skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the player character is deciding what loot to pick up from a horde or in a shop trading, there will be lots of inventory logic being fired.

Ideally, you want to calculate all the changes, and then write to disk. In practice, you don't know when the changes 'end', so you want to write periodically to disk.

If you are using the RDBMS, you are relying on the optimizer to correctly guess what you are doing. When it gets it wrong, it will write continuously to disk.

The difference in speed is orders of magnitude, so this one change can easily make your server logic go 10 times slower for no good reason.

The problem is worse than this because the RDBMS is not just paging to disk, it's also doing locking/synchronization, thread pooling, tree building and call backs in the background.

In every case, it's trying to guess what features are just overhead, and what you really need ... and whenever it gets this wrong, it could be making a pointless system call, which gives you all the overhead of a context switch for nothing.

Whereas the gamedev doing this at a low level does not need to guess his own intentions, and uses (and pays cycles for) only those features he needs.

You might get away with a database-centric design if your gamedev is really good with databases (dubious) and if you have an appropriate database platform (nigh impossible).

But if you have the average gamedev (talented but schlubby and theory-averse) running on the average database (garbage MySQL, ugh!) your performance will DIE.
I remember EFNet allright, but I've still no clue what you're talking about.

At least to my understanding, EFNet was (is?) an IRC network. With channels. Where people chat. Maybe I missed some relevant history?
The funny thing is, most people I know completely agree with this viewpoint.

"Yep, it's tearing the fabric of society apart alright. It's creating a generation of self-interested media whores."

But wait, aren't you one of them? Didn't you just post a picture of those tacos you made last night?

"Yeah man, they were freaking awesome tacos."

Yes, it's a little narcissistic. Yeah, it's disruptive to your actual in-the-moment experiences. You can go overboard. You can also strike a balance, and it just becomes a thing you do sometimes, it's not going to kill you, it's not going to actually change the fabric of society. It's going to make some people annoying. Sort of like punk rock or emo or neon colors or television. Whatever. We'll adapt.

And it might have positive effects too. I made those tacos last night (heh, yeah, it was me, and I totally posted them to Facebook) because I saw my friend cook some mexican last week (posted to facebook) and it looked good. That friend of mine posts pictures of food she makes all the time, and it inspires me to cook more. We discuss the food, I ask for recipes. This isn't just narcissism—it's interaction. To ignore that positive effect just because you notice a subtle and possibly true behavioral shift is short-sighted.

My humble opinion is that most people are self-aware enough to know the externalization of their lives is detrimental on the large scale. They know enough to put down their phones or iPads for the important moments, or even the routine ones. We're all collectively learning how to make our lives work with this level of interconnected communication—it's a new thing.

I completely agree with the sentiment of this article, but I think most people do. I think people are constantly going to be looking for better solutions to this problem. I don't know if Facebook will find that solution, but I've said it before and I'll say it again: the social network that integrates with life and human behavior the best will be the one that overtakes Facebook (if you're going to try, please bring on a social psychologist in your first 10 employees).

The internet will not always be like this. It's immature, it doesn't fit quite right yet. But it will get better. And if it doesn't, it'll just continue to be slightly annoying. Not the end of the world.
The user didn't ask for more functionality, he asked what the ACME way is.
Multipart Upload on S3 with jclouds
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Keyboard input language is broken
Absolutely. But if you ever work for a non-profit - which I did in a previous life - you will definitely have to focus on "loving what you do" - and loving the missio of the non-profit - because you will die a thousand deaths every time you think of your salary.
GS is really slow at this. Pdfunite from Poppler is faster.

wget http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/book2coverlarge.jpg
convert book2coverlarge.jpg cover.pdf
pdfunite cover.pdf *toc.pdf *pref.pdf *acks.pdf SEv2-c*.pdf *biblio.pdf *index.pdf SEv2.pdf
> I am rather most likely being downvoted because HN in the past few months has taken an extreme downturn towards a slashdot/herd mentality

You're being downvoted because you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. It's entirely appropriate to criticize a language for being too hard to use correctly - your argument would apply equally well to saying that C++ should never have been created because it was simply the fault of people using earlier languages not using them sufficiently well.

This approaches dark comedy because you're also criticizing a company which maintains one of the largest and most important codebases in existence and has a huge list of bugs and security issues demonstrating that even in the hands of very experienced developers it's too easy to use C++ incorrectly.
One of the biggest problems with rape and abuse is the culture of silence. The feelings of shame and self-hate that are often integrally linked with being a victim in these cases often precludes them from -ever- coming to light.

