skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Misusing" is wrong as well because no one is aware if they aren't doing things by the book. This isn't the first time a company has launched an MMO only to have it crash multiple times at launch. Starcraft had similar problems, and Blizzard STILL didn't get it right when it came time to launch Diablo.

Trivializing Diablo's issues to "well Blizzard should have used AWS instead of managing their own servers" is just wrong, and doesn't get anyone anywhere. Its clear launching MMO's is hard. I'm not even sure the author is an authoritative figure on the subject - his service most likely grew slowly over months, rather than a million people at once.

EA's issue could be completely unrelated to the fact they used AWS or not (or if they implemented DRM or not). Again, games crashing at launch isn't a new phenomenon. AWS allows you simply add and remove machines. If EA has 100 machines at this point, there is nothing AWS can do. It may even be possible their AWS infrastructure is on point and the problem relies elsewhere.

In any case, we will never know if people just quip "well they should have used AWS/Postgres/MongoDB"
Yep they ran Simcity 4 fine.
These plants are plying a young girl with drugs! It's a shame!
As an ex-Opera employee I have to suggest Admarvel. But really there are so many articles on this I suggest you just google it.
I don't think I can buy the victim-blaming argument.
Is a woman who is born into a culture with female genital mutilation, or forced arranged marriage "cooperating in their own oppression"? Both of these acts can occur at young ages.
I totally agree with you. Many women participate in the oppression of other women. White women have historically done this to women of color, but it can happen within the same race/class/etc.

Isn't sexism, by its nature, oppression? So what is sexism without oppression? I choose to call that discrimination or prejudice based on gender. You can call it "sexism minus x/y/z." I think the difference is that I see those other components as necessary for something or someone to be sexist, and you do not.

Frankly, I disagree with the wikipedia article and definition. As I've said -- these are controversial topics, something like the dictionary or wikipedia can't just be taken as sources of definitive truth in my opinion.
It is an important issue, and that's why we have the other thread.
They are way too expensive IMHO. If I did not have the idea to hack this together with Minecraft, I never would have purchased them.
For $199 you get 3 bulbs and the wireless "hub". Additional bulbs to expand your collection are $59.
Not really, no. It's not a matter of opinion.

You can obviously get away with not documenting code, but you don't know what it's costing you. However well things are working out now, I can guarantee that they'd be working better and faster for your team if you spent the time to write good documentation.
This is why it is morally bankrupt:

See this from a user's perspective->
I spend $200 getting a fancy phone. I go to the app store. I see an app which is highly rated. I believe that
the reviews and ratings are real. (The reviews are fake, I don't know that.) I spend $0.99 or more getting it. The app is horrible.
This repeats a few times. I eventually stop downloading apps. I have been robbed off my money through lies. This is not just bad marketing. I slowly stop trusting app stores. I don't want to download anything from the open Internet either.

Don't you see how this hurts the whole ecosystem?

Apple's rules are not arbitrary. I could then claim that the laws of a country are arbitrary. I could denounce democracy. I could hire someone to kill my enemies. This is how mafias are formed. App store scamming is nothing but a modern mafia which doesn't kill directly.

You seem to be a person in power. I kindly beg you to use that power for good in a bolder manner. Reveal these scumbags anonymously.

If you equate selling ads with scamming, then someone else can equate scamming with murder. I bet a lot of frustrated devs are in the position.
Going by the wikipedia page for webm, the following companies are implementing webm hardware support:

amd, arm, broadcom, qualcomm, texas instruments, nvidia

intel is considering hardware based acceleration for their atom based tv chips.

Given that the vp8 hardware acceleration is free of licence costs, and given this patent agreement, I hope that we'll see much increased hardware support for it.
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Wow. Hits very close to home.

I was born in St. Petersburg, and my family immigrated to the US when I was 6 years old. My parents are kind, quiet people who weren't risk takers -- the idea that they left everything behind was always bizarre to me.

My dad graduated #2 in St. Petersburg for Math/Science (he still has the silver medal for this) but did not get in to the top engineering school. They never gave him a real reason, but he had a Jewish last name.

He doesn't seem angry about it, nor does he really bring it up much -- but I can't help but to imagine the risk taker / creator that could've been if he wasn't stomped all over in the soviet days for being Jewish.

It's disgusting what decision makers during the soviet regime were able to get away with.
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House of Representatives orders Pentagon to disclose domestic drone use
Not entirely without gains:

Concurrency. Yes, you do want it. go func() { /* periodically do stuff here. No cron jobs! Yay...! / }

Static binaries. Yes, you want that too. For example, I'm on a box with no external access. bundle install rails. Ugh~ o, that's not even possible. Blah. You can even cross compile* for other platforms. Amazing.

