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If that is a sign of an inferiority complex, what is American Exceptionalism[0] a sign of?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
what about designers to "normalize" on people and make their app usable instead of surfing on the flat fad? most of these after design are plain ugly.
I built a 16TB raidz home office server this weekend using Ubuntu and ZFS on Linux[0]. It worked great out of the box. I was even able to import a pool created on another server without any problem. Of course, your mileage may vary.

I was using FreeNAS previously (mainly for the ZFS support to keep my data safe and not spend a bunch on raid controllers) and kept getting bogged down by feeling the need to grok jails. I think jails are terrific in theory, but a pain to work with if you're not intimately familiar with them. Maybe it's just the way it works on FreeNAS, but newly created jails (by default on FreeNAS) were getting a new virtual IP addresses, which really threw me for a loop. Add to that frustration trying to get all the permissions correct just to make a few different services work together started to get really painful.

The drop-dead simplicity of setting up exactly what I had previously on a fresh Ubuntu box with native ZFS port really warmed my cockles.

[0] http://zfsonlinux.org/
Why You Probably Won't Get Rich When Your Startup is Acquired
I noticed this too, although to be fair I did think most of the "after" screenshots looked better than their "before" counterparts. It does seem that there's no real iOS 'presence' any more, but then I always thought the old iOS 'presence' looked hideous anyway so it doesn't look like a loss to me.
For you heathens <g>, this is from a post-Laotzu Taoist essay called 'Opening Trunks'. This is a different translation from the one I learned, but the meaning is still clear. It's relevant to the discussion, in an abstract way.
Tesla HQ is near Stanford, which has some Audi cars which have sensors on the roof.
What you are looking for is basically what happened with 3-point safety belts:

"The three point belt was developed by Nils Bohlin who had earlier also worked on ejection seats at Saab.[15] Volvo then made the new seat belt design patent open in the interest of safety and made it available to other car manufacturers for free.[16][17]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt#Three-point
It sounds like they aren't able to offer discounts. I did the same with my provider after a few years. They halved the price.
For me it wasn't the auction house that made me loathe to replay the game, it was the lack of character customization. Item choice is purely about HPS and damage reduction, with all other attributes more or less useless, and the ability to customize your skill loadout at will made it so you never invested in a consistent character. Why would you ever roll another character of a class if it's just going to be the exact same thing in the end?

No I may be unusual in this, I played a lot of D2, but never at a very high level. I would come back to it every few months or after a year of not playing it and roll a new character with some different skill tree choices and have a somewhat different experience each time. I never made it to nightmare, never had a level 99 character, but I found the game a lot of fun. D3 is just too much about the end-game for me, there's no journey.
There's having ZFS running as a native Windows file system...

...and then there's running ZFS on my Windows systems, which I must use a special API to access.

The second one isn't ideal, but it would be awesome to have.
It might help AFTER the raid, but probably wouldn't help prevent it.
This is good because in effect it can be life in prison, but the case is revised every X years - as opposed to being sentenced to life in prison beforehand, then making a lawyer rich trying to make a judge revisit your case.
The game is always-online, even for single player or local LAN. Which means you can get lag-killed in single player, or the server is full (which happened at launch) so you can't play your single player game. The game also kicks you out if you lose your connection while you're playing.
This is a great point and should be modded up. Lots of people use the android-based 'smart tv' functionality in newer TVs. If the TV can have a steam box built into it, I suspect it would see a LOT of use, no matter if the game selection is not 100%.

And of course since Android is Linux, combining the two would seem feasible...
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I was among the many D2 fans that felt let down by Diablo 3. I never went so far as to grab a pitchfork like some other people, but the auction house really sucked the fun out of the game.

Honestly, I'm very proud of Blizzard for making this decision. I never expected them to do something this drastic, but ultimately, it is what is best for the game.
Another problem with emailing decks is that investors read them and decide, without much feedback to the founders. When founders can talk through the deck interactively with investors, they can learn which parts work and which don't, and what questions are unanswered.
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I'm using "fleet" in the same way as you, jareds. A single company owns a large number of vehicles rather than a large group of individuals each owning one vehicle.

We wouldn't need to dedicate such a high level of inefficient resources to parking vehicles that sit mostly unused and it could offer us the opportunity to remake our cities to be more pedestrian and bike friendly.
> I guess I should save what would now be a car payment

In your case I know it's not as applicable, but I often recommend to people that pay off their car loans that they should continue making that payment, just into a savings account. In less time than it took to pay off the loan (remember, you were paying interest too), you'll have saved enough to pay cash for your next auto. If you've been able to live with that money dedicated towards a loan payment, hopefully your budget can continue not to depend on the "extra" resulting from not having the obligation.
Which company's management are you referring to?
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As I made clear [1], the novelty is in allowing opt-in to linearizability in a Dynamo-based system. To the best of my knowledge, Cassandra is indeed the first to offer this.

