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No one likes thinking about Societies as a SimCity game ;)
Here is an exercise you can try next time you are in a US city on a weekend. Take the Sunday real estate ads, and visit as many houses as you can conveniently fit into the afternoon--1 to 4 pm is the usual open time. See what you see in the way of books. I don't think that you will find that things are radically different here. I've seen houses with very interesting bookshelves; I've seen plenty with pretty scan holdings.
> I can't imagine it would be more than a couple of hours work.

Then it shouldn't take you more than a week to emulate it from scratch, right?
I'll bet good money that the game was designed from scratch to require a constant connection or otherwise the project would not be approved.
I took away a different message from that post. The games referenced all have multiplayer components, but did not require the game servers to play single player. It's an 'apples and oranges' kind of situation. Especially as, if EA were to shut down the Simcity servers, it would have to stop selling the game. If the multiplayer is only a part of the games revenue, it's easier to shut down.
With the accuracy of data questionable and the universe of data undefined, at best this is entertaining :-)
And this is what's wrong with always-on DRM. A sad state of gaming we are in now. In 20 years, we will look back at the games from the 80s and 90s, then see a wide empty gap from an era where almost all new games required vendor support and are therefore unplayable anymore.
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Lying works if the interviewing company does not check your previous salary and/or your skills are in such short supply that the company doesn't care even if you do lie.
> The Python programming language was originally developed for this platform

That just struck me as a really nifty bit of trivia.
Ask HN: DevOps guides for HA SQL, load balancer, backups, on rented hardware?
Hi HN,

I'm decent with Windows/Linux server management but would need to sink some good time into understanding how to glue everything together to have reliable, field tested hardware deployments.

I'm aware of AWS/Azure/Heroku and how they offer these bits of glue and take care of it for you.

As a devops/software developer/startup owner, I'm interested in understanding how to:
1) Deploy a highly available database (say Pg/MySQL) that has a simple master and slave

Looking at PgSql, there are tools like repmgr (http://www.repmgr.org) to handle replication, and other tools to then handle backups, but these aren't trivial. There's still complexity overhead.

How do I then automate moving a Virtual IP (VIP) so that app servers always point to the same IP for a database (so failover is transparent as possible)?

2) Automated backups of the database
This seems to be easier, there are tools available that do log shipping to S3 etc.

3) Implementation of a load balancer
I can rent hardware at Hetzner for handling web servers, but I can't easily load balance requests across the machines unless I setup a load balancer of some kind.

4) Firewalling/VPNing infrastructure so database servers etc are not publicly accessible (similar to Amazon security groups).

--

I'm interested in hearing any battle-tested deployment strategies anyone can offer insight into for these kinds of scenarios.

Is anyone able to share any resources, insights, experiences, or come up with other glue pieces that you need to roll on your own when not using a PaaS/IaaS provider?
This doesn't help sorry, since it doesn't say which patents are supposedly affecting VP8, and which Google has supposedly licensed.
Happens all the time, e.g. with postings for positions that are really intended to be filled internally, or with perpetual postings which do nothing but solicit people to go into a resume pool when there is no specific job.

It wouldn't be funny because it's not even surprising for job searchers to be jerked around, just normal
Nope, because then that would eat into EA's profits for [insert brand new title here]. That's just business sense!
I don't know about this. The design of that link is gorgeous, but I think readability suffers this way.

Reading text left to right in columns and paging through long articles would end up being annoying. If an article is long, this design wouldn't work as well because you'll have to constantly click the next button to go through all the pages.

And the thin columns make it hard to read lengthy text because there are only a few words per line so you're constantly having to scan for the next line.
The servers being down, I can almost forgive, but this whole affair with the DRM is very puzzling. EA has a history of angering users who buy their games. And yet, for apparently no good reason, they have incorporated into their latest offering the one element that is guaranteed to anger virtually everyone who buys their game.

It's pretty simple - I paid money for your game. Now, I own it. EA, maybe you need a tutorial on how money works. Let's not get side-tracked and start talking about whether or not I own my songs on iTunes or any of these more entrenched markets. If I buy a video game, I should be able to play it 10 years later, even if the EA Sim City Servers are long-gone and now devoted to keeping track of whatever the latest terrible incarnation of Madden does.

I didn't buy Civ V (not EA) because of DRM. I haven't bought other games because of DRM. I wanted to buy into the Sim City franchise again but I'm not buying Sim City V because of DRM. You just lost a sale and likely a future customer.
The main reason plants do caffeine is that it hurts spiders trying to setup webs over their flowers.
Cheap DNA test meaningless?
Forget rockets, a self-driving car is exactly the technology you would want for autonomous moon mining.
Okay, then fork Chrome/Firefox and add mp3/h.264 support and see how quickly the lawyers circle overhead.
That's because they separated. It didn't go as planned. If they would enter Mordor as a group they had better chance perhaps?

