skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a female developer, I would intuitively feel glad when seeing this kind of events/groups being formed, but thinking about it I am not sure why. I don't even think I feel like going to them for any other reason than, well, I am female and they're also female so I should probably check it out.

After reading the reasons Github wrote, I find it hard to relate. For me picking up coding has nothing to do with seeing some other women do it, but perhaps seeing some human beings do it. And I don't think seeing female developers would inspire me further more than male developers. But I could be completely false and it might be that turns out I don't know what I really feel...

Perhaps it's because I have not yet noticed any serious injustice around where I've been, could be that I just didn't realised what they were or I haven't spend enough time in the tech industry. The most unfair thing in tech I've ever encountered was interviewing at a company where there is no ladies restroom...

Anyhoo. I don't personally know any other female developer and I've been coding since 11, that's 10+ years, I guess that's ought to be wrong. And since there are no samples around me, I don't really know what inspired other female developer to learn how to code. Is there anyone here who cares to share her experience?
... which they cannot.
To be a bit more succinct than my previous reply, I think there is a legitimate distinction between "making up content to fill up spaces not covered in the original story" (i.e. fan fiction) and "reasoning out as much as you reliably can about what filled up those spaces, and no more".

Fan fiction is creative writing, more or less by definition: inventing new details is fine unless they conflict with the original story (or even if they do). The author of this article is very explicitly trying to avoid "making up" an answer: he's searching for evidence only within the original story that could constrain the answer to a question relevant to that story. They're both games for fans to play, but at least to my eye the two are worlds apart.
Read an interesting column the other day that pointed out that in Washington there's plenty of bipartisanship -- when it comes to creating the security state. Not so much for other things. Paul ended up taking a hit from all sides on his mini-filibuster. And it was a rather odd assortment of politicians that supported him.

I'm glad the AG saw fit to answer after six weeks, and it looks like Paul is happy with the answer -- for now. This type of thing is a hall of mirrors, though. What defines "combat"? Were the Americans targeted in Africa participating in combat?

Supporters of Paul will say that he's only following the questions, that the administration is stonewalling. Supporters of the administration (and the Republican status quo) will say that such questions do not deserve answers. So here we are.

Bit of a sidebar: I honestly feel that these libertarian themes are going to play a big role in politics over the next few years. I feel so strongly I created a blog yesterday to summarize libertarian-oriented news and commentary to record how it all plays out http://freedom-or-safety.com/blog/

Note: we should also be clear about the larger picture. A senator, who is charged with overseeing the "architecture" of the government, asked an executive department official for some clarity on an issue. After six weeks he received it and is happy with it. There's nothing binding here. He just got an opinion on how things are currently being interpreted. The president is perfectly able to re-interpret the law in a different way tomorrow if he chooses. In fact, one of the reasons for asking the question it to determine whether additional legislation binding the executive is required.

There's a much longer post here about terms and language and how we got here. The Congress authorized the president to take any necessary action against terrorists. Either that authorization has to end, or we need a very fine-grained examination of just what that language means, perhaps with more instructions from Congress. In either case, in my mind this is the normal thing that Congress should be doing.

The question is answered. The issue is not settled, and that's fine.
Amazing post. How much time did it take to debug and identify the issue
Tropes vs Women in Video Games - Damsel in Distress
That refers to al Qaeda militants overseas. It is exactly the same logic as the logic that allowed Allied airstrikes against Nazi armor and troop placements in Europe.
For real. They said they were going to over two years ago.

http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in...

I'd really like to see them actually follow through on this.
Regardless, the use of the cloud in this game is for more than just to deter pirates. That much is clear.

So you're right that its not "evil DRM" in the traditional sense, that shit failed and publishers moved on years ago. Online components, and preferable mandatory online components is the new AAA game anti-piracy, anti-secondary-market strategy.

EA could have designed a more resilient architecture without sacrificing the multi-player/social aspects. But they didn't, why not?
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My local public radio station is in pledge drive mode again, and I was wondering for any other public radio listeners out there, what alternatives we might have to doing this twice a year?
To me, the problems we see today will pale in comparison with the problems people will experience years from now. If the game is unplayable today, what will it be like when EA decides that keeping the servers running is unprofitable, and turns those servers off?

(I think there's some sort of analog to historical preservation of art and buildings here.)
His father was killed several days prior. Yemen is not a war zone; the US is not at war with Yemen. Sins of the father do not pass to the son.
Not the kind of customer satisfaction you want to see.
Wow, Upwards of 800 amazingly dumb people on the review page. Didn't they see the first 100 reviews <i>before</i> making the purchase?
MSRP is (super roughly) $40-80k depending on how it is tricked out (choice of modules, etc).
How is it dishonest? I would consider it a theatrical demonstration of what's actually happening.

