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> Every time I have to RDP into them to change some configs instead of just vi'ing files in /etc I want to shoot myself.

Ugh, maybe you should try out at least one of the several options for remotely managing IIS before you shoot (or embarrass) yourself?
The trappings of imperial grandeur still seem alien and disconcerting to the american. We don't have a history of it. For the first ~80 years of the american republic the politicians were mostly retired old guys working part time. The scope of the central government only first reached a european scale in the 1930s. Even then, FDR drove himself and his family around in the family car. Elanor Roosevelt frequently did the cooking in the white house.

With the talk of the pope's scaled down lifestyle, it's funny to read about how weirded out American catholic representatives were at the first vatican council way back in 1869. The pomp was strange, and a lot of the ideas about social hierarchy were strange.
What's scary about reading articles like this is that if they are true, those "in power" don't care enough what people think to try and suppress these thoughts.

If the frog is boiling, where are we at on the scale of "didn't make tenure" to "jack booted swat team renditions you"?
Steam envisions itself more as an open platform than a storefront. I don't have an opinion on whether this is the best choice or not, but that's the direction they have said they are moving in. The GP's complaint seems more like a consequence of that general direction that a consequence of Valve's attitude as a business, as they generally (only generally) have a track record of being relatively consumer friendly. And in the specific industry of games publishers, they are practically saints.
Great advice. I certainly agree.
The former is more evil. The potential disasters associated with the latter are a significant deterrent to doing it unless it really matters.
When the vast majority of farmers who work the land are generally held in debt they consider unfair, yeah, they're going to do that.

You're forgetting that the Free Silver movement was about exactly this - farmers trapped in debt due to a deflationary gold-backed dollar were agitating for the silver dollar which would be inflationary and thus allow them to escape it. Deny them that, and they're going to switch to something else - like taking a long hard look at what's considered "fair".

You might also note that the modern US has exactly this concept - bankruptcy. It has consequences, but debt can in fact just disappear.
In the past, I had the misfortune to work with MSBuild to setup a fairly large .Net project. This was before NuGet exist. NuGet helped a bit these days but integrating FxCop, FxStyle, auto run NUnit, generate the docs, and running code coverage as part of the build is very painful and a manual process from downloading the proper assemblies up to setting up paths and results. Not to mention packaging the whole things up and possibly deploying to local IIS all through the build script.

Preparing dev workspace means to include csproj in your repo which may contain hardcoded paths. Is that portable across to Mono? In Java, all you need is a Maven pom.xml file and the code. Any modern IDE can read pom.xml file and prepare the project consistently cross platforms.

CI server is the easy part.
Science. 40 years is a long time for advances in the capabilities of the probes and experiments.

http://english.cntv.cn/program/newsupdate/20131214/104563.sh...
seriously though, I guess possible reasons for this acquisition are:

1. google realizes that robot technology is rapidly advancing, and they want to hold relevant patents

2. google somehow is thinking of extending the idea of google-now, i.e. a personal (virtual) digital assistant, towards actual physical (robotic) assistants

3. something else?
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Am I the only one who thinks that picture of the yellow spacecraft on "the moon" looks incredibly fake?
Qian Xuesen dies at 98; Co-Founder of JPL and China's space program (2009)
China successfully lands robotic rover on the moon
Same here. Only worked in incognito mode. Pretty cool effect. It'd be nice if the effect were more subtle when the edge colors where the dominant color so that the image doesn't end up blending in too much with the background.

Any particular reason for the jQuery dependency? I can't see any good reason for tying this to jQuery, since I would expect it only to use jQuery for selecting a DOM element, which is more than easy enough to do without jQuery.
Once I was disagreeing on the "fallacy" article in wikipedia (fr) with someone (I used to contribute), I created an article so that I could coined the "argumentum ad wikipediam" that says if somehting is on wikipedia it was true.

The other contributor made his point by pointing it is just an argumentum ad autoritatem.

Then I discovered that wikipedia was turning with NPOV (I had some fights) into an authority : the validation of a NPOV is made by a team of recurrent contributors who have bias (like believing that when someone claim to be a researcher in their page like them it must be true even if we cannot check the real identity of the person).

Every system of knowledge and cooperation tends to be plagued by the emergence of an "aristocracy" of self declared experts.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts (Feynman).

On the other hand, for now WP is still sane you can still open a claim that this article is violating NPOV. Because that is the case.

Redactors will study your case you might even be winning because you are stating the obvious : it seems (in my opinion) it has nothing to do with an universal non biased knowledge.

Even if I had a grudge with WP that may back your claim, I won't actually agree with until you signal this article as NPOV.

