skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One price for all player teirs seem pretty reasonable in my oppinion.

The freemium business model is really only viable if you can hook the few so called 'high payer' users and everyone else gets a rubbish experience.

Notch is notoriously anti '"free to play" ... with in app purchases', and keeping that away from minecraft will ultimately benefit the players.

There's been some pretty heavy vitriol from seever hosts about this, but honestly, when you play in someone elses playground, its their way or the highway. Thats what you get.
This looks more like escort services, not Uber
Alternatively, http://isthisretina.com offers a simple way to input whatever value you need. Not that the computation is complex, but it's quite handy.
There is also ZeroBallistics: http://www.zeroballistics.com/downloads.php
because it doesn't sound like Notch is cruising the Caribbean in a 175' yacht or anything.

He did however recently make news by buying the most expensive apartment in Stockholm.
Samsung 840 Pro vs Corsair Neutron GTX? They both did well.. which would you buy?
From what I remember, children are great advertisement targets - they're going to whine at their parents until they get what they want.
I think amazon has a pricing error on their website for the light utilization instances since the April price drop as they are more expensive than even the on demand ones (at least the ones I looked at).

I submitted a support ticket but haven't heard anything back. Once you start looking at medium reservation the prices fall significantly.

For example for the 3.75GB m3.medium is $51.1 on demand per month vs ~56 for the light reservation vs ~35 for the medium reservation. All running 24/7 and 1 year terms on reservations.

EDIT: Just got a reply on my support ticket. I guess the light reservation instances are just for reserving capacity now.

"You are correct about the Light Utilization Reserved Instances. I have brought this to the attention of the EC2 pricing team to see if this is an error on our part. Unfortunately, these Reserved Instance types now only cover Capacity Reservation and no longer offer a discounted hourly rate over the On Demand hourly prices."
The headline made me think they were offering IRC bouncers (e.g. ZNC) as a service which might have been slightly interesting. Sadly, the reality was much less fun.
Easy to be less expensive when Hexo does not have a working prototype and are still in the hype stage.

Kind of sad though that Airdog is going to get less funding(and less exposure) than Hexo, just because of lack of flashy marketing.

Still, looks like both projects will get funded and that is a good thing.
Power steering for your scroll wheel
Scrollify is a new jQuery plugin for assistive scrolling and section snapping, and it works great on touch devices.
> * if you want to help your cause if you're getting riled up like this then you are actually doing it a disservice.*

This is a common statement, but historically groups without rights have had a lot of success with arguing and fighting and pushing back. If something (being nice) is demonstratidly not effective, why should I do it?
Yikes you're right. Looks like 2 powers of 10.
Thank you for correcting me. I disagreed after reading the same blog post, but after your explanation I realised I completely missed the baseline performance guarantee. Your math was spot on!
If we assume stability, in what circumstances would PIOPS or Magnetic volumes be preferable to General Purpose?

For example, workloads that use an average of < ~.4 IOP per GB per second, might save money using Magnetic.
Add this to that the fact that we need to try not to lose the player's attention so he won't get too confused by too much information.

In the dialogs, we first explain to the player that we need to create him a username, a private key and a public one. Now the player gets too chose his username, and right after that we generate a random private key (well not exactly random, in fact we randomize a pre-generated private key so we can be sure of it's properties, otherwise the player could get hard times decrypting).

Once the private key is generated, we get the player to create his public key through scrambling and mixing the private key.

During the normal game, we add an extra check to make sure the private/public keys matches the ideal properties we need for our demonstration: we want the player to play with a simple public key and the AI to play with a strong (kind of) public key, in the game this translates to one column significantly 'bigger' than the others for the private key and more than one 'big' columns for the public key.

We only constrain the public key during the game's story mode, in arcade one can chose to create a 'weaker' public key ("Arcade" > "création des clés"), then let him play the arcade boards with it.

Additionally, we allow the player to chose who plays with what, so both the player and the AI can play with private/public keys.

So I really think all the building blocks are already in the game + arcade mode. But we need to admit that most people just skip dialogs, no matter what.

Oh, well let's just keep on iterating :)
Samsung, largely due to reputation. Samsung have been fairly consistent in turning out decent, reliable SSDs while Corsair have historically been all over the map.
The cynic in me things that this idea is probably the reason why Disney have been so aggressive about using their oldest characters in the last few years. E.g. Steamboat Willy in opening sequences, and the short film before Frozen.

Even if they fail to extend the original copyrights, there are other potential "loopholes" to making it harder to reuse these characters:

The more Disney uses variations of them, the bigger the minefield becomes in terms of sticking to the depictions that enters/have entered public domain. And they may also be going for making it harder to make any use of some of the imagery without running into trademark law as well.

