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I doubt anyone chose Heroku solely because of the routing algorithm, but the sales point of intelligent routing was certainly an appealing one.

Developers don't want to pay for abstraction just for abstraction's sake, they want to pay for abstraction of difficult things. Intelligent routing is one of those difficult things. Random routing is easy, which is of course why it's also more reliable, but also why you're seeing people feeling like they didn't get what they paid for.

I should be clear; this doesn't affect me personally but I am totally sympathetic with the customers who are bent out of shape about this and I still see a divide between your response and why people are upset, and I'm trying to help you bridge that divide.
If only 1 request is slow and you have 7-8 unicorn workers, only one of them will stay busy. Unicorn knows which of it's workers are busy and does not queue jobs behind individual worker but rather behind the master who delegates the request to the first available worker.
That's harsh and unfair.
> 1k req/min

Also known as <17 requests per second... or a trickle of traffic. Hooray for using bigger numbers and a nonstandard unit to hide inadequacy!

Does Heroku use req/min throughout their service? I can't understand why they would, unless they also can't build the infrastructure to measure on a per-second basis.

> After extensive research and experimentation, we have yet to find either a theoretical model or a practical implementation that beats the simplicity and robustness of random routing to web backends that can support multiple concurrent connections.

Does this CTO think companies like Google and Amazon route their HTTP traffic randomly? No... he knows there are scaleable routing solutions and random routing isn't the best. So he cites "simplicity and robustness." Here, this means "we can't be bothered."
Here's how fucked the games business is: Tomb Raider sold 3.5 million units in 4 weeks, and yet failed to meet sales expectations. Hitman sold the same, and Sleeping Dogs sold 1.75 million and they both failed to meet expectations. Square Enix lost over $150m last year, despite those three critically and commercially (by any reasonable metric) games coming out. Despite selling millions of copies they aren't profitable because game budgets are too high.

EA thinks that next gen budgets will be "only"10% higher than this gen. That means that gmaes need to sell at least 10% more units than current games are doing, and eren that will only guarantee the losses of tens of millions we're seeing now. To be profitable they'll need to sell far far more. On consoles that, because they are new, will have a limited user base anyway. Either that or raise the price to make up the shortfall. In the middle of the longest recession in a century.

The industry is fucked

The only way to make money from games is what Disney have done, license the IP to other companies and get them to pay for it.
Ive seen something similar to this.

My friend has a BS in Chemistry, and the head of the academic NanoTech lab where he worked said, "I really want you in our NanoTech PhD program. Just try it for a couple years. If after 2 years you don't like it, You can walk away and I will grant you a Master's for your trouble"
> how are you meant to do business in a place where an item costing one unit of currency is worth $10 one day and $20 the next

I think this is only really a problem if you need to convert between the two very frequently, no? If bitcoin grows enough, it seems like this may not be such an issue.
https is the wrong solution. that is for preventing others from seeing what you're sending/receiving, not verifying the integrity of what is sent/received. well, it does do that too, but it adds extra unneeded overhead by encrypting everything. Besides, the ISP can easily man-in-the-middle any connection you make and then inject their ads into the webpage, even if you use https.

The correct solution is signing the webpage (but not necessarily encrypting it). More technically, that means the server/website would hash the source of the webpage, and then send the webpage, the signed hash, and if needed, the cert it used to sign the hash. Upon receiving both the webpage and the signed hash, the browser would then check to make sure that the signature can be trusted (using a chain of trust the same way we do with certs for https pages already), hash the webpage source it received, and then verify that that hash matches the signed hash it received from the website.

It doesn't matter if any of that is sent in plaintext, because there is no sensitive information, and as long as the hashing algorithm used is strong (ie sha2 family, not md5), then the isp can do fuck all to inject javascript.
I heard about this from one of the Audiobox guys. One of the few good "OMG WE NEED TO UPGRADE RIGHT NOW COS THE SERVER's DYING" stories... :-)
What is ridiculous about that?

Tbonds are pretty much the definition of the "risk free rate of return" for USD. Is there an alternate (non-zero) "risk free rate" for gold that you would like use instead to make comparisons?
The underlying problem is the huge liability which websites face when children use those sites and may interact with adults, or view content their parents do not want them to see. This is what drives ToS to include provisions that say children shouldn't view the site. edit: effectively throwing the responsibility back onto the parents to prevent their children from using the site if it matters, which is where the responsibility belongs
It would then be up to the owner to figure out how to make them valuable and I suspect the owner would have a very difficult time. With only one owner, there could be no trading and hence, no market value.
Interesting. What reputable universities waive the MSc's pre-requisites based on life experience? Any in the UK?

