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My gosh , i still have the hardwired amiga demo on disks ! it was amazing back then !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CGOh-jb4QM

EDIT : is some demo code source available somewhere ? i knew a site back then , but it went offline.
Making waves with Magasin
My condolences to his family and friends.
Did you notice I didn't directly say you need an MBA? I said they could be helpful. An MBA is like a CS degree. Do you need a CS degree to be a good programmer? Does it help?
I have 10 servers at OVH and haven't seen anything out of the ordinary.
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https://plus.google.com/107979589566958860409/posts/LWir38gJ...
All of you go back to reddit, asap
LinkedIn: A cautionary tale about the need for speed in Silicon Valley
It would shoot trough he roof because you get more than what you pay for, and that is not economically sustainable in the long term. It's like saying: Imagine if the price of a new car was $200, they would sell millions!
Yep, Paul's got it. Only thing to add is that the perpective value on the stage is very small, making the box appear to be very long and the background image stretched out.
Agreed. It may be that my previous experience as a session drummer has influenced me here, but anyone that has challenged me in the past to point out the difference between 128 and above received the same statement each time: "listen to the cymbals, man".

Cymbal wash is enough for me to never pay a dime for 128 kbits tracks.
People who defend copyright take copyright for given, as that would be the normal state which can not be questioned. Don't pretend to a higher level of intellectual honesty or moral strength. Your position can lay claim to neither.

Culture, creativity and art have existed long before copyright and will continue to do so after it has been abandoned.
Scientists Bounce Laser Beams Off Soviet Moon Rover
Re-inventing the way we breathe to go faster
Graeme Obree talks us through his super-efficient breathing technique.

"The most important thing about breathing is actually breathing out."

http://bit.ly/ZRadzg
>Technology is our fucking turf, fuckers. Get off our territory or we will rape your shit for breakfast.

Maybe this kind of phraseology is part of the reason you keep getting passed over for promotion.
A corporate beauty contest
he's been accused of copying kairosoft's game a couple of times already, you can read his response here (he's ppakl):

http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1cn8yi/game_dev_tycoo...

yes, they've been inspired by it but "their version" does have different and more complex gameplay mechanics. a lot of people like greenhearts take on the subject more.

i've played neither, but i guess i'll give game dev tycoon a try - after not being totally happy with kairosofts ninja village, i guess ghg deserve a chance.
Veering off topic, but I wonder what people would say if analytics for websites required telling the user what data is being gathered about them before requiring an active opt-in.
That's exactly how I tell the difference too, and I'm no drummer. It just sounds horrible.
Correct - it's not a derivative showing it alongside an article. Derivative refers to making a change to the work itself to create a new work.
Don't read too much into that part of what I wrote; I said it poorly. I'm quite aware that most people use monospaced fonts, and my code has to be just as readable in a monospaced font as in a proportional font, or it's no good.

I don't like excessively long lines any more than anyone else does, and I do pay attention to the column numbers. I just don't worry about them much, partly because my coding style naturally tends to produce shorter line lengths.

Compare:

function niftyExampleFunction( niftyExampleParameter, // nifty comment
anotherNiftyExampleParameter ) { // another comment
doStuff();
}

vs.

function niftyExampleFunction(
niftyExampleParameter, // nifty comment
yetAnotherNiftyExampleParameter // another comment
) {
doStuff();
}

That's a line width of 84 vs. 56 for the same code. Fair enough?
TL;DR: You'll never work at Facebook because you don't have the attention span required to spend 5 minutes reading an article.
This won't protect against OVH being compromised.

In the manager you can select the netboot / PXE option and "boot from rescue mode". From there you get e-mailed the logins from the server booted onto a Debian rescue image. You have full access to the OS / hard drives.
Out of interest, why do you think that is?

Is it due to convenience , availability of cheap games in sales , extra features in steam or did a rise in your disposable income just happen to coincide with the launch of steam?

For me it was mainly 2 and 4.
While I'd like to avoid doing the same sort of generalization as the author has done, it can be difficult.

Japanese & Western (aka, American & Canadian) cultures are very different. A great number of people who come over here (to Japan), regardless of how long they stay, never really absorb themselves in the way of thinking & doing things here. They continue to live a sort of "dual life", where on one hand they are happy enough because of all the wonderful benefits of this society, but on the other always expect things "should be like back home" and are somehow less developed with regards to individual "rights" & the like.

I have two children in the school system here. I have found the system to be far more creative than any foreigner who moves here could ever anticipate, and quite honestly, much better than what I was exposed to in America in any category you'd care to name.

Society here teaches people to think of everyone else first before taking care of your own needs - a lesson that wouldn't be a bad thing to rub off on Westerners a bit more.

