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> They are as much about promotion of Linux and FOSS as Apple is about promotion of BSD Unix.

strawman. I said popularity, not promotion.

> Canonical basically takes a bunch of community and FSF projects, patches them internally to their liking and ships with custom

just like most devs take a bunch of opensource projects, customize them, and ship them to their customers, only for money? that's the nature of the license - other people can use it these ways. it's annoying when bypassers are more concerned and noisy about this than said parties.

> Please stop spreading disinformation.

as I said, it's political. let's agree to disagree.

sent from my debian.
Informative articles about Neo-Penotran 
One vaginal suppository of Neo-Penotran contains metronidazole 500mg and miconazole nitrate 100mg. The medication is made by the pharmaceutical company Bayer Schering and comes in the form of vaginal suppositories.
Looks like they have up to 4 cores in their standard plans, and up to 24 on their larger plans, all SSD:
https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing
It's called politic.
How are his ideas dumb? He is proposing to expand scientific inquiry. Your comments seem to prove his point - dogmatism.

Using the terms "dumb" or "quackery" really lowers your persuasion.

Using your own vocabulary: I guess your "shit" didn't stick to the wall. :)
Of course you can; the decision to use an "online always" DRM scheme is made at the top. It's bullshit, the same garbage blizzard used with DIII. It makes no sense for games that can be played single player. Online should be an option, not a prerequisite.
If you want to limit their access to your account, uninstall the application. No more access.

If you're worried about genuinely nefarious applications, OAuth ought to be the least of your worries, because it's not going to protect you.
> Also, there's no reason why any women's group should have to admit men to appease the "I promise we're not sexist against men" line of reasoning.

I doubt it would go very well if someone hosted a men-only event and said "I promise we're not sexist against women."

I don't think anyone is against having women-focused groups any more than having other interest-based groups. Women exclusive groups, though, do send a very conflicting message that it's okay to exclude a gender.
I do think it's a real issue, but I think it's nuts that everyone encounters a 4% + 99¢ processing fee just to move money around among friends. Our payments system is in need of a serious update.
Correct - there is no official SDK, but a quick search at Github will give you quite a few projects using a variety of languages to choose from.
Good lord, thats a big list! Thanks!
'Veneer tactics' are quite commonly employed by startups:

- YouTube talked about being primarily a site for sharing homemade videos, when its true backbone for growth was illegal music uploads
- Buzzfeed talk about how they are taking media to the next level, when it's really one longform article surrounded by cat pictures and dog videos
- Tumblr always make sure to dodge the fact that porn is one of the biggest reasons for their growth

it's simply putting your best foot forward. Very natural and understandable.
That makes a lot of sense, I hadn't thought about that.
I've had Diablo 3 since day one and played successfully to level 60 with two characters, never had any problems with connection. And SimCity doesn't work sometimes - it just doesn't work at all.
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Now we are waiting part 2 and 3 of Linode Nextgen. (I think one part will be storage)
Maybe the fact is that most people were constantly having to set their feed to "Most Recent," and there was little takeup on their special sauce sorting. If the special sauce sorting dies silently I doubt anybody except the implementors will miss it.
I must vehemently disagree with your argument that discrimination against men on the basis of gender is not sexism, and I take offense at the notion that it is "nonsense", however that is only a pedantic tangent in the context of this discussion. To avoid further pedantry, going forward I will simply refer to it as discrimination.

Whatever your definition of that word, discrimination of any sort is morally and ethically wrong, and I must persist my argument that introducing more discrimination into an already discriminatory environment will only further escalate hostile feelings.

Regarding your point that this series is about women and therefore "[...] why are you bringing men up at all? Don't they have their own spheres which they already dominate?" I did not think that was the goal of Passion Projects. Are you trying to say that you would prefer a separate industry of women's technology and men's technology? The ultimate success of this project and others like it, I had assumed, was integration of all peoples into a cohesive community free from discrimination. To that end, I celebrate GitHub's initiative and hope that it is as successful as it can be.
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"We can be old geezers together"

Not only that but it's like Nero is fiddling while Rome burns. North Korea is building up an arsenal to strike the US. And our best and brightest are solving big problems like this.
If it's really a persistent problem for servers, maybe they should think about asking themselves in advance of taking the order.
Yes but doing so collapses the wavefunction. Hence there's no way to observe when the wavefunction collapses.
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Ah, I see. I use Arch on Digital Ocean, and I've had a pretty good experience, aside from their initial image being a bit old (I had to change its settings to use netcfg and systemd).
For those who are interested, this is what I am told is one of the original reasons for inventing the CVV value. Back in the olden days credit card transactions were processed and verified by taking an impression of the card and the raised numbers on the front of the card. To prevent merchants, and/or employees of those merchants from taking credit card numbers off of the impressions and using them to make over the phone transactions (or any transaction where the card is not physically present), the CVV value was created. This is why the CVV value is printed on the back of the card, or if it's on the front of the card then it's not printed on raised type, so that the CVV number will never show up on credit card impressions. This is why the CVV number is often referred to as the "credit card not present" number, and is usually required when making transactions where the card is not physically present to the merchant.
A big chunk of most software is about component assembly. You use frameworks and libraries. Stitch things together and make things work.

