skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha thanks for reminding me about the error 37 video by francis. Classic! I remember that error lasting for several days after launch.
Hahaha, have these guys ever heard of TESTING?

You know, it's not rocket science to create a program that creates say 10000 connections to the server, does some prerecorded game actions using a minimal implementation of the protocol, and run it on 1000 Amazon EC2 instances simultaneously... et voila, 10 million client connections just like real launch!

Hopefully they'll get sued for this.
Ya, there is no requirement to have to mess around with the time in the game. It can all be done with the separate app.
Yes. Use Adblock.
Your problem is with AUMF then. not with drones as such. We could have undertaken identical actions with a fighter jet or a sniper under the legislation, it's just easier with a drone.
Madden 11? Meaning, a game that came out 2 years ago is no longer playable?
Doesn't work that way, the default method--by far--is one check. So they'd annoy and possibly offend, say, 98 people out of 100 when the 2 or so that are splitting the check can say so before ordering.
EA Hires Chinese Spammers to Post About SimCity’s Always Online Requirement
Unproven Claim A is true for the same reason that Unproven Claim B is true.
They're using photons, not electrons, but they're not using any interference patterns for detection since they're not bringing the entangled photons back together. They are detected separately.
It was the establishment that was going bonkers.

In what way, by failing to agree with him?
You don't want a ~beautiful, hand-crafted, pixel-perfect experience built with love~?
Not the Mediterranean Diet
(Recycling my own old comment).

The whole "shortage of IT talent" hysteria is way overblown when you look at the actual numbers. Just one example, latest DICE salary report:

http://media.dice.com/report/2012-2011-dice-salary-survey/

Contrast the opening sentence:

Technology professionals enjoyed their largest annual salary growth since 2008, according to the 2012-2011 Salary Survey from Dice, the leading career site for technology and engineering professionals.

... with the actual numbers:

After two straight years of wages remaining nearly flat, tech professionals on average garnered salary increases of more than two percent, boosting their average annual wage to $81,327 from $79,384 in 2010.

So, let's see. While the inflation is chugging along at ~3% per year, we get 2 flat years, followed by a 1% increase? So basically, we make less money each year? Is the tech industry an economic miracle? Are programmers the one must-have product whose prices get lower when it's in short supply and the buyers have pockets full of cash? Or is there a simpler explanation?

Even better, go ahead and play around with same title, different seniority.

Junior iOS programmer: http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=junior++ios+programmer&l...

Senior iOS programmer: http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=senior++ios+programmer&l...

See how juniors get raises, while seniors get flat-lined? That's the downward pressure of H1Bs as well as evidence of buyers' (hiring managers) actual purchasing behavior markedly different from "we can't find anyone who can do basic fizz buzz! we need people with skillz!".
No, I don't think the killing of Dorner is comparable to his murder of Monica Quan. Quan was targeted, stalked, and deliberately killed while unarmed. The officers surrounding Dorner were in a confrontation with an armed suspect who had pledged to trade his life for the opportunity to kill police officers and who had just that day outside that exact cottage killed another police officer. He was not an inert submissive object inside the building; he was trying to kill them with more diligence and intent than they him.
Why is it necessarily hostile towards men to have a series of talks oriented towards women in tech? I don't imagine they're going to spend their time talking about how terrible men are, how we should undermine them at every turn, and do our best to tip the scales of systemic oppression in their favor. It seems to me to be about inspiration and encouragement, which can be a benefit to anyone, regardless of gender.

It is about creating an integrated community. But women need to come together and find the collective voice that most individuals currently do not possess. Sometimes the presence or involvement of men can be detrimental to that progress. Not all men, not all the time, but sometimes. So why bring up the "what about men?" argument when this is just not about men?

I am sorry you disagree with my definition of sexism. To my knowledge, that is an accepted academic definition.
OK, so what are you proposing then?