In this case, the author "only" had to deal with the threats and the small minefield of avoiding character aspects revealed in the last 10 Sherlock stories, and so presumably had a reasonably simple task. Perhaps the Arthur Conan Doyle estate now wishes they'd pursued a more aggressive licensing strategy aimed at creating a bigger minefield..
It depends on how you're flying but drag is generally ignored for hobby use at this stage. Increased drag will affect top speed and range, but endurance won't suffer much because the vast majority of energy is used for altitude control. If you reduced drag by 99%, the improvement in endurance would be modest for the same reason.

Its a much bigger consideration for point to point missions like cargo transport though.
Will General Purpose (SSD) be an option for RDS?
However, that is EXACTLY what you’re encouraging here.
Now not only will players who don’t want to pay not be able to
have access to every custom-built feature or gameplay experience,
they won’t have access to any of them because they won’t be able
to get into the server in the first place.

What kind of strawman arguement is that?

Players unwilling to pay for feature X (previously unavailable to non paying customers), will now not be able have access to it as it wont exist at all.

What a compelling argument.

I suppose they wont have the luxury of watching other people having more fun than them now. How terrible for the players.

(I suppose there are some valid points in there, but after reading that I found it hard to take seriously)
I can't give you any useful information, aside from saying that I tried to work out the answers to these questions myself not long ago and the result was 'it depends'. Many of the values are manufacturer specific.
Of course, before colour was HD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/405-line_television_system
To answer to your question, I think your points have already been raised and while I may even share them BIP70 is by default using SSL and X.509 and it seems natural to use it for extensions too.

Other than that, instant confirmation is also done via our own API (which is via wss, ssl) and there is no reason as to why it couldn't be done with ECDSA instead, issue as usual is key management.

You think arbitrage&liquidity between exchanges via instant confirmation is not well suited for exchanges?
I think you have maybe misunderstood the purpose of why flatbuffers exists; message packing for real time high performance games. It's not a replacement for Protocol Buffers or Cap'n Proto.

You've heard of Valve Software right? Their game engine, being a distant relative of Quake, used the old quake message packing format up until 1 or 2 years ago. Since then they have retrofitted all their popular games to use protocol buffers instead since it allows them to more easily extend their net code without breaking backwards compatibility (up to a point of course). In the context of games, optional fields are very important as are default values.

Also in this context; the author of flatbuffers is Wouter van Oortmerssen, author of the Cube and Cube2 game engines: http://sauerbraten.org

From the white paper:

> In particular, FlatBuffers focus is on mobile hardware (where memory size and memory bandwidth is even more constrained than on desktop hardware), and applications that have the highest performance needs: games.
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It is much better then viagra and no need prescription
I wonder if spin rite could fix them... heh
Still don't understand why Expertsexchange 2.0 gets so much attention.
Which is why people bought the much cheaper USR Sportster and used the magic AT command!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USRobotics_Sportster_magic_str...
Couldn't the estate trademark Sherlock Holmes' name?
Didn't Disney eventually trademark Mickey Mouse?
"about:memory" is probably great, but it is too detailed for someone who is not familiar with FF internal architecture. The way I see it it is mainly useful for FF developers.

I like "about:addons-memory" (available if you install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/about-addons-...).
You absolutely can use Linux. I just recall from my FPGA days, Windows was the easiest way to get going for hobbyist FPGA work. If running Linux is what matters to you, run Linux. If developing for an FPGA is what matters to you, do what is easiest to get you there, IMO.

I don't care what people use, but this community tends to get lost in, 'well it's got to be open source...' and whole productive lines of inquiry get totally derailed.
They may have begun refining their design language but is it getting any better? In my opinion it isn't. Here's an example: in OS X Yosemite, buttons and textboxes are rendered the same. (See Safari toolbar for example: look at the buttons and the address textbox.) Also look at Xcode: Look at the status label on the toolbar (which used to be an "LCD".) It too is displayed with the same bevels. So labels, buttons and textboxes are indistinguishable based on their rendering. Who here thinks this is an improvement? They are getting the basics wrong.
Autoplaying video with sound = me closing the tab immediately and refusing to read the article.
UK intelligence forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance
(edit: "flat rate" = cost, not total flat rate. The 30 IOPS are per GB, so it scales with volume size. Sorry if I misled.)
Yep fair enough, Windows is a lot nicer to deal with but it just doesn't seem to have the same developer support. My alternative buy is definitely a Macbook but I do think the surface would be better for other student use cases - that said plenty of people on campus have Macbooks so it's not exactly a painful choice.

VMs are a good point and probably pretty much equalise things technically but OSX seems the better main OS for just doing work that happens to be programming/using developer tools etc.
Most of the values count down from 100, so eg you power cycled this enough to reduce the count form 100 to 99, but it is ok until it reaches the threshold value of 0. So your drive is pretty new in terms of usage.