The steps of the gif are:
-Establishing secure connection
-Sending Credentials
-Authenticating
-Building Secure Environment

That's not too far off of layman's terms of what is happening when they logon albeit just not as slow.

If it provides a layperson the same sense of trust that a technical person would feel if they listed the technical terms, isn't this an accurate demonstration?
from what I see in some job ads, there is certainly a shortage of super-talented puzzle-solving rockstar ninjas with 5 years experience in 10 technologies who are just out of school and will work over hours for minimum salary and a ping-pong table.
For the country's top lawyer, this is awfully ambiguous grammatically.

There are two different possible interpretations of the wording of this letter:

1. The President cannot order the use of a weaponized drone to kill an American, unless that American is engaged in combat on American soil.

2. The President cannot order the use of a weaponized drone to kill an American on American soil, unless that American is engaged in combat.
But is it fitting to apply the findings of trials with real world birds to the sapient Middle-earth eagles?
That's not quite the threshold.

It's a solemn legal claim, with consequences if they lie.

And the people claimed against can file a counter claim.

(DMCA is a terrible law, and needs to be fixed.)
but the beta had the same issues, they were never fixed before release.
Doing a massive online game takes a broad skillset and different development patterns than single player.

I'd probably place money on the fact they failed the load testing. (Yes, I'm xEA and was involved in the last simcity load test)
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I guess it's personal preference. For me, the new stuff in 3K didn't make it more fun, it just made it more work to get a city going. It could be I didn't put in the time to understand the new stuff, though.
Forgive me: This is both a comment on the content and in the process I mentioned something I made recently. I don't want any more users right now.

I have a bucket for links called "Mythbusting" on this service I made named Scrooty.

I called the bucket "Mythbusting" not as a reference to the TV show but rather for a particular category of content.

I often run into misconceptions and tropes that bother me. One of those among people I encounter often is that the Soviet Union was so great compared to the US then or now. Another is things like, say, the excessive praise of Japanese longevity/health.

This is a link I'm saving for the next time somebody tries to tell me how devoid of racism the Soviet Union was.

Another recent link for this bucket was the (recent, but it's been ongoing) outrage among Chinese farmers not getting recompense for their land from the gov't confiscations.

Stories like this are starting to be shared more. Here's hoping it keeps coming.
What do you think of this article?

Christopher Dorner shot and killed an unarmed 28 year old woman, along with her unarmed fiancee. The woman was the daughter of an LAPD official.

Dorner was killed in that woodland cottage after he shot and killed a San Bernardino County sheriff's officer.
Our communications run at about 90% of the speed of light through copper and about 66% through glass. Even at terrestrial distances, the latency is noticeable.
Patents were never the reason for a lack of VP8 adoption. When you have the likes of Adobe, Apple, Canon, Microsoft and Sony firmly against it was always going to be a dead on arrival.

I honestly don't know why Google bothered to buy the company in the first place. Seems an odd place to assert a competing position.
I haven't had to use it in a long time so my memory is fuzzy...but last I remember, when the actual Verified by Visa form pops up, there is an option to disable it.
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Exactly this. Great response!

It takes a little more thought, but in the end is the better way of doing things.
If I understand (1) and (2) correctly I believe the Administration claims the authority to do both.
Apple seems to still be doing alright selling digital music, and they voluntarily stopped using DRM.
Perhaps they bought in advance?
HIgh voltage wood erosion
This is my first non-trivial side project and I'd love some feedback on it. What do you think of the home page, concept, etc. Any suggestions?
it looks like it's on an iPad default browser
!! Sim City DRM is just part of a really deep ARG. Maybe they hired the ilovebees people?
This seems like the new spam fad of the month, if anyone bothered to check the pages posting them they would see it isn't Sony or similar rather a page made a week ago.
Filling gaps is a perfectly fine exercise, and can even lead to consensus when the gap is small and you take years of discussion to fill it. The question of Sauron's anti-air detection and defense capabilities within Mordor, and of the Council of Elrond's confidence in assessing these capabilities, is much larger, vaguer and conducive to controversies. Not to mention that the character most likely to propose using the eagles (Gandalf) was also the most aware of any possible impediments (e.g. Sauron being able to conjure storms and blinding lights at a moment's notice etc.).
That seems like another way of wording what I said, which is that there is no way to predict the output other than by running the algorithm that generates it. If you are presented only with the string representing the unbounded output, is there any way to reconstruct the algorithm from it? If not, then I would say that the string itself is incompressible; in that case only the string plus the algorithm is compressible in the way you describe.
I dd not knew that, seems awesome of Ruby developer.
You're right; it was Ibrahim al-Banna that was targeted.
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I hear you, friend, it's like it's ok for companies to hire us , men, as a "risky bet", I'm not the best engineer but thankfully my employers have all "seen" something in me to have enough faith to give me the chance to learn the job and then become better. Women seem to not get the same kind of good faith: my partner has two engineering degrees and she's by far a better engineer than I (skill-and-attitude-wise), and yet most companies reject her because of her "lack of experience". I know that that is a problem that befalls recent graduates all over the globe, but the fact that I garnered faith from employers more than once and she hasn't, not a single time, is -IMO- telling of a lack of balance.
List of Online Services EA Has Shut Down
What's wrong with:

find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \;
A nonzero number of American citizens of Germanic descent left the country to fight for Germany before the US declared war.
Best compromise: create a "local" version of the server.
The "md5deep" package contains several different hashes including the actual md5deep program but also whirlpooldeep etc.
No. One thing is to offer a "social mode", even to push it hard in terms of marketing or menu placement or whatever, another to require a connection at all times, even in "sandboxed mode" where you're not going to interact with anyone else -- which is completely preposterous, and it's done only because of DRM.

If the problem was "going social", you'd see more p2p and lan-gaming features, rather than "let's all connect to my servers, creating huge scalability problems which may or may not be solved at some point".
There is a hard problem we are solving and requires implementing almost from scratch a few RFCs.

The client part of it is 'finished' actually.
No with Linode its:

"Your instance may have been rooted. But we won't tell you what happened, whether it is fixed or whether it will happen again."
The fundamental problem with Sim City is that it is historically a single-player, offline experience. And it didn't help that this is the first true Sim City we've seen since 2003 (Sim City 4) and many media hyped this game to be possibly the best Sim City yet, and the most realistic city simulation experience.

Yes, there may be technical limitations that required processing to happen on EA servers. And yes, they make it clear on the front of the box that an internet connection is required to play the game.[1]

But most people purchasing this game expected that for the most part, this would be primarily a single player just like the previous titles, and that the internet connection is only required for DRM and/or occasional online interaction. They don't realize that a lot of the engine lives in the cloud.

So there is a different level of disappointment because of the expectations that were there. If this had been a follow-up to an MMO, they would have known that the game heavily depended on server performance, and it may have been a little more forgivable.

But most people don't understand why the game doesn't work. "Just disable DRM for now. Or disable multiplayer interactions. Make it offline only for now."

What I can't believe is that this isn't just minor hiccups with the launch -- this is catastrophic failure. Why couldn't better load testing simulate and predict what they're seeing today?

Regardless, as many have said, this will ruin the name of Sim City, at least for a period, and will cause even more bitterness with EA than what already exists.

[1]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/815mDnNUDhL._SL1121_.j...
The above is a cache link because ea.com is returning 500's, I assume as part of the Sim City debacle. The actual URL is here: http://www.ea.com/1/service-updates
The shareholders.

http://investors.morningstar.com/ownership/shareholders-majo...
UX Breakdown: Hipmunk
Some places in EA are amazing places to work at. Others have challenges. They aren't the only game company that has seen studios do sub-standard work after being acquired.
It is so simple, this is the same object seen over 2 places.
Think of a fishing tank, the side glass wall and the front glass wall show the same fish. And that's i hope an easy to understand example of an extra dimension, it solves many physics problems add a dimension..
As the fish swims in the tank, both walls show change in position to and no need for communication at all, its just one fish.

you need proof for extra-dimensional existence just take all those experiments that could be solved by it .. double split... spooky action .... and many more.. (even quantum computers inner working)
>We'll have to wait for EA's reply on this one.

If EA's usual response to criticism means anything, we'll be waiting a loooooong time...

>It will be hard for them to recover after a huge mistake/strategy like this.

You're kidding, right? They'll just release Call of Modern Madden 5: Battlefield Part 2 and the fanboys will eat it up, horrid DRM and microtransactions and all.
What does this mean for the WebRTC developers who made Opus and are now looking at making a video codec?

It would have been nice to have examples of video that didn't step on MPEGLA's patents.
It has a lot of useful options http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/md5deep.html
Their best part is free backup and snapshot, and the way it deploy, its mind blowing. Just hope it it all will remain free forever.
Can't wait to see this in Hockey!

