skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding immigration: I don't know if there was much selection bias as we were in the immigration queue for 10 years before being selected. The Anti-Defamation League told Bill Clinton that the situation in Russia was getting worse (1996), and he increased the annual quota of Russian Jews allowed to enter the US.

Regarding the second point: we have no more relatives in Russia, so the narrative is not meant to help anyone immigrate to the US.

As far as the story goes that Russians were equally discriminated against, and it was a case of bribery, you can take a look at my comment below of more family examples. Or you take a look at this list of Math problems that were specifically given to Jews during their admission exams into Moscow State University: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556 . Thanks to @Prognosticus for sending me the link!
Wow. "you can of course request a refund" in a press release actually means you can request a refund, but it will be refused? Just... wow.
Consulting Firm Aquihire?
I run a consulting firm that I've grown over the last 4 years to be just over $2M/year. We have 11 employees. One of my biggest clients, who makes up about 50% of my business, has been pursuing an aqui-hire for a while, and recently, they've asked me to name my price. So far the only term they've put down is that they want to buy 100% of the company, and lock myself and a few of the other key employees in with profit sharing, etc. I'm on the fence about this, I like the idea of the payout, and having larger budgets to work with and being able to work one exciting new products. The idea is for my company to remain independent, just change ownership, and pivot from a consulting company to a product company.

1) Should I do this?
2) How do I protect our environment so my team can continue to function well together?
3) We're just on the verge of making our own products, should I throw in the towel now?
4)How do I price the acquisition given where we are now?
Building up "brownie points" before he turns into a teenager!
2 comments hardly seems like the entire establishment 'going bonkers'. While I think his question deserves an answer, I agree with McCain that it's nothing more than a stunt. If Rand Paul were really serious about this, why not introduce a bill to amend the AUMF, which is what the President such broad authority to determine who is a combatant and deploy force accordingly?

As a US Senator, Rand Paul is among the most powerful individuals in the country. He can introduce legislation to add an oversight or reporting requirement to the AUMF, or to make determinations of enemy combatant status subject to legislative or judicial review, even posterior review...or any number of other variations. Of he can craft new legislation definingthe acceptable scope (if any) of drone deployment within the US by military or civilian authorities. Either would be more productive and more actionable than grandstanding demands for answers to questions that the Attorney General has answered already.

It's a funny sort of libertarian that wants to amend the Constitution to forbid abortions and prevent some people born in the US from becoming citizens, instead moving to a regime where citizenship is inherited.
I don't know. My well-off Jewish relatives in Russia don't report discrimination, but that I believe is a factor of their position or demeanor and not absence of antisemitism.

Since you asked "how big", I would say greater than zero but less than discrimination against certain other groups. These other groups include Chechens, other people from the Caucuses, people from the *stans, and gays. People in these groups are both more numerous and face worse discrimination. Non-Moscow residents are of course officially discriminated against in Moscow (Moscow residency is essentially a second internal citizenship that has been struck down by the courts but still exists in practice). Additionally 50% of the population are subjected to sexism to a significant degree.
Some of what you say certainly fits with what Russians I have spoken with have told me. That EVERYONE was treated like crap, it wasn't limited to Jews.
He does the same in Every. Single. Thread. about Linode.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=linode+tali...

Basically, all this person seems to do is troll a certain set of pet topics.
Not for game servers. We're talking about full applications that have to run somewhere, written years ago, by people that may not be at the company. Each additional game they have to support as a 24/7/365 service incurs some support costs that don't necessarily decrease over time, or with the active number of players.
Thanks for posting. I just sent this to my parents who were also in the Soviet Union until we all emigrated to the US.

Here's the response from my mom:

Yes, it's typical. The only thing which surprises me that the dad's dad insisted on military in 1970 - there was an antisemitic campaign in military in 1961 and grandfather could not miss it. Usually families knew which colleges accept Jewish kids, which did not and usually there was a "plan B". There was a category of "top" colleges which ran exams in July, while all others ran exams in August, like this guy who failed in top choice in July still had option to take exams in August (like my mom who failed with Institute of mechanics and Optics in July applied for Pedagogical Institute in August, or Alik [her uncle] who was not admitted in Moscow university applied in Kharkov in August etc.) And some people who were fighting actually succeeded (like Alena [her aunt] whom they gave either 4 or 3 in math said she knows well enough to get 5, so the examiner said, "I will have to call a head of the commission", Alena said, "So call him." And started all over again. Vitya, my cousin, had the same experience: they told him his solution is wrong, he gave them another one, and one more, and they also called for the head of admissions, and she showed him the right solution - then he showed her his first solution, etc. So it's a little weird that for this family this all sounded as a surprise. It was every family experience ;-( and one of the reasons of emigration (same situation with jobs.)
(Disclosure I work for nCrypted Cloud)

The FREE product is still in Beta but the Pro version (due out in two months) WILL allow you to request zero knowledge and there will be no Recovery key. I know that you know that this means that if you ever forget your password, there is no helping you but I say it so that others reading this understand the dangers of this.

