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The Lifestyle Business Podcast is an absolutely awesome podcast about modern business. The content is so valuable that they decided to take payments for the first 30 episodes, but it's so worth it!

http://www.lifestylebusinesspodcast.com/
It's hard to keep a balanced budget that can still handle random expenses like a new transmission or even worse 2 months of unemployment without being in the habit of saving money.
In this category, if it's server-side JavaScript one of these:

- Heroku (Node.js beta)

- Joyent Smart Platform

- JGate on AppJet
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It might be cost-effective to just buy a Linux VPS and run Windows on it with VirtualBox. You'd take a performance hit, but maybe it wouldn't matter that much.
I think it's funny that US lawyers use this antique English term.

Anyway, if you trust Wikipedia for legal advice, maybe you can use "Esq.".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquire

"In short, the situation is that those who are in situation where questions might arise about their possession of an active law license ... should be careful about using "Esquire" or any other designation that might lead to confusion. For others, the problem simply does not exist. Someone who never went to law school, never practiced law, and has a career unrelated to the legal profession (such as selling ice cream), will not be mistaken for a lawyer and can call himself "esquire" to his hearts content."
This is a link to to the free PDF version. Much better to buy it on paper here: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/102377

The printing quality (from the last two issues) is great and it's amazing to have it as an actual physical magazine.

I've submitted the link to HN if anyone fancies voting it up, it seems a bit silly to have the direct PDF link be the only link on the front page when the whole point of the thing is that it is an actual magazine: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565184
6 Comic Books About Musicians Who Should Have Known Better
Musicians starring in the comics just doesn’t seem to work out.
I wrote a nice post on this book at http://www.zacharyburt.com/2010/07/how-to-make-sure-people-w...
Amazon S3/Djungle Disk as your home NAS?
I spent those eight days writing code in a fury. I used all the tools available to me to get it done: copy-and-paste (AKA re-usable code), magic numbers (avoiding the duplication of defining constants and then, gasp!, retyping them), and absolutely NO unit tests! (Who needs red bars at a time like this, it’d just demotivate me!)

I don't understand why any of these are time-savers. Each of these tasks are things that might take you a few extra minutes now, but generally save far greater amounts of time almost immediately.

The example used in this article to come to the conclusion that "good code is impossible" is quite contrived. Of course you are going to end up with a shitty application and experience when you are 1) given almost no time to produce 2) given no technical help by the client 3) given no support by the client.
You can avoid that lag if you host your own stealth master and configure the Linode DNS servers as slaves. Having your domain distributed is just a NOTIFY and an AXFR away.
Can you alter the music in any way for your consumption? Can you even listen to it in places a Spotify client is not available?
Would you mind enumerating what 5 companies those are?
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Rajnikanths original name is Shivaji Rao Gaekwad and he was born on December 12, 1949 in Karnataka. He was employed as a bus conductor before he joined the Madras Film Institute. He was the youngest among four children; has two elder brothers and a sister. He made his debut in Katha Sangama (1975) and became a star with Apoorva Raagangal (1975). He is the highest paid Indian film actor and a prominent media personality. He has also worked in Hindi, Telugu and Kannada and even an English film.
Cool as in "geek cool" or as in "general cool"? As in "geek cool", there were many. Even Windows for Workgroups was cool because it offered Mac-like networking for PCs. MS Access was cool. Even VB was cool (before it a Windows hello world was 100+ lines). My Softcard was cool - it allowed my Apple II to run CP/M programs. Microsoft's mice, keyboards and joysticks were always top-notch.

As in "general cool", I can't remember a single one. Perhaps the Xbox 360 makes the cut, but only in the 25+ gamer scene.

There would also be some "fashion-victim cool": those who just need the latest shiny toy. Those were the ones who jumped into Vista, Office 2007 and then to 7 and 2010 just because there is a newer version, disregarding whatever feature they needed. Obviously, they are not restricted to the Microsoft space - and I have pushed my PPC iMac well beyond its last supported OSX version (the G3 runs 10.4, but is not very snappy). These people also swap hardware like crazy, often having 8-core, 64-bit desktops where they check their hotmail accounts and zip through Facebook at speeds unheard of.
Can anyone please give me tips on configuring Pure-FTPd? The thing I need at this stage is just to make a dedicated file hosting from my low-end VPS to relieve my existing project on a shared hosting. For this, I gather, I need to install (1) nginx (2) pure-ftpd and configure it to give write acess to some user to the root directory of nginx.

