skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SimCity 2000/3000/4 still work perfectly, and are available for free.
"Responsive" is just a fancy word for "doesn't suck on mobile". Most people just don't care how something looks like, even on mobile, if it doesn't just break outright or doesn't shove that annoying "download our app" rubbish in their faces.

No one really goes to a site for the layout and design (unless it's a game or a layout and design site), they go to consume. If there's nothing to consume, but have a lovely responsive layout, they go oh, that's pretty and leave.

Regardless of how ugly something is, if there's an inherent use or appeal in some way, people will flock to it en masse. Case in point: HN.
Being an established writer and a couple bucks will buy you a coffee.

She asked, he said no, that would normally be the end of such an interaction. But he decided to publicize the fact that his writing was worth $0 and original writing would be worth $100.

Quite a drop from the $350k he got paid by ABC for his pol pot interview in '87. He then sued them in 2002 for ~$20million, no idea how that case went, but I imagine not that well or else he'd probably be set.

I'm that poor dear's boyfriend so I've obsessed over this odd case for a few days now. :D
I believe the poster of this comment was being sarcastic, in the spirit of Bill Gates' [debatably misattributed] quote: "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Minecraft Environmental Lighting Experiment
A demonstration of an iPad app that interfaces with the Phillips Hue LED lightbulbs to provide environmental lighting synced with the Minecraft day/night cycle.
> Not mentioned is my favorite objection, which is that Gwaihir, the Lord of the Eagles, is ... a being of great power, and as such should not be trusted carrying the One Ring, even indirectly. The corrupting strength of the Ring is clearly stronger as one approaches Mordor--Sam and Frodo both understand that wearing the Ring within Mordor would be catastrophic. In Tolkien's universe, power calls to power, and there is every reason to believe that the Lord of the Eagles would fall completely under the spell of the Ring as he approached Mt. Doom.

Works for me. Humanoids riding on the backs of the eagles would be entirely at their mercy. If Gwaihir were tempted, he could seal the doom of the ringbearer in an instant and claim the ring for himself. The only being capable of destroying the one ring would be a humble creature. As it turns out, even Frodo wasn't humble enough, and the simplicity and purity of an insane idiot was required to get the job done, and by sheer accident at that.

EDIT: Also, the reason why Samwise could carry Frodo, is because there's a very strong bond between the two, and because Sam is even humbler than Frodo. The effect of the ring seems to be inversely proportional to the military/mystical power of the being carrying it.
I know, right? We'll start as a consulting business, and build products on the side... one or two miracle functions later... we'll be 37signals!
I assume you're comparing the relative performance of their bignum libraries? If so, that's not exactly a representative comparison.
Weaponizing is the easy part - paving the multi-year path until its "authorized" is the tricky part which they are currently attempting.

I don't think that's true. Can you document such attempts, by which I mean back your argument up with citations instead of hand-waving and anecdote?
My Dad was a musician his entire life. He's had other side jobs, but that was always his dream and big plan.

I decided to go to engineering school and do music on the side.

That has been much more successful for me money wise and in a way music wise as well. I've never had to compromise my (crappy) music to make a buck.
The methodology here is incredibly flawed.

(1) Legislative strength is based solely on the number of laws, not those laws content or intent. It's an objective measurement, sure, but having a dozen laws related to firearms is not inherently more gun control than three laws.

(2) The quartiles aren't. Q1 is 0-2 laws (3); Q2 is 3-4 laws (2); Q3 is 5-8 laws (4); Q4 is 9-24 laws (16). So a random number between 0 and 24 is twice as likely to fall into Q3 than Q2, and is about twice as likely to fall into Q4 than any of the other three? Interesting that a pro gun control group would try to paint the states in Q1-3 as outliers.

I live in PA, which somehow has the same legislative strength rating as California and Massachusetts. I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. Purchasing my hand gun took all of half an hour, most of that waiting for the background check to finish. To get a concealed carry permit (which admittedly varies by county) took a single-page application, $20 and a week or so for the paperwork.

This is just a joke.
It is actually a very widely used application for people living with roommates or other non-institutionalized housing arrangements where groceries and other monthly expenses are split on a regular basis -- college folk, young entrepreneurs, cash strapped people etc.
I believe it is a pretty rife market -- rentshare.com, splitwise.com, billmonk, reconcileapp.com etc.
Okay. This may all be obvious to others here, but is super helpful for me. Thanks.

I really like the look of Ruby, so I'll focus on Ruby on Rails for the back end, and maybe learn just enough PHP to be able to tweak my Wordpress blog. Cool.
By the time you receive a boxed copy the servers may be fixed.
GNU parallel: easily substitute of file extensions + parallel execution, e.g.

ls *.png | parallel convert {} {.}.jpg
So there was a big server meltdown during the Diablo 3 launch, is this the same thing? I'm not sure how long the Sim City servers have been down but is this just initial launch problems? I'm surprised Amazon has done this as they didn't do the same for D3. How long have logins been totall down for now?

