skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"(This has happened in the past at peak times with games like World of Warcraft, EVE, etc.)"

More saliently, it happened with the launch of Cities XL... which did more or less exactly the same things in the cloud that this new SimCity is trying to do.
This. If you're just running a single server inside your enterprise firewall that will only need to scale as the company hires new employees, it's probably fine. However, if you need something that can grow with demand from customers (which is usual 3-5 orders of magnitude greater growth than you'd see from your employee base).. then the licensing and costs become prohibitive.
Design of the OP's web page. That is all.
No one with half a brain is going to write server software that only works on Windows.

Once you step out of your little bubble, you'll realize what a stupid comment that is.
I actually like the changes. Now everyone will have to do a bit of style editing before using this. So we won't see so many identical sites.
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I don't really like the new buttons. Other than that good job.
> TFA is about the API, but when I read the title prior to clicking my immediate reaction was "it was never fun"

Whoever reverts all titles changed this one from the useful and descriptive title I submitted it with.

This was the original:

> TwitCleaner shutting down due to API changes
This is not an online game like WOW or EVE.

It's DRM.
>I like reverse engineering stuff, but I don't think we have the right to tell people or companies that hand us over stuff in exchange for money to tell them what this exactly has to entail.

Sure we do. That's what regulation is all about. When someone sells me a hotdog, I have the expectation that it does not contain sawdust as a filler. When I buy a beef meat pie, I do not expect it to contain horse meat.

When I buy something which is sold shrink wrapped in a box in a retail store, the expectation is that it is a copy of a copyrighted material, the same as any other media. Instead you are buying into a contractual obligation. Selling contractual obligations is not wrong, but selling them under the guise they are also copyrighted goods is fraudulent at best.

Make people sign the EULA. No more click-throughs. That's the regulation I want. Companies are taking advantage of consumers lack of legal expertise and it's something government is supposed to protect us against.
I know a lot of people are commenting on how effectively this could be used, but I'm simply amazed at how clever this is.

The idea behind it is very interesting, but it obviously can't be used as a mainstream way of human detection. I think what matters here is the really well-made implementation with HTML5.

Great job!
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I mind them both a fair amount, but not so much as double for the internet version. It would have bothered me enormously more fifteen years ago, but it's been obvious since at least 1999 when Brin articulated it in _The Transparent Society_ that this was coming. Privacy is going away in the long run, disappearing into "public" and "secret", and things you don't want to be public will have to be secret. Hence my statement about individual locker room stalls.

Since I found myself agreeing that this was going to happen, I decided that I would have to learn to accept that eventually everything about me would be public unless I went to extraordinary lengths to keep it secret. I'm 80% or 90% of the way there. :)

So, yes, there's still a difference in how I react emotionally to those scenarios, but for people born in 2020, I don't think there will be.
Because it's too easy! Nerds would rather spend countless hours at the command line figuring things out than having a nice interface to get stuff configured and running. As a developer, I don't want to spend my life also configuring servers - sometimes it's just nice to get things working without a ton of hassle. Of course nowadays we use Azure or AppHarbor for everything but we still have some services running on IIS internally. There is this counter culture against anything MS on HN - I don't get why.
Nope. It's a straightforward DDoS. No targeting of private repos or anything like that.
This was posted yesterday but didn't get any traction since
the site hosting the video (circles.io) went down under the
load. It's back up now.
Pv.tl: the data scientist fallacy
Meanwhile at Bitbucket... http://status.bitbucket.org/
The buttons look like they are disabled.
It also keeps out beginners. Depending on the forum (I'm not familiar with lichess) that might be a drawback or a bonus.
What's with the "Ping" at the bottom of the page. Why would someone do that?
This doesn't really answer the grandparent's question. "Try fabric" is good advice for someone that knows (a) what he wants to do and (b) how to do it using a bunch of shell scripts, but prefers Python instead. That's quite far from a "total noob" starting point.
Everytime I see someone talking about "unlimited" something my spider sense ticks off. Except for Google, Amazon and some other big guys, most of companies will worry about lots of things before what you mentioned become a problem.

Also, AWS, Azure and AppHarbor have takem the license problem out of the way.
In a Changing China, New Matchmaking Markets
I have been a C# developer since 2004 and nowadays I use it with Xamarin Studio to write iOS apps on the Mac. What Miguel and Nat have done with Xamarin is awesome and I think the future of .NET lies more with what they're doing than what MS is doing IMO.
If by interesting you mean 'boring conspiracy theory'. Even if EA were the most evil company in the world, sacrificing a valuable franchise in order to marginally improve this quarters profit would still make no sense.
The biggest reason is the rules of the exchanges. All exchanges have minimum requirements for the outstanding float, share price, market value,etc.

