local customers.
Here is good point view - http://manufacturednormalcy.com/?p=70
Google Groups doesn't even have a decent API.
Which makes it surprising that they didn't design it so they could spool up more servers as required, and gentle shut them back down once interest in the game wanes.
It's even better in German: "spukhafte Fernwirkung"
Well, actually it poses a lot of problems. Communications that have back-and-forth transfers can be very slow.

For instance, if I wanted to do a distributed computation with a server on the other side of the world, it would be limited by the speed of light. From where I am to Australia is about 48 ms. So if I want to communicate there and receive a reply, that's about 1/10 of a second right there. I can only do that 10 times a second then. Not so good.

Not to mention the Mars mission has to wait anywhere from 8-19 minutes to get data between earth and the rover.

We could certainly use > c if it was possible.
I wonder how much money things like this cost to countries. Not that they're not important, but going back and forth on some consumerism laws when there are still education, health and security issues, makes me thing politicians are just wasting tax payers' money all the time.
Side note, it's a little odd that the additional images for a video game are all concept art.
I Have No Idea What I'm Doing with Responsive Web Design
OVH is super impressive. I really hope they manage to get better brand recognition in these parts.
So did they not even bother to look at the debacle of a launch that was _Cities XL_? Or did they imagine themselves immune?
Same here, I've never had any outage issues with the London datacenter.

Though I had one issue where I couldn't install 64bit image to the server. I sent an support ticket about it and in less than ten minutes the whole thing was sorted out.
Interesting that you are using Node.js as your example. Just a couple years ago Node was the new hotness, but was pretty terrible for creating an entire website.
Companies should reward loyalty because it is expensive to hire and train new employees.

It's possible to do both, using two tools: promotions and performance bonuses. If the 25-year-old is more of a rock star than the 35-year-old, promote the 25-year-old. Or, give them a nice fat performance bonus for that particular project.

But what is going to keep the 25 year old there for 10 more years? You can only promote someone so much. This is why companies provide merit raises within positions, and how a 35-year-old ends up making more than a 25-year-old for the same job.
Way to legitimize the FUD, Google.
In the US, at least, there are many thousands of different geographically-based taxing jurisdictions, so you really do need to know the address, not just the ZIP code, in order to get it right.
It looks nice. I'm not sure how much customization LaunchRock gives you with text width, etc., but it seems a bit wordy, without actually telling me too much.

I read the initial headers in the black boxes, and become curious - how does it let me sell without doing anything. So many a quick 1, 2, 3, numbered steps instead of paragraph text would work better? Hope this helps.
You both miss the point. The plural of anecdote is not data and the singular is "Who cares?".

For a man born in 1895, life expectancy was 48 years. For a man born in 1985, life expectancy is 71 years.
I found the references to "personalized newspaper" most interesting.

Using the newspaper comparison, I imagine a front page with a promoted gizmodo story surrounded by ads for things facebook thinks I care about with a whole bunch of quick meme images "below the fold" liked by people I know.

Maybe if I flip through the eternal september fluff that floats to the top of the personalized newspaper long enough I just might see a relevant post from a friend with a low edge rank about how her daughter's cancer responded positively to treatment and is now considered in complete remission.
> The name of the game is just "Sim City"

No, it's not. If you're going to nitpick, get it right. The name of the game is SimCity.
On Earth, it's fine. Communicating with elements outside of Earth, the speed of light is way too slow. Talking with Mars is anywhere from 3 minutes to a 22 minute delay[1]. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to control a rover or talk with Mars settlers in real time?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Mars#Communicat...
That sounds like you turned your Facebook wall into a Twitter/LinkedIn/G+ feed. Kudos! :)
You can follow the facebook engineering page to see updates on what engineers get up to https://www.facebook.com/Engineering
He presents arguments why it is not nuclear suicide. If you weren't so smug you might learn something.
> What I take from the whole article is the author severely underestimates the true cost of software.

I was talking about the "costs of ownership", not the "costs of development". And I'd like to think I understand both.
Instead of doing useless tests, could you focus on supporting timeseries data type in redis ?
The Administration cannot deploy military resources against Christopher Dorner because he is not a person, nation, or organization involved in the attacks on 9/11.

Once again: we are at war with al Qaeda brand terrorists and personal hygiene products. It is no doubt our stupidest war ever, but it is an actual war, unlike the war on drugs, and the authorization the Administration has to drone strike people comes from that war and nowhere else.
The secret is not to care and just hack away.
My copy is on its way in the mail. I'm a huge SimCity fanatic and was slightly worried that when it got here I'd sink too much time in it and get behind on my work.