* That all applications that run unattended store the user's service password?
* That the user change the app password on the 2 desktops and 3 tabs/phones they use because they rotated their service password?
* That users should NOT be able to revoke or change an application's access rights without changing their password?
* That applications *shouldn't* request the minimum privileges they need to do their job?
* That it is NOT a good thing for a user to be able to log into their service provider and check what applications are connected with the service?

You're thinking in an extremely binary and absolutist fashion. Systems have lots of failure modes.

> If you compromise somebody's desktop or phone...

This is my day job. After compromise, the first thing is the "smash and grab" where you loot as many credentials as possible off the machine with a bunch of scripts. If there's stuff in a browser's built-in password manager, win. If your app stores a password, win.

You're assuming that all failure modes are alike.
Couldn't the iPad app also emulate a client connected to the server, and only ask for the current time?
I don't know if anyone from the Soviet era would tell you that antisemitism did not exist. I don't know why any Russian would tell you otherwise. It always did and it does now. Russians are incredibly discriminatory, especially in bigger cities. When i was around 7 i had adults come up to me and tell me that i am worthless shit because i am half Armenian and half Russian.
Good artists copy. Great artists steal.

Neither apologize.
You'll Never Buy These Twilight Zone VHS Tapes. Or Will You?
Also known as the Diablo III strategy.
I don't think it's a flow of OAuth. It's more a software design issue here. It was wrong for them to use OAuth for this task. It's such a poor design choice (they repeated the error many times for all these applications) that it's hard to believe they didn't want that in the first place.

As to know why they want these keys to be basically 'public', I'm not sure why yet..
Well they are probably doing it to avoid headaches later. Maybe your business would be innocuous, but others doing the same thing might have some dirtier business in mind later.
It the quotas were proportional there would have been way smaller number of Soviet Jews with university diplomas.

Jews were disproportionally represented in universities in USSR even with all the quotas.

Similar quotas also existed for Russians and other non-locals in national republics - e.g. it was much harder for a Russian to be admitted to the university in Uzbek SSR compared to an Uzbek.
This was a bit more nuanced than just Anti-Semitism.
"It was understood that since Jews represented a minority percentage of the overall population, the university would only accept that percentage into the student body. This was in line with the Soviet Union’s unofficial policy of anti-semitism in the post-Stalin era."

So, quotas... are there quotas, official or unofficial, in the USA university system?
Surely "Awesome" must take the top-spot
You're saying that the client PCs are so weak, yet EA can offload it into the cloud for cheap? How exactly does that work? My 3-year-old ultralight laptop has as much CPU as an EC2 M1 large.

I find it hard to believe the game is so complicated a laptop will struggle, but EA can efficiently load it onto servers? That sounds pretty hard to believe. Even if the target player is using a crappy Netbook, you're talking about a dedicated compute server for every 4-20 players. That's insane.
If they are going to shut down a server for a game, why not release that 1 final patch that will either let people run their own server, or make it so it's no longer dependent on a server?
While there are restrictions an individual with an H1-B may transfer jobs even after they've applied for permanent residency. American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act of 2000 (AC21).
She should just release whatever she creates why learning. Stereotypes are no longer valid if you have a proof of your skills in Github.
It could be beneficial if they'd bust their patents in the process.
SimCity: EA Refuses Refunds, Threatens Customer With Origin bans
I think the name explains it. InduceBrowserCrashForRealz.
> saves so much time not having to use cash

...really?
This kind of idea is something philips has been working on for years, with Hue being the newest in a line of lighting control systems.

Years ago, they were peddling the amBX line, which was a set of lights, desk vibrators, and fans (yes, as in like, desk fans that blow in your face) that would create an immersive environment for games. Of course, very few games picked it up (we worked on it a bit for Second Life, and I did some silly things with it, super mario bros, and alcohol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kiKE3lif8Q). amBX ended up being mostly a failure, despite having fuck off HUGE booths on the gdc expo floor for at least 3 years running (Who else remembers the huge black blob? Great as a "meet me near [large obvious thing]" place. :) ).