The "lightweight" qualifier was carefully chosen to suggest both that it is based on optimistic concurrency (no deadlocks) as well as less general than traditional "heavyweight" transactions.

Thanks for reading!

[1] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/lightweight-transactions-in...
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You truncated what he said. He qualified it with "that you could sell on the auction house", which is exceptionally important.

Grinding bosses for drops to build the character that you want offers great direct feedback - you kill the boss 84 times, and he finally drops the thing you've been looking for. The reward is tangible and exciting. Compare to the AH structure, where it's basically "well, I'll grind for things that might sell, and then hope they sell well enough that I can save up for that thing I need which I know will never actually drop for me". The direct feedback and chance for excitement is practically gone, because the things that you are actually excited for come from the auction house rather than the gameplay.
Outright incorrect headline. An independent organisation, with no official ties to The Tor Project is now going to start reimbursing other organisations who run exit nodes. Essentially helping to ensure a more diverse set of relay operators. This organisation previously directly took donations to run exit nodes themselves. That's problematic from a decentralisation point of view, so instead their going to use the donations to fund exit nodes run by others.
> The U.S's averaged around 5%, peaking near 15% and nearing 10% several years

You completely over-estimate the growth rate of US economy. You have probably read the raw GDP data that doesn't correct the growth rate with inflation which was very high in 1975-1985. (cf http://www.bea.gov/national/xls/gdpchg.xls )
How do you see that working?
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Countdown.js — super simple countdowns.
I'm sort of done of D2, but I've found Torchlight 2 to be an excellent replacement for Diablo. No auction house, and it fixes the most annoying parts (IMHO) of D3 and D2: weak, boring bosses and weak skills, respectively.

I played a ton of D2, but I always was disappointed that, with the exception of gimmick builds which could barely make it to Nightmare, you were limited to one or two viable builds for each character. Put more than one point into Firebolt? Too bad for you.

As for D3, I almost finished my first playthrough without drinking a single health potion. Not exactly the nail-biting, walking the razor's edge gameplay I had come to expect from Diablo.
Haha, this is something hotly debated in the lab as we speak. We just started A/B testing descriptions on Friday. :) Thanks for the kind words!
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Max Ogden, one of the contributors to Nodeschool.io, has an excellent tutorial on getting comfortable with Javascript.

http://jsforcats.com/
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This is the right thing to do, from my perspective. The AHs killed the fun of finding items for me, because there was always something way better you could buy for just a tiny amount of money. This could restore the game to the feeling it is meant to have.
> an automated fleet makes it sound like a train rather than many vehicles...each with a separate destination

When I hear the word "fleet" it usually just means a number of vehicles bought by one company: A car rental company has a fleet of cars. A trucking company has a fleet of trucks. A car dealer has a fleet manager. (Forgive me for pointing this out, I'm sure you know it already, just trying to clarify the terminology.)

Enterprise Rent-a-Car will already send any of the cars in their fleet to your door. Of course they send a human along to drive the car to you.

If they got an automated fleet they could offer the same service they do now, but they would just send the car over by itself.

At least that's what "automated fleet" sounds like to me. :-)
http://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-the-u.s.s-g...

128k out of 1.6m, or 8%. Graph of the incarcerated population: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_incarceration_timeline-.... The prison population started exploding in 1980 with the drug war and the war on immigration, but for-profit prisons had less than 10,000 prisoners as of 1990. It's a lagging effect--the for-profit prisons are sprouting up because we put so many people in prison, not the other way around.
Seems like there will be a huge divide between pre-auction house characters and post.

Is there any sort of PvP in the game?
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It's sad? Really?
Also, the gear progression is very linear. On every gear slot you are looking for the same affixes.
That's probably true in some cases.