(1) I achieve by just doing 'yum install nginx' on CentOS.
(2) installs the similar way, but whatever I do, I just can't log in with ftp. I guess I need to configure virtual users also, so that I won't have to make a separate unix user for each ftp user that I might need, and keep them ftp users in a separate ftp config file.
Ask HN: When to choose a VPS over shared hosting?
Does anyone have any advice about how to choose whether to go with shared hosting or a VPS? I don't have any experience using a VPS - I'm happy to learn, but I'm concerned I won't be able to ensure the security of the thing. On the other hand, I've had good experiences with shared hosting, but I'm concerned that what I'm designing (effectively a niche social network, with 'following'-type performance requirements) may stretch the limits of a shared hosting account - although, what are those limits? At what point does it start to make sense to go for a VPS? I'm not concerned about being in control of everything - in fact, I'm sure someone else would be better at running it! - but I don't want to go with shared hosting if it means I'll run into serious performance problems later. Likewise I don't want to go with a VPS if I can never be confident about security. How to proceed? Thanks for your help.
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when you start doing anything more than wordpress sites or learning php, then its pretty definitely time for a vps
Another often overlooked use for IRC is as a side channel during events. In conferences, we'll all be in a room, on IRC commenting on talks. During the BP oil spill, a channel (#theoildrum) had 500+ people, including some with oilfield experience, discussing the live ROV feeds, as well as scanning to find lots of ROV feeds that were not visible to the general public.
I might just add what I have learnt from Pinax google group. Some of the people are actively using the development 0.9 version which is still in alpha.

My thoughts after toying with pinax in last day or two:

1. I got it installed on my Ubuntu 10.04 flawlessly. The Pinax documentation is up to mark.

2. The inbuilt projects are more than enough and provide great foundation for most projects.

3. I personally didn't encounter any problem whatsoever with the Pinax itself. I just installed it and was all set to hack it to make what I wanted.

Just my two cents.
Presumably compared to a VPS, they have no redundant PSU, no ECC memory, scaling up or a hardware failure will involve real downtime.
Ask HN: If you could start from scratch, would you still use LAMP?
I have a bit of time and a bit of financing (enough to give me a "runway", not enough to say "fuck you").

Now I want to explore some ideas from more than ten years ago that have been made possible with things like the iPhone, iPad, and their derivatives. I imagine a fancy-looking front-end, probably starting with the iPad, connected to some database/business operations on the back-end, for small businesses in a certain industry. I've thought about a native iPad app for the front-end but figure it'd be both safer and cheaper to build a web app instead. Also, if someone wants to run the front-end on an Android device, I want this to be easy to arrange.

What toolset at the back-end would you recommend for someone who can start with zero legacy code? I am aware that you throw the first version away and then rebuild anyway, still I'd like to use the "right", future-proof technologies from the get-go.

So for the front-end, I suppose there's the holy trinity of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; but for the back-end? Is LAMP still in use/the way to go, or should I invest in something else?
Also, a lot of movies are intended to be the realisation of an artistic vision, and getting small details 100% correct generally is not part of that vision.
Awesome. Censorship built right into BIND. Why didn't Senator Conroy think of this?
I think Mark Suster does a good job with This Week in Venture Capital - http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-venture-capital/
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For further background and more code examples I can really recommend O'Reilly's "Programming the Semantic Web" [Segaran et al.]
404, should be: http://www.lkozma.net/blog

Interesting stuff, by the way.
Use wildcard cnames, and have your application handle them internally.

You can even do this for MX records with Linode, thanks to their excellent support staff adding the functionality to their DNS interface when I asked for it. :)
US only (demands Zip code). Shame on them.
Ask HN: Review my startup - Banksta
Check it out at http://banksta.com/

In short, Banksta is a simple and fast-paced auction site. It pairs up users anonymously and randomly as they bid against each other for an item. The highest bidder wins the item while the second-highest bidder forfeits their bid. This was, of course, inspired by Professor Bazerman's classic in-class example of human irrationality. And in staying true to that inspiration, we are currently allowing users to bid on 20 dollar bills. But we would like to expand into other items.

We think it would be remarkably insightful to watch real users actually use the site. So please feel free to explore the site. You can click on 'BID FOR FUN' to get a feel for how it works.

Would love your feedback on the idea, execution, and its direction!
Linode.

I've got about a decade of experience as a sysadmin, and I can vouch that their staff definitely knows what they're doing.
Okay, so you want to build a web application. I think you are making this more complicated than it needs to be.

You don't need to get too exotic. While these choices are important, they shouldn't be a point of paralysis. You wouldn't be making a bad decision to go the route of Python or Ruby on the Lamp side. Otherwise you could look at .NET, but that's not an area I know a lot about.

Perhaps your best bet is to find your technical cofounder and let this person make the decision based on his/her strengths.
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We use azure for our webapp. Works great so far, although the azure-website for managing server deployments is not very good. Also, you can use powershell and the azure tools for VS2010 instead of the azure-website.
I wonder if the 90° orientation really does make people feel more secure as the narrator claimed. Did they conduct some kind of research or just declare it to be so?

