skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'web' apps are expected to work on the 'web'. It kind of goes without saying that it there is no network it can't make whatever calls it needs to in order to load data.

Games are not generally expected to require a network connection. If I take my laptop to the coffee shop without wireless I can still play Portal and Anno 2070.

Not so with the new SimCity.

Not to mention, there is an expectation that if you buy a game (especially on physical media) that you will be able to play it so long as your hardware supports it. I can still play Quake 3 for example.

With SimCity, if they ever shutter the servers or sunset the Online Service your game becomes nothing more than a pretty coaster.
The key element is that women are not able to systematically oppress men for being men, as they do not have the social privilege to do so. You need all the elements in order to produce sexism.
I thought that was a pun!
Um, the billing address you enter is often used to compare against the billing address on file with the CC company for security purposes. So you need the billing address, too. The security code wouldn't hurt, either.
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Yep, that's what I noticed too. This makes me hopeful, because if the biggest criticisms of a new language are "it's not mature yet", it's a very good sign for the language. I'm glad they didn't have problems with the language's core components.

Also, it matches my experience. It's very nice for some uses, but web development isn't yet a strong suit. Django, for example, is much more mature and has a component for almost anything you might need for web development.

Hopefully Go will reach that point soon.
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Jawbone UP has had me wake up earlier in the morning pretty well in the past few week though. I've gotta give them that.
> Women exclusive groups, though, do send a very
> conflicting message that it's okay to exclude a gender.

Please clarify... You're saying that the currently enfranchised group (males) will get further encouragement for their exclusionary behaviors because the disenfranchised group (women) exclude males from some of their activities? Does't this completely ignore the current power imbalance between the two groups?
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"Star Wars" was used to ridicule Reagan's anti-ballistic missile initiative.
I'm not hostile about you, I'm hostile about your model, since I care about open source, and OSS for me is not a license, but a culture and a model for the development of the computers industry.

I think there are things that play nicely with the open source model, that is, ways to make money that don't interact in a bad way with the culture of free software. I don't think that to ask to be payed to open source stuff is in line with the OSS movement / culture.

Ok, now that the hostile bit is discussed, my argument is that it makes more sense IMHO if you say, there are N people willing to donate me 10$ per year if I open source this stuff? It's still wrong IMHO as a model, but at least makes sense, that is, you will get money to provide the software relevant, updated, documented in the future.

The una tantum system instead is broken, how you'll make money in the future in order to continue the development, since it is clear you don't write this software if you are not backed in some way?
"Of course he was 'engaged in combat'...there was a military missile headed his way! Also, the drone was launched from Guantanamo Bay Cuba and it and the missile were in the air, not on the soil. Thus, the President didn't 'kill' anyone on 'American soil'. This person was clearly a terrorist who was engaged in combat with the American people by trying to prematurely detonate one of our freedom rockets with his face. Sure, there may be other ways to look at it, but that depends on what your definition of 'is' is."
find . -name "*" | xargs grep "hello" 2>/dev/null

Searches all the files in current directory and all subdirectories for files that contain "hello". Add -l option to grep to only display the filenames instead of filename and match.
It does. Do game developers implement DRM when not required to by the bean counters?
I agree for the most part, but one of the objections to drone strikes is the vague nature of target selection. The U.S. doesn't want to say flat-out that Yemen, for instance, is a hostile country and a warzone; yet it still wants the ability to kill whoever it wants in that country, for reasons that will never be transparent due to sensitive sources and methods.
I had an interview recently. In this interview, I was told that 9/10 of people interviewing for the position for which I was interviewing couldn't write a simple loop to reverse a string. I'd like to attribute that to performance anxiety, but I had office hours for Computer Science students. I know that isn't what it is.

Note that this was for a position asking for between 1 and 3 years of experience.
Screw this stuff! My thin GF has anterior pelvic tilt and it looks hot!
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So seeing this, I'm wondering, could we get a "continuous" 3d projection with a cone-like shape instead of 4 planes?
It reads like "you, the provider, should allow subscribers to unlock their device so long as you don't have a current contract with them".
Yes, this is true, so as I said, debugging looks easier in hindsight, especially someone else's hindsight :)

Summarizing the reasoning process:

1. The program's object space doesn't contain an absurd number of small objects, so inspect the core dump

2. 95% of the core dump is leaked objects, so a random sample should contain clues to the composition of the leaked objects.