I'm not commenting specifically about whatever happened with Arrington and his ex. However, I think it's important that victims of all walks of life feel safe to "come out" before it's too late to do anything about it.
I really, really wish this kind of Silicon-Valley-drama news would stay off HN.
Game made in QBASIC tearing up the Greenlight ranks
This seems to involved something conceptually similar the part of unscheduling (http://www.lifeclever.com/how-to-unschedule-your-work-and-en...) that has one fill in the calendar with all the non-work things one is going to do. Thus one sees how little time is actually available to get something done, and so not wasting it gets easier.
building a "standard graphics library" into a language that is not part of a write once run anywhere managed environment is a terrible idea and has never worked.

On the other hand a more solid native 2d drawing library like java2d would be more welcome.

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Not sure I agree with his definition. Did you go to college? You invested in the long game. Did you earn an advanced post-bac degree? Same. Did you spend a few months to learn a new technology? Same. Have you put some time into creating a product, hoping someone would buy it? That is the very definition of the long game.

Writing a book is playing the long game. Pricing is simply strategy. To me, it just looks like he's choosing his strategy for how to play the long game, but either way it's the same thing.
How does that invalidate what I said?

The only requirement for "stealing thunder" is for one party to know in advance the scheduled date for the other party.
Except Amazon can't dedupe what dropbox has already deduped. It's hard to tell if they're really an ideal customer.
> Mr. Scoble adds, “believe me, EVERYONE is talking about these charges behind private doors in Silicon Valley. I’m sure the charges are being looked into.”

Does that mean he's sure that a police report has been filed and due process is being followed or does he mean that people are gossiping really really hard?
What about meta content?

Why do you think Google likes meta content? Because that defines context. And content without context is often meaningless.
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I fail to see what this story has to do with hacking or entrepreneurship. HN isn't Valleywag.
I met him on a couple of occasions many years ago and he really is great company. And he got a round in.
I knew Arrington was quite arrogant, but I don't know (nor can I conclude) if he would be such a person. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. But one thing's for sure - If he did this, I want the same thing that happened to the recent Adria fiasco to him - He should be kicked out of tech and stripped out of his credibility and titles. Because this is much much worse than what the Adria fiasco was about.
When targeting a general corporate audience, .com is the safe bet for no reason other than it's what they naturally expect..

I'm open to .io/.co for products with a tech savvy audience, though
Automata, actually, but they're closely related.
> I made a gameplay mod for it, but then realized nobody cares about the game anymore and stopped developing it. If you're interested in it, I can send you the latest (unfinished) version.

I still love the series. Send me it, it sounds interesting! Reminds me of Carnage Galore or Wrath of Cronos and how it modifies all the weapons and mixes them between games.
I tried to read the article and I can't, he blames it on the database...

The irony
Largest DDoS attack? A mighty claim without any numbers. I thought we just had the largest attack on Spamhaus the other week anyway? Oh well, I quit tech news stories.
I went and looked at the "Stacked Tabs" flag and it appears to be Windows only.

From Chrome://Flags-

Stacked Tabs Windows
Tabs never shrink, instead they stack on top of each other when there is not enough space.
Sorry, this experiment is not available on your platform.
I think "drama" is understating it a bit here.
Are you stupid? Arrington has a LOT to do with tech and it's because of people like you that this news has been unheard by many so far.

And this is not 'drama', this is about a REAL person's life on stake - imagine being the victim and not being able to speak up about this?

This is about a credible Tech entrepreneur and investor engage in forced sexual activity, who's been (possibly, as the article states) trying to hide this matter under the carpet.
> I frequently continue programming/typing, slip in an audio note to self or search the web via Google Now, while holding a normal conversation. And people with whom I interact got used to this to the level of requiring me to have the data from Wikipedia ready for the continuation of the discourse. :)

If you ever do that while talking to me, I'm off. If you don't want to talk, don't, but if I'm genuinely less interesting than Google Now (of all things!) then why don't you just walk away?
That's pretty much wrong on all accounts.
I recommend getting a basic grasp of the topic before trying to defend Go in such an awkward way.
Is CB considering Bitcoin as a payment method?
More like obsoletion by not differentiating and competing against Google's spyware browser chrome. Instead they opt for a weak and lazy approach, it's just a matter of time now.
20-Hour Workdays: 4 Ways To Survive A Startup
You need a : in your link there fella.
15 Things You Cannot Do With a Chromebook Pixel
I think he's remembering #e or something like that, where I spent a great part of my childhood (before it moved to Freenode and forked to #gah) where things happened before the public knew, such as VA Linux, E17, offended.co.uk (author of feh), and MythTV.

