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BS. It's possible to deal with the issues you mentioned and not screw your customers over. Even if it's not, it's still perfectly valid to be vocal about it.
I agree that number of busses will scale linearly with the number of riders, but if we consider a single bus, waste will not scale linearly with the addition of passengers.

The situation I'm trying to capture is one where there's a relatively unpopular route; say we only have one or two busses on the loop. In these cases, more people taking advantage of free busing would only increase the efficiency of the system.

Of course, the utilization of these routes must be high enough to justify the cost; obviously if there is only one passenger for the day it would be cheaper overall for him to just drive.
My dad writes response letters like this. He's taught me so much about how the law actually works, he should design a class that is mandatory for all students to pass the HS.
They are still (along with Sony) offering digital downloads of all titles. I don't think there is any reason, certainly no technical one, that they couldn't price digital differently than disc.
Hi thanks for your comments, I appreciate you taking the time to read it.

I'm _not_ a devops guy. Following my guide you _will_ get a running production server but I've only distilled things from other blogs I've hunted on the web. I would make sure I hire someone who actually does this for a living before putting production things on something I configured.

So feel safe, but cautiously safe - I'm not a guru.
Well this is exciting. I suppose we'll see a much larger lineup of affordable desktop printers with better technology as well, in larger markets.

I've heard of a lot of problems with the replicators, yet they're still incredibly popular, so hopefully we'll see all those issues ironed out.

Congrats to both companies!
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Well, she DID get a job (and advocates continued education as well as being open to criticism)
How does it compare to DNSCurve (http://dnscurve.org)?
Paying for sex, and being paid for sex, are not illegal in the UK. But there are some very strict laws that people need to be aware of.

Both people need to be over the age of 18.

There needs to be no element of coercion. The paying person is guilty of an offence if the sex worker is coerced even if the payer is not aware of any coercion.

There needs to be no trafficking. The UK uses a stricter definition of trafficking, which can include someone voluntarily coming to the UK. It also includes travel within the country.

There's some other stuff too about premises used as brothels and about pimps.

Your comments about use of Housing Benefit are weird and wrong and not worth responding to.
What if, five years ago when you signed up for purephase1234@gmail.com, you listed purephase1234@yahoo.com as your recovery address?

Now, thanks to this move by Yahoo, your Google account is in danger of being compromised.
"Funding" isn't the issue. You want the bus system to be good enough that people want to use it.

I'm sure there are several dozen people who live within 2 miles of where I live that work within 2 miles of where I work. Batch us into groups by pickup time, dispatch small buses to my neighborhood to pick us up, sending texts to give estimates of arrival, drive us to drop off spots. Make the bus climate controlled and with power adapters and WiFi so we can work or play or read while this is happening.

I'd take that now.
Honestly, a PC with Steam, and XBox 360 controller, and an HDMI cable is all I really need. I've moved to doing that pretty exclusively and it works wonderfully. Bonus, I don't have to re-purchase games to play them on my laptop or in my office.
The article headlines are not irresponsible. "Facebook blocks Tor, putting activists at risk" is true. The fact that the block was automated (and with luck, temporary) is also true but little help to the activists using it. Same logic goes for the man pages.

If you run a project that enjoys the wide-scale usership of Facebook or MySQL then grow thick skin cause people are gonna raise flags fast when things look fishy. Because your project really fucking matters to people and mistakes hurt, deal with it.

I'd wager that this helps your product more often than it hurts it.
Disclaimer: comment OP works for Microsoft
I believe it would be pretty simple. Keep the family sharing plan and the 24 hour check but only for digital purchases. If you have a disk based game than you wouldn't be able to share it but you also wouldn't be required to have the console connected every 24 hours.
Obviously, an observant HN reader can obsequiously observe whether it was an absurd or unabsurd ad absurdum observation.
Looks like a mod has changed it.
Consider if 0.5% of their users are using hdpi displays (unlikely these days, but just consider), maybe not worth the effort if resources are constrained?

I dunno, it's easy to point out flaws without understanding the context.
Next time, just say that the object case on the pronoun was licensed by an elided preposition. Continuing to call out the dickish behavior of the other poster works, too.
>On the downside, there will be no digital "family" sharing as was previously announced, and disc-based games will require the disc to be in the tray to be played.

Nooooooooooooooooo. Please still allow me to opt in for digital downloads so I can finally stick the console somewhere where I don't have to see it, hear it or suffer it's heat wrath.
Status quo is fine and all, but I don't think it's really a step in any direction.

Though the fact that they're still giving me what I want (digital downloads on all games) means I really have nothing to complain about. Digital lending / sharing features might have been cool though.
What exactly is Clickbank? It looks like a platform to help people resell their knowledge?
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>There is absolutely no technical reason why the terms had to be so anti-consumer

Yeah, actually, there are plenty.