3. A repeated pattern in every leaked object indicates a common pointer, i.e. a single type of object.

4. The signature helps find what file in the program is being referenced, which indicates that the pointer's object type is a BIO struct

5. This kind of leak isn't possible in straight Ruby. So between OpenSSL and EventMachine's C/C++ code, the latter is more likely to have something awry.

6. Search the EM code for BIO constructors

7. Check each constructor call to see if the BIO instance is ultimately freed

---

Steps 3 and 4 are the most arcane to me...I am pretty sure I do not know enough about memory to look at a hex signature and realize where in the address space it refers to, or even the significance of it.
I seem to recall that the reason for the cloud based server was to leverage more number crunching power to yield better AI. Running it locally might not help. (Though, it certainly is better than no server, and it'd be interesting if they let people tune the fidelity of the processing so that it could run locally, or on a private server.)
You're seriously blaming this on Maxis?

I think the respective records of EA and a pre-EA Maxis ought to provide ample evidence of the likely culprit here.
I'm all for CrossFit as long as it's free. Some people are paying $150 a month. That's just stupid.
> I want that shit on my fiber right now dammit, I don't care if its alpha quality ok?

Tell your boss you found a company with a scheme that can transmit bits over a quantum optical link, but only with a fidelity of 50%. Then get a friend to found that company and charge your boss' company $5 million for the device.
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I was thinking of buying this, but meh, never mind.

(may as well just wait for the cracked version and enjoy the game with more convenience)

http://www.reddit.com/r/simcity seems to be summing up the problem pretty nicely with some clever use of the curved roads.
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Depends on the level of compromise. If an attacker can interface to the screen and keyboard, or access other process's memory to directly read the key from there, or spoof the SSL library so you get cleartext network transmissions, sure, they can steal a lot of data.

But if the attacker only has access to the filesystem, then it certainly matters whether the filesystem contains enough information to impersonate a user.

And there are things that people do to desktops that allow other people to access their filesystems. Things like cloud backup, sending your computer in for repairs, or selling an old hard drive. Sure, you should remove the hard drive or wipe it before you do any of these things, but a lot of people...don't. There are plenty of stories about that situation floating around the interwebs, but this comment is long enough...
I'd say timezones is definitely something you want to have available as information.

I've gotten needlessly excited about possible remote jobs way more times than I can count only to find out that they only want people within ~2~3hrs of NYC or SV(I'm in UTC+2 so that's 7hrs and 10hrs respectively)
No, they have much different ways of dealing with concurrency. Deployment is a solved problem in most modern languages.

I think you may have misunderstood my post?

I also spent a pretty decent amount of time performing real world benchmarks for both languages by writing applications in both and then ran various performance metrics. Performance for general web apps with real world data goes back and forth depending on what you're doing.

My point was Go doesn't offer nearly enough pros for it to worth switching to.
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This; the moment I realized I was never going to choose to do CRUD web stuff in Go was when I realized that this was the perspective Golang developers have on ORMs.
Well, these days it is. You want five nines (99.999%) on mission-critical applications.
I have been amazed at the interest level in this game. I shared in the excitement and could not wait for the Mac version. Now the bad backlash, bugs, and generally horrific reviews have significantly deflated my interest. Gaming startups - make a better one!! ;)
If your shipping a physical good then it works well, different billing and shipping address can be a red flag. Depending on where the billing address is then it can be easy to stop fraud.

If the causes us to miss out on a few sales it is small price to pay compared to getting hit with chargebacks.

Also AVS works fine in the UK as well as the US.
Re: the first point. . .no one can go directly to the payment page, don't you have to have something to purchase first? And if, as a user, I've been to the site before, I might select one item and then go directly to payment.
"these libertarian themes are going to play a big role in politics"

I sure hope you're right.
A single individual event or person can be sexist. I understand the idea you are describing. That idea is not what the word "sexism" refers to. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sexism
I wish developers had more power, but believe me, 90% of the time they are completely beholden to their publisher. In this case, Maxis is a 100% owned subsidiary of EA. They have no ability to kill the project walk way in protest (other than individuals quitting). The most you can do is plead your case, but it is ultimately EA execs making the call.
> Let's say your chargeback rate goes from 0.1% to 0.2%, but your conversion rate goes from 50% to 60%, then you come out way ahead.

No, you don't. You need more information about the transaction then that. What if your profit margin is 1%? Then you've come out even, because chargebacks cost you the full cost of an item, but an extra conversion only nets you the profit on that sale.