Aside from that, I echo all the existing posts on this guy's choice of using a single student's experience with a single (possibly bad) teacher, despite saying he has 15 years experience in Japan & has spoken to hundreds of students about this.
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Looks almost as annoying a Google's reCAPTCHA.
it looks like the linked comment is members-only, and I can't register for a facepunch account without an invite from someone. I will have to take your word on it.

Anyone find the steam community comment?
Or Russia, as predicted in "Moscow 2042" by Vladimir Voinovich. Sorry for spoiler.
UltraEdit and UEStudio also do that. It takes care of the column selection problem nicely.

Komodo doesn't switch automatically, but you can set up a keyboard shortcut to switch between monospaced and proportional fonts.
"A 30-day money back, no questions asked, guarantee would offer this."

That sounds a lot like the "copy-first, pay later - or receive a public shaming" de facto standard used by cautious patrons today (only ATM people receive their shame from other pro-copyright HN readers).
Are they blaming OVH for their own server being poorly configured and/or insecure?
Facebook photos would be/are extremely valuable to advertisers. And very few would have contact metadata attached, which is irrelevant anyway after your mate reposts the image to imgur for a Reddit post.

And i guess they would rather steal from someone who can't fight back than an entity that owns an army of lawyers.
I can identify with the "Networking" advice, as all of my past employment situations were the result of "someone who knows someone who knows me."
People cannot simply stop using consumer-grade hosting and jump on a very expensive BTC vault.

There must be a demand proportional to the cost of any solution. And demand takes time to grow. Bitcoin is not bootstrapped by anyone, it grows from absolute zero, step by step. This type of shit will gradually happen less and less, but people cannot just decide to use more expensive and robust hosting.
This is not a full list of addresses, but there are two no 10s there, and obviously as the postcode covers a large area with many streets, there will be some duplicate numbers, and many houses don't even have a number or street, and if you start to include house names as numbers, you will have duplicate names there too. Many addresses are as simple as rose cottage, village, POST CODE, and there might be many 'rose cottages' in that postcode.

It would be nice if it was a unique identifier, but the uk postcode is not, even combined with part of an address like 10, or even 10 high street, sometimes the village is also required to narrow it down. This might have worked for you on a limited set of data, but the assumptions are not valid across the uk.
That's my fault for not keeping up with the times. Sorry I didn't know that was over and fixed. My original point still stands, when cities (even rich ones) expand very rapidly, a traditional sewer system takes too long to build to keep up with demand.
It's inconsistent. Some of the tracks are ripped with lame -V0 which is the very best quality you will ever see in an MP3 file. Others are not so good.
It's a combination of convenience, sales, rise in disposable income, and the fact that I don't have time to play more expensive big-name titles (plus, I like indie games more).

The other day I saw a trailer about a game I found visually stunning (Anno 2100? I forget the number), and I checked the price on Steam. It was too expensive for something I'd play once or twice, and I thought of pirating it, but then couldn't be bothered to go through all the hassle. Therefore, I suspect it's mostly convenience.
I'm curious too.

I wonder if it's some kind of lens flare, if such a thing is possible when taking these kinds of images.
The Register is also rabidly hostile to Wikipedia - and I find it hard not to leap to uncharitable interpretations of their motives (as paid journalists)
Just to be 100% clear about the culture, people don't pirate because "not buying" is "hard" -- what an absurdity; not buying is like not eating, it's the easiest thing ever: just don't do something. (I mean, you can whine about biological urges for distraction and nutrition maybe, but on a case-by-case basis, it's really as simple as not going out of your way.)

People pirate because it's available. The advice of "don't buy it" (by which you really mean don't play it) is therefore pointless moralizing; it's not going to sway people who are looking for something available to play.

If you just think abstractly about the problem as a bunch of kids who are bored and looking to play, and they come upon a ball which is not being used by anyone, that is a better mental model. Why are they playing with this ball that is not theirs? Because belonging is an abstract social relation which has far less cognitive importance to the kids than the immediacy of play, so who cares who the ball belongs to. Will having someone standing atop the ball forcing them to pay a fee to use it cause them to fairly pay for the ball? Probably not, because that's not the model that they're working under. Certainly it gets worse if they try to force every single kid to pay independently for a ball that they can share. "But surely someone made that ball, and made it available, and should be compensated for this!" Well, kind of. I think from the pirate's perspective that's already been taken care of, so to speak: the developers were paid for their creative works, while the pirate community has paid for the networking which made the content available, so if you're asking her to pay for anything, she is paying perhaps some investor, or perhaps she is paying for a future game title to be produced.

(Notice that none of this really "defends" any "side". In order to understand what's going on and try to work on a solution, I'm basically checking that sort of judgmentalism at the door.)
If you can read french, http://linuxfr.org/news/sortie-du-noyau-linux-3-9 is a good overview.
Copyright is still useful, say for someone who rips off your game and sells it as their own. I'd agree the extent it's been taken to is ridiculous though.
To make it easier for everyone reading the HN Post Title, they're talking about "Their Server(s) at OVH" being compromised, with no evidence of "OVH" itself (along with all customer servers) being compromised.