Step 1: Buy XBONE game.

Step 2: Load it on your console.

Step 3: Loan it to hundreds of friends and they load it on their console.

And now hundreds of people are playing one copy of the game with no way of preventing them from doing so. It would make the "piracy" scene on day one, the worst of any console experience ever, ever.

So how are you going to prevent that without requiring online connections?
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So much text for so little info. They should have just given us a TL;DR.
Most likely they switch to other modes of crime to keep up their lifestyle.
Anti-consumer? The fact that you could share a game (either on a disc or a digital download) with your family members or the fact that you didn't need to deal with optical media?

This could've been a brilliant console had MS addressed the media a bit more cautiously. Pity that major players still aren't ready for an Online console, while upstarts like Ouya and others will be defining newer experiences that are more suited to the new digital paradigm.
I honestly don't see why they can't do it both ways. For people who buy game discs, let them share and play offline, but for those who choose to buy the DRM-enabled digital download version of the game, let them install it to the hard drive and play without a disc across consoles. It's all down to user preference anyway, why does it have to be one way or the other?
This is incorrect as Steam allows for offline play.
I don't think that the 24 hour online check is/was necessarily a bad thing. In my opinion, it would push technology forward and bring the console industry up to par with the pc gaming industry.

On the other hand, I absolutely agree with you about the region restrictions!
Here's a page with images and some description

(http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2006/10/28/a-vein-atte...)
Don't agree with the humor and tact of this letter even though "it worked".

"Shmucking" someone can backfire in many cases and cause a bigger problem.

To be spiteful (I mean do we really know the mental state of the attorney writing the c and d?) maybe he would decide pro bono to file some action even knowing it might fail, on his own time, to defend his honor. Which this attorney would then have to defend pro bono.

The other thing with regard to the listed domains is as they always say "don't ask a question you don't know the answer to". They probably don't know whether the others have been approached or not. And it doesn't matter at this stage anyway. So what. Maybe he was the first one.

Lastly Kaplitt isn't known for expertise in either domain names or IP. If he was he would know that very often people with bogus claims are able to wrestle domains from people for bogus reasons.

Oh one last thing. In his letter he states that "ICANN rulings have held that..." (or something like that). ICANN doesn't issue "rulings" like that for this (.com). He is almost certainly referring to the UDRP cases not ICANN.
For the people here that didn't really read the statement:

"you can also download games from Xbox Live on day of release"

If you have a decent Internet connection and don't want to use discs, you have that choice.
Hadoop is a pile of bad code, a stagnant codebase, crusty APIs and a thick surrounding layer of hype which obscures what it's really like to use. Spark might be better or faster, but mostly what you need to beat Hadoop is to make something practical, which lets developers be expressive rather than wrestle with overdesigned nonsense.

I know this because it's my full-time job to actually get stuff done inside Hadoop.

Spark may be a great system, but this article doesn't do much to settle the issue. When you read fluff like "sweeping software platform", "famously founded the Hadoop project", "great open source success stories" and machine learning described as "crunching and re-crunching the same data -- in what's called a logistic regression", it's time to move on.
On my Adsense Dashboard, there's a new logo in the bottom left that, when hovered over, starts a game of pong over the page. All to celebrate 10 years of Adsense
I didn't mean this as an ad hominem and I am delighted that she is open to criticism. My comment is strictly about the level of design represented here, which I believe is not professional quality.
Moot. There's no need to descend into the trenches to have a good overview of the battlefield. I encourage those who haven't to actually read (or listen) to Ms. Wolf.
"Whom" is archaic and generally not used in English anymore anyways. Overzealous and misguided efforts to save the word have scarred generations of youngsters.
Because previously, you could lend/share/give digital copies and the fact that the xbox connected every 24 hours could verify the license. Now, without the 24hr check lending will not be allowed. (I could lend all of my games to Bob, then Bob simply never connects to the net and is able to play them indefinitely)
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Well he did design the Mac calculator: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Calculator_Constr...

Steve certainly didn't just "approve" designs, he offered a lot of input as well.
Gramma who under you prepose right would be?
I only have hearsay to go on, but why do you think it is wrong?

Others points I believe are correct.
Unless I am missing something, the TL;DR seems to be "it will work like the 360".
Originally, you WOULD be able to lend it...now you can't
If someone knows that PSD is golden and will make them twice as much money, then I don't expect I should be the one to code it for them as well.