And ferite. (a c-like scripting language that I love, with regex's)
I think it's time for some people to admit that when it comes to certain things, they have become addicts. This is not a condemnation. I was there with Forbrydelsen III (which at least was never going to be shown in the US as-is, and DK had the sense to open the stream worldwide due to ex-pat outrage, and which I not only watched streaming in Danish without subtitles but then also downloaded later when fansubs were available).
Is Innovation Killing the Soap Business?
Heh. I'm suggesting their trading platform is having trouble scaling, not that they're doing it on purpose.
That's where brand management and PR come in. Plus if you foster a certain environment in your company when someone comes in they can feel it.

Actually the medical profession is an interesting example. Doctors get paid very little initially and don't move often.
Then why is everyone asking for them?
Except those advantages were already possible back in 1978 with Modula-2, nothing new.
I started with Usenet and email back in the late 80s. When the Internet boom hit ten years later and everyone's mom had an email account, I spent years agonizing over people who were unable to quote a forwarded reply properly or who couldn't grasp the fact that Bill Gates wasn't going to be paying anyone for the amount of email sent around.

But you know what? Most of those people have learned a decent bit of netiquette. They even know the word "netiquette". They got over the newness of email and the web.

I'm seeing people getting over the extreme narcissism as well. They've tweeted going to the bathroom enough so where it's no longer a thrill. They've posted enough pictures of their meals to facebook or wherever.

I think that most of this behavior is just a phase that will pass.
Didn't understand what this did when I first viewed it, but it's actually pretty cool.
My only concern is that his pricing at $5-10 will affect him in the long game by making a lower price acceptable (and expected). In other words, if I bought your first book at $10 and thought it was awesome, why should I buy your next book at $30? Is it really worth 300% more? Unless the pricing ramps up extremely slowly (2nd book is $13, 3rd book is $16, etc.) it might be a difficult sell.

Better to offer a fair price from the start, IMO. That isn't $5, nor is it $100.
Start an Online Store With No Skills, No Stuff — And Now No Money
Basically, the old IRC protocol was pretty brittle. You could break the network with DDOS attacks, exploits, etc. in order to get "ops" on IRC channels. This resulted in a sort of emergent hacker game called channel wars. Massive attacks were constantly being launched, to the point that running an IRC server became a way to have a serious target painted on your connection.
What Socialbots Tell Us about Social Media
I'm glad he didn't decide to do distancetobrunomars.com
Taxi industry lawsuit against Uber transferred from state to US court
"Darkleech" Malware Infects 20k Legitimate Apache-powered Sites
I assume against Mt. Gox.
Businesses care about loss, not security as an intrinsic merit. They will invest it only to the extent to which problems are actively costing them sales, raising expenses like insurance or are required to comply with some sort of regulation (government, credit card processor, etc.).

Something positive like a site redesign perceived as increasing customer appeal or negative like an expensive legacy server upgrade often trumps security unless it clearly poses a future risk – this is also why many large companies tend to follow the trailing edge as the main concern is usually avoiding a lawsuit alleging that they were significantly worse than everyone else in their industry.
Thanks, I've added the link now.
> Need more server resources? Maybe.

AWS does this for (almost) free - load balancing includes optional SSL termination. really simple to set up, all HTTPS traffic just forwards to port 80 on your instance.
Develop android apps using meteor and phonegap
I don't really care about a delay of a day or so, and now I know that sky atlantic show some of this stuff that quickly I might even subscribe.

Of course the ideal would be ad-free, on-demand and not geographically restricted, but that doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone.
Did you read the post you linked? It talks mostly about legacy problems. OpenGL 3.0+ is fine. And by the way, the emphasis should be on cross platform.
I pay for HBO and they would have aired Game of Thrones on Monday evening this week. A day later than in the US, which is fine by me.

But I was on a plane at that time and I have boxing practice when GoT airs anyway. So I shamelessly pirated the episode while at the airport (when did airport hotspots become 3.5MB/s monsters anyway?) intending to watch it on my laptop while flying over the atlantic.

I ended up watching it yesterday morning as I woke up at 6am due to jetlag.