Thanks EA!
EA has a very long history of anti consumer practices. Pretty much everyone expected some kind of fubar on launch but even this level of incompetence surprised most jaded gamers.
So they can kill American citizens engaged in combat? Great. What's combat?
I don't think galdolf could predict the exact role Gollum would play. It was just a hunch on his part (or at least the book makes it look like it is)
In-theater military targets have never had a right to trial. When airstrikes are used to kill al Qaeda members, the Administration is not exercising its criminal justice authority.
The box-art says, "Winner of 26 PC Game awards". Is that for the series or for Sim City V? I have a hard time believing its the latter.
If you work with something like this

/this/is/some/very/nested/directory/

and you need to move to almost the same structure

/this/be/some/very/nested/directory/

then you might benefit from

function bcd {
cd ${PWD/$1/$2}
}
This could be a very big moment. EA is selling a completely broken product - and I mean that from the perspective of the average consumer, not the nerd who thinks all DRM is broken - and they're doing it for absolutely no reason. If this lasts long enough and gets enough press, it could actually be a turning point against DRM like this.

That would be so wonderful.
Why would you need assistance when "Python is easy to learn and use"?
I needed to keep the old IP during changeover so that DNS had time to update.

Not bashing linode, because I think they do a fine job - I have two servers with a year and a half of uptime. But I don't think the support is a valid reason for them charging more than their competitors.
Probably an AWS micro instance
SimCity and SimCity 2000 were such great games, it's a bit disappointing to see how EA screwed up the rest of the series.
Woo Hoo! I really don't understand much about what you guys are doing, but well, I'm a happy linode customer, so whatever it is that you are doing to make things faster, better, bring it on!
As an emacs user I map "C-p" "C-n" for history search in bash

In .inputrc

"\C-p": history-search-backward
"\C-n": history-search-forward

Also I found the following settings to be very useful:

# List the possible completions when Tab is pressed
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
#tab complete without needing to get the case right
set completion-ignore-case on
Is there really an IT talent shortage?
The Kinesis Advantage works fairly well for me on the Mac. You can change key layouts on the keyboard itself (as opposed to the OS) if something isn't to your liking.

There is one thing that I missed though: play, pause, ff, volume and brightness controls on the keyboard. I haven't worked out a solution for volume and brightness, but play, pause, and ff I do with keyboard shortcuts through Quicksilver.
Spore (the last Big Game released by Maxis through EA) is currently holding that record, I believe.

By September 14, 2008 (ten days after the game's initial Australian release),
2,016 of 2,216 ratings on Amazon.com gave the game one out of five stars,
most citing EA's implementation of DRM for the low ratings. [1]

Spore's DRM issues were different, however.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_(2008_video_game)#DRM_con...
Well, I've grown up with semantic version numbers. In those there was a document somewhere that described exactly what the version numbers "meant" in terms of compatibility. So

Major.minor,sub-minor

was the most common, the policy there was :

* major number change, may have incompatible changes with
APIs. Applications depending on a major number won't be
compatible with the previous version of the library.

* minor number change, changes by 'addition' only, no
changes to existing code necessary, backward
compatibility testing advised.

* sub-minor number change. No semantic changes, bugs and
other defects fixed, some workarounds may no longer be
needed.

With rolling releases it seems the only safe thing you can assume is that no earlier release is compatible and later releases are probably compatible. That seems like a step backward.
This is how you get more women involved in tech, by actually taking action. I hope that we see more initiatives like this rather than hateful articles, which we've seen so many of recently.
It's not fast enough for high frequency traders. That's why all the major HF traders pay large sums of money to rent space for their servers at the site of the exchanges.
It is. If you spill the beans that you are checkin staying on site and browsing before buying, and it'll take a week till there's a tool for simulating that.
I studied Religious Studies in college, but have always loved coding (started with Basic, Pascal, C, into others) in my free time.

One of my favorite jobs early on was where the lead of the department took the time to teach the department perl. It helped frame some of the basics of web-app development for me, and ultimately helped to pave the way to exploring other technologies.

Having since moved to the bay area, I feel like this sentiment is shared, but hardly practiced. I've interviewed at a few startups, and can answer the typical fizz-buzz-baz problem. However, I feel like that potential is overlooked for someone that can hit the ground running. (Granted, there's probably a slew of other reasons for not getting an offer).

Overall, would love to be mentored and am pursuing such a relationship now with my current employer.
What role models did Grace Hopper have? And I can only speak for myself but I was never drawn to 'technology' out of having famous neckbeards or Jobs or Gates and so forth as role models.

You have to ask why women are more under represented in this particular field than others which used to be just as male dominated in the past. But people don't like to think about such deep large hairy societal problems.