I think Mordor had some kind of anti-air defense (watch towers + crossbowmen)? Because if they didn't, it would be a persistent and major attack surface. And 40% of failure wasn't tolerable.

And after they separated, Frodo had no ways to summon eagles.

Moreover, maybe in the middle earth they see such occasions as a battle of strong wills, not firepower. A few heroes outwill a regular strike force. That's all what matters.
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Wow you know a lot of CMU/MIT/stanford kids, lets hire them

Not that easy.
You might want to get in touch with the BuySellAds guys. They've been looking for large publishers for a new ad space monetization system of some sort:

http://buysellads.com/publishers/unreserved
In addition to being overused, I think some use the term to refer to anything that's hard to extract and analyze. The datasets may not be that large or numerous, but after all the slicing, dicing and analyzing, they don't understand what they're looking at. "I don't understand" = "big".
Is there one for all but the first argument?
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> Wright become the largest shareholder of EA as a result of the takeover

Sources?
Wow. It's hard to see how the court wouldn't rule to allow that.

If it has an impact as severe as some people claim, it'll force authors to find new business models. And maybe that'll hasten the end of the copyright madness at last.
How hard would it be to create an "imaginary engineer" generator?

I would like to have a million fake engineers out there.

I just want to see the industry burn.
What about the bar for "hacker"?

You don't really need technical skills to convince a service provider to give you access you shouldn't have, when the original signup's security answer was publicly available information.

This attack vector was exactly how Sarah Palin's Yahoo mail account was "hacked" in the 2008 presidential campaign. So you'd think people would be more careful nowadays...
This is the first thing I have ever wanted a 3D printer for.
Why would autonomy be important for moon mining, with a round trip time of 2.5 seconds? The cost of an operator couldn't possibly be significant relative to the other costs involved in moon mining.
It's hard to see this as anything other than someone choosing to go out at the top.
I'm genuinely curious as to why you think having two separate but related threads on a forum is of any consequence. It seems that every other minute someone here dramatizes these submissions, as if having a line of text in the feed that you're not personally interested in is somehow akin to the tragedies of rape and murder (hyperbole intended).

I assure you, the people constantly complaining about every submission is far more annoying than the occasional (subjectively) extraneous submission.
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This isn't surprising, when G+ launched all the comments were about how remarkably similar it looked to Facebook.
Ask HN:  What do you guys use to manage your beta's?
I am curious on what everyone uses to manage their betas. Something like prefinery or maybe a homegrown app?
I believe NFS is a less chatty protocol with fewer roundtrips. SMB is not a particularly well-designed protocol overall.

My only evidence is anecdotal. Back in ~1998 we had Samba running on our small Linux file server using Windows NT desktops via 10mbit Ethernet. It was dog slow, not just for browsing but on sequential things like file transfer. We installed NFS mounts on the same box, and it turned out to be lightning fast. I don't remember just how fast, but it made everyone go "wow".

Nowadays, with NFS over fast 100mbps or gigabit Ethernet the latency difference probably is not significant enough to make a difference. I prefer NFS just because its more Unixy.
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If the search for knives truly is the culprit that's clogging up screening lanes, maybe those who bring them should be fined.

This single sentence could potentially solve the entire problem. By having a financial penalty, instead of just confiscating the problematic item, would force people to reconsider what is and isn't allowed.
I've always thought a nice matchmaker that was OS would be nice to have for all of that kind of thing. Also nice game, voted for it on steam for you.
Anyone close to Marissa Mayer should be filming ALL of her day-to-day activities and make a documentary in 2 years.

The subject will be either the miraculous turn-around or failure of Yahoo.
Isn't this just a special case of one of Godel's incompleteness theorems?

Roughly, the incompleteness theorems state that, in any sufficiently powerful, self-consistent, decidable mathematical axiom system, there are statements which are true, but cannot be proved. And "sufficiently powerful" means basically "including addition and multiplication." The high school axioms look like they're at least that powerful, so wouldn't it just be a direct application of Godel that such statements exist?
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Technically it's free. Plenty of websites with all sorts of helpful information about programming. But paying to be a part of a box and a small community while working in a competitive environment is worth money. To me at least.
I don't mind the design at all. . .but why would you want to discourage newcomers? Isn't diversity in thought and background good, even within a narrow audience like this one? I think that maybe the newcomers you're thinking of would be discouraged by the lack of images and high "density of information", but there are still other elements that could be improved that would not attract them. Also, is it so terrible to have radical ideas? As long as you're not flaming, trolling, etc.
Yet they do keep buying, year after year. They want the polish of AAA EA titles as compared to indie fare, and they're willing to bend over to get it.