The rules aren't terribly stringent, and if you can stay above this then it might work.

The problem is no underwriter would take an IPO for a million shares at say $10/share. It's just not something that they can make money on.

This would require a new type of low cost underwriter.

Alos remember, the reason why we can set a price on the stock is that we know the float ahead of time and we can estimate what the company is worth.

How can you price a share if the amount of tradable shares is materially changing each day?
Well no, you make a fool out of yourself by reading something that isn't there.

Instead of resorting to ad-hominems, you could have actually explained what I am supposed to be confused about, and what I am supposed to have "understood" from the page which was saying exactly the same as what I was saying.

Or you could have tried to tackle the fact that we need NULLs and other "sins against Pascal", which was the point of my argument.

You failed to do both. I conclude that you got nuthin'
That is definitely true, it's not good enough to secure yourself against a persistent attacker but I do think it's a good captcha:

It's a topical captcha that the target audience of the site will recognize and most likely enjoy.

It's significantly different from any other captcha so that automated untargeted bots will not be able to beat it

It has a high enough entropy that untargeted bots that repeatedly attempt to guess the answer will fail

People without a chess background most likely have to think about the answer in a way that makes buying human workers a less attractive option (maybe)
I'm not sure what this solves. If I know that the stock will have less competitive bidding 4 days from now, I'm waiting.

I'm a firm believer that releasing all the shares and allowing the market to decide what they'll pay for the stock, based on their own valuation method, is the most efficient method.
Of course Google made a talking shoe for SXSW 2013 (video)
But then someone would have to target that forum specifically. The bots out there now won't have this functionality.

Also, as someone else mentioned, it might keep beginners out, which could be what they want? Seems like a bad idea, but it's not my board so...
What you have to offer anyone sounds a lot like second guessing what employers might want. Instead go for a solid grounding (sicp is a start) and find something that is valuable (almost all software) and you enjoy (upto you, audio?). If you lead they will want to employ you,
I've been a fan of Mono for a long time; unfortunately, we've had a lot of trouble trying to scale it in production.

Our application was originally built for .NET (on Windows). It was successfully ported to Mono, but we continue to have strange problems (machine load average going to 50+ and becoming unresponsive, etc.) which we believe are related to the Mono GC. After spending a good amount of effort trying to fix the Mono version, we decided to bite the bullet and migrate to another platform (Node.js), which has proven to be significantly more stable under load.

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.)
It even saves time, I use it a lot whenever I create an app, even integration with cousins like Visual Web Developer through SQL
Its really a good language to use, but promotes laziness. But its my language though so I can't complain about it since I make a living out of it. I got called by an IT company, one of the biggest in South Africa but they want me to program with Java but I'm just not interested in that.
But what you're not understanding is that they're costs to the alternatives. There's costs to deploying on Linux. There's costs to building software in Java as opposed to C#. There's costs to hiring Linux sys admins as opposed to windows sys admins.

If you don't look at the big picture costs than you lose out on a lot of options.
How about we reduce the number of laws? Perhaps repeal the anticircumvention clause of the DMCA as a start...
Top novelists look to ebooks to challenge the (interactive) rules of fiction
In A Pattern Language it's stated that "There is abundant evidence to show that high buildings make people crazy", and it goes further to propose a pattern of a four-story limit for dense urban areas.

Fucking terrible idea. I almost certainly know more about mental illness than you do. What makes people crazy in urban areas is expensive real estate. It's not signing the ridiculous rent checks that does it-- that's just annoying. However, moving involuntarily-- especially when due to adverse economic circumstances-- has a huge detrimental effect on mental health, even inducing illnesses such as schizophrenia[0] which might otherwise be thought to be purely biological.

[0] Schizophrenia, like cancer and depression, probably isn't one disease. There are at least 5 different schizophrenias.

Next to genetics and drug abuse, the strongest predictor for mental illness is whether a person had to move involuntarily for economic reasons. Traditionally, this was a cause for the high rate of mental illness in urban areas. (However, the recent housing catastrophe was a mostly suburban phenomenon; we'll see in about 10 years if that results in suburban MI levels exceeding urban ones)

If you ban high-rises, real estate costs become extreme. Just look at what it costs to live in the Village if you don't believe me. Or look at San Francisco's problem. It's not nearly as dense as New York, but almost as expensive because of the NIMBY assholes.

Bad bad bad fucking idea.
The only piece of hardware in most studios is the computer. I don't see any problems getting it to work with my DAW and synths through USB.
Windows isn't free, so if you need to spin up 10 new servers to meet demand, you can't just DO it. You have to pay Microsoft for the licenses first. It means that all your test and dev servers need non-free licenses.... it's a non-free hassle.

