skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I played Diablo 3 quite soon after launch and while there were "hiccups" (my character would occasionally jump around due to lag) I could connect fairly quickly to a server. From the reviews the Sim City servers seem to be overloaded much more than D3 servers were.

The always connected to the internet aspect was bad for D3 and it seems it is even worse for Sim City. If I remember correctly, Blizzard had legal problems in South Korea because of connectivity. My hopes is that incidents like this force companies to move away from the online only single player design.

I think that aside from the philosophical problems with DRM in general, the required internet connection aspect means that once EA shuts down the server the game could be lost forever. When making these games (good or bad) a team adds something to the cultural record of our time. Old movies may not be as good as modern movies in terms of technical execution, but they are interesting because they contain within them an aspect of a lost culture. Games should aspire to do the same.
I don't feel bad at all. They know who they've chosen to work for.
Same here. It was really quite bad, I had nerve pain 24/7, numbness, soreness, you name it. In fact, when I first learned about TMS, it got worse. I was unemployed, and going through very bad depression, and despite ceasing all computer use, I was still in constant pain. I think my subconscious was just sadistically causing me pain.

Anyways, the symptoms disappeared quite suddenly during an LSD trip, weirdly enough. It was one of the most blissful days of my life, just relaxing in nature with some good friends.

Still unemployed and depressed, but at least I don't have horrible pain to deal with every day...
>And I can only speak for myself but I was never drawn to 'technology' out of having famous neckbeards or Jobs or Gates and so forth as role models.

You may not have been drawn to it because of Jobs or Gates, but you never once looked at the field of technology and thought "People who look at me don't do this". That is, you never felt deterred because of the people who dominated the field.

Scott Hanselman recently hosted Kyla McMullen (first black female Ph.D out of UMichigan) on his podcast where she shed some perspective on how difficult it feels to break into tech when no one looks like you and it feels like you don't belong. I enjoyed it a lot, and maybe you might too. http://hanselminutes.com/357/dr-kyla-mcmullen-on-diversity-i...
So don't donate. I think its awesome that he's doing it, and the fact that he did CodeMirror open source should count for something.

I think it's an excellent model. I hope it makes the target, so he doesn't have to go the closed source route with it. And I hope more people do things this way.

Even if he doesn't continue developing it (leaving it to others to do so) or if he wants to write closed source plug ins, so what? That's not what the 10k is for. If he wants to make a big enhancement to it in a year and crowd fund that, I say go for it.
The servers are almost certainly running from the same source base as the client. Swapping out who-does-what, compared to a console port, is trivial.
I agree.

I do think the effect of piracy on a company's bottom line is overstated in just about every case. It's easy for us an the HN community (generally pretty intelligent and technically inclined) to forget that downloading a torrent isn't the simplest thing in the world, particularly the lengths you need to go to in order to get some pirated games to even function properly.
No downtime at all since I got started with them in late 2007, except for a few reboots to activate free loyalty upgrades and one paid upgrade. I've never lodged a support ticket that was left unanswered for more than a minute or two. Very predictable performance and reliable support are huge.
Mine is rather low due to my low overhead.
I didn't say that I or the people I know use OSX. However I made the assumption that Linux and Windows users were similar enough to OSX users in the ways they organize their stuff. Putting the size of the use case aside, It just surprises me that something like this would make it into a production system supporting 10s of thousands of apps and number of which have spaces in their names.
Yes he did. Gollum told him so. That's how Sauron knew to look for the Ring in the Shire. After the Shire, almost all of Sauron's forces knew to look for Hobbits and to take them alive for questioning.
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Their servers seem extremely cheap. Are you basically getting what you pay for with their service or do they have solid uptime and solid support?
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When a game requires an internet connection to work we call it DRM and slam it. When a text editor or spreadsheet requires an internet connection to run we call it innovation.
I think that there is more to the pool of information than the points you rightly outlined. Other key pieces of data are that Redis is designed to be extremely fast and that it has a strong reliance on the speed of the memory it is operating on. Those facts, coupled with the statistics sniglom mentioned above, very strongly indicate that performance will be terrible.

An analogy I can think of is testing if a stock Ford Fiesta can reach the speed of sound. You know what the engine is capable of, the environment it is operating in and the tires it is running on - you simply don't need to floor the accelerator to come to a conclusion.

