skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how to take that... (as purely inquisitive, or as a subtle attack on my argument -- i.e. more introverts as politicians => China => Socialism / Communism => Game Over).

On the same token (introverts in Washingon == Communism), I could say that few con-men are introverts, thereby implying that an extrovert-heavy government would be full of con-men. The introvert-vs-extrovert argument certainly isn't a battle of good-vs-evil, though I don't think anyone here is saying that we should have a population of 100% introverts (or extroverts) either.
This. Circa 2002, I debugged a mutli-threaded Java server, by taking a hard copy of source and walking through it on paper.

A developer sitting in another office had written it; I was roped in at the moment the nasty bug was discovered, basically to have a look from a fresh set of eyes. It had to be shipped in a couple of days time.

The neat thing about writing code on paper is the amazing gain in clarity. Of course, like all approaches, it has to be taken with a grain of salt.

It seems to me that the necessity of scrolling on a Laptop screen somehow creates additional cognitive overhead, especially when we want to rapidly jump across sections of code. Perhaps, it forces us being physically away from the machine to reflect more deeply on the problem.
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Ah sorry I missed the original link in the email.
Depends on the type of instance they spin up, but I would definitely tend to agree with you!

Security in shared hosting is extremely hard (I used to be a sys admin for a hosting company in a prior life), especially since there is no good way to separate everyone from each other without making performance suck completely, FreeBSD jails alleviate some of it, but you start having scalability issues, PHP running in php-fpm works, but uses up a lot of resources keeping spare instances around, there are a whole bunch of other ones as well.

Individual virtual machines per user isn't such a crazy idea but it is really expensive. What I would really like to know is how Google has accomplished it, at scale, with AppEngine. How are they able to do their security separation so well that at this point I am not even aware of any security breaches.

There has to be a better way to do it, and securely, but it may require rethinking how the entire architecture fits together, PHP, a web server, and the database engine.
Parent post: 22 points.
Your post: 8 points.
The introverts have silently spoken. :D
Is it really ok to repost? What about tools to manage and automate reposts, would people care for a tweetlater for hacker news?

There's a banning offence some way down this slippery slope, but I don't know where that line is drawn.
What a dick move. Did these idiots actually publish their names in relation to this? Coming from "security experts" this is the most unprofessional thing I've ever seen.
Their Twitter account looks like it may have been hi-jacked as well!

http://i.imgur.com/Pl127.png
Great article! Thanks!
Go with Google App Engine... you'll probably never break the free barrier.
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Heroku has done it reasonably well too and they seem to do it only with POSIX permissions for the most part.
You forgot to mention the fructose in those apples, which is not all that good for you.
I am very introverted. I always have been. The fact is that the unique challenges that programming and web design are suited to introverts. Can I be an A-list actor? No. But I can use the talents I have to make something from nothing. So don't try to change yourself to fit some idea you have of what you aren't. Embrace the personality you have and the talents you're given and make something amazing.
http://searchyc.com has this functionality.
It's possible that the names published discovered the issues but didn't create the dickish website.
Absolutely. Especially taking over phpfog.com and their twitter account. All of the folks on that list (http://elliotspeck.com/, http://johnduhart.me/) seem to be just teenagers though.
Point, though it produces lots of false positives... Should I "friend" my boss to get my raise in time? ;)
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A mirror of the code dump (referred to in a tweet linked in this discussion) is hosted on a 16 webdev from Australia...

Atleast they were kind enough to remove all API keys and passwords from the code dump.
From their bios, they appear to be sixteen-year-olds.
They seem to have access to their zerigo dns account.
what do you mean manual entry? does someone have to manaually type in numbers?

Also do you have to already have an existing merchant account or can you provide merchant gateways too?
That is definitely interesting, although for Ruby that is slightly simpler because there is no real way like PHP to have a single instance of Ruby deal with all of the requests (talking about mod_php and PHP-fastcgi, not php-cgi which spawns a process per request).
I've seen lots of people repost Ask HNs. If you are genuinely looking for help and just got the timing wrong the first time, why not?

I wouldn't go near autoposts, that's a recipe for spam.
Rant.

Myers-Briggs is one of the dumbest things in psychology. Psychologists, who generally accept the stupidest theories generally admit it's useless, and Big-5 is much better. It's only popular because it's so value-free - nobody gets offended by any of it's factors (except introversion-extroversion: the only useful one).