Honestly, admin on Linux is not that hard, and server most tools out there were designed for linux first, and Windows instructions are often of poor quality or lacking entirely.
Really dig this project. Instead of having different projects implement multiprocess models to use multicore hardware, let Circus bind a socket and hand over the file descriptor for all processes. It means that instead of having Gunicorn or uWSGI run multliple processes, just run an efficient single process worker like gevent or meinheld, all managed by Circus.

The gain here is being able to use a single cli interface to manage processes. If you have used Heroku, you’ll know that you can increase the number of processes with a unified cli interface. Allows you to ramp up RQ workers and scale down the web processes, for example.

There are other features here, such as a pubsub channel for events. I guess the idea here is to aggregate Circus events in a multiserver environment.

Anyone using this in production?
>African immigrants to America are a high-achieving group, outperforming whites in income. So they manage to beat the stereotypes while African-Americans do not.

Isn't that an argument FOR survivor-ship bias?

How do the ethnic asians that immigrated a century ago stack up against the newly immigrated ones?
So we should force women to become engineers because they are afraid to enter engineering because they fear that they will be in the minority? I don't think you give women enough credit - they are tougher than that and have fought way harder battles as far as sexism is concerned.
Those new badges are a real nice addition

http://rc.getbootstrap.com/components/#badges
More than that, they have a really strange linear gradient on Firefox for Android. My flight is about to take off, so I can't check on desktop Firefox or submit a bug report right now. :(
me is actually the ccTLD for Montenegro.
Problem:
The .com and similar namespaces are crowded.
As someone who has been searching this weekend for a domain, the sad fact is that a huge number of domains are simply "Parked free, courtesy of ..." or "Coming soon", or "Under construction", or "This domain is for sale, please contact..."
In short, domains are being bought up and not used, and the commons is ruined.

Solution:
Increase the price of .com and .net and other tlds to approximately $X. End the domain squatting market and put the sort of implicit requirement that the domain must generate $X for you to want to hold on to it into the equation.
Now, let's argue about where $X is.
Nope. This was a pretty standard DoS attack.
This won't satisfy the user base. People can get their city-building fix from other sources and EA knows this (and in a way the network requirement of SimCity is hopium that this game can act more like the facebook city builder games).

It seems unlikely and would be a huge development investment, but the best thing for EA & their shareholders is to do a 180 and change the game to single-player w/o DRM.

I wonder if the engineers have prepared ahead of time for a DRM-less version (knowing of the potential for the fiasco).
Yeah, the worst ones are the stream ones, some what ironic given that he singles one out over Java. The IO one may have `ReadToEnd`, but it's still nowhere near as simple as Python or Ruby, it just shouldn't have to take that many lines of code to read a file.

And these days I include RestSharp pretty much straight away if I'm going to be doing any HTTP calls, the native HTTPClient API is horrible. But even that's not got the greatest API, there's absolutely no good reason to have to declare a `RestClient` before doing a `RestRequest`, it's just a waste of lines of code. You always end up just writing a wrapper round it.
> From an administration standpoint they are much easier to setup and use thanks to their GUIs. Windows is very standardized and has very good management tools and interfaces.

Having managed both, I have to disagree very strongly. A GUI works fine when you want to manage one machine (although it's kind of a pain in comparison to SSH), but when you want to manage dozens, you need sharper knives. The tools available for automating devops (chef, puppet, etc.) are very oriented towards UNIX-based OSes. We have around 70 Linux machines in our production system today, and if I had to manage them through RDP and GUIs, I'd probably quit and become an alpaca farmer.
I'm not saying they fucked up the SimCity launch on purpose, don't be ridiculous. I'm asking if they can indeed write off the full retail price of the games they give away.
Is it just me or do the new buttons not really fit with everything else. They look very flat. But most other components have shadows and still look like old bootstrap
I think you nailed it. Large enterprises want support. Although some also see potential cost savings of Linux.
Multi-user SIP video conference
I agree with the comment that MySQL has given RDBMS a bad name. Yes it's (RDBMS is) old. But it does work, very well. Yes, it has to be managed. Startups love NoSQL. Startups dont have hundreds of applications developed over 20 years to deal with, if they did, they would never use NoSQL. It just doesnt fly in a complex organization.

Even the slowest RDBMS (DB2) will fly on an AS400 and kick the crap out of any linux db. Oracle well its obvious, thats how you scale.