Also I think it would be helpful for reviews like this on Amazon and Spore to restrict the reviews to only verified purchases. People submitting 1 star reviews because they require you to be online just because they don't like it shouldn't be allowed to submit a rating.
It was a dumb mistake on my part to mention the 300 range of HTTP status codes.
For validations there's not much point in using jQuery.payment over Stripe.js - they're practically the same. However, where the jQuery plugin really shines is with formatting the expiry and card inputs. Inputting a cc number in groups of 4 digits is much easier than a whole number munged together.
I disagree with everyone saying, "Why create something separate for women? Isn't that further separation?"

For the most part, women don't take up much space in the tech industry. Women look at the big names in tech, and they don't really see people who are "like me." This can be intimidating and disheartening. Creating more spaces for women to connect with other women, and share their experiences and encouragement is much needed. Of course, let's also not forget women of color and trans women, who obviously face additional challenges in finding people like themselves to look up to in tech. I hope that GitHub makes an effort to include a wide range of women with different backgrounds to include in this series.

Also, there's no reason why any women's group should have to admit men to appease the "I promise we're not sexist against men" line of reasoning. I probably shouldn't be surprised that some of the first comments on something oriented towards women is, "But...WHAT ABOUT MEN?!" Get over yourselves! Let this be a reminder that the world does not revolve around you and people like you.
If you've been using computers for long, you should already know VM thrashing can murder a system, to the point of making it unresponsive and needing a reboot. So this is an assumption you have backed by direct experience. And of course, probing it won't tell you anything.

But do you have enough information about how Redis accesses memory under the benchmark in question, combined with the OS page replacement strategy, combined with the characteristics of SSDs, to know the results beforehand? You can guess, for sure; but do you know?

If we all follow your approach, we'll never be surprised unless we get stuck; and if we know what we think we know as well as you seem to think we know it, we shouldn't get stuck in the first place. We should have assumed that we would have gotten stuck, and avoided it.

The article has relatively low value in terms of information content, but the mindset is to be commended. It should have given the author better intuitions about the 3 factors mentioned above. Modern, non-budget systems very seldom thrash; there's a younger generation coming along who've never experienced systems frozen in that way.
Thanks, this.

Also, because the access token for each app is unique, you can grant different account permissions to your apps so you can in principle limit their access to your account.

Also there is more accountability. If an access token gets leaked or misused you at least have a chance of figuring out where it came from.

OAuth is usually a better choice for API authentication than username/password, even for desktop apps.
I'm wondering if I could be more influential with the words I write on Facebook by posting pictures of sentences in a stylized manner.
Well, technically, any organization the Administration could claim was involved in Al Qaeda. The Taliban, for instance, is probably fair game under the AUMF.
A Contract From Alibi
Deduction is great, but what I read here was how much experience matters in debugging. You have to know what to look and test for to provide fodder for your reasoning capabilities, or else you're just shooting in the dark. The OP here had a plan informed by what I'm guessing are years of experience solving this kind of thing ("It's probably small objects. I should dump the core and look for repeating memory patterns."). Then there's a lot of accumulated wisdom that reprioritizes your search as you go along: "That looks like a flag because flags tend to look like that.", etc.

I have no doubt that the OP is good at reasoning logically, but the take-home lesson here is, if you want to be good at debugging, do a lot of debugging.
Well, you'll hate it, but even after you discover what is the class of your object, you'll still have no idea what methods it implements, and what attributes it has. In Python any of that can (and do) change.

Sometimes that is frustating. I suffered a lot until I understood the Django's forms API. But this feature is worth the cost.
I don't think that claim would have any merit though, much as if someone opened up Chrome dev tools one day, edited an html attribute and solely based on that experience called themselves a web developer. I feel it would be dishonest, or at the very least woefully ignorant of common usage of language when someone is described as an *-er.
This counterpoint has a counter-counterpoint in the article.
Although it is more likely in this case that the EA executives mandated online only to the developers.
A decent size SC4 city can bring today's hardware to its knees, and the game is 10 years old.
Does your question have anything to do with what I posted?

OK, I'll bite. It's overreach because they charged him with a felony for doing something that shouldn't be a felony, and there is reason to suspect that they charged him and not any of the very large number of other people who violate that statute on a regular basis in significant part as a result of his political views.
Reading the comments below it sounds like there is an infrastructure scaling issue going on down at EA (I'm no DRM specialist).

If that is indeed the case:
Methinks the AWS sales guy/gal on the EA account has just been handed the easiest ROI they could ask for. "Buy my cloud, and we will be able to start selling your game again."
The issue is that while it is subtle, the constant adoption of greater and greater technical capability by the LEOs is that its a slow, but constant stepping path toward enabling tyranny.