Why are we going to supply this functionality then? Because users keep requesting it
This is a great story. Being from an ex-communist country, I've heard numerous stories like this from my parents and their friends.

In my country the mandatory army service law was active until 2007. If you didn't get admitted to a college, after finishing the high-school you would've had to serve 1 year in the Army. You would also have to serve even if you got into college, but only for about 6 months after graduating.
Philadelphia Eagles? Maybe when they had Cunningham...
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Credit card numbers are not something that you keep secret (you give it every time you use it). This is why you need that much "fraud" detection. So we need a better alternative to pay like PayWithMyBank (http://www.paywithmybank.com). You can try how it works at http://try.paywithmybank.com
The same thing happened to me, except I'm 100% Armenian, but my native language happens to be Russian, because it was the primarily spoken language in our family.
It's just xenophobia.
It's possible to have a single-player experience, where one player controls all of the cities in a private 'region'. It's alluded to here: http://kotaku.com/5988848/tips-for-playing-simcity
Ironically, if they hadn't included that feature, arguments such as yours would have a lot more weight, but as it is there is a purely-single-player experience, and you still needlessly connect to a server for it.
(I don't own the game, just going off what I've read on the Internet)
Nothing is, that's what I end up doing.
Short their stock.
Well I was. But my point is that it was a hit-or-miss. I managed to play without problems but I had friends who could not connect. SimCity is not like that. SimCity just does not work at all.
Yes, but we have no idea how the old site was. A blog post explaining everything would have been more appropriate.
If it isn't on GoG or Steam (or Humble Bundle) I just don't buy it. I don't have that much time for games and will just go without. Steam is an amazing service, I am surprised that movies and music have not followed suit.
> I do (sadly) agree that studios seem to lose their magic to us gamers once they join EA. Why?

I'll give you one guess.
Kudos to your father, Ilya. This is a wonderful, timeless story of perseverance and human desire. The characteristics and settings change, but the spirit is always the same.
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will" --Frederick Douglass

Don't expect vague goodwill and intention to manifest itself as a mandate without being willing to take steps to ensure it happens.
The delta API is a real pain to work with unless you're interested in keep the entire Dropbox state in sync.

I ran into the same thing and it was only on my (fairly inactive) Dropbox account.

The other problem is that the API doesn't differentiate between a simple rename and a delete+create. I understand that's just file system semantics but I wish their API was a little smarter than that.

I digress. The delta API has left me with scars.
(Disclosure I work for nCrypted Cloud)

Zero Knowledge will be an option with the pro version due out in about 2 months but as I have commented before, if the password is forgotten, there is no accessing that data
The New York Times article "Unreported Side Effects of Drugs Are Found Using Internet Search Data, Study Finds" by John Markoff

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/science/unreported-side-ef...

is better reporting on this issue, and the title isn't linkbait.
Thanks!

I hadn't run into xAuth before. It looks like a reasonable way to make the grant process not such a Desktop UI cluster$%$^ - which I totally agree that it is.

Re: the keychain thing, again, it depends on the level of compromise, whether the machine is unlocked, what platform you're on and whether the creds are in there.

And yes, with enough access you can keylog, man-in-the-browser or "desktop phish", but it's higher risk for the attacker and requires maintaining longer-term access.

But if your app stores passwords the user instantly loses.

Failure modes matter. A kind of parody version of how I see your argument is: "Sites shouldn't bother hashing passwords, because an attacker with a shell could just modify the site's login process to capture passwords".
Or, one could say, EA's definition of success is different than many of its competitors.
This is unusually good reporting (far better than I expect from the HP), and well worth a read.
For the roster updates and game "improvements."
Were they wrong when they said the Cisco product was the only one that could handle their routing requirements?
I'll reiterate what I told you back when we had this discussion in the past. Google bought On2 and developed vp8 because they wanted a codec they could directly adapt to their needs when it comes to their many services, with alot of effort spent on real-time video.