Introversion-Extroversion is the only factor that is really a big factor. There other MB factors - (Sensing (S) - (N) Intuition, Thinking (T) - (F) Feeling, and Judgment (J) - (P) Perception) are so meaningless nobody even remembers them. The other big 5 factors (Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism) are much better descriptors of people. Are you interested in stuff? Openness ++. Do your homework on time? Conscientiousness ++. Say "yes" too much? Agreeableness ++. Crazy? Neuroticism ++. Honesty, intelligence, and empathy could be added; but they are a little prickly to measure. But Big 5 is still fairly descriptive of most people.

Personality traits are (roughly speaking) normally distributed. It's stupid to classify people as "extroverts or introverts", as most people are basically just "meh". Sure, there's the geek who never speaks, and the cheerleader, but most people just talk with a few friends, and feel a bit sick when they have to talk to strangers. The dichotomy that's implied by using two classifiers ("extrovert / introvert"), rather than just scoring "extroversion" on a scale of (say) 1-10 is just brain-dead.

"Introversion does not describe social discomfort but rather social preference". I like reading books, but in high school I could talk to anyone except a hot girl. Now, I guess I would prefer to read than make "connections", but that doesn't totally disqualify me for having a job that requires a lot of communication. Of course, I'm quite good at jobs that require a bit of thinking, and enjoy them more. So, um, I guess I won't be selling Avon any time soon. My loss, I guess.

And who says introverts aren't successful? I would pick Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Larry Page, Allan Greenspan (yeah, he caused the crisis, but virtually no-one else new better), David Letterman, and quite a few other successful people as un-extroverted people. Possibly Barack Obama, and quite a few other presidents too (but I know next to nothing of US history). Maybe Bob Dylan. Possibly John Lennon. Not Ringo though.

Having "social skills" can be important. But not all extroverts have them (think - the bully, Mr. Foot-in-mouth, and the guy who just won't shut up), and most introverts have adequate social skills. Most people do.
I've been waiting for some really useful apps to come out of linkedin platform - unlike the reading list kinda apps which are not at all making use of the real potential of the platform. I think the linkedin API is very very limited at the moment.
^ This. Use dropbox. You get 2Gig for free. It is available from the web and you get total control from anywhere.

You can even get a $5 domain to point at your dropbox web location.
Was previously but sold the last startup. Currently working on another startup but haven't launched yet.
I disagree. I think it varies depending on profession. An offline analogy would be framing all the little awards and recommendation letters you ever received and hanging them on the walls of your office. If I see something like that in an engineers office, it is a bad sign, because it is not a good measure of an engineers quality of work. However, when I am in a doctors office, I expect that, because I want to see that this doctor has been certified, re-certified and recommended by a thousand other people. When I am interviewing a marketing or a PR professional, I expect them to have a baggage of flashy nominations and awards that they got for their previous jobs/clients, because that's a fair measure of the quality of their work, because I will want them to do the same for my business. Recommendations by clients is a good thing to have for direct sales reps, it shows that their clients are happy with them, are willing to spend a few extra minutes on a paragraph of good words and are likely to become clients again.
On Mac OS X I use an app called S3 Browser, and the ElasticFox Firefox plugin.

I dunno if they're "the best", but they're certainly workable.
Actually, I don't know if they did. If you check the config dump, there are some passwords left.

This can't be legal.
Or register_shutdown_function - http://blog.kevburnsjr.com/php-fatal-error-500
A $300B market cap suggests they just might know best. :)
LinkedIn, unlike other social networks is actually useful
Ouch. Certainly one way to make a name for yourself when you're sixteen. Probably not exactly the kind of name you want however.
“There's really no justification to make such a website.”

That seems like a very strange conclusion. How did you arrive at that? Wouldn’t it be good to know from yet another source that radiation levels currently really are nothing to worry about?
Personal payments = the overall Facecash product - think PayPal, though I'm sure they would rather you didn't.

Cash register = something to use to run a check-out, including a list of products you sell, an easy way to add them to a list, an easy way to total the bill and present an invoice. Taking the payment is generally regarded as a separate part of the system.

POS = Point of Sale - from your basic cash register all the way up to networked specialty cash registers for supermarkets. They also require a back office, including an inventory system, a purchasing system and a proper accounting system.