That saying about picking ones battles comes to mind. The mindset is certainly of a sharp character, but what good is a knife without a hand to guide it? The map is not the territory but it does save a lot of time if used strategically.
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Or that the PS4 version is the first variant that has enough functionality built in for it to be playable offline.
This isn't the case here. The game does significant processing on their servers, to make it useless as soon as they turn their servers off, which AFAIK they haven't promised to keep up any certain amount of time.
I think this is a good idea but is the word 'Passion' only in the name because it's women?
>I suppose this is a great advertising technique for small firms, startups, indie shops

You mean like all those small valley startups creating Rails web apps that only work when the user has an internet connection? I don't see the difference.
It worked out the same way with music. For a short time the labels were experimenting with selling CDs that weren't actually audio CDs, but had been damaged in various ways to make them unplayable on a computer. The result of that experiment speaks for itself. Hopefully it will play out the same way here.
what other outcome could be expected?

Are you implying that all plans by committee are doomed to failure? :)
I completely misunderstood your post, and did not take into account your network. I apologize for putting you in a bad light (it was not my purpose as I'm one of your readers).

At the moment, I don't use much social media to promote my posts. Due to me being lazy. Keeping track if all the networks is an issue even with the tools available. I cannot
even fathom how much time you spend doing that. How about a post explaining it?
I don't see why this is being upvoted on HN. This is reddit material, isn't it? I'm failing to see how this is applicable here.
I had a very hard time finding any actual information in between all the enterprisey marketing drivel about what Stackify does and especially why it's different from any other monitoring tool.

If you're aiming your marketing strategy at high level enterprise managers that buy tools based on the brochure and then force others to work with them then I guess you're fine, but this is real turn off for anybody who's checking tools they might actually use.
The ssh_config HashKnownHosts option hashes the contents of the known_hosts file, making it intractable to get a list of hosts. But of course your shell history will still provide it.
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I am puzzled by his hostility too. I hope you or others following your model don't worry too much about it. I'm chipping in.

I wish you luck in meeting the goal (it looks likely you will) and look forward to using what you've produced. I love CodeMirror, btw.
We need the ansible to head off into the final frontier.
I love it.

It is a complete and utter mockery, yet it provides real value to the the users it is mocking.
Neweggs policies on card related issues are insane imho. I've actually had my account banned because my wife used my CC to buy something on her newegg account once. The next time I went to make a purchase my account was banned because the CC i wanted to use was listed in another account. It's worth noting that they didn't have any problems processing `her` order which is where you would want that kind of action to actually happen!
Just a data point from one person's experiences:

I feel like check splitting is always a bigger problem for the restaurant/server than it is for the people paying. All the customers need to do is pull out a credit card. It's the server that actually has to split the bill and you can always see the discomfort on his/her face when you ask them to split it AFTER they give you the check. Just let them know before ordering that you'll be needing separate checks.

The example on the site seems like a better use case, but the marketing copy "split the bill" immediately makes me think of a restaurant or bar tab which I don't regard as a problem.
That's why we have Kerberos.
Meh DigitalOcean is oversold. Each box has 128gb ram, so you are probably going to be on a server with 100+ other VPS's.

Lots of people have been complaining about network speeds recently:

http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/8339/very-bad-performan...
They sold server-side processing as a "feature" for what should otherwise be a single-player game. Did anyone not see this coming when it was last discussed on HN?

I remember thinking that the servers were guaranteed to melt on launch day.
Smart fraud detection will use IP as one of a hundred or so checks. I know of at least one service in the UK that would OK your transaction if it could match your billing info to those US addresses through previous purchases with any of a number of different retailers.

The goals the larger retailers have here are to reduce the number of manual approvals (things like phone follow ups) needed without compromising the fraud rate, not to turn down transactions, so there's a lot of competition for more intelligent detection.
I'd really like to direct people to our discussion forums where questions like this our discussed. It's kind of hard to provide user support spread out over a range of sites.

There are some counter measures in 1Password to try to thwart keyloggers. The details vary from OS. As far as we know, our defenses work against existing keyloggers, but we also know that this is an arms race that we can only lose.

If your machine is compromised, then you can no longer trust anything on it. So while we believe that our current counter measures work against current threats, we can't state with much confidence that they will continue to do so. We've been fortunate in that keyloggers tend to be simple and go for the low hanging fruit.

Cheers,

-j
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Easy objection, Gwaihir could simply not go.
Only if they havent laid off the game devs after the master copy was done.
A HN sub-thread that moves toward consensus. Wonders never cease. ;)
I have played the last couple nights (since release) on the West Europe 2 server though I'm on the East Coast. Not ideal I guess but I've had to do the same thing for other games. Hopefully it still works when I get home in a few hours :)

Speaking of "broken" memes.