The reason being that 1) a extremely technically enabled LEO system is one that is completely abstracted from the reality of its citizenry. 2) it creates an institutionalized dependence and sense of superiority on and due to said technological capabilities. 3) create a propoensity to rely on the technology more-so than the human instincts and filters, thus, we see much more of a "system" which will victimize people more regularly. Any and all murders by police will continue to be classified as "unfortunate" yet nothing will be done.

Police are already far too poorly trained to deal with anything remotely stressful without shooting first.

I am fully opposed to any and all pushing of technology onto an already overly trigger happy, callous system in lieu of more, actual training.
By robust, I mean the language/compiler has a strong test suite and the runtime is known to work reliably in production settings. I've heard horror stories about Sun's HotSpot JIT crashing frequently, but that was what, 10 or 20 years ago? Now that I think about it, Scala might be a modern example of that, but I haven't kept up with how they might have improved.
And also, you can pass the -h flag to disown to leave the job in the job control table (i.e. you can still bring it to the foreground/suspend it/etc.), but still skip sending the SIGHUP on logout.
I just came here to praise python and hate on php, because that seems to be the popular thing to do. But I do like the idea of it being functional pseudocode, because my pseudocode usually starts approximating the syntax of the language, with progressively more erase marks and crossed statements due to getting a bracket wrong, or some other minor problem.

Note: Yes, I write source code on paper. Alot.
For many of the X%, purchasing was not a consideration; what's more useful to consider is how many people that were paying customers in the past STOP paying, given that they've demonstrated their willingness to pay.
What is your hourly rate?
InduceBrowserCrashForRealz
about:inducebrowsercrashforrealz (paste this in your chrome address bar)
That's a false dichotomy.

Communication and coordination are important parts of incident response. Key engineers shouldn't be doing either. If an org doesn't have dedicated people to communicate with their customers and triage support during an outage -- especially one where a facility loses power -- they're doing something wrong.

When I was in a support role, I stayed up all night with the engineers during planned maintenance to answer questions, respond to tweets, &c. And if things went pear shaped, I'd already be up to speed.
I thought it might be an automatic block based on 1-star reviews, but both products have the same 88% 1-star reviews right now.

Digital: 765/866 = 88.3%

DVD: 912/1038 = 87.9%
>Like Diablo III, the point is that it's effectively impossible to crack. With enough processing offloaded to the server, would-be pirates need to write something that's almost a whole new game.

I agree that this is a strong deterrent but given how even MMORPG servers have been reversed engineered [1] it's not impossible. If SimCity proves as enduring and as desirable as WoW we may well see it coupled with a LinCity-NG-derived [2] backend or similar.

Edit: That said, a powerful stimulus for the development of MMO server emulators was that players dissatisfied with the official servers' community simple couldn't run their own server how they'd like it for whom they like. I assume that the new SimCity is designed to be a far less community-oriented experience and people in control of the neighboring cities are largely replaceable from a player's perspective.

[1] See http://www.runuo.com/, http://www.galaxiesreborn.com/, https://launchpad.net/aurora-runescape-server-emulator, http://arcemu.org/, etc. Note how many of those are community FOSS projects, even though running them with an official client is almost always a ToS violation.

[2] http://lincity-ng.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
How much of D3's processing is done offloaded? Are there any articles online that I could read about this?
about Android - aren't the costs of testing on multitude Android devices prohibitive for an indie dev? I think even Rovio had problems with that when they launched..
It's actually the sixth SimCity game, not the fifth. The fifth game was SimCity Societies. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity#Personal_computer_versi....
Go here every day and upvote interesting articles after reading them.

http://news.ycombinator.com/newest
Mainly because it Battle.net is just IRC.
This will never work with a 4% fee. Never.
From my experience it's a hit or miss. I just got an approval for an app I submitted on March 1st. That's the shortest time (6 days) I had to wait for an approval.
(I just have to say, to give more than just an upvote, this is a great post.)
Isn't it technically more about using CSS3 and JS to adapt to the browser width and/or capabilities, while the HTML otherwise remains the same or similar?

In contrast to browser detection and/or loading a completely different HTML representation, with or without a completely separate URL.
No Damages in LinkedIn Password Breach Lawsuit
From what I can tell, OP appears to be correct in saying this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_(2013_video_game)

>SimCity is ... a reboot of the SimCity series.
Not actually, the motivation is "my server is quite slow so I don't want to run dynamic content on it" :)
You can be far from top, and stil earn $100k/year...