The model of RDBMS is not exactly wrong, people are just reacting to the shitty locking semantics of open source RDBMS and the garbage hardware they deploy this stuff on, with almost zero management of the database itself by professional DBAs.

You do that and your org will fall to pieces.
>"“If you think eToys got screwed, what do you think happened to the country?”

I don't think this guy has a clue what "happened to the country". He doesn't even seem to understand his own state of affairs.
A quick google gives this; apparently from the creator.

"I[t] tells how fast your computer talks with lichess server. It measures the time a message needs to make the round trip from your browser to lichess, then from lichess to your browser.

I'm interrested in knowing what your ping is, depending on the country/city where you live.

I live in Le Mans, France, and my ping is around 30-40ms.

What about you?"

{source} http://nn.lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/whats-your-ping
topic filtering ... and suddenly they noticed a sudden raise in quality in the forum.

Anyway, the same effect could be obtained by writing a "captcha" that simply asks: "Click on the queen", a fixed chess board picture.
They are assuming no one targets them, so it's not so important how hard it is. (until someone targets them)
Leistungsschutzrecht: Die Verlierer sind die kleinen Start-ups.
TWO MILLION retired government workers and counting.

Who pays for their amazing lifetime pension benefits.

You, of course.

Do the math.
I'd add cororate cafeterias to that, especially those are subsidized. But this is for a larger company, at least 1,000 employees or so. And there's a mix of "blue-collar" and "white-collar" employees using it. And the utilization is a lot better - closer to 60%, plus whatever % of building tenant. And while many of the people do take the food and run back to their cubes, the cafeteria is also almost full of people taking communal meals.
In both cases it is a statement made by someone who doesn't understand what they are talking about. (EDIT) to avoid being needlessly trite: because if someone does know what they are talking about then they would say it is trivial. "It should be trivial" means you are just making stuff up.
In the US it's generally true.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2010.pdf (Note: read past the title.)

However, the US is an unusual place, so we should certainly not extrapolate that the same is true in Hong Kong or anywhere else (besides Canada).
For everyone complaining about the flatness, it looks like it's only temporary.

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/6342#issuecomment-...
I know what a ping is. Why would someone do that on a website? It just seems pointless and causes additional load on the server.
At our shop we prefer scripting, automation and automatically deployed/centrally configured config over GUIs. The learning curve may be a little higher, but once you've got a taste for how quickly you can do things with scripts, Puppet etc. and how fast you can scale out, you'll find that you actually _save_ countless hours.

We can also use virtualisation everywhere, for testing, quick deployment, offsite deployment, cloud... without worrying about licenses.

The fact that EC2 Linux is significantly cheaper than Azure is just a bonus.
I'm with you.

Look at these cases; there's a lot of guesswork, it's not rocket science. If you have no clue what your business is worth, and are deferring completely to a third party, why are you even going public?
Instant Planning Poker (Node.js/Socket.io)
I have to agree with most if not all of those points but for some people that don't know how to play chess it would be harder.
I thinks is pretty innovative but I definitely wouldn't try to release it publicly as an attack could easily use a DOM parser to bypass it.
Segmented dropdown groups are broken for me in chrome. The drop down is floating underneath the button.
Google to put buttons on backs of Android devices
Because it's too easy!

I have to disagree. Windows Server has the illusion of ease, but the same mechanisms that guide your hand in the early days turn into a major hindrance later on. There isn't a Windows server running anywhere that doesn't have event logs jammed full of potentially deadly warnings and errors, and most "easily" setup Windows servers are setup insecurely and wrong.

In my personal experience (and I have a lot of experience with both) I've always found Linux build outs much more predictable and easy.

As to the "counter culture", that goes back to when Microsoft really were the pricks of the technology world. They've gotten much better, but it's hard to shake that.
I <3 BitBucket over GitHub, but unfortunately they'd fall over in more or less the same manner under similar circumstances.
Using type inference to make web templates robust against XSS
The captcha seems very easy (I am not a chess player)- I tried three times and always got a board to solve in one move, so I doubt anyone that knows the rules of chess is going to be excluded. That's probably not a problem for this forum :)
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That's probably done to prevent iPad 1 owners from purchasing the game. Besides requiring iOS 6.0, requiring a camera is currently the only way to exclude the first-generation iPad.
Ask HN: Impenetrable email, don't login with your email
How would you hack such an email? If the user logs in with username(not public)/password instead of email(public)/password then would be really difficult to hack such an email account... Because you don't know the username. The email has no use to log in, therefore not even brute force is useful.
My apologies Jim, as I was not trying to insult your intelligence.

I did not know the answer, but that is the answer given by the creator and it leaves a lot to be desired. His answer appears to indicate that he just did it for shits and giggles.