skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one wants to spend their life configuring servers. That's why tools like Chef and Puppet exist -- so you can write code that will do it for you. They just don't work as well for Windows as they do for Linux.

After a significant amount of experience in the .NET ecosystem, I believe the majority of the anti-Microsoft sentiment is well-deserved. At one point, there was a lot of innovation in .NET OSS, but it seems to have ground to a halt within the last few years. It's possible I'm just projecting because of my own experience, but it seems like many of the more influential members of the .NET ecosystem have gone on to do other things.

It's not that Microsoft or .NET is bad -- it's just that there are better options.
Completely fictitious example: Assume science showed that homogeneous teams worked best in industry X. Would it be okay to enforce that?
I guess I should have qualified my statement better. When I said server software, I meant servers to host cloud services that need to be easily deployed and scaled with demand. If you're writing a server that's only used inside your own company, and thus doesn't need to scale quickly, it doesn't really matter... in which case, Windows is a decent option, especially if you have a lot of windows devs in house.

However, for cloud deployment, there are a lot of hassles with scaling on Windows, mostly due to licensing costs and hoops you have to jump through for that.

BTW, I write server software for Windows in my day job, so I'm not some Linux zealot who's bashing Windows for no reason. Windows is fine. Non-free licensing is not (when a good free alternative exists).
I thought image recognition on that would be trivially easy to compute? You could identify each piece, then just analyse it to work out the 1 move. As a layman, it seems less computationally difficult to solve that than a state-of-the-art captcha currently?
For it to even be nominally effective, the state of play would need to be non-scriptable - but the piece types, positions, number of necessary moves are all available in the DOM (and some in handy data statements no less). And it appears to post by ajax to a url which returns a boolean for success or failure. And it lets you retry. So yeah, other than being pretentious about chess it would appear to be more or less pointless at actually detecting whether someone is a human or a bot.
So if someone doesn't know Chess, it's not a human.
Not gonna lie, it took me a while to figure out because I had no idea what a checkmate was.
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> it takes more time than a normal CAPTCHA

Most of these captchas are very easy. If the targeted king was easier to spot (e.g. marked red) I'm sure I would solve them faster than the omnipresent reCaptchas (even knowing that I only need to type the less legible word).
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Instead, require they escrow the server code/DRM and it gets released if they shut down the necessary DRM servers
The PCs struggle to app-up
Could you play single player games while they were having server issues?
If you are looking for "free" alternatives for other plaforms, here are some close relatives and provide the same 'features' that one expects from Century. Plus, they are free. :-)

You're welcome. ;-)

These sets below, are complete (R, SC, B ,IT, B+IT...) fonts AFAIK.

http://www.dafont.com/justus.font

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Latin-Modern-Roman

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/TeX-Gyre-Schola

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/TeX-Gyre-Bonum -- Bookman clone.

These are not complete, but they are close relatives.

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Theano-Didot

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/foundry/Alexey-Kryukov

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Old-Standard-TT

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Bentham

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/DubielPlain

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Theano-Modern

Here are some ripoff fonts...

http://www.fonts101.com/search/bodoni
Keynote (seriously) or Sketch http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/
Mozilla says no plans to return to iOS until Apple removes restrictions
> IMHO though, the JVM has a better alternative language ecosystem than the .NET one. Yeah, .NET has F# builtin to VS these days, but doesn't have things like Scala/Clojure (not first class citizens), Kotlin, Ceylon, etc...

And the irony is: .net was touted initially as a polyglot platform, whereas JVM has been primarily associated with Java only.
Sorry to hear this.

I cant say this loud enough: SCREW TWITTER - DITTO FACEBOOK
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Teachers like to use Comic Sans because of the little 'a'. It's the same as the one you learn to write.

All the other fonts use the weird typewriter 'a.
Might have something to do with the fact that you can play timed chess on that website. Time compensation due to high ping and such.... Just a guess.
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Can brute force answer from the server quicky:

http://en.lichess.org/captcha/0nbdeigw?solution=a1+a2 returns either 1 or 0.

The total complexity of this to brute force is 768 possible moves.

Most of us here could write a bot to spam their site with less than 30 minutes of time and effort.
It is easy. But it still filters out some kind of people you may not want on a chess forum :)
He was a member of the ruling class. Most folks, including the peasantry, including most of America, distrusted the Republic concept and were convinced a Royal was owed his inheirited power. Very few held the modern conceit that power should be trusted to the people, who after all had none of the benefits of Royal upbringing.
AWS doesn't really take the license problem away -- it just rolls the cost into the price of the instance, which is significantly higher for Windows.
haha this is absurd, and drawing the conclusion in the headline makes about as much sense as
"Google admits its WebM (VP8) codec infringes MPEG H.264 patents; agrees to license technology" [1]

It is so hard to take OSNews seriously.