Note: I assumed that the 0.1% and 50% to 60% were both percentages of potential sales, because it made the math easier. Otherwise, you have 20% x 1%=2% more profit and .2% x 120%-.1%=.14% more loss from chargebacks, so you have come out slightly ahead.
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That is very cool! I hadn't yet heard about the Hue but you've got me interested in it now. Great article!
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One technique that can help establishing "trusted client" on untrusted platform is TRCE (Trusted Remote Code Execution)[1]

The client is required to download a piece of code from server to compute a result given a challenge from server. You can embed all sorts of logic to validate the client per connection! Think of this as using virus for good :)

[1] I'm getting good at inventing 4 letter security acronyms :)
Jewish quotas were a governmental system.

There are no asian quotas at the governmental level in the US. You're referring to an unfortunate side effect of diversity policies and affirmative action at the university level.

The US gov't going to silence or jail you for speaking up about university policies you believe are racist.

Don't compare the incomparable, it's an injustice to those that suffered under oppressive governments.

Edit: You've exemplified the sort of notions that caused me to make a 'Mythbusting' bucket.
It is incredibly likely they were forbidden by management from answering those questions.
We know nothing of the culture of the giant eagles. It might be dishonorable as their leader for him not to.
I think it's faster to Google something than to use these kind of lists. Of course, there's value from skimming through the list once.
What editor are you using that requires a live connection?
- If its cloud based: apples vs oranges
- If not, get a better editor.

Online spreadsheets or docs allow you to export to a locally accessible format. SimCity does not.
Although, there is a ton of missing context in your post. The way you posted it sterilizes the story.

* Dorner took a revenge killing on the daughter of the retired police-officer-turned-attorney who he felt was a plant in the hearing he had.

* The police were recorded conspiring to burn down the cabin in a pre-meditated attack against Dorner.

Both were outright murders. Both were wrong, however one presentation sways blame away from the "officials".

The cops who were recorded as saying "Burn it like we talked about" "Burner deployed, we have a fire" and "Copy; burner deployed, we have a fire" should all be tried for murder.
If by "solved problem" you mean "if you accept the problem of keeping an up-to-date deployment environment on every machine with up-to-date patches", compared with "build this binary copy it over and run it", yes, Node and Golang deployment is comparable.

I think you're mostly just handwaving.
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Go has been out for a number of years. It shipped v1.0 almost a year ago and Node hasn't shipped v1.0 but who cares about version numbers.

Both languages have been available for quite some time. It's not about hotness at all. No one seems to WANT to use Go for serious web application development and this is proven time again by the lack of good libs available.
It's the MPEG-LA who needed to put up or shut up, as you put it. Vague threats of assembling a patent pool, a threat that never materialized, are not evidence of infringement. I'm inclined to believe that the deal with Google this late in the game indicates that MPEG-LA didn't have a leg to stand on, as while they were negotiating with Google they could have gone after Mozilla or other VPx users.
They could just fly at night.
Bill sharing has been a hassle for me since I have two roommates, but I've been using Splitwise without any complaints. From the looks of it, this is taking the group SMS approach, which I would find overwhelming. I get e-mails whenever bills are added and that's good enough for me. Nice work on the UI, that was the first thing I noticed.
I think this an example of the typical maturation process of a young entrepreneur, which is characterized by initial focus on cargo-cult superficialities and glam, optimism born of naiveté, and Dunning–Kruger-like and overconfidence in one's own abilities.

This is typically followed by the realization that business is tough, the failure rate is high, and you are probably lucky enough or special enough to be the exception.

But this experience is still valuable; in many cases, success comes from experience, but experience comes from failure. And until YC eventually saturates the planet with 10,000 ex-founders, it looks good on the resume (for now).
I haven't been paying much attention to SCV except that it seemed to be generating a lot of hype and excitement...so I'm kind of confused why the game has to be so intricately tied into whatever (apparently faulty) online service that EA has setup.

I mean, besides the DRM. I don't get why my fake city has to be attached to a world of fake cities if all I want to do is play in the sandbox. Didn't the designers/executives consider that many people would be perfectly fine playing alone? And then slowly rolling out the multiplayer features?