You should run the short and long smartctl tests occasionally to get more reliable results though (smartctl -t short and smartctl -t long)
Not a lawyer either. Characters may be protected by copyright, in as much as their manifestations in writing, or visual depictions etc. is protected by copyright, and copyright includes the right to control derivative works.

So if I describe a young boy that goes to wizard school in a book, then that idea is not protected by copyright, but if the way I describe him makes him similar enough to Harry Potter, I would risk that a court would determine that the character is a derivative work and find copyright infringement.

Trademark can also apply, if the characters have been used in association with products, but not generally for the work itself.
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Saw the report this morning on the BBC impressive technology, real time high fidelity edge detection (looked something like a Sobel but they where correct for depth of field and it looked like closer objects had more detail).

They are looking at using something like http://www.epson.co.uk/gb/en/viewcon/corporatesite/products/... (showed on the report) for the next generation.
Regular expression that matches only itself
The lost packages of docker
See my reference from my first comment http://bravenewclimate.com/?s=TCASE

The Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy series from bravenewclimate.com - TCASE 4 [1] in particular. It references this [2] document form The University of Sydney for wind, and this one [3] for solar. TCASE 5 [4] looks wave power, and TCASE 7 [5] investigates scaling up Andasol 1 to baseload.

I also recommend reading the comments sections of those blog posts, there's some good quality discussion there.

The "nuclear is bad beacuse meltdown" and "nuclear is bad beacuse bombs" tropes have been dealt with extensively elsewhere. Both are hyped up FUD. We're still waiting for Godzilla, or some green-glowing-three-eyed-monster to appear.

1. http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/10/18/tcase4/

2. http://www.isa.org.usyd.edu.au/publications/documents/ISA_Nu...

3. http://www.needs-project.org/docs/results/RS1a/RS1a%20D12.2%...

4. http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/10/25/tcase5/

5. http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/12/06/tcase7/
Check 177, 235 and 241. When the normalized value gets close to 0 (for any of them) start to worry.

The ones I listed are the main wear indicators, for the others I'd worry if they had any value at all in the RAW column, even if the normalized value was not close to 0. If that happens then carefully research the implications of whichever one it happened to.

If this is a linux server then if you configure smartmontools correctly it will email you when it gets close.
That looks impressive, a lot less bulky. I know applications are wider than for people with vision loss. Especially if it's opened up to application development through Android or similar like indicated.
They are well supported by NetBSD, and there is demand for them for testing and development. (There is some Linux support but less, most of the distros are now mainly supporting IBMs ppc64 hardware).
Not sure about the first but for the second Office online does that now. Not sure if you can do it completely in the desktop app but the online UI isn't horrible from what I've used of it.
First: I jumped into the comments before reading the article.

I have quite some experience with Flash in the form of eMMC and SD/CF. SSDs aren't that much different from those on the low level.

The controller that comes with the flash storage contains a core that manages the bad blocks. Comparable to bad sector management on HD. The software these controllers run contain a lot of rules of thumb to manage bad blocks, which is where these full failures come from IMO.

Each controller has access to a pool of reserve blocks that are used when bad blocks are detected. Once those run out the embedded software starts showing weird behavior when using the device and shortly after there's a complete fail.

I think the pool of reserve blocks is "Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot" in your list. Apparently there are 100, of which you consumed 0. There's a threshold at 10 so I assume that's where the diagnostics software will warn you.
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That imperial system.
It's spinning, and the amount of curve matches the amount of speed. The unpredictability comes from the fact that the axis is also spinning, but very slowly. It's hard to get the topspin and rotation on the ball, and still hit the target. But these guys train shots for a living.
Again, I agree with you with one exception: banks have an unfair advantage and a monopoly over money creation. With the fractional reserve banking, banks take interest on money they don't have and in partnership with large corporations (in which banks may have vested interests and which are dependent on banks), banks can "determine which products should be produced and which should not" before the market has any word about it (by buying competitors, buying critical suppliers of competitors, patents..). Banks do control and steer the economy more than any other actor.
I do wonder what the realistic cost of moving it somewhere would be. Assuming, that you would like to take it out of water and put on a property somewhere. Would it be in hundreds of thousands of dollars? Or more like millions?
But what they want is minecraft.

Which might be the most approachable answer - purchase subscriptions to minecraft servers for your kids. However I would be reluctant to purchase anything that was not officially blessed - and would assume I could run a minecraft server for my own kids anyway ...