Anyway, I've seen someone else do it this way.
But how does that work when you are trading in the physical disc at Gamestop and you still have the game stored on your console that is disconnected from the internet? Or if you were to sell it virtully, pop in the physical disc onto your first or second console that has been disconnected from the internet before the sale.
I was referring to the original DRM decision as being too greedy when they made it (before the backlash). Companies institute DRM to decrease piracy, which increases their bottom line.

The effectiveness of DRM is a totally different subject, but in this situation they chose their bottom line (DRM) over the desires of their customers, taking a gamble that the losses in sales from pissed off people would be less than the gains from decreased piracy.
Did they update this? What's special about the link?
One can definitely learn how to draw well enough to be a web designer in 30 days. Although for most people, I'm not sure only 1/2 hour per day is enough practice, as claimed in the article. Then again, that might be plenty of practice, as the main things being drawn are boxes within other boxes.
Steam actually may enable digital game sharing - if you aren't playing your game, you would be able to share it with a friend who could play it while you are not (similar to how a physical game copy would work). But you would have to be 'always on' to verify that you are not playing at the same time they are.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/steam-may-allow-game-sharing-re...
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"ClickBank.com is a secure site. The only way someone would be able to look up your order, which does not show any payment detail except your Credit Card type and last 4 digits on the card, is to know the exact order number and email address."

Strange, because the link in the ticket to the order still works and is viewable without any of that information.
You give the tourists nice toilets.

You then put sharps bins in some other toilets in less nice areas of the city.
great, now printer materials will cost a fortune.
That's a charitable interpretation, but sure.
It doesn't work that way. You have to have the disc in the tray.
>Ah, but what is freedom if I can't watch American Gladiators because I want to?

Nobody would want to watch American Gladiators if they were not made to do so. Not directly told to, but somehow... maneuvered into it. Not quite the same as the grilled cheese sandwich!!!
OpDemand is working on exactly what you're describing. Heroku-style private PaaS with emphasis on control over instances, routing layer, hosting providers, etc. Current version has full scaling support (instances, processes & nginx proxies). It's based on Docker, Heroku buildpacks all glued together via Chef server. It'll be released under Apache license. More to come...
Finally! Let's hope that there is no firmware or update that will reverse this policy. The only issue that now remains is that the console is limited to 21 countries.

This region-lock limitation prevents me from giving money to Microsoft, which is something they should want actually, and from developing for the console.
I've brought this point up before, but I can't help but feel a significant factor in steam pricing is the ease of piracy on PC.
Exec isn't the best designed website I've ever seen, but it's functional and presentable. There are plenty of startups / small companies that can't afford the money required for a senior level designer but would be happy to hire someone who could do even "design-school-freshman-quality stuff" for a reasonable price if it allowed them to present their idea / business in a way they couldn't on their own.

So if the measure of being a "professional designer" is someone who is paid to do design work, I think this is fine advice. A designer gets better with practice and real world work. This seems like a good starting point.
These journals like to say they need the exclusivity, prestige and money to support their editorial process. Yet, given the exclusivity, money and prestige, they apparently don't do a great job.

On the other hand, is there a clear alternative? Is there a way to organize the review process such that the power of the editor is reduced, yet the quality is maintained? I'm not sure.

It seems like this would require non-anonymous open review and a some kind of rating/comment system for papers. It's possible that what ends up happening is that it creates more work for the reader in the same way that it takes effort to tease out a products true worth on Amazon. That might not be a bad thing at all.
From their statement it seems like disk-based lending will work exactly how it does in the past. You give your friend the disk, and he plays it. This seems to be what most gamers want.
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benbeltrain: How does that work in Discourse?

lsiebert: How does that work on Metafilter?
Most people didn't realize that MS was pushing the envelope with their purported "Cloud processing tech", which was supposed to be based on Remote processing of a few threads (A.I., Physics, etc) and even had a new programming paradigm for it (based on prioritized threads that could be processed either locally or remotely)
Digital futures are fine. But I don't think a company like MS fully understands what it takes to provide a digital future that is an adequate replacement for physical media based games.

Valve has most or all of it figured out. Digital delivery. Easy downloads. Lower prices. Embracing indie games. Discounts on bulk purchases. And so forth.

Steam games have a lot of the same limitations that the xbox one would have had but you don't see nearly as many people complaining about that. And that's because of all of the things listed above.

There are tons of console games that I and many of my friends have grown to love which started off as borrowed games. And that's, I think, how it should be, the same as books. I don't think Steam is the perfect answer for all of time but the fact that you can acquire games at effectively used prices or lower (sometimes $15 or even $5 for a AAA title or even as little as one or two dollars for an indie game) significantly blunt the problems of reduced lending opportunities.

