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Steam is now the de-facto "app store" of the PC as far as games go, which was no small feat. It took them more than 10 years to get to this point and it's now in jeopardy.

With Google and Apple already controlling the mobile app stores, various console manufacturers controlling their own ecosystems, and Microsoft attempting to abandon their "open" Windows (so they can run their own app store) - the industry is shifting into a position of hardware/OS manufacturers/monopolies taking massive cuts (30%) from the software market. Valve, without any hardware of their own, but a very large PC app store with a significant user base, really has nowhere else to turn. Gabe himself has expressed quite a bit of dismay over Microsoft's recent decisions.

I expect them to use everything in their power to make Linux become a mainstream thing. They're going to port all of their own games to Linux, and I expect at some point there will be Linux-only discounts for their games.

I really hope Microsoft underestimated their power, and that Valve is capable of doing this. It'll be better for all of us. The software industry is heading in very bad directions, and this is at least a glimmer of hope.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5648282
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When you attempt to make something that "no one can control," then things like this happen. Same thing with child porn on Tor .onion addresses.

I'm curious what the implications of making some of these removable from the block chain though. Would it just end up being some central authority deciding which transactions are 'appropriate?' Is there a deterministic way of filtering out these 'data spam' transactions (without side-effects)?
It's a 60% MtGox / 40% CoinLab rev share for existing customers according to the contract. But by my reading it also says that MtGox will continue to (badly) operate the exchange, so I'm not sure what the point is. Maybe they think improved regulatory compliance is worth giving up 40%.
Counting the one with his feet in it, he's put 7 pictures of himself on that page.
Why would you run them without authentication? One mistake in your iptables shouldn't instantly compromise your operation...

Best practice is 'defense in depth', not 'we'll just lock down the perimeter'.
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For various reasons I need this mostly for real devices which is even less documented, official and more hacky :-)
The narrative is indeed one-sided, and I look forward to hearing more from all sides of the story.

Again, barring malicious intent to cause significant harm, I don't think this is a felony.

The best punishment is, IMO, probably being stuffed in an AP chemistry class and taught how to do chemistry properly. If she likes it, good, if she doesn't like, well, she shouldn't have done dumb chemistry. :-)
Cool! You've told me so far that…

> but then again you already fit in with the "mainstream" programming culture/environment

> I'd say you're in [the HN bubble] more than most

> What you consider "good" I would consider supreme levels of talent

I get that I'm a very interesting topic. But it's a mystery to me how you consider it "hostile" of me to point out that you are making statements about me that have no basis in fact.

Probably you consider me hostile because you, as part of the HN bubble, don't know how to react politely when being questioned. And, as part of the HN bubble, what you consider to be a reasonable argument, I consider a bizarre ad hominem remark.

See what I did there?

But that's okay, cuz:

> Jesus Christ, you're a piece of work.

Good to know you think so!
Wait, HN is now a source of comments for CNN? That's worrying.
I think you are right. Shenzhen is located in one of the wealthiest provinces in china, is less than an hour's train ride from Hong Kong, and is designated a special economic zone. That probably gives it several advantages over other Chinese cities.
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Political pressure from ignorant Republican congressmen not only resulted in Jiang being fired over this non-incident, but something even more serious for science in general: the entire NASA technical-report archive [1], with documents dating back decades, has been forced offline indefinitely [2]. Frank Wolf and his ilk are worried [3] that the Red Chinese might be reading some 1970s document in a way that compromises American national security. Never mind that the Chinese likely have copied a mirror of any documents they find interesting already. So now it's only American researchers who can't access it: there are no complete mirrors of which I'm aware, because U.S. libraries and archives naively assumed that NASA was a reliable long-term host for the documents, meaning there were no serious mirroring efforts. Maybe we can ask China to take pity on us and make a mirror available, since ntrs.nasa.gov being down breaks thousands of references in papers and elsewhere.

[1] http://ntrs.nasa.gov/

[2] http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/03/ntrs_dark/

[3] http://spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=40365
This guy is like all the entrepreneurs I've met, mashed together. He even has a blog full of pictures of himself.

Cool story anyway.
This kind of attention to detail is rare. Keep up the good work!
The good news is that China is starting to make headway in that respect. They now have tighter environmental laws, better working hours, and better hourly wages.

The bad news is that companies are now looking towards exploiting other countries like Bangladesh or Vietnam.
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Steam for Android? What for?

Android already has a game store. It doesn't make any business sense for Valve to try to compete with Google Play Store.