Philips ended up either spinning or selling off amBX. It's still around as a set of crappy LED lights that burn out quickly (?!) and have crap for contrast and color depth. There's open source drivers out there if you look (including my half-done-maybe-still-works libambx).

Hue seems to be working out a bit better from what I'm hearing thus far. Might pick one up myself soon.
Linode is pretty darn good. I have several sites with them and I have NEVER had any down time!

I also have a few sites on RamNode and BuyVM which were voted as the better low end providers. They're anything but low end. I am getting better performance SSDs, better CPUs), more resources for 1/2 the cost of a comparable Linode VPS. No problems yet, going on three months. Their control panels leave a lot to be desired compared to Linode.
How is it possible to observe whether or not an entangled particle has had its state resolved by the other particle being observed?

It isn't. All they can detect immediately (i.e., when each photon is detected) is the measured polarization of each individual photon. They can't know the correlation between the two, which is what tests the entanglement, until the results from both measurements are brought together, which happens slower than light.
JavaScritp QuadTree Implementation
Firstly, I didn't say his ideas are dumb. I said you have a right to hold dumb ideas.

Secondly, some ideas are dumb, some ideas are quackery. It's a good thing to recognise that fact. If you don't like the terminology, well, I'm just saying it like it is.
"Guess what? If you'd love to experience the nonstop thrills and excitement of SimCity, then please remove $60 from your bank and promptly pay someone to kick you repeatedly in the friggin' mouth." - Ouch! Once again EA fucks up another great gaming franchise that could have made them a lot of money by implementing DRM that doesn't work. I know Blizzard did this with Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2, but at least their servers could handle the load...

Not surprised. EA is a failure of a company being run into the ground by greedy and paranoid CEO's who essentially treat their customers like criminals. I feel sorry for the developers who obviously did an amazing job, the new Simcity seems like a well-built game with smart AI developed by no doubt some of the smartest minds in development, such a shame most people will never get a chance to play the game before demanding refunds.

The uninformed will blame the developers but it's the fault of EA itself, not the developers who did an amazing job. I want to play this game, but I'm going to download the cracked version when it's released instead because it'll actually work.
No, because you would not be explaining what love is, any more than explain what pain is by showing me the brain patterns the light up when I twist your nipple.

Whether of not you can test for love is immaterial to explaining the experience.
That is my next plan!
Points 1. and 11. thumbs up! Not agreeing with 7. though, cause framed that way it actually ends up being that fluff you wanna avoid
What is carregeenan and why is it in my creamer?
I am sure it is a hard problem, and I am certainly guilty of being quick on a negative comment when you and presumably many others have poured months or years into this. So I am sorry if my comment came over as trivialising.

I would just ask then is there absolutely no part of this that can be useful and valuable without the complete whole?

Are there truly no beta users that would be able to provide feedback or that extra special something a developer gets when her code is actually really in use by someone.

Often I have found a different way to look at a problem and meant it breaks down in new and unexpected ways.

I ask out of love :-)
If that happened why would you buy the new games that the servers were shut down to make way for?
> You're thinking in an extremely binary and absolutist fashion. Systems have lots of failure modes.

You seem to be thinking of applications as if they were web sites.

> After compromise, the first thing is the "smash and grab" where you loot as many credentials as possible off the machine with a bunch of scripts. If there's stuff in a browser's built-in password manager, win. If your app stores a password, win.

So they smash and grab the keychain, which holds the master passwords to the services granting OAuth tokens.

You might have me vaguely convinced if you were advocating for XAuth+OAuth, in which case it would provide a bare modicum of additional security without negatively impacting user-experience at all.
I'm actually most unimpressed with the vendor selection. So now Linode has Cisco overhead in their premium tier of hardware. Not good from a costing perspective. The Cisco Nexus line is hardly next generation when it comes to R&S product.