Here is your entry point for making what is right :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view...
Knc Miner Has Sold $28M Of Its New Mining Hardware
They were running simulated 3D graphics alongside the other streams to show what was happening...
When I saw the headline, I was thinking to myself "I'm sure I've heard of these guys before" and then I remembered the Sand Flea. Such a cool little guy! Thanks for the video, it fills me with awe every time I see it.
>While implying that the US is a totalitaian state will get you lots of up votes from insecure europeans, the word has no meaning if it encompasses the current state of affairs in America.

It would be convenient to keep the word "totalitarianism" forever connected with the very specific practices of Nazi Germany or, say, Stalin's USSR, and only those. Unfortunately the word and the practice existed way before and will continue to exist in the future. And there's not just a single form of it.

One can spend all his life between home, office, some cosy restaurant or cafe, friends house, and never understand anything that's going on in society at large, if he's so inclined. Especialy if he's on the upper echelon, e.g not a black, latino, native american, or "white trash", so he doesn't get to transparently see the structures of totalitarianism in a day by day basis.

From the militarization of police: http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americ...

to cities built for exclusion and closing down of public space:
http://www.amazon.com/City-Quartz-Excavating-Future-Angeles/...

to the privitazation of prisons (and the highest incarceration rate of the world by far, surpassing even Stalin's era Gulag percentages when it comes to blacks):
http://www.amazon.com/Punishment-Sale-Private-Business-Incar...

to the dwindling middle-class (which is, when it exists, the real pillar of democracy):
http://www.amazon.com/Servant-Economy-Americas-Sending-Middl...

Add mass surveillance, three-strike laws that resemble 19th century ethics, the concentrated control of mass media, constant external war, etc etc and you have quite a potent mix.
> build ridiculous palaces for themselves

I'd go further and say the whole model of a gleaming capital city with ornate temples of governance is well out of date. Most representative government could be handled over conference calls and the internet. You could rent out a convention center somewhere a few times a year to hold sessions.
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There is an explanation in this video.

Current renderings are based on real-time telemetry data being sent back from the probe.

40 years is a long time and instruments have advanced. I guess now that the solar panels are engaged and the rover is active, we will get some decent footage. The moon in 1080p? Yes please!

http://english.cntv.cn/program/newsupdate/20131214/104460.sh...
I think it has to do with jQuery becoming the dominant standard for everything web, that said it's not too much code so removing both the dependency on jQuery and the dependency on underscore should be fairly simple.
YouTube isn't really a social network.
Not on blockchain.info is not.
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Robots that help around the house. Of course they will have cameras and microphones transmitting data to the "cloud" for navigation (and targeted ads that will be projected on walls, etc by the robot)
> History is pre-determined by scientific laws which are sequentially discovered by people and which, in their inexorable application, produce technology.
— Bruce Bimber. "Karl Marx and the Three Faces of Technological Determinism" (http://web.mit.edu/sts/pubs/pdfs/MIT_STS_WorkingPaper_11_Bim...). 1990.
Safari on Mac OS exposes web login credentials
It seems like the problem with it not working very time is Github. I get a 503 on this URL every other time that I load it: http://rawgithub.com/briangonzalez/jquery.adaptive-backgroun...
I haven't looked at the source in great detail yet so maybe you already have this feature.

It would be nice if you could specify an offset along the color wheel to select complimentary or analogous colors.

The default of selecting the dominant color removes all contrast between the image and the background which seems like a rarely desired behavior.
I have submitted this as a separate story as I believe it merits discussion regarding the links between China and America's space program.

Bassically the Co-Founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was deported from the US to China during the McCarthy era and he became the "Father" of China's space program.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6905862

Wikipedia writes, "Under Secretary Kimball, who had tried to keep Qian in the U.S., commented on the affair to say: "It was the stupidest thing this country ever did. He was no more a Communist than I was, and we forced him to go."
>Inventing new "isms" to market fringe ideas should be discouraged on this basis; it makes things harder to understand.

Yes, we clearly should have stopped inventing new terms around Plato's time.

I mean what's these fancy new -isms, like Anarchism, Marxism, et al?
There's nothing wrong with Wikipedia pages covering political concepts, this article is just a very bad example of how to do that well. The article is about something that is not a widely accepted concept, only cites the primary source that defined the concept, is at least as focused on arguing that the US (and only the US) is an example of the concept as it is on defining the concept, and reads like a political OP-ED written in the third person.

It would be like if the article about socialism only sourced books by Bill O'Reilly and was all about how President Obama is definitely a socialist. Even accepting that Wolin is more academic and respected than O'Reilly (I really have no idea), I don't think this meets the bar of encyclopedia entry.
Snow in Cairo after 112 years.
>I don't think democracy rests on voters being "secure" (in the welfare state sense) when they make their decision.