Contrary to what most people say, 80 hours a week is not abnormal or counter-productive. It is probably counter-productive like if you do that for 2 years. But for a week? 3 months? 6 months? For most people who really are interested in things, this is no problem. I can vouch for this personally. When I am interested in things, I can work on code for months and I don't even keep track of time. And all of my projects don't even involve money.

Back to my first paragraph, super-duper-brain work can be very draining and I cannot imagine working 80 hours a week in that case. But for most pulp software (like I do - hack on node.js, Qt, WebKit, HTML5..) bring it on. I can easily do things at a stretch with no fall in productivity. In fact, I find it counter-productive if I don't work on these problems in a stretch since I lose context. (WebKit debugging anyone?)
Nice!

Ok, so the acid-base explanation was the one we came up with after observing what soap did to our bacteria under a microscope. The bacteria lost cellular cohesion and became a sort of soup. In the case of anti-microbial soap the bacteria simply ceased replicating (which we interpreted as them being dead).

Our test soap was SafeGuard brand (regular soap) and an antibacterial blend of SoftSoap brand.

If you don't mind I'd like to borrow some of your explanatory text to augment and/or replace some of the material in that experiment for other home schooling parents.
I've long been curious about this: In the Civil War, the United States killed hundreds of thousands of Confederate soldiers, (without a trial, of course). Yet the fifth amendment explicitly states that "No person shall be ...deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;"

Does anybody know how the Lincoln administration justified the use of deadly force during the Civil War? Presumably this would be a reasonable precedent to look at when determining the legality of killing American citizens without a trial.
Azure has a free version: free Azure Websites. It's awesome, I've hosted a couple of my own tools/project on Azure Websites. You can easily upgrade to a reserved instance if you need more capacity. You can either choose one of many frameworks to install (such as Wordpress) or you can host your own projects (custom code).
In simple terms, the value proposition is "not having to think about it". An app that adds functionality (ie, not-being-stupid about it) with practicality (not having to think about it) is sort of a classic win/win. The app that provides a bit of an audit trail, and allows for pre-negotiation, etc could even be tweaked over time to balance out even if simple stochastics dont do so by themselves.
Ah, I had forgotten about that one.
Well this is an interesting way to look at it.

Litigation is rarely a smart move for a licensing organisation. During the years wasted going back/forth during appeals etc the competitor has a price margin advantage which they can use to increase market share. It's not that easy to quantity that if damages are awarded.

And seriously you either need to put up or STFU. If you have some prior art that invalidates specific patents then speak up. Plenty of companies would be very, very interested. But I'm going to take a guess that you don't.
I understand the point you're making here, and I've certainly seen plenty of "fan fiction" theories taken far too seriously in discussions of Tolkien. But for my own pride's sake, I would attempt to draw a distinction between those "fan theories" and the sort of analysis that we used to do on the Tolkien Usenet newsgroups (including rec.arts.books.tolkien, which inspired this article: I was involved in conversations with the article's author on this topic back in the '90s).

The attitude adopted by much of the r.a.b.t community was a deliberate echo of Tolkien's own: we treated Middle-earth as an independent "sub-created" world (to use Tolkien's term from "On Fairy Stories") which ought to have "the inner consistency of reality". In such a vast imagined history, there are obviously huge gaps in our knowledge where Tolkien never told us what happened or why. But in a few rare cases when those gaps are closely connected with the story that Tolkien did tell, we can make a strong case for a unique consistent way to fill the gap (or at least a "very likely" answer).

One of my favorite examples of this was a longrunning collection of debates related to the blades that the hobbits got from the Barrow Downs and their effects on the Nazgul. I won't say we reached consensus, but after years of related discussions quite a few of us had reached the conclusion that those weapons had some sort of enchantment making them especially dangerous and frightening to the Ringwraiths. And then, unexpectedly, a previously unpublished excerpt from one of Tolkien's essays was quoted in Hammond and Scull's Reader's Companion that explicitly confirmed our conclusion (and much of the related evidence that we had gathered). It felt for all the world as if a scientific theory that I had helped develop had just been confirmed by experiment.