Linode is in a position to seriously consider SDN and they shoot themselves in the foot with one of the most stagnant companies as it applies to new and innovative product for pushing packets. I'd have been far more impressed with Juniper in the hot seat here. At least they're more cost competitive. You can get a full non-blocking 10Gb L3 switch (480Gb backplane) for less than $20k fully loaded up with 10Gb SRs out of their EX line if you're looking to play it safe in 'standard' networking.

The good part about software is there's far less vendor bias. This just smells of a Cisco blowhard touting the wonders of a fully vendor locked network. And software people seem to be less informed of the reality that is how the current norm of the networking realm works.

Good luck to them. I've put in plenty of ASR and Nexus gear in the past few years. They'll need it.
The Mental Cost of Cognitive Enhancement
There is a push to make VP8 MTI for WebRTC, but there was obvious pushback from people who preferred H.264, despite most of the normal arguments for H.264 (hardware support) have zero bearing on the low-latency requirements of WebRTC (most hardware encoders can't meet the requirements for videochat).

Those people didn't have an argument and can't even pretend they have one now.

What's going to happen next is that all in the MPEG-LA will still oppose making VP8 MTI (because the licensing for it is obviously way less interesting for them compared to H.264), but any neutral bystanders might be swayed more in the direction of VP8.

It would have been nice to have examples of video that didn't step on MPEGLA's patents.

We have, it's called VP8.
To make the consistency more like cream/milk I guess, similar to xanthan gum
Is the auth space something a startup could occupy? "Easy DRM/Auth for games that doesn't suck?"
Why you should apply to Startup Chile (from a Round 4 entrepreneur)
If the reviews and reaction to the last Medal of Honor are anything to go by, people are finally getting tired of that old rehashed formula. The next CoD may not be as successful as the previous installments were.
I don't think it's about fandom and nobody should be hostile but I think it is a fair point that it is a little sketchy to run a business off some of the offers from lowendbox.com. I think Linode is a very reasonable company to work with and host a Web app; they have a good offering with good I/O performance compared to other providers.
Knowing some in charge, I can say only this: Karma.
This is the Code used at CERN
Why online reputation needs to be portable
Ok. Good luck trying to convince them to let you in, I'm sure your unassailable logic misses nothing obvious. Make sure you let them know that it's evil for you not to be allowed in.
As a former Randroid, you have my sympathy and my sincere hope that you too can recover.
Do you only focus on engagements with the primary goal to increase revenue/profits? In other words, do you avoid cost cutting/saving business goal engagements?

Is it true that going after the limitless (no, in theory, ceiling) and higher risk higher reward income generating projects pays better than the limited (there is a floor) expense reduction projects?
This looks great!

We've been trying to improve our interview process and I think this sort of tool would help us out a lot. I'd be very interested to see if you could like to something like Project Euler on the interviewee's side in order to show what they can do outside of a timed question.

Also the demo page needs needs to have links associated with test, create, select. That's just a personal thing but I like icons to have associated links.

Edit: I activated my account and toyed around with it a little bit. I think you should have sample in the Question->Preview section. I'd also like to see functionality to take my own test. It looks great though.
Is it worth it to try to figure out what this article is about? It's very non-accessible writing and I can't seem to find his point nor do I see a reason to care about it from scanning.
Their news page gives a good sense of the major new features: http://newsroom.fb.com/News

In general, I don't think they announce minor new features at all, they just deploy them slowly.
"Do not do what I did". Sure. Whatever you say boss.
There are a ton of plot holes in the LOTR. Why did Aragorn run off in the dark at Weathertop, when everyone knew they would be besieged? Why does the ring not affect Tom Bombadil? Why does everyone put up with Wormtongue in Rohan? Why don't the orcs in Mordor immediately recognize Frodo and Sam as non-orcs? Why does it matter that Eowyn is a woman not a man? How convenient is it that Boromir showed up just in time for the Council? How convenient is it that Gollum falls over the cliff edge while dancing around? Etc.