Its the whole consumer versus content producer battle in a microcosm, and it doesn't make consumers look good. It's easy to get away with being a shitty company like EA when people line up to get "Madden" versus some non-branded sports game.
Yes it will ... [need] to store the contents of variable x in a hash table [...] There's no other magic way it can 'know' whether a particular line has been seen before. You can't rely on hash keys alone as the hashes aren't guaranteed to be unique.

Technically that's true, but the result of a cryptographic hash like SHA-256 is (practically) guaranteed to be unique. Depending on the average length of an input line and how many of the lines are unique, storing only the SHA-256 hash value could take far less memory than storing the input lines along with a non-cryptographic 32-bit hash value.
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I have never had the slightest indication that anyone actually looked at my Github account listed at the top of the resume, let alone that this ever helped me get any job I've had. So I'm inclined to treat this as an urban legend.
There's evidence that bigger and bigger banks don't achieve more efficiency:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/big-banks-are-not-mor...
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I had the exact same thought. This looks nothing like G+.
I think this could happen even in a business that's not family-run. . .large or small. You could use the operations experience to move on to another job - probably at a small company - where your title and salary reflect the operations experience. I've had to do this. Just make sure your resume reflects the operations experience and your cover letter highlights it.
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Did anyone else get an email saying you're one of the 4% of users that exceed 40 hour monthly usage? Can't believe it's only 4%.

(listening to Pandora now).
The only part of this that would be difficult is ensuring that there is no single dark pixel which is surrounded by all white pixels. As the dark pixel represents material and the white pixel is empty space, you'll need to use thin supporting structures within the QR margin of error otherwise there wouldn't be anything to hold the material in place. Do a Google Image search for "letter stencil" for what I mean by thin supporting structures.

That small caveat aside, it's super easy to construct: start with a solid block of material, take QR code 1, and from one face carve out the white pixels all the way through, keeping any thin connector pieces as required. Rotate to another face, do the same for QR code 2, rotate again, and do the last face for QR code 3. The remaining structure is what you 3D print.
Or get the job offer and leave. They may feel that they will do just fine without him.
What means do they have of checking your previous salary? I've heard most HR departments will not share this. But I also heard weird rumors there is some tax-based way to determine. I'm suspicious of how that is possible considering even credit card and loan companies rely on me self-reporting when I fill out an application.
Standards are good for everyone.

Royalty-free standards are even better. Given the state of the video codec world at the time of Google's On2 acquisition, purchasing a codec that was explicitly designed to avoid MPEG-LA patents seems like the only viable path they could have taken to a royalty-free codec for the web. And remaining royalty free is essential to the very concept of the World Wide Web.

Developing a new royalty-free standard would only invite participants to try to include as many encumbered concepts as possible to derail the royalty-free aspect, or to delay ratification and implementation for as long as possible to preserve the revenue from their royalty-bearing codecs.

Having a standard that is designed by committee should not be an end in itself, but only a means to an end, and if other means are more expedient, then the other means should be used.
Or the CEO will back him but still continue to stonewall on the additional money.
there is no way i can begin to read your article with your ginormous head shot staring at me.
Could you buy two cheap VPSs from different suppliers? That way you'd have redundancy and save money?
This is a losing battle. In ten years time, the sophistication of miniature drones to the size of insects, or with eyes that can see 5+ miles in exceptional detail will be what are available to those with the resources to exploit them.

Personally, I think that anyone interested in being anti-drone should be focused on the following areas:

* Drone-to-drone combat (Drones that have sensors on them to detect and attack (via collision or weaponry) other drones found

* Radio jamming (of frequencies used to control or communicate with the drones)

* visuals jamming (massive IR beacons designed to drown FLIR/IR sensors)

I wouldn't be surprised to see drone security offerings hitting TheLuxuryDivision within ~18 months time.
Wow... I've just sat here for a few minutes plugging random words into that. It really does get the brain working :)
It's tumblrbook. I always preferred tumblr's aesthetic over FB and G+, so this is a welcome change.
Also, Iran is more 'hegemonic' than Nk. NK has no chance of social, political nor economic influence in the Far East. Iran can exert social, economic and political influence on the ME.
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Probably 4% of all users, not active users. I listen to significantly less than 40/h per month because I almost never log on.
AFAIK 5 years is the minimum length of the mainstream support period for MS products, and is the length for Win2000.
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I guess you're right. The Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev were different from most of the USSR in many aspects, including official anti-semitism in universities. And Tashkent was yet another universe altogether.
I am a round 4 participant and I went from Buenos Aires. I consider BA to have a decent startup ecosystem, but it doesn't have an entity that gathers entrepreneurs and encourages them to meet and share their experiences.