EFTPOS = Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of Sale. It's the term used in Australia and NZ for the system used to accept credit and debit card payments at pretty much everywhere you shop. Usually the EFT system is a separate product attached to the POS system.

The entire ecosystem is begging for SAAS. The interfaces (e.g. to bar code scanners, credit card terminals) are pretty standard, the current products are old, expensive and have terrible UIs, and the ability of SAAS to adapt to customers is killer.

The best part is that SAAS POS systems can link into payment providers, accounting providers (Vendhq links to http://Xero.com/, ordering and inventory systems and so forth.
When is the funeral of phpfog being hosted?
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also the funeral of the hackers lol i was stupid at 16 but not that stupid
Had the same happening with Pragmatic Programmers.

I must admit that I would not think too badly about somebody who decided to torrent a PDF of a hardcover book he owns.

Thinking about it, maybe publishers could give out PDFs if there was a good way to prove ownership of the paper edition? If you ordered through Manning, they know you bought it, if you order through Amazon, they don't.
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Yup, really impressed by this local (to me) kiwi company. They have solved the connectivity issue with complete offline functionality via HTML 5 storage and syncing; they also do integration with cash tills, barcode scanners, payment systems, accounting systems etc. Disclaimer: I know the founder; he's a pretty smart guy.

Nice to see more competition in this space as it certainly validates that the area as a whole is ripe for revolution. I suspect that the incumbent POS folks will be going the way of the dinosaur in a few years.
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OrangeScape too!
FaceCash does everything listed above, not just peer-to-peer payments.
Thanks! Awesome read! Makes me love Escher's work even more.
Oh, cool, thanks for explaining that.
Connect with other hackers and startups in India. See http://hackerstreet.in/

Make something, however simple, even just a webpage talking about yourself and your interests and put it up online. Put your contact details and skills in your HN profile.
the dumps are no longer available in their site
That's not really a job offer, but props to Koushik for standing up for his principles.
Please don't put these guys in the same basket as security experts. They are by no means experts, from the looks of it they are just doing it for the lulz at this point...
Looks like their Twitter account is getting cleaned up, so they're at least aware of it now.
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Dumps are now hosted on Amazon S3 ...
Yes, quite a bit more than 50K/year, but we're only a web startup in the sense that we sell all our products via the web. Our 2 main products are an updater suite for Windows apps (http://wyday.com/wybuild/ ) and licensing & online activation for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X apps (http://wyday.com/limelm/ ).

In short, we make development tools.
They put them up on Amazon S3, I am guessing they didn't want to pay for the hosting fees.
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"If you're worried about concurrency when incrementing a counter, you're at a level of scale few people get to work on."

I'm not sure I understand. If I make an application that has to increment a counter, shouldn't I always be worried about concurrency?

What I mean is, sure, if I'm serving only a few requests, then of course the probability of running into concurrency issues is lower than a site with more requests/sec. But it's still a matter of chance, there is some probability that two requests will come in at exactly the same time and cause a problem.
To paraphrase somebody from the Nuclear Phynance forum (PostIDKey=147507): it's a place for unemployed people to hang out and brag about themselves.
Web hosted POS? What about a fallback when the WAN goes down?
hi,

in case of sites which have just a couple of paragraphs per page, link to the print-version of it

but in cases like this which has a lot of content/analysis/graphs per page, please link to the main article

they deserve our support through ads
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The problem with NP is that they rarely follow through. They start get bored and start something else.
Persistence trumps creativity. Creativity can come from anywhere, but persistence necessitate it comes from yourself.

If I bet on which entrepreneur would make it big, I would bet on NJ. They still have the creativity but not in large quantities as NP, but they stick with stuff.

The only billionaire NP I know of is Richard Branson.

[Thx for the pg post, never read that.]
I don't think they are obfuscating it. If I remember correctly, their pricing page made perfectly clear that they used dedicated EC2 instances.