I doubt we'll see it, but it'd be great to see a post-mortem of the actual bug. Was it load-related or just something extremely boneheaded?
Using unicorn on a vps is the equivalent of many 'servers' or dynos on heroku, and unicorn is taking the place of the heroku routing here, so this does address the problem as you'd have more control over things like timeout and routing strategy, and have other options too for load balancing. If you do need several servers there is software out there to do load balancing, but with caching you can easily scale a single vps to serve a lot of users. For example HN still runs on one server I think, there's a pic of it somewhere that pg posted...
Still ARE great games. And DRM free. And, in the case of the original, open-source :D

Micropolis (Simcity): http://code.google.com/p/micropolis/

SimCity 2000: http://www.gog.com/gamecard/simcity_2000_special_edition
T-Stylus allows you to pick and drop pictures from iOS devices
For Australia we have the user enter a postcode which then allows them to pick a suburb from a drop down. We have some text next to the postcode field to explain this.
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This will probably break any red stone repeater clocks you have set up. Any kind of messing with time in the game will break them and you have to replace the repeater to fix them, which isn't fun if you've built anything more complex than a blinking light.
When the dinosaurs of old media die, the web will remain. The question is whether that web will be open and royalty free, or owned by new dinosaurs. The purchase of On2 was a move in the direction of an open web.
Remember I didn't say they were going to dominate politics, just play a big role.

The reason I say that is because it was clear to me yesterday when Paul took the floor that millions of people both Democrat and Republican were with him. It was the establishment that was going bonkers. Partisans on both sides of the aisle didn't know what to do.

That means there is a place in the center for some kind of pragmatic libertarian movement to challenge the old guard in both parties. I won't lie to you -- the odds are extremely long that it amounts to anything. But it's the best chance I've seen in 20 years or more, and that's worth spending some energy recording, sharing, and encouraging it.
It's called email :-)
> Since the Many Worlds Interpretation is the simplest one, it is also the most likely one

The simplest defeasible claim in 2013, is still: "we don't know".

Consider, 'How does the sun come up every day?'

Answer A: God makes it happen.

Answer B: The earth is a spinning geoid that rotates eastwards, once about it's axis, roughly every 24 hours. However most of the effect is not related to the orbits of either the sun or earth, with respect to each other. The sun "rises" is more an observational effect of a stationary observer on the surface of the earth, having their field of view rotated.

(For the record, answer B can be improved of course, though that's not the point here)

"Simplicity" does not mean a catchall (Answer A). It also does not necessarily mean linguistic brevity either. There is debate around what it means and it's beyond the scope of my comment[1]. This is the problem with string theory, that also tends to be popular among the MWI crowd too. It's overly broad and the math looks pretty, but those are not sufficient conditions for a good scientific theory. (Oblig xkcd [1])

MWI, like string theory, makes little if any falsifiable and testable claims.

[1]http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simplicity/

[2]http://xkcd.com/171/
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I wasn't a big Posterous user but I liked their mission and was hoping they would be around longer. I understand it's hard to maintain a service that aims to disrupt the incumbent. I would have sold in absence of any other option. Perhaps a solution is a crowd funding application for free service we want to keep around instead of them being acquired and shelved by tech giants. Or we could just pay for the service.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.

The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them. In this methodological uncertainty, one might suppose that there were any number of possible systems of theoretical physics all equally well justified; and this opinion is no doubt correct, theoretically. But the development of physics has shown that at any given moment, out of all conceivable constructions, a single one has always proved itself decidedly superior to all the rest. Nobody who has really gone deeply into the matter will deny that in practice the world of phenomena uniquely determines the theoretical system, in spite of the fact that there is no logical bridge between phenomena and their theoretical principles.

The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
That's funny... knowing that ORMs aren't everywhere actually makes me more likely to use Go. I still have Hibernate flashbacks.
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I think you're really missing the parent commenter's point, which is: "Why isn't there a single player mode, given that previous SimCity releases have done just fine as single player games?"

WoW relies on active human beings to make its world lively and addicting. I don't think that need is as prevalent in a sim game, where the game AI itself can...well...simulate the regional qualities that would affect a player's city well enough.
You don't need it. AVS checks numerical part only anyhow. Billing ZIP is more than enough.
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"Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Seriously. Endings are hard, get yours working up front." Mass Effect 3... 17 suck endings. That got to be a record somewhere.
Well, thats a different question.
http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/1210/in-which-...
Five nines will cost you a lot of money.
This is typical of responses I got when I posted about it before, and it misses the point.

* I'm not defending Dorner. The police have a right to kill someone who's actively trying to kill them. But what level of force is acceptable? Obviously guns are ok. Maybe setting fires is ok too? What about drone strikes?

* If it's acceptable, why would police deny it was intentional, and under what other circumstances would it be acceptable? Is it ok because he killed a cop?

* How certain were they no one else was in the building? As we saw earlier that week when they shot up two cars that resembled Dorner's they weren't exactly being careful to avoid collateral damage.
Yes, off the hook was preempted again last night.... :-(
workn' on it:

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