I mentioned Google Glass for instance, to which you retorted that Google Glass was 'vapourware'. Funny enough you then spent tons of posts trying to raise concerns regarding Google Glass privacy implications, you sure spend alot of time addressing vapourware.

It's almost as if you had an anti-Google agenda...
DHS Has Declared War On the USA
Once, I put a broken treadmill on the curb with a sign that said "Free." I came back a while later and it had a sign that said "$20".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Verification_System

"AVS verifies the numeric portions of a cardholder's billing address. For example, if the address is 101 Main Street, Highland, CA 92346, in the United States, AVS will check 101 and 92346. Sometimes AVS checks additional digits such as an apartment number, other times it does not..."

They might call it 'full address', still it's just the numeric part.
How do you get it before everyone else?
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I don't think it's a matter of attitude, it's a matter of scale. Training entry-level people properly takes scale. You need procedures, systems, and institutional knowledge. You need to be able to "write off" time spent learning. Startups don't have, nor can they afford, any of these things. If you look at professions that train fresh graduates systematically (everything from finance to accounting to medicine) you'll note that there is an "assembly line" quality to the process.

What's lamentable is big, established engineering companies that don't train their people.
I come from a former Soviet Republic and from everything my dad tells me an image emerges - an image of a land where you could do everything,but you always had to bribe the right people, otherwise they wouldn't do anything. Or they would,but it would take them half a year to process the application.

My uncle actually studied at the University of Warsaw and was the best student in his year, while doing engineering. He wanted to go on a foreign placement in the UK, which was a very rare opportunity to see some world. So he applied,studied hard, and fulfilled all the requirements. Only to be told a week before going that sorry but he can't go, because the son of the State Secretary is going instead.
He had to complain to some very high-positioned officials to be allowed to go next year, but not without being threatened to be kicked out of academia for life first.

Funny thing is, that I am currently studying at the same university in the UK my uncle did his placement 40 years ago. Feeling quite proud of that.
I highly doubt they are providing server resources for every player that are more powerful than the player's desktop or laptop computer. Surely that would be extremely expensive.
Great, I'll work on expanding the Preview feature and get back to you.
Strata CA 2013: Was SQL really the theme?
According to Wikipedia, original SimCity is available on Wii (virtual console) and iOS, and 2000 is still available on PSN. Hardly abandoned. And playable without an internet connection is far from "available for free".
I tell you I absolutely believe you, because I watched my wife have the exact same problems.
8 years ago? People can still play games such as Diablo II and Starcraft and those were released between some 15 years ago.
First Mormon Built Chapel in the Middle East.
Here's the thing though: they DID use AWS (one of their EU servers is 46.137.165.11). They have no excuse besides poor architecture design for not simply doubling server capacity.
Requiring and supporting are two completely different animals. If text editors and spreadsheets actually requiring you to have an internet connection, then I can see people criticizing about it.
The cheap 'servers' aren't servers -- they're desktop parts in a rack. Desktop hardware fails more often, and non-ECC RAM will experience multiple bit flips per year on average. That's fine for a dev/staging server, but not a good thing on a production server with paying customers.
Because every hour after release that it's not-yet-cracked equates to a substantial improvement in lifetime revenue.

They're not stupid, they know it's getting cracked. It's just a play for more time.
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Well, technically, nothing was censored. So "anything" was asked.

Now if it was "Answer Me Everything"...
Revolution in the Resale of Digital Books and Music
I think the larger point is that when EA decides it is no longer profitable to pay for Sim City servers, the game (singleplayer experience and all) will simply cease to exist. There will be no searching through old boxes to find that install CD and take a trip down memory lane. There will be no reinstalling from Steam to show your friend this cool game mechanic. The game will die a full and permanent death, the equivalent of which would be a self-destruct timer on your physical game disc. This list is a list of games that EA has already decided to kill the multiplayer capacity, but I think the point the OP was trying to make was "What if all of these games had the same DRM Sim City does today?", they wouldn't just be a lessened gaming experience because no multiplayer, they would be gone forever.