Personally, I'd think it would make me more aware that I'm being watched by a line of impatient people waiting to use the ATM.
Unfortunately, outside of the U.S. the shipping is a bit expensive. Could we lobby MagCloud to ship from Europe too? And btw. does anyone know of a European MagCloud clone? Seems like a good idea...
TechZing gets my vote. http://techzinglive.com/
It's broadly about issues relating to tech startups but meanders quite a bit. The hosts are characters and it doesn't take itself too seriously.
This is hardly specialized knowledge but in 24 after every commercial break we were treated to a digital clock displaying the current time. They were using some digital clock number font that was not monospaced so the numbers spread and shrink right in front of you as the clock "ticks", which of course would never happen on a real clock face.
You know, an even better method might be for the problem statement to be open to the public. People could then submit their solutions, and if no one came up with the same idea then it's patentable.

This way if it truly is something with a massive inventive step, then people can get the patent. If it's something as simple as what you describe, then there's no way it would be patented in the first place.
Well, your parents being poor isn't a racial matter. If you were black, you'd catch more crap in most countries. In most countries on earth (and I believe this is true in south africa as well), it's just plain easier to be white. So good for you for achieving whatever you have in life and overcoming whatever obstacles you've overcome, but the world's racial intolerance of white people isn't one of those obstacles.
So you're saying the back-end is still basically the same as it was a few years ago and stable?
Start your own scholarships if you're such a big believe in self-reliance.

More to the point -- yes, you still had it way the hell easier than you likely would have if you were black or hispanic. White males are not victims -- we have it easier than every other group. If you forget that, you're being an asshole.
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That still doesn't mean that the code is good, though.
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Is there any way to do this once and for all for a link? As you're crawling the database you look up the link and do this once and for all for it. So that the next time a user asks a query if it's over there you can directly return that, if it isn't then you can use more resources to crunch it for them.

Is this possible? Also, is there any way I can help you to make this? I don't expect any monetary benefit. I just want to learn.
From http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm#how-do-i-get-my-fair-share-of-... , they state that you get access to the full CPU of the box (if idle/best case), or access to your fair share of the CPU (if fully loaded/worst case). For the smallest plans this could mean 1/40th the overall CPU if under load. They only put accounts of the same size on each machine.
I'm waiting for the day when fruit flies finally get recognition as a species and fruit stops flying ;-)
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The owner should be punished? What for? Who is harmed by a visible "crop circle" in the trade data? Also, I don't understand why you think the owners would allow their algorithms to behave like this; a "crop circle" doesn't make money and it does expose you to risk.

Incidentally, if your algorithm spams the exchanges too much (i.e., your fill rate goes way below 1%), your broker will shut you down. So while there may be crop circles out there, no one person is responsible for more than a few of them.
So why would source code for the "One Click" patent make any difference? It would take be all of ten minutes to make a perfectly functional implementation of "one click shopping" in an open source PHP cart which I could submit with the patent (or a day to build a simple cart from scratch if the open source-part is a problem). How would that make the patent less viable?

Or are you arguing that only specific implementations could be patented? That, if we allow the premise of software patents in the first place, doesn't make any sense. Then we'd need measures to determine how much to change before it's not the same. I mean, to keep with the example of hardware patents, I'm sure a patent for a new crankshaft would also cover if it's 5% larger and made of a slightly different alloy.

Re-implementing in an other language? What if it compiles to the same VM code? Then I'm getting the the business of generating and selling unique JVM languages. A new language for implementing the core of a competing algorithm? $1500, thank you.
Nuclear-powered maritime transport been a solved problem for decades. (It's a fairly easy solution, too. Conventional steamships have boilers which generate steam from seawater, which through a significant amount of gearing turns the ship's propeller, and through a turbine-generator system generates the ship's electricity. Nuclear powered ships replace the boiler with a nuclear reactor, but are otherwise identical.)

The only reason not all US Navy ships are nuclear is because you can get better performance for frequently-resupplied, less-than-supercarrier-size vessels with gas turbine engines (literally off-the-shelf jet engines exhausting underwater). The fuel is even the exact same as aviation fuel, so you only need your resupply ships to carry one type of fuel.
Living like a student for 5 (or more) years is a great strategy, but I just wanted to correct the doubling time math you presented. To double every 5 years you need a 15% annual return (1.15^5 = 2.011). A 10% annual return doubles every 7.2 years, thus the rule of 72:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72
Radiolab is brilliant. I doubt you will find a better radio show/podcast than that. Listen to the episodes on memory and race—they blew me away.
Linode host boxen have dual quad core processors. Each Linode has access to 4 cores.