Now you may go ahead and read the post.
That's pretty interesting; I knew there was some criticism of SimCity's simplified tax model in the U.S. some years ago (a simple inverse relationship between tax rates and business growth), but the Norwegian analysis sounds quite interesting. Any idea where I might dig up a reference to the article?

I think in SimCity's case it was probably not intentional, at least originally. The first version of the game seems to have just been Will Wright coding up some ad-hoc city-simulation rules to make a fun sandbox game, not him trying to make a point about urban planning or economics on purpose. But nonetheless these interesting assumptions end up in there.
Unfortunately I have no citation to prove my statement. It is just my concern and opinion. I remember that I read something about this in books on eye exercises and health. It may or may not be true.
I see it as a cart-before-the-horse problem. Before the printing press things were more horse-before-cart (no copyright). After the press and the statute of Anne, to today, we have been very cart-first. We paid for physical CDs without knowing if we would like most of what they had on them (we may have heard one song on the radio for free, as advertisement - ie, the pirate bay is a modern radio business - but the rest were a mystery, and distributors exploited our eagerness by adding on a dozen unknowns). We still felt like we were buying something tangible (the medium was tangible), so it was relatively easy to accept trading money in advance for something we couldn't see into first.

I think following that approach further requires an untenable "enforcement" culture on private and social thinking and collaborative efforts. I'd rather put the cart back behind the horse (fund the work itself, to create the first copy, rather than pay mandatory royalties for all future copies - and endure the social unrest of preventing what boil down to thought-crimes, IMHO).

In the past artists (and scientists) had patrons but today we have kickstarter. It is possible to fund the creation of large projects (movies, TV shows, games, hardware, research, etc) without as much risk to the people carrying it out.
There isn't enough AG production to replace existing petroleum demand with biomass derived biodiesel. All of US corn production converted to alcohol, different from the process here but comperable on fuel potential, would only replace 25% of the nation's oil use.

We may gain some use from biofuels, but it will be a small fraction of what we've been used to.
Why exactly can nothing go faster than the speed of light?
OVH is one of the biggest hoster in the world, are there any third parties confirmations of this ?
> if 93.6% of users who played the game on the first day after release got a shitty experience,

It isn't a shitty experience though. They were playing the game, getting immersed into it, trying to win, and they got stuck. Stuck enough, and interested enough in succeeding, that they asked on forums how to deal with the in-game piracy issue.

That isn't a sign of someone having a shitty experience. What is interesting now is what players of the pirated version of the game will do with the knowledge that their success is being hampered because they pirated the game originally instead of buying it.

I hope a nice chunk will opt to buy the game, it's obviously immersed them enough to have provided entertainment value, and hopefully there's sufficiently extra gameplay and opportunities in the non-pirated version to justify the "add-on" purchase.

Or, they'll crack the game to remove the pirated limitation. Or they'll walk away from the game. Or they'll find a genuinely pirated version of the real game.

I hope they see the funny side, and appreciate it, and give kudos to the game development company. It's not a £40 boxed game.
>> Simple regulation: fine of $100 or more per each piece of paper you drop

While you are right about the fines imposed on Singaporean society, the Singapore government's policies had far wider scope and were coupled with efficient execution.

The fines were augmented with large scale awareness campaigns. Even today, you can see posters in many different places in the city exhorting citizens to not litter. Garbage bin density is so high, that you can mostly find one within 10 minutes of wherever you are. Of course, the various awareness campaigns were part of a much larger nation building effort which include a conscription system (all males serve ~2 years in the army), a compulsory national savings system, policies to maximize home ownership, and so on.

The Singapore bureaucracy itself quite a unique system in it's own right. The best students are awarded scholarships to study in Oxbridge, and they are expected to return and serve in the civil service.

Considering all of this, i'm sure solving these problems entails good governance, and is certainly not a "simple" matter of imposing fines.
The initial goals don't seem world changing, but maybe at Wikipedia scale they could be:

We are working on three major things:

1. Centralizing language links

2. Providing a central place for infobox data for all Wikipedias

3. Creating and updating list articles based on data in Wikidata

In particular I imagine this will have an initial impact of massively increasing the quality of the lesser used Wiki languages, by leveraging the work on the busier sites.
I am using such "phraseology" because we are at war with the upper class whether we want to be or not. What we call the "technology industry" is one of the hottest battlefields out there. The well-connected/zero-sum evil (the current social elite) are taking on the hard-working-and-talented/positive-sum good and while we had no choice in starting the fight, it is in our territory and we must end it. This goes back to what your Dad probably told you about fistfights as a kid. "Never start a fight, but end one." On your terms.