I think this is a great idea as I find myself in the same boat. Very experienced and can do the job but no paper to impress people with.
You don't need to do this for dropbox, it has a native indicator.
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Really? I think it's translating it to plain english and it's a lot nicer than what's actually going through my head about the people making that decision.
How much does it cost to rent?
what? OP posted a link to my site, hackthesystem.com
Did you understand the article? The issue is all our "think of the children" wailing has forced websites to bar minors from viewing in order to avoid very serious liability.
While this is true, it is still making work for said wage slave proletariat... and eventually it'll likely be the same people getting that money now, assuming they stay in the same industry.

I'm not saying it's a great thing, and I agree that it's likely motivated at least in part by a reduction in cost to justify some lovely top-level bonuses, but the work isn't disappearing. It's just being sent elsewhere.
I'm surprised the list of Emscripten projects does not contain a linear algebra library. Is that because all the common matrix transforms can already be offloaded to native browser APIs?

https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki
I got duped, big time.
Just like Rdio, I love everything about the look and feel of the product. Like many others have pointed out, this is different than Rdio's monthly subscription plan in that you have to buy individual items. Though a lot of engineering work seems to have gone into this feature, I hope it isn't set in stone and that the unlimited streaming will come for videos.
It's my understanding that the writing has been on the wall for some time now. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the employees secured new jobs before this was announced.
It's certainly harsh, but which part is unfair?
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Unless the post was edited, the quote is:

> It is possible that most folks are not buying Bitcoins right now to sell it for a profit before the music stops (in which case it would be a bubble).

Certainly many are, if not most. Otherwise, why are they buying bitcoin? To store value? To buy drugs and passports? Not, I suspect, to buy electronics, for which fiat currency does just fine.

Also, look at the order volume. People are buying $10k chunks of bitcoin. If they are not buying for speculation, what value are they receiving?
Sorry, but this is an incredibly dumb argument(no personal offence meant).
If you(or anybody else here) went on 4chan at the moment when somebody happened to post child porn, your very first reaction would be to wipe your history, so you could not be charged with possession, even though you did not want or meant to see these images. If just merely seeing them(so technically - downloading to your computer) were not a crime, more people would actually go out and report them to the police, which increases the chances of actually catching the producers of these materials.

And as it has been mentioned before - possession of CP was made a criminal offence back when the only way to get it was to pay for it. Nowadays, you can easily find it online, for free - without knowing who created it. So making it illegal is by no means helping anyone catch producers of child porn.
It's not like making cp legal would suddenly make it ok to rape children.
I am surprised they do not moderate the comments on their blog. They have one visible presently that is plain offensive.
For the ones I've seen, $3-5, which is reasonable enough
>don't fucking dare try to start with the ephebophila nonsense.

You sound like someone who spends a lot of time in the SRS bubble on reddit (I see this argument from them all the time). In that same vein I would just like to point out that its rather ironic that people who spend their time analyzing social issues to death in attempt to tease out nuance and increase understanding of complex issues (e.g. I've only ever heard the term cisgendered on reddit) would balk at an increased understanding of human sexual deviances. The fact is ephebophilia is clinically and socially distinct from pedophilia. Anyone who refuses to recognize the distinction is doing so for purely political reasons. Someone who would chastise one for using the term ephebophilia, while in the next sentence shove the term cisgendered down another's throat, seems absurdly self-serving.
It is, but should not be the way things are run.

Not in favor of committees either, but sometimes data IS available, you just have to look at it.
To everyone who enjoyed Player of Games, I ask.. why?

I'm not suggesting your opinions are wrong, of course, but I had a much different impression. Obviously Player of Games is well regarded by many people, so I'm curious to know what I missed.

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My general impression was that the Empire of Azad was that its conception lacked imagination. The peculiarities of the species (the three sexes, the society built around a board game, etc) could have made for a very interesting culture, but those instead the peculiarities were mostly left untouched and the culture was recognizable as human in every way. The greatest offense, in my opinion, is that the most interesting part of the book (the game Azad) was left almost entirely undescribed. An alien species should be different. Vastly different. These were humans painted green on Star Trek.
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LucasArts was the only part of his products that many people care about anymore!
But in such a case you could make the same argument for ad supported wifi connections or proxies.
This is not true, or at the very least, only true of the higher echelons of society. I can't speak about Libya, but in Argentina there are currently currency controls against USD. As a (non-politically connected) Argentinian citizen it is incredibly difficult to hold USD right now. This btw is not new, it happens every time Argentina goes into its ~9 year bust cycle.