By the way, I personally want to puke when my kids play Minion Rush and I see three minutes taken up by thirty seconds running and 2.5 mins of sweeping through "buy buy buy" pages. Fucking disgusting.
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this is the trouble with ssds, they just die. but they're fast before they do. but it's ok because everyone has backups right? i know i do, and raid1 just incase.

on a side note, glad i paid the extra cost for the 840 pro!
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Angular Dart to JavaScript result way too big for production?
840 pro, i have one, and a 830. good drives
Here's a slightly better quality version of Pirlo's free kick:

http://gfycat.com/CompetentDefensiveGosling
I love that. Strong Typing for organising.
It is strategy, they want to use money to finance other future projects. According to one interview I have read, money from Minecraft are used to pay bills and development of other games until they luck out again and have another hit.

Developing games is risky and there are no guarantees of success. So, the successful projects have to pay for unsuccessful ones.
Isnt advertisement for kids highly regulated in many countries?
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> HEVC compresses the same quality to about half the size of H.264

Eh, it's supposed to, but it's not there yet. The best H.264 encoder (x264) is actually still more efficient than the best H.265 encoders (and MUCH faster).

Development of the H265 encoders is progressing fast though, x265 will likely surpass x264 within the year.

Here's some recent samples (12th June) that compares a very recent build of x265 with x264:
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1683608&postcount=907
Announcing Unicode 7.0
But this ruling will create a precedent that will make it harder to justify, that Sherlock Holmes entered the domain public and Mickey Mouse should not, although I am pretty sure that Walt Disney's lawyers are already carefully preparing their argument for the next few hundred years of protection extension.
"Switching from a Magnetic volume to a General Purpose (SSD) volume of the same size reduces the typical boot time for Windows 2008 R2 by approximately 50%."
You wouldn't happen to know how close these ARM cores are to LPC1xxx or STM32? Would it be worthwhile to port Chibios to them?
I don't think automatically bricking reading is the right approach but if you have sensitive data on the device some way to erase it is a good thing.
You could have recycled it (there are places that specialize in recycling electronics). Also, you could have sold (or given it away) on eBay...people still use (and buy) old computer hardware.
> The prophecy must be fulfilled.

No, that will interfere with the fulfillment of the other prophecies.
That's the same no matter what method of payment you use.

PayPal charges merchant fees. Most banks charge fees for direct debit. Bitcoin has transaction fees. Western Union has transaction fees. Even if you only accept cash, checks, and money orders, it will cost you time and fuel to deposit them at your bank.

The percentages might differ, but as long as you let someone else facilitate your transactions, there's no way to avoid paying some sort of fee.
Well, that has already happened, many times over. When I first started driving 17 years ago petrol in Australia was AU$0.64 a litre, LPG was AU$0.27 a litre. Now, here in Tasmania, we're paying AU$160.5 a litre for petrol AU$0.95 a litre for LPG.

Electricity has about doubled in price since I first started paying my own bills.

This has has precisely little, if any, impact on how much people drive and how much electricity they use. Vehicles become more efficient, people install reverse cycle air cons, wages rise.

Now, I'm not suggesting this can go on forever, it likely can't, but we have been told to panic about Peak Oil for a good 40 years, and is still hasn't happened. I'm not sure feeling anxious about Peak Oil is going to help. If anything, it tends to make a lot of people, especially young people I talk to, apathetic about the world.

What will happened after we run out of oil and coal? Or after we burn enough of it to make this planet unpleasant to live on? We will adapt or die. Let's hope we adapt before that happens. I'm not convinced that's going to happen, people seem to be attracted to crises - they're a damn good motivator.
Well if anyone wants to collect it from North West Surrey (UK) get in touch with me.

I may even be able to bring it to London in a couple of weeks if you want. It is in a case so won't be messy from the bin.
By this logic, by telling you that I'm in the phone book, I have disclosed my identity to you. Even though the information is there, it is not out in the open if it is buried in other information to such an extent that I can't reasonably determine which information is pertinent.
I am replying to the last paragraph of darsham's comment.
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The perception amongst the buyers we spoke to was that Minecraft was for 9 to 13 year old kids. The only people they were familiar with interacting with the title were their own children and their friends.

Advertising to kids is ethically problematic and often has strict legal restrictions. I'm not aware of any of the large video exchanges operating in the space at all. None of our existing buyers were interested. If advertising to kids was a path we even wanted to go down, we'd need to broach a whole new market.
> GCHQ is intercepting all communications - emails, text messages, and communications sent via “platforms” such as Facebook and Google – before determining whether they fall into the “internal” or “external” categories

This should raise some interesting questions about the methods used considering all of that communication is going over TLS.
In my opinion this is comparing apples to oranges.

CloudFlare emphasizes the security side (anti-DDoS, WAF) while CloudFront goes for the pure CDN side of things. I would compare CloudFlare to e.g. InCapsula and CloudFront to Rackspace Cloud Files / Akamai.
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