We have the expectation with an MMO (where we pay a monthly fee to keep playing in an online persistent world) that it won't last forever, but Sim City has traditionally been a single player game. There are ostensibly reasons to have an online component for the new Sim City that is outside of the realm of DRM, but if you think about it, those reasons (players control other cities in your region) could easily be duplicated with simple AI or local multiplayer. Instead of going that route, EA decided that this game would live as long as it decided it was profitable and no longer.
It's huge. It permeates all levels of the society. There are jokes, stereotypes and anecdotes that are essentially part of the culture. Most (if not all) of the people have at some point been subjected to them, and even if they are not antisemitic, they are certainly aware of the singling out of Jews.

This dates back to the days of the USSR, but the prejudice is not limited to Jews anymore. Chechens, Georgians, Tajiks, Ukrainians, etc. (even ethnicities indigenious to parts of Russia) -- all of them can be routinely discriminated against based on looks and/or name.

What has changed, though, is that the bulk of discrimination has shifted from the state to the people. E.g. folks are not discriminated against when trying to get into a college, but can be singled out on the street.
Exactly the point. What if these games had the same DRM that Sim City has?
You might want to add Shin Dong-hyuk's first-hand account of life in a North Korean prison camp. Slavery, starvation, torture, rape, and murder are the norm, and given that it's illegal to be related to someone in prison, a ridiculous percentage of the country's population is enslaved in these prisons. The DPRK's human rights violations go well beyond the oft-cited starvation of the populace.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57556662/north-korean-...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5216332

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5091962
It's Ask Me Anything, not I'll tell you everything.
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900% increase.
Hence the dynamics of a family run businesses. In my experience they are ALL dysfunctional. You are in a no-win scenario precisely because it has been 3 months. You should stop the AAB portions of the job immediately and state your IT workload as the reason.
I am neither, so I cite sources and add acknowledgments. And apologies.
(Sorry to go off topic.)
> Now you also have some vendors who make sure the billing address == shipping address as that's a cheap way to prevent fraud (or at least reduce it).

I use a PO box as my billing address. I never have anything shipped to my billing address. Also, my PO box shows up nowhere in my wallet, so, if it gets stolen, at least the thief won't have a valid billing address to use with my cards. And merchants who check billing address will decline his order when it comes through with my driver's license address.

I've never had a problem with an online merchant using the tactic you advocate. However, if I did, I would be royally pissed and bad-mouth the vendor online. Far from reducing fraud, your tactic would serve to increase it!
This is what Blu-Ray's BD+ works.

And yet, it's still possible to rip Blu-Ray disks. DRM doesn't work.

I guess Twitter could start banning users who are detected running unauthorized clients (like Xbox Live), but that'll get really ugly PR-wise.
Most definitely. We share the same meaning of the concept of a passion project. I was probably just over thinking it, I am just suspicious of the way such highly emotive language has been used and it just happens to be for an interview series with women.

I'll admit I had not read the link before I posted that comment, but looking at it now I still believe that the language used is overly emotional and I think that it has been used just because this is a series on women.

A definition of the word passion involves, among other things "strong and barely controllable emotion" and I think this may be an obvious case where a gendered stereotype has been blatantly applied.

Some sentences taken from the link:

"celebrate the work of some of the most passionate women in our industry."

"share one of their nearest and dearest passion projects with our community."

"to hear about some positive experiences from other women in our industry doing what they love."
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Diablo III was (I think -- not like I've played Sim City yet) worse because the online AH was built into the gameplay Imagine if WoW's loot had been designed so that raid loot would NEED to be traded via a real money AH with Blizzard taking a cut.

Of course for all we know Sim City will turn out to have that kind if BS too.
Identify an area of waste in the operations pipeline and cut it. That will force a conflict and your CEO will either have to back you or explain why he doesn't want you saving the company money.
We're ruling out that the ring effects people around it. I don't think we were ever told whether the eagles could resist its evil. Also, Frodo had to leave the company before this plan would have worked, since he started to realize the ring was corrupting the people around him.
Yes, in fact I use the first one (while true; sleep; ls) but I thought the second is more succint. Anyone interested can make a loop. Please notice that most of the snippets aren't meant to be copied & pasted, but rather analyzed and understood by the user.
It makes me pretty happy to see that this event is already full.
Also, How It Should Have Ended already beat OP to this concept - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU
Mayyybe I'm misreading your argument since I've read it about 5 times and am not sure if you're serious, but web apps need the web to work by design, why would a single player game need the web to work?
I also noticed that it inserts some empty rows in between. So if it appears to not to show results anymore, just drag it even more, it'll show the rest of them with more empty rows in between .