[1] http://macdailynews.com/2013/03/08/google-admits-its-webm-vp...
I've used both Debian proper and RHEL/CentOS in production. At one point I preferred Debian, but some years later I don't have a preference anymore. One is "better" than the other in a case-by-case basis.

Debian has an advantage on package availability: almost everything you need exists in the official repositories. This is extremely handy for those of us that don't like to waste time installing things from source (because it is never about the time to install them, it's about the time to keep them updated).

RHEL repositories aren't as extensive. Even using EPEL (which I feel is indispensable), sometimes things just aren't there. But what's there has 10 years of support, which is very important.

In a setting where you have very little budget for specialized appliances and have to do everything on Linux (servers, routers, firewalls, balancers, ...), and can take the overhead of having to upgrade every 3-years, Debian is a nice choice. The repositories have all the nice extras for all kinds of uses.

If you are using Linux for enterprise servers, where you have either proprietary software or your custom applications require a lot of paperwork to upgrade, it's nice to be able to keep them running for more than a decade. The regular ".x" updates do a good job of keeping things fairly current in terms of supported hardware (and feel), so it's not like things get only security updates.

I don't like "yum" better than "apt-get" (both have advantages and disadvantages), but I do like ".rpm" better than ".deb" from a package builder standpoint. I'm biased, since I have packaged RPMs from scratch but never DEBs. However, when I build already existing packages from source, RPM just seems a cleaner format.

Your mileage may vary.
Keep in mind Lichess is a free online chess platform. The vast majority of its human visitors are likely familiar with the rules of chess.
Twitter is succeeding with 3rd-party clients killing. Good job!
I'm the same demographic and also never really got into Twitter, but I definitely see the appeal.

Comparing Twitter to RSS is definitely way off as RSS has really nothing to do with social, and Twitter has everything to do with social. HN/Reddit, by comparison, are almost exactly the same thing with just different community standards.

Twitter is really about a streamlined and open conversation. It's a more stripped-down social experience compared to Facebook or Tumblr or whatever other social networks came before, but yet it captures the essence of online interaction in an elegantly minimalist fashion. I think this leads some people to find it utterly vapid because online interaction is simply not the same as in-person, and Twitter exacerbates these characteristics by lowering the time and location requirements down to near zero, so you can participate anywhere, anytime, on any device without ever having to take more than a minute because you're limited to 140 characters anyway. There is definitely a purity and beauty to it, but it always gives me the sense that I'm wasting my time.
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My favourite part was this:

> The good news is that SimCity is a solid hit in
> all major markets

In other words, "Don't worry guys, I know this looks bad right now, but we're making plenty of money so it's okay". Gotta put something in there to reassure the investors, I guess?
Having to manage both Windows (IIS) and Linux servers (mostly Debian and a few CentOS'), I much prefer tinkering with Linux CLI rather than clickety-clicking on pretty GUIs.
I attended my job interview this semester. So I have seen very few companies use interviewstreet. They sometimes use some automated grading systems, but they have to be deployed on the institutes servers. This has led to a lot of delays.
It's a shame. As much as i wish this headline would be true, it does only seem to me that Google bent to MPEG-LAs will, a conglomerate of Apple, MS and what not..

From my point of view, the MPEG-LA needs to be shut down, not subsidized with more money. It shows every sign of a typical patent troll and will always choose the option that guarantees its members income, not the most innovative or best option, but the one where there the most money can be leeched out of people and companies.
If you play speed chess, latency might become a significant problem (depending on your skills/speed).

edit: I wanted to comment on the parent comment. Sorry.
Philistine! At least plug it into a chess AI and do it properly.
http://www.jaronlanier.com/gadgetwebresources.html

http://futureoftheinternet.org

http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/dsolove/Future-of-Reputation/...
I'm not a fan of Twitter and never have been but as you concluded at the end of your post: "Never play football when someone else owns the field."

Was it making you money?
This is a very creative CAPTCHA. However, computers are rather good at playing chess, so a chess problem is probably the least thing you want to use to distinguish between humans and computers (unless your aims is to keep stupid humans out).
Other possibilities: guess fruits (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/ip-std030613....), human emotions, animals etc.
Agreed. I had never played chess in my life, but with the help of Wikipedia [1], I figured out which piece to move where.

(I enjoy this mini chess, it's like a low tech version of Bejeweled. I don't have the patience for full fledged chess games, but just finding the last move is fun.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess#Movement
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Bad boy. Playboy. Home boy. "Give em hell boys"

I agree that using girl in place of woman is more common though.
Thank you for replying, I've visited some websites about biohacking, they're in USA and/or Europe, but I live in China. So I want to know some basic information. Of course I want to meet people who are good at biohacking.
But serious spammers would prefer to spend this time writing a bot capable of spamming all forums based on some widely used engine.