...but your comments are entirely valid. I wouldn't pick it over node or flask for a serious project; but it's fun to play with.
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Oh, cool. That does seem to work, when using GNU coreutils. So either:

1. I never thought to try that. How silly of me. OR

2. Perhaps tee behaves differently on OpenBSD (which I was using at the time).
They could serve you for very little cost. But what if they believe that turning off the old games will likely get you to pay full price for a new game?
I guess I'm tooting my own horn now, but one of the original design choices for my game was to allow player-hosted servers. I don't want my game to die when I stop supporting it.

Matchmaking is centralized, but the game can be configured for third party matchmaking servers.

If it was good enough for 90s games, it's good enough for today's games.
If someone drove their car into a lake, you wouldn't be adding anything to the conversation if you said "The purpose of a car was to drive on the road, not to drive into the lake"

In a similar fashion, you don't really add information to the discussion when you make an analogous statement about the misuse of an AMA thread.
What would be the economic consequences of breaking up big banks?
Of course it's open to debate, but I'm convinced there are unofficial quotas, though naturally no university will admit it. An interesting quote from a NY Times op-ed:
"The Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade wrote in his 2009 book, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life, that 'to receive equal consideration by elite colleges, Asian Americans must outperform Whites by 140 points, Hispanics by 280 points, Blacks by 450 points in SAT (Total 1600).'

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/12/19/fears-of-an-...
> I can't imagine it would be more than a couple of hours work.

It's always easier spec'ing the amount of time something takes when you have no idea what goes into doing it and its not your job anyway.
And even if this were lacking, I for one would still be demanding it, and that it would work entirely offline.
Don't know where you got that idea from. For Facebook's size I think they move incredibly quickly. Also "short of redoing what they've already done" is actually the kind of crappy thinking that leads to a feature-bloated, never-launched, generally-crappy product.
Alas, I wish I had thought of this. I made a replica of the cube on the cover of GEB here:

https://cubehero.com/physibles/iamwil/shadowblock

It's actually not too hard to do with OpenSCAD or any other modeling tool that allows you to do intersections. So I've tried other three letter acronyms: https://cubehero.com/physibles/iamwil/shadowblock/print

For the QR Code Shadowblock in the OP, I wonder how he dealt with supporting all the structures within, but not all combinations of pixels on each face will work. Maybe he just played with it and rotated the QR codes to find a combination that will work.

I have thought about a QR Code Quine, where the QU Code contains an OpenSCAD file that is a model of the QR Code. However, I wasn't sure exactly how to tackle that, since the QR Code decoder is non-trivial.
Classic example working in a service department for a medical equipment maker. We had a service contract with the relevant department in Hospital Foo, but the admin rolled slow there. The department had the funds and wanted to pay us. We wanted to be paid. We trusted the department on their word - so we kept supplying the contract despite not being paid. At the point 10 months overdue in the annual contract, the word came down that the payment was coming, just the new lawyer was looking over it.

The new lawyer was very much a Make Your Mark person, and despite us, the dept, and admin all saying "we're happy, please pay", she had to add a clause saying: "At any point during the contract, we can cancel and get reimbursed the full price of the contract". That is, they could cancel at 11 months 29 days of receiving support (this is actual send-field-techs-out support, not 'here's our pdfs and phone number') and get the entire year back. Of course it was bargaining nonsense, and we negotiated to a prorata clause, but it caused a fuckton of busywork for all involved, useful to zero people except the Make Your Mark lawyer. So much wasted time and money everywhere just for her to feel validated.
Ah, sometimes that's a hard line to draw since often the people that know enough to understand not to take it literally don't really need the pointer in the first place. :)

I enjoyed your list.
Slightly higher interest rates - in theory.
The idea behind machine learning is that no single data point does the changing. It's about modelling you with a computer and determining if the model matches current models of fraudsters. If you do go directly to the payment page, you use tor for your browsing, you auto-delete cookies, and whatever else they check for, you become more clearly likely to be committing fraud. This does not mean, still, that you are committing fraud, only that you probably ought to be inquired about.

It's the same thing with, say, shoplifting. If you own a thrift store, and you see someone come in with a heavy coat, you might think nothing of it. But if that person acts suspiciously and holds his hands in his pockets, you may inquire as to whether that person is shoplifting. Of course, people do walk around suspiciously with hands in the pockets of big coats who are not shoplifting, but false positives like that are removed when the human element steps in at the last stage.
On2's patents:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...