I think the issue is that you are speaking from a position of comfort from the US. Of course USD seems fine to you, the US suffers the least in all these recessions. But for people outside the US, they often see their entire life's savings vanish. In Argentina inflation is not something that is only academically talked about, it has a real effect on every day life, the government understands this (and exploits it), and thus works hard to prevent everyone from fleeing the currency. Bitcoin does offer a real new alternative in this regard. Whether it will prove to be any better is admittedly an open question, but the idea that USD is some saving grace for foreigners is naive.
>my goal was just to make it as easy as possible to learn on arbitrary structured data

I'd be very careful about throwing arbitrary data at your learner, at least if you don't understand your data well. Oftentimes the predictors and response are not properly separated in the same way they will be during real-world usage (for example, in time); this leads to target leaks, where your model is effectively cheating by using data it won't have in production.

Target leaks are obvious when the classifier performs suspiciously well on in-sample test data, but sometimes the repercussions are more subtle but still very damaging in a production environment.
You've been working on this project for several years; is there a monetization system in place yet? If not, your first step should be to build one. I've found that when you can build something that generates a cash flow, it becomes a lot easier to do all those other important things. Like 10x easier.

Investors are probably going to shy away from something that's been around for several years with no money.
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It may be true for any speculation-only asset like AAPL shares or some Ponzi thing, but in case of Bitcoin, it's a good thing when hairdressers know about it. Because the whole point is to accept them as a payment and pay your bills.

It's true, the price is rising now, so people are mostly holding and not paying, but when the demand will be close to saturation, price will grow much slower and people will use BTC to pay for anything, not only USD. That's the crucial difference with the stock market. This will give Bitcoin value outside of speculation on USD price. AAPL is not really valuable if it does not grow (and dividends are almost zero), but non-growing BTC is super-useful to pay anyone around the world with no questions asked.
If you thought Bitcoins price would be higher tomorrow, why would you ever spend them? For this reason, it's a speculative instrument.
I don't own gold either.

I can't wait to see the face of doomsayers once Planetary Resources (or other company) starts mining gold from asteroids. I'm sure Gold's intrinsic value will hold up, with the increased supply...
The AAA side of the industry is fucked up much like the big money side of movies and other stuff is often fucked up; because it not only has to pay all the creative folks but it has to pay for a slew of empty suits and massive, massive marketing campaigns.

I think that's why we're seeing such a rise of indie developers. People credit Kickstarter but I think Kickstarter's popularity and success is a result of the move to indie development rather than a cause of it (or maybe a little of both.)

There will always be talented people who want to make games and they will find a way to do it. Look at the old days that Commander Keen, Wolf3D, DOOM and many other shareware games came from. A bunch of independent BBSes where the shareware games where passed around and talked about purely through word of mouth. Rampant piracy, far worse than today, and yet those games made money for their creators.

You may be right, the EAs, the Activisions and other bloated monstrosities may be fucked. And to them I say good riddance. I love, love, love Bioshock Infinite, but if the $100 million dollar budget games are a dinosaur on its way out, I won't mourn it too much.
My suggestion (if you have the money to hire someone) is to put up an ad on the web (angelList, craigslist(maybe), StackOverflow jobs, etc. (some of these sites cost money for job ads FYI)) and then, if you find what might seem like the right generalist, offer them a week or two week trial period of seeing how you like working with them. That would go a long way towards dealing with the trust issue.

Or you could also find generalists at meetups (in theory, I'm always terrible at networking at meetups).

Or you could find generalist at tech job fairs (those have been easier for me to network with).

A good generalist will only need your passion and the challenge of the problem to motivate them and won't need enforcement that they'll do the work. In fact, trying to enforce that they'll do the work (w/o a track record of bad results, in which case you should let them go) is bad management.
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I believe that's the point he was making, he wants to see that running in his browser.
Once again, the comments on a non-HN site have further diminished my faith in humanity.
Worth adding to the story that the CEO of Square Enix also resigned over the sales figures.
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The first screenshot has the Google squiggle. Am I right there? That somehow Google ads are being injected?

Because that seems like something that Google would not tolerate.
limedaring - have you tried automating any of these steps? we've had a lot of success with using crawlers to find customers -> Amazon Turk to gather contact info -> templated emails.
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From primary school on, you must be aware that if you bring a problem to authorities like teachers or law enforcement, and you can be implicated in any way, that you are likely to personally pay for that even with the best intentions on your part
What I haven't seen anyone say these past two months of growth is that the value of Bitcoins must necessarily increase before it becomes a real currency. In order for people to use and exchange Bitcoins, they must buy them. This will increase the value. If, at some point, Bitcoin becomes a mainstream currency, this kind of extreme growth must happen. In fact, we should expect that Bitcoins will be worth orders of magnitude more than they are now if they come to represent any significant fraction of the world economy. Today, Bitcoins are only worth about $1.3 billion, which is tiny. This particular price hike might be a bubble, but it could also be the start of a real Bitcoin economy.
The post was indeed edited; the original quote is in my parent comment.