In the future, players will probably be wearing something like this. Then you can watch the game from the perspective of your favorite player. Sure hope pro sports teams and leagues are paying attention to this.
Except the evidence in the original story is clearly insufficient, and absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. We know nothing of Sauron's capabilities to detect and confront airborne intrusion into Mordor or about Gandalf's assessment of these capabilities. Assuming Sauron could not see or bring down the eagles and that Gandalf was aware of this fact is, from this point of view, adding new elements to the story and therefore fan fiction.
No Kerberos won't help in this case. Once you have the keytab you can impersonate the client. Kerberos doesn't solve the "trusted client" issue.
As much as people hate change I think they also hate stagnation.
this is because when an IP is blacklisted it's generally done in a contiguous block (subnet) that are probably shared by hosts on the same virtual lan (vlan). this is to prevent mailers from jumping to another ip on the same subnet.

trunking an additional vlan into their virtual pool just for you would have constituted a major production change in probably 2 or 3 core switch layers.

the operational risk and expenditure for this kind of change easily goes into the thousands of dollars, possibly tens of thousands if they screw something up.

what exactly is "any amount of money" to you? because to them and other service providers, it means tens of thousands of dollars, not another 50 bucks.
If you're not willing to support a measure that doesn't give you everything you want, you're really not cut out for politics.

I'm actually more in favor of making changes to the law in small patches, because they're less likely to contain bugs.

Monoliths like the 900 pages that is Obamacare -- how can anyone really figure out what the effects will be ahead of time?
You should use the same integer remainder operator (%) as in the Ruby version instead of math.Mod(float64(i), float64(j)):

<...>
for j := 2; j < limit; j++ {
if i % j == 0 {
found = true
<...>
Bullshit, basically. So much ideological bullshit. Sorry.
But they promised...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLYLmsEBGug
>This is a link I'm saving for the next time somebody tries to tell me how devoid of racism the Soviet Union was.

We have a similar quota system in America that limits asian admissions and with talks of extending quotas to limit male admissions in STEM degrees. What's not clear is if these Jewish quotas were proportional to population or not.
The being wanting to hold on to the current design will be the same people that hated the current design when it was released.
By a series of repeated experiments and statistical inference?
Well, that's what you get for buying a DRMed game.

Stand for your rights.
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> I think there is a plausible, if imperfect, argument for doing so; Many players are involved and system resources are scarce relative to simulation complexity.

Game reviewers like Polygon knowingly played prerelease code on private development server, and reported no major issues. In addition, EA recently cut back on game features and disabled the fastest game mode to help their servers cope -- some additional indication that servers are doing a fair amount of work to service the game.

I agree it sounds like a solvable problem made difficult by overwhelming demand. And for some number of reasons, they cannot increase server capacity sufficiently to solve it. This sounds more like a failure of server engineering than an overly aggressive DRM strategy.

[1] http://www.polygon.com/game/simcity-2013/2630
[2] http://www.polygon.com/2013/3/7/4075120/simcity-servers-upda...
Absolutely right, you could totally see this train wreck coming.

http://imgur.com/xddfMvh
Heh, I fall somewhere into that group in that I think Unity is terrible. That said, I do basically agree with most everything that he says in the article. No one is ever going to get exactly what they want in a project as large as Ubuntu. That's why there's Mint :D

Time will tell whether the Unity gamble was worth it. Personally I don't think they will be able to keep up with Apple/Android/Microsoft in Mobile, but I thought those companies were leaving a bit of a void in the PC power user field that Ubuntu could have run wild in. We'll see if he's right, but I think ubuntu will only ever grab the 'hobbyists' in the mobile market, his dreams of major market-share across PC/mobile/tablet are pipe-dreams IMO. And for each person like me that moves on, I just don't see there being 10 others that will now fill in behind me.
I applaud this. Also want to point out that facebook and google are converging -- google is integrating more social into its search (http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/24/3904134/google-redesign-ho...), facebook integrating more search into its social (https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch)

I'm glad we are doing something different, because these juggernauts are about to collide and the ripples will be felt everywhere.
Square.

I'm happy footing the bill if I can get payments from everyone else via credit card right at the spot.

Cash also works but more than likely everyone will have a credit card. If they don't, then cash.
wait, racism, in what part of the post?
TIL, thank you. Here it is from the manpage:

A sequence expression takes the form {x..y[..incr]}, where x and y are either integers or single characters, and incr, an optional increment, is an integer. When integers are supplied, the expression expands to each number between x and y, inclusive. Supplied integers may be pre‐fixed with 0 to force each term to have the same width. When either x or y begins with a zero, the shell attempts to force all generated terms to contain the same number of digits, zero-padding where necessary. When characters are supplied, the expression expands to each character lexicographically between x and y, inclusive. Note that both x and y must be of the same type. When the increment is supplied, it is used as the difference between each term. The default increment is 1 or -1 as appropriate.
dwarf fortress is the new simcity.