MPEG's patents (pdf, sorry):

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avc-att1.p...

enjoy
greater redundancy through autonomous systems?
Ask HN: best place to post technical, non developer, job opening?
The non-profit I work for has an opening for a Web Security Technologist but we've had limited success in attracting suitable candidates. Sites like Dice seem more oriented at developers/engineers, this position is a mix of malware researcher and sysadmin. Full description at http://www.stopbadware.org/blog/2013/02/28/stopbadware-is-hiring-a-web-security-technologist if that helps.
Beautiful responsive layout with grid
Cuisine-recipes - Like Chef only simple
Chef may be great for managing a large infrastructre but if you just want something simple for Vagrant cuisine-recipes makes provisioning and configuration simple and straightforward.
The problem is that they made some bad architecture decisions based on protecting the game from being copied instead of basing those on user experience.

Why wouldn't a modern machine be able to run a city simulator? Sim City 3000 and Sim City 4 will still run on a single core AthlonXP. Cities XL runs on modern hardward. As do other simulation games.

Also, what will happen when EA decides they don't want to pay for the servers anymore? The game won't work. I can still play all of the old games and frequently play SC4. The cloud ruins that. Imagine not being able to play all of your favorite classic games. The ones you paid good money for.

This was an EA business decision that didn't consider the consequences. To make up for it they decided to start denying refund request. When customer said they would start doing credit card charge backs Origin support said they would ban their account. That means you would lose access to any EA game you've ever bought! It's like they are trying to drive you away from Origin.
Note that with dissolution of the Soviet Union at least some republics - parts of Russia (e.g., Tatarstan, Bashkortostan) started to see discrimination against ethnical Russians. This increased movement of Russians closer to Moscow - or, say, to south-western parts of Russia, like Krasnodar region, with Russian majority.
Even easier, you could just write a minecraft server plugin that puts its current server time somewhere for the app to read from. It could be anywhere, really - the plugin could run a webserver, the plugin could put it in a txt file visible online somewhere, etc. Now all the iOS app has to do is cat the time and sync automatically.
Steam provides DRM and a marketplace.
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While the SimCity servers handle those functions, apparently large portions of the economic and simulation calculations for regional activity in the game (i.e. what happens between cities) occurs on the server and would also need implementation and support.
They're not quite that expensive, but they're powerful and efficient LED bulbs that will last pretty much forever, and you can wirelessly control them.
The cloud9 ide's open source javascript-based editor, [Ace](http://ace.ajax.org/build/kitchen-sink.html) can mimic vim mode.

Though ternjs's developer created CodeMirror, the platform would be agnostic of editor and could easily be ported to that.
How would you want to search it? hourly? annually?
I always wanted to do something like this with an Arduino but never got around to it. When I saw the Hue I was pretty excited, until I saw the price tag. $200 for 3 bulbs? I'll pass for now. I'm assuming it's only a matter of time before they become reasonably priced.
Another way in which MWI is falsifiable is that it would be proven wrong if those Chinese physicists were able to show a speed limit on the spooky action at a distance. MWI says that there is no such speed limit, since there is no spooky action at a distance.

Additionally, there are collapse theories that are much easier to test than consciousness-based ones. By "much easier", I still mean fantastically difficult, but should the day come that one of these collapse theories is proven correct, then MWI will clearly have been falsified.
Interesting. I wonder what they do to prevent side-effects. Perhaps it just knows to avoid any call that hits network or filesystem.
>See this from a user's perspective

This pattern has repeated time and time again in the history of software. See the videogame industry in 1984, or the Wii, now: crappware hurts the whole ecosystem. I totally agree. Please go browse through the Android App Store and then explain to me how the ecosystem is in anyway un-besmirched now. There will be a flush out. The decision of these guys doesn't make a difference. Get while the getting's good.

>Apple's rules are not arbitrary. I could then claim that the laws of a country are arbitrary.

Yeah, you could. But in this case, we are talking about the rules of a marketplace versus the rule of law. The rules of marketplaces, historically, are gamed over and fucking over again. See any Ponzi scheme/Mortgage crisis/stock swindle. It happens all the time. The rule of law sometimes overlaps with the rules of the marketplace.... I dunno where I'm going with this...

It's just that your statement equivocates the rules of a private, corporate entity with the rules of a democratically elected body of government, checked and balanced with the judicial system. Say what you will about the process of our Republic/democaracy, but I'd say it's anything but arbitrary.

For some reason, when you say arbitrary, I think "spontaneous," and... wow... the federal government as spontaneous. It may be completely non-sensical, but the government tends to move in very premeditated, well explained fashions. OMG, the extent to which they go to explain things.... Jebus.... 10,000 page research studies and... this is another argument.

Point being, Apple's rules change when Apple wants them to. Our laws change when ( and this is another argument waiting to happen) the people decide.