I think another thing that is true is that mobile visual vocabulary is stabilizing, much as the desktop visual vocobulary of menu bars, window title bars, etc. did. That makes for a more boring app world, perhaps, but one users can potentially find more predictable and useful.
Sounds like a way of hacking near/far thinking (http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Near/far_thinking).
no it's not , especially when you cant tell the difference between what is a button and what is not a button.
File one on the X axis, File two on the Y axis, differences on the Z axis.
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Does anybody know of a 2D diff for diagrams? a lot like http://www.diffplug.com/
Which is fine, IMO. Removing the AH as a crux of gameplay design is the important thing here. Trade isn't inherently bad, but building the entire game around trade (and more specifically, trying to build the game around incentivizing people to trade through your system for real currency of which you get a cut) is a really crappy thing to do to a loot grinder.
See my top-level comment. TLDR: No, as The Tor Project has nothing to do with this announcement.
The lesson, applicable to games, startups, governance, and indeed systems engineering in general, is that systems react. You can not look at an existing system, then say "Ah, this system is doing X, so I shall do Y which will cause the result Z, and nothing else." In this case, you can't look at the D2 community, and say, "Ah ha, I shall inject this system for extracting money, and therefore it shall be exactly like the original situation except I shall be making money." The system reacts.

This is truly one of the gaping holes in human cognition, this idea that a single participant in a larger system can make a change and then model the results of that change without accounting for the reactions of all the other actors. Especially when the participant in question is by far the largest participant.

I actually disagree that the root problem is that they put "profit over gameplay". The root problem is that they made changes designed to create profit, but failed to correctly understand how the rest of the system would react. There probably is a way to "monetize" the Diablo community more successfully, but whatever that way is it's going to be something more subtle than the Auction House was.

I'd suggest looking at how Valve has monetized the hell out of Team Fortress 2 if you're trying to find a positive example. It's mind boggling what they've pulled off there, and observe that, like I said, it's a great deal more subtle than "let's just put up some payment gates!!1!". MMORPGs also provide a variety of interesting compare & contrasts, especially with the recent successes of the free-to-play models to compare to the WoW subscription/expansion model.
I guess he meant seamless.
Within minutes of posting this comment the title has been silently edited to be more neutral. (Although still potentially misleading given the associated domain name).

It originally read: Tor to start reimbursing exit node operators
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I don't think they really feel the need to completely stop the buying of good items. They just want to decrease their availability so that most players can experience the fun of finding items themselves.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply and helpful criticism of my initial comment.
There's no way to have a perfectly secure system if the hardware is in someone else's hands. Period.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(software) for one reason why.
It's not a list of policy tick-boxes that make the USA what it is. It's our enormous diversity. The USA is many countries that all live together as one. There are so many cultures here that all get along better here than they do anywhere else in the world. It's why our economic and cultural engines are the biggest in the world. Compared to the USA... Sweden is... provincial. And that's fine. You're doing well.
It's really bad when out of all the reasons governments can shut down Tor nodes, it's DMCA's that do it. If DMCA's really have that much power, then their reform is long overdue.
Maybe we'll finally move back to SoJ currency, like it's supposed to be.
You do realize that Vinod has been at this for a long time. And his bad reputation is based on that long history. So why make definitive claims based on six months of data?

Moreover, above you justify the insane terms for those founders. You are doing them a disservice on some false belief they can't get funding. If they build something valuable, they will be fundable. Just cause KV jumps in early doesn't entitle KV to be bullies. Vinod has often been a bully. Being early doesn't justify that noxious behavior and his reputation among those who know suffers because of it.

You've already ignored my questions about specific examples.
The retribution vs, rehabilitation has fluctuated. There was some research in the '70s that showed that rehabilitation was not really impacting recidivism. Some said that research was flawed, for example because of the other things that were happening in that same period, much like after the Civil War had a similar effect. But a tough on crime mentality was embraced and now we have what we have. This is a decent overview with some good sources at the end:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/12282007/penalphilosophy.h...
I unsubscribed myself from all Blizzard game After the D3 fiasco. Blizzard is no longer the same company it once was. There are so many issues but I think it ultimately boil down to treating their customers as drug addicts rather than intelligent human beings. The worst offenders being dumb down game mechanics to cater to the lowest common denominator, WoW daily quests, always online DRM and of course the D3 AH.
Great move. I remember the first time I stopped by the auction house and bought some powerful gems for my level 20 character. I'd been collecting crappy gems planning to upgrade them, but then for a pittance of gold I had suddenly (almost accidentally) twinked my character with gems with huge stat bonuses and no level requirements. I tried to swear off the auction house after that, but the psychological damage was done, and I never played Diablo 3 after the first time I beat normal difficulty. (To be fair, I might just have been in a different stage of my life than when I was a Diablo 2 addict in high school.)

I'm sure this will become a seminal case study for online game design in the future.
TripleSec seems to be only about the same person who did the encrypting, doing the decrypting -- for securing your own stuff, not really for communication. Communication requires exchanging keys beforehand...