About Portal: It has to be profitable enough to justify the huge cost of porting the game to Android. The same for any other game.
You didn't happen to run into (and solve) the issue of all characters moving in an extremely jerky fashion, did you (ie. take two steps forward, suddenly jerk back a frame)? It's the one thing I cannot solve and forces me to continue to dual boot >_>
> Let's just that if she really did honestly believe she was (selflessly) fighting the good cause, I can relate quite well to what she must be going through right now.

I think you're underrating yourself and overrating her. Many people claim to be "fighting the good fight" and use that to do awful things. A lot of them are "fighting against the good fight" against gay civil rights. Do you sympathize with them too? (I'd understand if you said yes, but most people don't extend their sympathies that far.) Just think about it. Feelings aren't truth. (And statements aren't necessarily even truth about feelings.)
Why would anyone think a potential spy would physically carry source code over the border?

If he was going to leak it, it would have been sent months earlier over the internet, duh!

Especially if he knew that someone was suspicious of him. Someone has been watching too many movies.
I think this story is upvote-worthy however the paywall keeps me from doing so.
The NeverWinter will open Europe, his mode of operation how to?
The NeverWinter will open Europe, his mode of operation how to?And what is price of NeverWinter gold?
It's doable but, as you would expect, it requires an extremely spartan lifestyle. I'm running about $500/month in SF and am no stranger couch surfing, lots of roommates, sleeping in my car, and (intelligently) fasting, etc. I could theoretically go even lower by purchasing lower quality food but I'm not willing to compromise my health.

Once you've seen the worst-scenario first-hand you realize it's not that bad, and you can shoot for the moon without any fear.
Sorry BBC you can't be healthy on £1 of food a day
Maybe Akihabara was once like this but it is not anymore. The shops there are clearly boutiques selling to hobbyists, filled with things like expensive vintage vacuum tubes for esoteric audio projects and not the sort of things you would want if you actually wanted to manufacture something.
By the same turn, it's also much easier to propose and make corrections. If I discover an error in my computer graphics textbook, I'd have to...call the publisher and see if they can fix it in the next edition, I guess. Perhaps the textbook industry's fixation on keeping students buying the newest editions of their books has actual benefits...
I'm afraid of this when they cap thw wire and use poisoned nano-needles and graphene as combined battery and wireless fractal-antenna by ionizing it with a gold layer. (Mad-Scientist every Friday)
Spit-balling a marketing strategy that could violently backfire here; but if anyone could pull it off, it might be Valve...

Ok try not to laugh....

HL3 releases in the next few years.... only available on Linux for the first few months
> EDIT: Shame the damages they're demanding are in USD rather than bitcoin :)

I'm guessing their lawyers prefer to be paid in real money and not internet funbux.
The point of my post was to say I need to get over myself. Apparently it's still a work in progress. My b.

Thanks for checking it out.
They crash when people start to do high volume trading, which is the cause of these recent bubbles because the crashes lead to panics.
Awesome quote. Thanks.
Pretty clearly, the worse threat to the security of the United States are republican congresspersons.
> You miss my point. All of those examples you gave used the same core database framework and as the test was primarily a database performance test, all those 3 examples were essentially the same core Perl code.

I think we are talking past each other. I listed a lot of frameworks, including three in python. I started with Perl, and added a whole bunch more. I could, and should, have presented them better.

Personally I think the fact they are using DBI is the inconsequential part. It takes up few lines of the example, and most of the other code is the specifics of the framework (although they are very similar, because they all Sinatra clones, to varying degrees). What do you expect to be different in a non-DB based test (I'm still unclear what point you are trying to make)? Their template systems are pretty simple to use as well.

> Again, you missed my point. I wasn't suggestion that you were comparing the performance of the two. I was commenting on why I switched away from Perl to Go.

That's fine, and a worthy conversation to have, I'm just trying to keep this on the topic of implementation size, since I think the performance side of the discussion is being handled well enough elsewhere.

> Except you didn't You gave AN example (singular). It was one language; Perl.

Actually I gave eight examples, three Perl, three Python, three lua and 1 Ruby. The fact there were three Perl implementations first, and listed by themselves is sort of an accident. I was really interested in how Mojolicious did, since that's my favorite at the moment, and then I checked the other Perl implementations, and then I looked for others that might be good examples. I intended for them to be taken all together, even if that's not how it seemed.

> With Perl, you have a number of different ways you can hook the runtimes into the web server (CGI, Apache libs, etc), pure Perl and C libraries ...

> he ironic thing with Perl is despite scripts in the language being some of the most portable code on the POSIX community, running performance critical Perl webapps leads to very unportable set ups.

How recent is the data this opinion is based on? My understanding is that now most (new) Perl web projects are using PSGI as a common back-end making it extremely portable, and often using pure-perl servers for performance. There's some evidence they can significantly beat mod_perl2[1].