> Certainly many are, if not most. Otherwise, why are they buying bitcoin? To store value? To buy drugs and passports? Not, I suspect, to buy electronics, for which fiat currency does just fine.

I know many people buying BTC based on a belief that they will be dramatically more valuable in the future, if BTC takes off in a serious way. Not too many uses for it outside of that and short-term speculation, though, right now.
Re: requests. RPM is the metric that New Relic reports, and it's the one most of our customers use when they talk about traffic. I try to speak in whatever terms are most familiar to our customers.

Re: I can't speak to Google and Amazon, and they aren't representative of the size of our customers anyway. We have discussed with many folks who run ops at many companies that are more on par with the size of our mid- and large-sized customers, and single global request queues are exceedingly rare.

The most common setup seems to be clusters of web backends (say, 4 clusters of 40 processes each) that each have their own request queue, but with random load balancing across those clusters. This is a reasonable happy medium between pure random and global request queue, and isn't too different from what you get running (say) 16 processes inside a 2X dyno and 8 web dynos.
Tomb Raider sold 3.5 million units in 4 weeks, and yet failed to meet sales expectations.

This is because Square Enix is using Eidos to prop up its Japanese arm, which has been floundering wildly. They then shift all the hopes onto the Eidos studios to keep the shareholders happy. Tomb Raider did gangbusters by all metrics apart from what Square Enix needed it to do to keep investors happy.
Yes there is, it hasn't launched yet so I have no cash flow.

It's a big cloud project and just getting it launched and running is going to take at the very least some DevOps people.

It doesn't initially make sense to me that investors would shy away from something with so much existing value.
"I've done the heavy lifting, and that's a bad thing?" But I think you're right, I can see how fast-paced technology investors would be more interested in snapping up a large stake of a project with a greedy, determined leader.

I need more of a bank-loan sort of investment, which unfortunately I can't get because I trashed my credit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions... is still a horrifyingly accurate portrayal of human behavior.
Well true but a lot of adults play farmville and that cutesy cartoon style is used by many bingo sites with out problems.

And betting shops have been legal since the 60's I can walk in place a bet on any high street since the 60's

The casino membership is a bit ott typical British "elf and safty mate" over the top regulation. I don't drive and don't have a passport so i have difficulty in becoming a member.

Its the proliferation of fixed ods machines in bookies that needs looking at
I guess we will have to wait for some Kickstarter project for the next "Tie Fighter" or "X-Wing" game. I don't know if it was because I was a kid but those are games bring back very fond memories.
What about ballistic missile tracking?

http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2009/03/thales-cho...

This is just one example from many I can pick up, this one is Java, but there are systems done in other GC languages as well.

But I do agree it is a matter of hardware resources and if hard or soft real time guarantees are to be expected, just that not all embedded systems require real time processing.
> That's the problem. That insurance is not possible within Bitcoin.

Sure it is. Berkshire Hathaway and others insure satellite launches. If the launch vehicle explodes on takeoff there is zero recourse because, much like a Bitcoin trade gone bad, everything is lost and the insurance payout covers a rebuild plus an entirely new launch.

The solution involves the insurance companies understanding the risks involved, forcing Bitcoin companies to implement specific security measures designed to mitigate risk, and accepting the fact that they will have to pay out a certain percentage of trades. The premium charged for the insurance plus the deductible cost to make a claim reflects the risk of fraud + expected profit. This is a solved problem in the insurance industry already.

The only remaining question is which insurance company will put sufficient effort into understanding the risks so that they can issue a product to meet whatever market demand exists?
That's interesting. Do you have any pointers on how to do something like that?
Where are the "expectations" coming from? Could it be that only they are out of line, with the rest of the industry held captive to whatever figures emerge from the woodwork?
I can only guess the costs for the tests are too expensive. Still couldn't insurance cover the tests?

The short answer is that the tests don't exist. Cancer is still a hard problem that's a mess of environment and genetic factors. The tests that do exist (e.g. the PSA test for prostrate cancer) often have limited utility.

If you want to fix that help do basic research, or fund basic research. It's not a conspiracy. It's just a really, really hard problem.
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