No, an insecure population can also act democratically, but it's much more easier to pressure it.
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Show HN: Dead simple photo sharing
Hi all, about a month ago my wife was complaining about how annoying all of the photo sharing services were. Either the UI was overly complicated or it would ask people to register for the service before they could view the photos, etc.

So I decided to build something dead-simple that she could use. There are no frills. You just create an album and email it around. The link goes directly to the photos.

It's not fancy at all (very utilitarian), but she appreciates it, so I thought I'd launch it as a full service and share it with people.

It's called SimpleNeat http://www.simpleneat.com

If people try it out feedback would be appreciated.
Eye-tracking trial seeks signs of autism in babies
I'm not sure what is worse - that Facebook allows data collection for these type of studies or that there are engineers and data scientists willing to study it.

Does Facebook wonder why we don't trust them - or even care?
Here's a clickable link:

http://www.simpleneat.com
Feels somewhat biased to me, only because it claims to expose the truth. It's very easy to only include metrics for things that look favourable and the points made there don't really help me as a developer to choose the best one for a project. Questions I think are valid when looking at NoSQL vs SQL are:

- Does it enforce a schema?

- Can you store nested data structures in your record?

- Can you perform joins?

- What replication models are available?

- What patterns are available for high performance read/write operations?

- Storage implications?

Scores like "Is it something new" I don't see serve any purpose. Why is it important if it's new or not? If it's new and therefore not mature, then simply say "Is it mature". If it's that there is a lot of third party support, then say that.

The problem is a lot of the truth comes down to the database vendor, not the general concept. SQL is a known standard, but what is NoSQL after all? As there's no standard, what are you actually comparing i to? Bottom line is, all results are moot if the database server I'm using has inherent limitations.
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He just scrapped the whole game he had been working on for 6 hours (it was some kind of endless runner in a 3D forest setting) and started on a new one.
While I partially agree with you, to me the ease of making summaries of data across different sets, makes SQL a better choice for where higher order calculations are required. Writing a distributed map reduce query in erlang is both harder to make fast, and harder to understand.

For something like static html pages, for say a source control web app like Github, Riak or some other document store is a great choice.

But for something like a invoicing/accounting app like FreshBooks, where you need to summary and filter across multiple accounts, invoices, staff, etc., then SQL is much easier to build a OO backed system. (Although there would still be events in there as well, like notification systems, etc.)
Also I should note that it works well in mobile safari. You can easily bulk upload photos from your mobile phone that way. I'll probably be making it in to a native app as well for the hell of it sometime soon.
When I first saw the Google barges, the first thing I thought to myself was that It was a testing ground for Robotics. Multi-pedal, wheeled, and arial robots. I still hold to it until they show pictures from the inside. :-)
Unless they had a second spacecraft nearby to take the photo, it would have to be. So it must be an illustrative graphic.
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This will go nowhere.
USA today is like Athena after the 2nd medic war: a Republic that claims to be a democracy. During Peloponese war, Athena the "democracy" had turned into a violent colonial power, and Sparta the totalitarian state turned oddly into the creation of an alliance for protecting the weakest.

Needless to say at the end, of these war neither Athena nor Sparta won, because they both lost.

Plato's Republic is a simple HOWTO turn a democracy ruled by citizens into a system claiming to be ruled in the best interest of the citizen by a minority of "Wise men" with an elite of watchmen that enforce the power.

Read Alan Moore's "Watchmen" for a criticize of the republic (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)

Pericles(or Solon (don't remember) before Athena became a Republic said the same thing as Eisenower: beware of the richs that want to get a grip on a state and extend their power through their influence and will use military power for expension.

Nothing new under the sun. The guy is reinventing the wheel

http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.html
Microsoft's licence riddles give Linux a free ride to virtual domination
For anyone wondering, the theme for this ludum dare is "You Only Get One"
Steam allows you to install and uninstall games whenever you'd like, so it all comes down to some management of which games are installed. Say, if you need 100 GB for a new game you can just uninstall a few games you won't play.
I switched back to Firefox from Chrome last week and I'm loving it! It may be the SSD I recently upgraded from a traditional hard drive, but it feels really really snappy. Unfortunately, I don't find use for any of the addons mentioned here or in their top lists. I just don't need 'em. I only have Adblock Plus for most websites which I disable on websites I use regularly.

A lot of the addons in this list just seem like bloatware to me, trying to create a problem that allows their fix to exist.
Now, they say "I wish Java had a unified type system, and did not have the Object/primitive type distinction".

Which is also a goal for a future Java release, as announced by Oracle (don't know if they'll follow through):

Java 9 and 10 will tackle big data, multi-language interoperability, cloud and mobile and ship in 2015 and 2017 respectively, Oracle said Wednesday. For the Java Development Kit (JDK) 10 or after, a fundamental change is being discussed: making the Java language Object Oriented. This might see the introduction of a unified type system that turns everything into objects and means no more primitives.
Thank you. Page 4 of that doc makes it much clearer. It seems like the fees paid to the issuer of a Visa credit card can vary by up to ~1% dependent on the scheme.