Cracking this captcha won't give you access to any significant audience.
So you are saying that you insist that the correct definition of "atomic" is the one that is completely useless (by defining strings and dates as non atomic), and by extension makes the whole of the relational model useless? Uhhh. okay. You can have that victory I guess. pats your head.
There's really not much irony there. VB.NET and C# were released together from the beginning, where Sun only thought of Java (the language) until too late in the game for them.

Sun was screwed because of factors beyond Java, but because of internal politics there, they never realized the full potential of the JVM.
Fact is that DRM is the real reason why the game is heavily multiplayer. Older versions were always single player and there is no reason they couldn't at least have implemented this mode in the new game other than having an excuse to put some of the logic on a server to thwart piracy. And that is what is causing the current problems.
Why are all people assuming Windows is gui only?

You can script practically anything using powershell and multi server management using powershell remoting.

System center + ad group policy is light years ahead anything else.
As I said, I'm in China. Thus I don't think there are some hacking spaces and people who have a lab or something like Biohacking spaces.
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Astonished. Read the linux kernel some years ago; absolute maze of mis-named structures and duplicate code. Horrifying, I left as soon as I could.

And now I learn there's supposed to be some coding standard?
Aw, I didn't know that. Good idea guys.
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Freeman Dyson claims that Littlewood did not understand
the importance of the work that he and Cartwright had
done: "Only Cartwright understood the importance of her
work as the foundation of chaos theory, and she is not a
person who likes to blow her own trumpet."

He records, however, that shortly before her death, he
received an indignant letter from Cartwright, scolding
him for crediting her with more than she deserved.

I don't quite remember the last time an academic did that. On the contrary, I have personally observed quite the opposite. Glad to know there were (or are) people who uphold ethical and moral values.
> HN is super focused, and while some funny OT stories
> make it to the front page, for the most part it is solid
> tech news.

Interesting: My perception is the complete opposite, and I've actually found myself using Twitter (with Tweetbot) for tech news much more than HN lately. I think this is because Twitter uses the people I choose to follow to decide what to show me, whereas HN uses everybody, and to make a story popular with everybody it generally has to make people angry/mad/happy. That means that HN seems to have more and more polarizing stories reaching the front page, whereas Twitter seems more focused.
It depends on the height. At the height of the ISS, is it about a year or less, at the height of the Chinese test is seems to be a few decades or maybe one or two centuries and at 1000km the lifetime of space debris starts to be measured in millennia. (Combining some numbers from http://www.dlr.de/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5170/8702_rea... , http://www.spaceacademy.net.au/watch/debris/sdfacts.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris . http://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/faqs.html#12 gives numbers that are about a factor of ten smaller, and it also depends on the type of debris, a sheet of mylar experiences a higher drag than a steel nut of the same weight.)
:-) Tell me about it!

I've found a few good ones on them (see my reply to Century clones elsewhere on this post) and a looooot of bad ones as you mentioned. And sadly, poster/logo is not my area, but body text is.

> but it's real hard to tell before downloading and trying them on a full paragraph

+1 :-/ I know what you mean. (Mido comes to mind immediately!)

Perhaps Smashing Magazine is not very popular around here(?), but I check back now and then with them, since they provide links to some very interesting and complete fonts from time to time.
Happy to see even though the removal temporary, they are looking into a way to easily remove styles for those who enjoy the flatness.
Interesting topic, unfortunately not a lot of substance in the article. Reminds me of the news piece a while ago : Google's Artificial Intelligence Translates Poetry

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/16/132959095/googles-artificial-i...
Disclaimer: my personal experience is managing Linux machines.

I think it's easier to manager a service on Linux that has one, or maybe two, text files for configuration. They often ship with every option available, even is commented out, and a little note detailing exactly what the option is for.

My only real experience with Windows Server was having to add a new mime type for .fla files for IIS. The .fla were downloading instead of playing. The option was buried deep in in multiple configuration windows and dialogue boxes. It took forever compared to what a simple AddType would have taken in an Apache text file.
Actually it means that you may need to consider a solution like Azure if you have a public facing site or app and if you want a MS solution.

There's other ways of patching servers besides all-at-once...
Or use Rybka which can do it much quicker.
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Yes but for some people that don't know how to play chess it would be very hard.
It's interesting that so many of the comments here (and often, those made about Bootstrap in general) focus on the aesthetic of a few form elements and not the utilities that come with the framework. Understandable, I guess, as they're the most obvious when you load up the page!

I've been playing with the 3.0.0-wip branch for a little while, and I think that there are a couple of really cool features that should be noted above the cosmetic - the single, fluid grid; font icons by default; and a mobile-first design.
Indian company laws aren't very startup friendly. Also, if you are looking to raise investment from a US based VC, they are much more comfortable in investing in an environment they know better.