Games are top-heavy, but there is an overlooked middle ground of devs who have a decent passive income...
Litigating to the bitter end is rarely rational. I can imagine a couple scenarios where this deal makes sense; e.g. if Google paid more than what a pool would have earned.
Yes, they shouldn't get their hopes up too much. Since the Many Worlds Interpretation is the simplest one, it is also the most likely one. With MWI there is no spooky action at a distance, and nothing is actually transmitted faster than the speed of light.
Also a consideration: 866 reviews and a "1-Star" average.
This is a very good reason not to give the police armed drones, or, for that matter, new arms of any sort. I'm right with you there. The militarization of police forces is a real problem.

It is not a very good reason not to give the police better surveillance technology.

Crime victimizes more people than police forces in the US do. I'm not saying that means LEOs don't victimize people; they do. I'm not saying that means we should turn a blind eye to police abuse; we should not. But when we do risk/reward calculations, we need to keep in mind that the greater ambient threat is of crime, not police abuse. Sometimes, the police will ask for things that tip the scale the other direction. But we have to make a case for how; we can't just assume it.

Keep in mind: I'm one of the people laughing and cheering at the guy in the video saying "no thanks, no, I won't be pulling into secondary screening" at the CBP checkpoints; I've given to the ACLU. Surveillance is scary. It's just not intrinsically bad; it's bad in a context-dependent way.
You should try out Play2 on Scala if Go doesn't work for you.
Nope, untrue. Read the description for oauth_callback.

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/post/oauth/request_token
The "hidden" servers are probably due to the game not being released in Europe yet. I'm assuming they are reserved capacity for when hundreds of thousands of new users join.
... And iCloud is still weak.
Oh dear, looks like the virtual rioters have broken out into the real world.
The brain-dead corporate douches in gray suits pulled the trendy social bullshit into the legendary single-player game and ruined it. That's unbelievable!
Sauron expected the power of the ring to be used against himself in the final battle.
A lot of games are copied, but it's a fallacy to assume that pirating a game means you won't buy it, or that attempting to pirate a game and being prevented (by DRM or some other means) means you'll buy it instead.

In college I pirated games quite a bit. I never bought one, nor would I have.
The whole current debate about using drones on US soil, for recon or tactical means is the most relevant citation.

The fact that DHS just bought 2,700 MRAPS for domestic use is another.

We are actively militarizing the police forces in the US by giving them tactics, training, equipment weapons and capabilities of a veteran national military.

The fact that Holder and Paul are even having this discussion, with loosely defined terms such as "engaged in combat", I believe is the first few steps down this quickly steepening path.

Lets hope that I am wrong.
Thanks for pointing this out. Unfortunately, it seems to be too late to edit my original post. Interesting, though, as it seems someone (a mod?) edited my post's title. Perhaps they can change the link, also (I wouldn't mind).
This is actually pretty impressive. There's lots of practical applications for this as well.
Isn't this just a technical error (bug) that is a game dev's (or infrastructure engineer's) responsibility? I understand the frustration at the DRM concept, but you can't blame this on the larger entity as a whole when it was likely just a bug in some code or a small oversight.

Things were clearly working when it was in beta.
yes, if reddit is anything to go on.
Originally they told us quite a bit of logic was done on their servers. But then they announced that Diablo 3 would be playable offline on the PlayStation 4. Now I don't know what to believe. Could it be it was all just talk to stop us from trying?
Iron Man 2 UI Made in WebGL
No, what I'm saying (cf my other comment in this thread) is that it's actually a supply problem.
Nice color scheme. I just copied it to colourlovers.com. Now many can enjoy it.
Hmm, yes I suppose it would be.

This whole thread (and my objections to the use of language here) was based on onemorepassword's comment[0] that ended with a definitive "LayerVault are copyright trolls and bullies", which I read as speaking to their core and not just what they're doing at the moment.

Maybe omp has knowledge of LV having a past history of copyright trolling, but I don't think it's a fair statement to make based on one bad-faith filing, as abhorrent as that move was.

[0]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5333339
I don't understand why people buy games from EA? I mean, seriously, why buy it?

They have been pulling this crap for years and each new release just gets progressively worse.

About a year ago I decided if it's not on Steam I'm not buying it. It really sucks to miss out on some of the games, but I refuse to support such an asshole of a company.
Indeed. Any ideas why?
From my experience with the NCAA Football line, they just don't seem to care. People have been complaining for years that that game crashes or hangs frequently and has a number of gameplay bugs, and they haven't been fixed anything.
EA have already launched a product like this: Battlefield 3. It was pretty unstable in the first weeks and the game required an internet connection and login to even play the game. Since it's a PC FPS that's not CoD, it didn't get too much press. I, for one, will not trust another game a DRM-laden game again due to BF3 and SimCity 2013 just reinforces that.
Remember these words "am I being detained or am I free to go?"

If yes, great!

If no, ask "on what grounds am I being detained?"

If there's no good answer, but they detain you anyhow- you may have an out later (in court). Always Follow the officers directions after you've asked these 2 questions.
Repeated breaking and entering and unauthorized network access isn't a crime?