P.S. For clarity I'm saying that being allowed to lend and borrow games is a huge benefit to game makers because it is a very potent way of increasing the fan base. How many people borrowed someone else's copy of Harry Potter and then went on to buy hardback copies of subsequent books as they came out and watched the movies and so forth? The same phenomenon works just as potently with games. There are several people I know who are fans of the Mass Effect series who might not have been if they couldn't have borrowed the game that first time.

With art the best salesman is the thing itself. That's how radio works. That's how museums work. And libraries. How do you convince someone they like Manet or Picasso or The Fiery Furnaces or Gershwin or Raymond Chandler or HP Lovecraft or Katamari Damacy or The Last of Us? There is no possible way to adequately describe such works in words alone. The only possible way to determine if one likes such things is to experience it first hand. And that is why "piracy", even in its most extreme forms, is never going to be as much of a threat to makers as some people believe. "Consuming" art makes fans, and fans with money will spend their money to acquire art by artists they enjoy, whether it's games, concerts, movies, albums, and so forth.
I'm always resistant to putting up "trust logos" on a website. It's like training users to fall for phishing scams: you can trust me because I say you can trust me. Sure, the user can click the link to the verifying site, but how many do? Of those, how many would be able to spot it if you were redirecting them to a look-alike you set up?

I'd much rather train users to trust their SSL connection based on what their browser says rather than what I do.
I work for a CRO agency. The reason we do A/B experiments with a control and look for statistical significance is because no design is "golden."

Perfect example: Infinite scroll at Etsy -> http://mcfunley.com/design-for-continuous-experimentation
No, only as of today.
The way they do mp_read() is not right IMO.

If you have to pass a target buffer every time you call mp_read, that ends up using a lot of memory in a scenario where there are a lot of connections open but traffic is sparse. Since data might arrive at any open connection, you'll have to have at least one "pending" mp_read operation for every socket at all times. This quickly adds up in terms of memory usage: if you were to read into 64k-sized buffers (that's somewhat arbirary - but using smaller buffers tends to be very bad for througput) you’d need 625mb of memory for just these buffers alone to handle 10.000 connections. In a C10M scenario (http://c10m.robertgraham.com/p/blog-page.html) the same would need a staggering 625GB of memory. The good old select model lets you allocate these read buffers "just in time" before you read data into it.

This was a major issue when implementing libuv (node.js) for windows. Windows overlapped I/O has exactly the same problem (and so has that new RIO thing).

A better model would be to have a "buffer pool" that is kept reasonably full by the user-mode application. The kernel could then take a buffer from the pool as soon as data actually comes in from the network.
Since the vaunted FAA Sec 702 orders are being used for cybersecurity as well as (if not more than) terrorism, look for the FBI at your door with CFAA charges soon.
You can just look at Apple design pre and post Steve's return just to see how big an impact having him around had. Suddenly Jony Ive had someone to play ball with.
Steve Jobs' sedimentary rock analogy might deflate the egos of some developers. We work so hard on developing innovative hardware and software that will be relevant in the future. On top of that there's a lot of hyped-up business rhetoric about disrupting whole industries and changing the world with our products. Yet, even when we do manage to shake things up, what Jobs said is true: Our innovations will get buried under new innovations, like layers of sediment in a cliffside.

But I think there's something important, albeit humble, about becoming that thin layer of sediment in a rock formation. The layers may not have any obvious utility, yet they tell geologists a vivid, detailed story about changes in a landscape. That story may even help the geologists predict future changes and disruptions.

I'm sure you see where I'm going with this. Sure, we may not use the original Apple products, but to technologists with the right knowledge and experience, they offer fascinating, useful insights about the future and past of technology.
Yeah, it's hard to argue against the results. The broken windows theory, by reasonable accounts, has contributed greatly to making NYC a much better place to live than it was before - even when accounting for the general nation-wide crime reduction that occurred in the same era.

As someone who grew up in a very liberal part of the west coast, it's hard to admit, but authoritarianism and ubiquitous police presence has done wonders for this city. It certainly unseats some assumptions.

The trouble with the success of broken windows in NYC though, is that it has created a culture where increasingly authoritarian policies are tolerated, and results proving their efficacy often not provided.
Artist =/= musician.
Does anyone use it with Azure? I tried the trial over a year ago and I felt that the new Azure Management Portal did a fine enough job already. Is there something new here now?

I also found this: http://newrelic.com/azure
This fee structure (3-5%) will not work. Exactly why does Zinc need $50 to process my HDTV order but only $0.15 for my banana slicer?

Funding has no transaction fees due to Dwolla transfers and Zinc is most likely taking a cut from Amazon Affiliate program as well (which pays 5-15% commissions depending on category)

Make it a fixed per-order fee.