I used to play SimCity like you, until it got an arrow in the cloud. Improve on that please.
I can't seem to reply to tptacek or anigrbrowl any deeper than this, so:

I am perfectly open to the possibility that I am overly paranoid on this matter, and I HOPE that you both are correct that this is less insidious than what I believe it to be, however, given the history of the US government since I have been alive, I will never drop my skepticism of the US' propensity for consolidation of power and profit.

In the early 70s a small group of people took over the CIA and advisory roles to the white house. Those folks, were all lead by GHW Bush. Their career paths, choices and actions over the last 40 years have been horrific.

If you look at the history of Dick Cheney alone, you can see that there is a proven track record for their optimizing for their own benefit.

I use 40 years of data-points from history I have followed very very closely to show me that this current early stage debate over domestic drone use is definitely NOT as innocent and unimportant as some would have you believe.

So, while I pray that I am wrong, I'll let the facts show for themselves in 5 years as to how well adopted drones ahve become - and if we will see weaponized drones in the hands of LEO, or any authorized use on US soil.

I really appreciate your perspectives on this.

(If anyone would like me to give the highlights of the last 40 years, I'd be happy to provide a little bit of a timeline)
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Well said. Seems like companies are starting believe their own job ads, searching for Ninjas and Rock Stars and obsessing about hiring processes.

We're not doing brain surgery, and we're not flying to the moon. The JS frameworks mentioned in the article can be learned on the job in a matter of weeks by any reasonably competent and motivated programmer, days by a good one.
This is not a web site, it's a game. It is marketed and sold as a game.

It isn't even being marketed/sold as an MMO. For the most part, people think this is a single player experience with some multiplayer interactions.

I haven't seen the retail packaging, but does it even state an internet connection is required? And if so, is it prominent?

EDIT: According to the shot on Amazon[1], it does at least state that a "persistent internet connection [is] required to play". Not excusing them by any means, but that's better than what I was expecting from the likes of EA.

[1]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/815mDnNUDhL._SL1121_.j...
And me yours; always happy to bat this stuff around with someone who won't call me a statist thug. :)
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It's just for testing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/About_URI_scheme#Google_Chrome... If you put it in a link, Chrome wno't crash and just opens about:blank. There was a bug where extensions could trigger it though https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=73784
It's entirely possible that Amazon have just run out of keys for the digital version...
To put it simply, sexism against men does not exist. You can discriminate against men, but let's be clear: sexism is systematic oppression by those in power on the basis of gender.

So...having a series of talks that is for women by women cannot possibly be sexist. You can say it discriminates by not allowing men to be speakers, if you so wish. I can't say I'd find it to interesting to listen to a man tell me what it's like to be a woman in tech, though, so you could also just say that they're just featuring people who are interesting to their audience: women.

Also -- who said anything about hostility? What I meant was, "This is about women...why are you bringing men up at all? Don't they have their own spheres which they already dominate?" I just get tired of all this "reverse sexism" nonsense.

Edit: To be clear, I agree with your last paragraph. I don't think it's limiting the audience to feature women speakers, unless you don't think that men can find women interesting. ;)
Well, for entangled light, figuring out the path taken by one part of the pair forces both to produce no interference patterns. Their superpositions both collapse into a set state. I assume there's a similar effect for electron deflection or whatever they are using. Electron beams can similarly produce interference patterns.
I don't think you're adding clarity here.

People are upset about the lack of a single player offline mode, which absolutely is about preventing unlicensed copies. There is no technical reason for its absence.

The cloud based stuff sounds great, and if it were an optional extra that was unavailable at launch due to technical difficulties, I doubt you'd see a hundredth as much bad PR.
The meme I see tends to be: EA ruins everything.
I am waiting to see what comes of this before I buy. However, They had overloaded server issues during the 1 hour beta AND the extended 4 hour beta leading up to the launch.

Hoping they can get this resolved quickly. I think we're dreaming if the fix will involve a non-DRM offline mode.
I've never had this problem. I've used the same CC on multiple accounts for the past few years.
Wow, Nathan keeps racking up the PR/Buzz wins. Good job Nathan! Nice grab Kyle and Justin!
>Finder on OSX - how do increase the font size there?

While browsing a folder, do a secondary click (right button on Magic Mouse or two-finger click on a trackpad), open "Show view options". A popup window will appear; select your desired font size (I think 16px is the maximum). Then click on "Use as defaults" and all folder and file labels will use the same font size.
I can't understand why experienced gamers would buy it at launch if they expect there to be serious technical issues.
So your argument is really that DRM is ok as long as the user knows about it in advance?
I'd like to second what you're saying. The ability to play with my friends in our own private regions is an awesome one, and one I'm glad they included. Frankly, I would have no problem with anything they're doing if it just worked. The big mistake here, imho,is that EA is a huge company, they should have set aside the resources to make this experience great.
Don't negotiate salaries. Negotiate responsibilities. The salary comes after that.
Since when are they available for free?
You are indeed correct. If memory serves, the actor (Christopher Lee) was upset, even lawsuit upset, about the cut from the theatrical version as its removal reduced his points on compensation.
The situation isn't as simple as you put it. This time, there is single player game that shouldn't need forced interactivity with an internet connection. Compared to a text editor where the internet connection allowed multiple users to operate on it at the same time.
>everything to do with the web's fundamental principle of universality.