For their smallest plan (512MB/$19.95 a month), there are an average of 40 Linodes per box. So, on paper, you are "guaranteed" 1/20 of 4 cores. In reality (according to Linode staff), most host boxes are for all intents and purposes idle most of the time, so if you need to, you can max out those 4 cores.
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In a similar vein is the superb "Programming Collective Intelligence", also from O'Reilly.
Can make their own damn money, the way we did.
If you really need that level of DNS control, you should probably be running DNS yourself. Linode lets you slave their nameservers to your master. So you get all the benefits of geographically distributed nameservers, but all the custom control of your own setup.
The Pipeline by Dan Benjamin.
The argument is that stock market returns are not a random process but exhibit mean reversion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_reversion_%28finance%29

In short, large deviations one way are more often followed by large deviations the other. If mean reversion is true, the coin flipping analogy is not an accurate one.
yeah i saw that, but still. how much is my minimum share? i scanned their site and couldn't find any hardware info, perhaps i'm missing it - maybe it's not really that important since i get to use more than the minimum if the CPU isn't maxed out.
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The History of Rome Podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-rome/id261...

I've listened to all 112 episodes so far (and still quite a bit to go) - once this finishes I'll probably go back and listen to the "12 Byzantine Rules" again - which is also very good.

Although not purely a podcast, I can also strongly recommend the BBC Radio 4 series "In Our Time" - which is available as a podcast:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/

This is an informal "history of ideas" and is the kind of thing the BBC does extremely well.
People say/have said same thing about internet, social networks, cellphones, video games, TV, original rotary phones. About any and every method of communication/interaction that was different enough from the forms of communication/interaction they were accustomed to, comfortable with.

You say people using this to go on remote vacations is sad. I say it's awesome for all the travel phobia's, handicapped, poor, etc. New things are additive, not subtractive. Nothing in this is stopping people from taking taking physical vacations (other than guilt over the amount of pollution air travel causes) it's enabling people to do something they couldn't before.
Actually inspires me to start something similar
Make an addictive learning system that feels like a game.
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I am not sure if I can sympathize you because I only have one washing machine. Is the second machine for drying I wonder if I should even want one, if it causes such annoyance. :-/
If we're recommending DNS, let me suggest Nettica.
WNYC's Radiolab: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/

Absolutely brilliant in every way. Has the highest production quality of any podcast I've ever listened to. Please give it a listen as soon as you can.
Not to mention "Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid" he explicitly says it's a parody, and silly anachronism and poor design choices are pretty standard for parody.

If I were doing that film today, I could see using Comic Sans for the newspaper.
First off I have a VPS from both prgmr and linode, and recommend both of them, though linode is probably the more user friendly of the two.

When choosing between shared and vps you really need to figure out how much control you really need, and then weigh that control with your ability to run a server (or even learning to run a server as you say someone else would be better running it).

From what I have heard http://mediatemple.net/ is pretty good for less advanced server users, but don't necessarily take my word for it try and find some comparisons.

As for security on a VPS you'll be better than a good amount of shared hosting if all you do is be sure to keep everything up to date, use good passwords, change your ssh port to a high number (disable root access), and use iptables to restrict your ports. To do those things there are plenty of guides to be found, and of course remember to backup configuration and all essential files for your web app/page.
depends on what type of site/app you have and what type of traffic you expect. your shared hosting acct is on a server with 100 other sites. you can't rely on dedicated resources or bandwidth. shared accts are good for more static brochure sites or low traffic blogs.
LicketyTrip just moved from a 8 year old, colo'd, dual P3 PowerEdge - yah, I said P3 :) - to a large Windows 2008 instance on EC2. I've been very happy with the results.
If you have any interest in Django, I'm a fan of DjangoDose ( http://djangodose.com/), I'm also one of the hosts though.
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I advise to only check email/IM/what have you once a day at most. In the evening, when you have done the meaningful work. Don't use notifications. Only launch email, IM client when you need them.

See Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule if you haven't:

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
Exploit the learning and networking resources at your school instead. If you show that you are motivated, there are faculty who will be happy to teach you everything you want to know for zero extra dollars, and might even pay you a small stipend for it. You are surrounded by smart, motivated co-students in a way you will not be when you enter the workforce and more than half of your colleagues enter a downward spiral of mediocrity and low-grade alcoholism.

After you graduate (unless you're in the humanities or something), 50k is really just not that much money. And certainly not worth missing out on once in a lifetime opportunities for.
Very inspiring. coincidentally we are building something that lets anyone create, store and share your life in pictures and features to keep you motivated. its at piclyf.com and gonna launch this month.
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