None of this is to say that what's described in the OP is a bad thing.
Yes. Whatever the case may be.

Ultima Online was completely reverse engineered and then re-deployed to host the cracked version at a state where lots of players liked it. Prior to the devs breaking the way some users preferred it.

Do I doubt this will happen, No. Do I expect it to happen tomorrow? No.

But I expect either this to happen, or EA to fix this problem. When its fixed, I'll buy the game.
I never really understood this in the books. How could Sauron not know that their intent was to destroy the ring? It is made clear that Sauron can see Frodo's location when he puts on the ring. Frodo puts on the ring at various points throughout the series, each time increasingly close to Mordor. How could Sauron have not considered this to be their intent?
There's absolutely no need. The game runs for 20 minutes with no internet connection. All the logic runs locally, and will be cracked. The only thing that needs to be emulated is the save/load system.
Holder testified about this under oath in response to adversarial questioning from Senator Cruz and was clear that without an imminent threat that would endanger America (this was stated several different ways, all under oath) the US couldn't use lethal force of any sort on a terrorist on American soil. The example used was of an al Qaeda terrorist sitting at a cafe; a "cafe strike".

Holder said not only would lethal force be inappropriate (he actually started by saying "with the facts you've provided we wouldn't even be able to arrest the person"), but that the Constitution would not permit the Administration to use it.
Faster, smaller and more beautiful web with WebP
Insight: Since copywriting is interface design...
I'm pretty sure the core game logic is not on the servers, as widely reported -- I was playing from 9-12PM CST last night, and the servers were supposedly completely down from 10-12PM -- I was able to continue playing in my city, and wasn't kicked until I attempted to interact with the region.

Granted, anything having to do with the region (imports/exports, shared upgrades, etc) was defunct.

Additionally, when you exit a city, there's a long pause where your client sends the city state to the server to be persisted (or so the UI tells me) -- another indication that the simulation is not run on the server.

My current impression is that the entire city simulation is done on the client, and the server is simply responsible for intra-city interactions and persisting game state.
Screw that, faster than the speed of light should be back in time. I want the information before it was sent!
I actually found Linode support to be terrible. It's fast, but it's not honest. If there is interest about the issue that happened to me (Backups went down), I'll write a blog post about it.
You can't just hack your way to social change
You've got to hand it to Holder. Answering a 13 hour filibuster with a 2 sentence letter - that shows some class.
Add pv (available in many standard repos these days, from http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml if not) into the mix and you get a handy progress bar too.
Cost of RAM, and the lack of SSD options.
xargs?

Here is an example from the man page:
>For example, the following command will copy the list of >files and directories which start with
> an uppercase letter in the current directory >to destdir:

/bin/ls -1d [A-Z]* | xargs -J % cp -rp % destdir

You can use this with find really nicely.

find . -name somefile.txt -print0 | xargs -0 -J % cp -rp % destdir

Note the -print0 and -0 flags (zero). This will use a null byte as a separator instead of spaces to avoid failing on files with spaces in their names.
Overall, this games seems like a good example of how not to launch a product:

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/simcity

Fanboy perspective:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/simcity-impressions-we...
That's a hypothetical program (note "Wanted").
This type of thing is my primary complaint about linode. Their transparency on things that make them look even slightly bad is basically non existent.
Probably for the entire series but it's still false marketing.
You prompted me to check mine. 994 days of uptime.
Sauron also had flying troops of his own, so it would be a risky proposition to present for a battle that way.

Similarly, the use of magic is very unclear in Tolkien, but who's to say Sauron can't do something against a flying target himself if it makes a beeline for Mt Doom?
The only thing bad about SimCity 4 was the performance was less than stellar. Other than that, 3000 and 4 were just as good as 2000.
> What role models did Grace Hopper have?

This is a fallacy. Just because one person managed to surmount the lack of role models doesn't mean it isn't an issue.

> And I can only speak for myself but I was never drawn to 'technology' out of having famous neckbeards or Jobs or Gates and so forth as role models.

That's nice, but I don't see how your personal motivations are relevant on an industry-wide scale.
Here is the full text of the bill. It fails to address the DMCA at all, and I'm not sure I understand how it would fix the problem. It says that "the agent of such subscribers" should be allowed to unlock any devices, but if the primary way of doing that is illegal as per the DMCA, it's not clear at all what it would actually achieve.

---------------------

A BILL

To require the Federal Communications Commission to direct that wireless providers permit the unlocking of mobile devices.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the "Wireless Consumer Choice Act".
SEC. 2. FCC DIRECTION TO WIRELESS PROVIDERS.