[Edit: meant encrypting not encoding... thanks Perseids]
But the thing is there is still a trading economy in the game. It will still exist, it's now just unofficial. In diablo 2 you traded items by joining chat rooms and spamming your wares or joining message boards. You then traded by arranging a game together and trading in person.

They are just removing the convenience now.
So you will then have a car of your own, and then what? Lots of young people are opting not to buy a car; they are a huge black hole for money and can be extremely inconvenient to operate in modern cities.

It might turn out that by the point the technology exists for self-driving cars, private car ownership will be extinct and driving a car within city limits a felony.
Almost universally, the trend in mobile (and, if Microsoft gets its way, desktop) is toward using more pixels to display less information.

It sucks. I wish the kids would get off that particular lawn.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

D2 was just complex enough to be extremely interesting. The incredible diversity in skills, items and stats allowed an immense variety of viable builds, leaving players to hunt for specific legendary items which totally changed the gameplay experience (teleporting barbarians, whirlwhind assassins, etc etc).

D3 is the complete antithesis to this design philosophy. Everything was made so simple that there is zero depth. Gameplay is not altered by any acquired items. Your character's strength increases linearly as a value of a few stats. Boring, repetitive, and linear.

The failure of D3 was that it failed to capitalize on what D2 got right, and also failed to invent anything to replace that massive loss.
This UI would leave me wondering if the deletion is going to go through if I close the page to do something else prior to the countdown completion.
So if I have a 15/5 dynamic IP home internet connection, could I make enough money to cover my connnection by running an exit node in a VM? Somehow I imagine a static IP would be needed.

It sounds like since there's only $3k allotted for this, there wouldn't be enough to go around, even if my connection were technically feasible.
why the hell would they do this at night?
I'm not completely sure, but I think the idea might be that if you've come, got a price, left, come back later to get a price for the same thing, then between leaving and coming back you've shopped around and settled on them. Since you've settled on them your intent now is to buy from them, so they try to get more money. The thing that confuses me though is that if you're shopping around you're probably price sensitive enough to notice?
Would the thief then prefer a world full of greater doubts?
Note that since the total amount of $3500 will be handed out every month, as long as we have less than 6 entities signing the contract, each entity will receive their maximum share of 500 Euro.

One of us interpreted that wrong then. I read it as "If we have less than 6 entities, each will get the max cap. More than that and each will get less than the cap." I didn't read anywhere that said how many entities have been contacted and how many are expected to sign the contract.
Italian taxpayers will have to pick up the tab

The stories I've seen claim that that salvage operation is covered by insurance, so Lloyds (and whoever Lloyds is re-insured with) is picking up the tab.
One thing I noticed a lot of these updates are forgetting to include are changes to use the stock keyboard available in iOS7. It pains me to see the default iOS6 keyboard still used in iOS7 in focus in inputs.

Devs, please remember to make the changes necessary so that the new keyboard is used in your application.
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my head already hurts
Haha. It is a very cheap server.
I was thinking more along the lines of how some unlimited plans actually just end the contract with you if you use "too much". I've never heard bad things about OVH but I've never really heard good things either. I just felt a little uneasy when I had a slightly bad first impression of them.
A cheap server is good but I'd rather pay more if they're going to be bad. (Not that OVH were).

I was just interested to know what experiences others had had with them.
The only reason to have a car is to be able to go directly to your destination, and to be able to do it on your schedule.

Both of which are kind of a big deal.
It's like none of you people have ever gone through a code review. Cripes.
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Yeah... it looks like my employer is going down the same route with an EMC Isilon NAS system.

We really just want high throughput for linear scans; possibly with a small amount of parallelism, which would argue for a fairly simple solution with as little cacheing as possible (ideally none whatsoever) ... but I cannot even tell (from the website & the literature that I can access) how these things are supposed to operate -- which is a worrying sign in itself.

Previously, I got good performance out of a SAN using a handful of NexSan SataBeasts -- which I would have recommended to use again, if anybody had bothered to ask.

:-)
Microsoft announces quarterly dividend increase and share repurchase program
Are you asking me to repeat myself?
> Since phase 2 prices vary at most 10x and the big successes generate returns of at least 100x, investors should pick startups entirely based on their estimate of the probability that the company will be a big success and hardly at all on price.

Can someone explain the reasoning here? Investing at a lower valuation means that for the same money in, the investor gets a higher cut of any payout, right? If an investor judges your company to have a 1% chance of ending up worth $100m and a 99% chance of it ending up at $0m, then they should be willing to invest if the valuation is << $1m and not if the valuation is >> $1m. Or not?