I feel I did nothing wrong.
Fansubs of Danish programming? Now I've heard that as well!
I have no idea whether you or the person you responded to is right (note that my earlier comment just stated the Go developer stance without any value judgement of my own), but please let's not allow ad hominems to muddy the discussion!
It's free but they charge you to revoke a certificate, which is quite unfortunate as it discourages people from revoking if they e.g. leak their private key.
Goodbye Lucasfilm Games
I have a netflix subscription and find it more convenient than pirating. It's less of an effort for me to sit down, turn on my PS3 and run netflix than it is to find a torrent, download a huge file, transfer the file to a NAS, turn on my PVR and select the file to watch.

Unfortunately netflix doesn't have everything and the netflix UK selection is sometimes really far behind what the US get so I have to either change my DNS to receive the US content, or as a last resort...pirate.
I can't really refute any of that, it's a good takedown of the analogy. I'm trying to draw parallels which help me understand what's happening and behave appropriately but yes, there are very relevant differences.

I suppose I would say two things, one serious and one silly:

The serious is that I actually do find it harder and harder "to pick out the worthwhile pieces" in social media. I'm adding more people, they're all posting more, and the feeds are getting messier and messier. I don't think slide evenings started as snoreathons, and there must have been a novelty period before it all got tedious. If there was a turning point then I feel we're not far from the equivalent one with our social media photo-flooding.

The silly is that at the slide evening I would be plied with wine and...well, in those days I suppose Twiglets? Right this second, I would gladly sit through an hour or two of Machu Pichu (OK, let's be realistic: Cornwall) in exchange for a comfortable chair and the quaffing of a few glasses ;)
You're right, it's a difference about the principles of the matter and no doubt we disagree over the government's role (especially in an economic downturn). Setting that to one side though, the truth is that the government is spending your tax dollars already and I'm suggesting that there may be a better way for them to do it.
I had 740 Math 700 Verbal SAT. SAT is an IQ test, for all intents and purposes.

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I let my guard down more than most, so many misunderestimate me. As far as I'm concerned, who the Hell are you?

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I agree with all of sentiments in the blog post but this:

“Why should almost 40% of my time be taken up by adverts for something I am ALREADY paying for?”

Your cable subscription is a partial payment for viewing the shows. It's works in the same way as buying a newspaper or magazine: the revenues from newsstand sales are a fraction of what it costs to create and distribute the publication. The rest is paid through advertising. Even more, subscription prices are kept low so that the publishers can claim a certain degree of readership, thus being able to ask certain advertising rates.
Hehehe, we get this a lot. Customers ask us to license images (we are a photography platform). They ask us for a special price (or free!) because "it will be good publicity for us". Begging us to play the long game...

Take your publicity and stuff it, buddy! We already got enough of that! Now we need to feed our kids! :-) Our game was long and now we'll play it shorter, thank you!
A $495 paywall, non the less. Probably a good buy for many, but a little out of reach for hobbyists.
Pirating has become a much higher quality entertainment experience than any other. The pace of development is insane, and the things you can do with pirated content these days are, in a word, wonderful.

Let's say I pirated a show called Fest of Kings. The hour Fest of Kings aired, it would already be on my home media server. It would have downloaded at about 6MB/second (that's MegaBytes) over a secure SSL connection and be done in about 5 minutes flat in 720p HD. The moment it finished downloading, it would be available to watch on a beautiful media center in my living room, as well as on any internet-connected computer, as well as on my phone (Plex is amazing).

This is better than DVR, it's better than On Demand, and it's a breeze to use (it's not a breeze to set up, but whatever).

It's also not free. You pay for certain services you download from, you pay for the Plex Pro subscription to be able to stream your content to your phone, you pay for the Plex app, you pay for various management apps. It's not ridiculously expensive, but it's not free.

If there was a legitimate content source that did all this well, and gave me the content I wanted when I wanted it (right when it airs), I would be paying for it. But there isn't. This is a far better experience than any alternative. It's just awesome.

And that's why piracy is a problem.
Most people don't use offshoring at all, and for those who do, it is not extremely likely that it is a hedge against the insolvency of (say) the US government, or fear of being busted for marijuana (for example, large companies like Google move money around mostly just to save on taxes).

Your linked article draws the comparison between regulating unpasteurized milk and Nazi Germany, which seems not completely even-handed.
I used this for my sig for long time "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." Confucius
I didn't work since :-)