Also, there are quite specific advantages of incorporating in USA. Indian payment gateway providers don't offer the same set of features that the Western providers do. This may have changed lately as more payment startups have started in India.

PS: This is based on what I hear from founders at various conferences in Bangalore, and not on first-hand experience.
Real estate is one of those issues that can quickly separate smart people from mouth-breathing idiots.

Mouth-breathing idiots see expensive real estate and think it's a good thing. They clap their fat, ugly hands together. "People really want to live here!"

Smart people realize that expensive real estate is a sign of something that's gone seriously wrong, since high prices have more to do with supply problems (inelasticity) than demand. Regulatory corruption, deficient transportation, and damaged environments are usually behind expensive real estate. It's not something to be celebrated. It's a disease.
"Google comes to comprimise agreement with MPEG-LA which satisfies no-one's tribal blood lust."
Could you create a viable alternative DNS root today, preferably one without TLDs at all? It seems like none of the attempts so far [1] gained much traction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
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I'm kind of confused by your last sentence about being excluded from a conversation.

My points of similarity were about wanting to find someone with this arbitrary, absurd set of surface-level similarities because it would make me feel less different/unique. You don't fit them, which is totally cool, and really doesn't mean anything. Your post sounded a little bit defensive (as I read it), and I'm sorry if I made you feel excluded or anything by listing properties that we happen to differ on.

I guess we just disagree on reasons to do things. The process of solving problems tends to be what interests me, more than the final product. Needing the solution is a good way to make sure a project actually gets finished, but its the process of solving/building that is more interesting to me. If a tool/language/etc is considered hard, then I want to use it because that might mean it's more powerful or it's mind-expanding in some way (for the right kind of hard). I wouldn't phrase it as "because it's there", but I guess that's also reasonable.
Not saying I don't respect the decision and I definitely side with Mozilla here, but

> We won't build a competing product on your platform until you make it easier for us to compete!

Yeah I'm sure Apple is going to get right on that. All the negative press from their shenanigans these years has really changed their attitude thusfar.
I'm a huge fan of Miguel and the rest of the Xamarin crew, and I'd love to see a universal implementation of the CLR take dominance. I think maybe 5 years ago the CLR had a real chance to win in the battle of multi-language runtimes, but at this point I think the war is going to the JVM. (Chalk that up to yet another short-sighted decision by Microsoft.)

The problem is that Java (the language) completely dominates the JVM landscape still. I don't see Oracle in the game at all as far as contributing/endorsing something else, and obviously Sun was completely oblivious to anything else until it was too late in the game for them.

If you look at the CLR, VB.NET has and F# actually have significant percentages of uptake because they're actually supported by Microsoft. Scala, Clojure, etc.... are just miniscule blips on the radar in comparison.
I think the article you linked is a pretty reasonable interpretation. Google was claiming VP8 didn’t infringe any patents they didn’t own, which apparently wasn’t the case, and now they’re having to backpedal and say, “well, it did infringe them, but we’re covering the licensing.” My understanding is that MPEG-LA does not engage in “patent trolling,” but exists to provide an easy way to license all the (known) patents. I think it would be up to the individual patent holders to try to sue for infringement. I think Daniel Eran Dilger is spot-on here; there’s been a lot of misinformation being spread by some proponents of free video codecs, first that Theora is good or almost as good as H.264 based on some crappy codec comparisons (it’s not), and then that VP8 was not patent-encumbered. I recall thinking the situation with VP8 when Google first released it for free kind of seemed to me like a “turd sandwich,” since the quality was somewhere between slightly inferior and very inferior (due to a bad encoder) to H.264, and the licensing was uncertain, despite Google’s claims.
Not to mention that some of that software is sensitive to which kernel you are using...

For instance, for a while I couldn't update the kernel on an RHEL5 server that I have, because TSM I/O would drop like a rock. I could switch to newer kernels only after I updated TSM to a newer patch level. No idea what would happen if I happened to run TSM on an "unsupported" distribution...
Actually, I really love the annotated text configs. It's like I'm talking directly to the developers.
I guarantee that if you look hard, you can find either an analyst or trader at GS who thought both of these things. That's because GS is a large bank full of many divisions, quite a few of whom are chinese walled from each other. (Admittedly, some of the chinese walling has happened in past 10 years...)

Banks are fragmented and individual portions of the bank don't always agree with each other.

Fun fact: a certain large bank (I won't say which one) is spending ~$10-90M on an internal matching engine. This is because they spend millions on unnecessary transaction costs - trader A wants to go long and trader B wants to go short, both of them hit the public markets rather than simply trading with each other.
And we are going to have Chrome on Firefox OS when?