Pursuant to its authorities under title III of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 301 et seq.), the Federal Communications Commission, not later than 180 days
after the date of enactment of this Act, shall direct providers of commercial mobile services and commercial mobile data services to permit the subscribers of such services, or the agent of such subscribers, to unlock any type of wireless device used to access such services. Nothing in this Act alters, or shall be construed to alter, the terms of any valid contract between a provider and a subscriber.
If you're going to slam his comment, at least offer a reason why it's incorrect
Not really game issues (though they definitely seem to exist as well, unstable games is just par for the course these days), broken DRM and server issues.
They can work independently and set their own pricing.
Honestly, my guess is that you were doing something wrong in the Go code. Go is definitely faster than Ruby, even on a single core machine. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
In the last few years, I had to send a number of overnight letters, personally.

Without the advantage of a corporate discount, the USPS price was half of that of the private competitors.

It's things like this that individual consumers are giving up with this push to privatization. Big boys get breaks; the rest of us get screwed.

Efficiency at scale doesn't work, when you're not part of the scale.

See, for example, individual rates for health care insurance.
From the same article:

RHEL trees are forked off the Fedora repository, and released after a substantial stabilization and quality assurance effort.

Which adds a quote from the Fedora Project:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a commercial enterprise operating system and has its own set of test phases including alpha and beta releases which are separate and distinct from Fedora development.

And on that page[1] it states that RHEL6 is based on a "Mix of Fedora 12 Fedora 13 and several modifications".

Sorry to be pedantic, but that's significantly different than the Slackware model. Maybe it's just PTSD; I fled from RH in the old days onto the path that led to Slackware, so any comparison makes me touchy.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux?rd=R...
It is interesting how replacing character with object makes it a decent guide to figuring out problems or refactoring in programming.
For a more obscure game I had been raving about, Anno 2070, has a similar issue. If you earn any achievements (which affect ingame stats, enough to break a game if they go missing), and your internet connection or more likely, their teeny weeny little server goes down, those achievements go missing. This thing was enough to dissuade me from buying a game I had been raving for months about (read the reviews first, all about this DRM problem).
The debunking is not valuable. For one thing it takes up the time of professional scientists who could be studying more promising subjects. For another, as your quote points out, this crazy theory has unfairly tarred related, more promising areas of study.

In terms of TED, the primary harm is that it gives the subject lay credence that it does not deserve. The very fact that you are arguing that this theory has value proves my point. What is your educational or professional background for evaluating the merits of this theory? A Wikipedia page? My wife is a professional anthropologist and I can assure you that her field considers Elaine Morgan a crackpot. She was astounded that TED would give her a platform.
They've already spent over $100M on VP8; I guess they figured it wasn't worth spending more to fight 11 companies to the death.
Yes because Javascript and Golang are basically the same language with basically similar approaches to concurrency, similar deployment characteristics, similar toolchains, and comparable performance in most situations. Is what you're saying, right?
Everyone Wears J. Crew
I think that's what happend. Schrodinger's cat was also initially conceived to ridicule the idea of quantum superposition.
Except HFT traders. I'm sure somewhere some poor ops guy is being harangued with "Hey I hear the Chinese have this tech that is faster than light, I want that shit on my fiber right now dammit, I don't care if its alpha quality ok? What? No I don't need to know about physics, I pay you guys to know about physics, get me that tech now."
It seems that the more powerful the being, the more likely the ring is to corrupt them. I think that the worry would not be that the ring would corrupt the eagles, but their masters, the Valar.
The Amazon link lists it as "SimCity".
I'd say that figuring out the right thing to do with respect to unlocking cell phones is certainly two and likely more than three orders of magnitude simpler than a useful change in security, health, or education. And I suspect it's just as important as the sort of things the Federal Government (as opposed to state or local) does with respect to education.
Is there an app or API out there that does something similar... yet...?
In that case the user can type it in themselves. The textfields are fully editable after all. I would expect that it is faster for user to type in the correct city if you get it wrong than for them to have to move their mouse to the keyboard and select it from a drop down list, and if it isn't in the drop down then this method is faster.
How the feds predict the future (Using big data)
For a company providing critical computing resources, during an incident there should be one person responsible for managing incident response. It actually shouldn't be an engineer; the person's job should be to bug engineers as little as possible but provide periodic updates in a central location (a site of the form https://status.example.com) which is available to all customers.
I just implemented Stripe payments on my first side project [1], but the jquery payment plugin wasn't on the radar when I was building it. Are there any advantages to using it over the jquery validator as seen in one of Stripe's payment examples? [2].

By the way, getting everything up and running with Stripe was a dream, it's an amazing product. Great work.

[1] http://www.tryringo.com

[2] https://gist.github.com/boucher/1750368