It's that sort of thing that encourages me to think that we were one step more rigorous than fan fiction. [And shameless plug: I still maintain the newsgroups' FAQ site. It doesn't say much about the Eagles question, but here's the full story on the barrow blades that I mentioned: http://tolkien.slimy.com/faq/History.html#BarrowBlades ]
It's not pedantic because it has a material effect on what we're lead to believe this is. This is hacker news. A hacker knows (and cares about) the difference between a "3D hologram" and Pepper's Ghost illusion, and that distinction is important in understanding what has been achieved.

This is definitely a cool hack, but it does not involve 3-dimensional projection. This is a 2D image cast on to a 2D projection plane with no stereoscopic effect. That makes the term "3D hologram" a misnomer at best, and a gross misrepresentation at worst.

Because of this mislabeling, we're all sitting around talking about the inaccuracy of the title, rather than the fun part. That's the fault of the person who titled the article, not the person pointing it out.
This doesn't match my experience in Melbourne in the slightest.
sexism is systematic oppression by those in power on the basis of gender.

I think you're using the wrong word then. Discrimination against men is sexism. Maybe a better word for what you want is hegemony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_dominance_theory#Hegemo...
You weren't playing Diablo 3 at release then.

Give EA time and Sim City will stabilize as well as D3 has, either because they've expanded hardware, or shrunk their user base.
The pay's better at FB, however.
Nice work, would be a good guide for *nix (ok mostly linux) command line beginners to have around.

Which I guess is entirely the point :)
Rand Paul is an idiot. Of course the president doesn't have the authority to order drone strikes on american citizens on american soil. What a waste of time and energy. Anybody who supports what Paul did is at best ignorant of what the government actually does and at worst a fumbling moronic buffoon.
RE: weborf

I will have to look at weborf. I have always wished debian packaged publicfile, similar to djbdns or even dbndns. As it is I am still looking for a "djbdns-like http server" that is apt-get installable and actively maintained.

I will never understand why gnome-user-share depends on apache...
Dude. This is awesome. Sorry for my severe RTFM deficiency.

I'll go and play with this now... :)
As many others have pointed out, "engaged in combat" has the potential to be interpreted in dangerous ways.

I think the drone issue is distracting people from what I feel is the more important issue: Our government has taken the official position that it can legally assassinate its citizens. So they can't legally kill me with a drone... small comfort if they can just assassinate me in some other fashion.

(yes, I know that government agencies have assassinated American citizens [not to mention non-citizens] in the past, but making it official doctrine is quite an escalation)
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I made little benchmark, Linode vs Digital Ocean http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5221477
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EA's success to failure rate tends to be lower than its competitors.
Yes, that's exactly why those tricks "feel outdated". It's because they're made to run on systems from the early 2000s
The funny thing is I could use something like this. We've been covered in Fortune and, if their logo was here, I would legitimately use this service ;).
The answer to a question in most headlines is a 'no'. But in this case, it's a 'yes'.

No, I haven't read the article.
Pretty sure the handful of people who use VP8 aren't going to cause a PR problem for MPEG LA or its members.
Overall I'm impressed.

These new Facebook UI updates proves that...
.nws_feedContent{-moz-border-radius: 3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;border-radius:3px;}

can go a looong way to improve design.
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Google Sets was one of the best paid-search marketing tools ever.

Thank you for helping keep it alive in some form!
We lack the internal knowledge to know whether an offline mode would have been a good experience for most customers. I have no idea whether Maxis+EA tested this, and how well it worked.

That said, you can imagine a situation where doing these computations locally did compromise the experience for a certain spec of machines. Maxis has already explained that city size limits were imposed because the simulation didn't run sufficiently well on the low-mid spec machines above the allowed size.

As the owner of a higher spec machine, I find it somewhat silly that this couldn't just be a preference item (as AA and resolution are), but I can understand the decision to cut down the computational demands to keep gameplay smooth.

Games that have launched with framerate issues recently have met a huge amount of flak--see what's going on in the Planetside 2 community. You can argue that what's happening to PS2 is far worse: they released a poorly optimized game, and those issues prevented people from playing for months.
This uses the term 'IT Talent'. That is a sure sign it will be an amazing article.

This is posted in InformationWeek. Second sign it will be awesome.

But seriously. Why is that kind of articles on HN?
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No, its not that simple.

