skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0$ phones are also not magically “free” in the US. You pay it with your monthly bills down the line. The subsidized price is never a meaningful metric for comparison, it is in itself not a reasonable metric for comparisons.

I have always been puzzled by this attitude which seems to be rampant with Americans. Don’t you notice something’s up when somebody offers you something for “free”?
I'm setting up a single server, and even there, puppet and chef come in very handy. I can reuse the recipes on a local vagrant-managed virtual box OS and test both the server configuration and the deployment.

At the moment I like chef-solo a bit better (because it uses an internal dsl).

Just because I beginning puppet standalone and chef-solo - are there some longer term experiences, pitfalls, etc, you can share?
Bernie Madoff earned his money by stealing it.

This is a contradiction in terms. To earn something means to trade for it honestly, exchanging one value for another. To steal something means something altogether different (taking something by force or fraud). These two words do not mean the same thing; they are, in fact, opposites.
Hard to believe this article didn't contain the word "invariant."
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The monthly bills are different depending on the phone. Finding out the real price of the phone is not as easy as just looking at the subsidized price.
Be Careful When Following Facebook's Development Roadmap & Recommendations
> If Scoble got fired from Microsoft

FYI, Scoble hasn't been at Microsoft since 2006; he's a Rackspace evangelist now.
The iOS "emulator" actually isn't; it's running native x86 code including all system frameworks. That makes it much faster than the Android emulator which has to fully emulate an ARM CPU.
This wasn't a blanket approval for pilots to throw out all dead trees.

The FAA actually only gave approval to one charter company (Executive Jet Management) to use the iPad in conjunction with their extensive operations manual. Right now all authorizations are being done on a case-by-case basis.
Summary: the people who can execute have ideas of their own. The people who can't, don't. Seems a little too neatly black-and-white to me... yet the data supports it... A nice explanation would be that everyone has great ideas, all the time, but only those who can execute ever get anywhere with them. So it looks like only they have great ideas.

I think there are also people who can execute, but are happy to copy ideas, for the sake of money. Both imitators and employees.

> If your idea is good enough, competitors will pop and try to crush you.

Money changes this. Your theory could explain this by saying that then, the people who can't execute (and have no ideas of their own) can hire people who can execute - and who have forgone their own ideas, for a paycheck.

Aside: once your product gets going, your ideas and issues only fit with your product; they are specialized. Competitors can then only use these secondary ideas if they copy your initial idea. If they do this, they are following you, and transform you into a leader. If you keep improving, you will keep winning (these "sustaining innovations" almost always win - provided the direction you are improving in is the one that customers still want).
And what happens when you spill your coffee on paper maps? No system is perfect.

(not that an iPad is immune to the cup of joe either)
That sounds interesting.

Yes I'd like to get someone to help me quickly figure out Selenium testing, and build automation which I think I seriously cannot spare the time for.

Even if I cannot get someone to help me figure out everything about continuous deployment at this point, figuring out some of it is good enough.

(I consider Selenium testing, etc as part of continuous deployment)

That person can work anywhere. As stated in my very first post, I hired an expert from the UK to help me with my Amazon Web Services setup for multiple SSL certs, so location is a non issue.

Who can you recommend to me? If the person is wary of my ability to pay up, I can set up a job in elance that the person can view and the transaction can take place over escrow funding. In fact I already have.

Do drop me a line at kimcity -at- gmail -DOT- com to hook me up with someone like that.

Appreciate the help.

Thank you.
Some background:

Facebook made a change to allow the use of iFrames in Facebook Page tabs. The development roadmap stated that no new FBML apps would be allowed by the 11th of March and Facebook encouraged developers to create iFrame applications even before that.

There is a critical bug that prevents iFrame applications from being loaded in Facebook Page tabs for users that are using HTTPS on Facebook. Since Facebook is encouraging users to use HTTPS for security, this is impacting developers that followed Facebook's recommendations.

To fellow developers out there, be careful. Wait for a while before jumping onto the iFrame bandwagon.
To me, it seems pretty obvious that all the adolescent tribulations are a cry for independence. The individual feels they're already at the point where they can take off on their own, but everything else around them beats them back down.
The fact that .NET developers are the ones buying WP7 phones might be a positive sign for the platform. WP7 needs apps.
The whole too-many-laws spin is sort of weird (I thought Ayn Rand, too much gumment, blah, blah, blah), but the invention of adolescence is pretty interesting.

Culturally, I think the ages that are marked hardest are 13 (Bar Mitzvah's and the like) and about 21. There is sort of intermediate transition time, when (basically) you can have children but you are still a junior member of our society.