Here's the problem: in the app store graph of revenue, the top 10 apps are on Mount Everest, the next 15 to 25 are at sea level, and the next 75 out to 100 are in the Marianas Trench. Everyone else is somewhere in the molten core of the planet. I was offering blunt advice on how to succeed. The sad fact is, gaming the app stores is a whole line of business. App stores suck. As a game dev, you should know this. Xbox Live Arcade? How's that for patch management? Apple? Holy gods! Why are you so protective of their TOS? I mean, yeah you should abide by all rules of your marketplace. But people don't. And people get rich that way. I sure as fuck don't get rich. On anything. Maybe that's why I am so bitter. Or maybe it's SimCity V's BS...
The single most important book I think I've ever read. I've never read something that I kept coming back to year after year, reading a little farther into it every time. If I was stranded on a desert island with only one book, I'd bring this one. It would keep me busy for more than long enough.
Chris commented above that Marijn is working on LightTable.
Wahey! I love good news. I'm still running a bunch of linodes for free off the credit I won for http://faxitforme.com in Rails Rumble 2012
That's pretty much how it is, but I believe the why is largely to do with the large amount of bad PHP learning aides available for free on the internet (I'm looking at you, w3schools).

That being said, I have met (and work with) some "PHP first" programmers who are genuinely great programmers, and who get how to write clean, reusable code. "I learnt in PHP" isn't a blanket euphemism for "I'm a horrible programmer".
>where the impetus for this experiment came from...?

Seems clear to me that the ultimate purpose is to lower the cost of white-collar workers.
Amoeba (operating system)
Down-voted your comment because you are confusing the truth with being pedantic.

This demo is neat. No question about it. I like when people play with ideas like this.

The demo isn't any more a hologram or 3D than if I took four LCD's, arranged them as the sides of a cube and turned down the lights. Other than not seeing through the LCD's, the images would be the same.

Again, as the person you are accusing of being pedantic said, this is no hologram and it isn't 3D in almost any imaginable way.

Notice how he moves from angle to angle quickly with the camera? That's because there are no volumetrics here. It's just a flat 2D image effectively seen through a 45 degree partial mirror.

It's a 2D image that appears to float in space. And it's cool.

Many, many years ago I thought about the idea of installing a screen spinning or translating (harder mechanically, easier imaging) at high speed in a vacuum chamber with transparent walls and then using lasers to project slices of a true 3D scene onto it. Challenging, but it would be really interesting to see how something like that works out.
Nothing. That is my point. Starcraft have always on DRM, but they did it right. You need an internet connection for single play in SC2 as well as Diablo 3 and they did it right at least. There were a few teething problems, but it worked.
Oh god FB is actively promoting this shit? (I guess it tracks user behavior, but still...)
Incredimail launches for iPad with a photo inbox and built-in browser
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Huh. Way to use github.
Curious how this compares to Brackets. I haven't played with their latest sprint yet, but they also seem to be working on adding auto-complete to JS in CodeMirror.
Niggle is the true shibboleth. That word is illegal in America now.
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How does it detect sponsored stories?
EDIT: When I say i'm not into it, I don't mean I mind people using things I've made as building blocks for their own creations. I just think if you're going to use something, make something new/better out of it.
Thanks, that is a better way of putting it than what I wrote. It's a mythic tale of a quest, so asking why the Eagles didn't shortcut the quest is kind of missing the point.
Done both ThrustVPS and BuyVM.

ThrustVPS: bought it, selected Debian 6. VPS stopped booting. Then they tell me that it doesn't work so I get them to install Ubuntu instead. 1 week later it goes down due to "network issues". (probably for several hours, can't be bothered to login to look at the ticket again).

BuyVM: bought it to see how it was, VPS went down in the first couple of days. Never bothered to try it again. They are always out of stock. http://buyvmstatus.com/info/recent
Thanks! It does help for sure!
Not a counterexample. There exists no continuous probability distribution over the integers, and therefore there is no way to "pick a random integer, each with probability zero".
How do you figure that America is subsidizing them? We've tried invading them, ignoring them, and buying them off, and none of them worked very well.

The key point is that this is really a proxy war between China and the US. North Korea exists only as a proxy of China - they cannot be defeated in war until China allows it, they will continue to exist as they do as long as China allows it, and the regime will collapse about 10 minutes after China stops supporting them. The current state of affairs exists because China likes having a thorn in our side and very much does not like having a close US ally on their border.

The only plausible end that I can see is them doing something so provocative that China gets fed up with them and afraid that they'll be drawn into a shooting war, and forces the Kim dynasty out and somebody who is reasonable and favors Chinese-style reforms in.
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The way to "do drupal properly", which makes it so popular, is to use it almost as a "lego" platform, which is also much the same as how you would use wordpress.

Both of them have such powerful plugin/extension frameworks, that most of the effort in building drupal or wordpress sites is finding the right plugins, and skinning. Very little actual programming work is required to get an operation site running for a client in either framework, which makes them ideal for many of these low-yield "corner store" sites.
Put out some resumes, get a job offer. You'll be surprised at how seriously they take you when they realize that the guy who solves all of their problems is going away.