My point is that the value of LOTR is not the plot. It's the themes and characters, which the plot exists (with all its holes) to serve.
Posted last time[1] one of these stories came around, comment applicable here:

As a preamble there most definitely existed anti-semitism in Soviet Union. I am a Russian living in the US with Jewish family in Russia. This is a throw away account.

With that said, stories of anti-semitism told by Russian Jews in US should not be taken at face value. These folks are subject to a very strong selection bias. Most of them came to the US as refugees who were recognized by the US State Department as being discriminated against for being Jewish in USSR/Russia. Secondly they have interest in maintaining the story anti-seminitism because it validates their narrative and could potentially help their relatives immigrate to the US.

Additionally many stories of anti-semitism that I heard were something a non-jew would experience as well but attributed to anti-semitism. As a personal example, I was at first denied admission to a specialized school in very late Soviet period. They eventually let me in because my mother found out that I had the highest score on the entrance exam of any one. Their excuse was that they had to let the kids who were in the paid summer program at the school first and now the class was full. A Jewish kid's parents would have been told they already have too many Jews in the advanced program. Both cases are just the admissions persons asking for a bribe.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752047
People are lazy. Calculating seniority is easy and "objective", not controversial; in fact, it's so linear you could even write a program to automate it (I bet somebody did just that). Evaluating performance or actual returns to the business, that's hard; the metrics are often very subjective, and people will start arguing. Rule #6582 of the Safe Manager: Don't Give People Excuses To Argue. So seniority it is.

This was unfortunately exacerbated by Trade Unions, which needed something "objective" to force owners to pay up and keep members happy, so they built their demands on this sort of easy metrics: seniority, hours of work, etc.

I'm sure if you could find a generic way to calculate productivity in an uncontroversial way, managers and unions would jump on it, but in most cases there ain't, so seniority it is.
I would have fought to develop a working offline mode from the beginning
Clarification: For v1. In v2 the secrets just go over SSL.
yeah it. EA shuts down the servers when they are tired of paying for them. Game dies. Sim City get puts on madden schedule.
yes, but there has been research done into its harmful effects and food companies continue to put it into products. I could barely find any product in the organic dairy/creamer section that did not have it. It was quite frustrating.
And if they didn't already know, your use of the collective plural "Facebook know" instead of the more American-sounding "Facebook knows" should tip them off.
Does anyone happen to know the percentage of women that work @Github?
Naive answer: because they make better, newer games ?
Sentience adds significant value (like far better risk avoidance than instinct can provide) with no magic involved.

The whole point is not that the eagles plan would be foolproof -- just that it would be a hell of a lot smarter than the plan they chose. Hence, plot hole.
COPYING indicates gpl3, main.cpp does as well, and so does the readme.
US laws essentially encourage unwritten quotas. While actual numbers are prohibited [0], race is explicitly listed as a legal factor to consider in admission. (Supreme court decision; can't remember the citation.)

So you can't say "we're letting in 300 of RACE this year." But, when you have 301 of RACE, you can say, "I feel like the number of RACE we've admitted this year negatively impacts the diversity of our student body."

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action#cite_ref-6
This isn't a 'theory', it's just fanboyism. All it takes to prove a theory wrong is to find a single counterexample. My mother and girlfriend, both bordering on being technically illiterate, each heavily use their android phones. I also know many people who are scared of their iPhones and only use them for dumb-phone tasks. It is the user, not the tool.
Linsday Graham: “I do not believe that question deserves an answer.”

John McCain: "...if Mr. Paul wants to be taken seriously he needs to do more than pull political stunts that fire up impressionable libertarian kids in their college dorms..."

http://freedom-or-safety.com/blog/rand-paul-receives-respons...
If that's an issue (I've never met a server like that, not to mention one like that and I couldn't change the setting) then wouldn't you rather use this?

while [ true ]; do sleep 1000; done

Just using:

sleep 1000; exit

means you can't make new connections after 17 minutes.