I have tutored a fair number of teens, and my trick is to treat them like adults who are still practicing (and thus need some supervision). I am straight up about it too.

I think a lot of public school is geared toward getting working class people ready to be treated like children all their lives at the factory/ restaurant/ wherever. But usually the system wears them down, and they are docile alcoholics or tv addicts, afraid of their bosses and schoolteachers, with really low self esteem by the time they are 20 or so. So kids rebel or "have fun" (sex, drugs, rock and roll) while they can -- who wouldn't?

I went to a private school myself, where we were all getting ready to have self-driven, challlenging, interesting lives, and except for those of us with seriously screwed up family life (yes, I blame them ...), everybody had really good relationships with teachers and parents. It made total sense to us to study and learn to interact with older people. Who wouldn't?
I took a sociology class (briefly!) and one of the things that left a tremendous impression on me was how in some cultures, sexuality is completely different. That sexual drives are perhaps not universal, and that they can be very largely shaped by your culture.

If so, then something like adolescence could likely also be susceptible to such an effect.
Seems that the latest beta is at http://mrgeckosmedia.com/VoiceMac.zip with "lots of fixes."
So stoked to get this book.

I realize this comment isn't a novel or interesting insight, but I had to express just how amped I am for this to show up at my door.

There's nothing quite like the feel and smell of a new coding tome.
It could possibly fall under misrepresentation[1] law under certain circumstances. For example, as a service company, pretending you have solid revenues might induce a potential client into buying your services (if your client has a policy of only dealing with established companies).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misrepresentation
None taken.

At my last gig, I was management. My program manager hated it, but I refused to care who was coming in late and who was leaving early. It wasn't a terribly large team, and it was quite easy to know who was performing, and who wasn't. As we were meeting all our deadlines, and I never felt like I was being taken advantage of, I never saw it as an issue.

My program manager, on the other hand, firmly believed in the 9-5 mentality, even when it was clearly not working for our team.

Before that, I worked at a job where I was free to come and go as I pleased, so long as the work got done. The work got done, generally ahead of deadline. Admittedly, I was the only 'developer' on that team, but with careful hiring, and a slow evolution toward freedom, things were a-okay. When I left there for greener pastures, we'd had consecutive years in which each year was better than the last, dollar-wise.

To beat the horse dead, you really got it right the first time, in that I'm free to take or leave the offer. I'd just really like to understand it better. The 32-hour week isn't for everybody. 4 10 hour shifts isn't for everybody. 5 8 hour shifts isn't for everybody.

I'm sure it seems that I've made a mountain out of a molehill, and perhaps I have, which is ironic, since it doesn't really reflect what I'd want out of a job -- it's just confounding to me that they would say 'four day weeks are the norm', but then follow that up with 'well, it's really a five day week, you're just not allowed to do anything on the fifth.'

I think we're running out of arguing room, so I'll finish by saying that really, I don't disagree with you in theory, or even in practice. It is perfectly within their right to structure their work weeks however they choose, and it is perfectly within the right of potential hires to take or leave potential offers from Carson and crew, and it is perfectly within the right of Carson to not hire people who would like to use their off-time to stay sharp. This doesn't mean that I wouldn't take the job at Carsonified (I've heard great things about Bath, England, as well as that team) -- it just means I'd have questions if I saw that in my contract.

Since nobody from Carsonified has chimed in here to clear it up my hypotheticals, I'll save any further ponderance for the unlikely event that I'm ever presented with such a contract.
I'm not sure how meaningful "profit" is in the context of a privately owned company. Ok, so they only had $2,127 left over at the end of the year after costs, which sounds pretty small compared to the revenue number, but that's after paying the salaries of 45 employees, which presumably includes the owner. It seems slightly arbitrary where you draw the line between "profit" and "owners salary".
There probably are some good reasons for doing this (or at least in addition to the paper versions). That is, until a pilot gets caught playing Angry Birds instead of doing their job.
No, I was referring to mining on Amazon's GPU systems.
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A PhD who doesn't know that "data" is plural?
Nonsense. To earn: obtain in return for labor or services.

Honesty has absolutely nothing to do with the definition of the word.

And in any case, selling heroin to high schoolers fits your new definition of "earning". I surely see no moral good that comes from that. As such, earning fifty million, or five dollars has zero correlation to morality.
I had really great accounting professors, who explained WHY things were done.