> This might sound critical, but I genuinely do love Perl. I'd say it was up there as one of my favourite languages (and over the years I've learn to develop in a great number of different languages). But sadly nothing in life is perfect.

I was really, _really_ trying to not make it a Perl vs Go thing. It's obvious I do have a preference though. I'm glad you like Perl, it does seem to fit the mindset of certain people well, and even if they don't stick with it, they remember it fondly. :)

[1]: http://old.nabble.com/mod_perl2-vs-Starman-and-other-pure-pe...
I put a (semi tongue-in-cheek) comment in some billing system code I wrote 8 years or so ago, pointing out a date overflow problem, something like Y292277026596 (can't remember the exact year now, but the comment was accurate). Comment went on to say that if the system was still in use at that time, then I would fix the problem.

I expected to be called out for this comment some day, but never have -- makes me wonder how often people read through code.
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Does she have a backyard?
Glad you read it and got something out of it. Do whatever you can to keep it going. Awesome that you have people to help you .
If you don't love automagic, you should check out http://plantoeat.com. Its bookmarklet imports from all the major recipe sites and most food blogs, and you can then create your plan, your shopping list, etc., with ease. Just schedule a meal on the planner and it gets added to your shopping list. There are some issues with duplicate formatting but otherwise it's great.

To Eat This Much:

Cream cheese pickles? A mixture of cream cheese, pickles, and cured beef??? Fabulous fried cabbage? I… uh… grosssss. I would never eat either of those.
if I remember correctly, the Republicans and Democrats swapped places in every way but name not too long after that.
Were people actually expecting nuclear reactors to "blow up" because of a software problem?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_nuclear_safety
I don't watch enough TV to get the reference. I bet it was funny though, given the context. Thanks for checking out the post.
I would sympathize with Valve if they didn't completely ignore Linux before acting like the Linux community's best friend when it became apparent that they had nowhere else to turn to [1]. Like many, I'm a fan of their games and their flat management, but they have a history of being as short-sighted and callous as EA and I wish more people would see that [2].

I have a lot more respect for the people behind Humble Bundle/Wolfire, who went out of their way to support Linux long before it was cool [3]. Plus they don't force DRM middleware on you.

[1] http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/steamd-penguins/

[2] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/11/valve-tricked-h/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugaru
What did mtgox get in return for promising to hand off their US customers? Whatever that is, I believe that would be about the liability they have in this case.
I mean comon, can we really count the one with my foot in it? 7 sounds waaaaay bigger than 6.
So, this solution has been around for forever - heck, even Oracle had a solution where you could use tmpfs space as extra buffer cache.

However, the performance was not great, as it had to go through the VFS layer, everything was in blocks and emulated a filesystem.
There are plenty haha! I have a few extras if you want one.
Valve collects a lot of stats on systems that use their software, including hardware, driver versions, and installed libraries (I think?). They have the power to really drill down and find out which hardware and/or drivers are causing problems, and I expect they'll use it to good effect.
URL? I don't see anything about their android "duo push" or "duo mobile" client supporting the secure element, but their website is designed around the kind of people who buy $3/mo authentication systems (enterprise, not saas developers).
Ycombinator didn't fund Coinlab. You are probably thinking of Coinbase, which is unrelated to this story.
So a common reason given for U.S. prosperity in the 1950's and 1960's was that the industrial base of the rest of the world was decimated which made the U.S. the unmatched economy in the world. I'm not saying whether it's true or not, I'm just saying that it's something people say. To the extent that's true, doesn't that mean it would be better to bomb countries like China and India to keep them from competing with us? I'm not saying we should, but isn't that the implication?

My point is that while I think globalized free trade probably maximizes world GDP (to the extent you can deal with externalities like pollution in the developing world), I don't think it's necessarily the course of action that maximizes prosperity for Americans. I wouldn't say that it definitely doesn't--I'm just not convinced.
Hi rdtsc,

Until the project includes a WebSocket-enabled test or a test with forced idle time (e.g., waiting for an external service to provide a response), concurrency higher than 256 yields very little of interest. The reason being that we are fully saturating the server's CPU cores at 256 concurrency [1].

Increasing the client-side concurrency level simply means that the front-end web server (or built-in web server's socket listener thread) needs to maintain a small queue of requests to hand off to the application server's worker threads. It doesn't make the server any faster at completing those requests. I've written some more about this at my personal blog [2].

[1] Caveat: Some frameworks appear to have locking or resource contention issues and do not saturate the CPU cores. We will attempt to capture CPU utilization stats in future rounds since this might be of interest to readers and framework maintainers. But increasing concurrency would not increase CPU utilization in these scenarios either.