Isn't this just a technical error (bug) that is a game dev's (or infrastructure engineer's) responsibility?

Isn't mandating the constant involvement of otherwise unnecessary tech that is known to be error prone and unreliable just the result of a poorly thought out buisness requirement?

No, its not that simple either. Because they probably did think it out, knew they were choosing the riskier technical option and expect/expected failures to happen.

My read of the situation is that they expected the rest of the game to get a better reception overall and blunt the bad PR from the inevitable failures caused by the always-on/centralized aspects.
It seems that there are certain skills which are difficult to hire trained workers for. However, the real problem is very, very few IT employers are willing to take any risk and train skilled, U.S. workers.

This is the opposite of how technology employment used to work. Factories could not hire enough trained workers, so they trained them on the job. It never ceases to amaze me how HR insists on skills with a particular niche technology. Often, no tightly-related skills will suffice even for junior positions i.e. Mercurial instead of Git.

Also, everyone wants to hire senior employees who specialized in one technology for most of a career. Finding someone like that is becoming less and less common.

I remember one position years ago when I was still in college where the recruiters demanded five years of job experience with Windows 2000 or they were not interested. The product had not existed that long. The only person qualified to take the job was a liar.
>> SimCity depends on EA/Maxis' server infrastructure for a great deal of storage and computation related to the macro-scale components of each game.

The problem is that most people's perception is that it really doesn't need to, that the core engine could have been implemented to run entirely locally and the online-only features would be optional.

It's all well and good if the game has social features or other enhancements that are only enabled if you are online. But could the game have been implemented such that the core single-player gameplay is available without an internet connection?

Most people perceive the answer to that question to be "yes". If the answer truly is yes, then implementation of the game in this way is DRM.

>> this is a primarily multiplayer game

If that's true, I'd say the one-star reviews are just as justified. This game was marketed as the continuation of a series that has been predominantly single-player. I'd say there's a reasonable expectation that the game should work without an internet connection. I wouldn't expect World of Warcraft to work without an internet connection, but I expect SimCity to. I wouldn't expect Dead Space 3's co-op to work without an internet connection, but I would expect the single-player campaign to work without one, and it does.
According to the buzzfeed article, the feature was pulled from a discontinued project called Google Sets. So yeah, sounds like they had a cool feature built that is no longer getting updated and they decided to toss it in to google docs.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/justinesharrock/a-glimpse-into-googl...

I personally think this is awesome.

EDIT: ahh, sorry. Just saw the other comment that points out Google Sets. Anyway, this is really cool, playing around with it now, when I should be working.
That would probably be wonderful but it's not going to happen. They'll take a look at what went wrong "this time" and be convinced they will not make the same mistakes next time. Then they'll try again. Too their credit, that's the definition of good business and, chances are, it will work better next time.

Some companies are just better than others at getting it right the first time (or second, or third).

I just wish this hadn't happened with SimCity. I really liked that title.
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I'm unsure of what a selenium test is (clearly an issue of my ignorance). Do you have to have those to check the health of your web app?

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Do I have to wait an hour before the first run? Maybe it could run a primary run the first time I add the app?
Is TSA serious about letting people carry knives?
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Yeah the problem is that the Justice Departments definition of "imminent threat" is so loose that you could pretty much classify anything as "imminent".

They are playing really fast and loose with the lexicon they use.
A "passion project", in my mind, is simply a project that you're excited about (notably one that is likely outside the bounds of your normal, day-to-day job). I distinguish them from "side projects", which tend to be something you're interested in, but not something you're necessarily defined by. That's the reason the program's called passion projects — hopefully we'll have a ton of talks on really interesting things that our speakers are really, well, passionate about.

I don't view "passion" as a word that is exclusive to women, in other words — we could just as easily pull in men for the same talk series.
$50k sounds like a lot, but if you can weather the current storm of every firm and researcher digging into Java and finding all the low hanging fruit, it could be worth $300k+ when nobody else has an undisclosed Java vulnerability.

Usually the way it works is 6 monthly payments, so you get a wire for $8,500 every month that it is not disclosed.
Can't play when the company decides to stop spending money on servers...meaning your game will actually expire and stop working one day.
I'm not into people directly using the exact files I create myself (I mean, do your own work). But I don't think anybody owns the idea of "three cogs", "a newspaper that curls to the left", or "a head with a speech bubble". Don't get me started on things like Coke owning a particular part of the red light spectrum... Value comes from solving problems, not from a font, or a colour, or a texture, or a style.
For what it's worth, my son enjoyed the bejesus out of Spore, and even used his own money to get expansions.