As with anything else, assume a normal distribution of teaching talent, and hope you end up being taught by somebody on the right side of the curve.
How Terence Tao simplifies complex papers
And to add insult to injury, the twitter mobile site seems to be hax0red. there's an alert("xss"); on it as I write this.
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This API exists for that precise purpose. If you want to "navigate" your AJAX application to a new logical page, you use this API to do the navigation, and you supply a state that helps the browser return to the previous logical page when the user hits the back button. (And the same when they hit the forward button.) And you use real URIs, which when the user copies and pastes them will navigate properly to that page without the AJAX magic.
To be fair, software companies are known for their huge profit margins and as skhatri pointed out, economies of scale.
There should be an app for this. A dashboard even.

( I mean one that actually displays and lets you edit your books as a graph)
Is there really a new bubble?
One wonders about the wisdom of treating any interaction with an adult as being tantamount to asking for sexual exploitation while simultaneously dumping kids in a youth culture which says that sex is the best thing that everyone except them is having.

I had a very fortunate upbringing in a lot of ways, but I think I talked to maybe three adults who were not parents, teachers, or family in an eight year period. That sort of warps one's perceptions on things.
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1. Who gains "initial traction" from SEO, anyways? A fresh website to Google is not indexed for an arbitrary amount of time up to many months. Word of mouth and media coverage are what give startups their momentum. Search engine ranking is more of a longterm byproduct in practice.

2. Increasing search engine ranking isn't hard. You can overpower seemingly entrenched websites with a mild link-generation campaign.

3. SEO is all about inbound links and not much else. Aside from blogspam, I haven't seen a website that seemed to compromise usability for on-page "search engine optimization", the latter being so severely deprecated that it's only peddled by people who have the word "SEO" self-proclaimed in their job title.
I heard a longish npr interview with mr. Epstein, and found his theories to be so startlingly simple and obvious, so in line with all my experiences, that I was utterly confounded as to how nobody had mentioned it before.

Most compelling were his discussions about the -numerous- societies around the world who don't even have a word for "teen". That, and his observations regarding how young adults are segregated from society and are basically barred from work (excepting the most menial and unfulfilling), completely changed my conception of then entire issue.

If I could be bothered to read a book about parenting, it would be his.
John Taylor Gatto talks about this particular phenomena in his book "Weapons of Mass Instruction". Just looking at the way our school systems treats teens is enough to come to a full understanding of why teens develop so slowly. Most teens have no responsibility or any need for a real worry in their lives (beyond just living up to some societal expectations). Without actually being challenged as a complete human being (rather than just mentally in some small part of your brain), why would the brain need to develop?

I believe the most detrimental part is the fact that teens themselves often don't see themselves as "complete", "grown up", or as adults. This leads them to see and treat everything through a particular lens that they can excuse any behavior on. If from the start they were convinced they were adults (were complete and grown up), I believe they would take much more responsibility earlier on for their actions. I know I would've.
I have one big gripe about Puppet:

Puppet requires both a puppet server (Rails) and client, SSL key exchange, firewall rules for the puppet server, proper DNS records for everything, and a host of dependencies, all of which you need to set up before you can actually do anything.

Any system management solution that requires anything more than a bare machine with SSH and sudo is, in my book, not terribly practical, because these are the lowest common denominator on what you'll get from any hosting provider or OS install.

In a nutshell: I shouldn't need to configure my servers before I configure my servers.
Yes, I have talked to their customers and the one thing that keeps coming up a lot is price.

I'm planning on organizing job fairs to help both job seekers and employers. I would also like to offer job seekers a way to build good resumes. As far as presentation, I believe my solution is a lot cleaner and easier to use. I want to help people find careers not jobs.

My competitors website has become a cesspool for advertising. (Non-employment related) I don't have a problem with advertising I know its another source of income for websites, but when I'm looking for a job the last thing I want to see is an ad for an overpriced car I cannot afford, that's why I'm looking for a job. :-)

Thank you for your reply.
Can anyone please explain to me: why do all the photos of Xoom show the landscape mode? Is it even possible to use it in a document mode?
Er... why is HTC not in the list?
Maybe the whole concept of "teens" became necessary when the society changed from agricultural to technological - there is just so much more to learn before you can be a "proper" adult... you could be a productive member of 1800's society without knowing how to read, write or do maths.

And the trend (more and more learning needed) will probably continue, judging from the stuff my teen kids are doing in their last 2 years of high school - things that I came across in my honours year of engineering (e.g. electronic data acquisition) are now taught in year 12. Wow.
It's in my back log.
1. profit

2. ?
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Remember that this feeling is not necessarily correct. Starting at 13 everyone feels they can be independent and take care of things better than everyone else, and (at least at 13) they are wrong. They are really asking to be challenged or given responsibility, and they probably will fail or need a lot of help.

But without the experience of that first failure, and overcoming it with the guidance and support of people around them, these teenagers continue to demand their independence and fail to find any proof of their own self-worth long into their twenties and middle age...
For comparison:

Twilio: $0.02/min to all US and $0.03 to UK landlines or $0.32 to UK mobiles -- yes, 16x the US rate.