Precisely everything that anyone who doesn't have JS capability or perhaps an older or less capable browser (whatever reason they still have one) is denied. The readability, accessibility and attractiveness you value often have the NASA predicament : Faster, Better, Cheaper... pick "2".

Have you tried browsing your site on an older Nokia?
FYI, I don't work for Google anymore.

They shut down the consumer frontend to Google Sets but there are clearly internal instances still running to power this feature (it may also be used in coming up with related terms in another ad tech product, but I'm not sure).

I was new to the Google Spreadsheets team back in 2007 and autofill was a feature that had not been implemented yet. We thought it would be a cool thing to make it a bit better by adding Sets support, so I worked with Simon Tong—the author of Google Sets—to get it playing nice with autofill. To be clear, I did not write Sets. Simon did.

This feature has been live since 2007. It was not created to be a lifeboat for Sets and the frontend getting shut down is the result of (my guess) low user traffic.
We already have what you described in Redis 2.6: DUMP and RESTORE commands :-)
Instead of getting a $20 VPS, why doesn't anyone consider a full dedicated for $12?

http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml

I realise that people have mixed feelings about OVH, but I've yet to have a problem and 100% uptime. Plus I can max out 100 mbps on the server pretty easily.

Another 2 providers that probably have a better reputation than Linode are BuyVM and RamNode:
http://buyvm.net/
http://ramnode.com/

A 512mb is less than half price there and they use SSD's.

But the main thing I'm seeing now for commercial sites, is why don't you use Jekyll and host your site on a CDN like Cloud Files or CloudFront? I'm suprised how cheap it is now to use a full on CDN to host your site. While it's not for everyone, most business sites are just a landing page and a wordpress blog, which would be much more resource efficient if it was hosted on a CDN, plus your pretty much guaranteed 100% uptime.

So for under $20 you can get a SSD VPS and your site hosted on Akamai's CDN or just a $20 box from Linode :/
Diablo 3 was pretty horrible at first too for the same reason. I don't know if you will call that a success or failure though.
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Not sure I agree there. There are lots of interesting posts which sink on that queue and fall off it without getting sufficient votes to be seen, while less interesting but more controversial stuff floats to the top. All it would take is a few score more people voting technical stories up consistently to change the story mix.
Gratitude is the least of it. Deepest apologies, corrections, and reparations are more like it.

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I'm not sure '40% higher conversion rates' means anything pertinent. If it directly correlates to a company's revenue, this is fantastic. However, if it also contributes to a higher fraudulent payment rate (say we are funding loans, or performing a transaction where payment fraud tends to be higher), it must be taken into consideration and weigh how much the company will pay for each individual customer support case versus revenue accrued from each conversion.

That aside, customer data here is not only used for simply 'making the payment' as the writer says. This is a huge over-simplification of the problem, the payment gateway for the transaction to detect AVS and CVV is a /last ditch effort/ to catch fraud. The other fields could be used for other services that detect fraud such as ID Analytics, Experian, etc. and ultimately help mitigate credit and fraud risk for the company.
The way that works is if you want to run an event with over 100 attendees then you have to attend one of the three main TED events.
"I feel bad for the game devs who got to see their hard work turn into something they don't intend."

On the contrary, this is by far the most realistic simulation of working for government that's ever been created.
"Or how about Tim Ferris? He sells science with a test/control group of 1 (himself),"

Food science isn't quite the same as physics.
I actually legitimately hated Spore for its gameplay. So much promise and hype...such poor execution.
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There are very few positions which cannot be filled by increasing the compensation. For those which can't, you may need to re-assess your company's culture.
This is always the idea that people bring up but it's pretty obvious it wouldn't work.

Frodo and Sam and Gollum are able to sneak in on the ground. If they were flying in on an Eagle it would be obvious and easily spotted and instead of sneaking into Mt Doom you'd be having a battle on the steps of Mt Doom with only the eagles + whomever they could carry vs. all the forces of Mordor.

Anyone who brings this up as a serious flaw in LotR is being silly. The novel has flaws (and yes all 6 books are one novel) but failing to use the eagles is not one of them.
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