Every time a great company (e.g. Google) becomes a closed-allocation nightmare festival with satanic innovations like calibration scores, that's another seaside city lost to the horde.

You may not be interested in war, but it is interested in you. -- Leon Trotsky

I am sick of watching our territory get taken by smiling assholes who have nothing to offer the world, and whom any properly masculine society would have done something about decades ago. I'm fucking disgusted and ready to fight. If that means I occasionally swear a blue streak, who fucking cares? The only thing that matters is defeating these assholes with such force that they never fuck with us again.
I don't need a smartphone, but it's convenient and useful.
Scientists Build Baseball-Playing Robot With 100k-Neuron Fake Brain
doesn't seem to work.. neither for myself or my former phd supervisor.
Oh, now that is interesting.

I didn't realize it until you mentioned it, but Komodo has a similar feature. You can select monospaced or proportional for any syntax element. I think I will try putting comments in monospaced and see how it works out.

Thanks for the tip!
Why isn't Linux embraced as the official GNU kernel?
I don't understand why this is being represented as "Your pics can now be stolen" - a key proviso is that they have to do "a diligent search".

Google Images (for one) allows you to search by uploading a photo, and I can't remember the last time I was able to "beat" it by downloading a photo that it couldn't identify the source of.

If you're a pro and want your photos to stay yours, put it where Google (or whoever) can see it and it if somebody steals it, you have every right to sue them for failing to do their due diligence.

Am I missing something?
>Make him sysadmin.

Thereby incentivizing this behavior? I think not. Next thing you know, he'll imagegrab each and every mail account belonging to a female student.
That's a very long-term game; most games are made by short-term studios who don't survive long enough to reap what they sowed?
Feces are about 2% carbohydrate by weight, a person produces about 0.75 kg/day, and there are 1.3 billion Indians. You could likely create a few thousands of liters of biodiesel daily. There's just not enough free energy.
We're a tiny team of two people working on this side project over nights and weekends. Essentially it is a Wiki site that allows users to create & edit their academic family tree. So far all the basic wiki functions like CRUD, tracking edit history, compare different versions, reverting back to previous versions, simple search, advanced search, etc are completed. It is built with Django/Python.

We would really appreciate it if Hacker News community can provide some feedback/comments/suggestions. Many many thanks :)
Yes! Integrating it with your car to see gas (or battery) levels. No integration needed to see speed, directions, stop lights, traffic, construction ahead. You could take it one step further and crowd-source to find stolen cars or license-plates.
FS Buckets on Clever Cloud
I hate this. All the electronic waste, batteries and whatnot for a 15 day trial. I hope such a thing wouldn't be allowed in EU with the stricter waste laws
Good memories. Later day Amiga demos like Arte from Sanity were very memorable and enjoyable. Very far away from simple intros with a couple of effects, they became closer and close to full blown video clips, albeit all rendered in real time.
I learnt about this practice from my girlfriend who is from France and was quite surprised by it. She, on the other hand, was surprised by the American practice of asking about race and ethnicity on various official forms.
The poster you are responding to is clearly not a programmer.
A few months ago there was a full Android phone in a magazine:

http://www.geek.com/mobile/fully-functional-android-phone-em...
Been waiting for raid5 with btrfs!
It has been widely debunked.

Many employers take this stuff seriously, so someone who may have otherwise gotten the job gets rejected on the basis of a fantasy tool.

Companies are dumping off money that could be used for hiring more people or intelligent investments that create jobs, but billions of dollars are being wasted on something that is about as useful as The Secret.

If you want to shake your head, go ahead and apply online at places like Target, Walmart, or Starbucks. Each application takes over one hour to complete the questionnaire part. So, not only is it a massive money dump, it is a time vampire as well.
Well banks generally refund stolen money, so you won't see a lot of noise from victims... but anyway:

How do you think banks got more secure? Trial and error, incremental progress. These repeated break-ins should make consumer-grade hosting environments more secure.
Insipid.

Myopic view of your product? Then also use competing products to see what they do. And talk to customers. A lot. Golly, understanding that all of your customers aren't you seems like it's not a huge leap.

Figuring out pricing models? Well, I'm just a dumb engineer so I assume someone else knows about that but I'd guess that "not free" is a good starting point and you can probably haggle and talk with people from there.

I would hazard a guess that everyone wants a better bug tracker/project manager/et al. I would also hazard a guess that what everyone wants is a totally different thing than what everyone else wants. We've had these technical "solutions" for decades now and they all suck.

They suck because the actual problems aren't technical. They're people problems. How should you track all tghe whatzits in a way that makes everyone happy enough to work effectively but also accountable? That's an ape problem and not a technical one. The solution is in ape-space and not tech-space. Look to Skinner and not Knuth for those answers. (And please don't look to Skinner - creepy!)