One more question: when you say 'interchange plus pricing', is the 'plus' uniform across all transactions (i.e. the same $ or the same % or the same %+$)?
The problem when you do an opinionated article like this is that is an empty message (It's no going to convince anybody nor going to clear concepts to new comers)

For instance:

"Is it based upon a rock-solid theory"

So a hash table lookup is not based in a rock-solid theory?

"Can it handle relational data models"

Is this an advantage if your data doesn't have relations? (i.e logs)

"Is it even a well-defined concept"

NoSQL is an umbrella term, replace it with Key-Value data store or with a Document store and you will see it is pretty well-defined.

And the list can be extended...

The mainly problem with NoSQL databases is that they are keep being used in places where a relational database would make more sense and after failure those people are very vocal about it. At the end of the day is a tool and you will be fine in using it as long as it is the right tool for your need.
PayPal do not care at all whether their APIs are developer-friendly. Why should they? They are a near-monopoly. You are completely dependent on them and they do not need you at all. I suspect their APIs are a result of minimising what they have to pay their own developers, because they win if they saved just one hour of development time even if 10 million vendors have to spend 10 hours each to work around the limitations.

In the very unlikely event that the developer has any influence in the choice of payment processor (i.e. you are a startup that intends to trade in only one country) they still do not care, because they still need to do the usual due diligence to check whether your company is a fraud/ML risk, but they earn little in fees from you. They would rather let a smaller payment processor deal with you, then try to take over later after your product is established.
How is NoSQL both very old and immature? Can someone explain to me the definition this is using of "mature"? Is BigTable mature software?
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It will be good to see actual footage from the Moon. Forgive my skepticism, but after the Chinese team faked their summit of Everest I am naturally skeptical.
I got lost with the "is it a * standard" comparison.

I understand the importance of standards, but a standard for a query language is different than a category of data stores. (Also - half the things he talks about further down are very very hard to do with standard SQL and not using any proprietary extensions - see Hierarchal).

Perhaps a comparison that made the left column "RDBMS" would be better... At the very least the 2 standards questions would be set to NO.

Further - there is an awful lot of stuff lumped in RDBMS vs EVERYTHING_ESLE...

"Is it based on a rock solid theory?" Well.. at the very least graph databases are. Others yes and no.

"Will it be around in t 10 years?" Again, given that Neo4J is over 10 years old already and its usage is increasing... I will place a long bet on it being around. Others... again yes and no. Similar for RDBMS. Will oracle be here? Yes. Will Postgres... again yes. But some of the Column-store SQL databases? Maybe. (Also - what does it mean for semi popular software to go away... it takes a really long time. Heck Remember the Firebird database that had some popularity ~10 years ago? turns out they are still shipping code, as of 12-7 anyway. Who knew? Who uses it?)

"Is it even a well defined concept"... Again unfair. The term NoSQL came out of a clustering based on usage, where the results were ("RDBMS/SQL", "everything else") - because at the time "everything else" was the only way to see statistical significance against "RDBMS". Of course its poorly defined. Of course with RDBMS we could be talking about a dozen different technologies with an SQL+extensions interface.

I guess i just get annoyed when people make silly arguments. Not to mention I'm too pragmatic to understand the concept of SQL vs NoSQL. They are tools. Some are good for one thing, others for other things. Seriously - if you take away my graph databases I'll get annoyed. But I'll be equally annoyed if you try to make me use them for storing interesting lookup tables when Postgres is sitting right over there.

tl;dr - We probably need to kill the NoSQL terminology. It's outlived its usefulness.
It's not really news that nosql is a vague and unhelpful term.

if you lump together things like couchdb, a document database built for replication and Casandra a wide column database built for big data storage, pretty much everything is going to be a maybe as those databases are more different from each other then they are from SQL. The real cheat sheet for SQL vs nosql is:

A concept that refers to something specific: SQL 1, nosql 0
Like in Iran? Where they over throw the dictator and US came in to install a new one?
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"Totalitarianism" loses all meaning if you apply it to states that imprison foreigners captured in war. What developed country doesn't do this?

Guantanamo is an example of improper treatment of POWs, not detainment of citizens in a totalitarian state.
Notch his success has nothing to do with being good at programming. It's about being creative and able to create good game play.

Because he programmed game play routines a lot and dealt with everything involved (i.e graphic rendering and such) more than the average Joe it looks like he is a good programmer because he just shakes it out live on some streaming website. Those concepts are language-agnostic and you can remember them.