Voxeo: $0.02/min to all US and UK landlines or between $0.14 and $0.35 for mobiles.

Google wouldn't use Twilio or Voxeo for this kind of service so it gets cheaper elsewhere -- especially on their scale -- but it shows the relative difference.
M-F off is highly overrated if one's passions involve other people. I have it any time I want. Unless the people important to you also have free time at 2 PM on Tuesday, it turns into lots of fungible book-or-gym time, and the little old ladies at the gym will ask you why you aren't at work.
"Data is accepted as a singular mass noun in everyday educated usage" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data, references given.
You can use Puppet without doing all of that. At Braintree, we use Capistrano to upload a tarball of our Puppet scripts and run the puppet command.

sudo puppet --templatedir $HOME/puppet/templates --factpath $HOME/puppet/facts puppet/puppet.pp
You might be able to find other data sources, scraping http://twittercounter.com/ for example

Also, API endpoints for friendship might have a follower_since date, and you can approximate the history. In so far as unfollowing is rare compared to following, it would be accurate.

http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/friendships/show maybe?
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You may find this relevant to your interests: http://herocutter.heroku.com/plugins/23
Read the bottom of the article, I mention that you can simply run 'puppet apply' against a manifest (for versions > 0.24.X). Grow from there.
I have to say, I hated the blog post, but being pointed out this plus that Reckon code somebody else posted, has made it worth reading and criticizing.
I should have called it all_our_stats_when_you_work_here.png

http://www.dropbox.com/jobs#ABC
It's my opinion that "adolescence" is a new social construct that is not universal and not innate. It's more likely to be a self-fulfilling prophecy more than anything else.

In older times, teenagers (above say, 14) were considered men, or young adults. They would fight in armies, or even lead them. They were likely to be married and maybe even have children.

For all intents and purposes, people of age 16 are not much different from other adults except in that they don't have much experience in life. The only reason they "rebel" is that society still treats them like children. Imagine a 30 year old man being treated as a little hopeless child by his parents; of course he will show signs of resentment. It's not because he's "crazy", it's the natural response.

Perhaps the reason is partly due to school. If you're in school (below university/college level) you're a child "by definition" so to speak (from the society's point of view).

If I was in charge, I would design the school system so that elementary and secondary school end by the age 14 and then when you're 15 you'd be already in college.
Thank you for restating my comment. Perhaps your wording will be clearer than mine.
We've been using Puppet to manage our servers for some time now. As a group of developers doing our own operations work, we've found puppet both good and bad.

Setting up puppet was relatively straight forward. We had the puppetd auto-updating our servers for a while, but ultimately decided to manually run it when deploying changes. Managing zero-downtime changes was more error prone with it running.

Some aspects of Puppet have over time proved frustrating to us. The top annoyance is we never quite figured out a good way to test our puppet changes before checking them into git to deploy them to our puppetmaster. That has lead to a number of "fixing errors" type commits. The second annoyance we've found is actually highlighted as a feature: no implicit ordering of operations. While it might sound great to be able to reorganize your configs without fear of breaking the deployment, we've found that the tradeoff is that you don't find out that your configuration doesn't define its dependencies correctly until you try to kick a new server after spending months incrementally adding to your existing servers. For us, at least, having an implicit top to bottom ordering would lessen that headache.

Despite some of these headaches, simply having our configuration in version control is a huge win for us. We can setup a box much more easily, and we have a comment trail of why changes were made.
I'll write up more about Chef later, but I really look at the two differently. Puppet is really great at managing infrastructure and server state. Chef is really good at integrating with your application (especially if you are using Ruby). I typically think of Chef as a framework to program your infrastructure against. Puppet is more of the middle manager. :)

Both are easy to test, with Puppet winning slightly with 'puppet apply <manifest>'. Chef-solo is nice but takes a little bit more to setup (solo.rb and node.json for example). Either way, test and see what you think will work best for you.
The first thing you see on the help page is a list of places to contact that are external / not related to Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=15538.
One could prove that they have a lot to lose (such as reputation) if they break their promise.
It's already begun. With Virgin Mobile I pay $25/month for unlimited 3G data and unlimited SMS.
It's been extremely interesting to watch these meta server tools evolve. We're reaching the point where there's not too much of a difference between a scripted network graph and a suite of VMs and cloning abilities. Each technique would have it's advantages, though. Perhaps somebody with large scale infrastructure experience could do a side-by-side comparison?
Epstein published the horribly named "teen 2.0" if youre interested in his brand of thinking on the matter