BA doesn't have a "Startup Chile" in its environment. It does have one or two incubators/accelerators but they are very selective in who gets to participate or not.

I believe the kind of synergy and energy that happens in Startup Chile can only happen in other accelerators/incubators like Y Combinator, Tech Stars, et al; or in co-working spaces that encourage meetings/networking.

The other reason to go, and probably the most important one, is that you get $40,000 equity-free.
Second that. I used to have constant shoulder issues with my mouse arm. As long as I'm being active with my shoulder I'm good. CrossFit, yoga, slack lining, it doesn't matter what you do, but not being physically active is a detriment to your well being. Everyone owns it to themselves to live healthy!

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The current title ("A way to bring back Moore's law") is somewhat misleading. You could say that Amoeba was a way to bring back Moore's law at the time, but then again, in the 1990s it wasn't exactly threatened. Nowadays the techniques used in Amoeba have spread to your "regular" Linux computing clusters. I've done some work in distributed computing and I can say that sophisticated load balancing and, to a lesser degree, process migration are known and used in the field. Lots of solutions for both for the commonly used MPI family of frameworks have been published [1].

It all comes down to Gustafson's Law [2].

[1] E.g., http://capinfo.e.ac.upc.edu/PDFs/dir25/file003041.pdf, http://www.mosix.org/pub/Process_Migration_for_OpenMPI.pdf, etc.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson%27s_Law
Then let your cynicism drive you to hedge with H.26x but hope and advocate for something royalty free and technically equivalent to emerge. There's no need to attack VP8 and other royalty-free endeavors just because the world is cold. Look at what happened with SOPA, and now with bills being introduced to claw back against the DMCA. I wouldn't have expected either of those things to happen two years ago.

Old habits die hard; old industries die harder.

Abuse of FRAND patents is a different matter, but I will point out that it was in retaliation for asserting some pretty ridiculous patents in the first place. The nice thing about VP8 is that, even if Google turns evil (or, if you're of the opinion they already are, even more evil), the patent promise they granted is irrevocable.
I know a colleague who tried this not for the laughs but to compare and refine his resume
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for migrations in go, check out goose (https://bitbucket.org/liamstask/goose). I've used it, and it's pretty simple, but works pretty well.

You can write migrations either in plain SQL (my preferred method) or in go.
Documentation? We don't need no stinking documentation!

Try this variant:

variable = somefunction(inputParameter)
# the next line is a temporary debug statement
print "variable has the following attributes:", dir(variable)

Or this one:

variable = somefunction(inputParameter)
help(variable) # temporary debugging statement

Or this one:

help(somefunction)

Or even this:

variable = somefunction(inputParameter)
print "the type is", type(variable) # temporary debugging statement

A lot of API's use built-in objects, so quite often you don't even need anything more complicated than:

variable = somefunction(inputParameter)
print "variable is", variable

Using a Python-aware IDE like Eclipse PyDev might help too, but it's been a while since I've personally used it so I can't say off the top of my head what feature you want. Honestly, Python is so easy to use, you don't really need an IDE at all (of course this is just my opinion on something that's purely a matter of personal taste).
It is hard to get paid. Every time there is a reimbursement you have to dedicate many hours to get all the paperwork right.

You will need to spend $10-$15k to get started, before you see a dime from Startup Chile. In a team of 3, I'd say closer to $15k.

$40k is definitely enough for a team of 3 to move to Santiago and work on your idea/product for 6 months.
Refusing to ship a physical product to a first-time customer at anything other than the address where their card is registered seems a sensible practice, and it is certainly in fairly common use here in the UK.

If you tried to order from one of those companies and failed their check, sure, they might lose your order, but it's a game of probabilities and you're making yourself a statistical outlier.

As for going on-line and bad-mouthing a vendor who uses this technique to reduce fraud, that's between you and your conscience, but if you in any way claimed that they were insecure and cost them business, don't be surprised if it becomes between you and their lawyers.
Are you a paying user? I use pandora a lot but I have a subscription $3/mo is nothing. I probably listen 5+ hours at work to suppress the sound of people talking around me.
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