[2] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/rps-vs-connections
I used to think that, but recently I've come to think that if that were true, than software would be way better than it currently is, and hardware way worse.

My impression is that it tends to be way easier to create a lot of moving parts in software where physics isn't there to act as a guide. In essence, it's way easier to make shitty software organically than it is with hardware.
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You are correct, but I was quoting another poster. Thanks for pointing it out. It is easy to get confused.
And again, we're involved with the top of that food chain: Intel and its fabs that cost $5 billion to make.
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> Steam is now the de-facto "app store" of the PC as far as games go

I hope GOG will become comparable numbers wise, since it's the only big DRM free alternative as of now. Though they lack Linux releases yet. (Keep voting here: http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/add_linux_versions_of_games).
I am pretty sure the NSA has a high quality hash database for porn and movie files. Probably the codename is the piratebay.
I'd recommend you review what happened last time a mod edited a post involving CoinBase: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428387
so will, what are you upto now? would love to read a follow up post.
* The lag was hardly a factor influencing how people were trading.*

Absolutely untrue, the lag was in the thousands of seconds and only increasing. Then they halted trading. Gox has persistent problems with high trading volume. This is widely known.
Yea my mouse is wonky as hell in Linux. Keyboard drivers too :( The mechanical keyboard I have at home doesn't even work in linux. Every keystroke registers as three other characters (e.g. the F1 key types out 'mij'). None of the keys work. But it works flawlessly on Windows. I realize this is as much the keyboard manufacturer's fault as anyone, but it just adds one more thing I'd have to sink hours into if I wanted to use Linux on my hardware.

If I wasn't into gaming, I'd be able to move completely off of Windows. But until games are available and peripherals "just work", that's not going to happen :(
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I agree, now that I think about it. Claiming the reward is based on winning the game, but the payout is due to a bug (which the casino is not aware of) and not a win, so it is a deception (fraud).

When I was a teenager, an ATM once reported my checking account balance had a few extra thousand dollars in it. Withdrawing that money would be fraud, even though it was a computer error. Luckily I was not a stupid teenager and I left it alone. The next day it was back to the correct value.
Making this as a battle is silly. For contractual reasons, companies need to distribute content with DRM. They _want_ to use a more open method than Flash or Silverlight.

The choice is between proprietary plugins with drm bundled, or a standard way of encrypting video streams.

Not letting it into HTML5 won't make content owners give up on DRM-- those deciding whether their content must be protected are almost certainly ignorant of the technical implementations.

Is it a battle if the other side doesn't even notice your action?
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>That's what killed Socrates.

I was always assumed it was the hemlock, personally.
Here is a rather different account from American mountaineer Garrett Madison. Some of the details directly contradict Simone Moro's version. I wonder where the truth lies?

http://www.bergadventures.com/v3_cyber/2013/2013-03-22-evere...
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Proving $75 million in damages is going to be pretty hard IMHO, especially since, at least in Canada, you have to show you tried to limit those damages immediately upon finding out there was a breech. This will be an expensive legal battle anyway.
"In the weeks and months following Demo Day, those few who fail to attract enough interest must decide whether to begin a new company, find employment at Google or Facebook or persist and grow “organically” — an unsightly word in the valley of silicon."

Really? That's it? Get funding or go home?

Man. Those crazy entrepreneurs who persist and grow "organically." So unsightly.
> and (intelligently) fasting,

Go to the hinterland once a month for cheap gorging on good food; fast the rest of the month in SF?
Coinlab needs to hire some more attentive lawyers... at least a couple times, the document refers to "beach of [contract]". Unless that's a sunny California thing :)
There's no such thing as burnout, it's really heartache in disguise.
I'm not sure how you can look around the world and decide that what would make people in the U.S. better off is to make our body politic even more heterogenous and schizophrenic. We have enough trouble with Texas and California in the same union.

I look around the world and what I see is that the countries people generally admire from the point of view of quality of life: the Scandinavian countries, Japan, etc, have a high degree of cultural and political homogeneity and unity. Meanwhile, I see a European Union in meltdown because of the difficulty of forming a political union between people in countries with very different economies and cultures.

I also see international organizations like the United Nations that are deeply dysfunctional, and fundamentally compromised by the influence of a number of Asian, Middle Eastern, and African countries who bring to it their basically corrupt political systems. Don't get me wrong, I think the U.N. is great for things like coordinating disaster relief and whatnot, but I can't imagine a world where something like the U.N. exercising political influence in the U.S. would in any way be good for Americans.
Allegedly agreed to it? Not sure we really can know all of the terms at this point.
When they keep referring to $100,000 investments for 7%, this is a typo right? (YC usually does ~$10k)
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