Just for the record - the cheapest EC2 instance type is t1.micro, and amounts to ~15 USD/month (+EBS and IP costs). I didn't see their business plan so I can't tell what is their big picture about that :-)
Graphics design question...
So, I am a full time business student and I recently sought (and technically am still seeking) a part time job. So I talk to some people and I say ideally I would like a web design position, part time for 10-15 hours per week(I have lots of experience, a decent web portfolio, and solid knowledge of html, css, php, mysql, and a few other tidbits of languages and know how to fit them together to develop things like a CMS and database based apps). So, someone says yeah I know a guy that needs graphic designer, do you know photoshop. I do webdesign, so I know my way around photoshop, and for that matter Flash, and Fireworks too.

So anyway, I talk to a possible employer and he asks for samples of my work. He knows full well i originally asked about a web design position and it was upon a mutual friends introduction and recommendation that I am now talking to him about a graphic design position. I could go on and on all day about how web designers and graphic designers are really two different entities (well often the same person) that are after two different things. Web designers optimize images for size (small), type (we love jpegs), and 9 times out of 10 would much rather use css to say change a background color, never mind resolution limitations. Conversely graphic designers (artists) want everything perfect, highest resolutions possible, have great depth of color, ect. (well maybe not that extreme, but you get my point)

So here's the question (well questions...), A) What work or parts of my work should I include in my portfolio to submit (or should I just show the entire website?)? B) Should I be working on a few pieces that better show my graphic design talents and if so, any suggestions?

Thank you for your time.
It depends on the application(s) you wish to run on AWS. If your EC2 instance runs an HTTP server that is backed by an external database like RDS, your I/O bottlenecks is not the EC2 instance's disk.

The article points out rather successfully that once you know at least something about the internals of each AWS service, you can fit them into your particular needs.
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Astonishingly classless and mean-spirited. Especially this part:

"feel free to harass the staff in their support forums..."

The founder and CEO of PHP Fog is extremely active in their support forum. He provides lightning fast responses, and is really proactive at trying to help.

I mentioned that my app was undergoing a traffic spike, and he personally on his own initiative ran some tests to help me understand how to deal with the load.

I really feel for Lucas and the team at PHP Fog. They are awesome people, so they'll get through this. But dang, it's gotta be miserable.
Exactly, this is a mistake made by almost everyone who has reported it! Large companies have their recruiters send emails like this out all the time.
Maybe start looking for specific problems that need solutions and start building them.
This isn't that out of the ordinary, is it? We all turn down advances like this all the time. The battle for talent is rather heated these days, so being picky and avoiding litigious dick-move companies like Sony doesn't take a whole lot.
It's not about the PDF copy having zero marginal cost. Manning is a business that is trying to offer an incentive for customers to buy direct from them. Are you suggesting that they destroy their own value add?

Also, I seriously doubt that Manning responded to d0m's request by literally saying:

"Fu, it's your problem, next time buy it at manning, not amazon"

Pronounced "F-U" and not "foo".

The moment you twist someone's wording to sound that aggressive, you're overreacting.
At least the staff is now aware: http://phpfog.com/maintenance.html
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Oh that's not bad at all, maybe they added that since the last time I looked or maybe I just missed it.
In his defense, the full quote was that "great things come from those willing to break the law in furtherance of mankind," which I think excludes a large chunk of illegal behavior.
Seriously, if you wasted the 80s playing C64 games, it is no wonder that He-Man was always getting the jump on you.
last word from the hacker - Talking to Lucas of phpFog. Twitter account is being restored now. Goodnight, everyone!
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This very cool. One application I can see for this is for viewing video together with someone across great distances like the example you talk about - maybe even in a long-distance relationship. Can you move beyond using YouTube or is the tech based on some of the features exposed by the YouTube API?
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I don't know if I would consider emailing a PDF to a customer who made an honest mistake "destroying your value add".

I've given some paid members on setformarriage.com free lifetime accounts because they were consistently forwarding us emails from the spam profiles that made it through our filters. I think the value of overall goodwill to the customers is probably worth it.
Big magnets, for MRI, and for trains. Maybe flying cars :)

Run a big, refrigerated line (or just dig underground where it's cooler), and you can transmit unlimited power coast-to-coast, or even around the world. You could put some big nuclear power plants in the middle of a desert (or several deserts, to reduce the risk of a failure taking out the world's power supply), and a wind/solar grid around the world, and send that power anywhere. They are already building this kind of thing (Tres Amigas SuperStation), but it's expensive and small-scale.
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I'd love to see something like this for FreeBSD (where a lot of the configuration stuff is already centralised to begin with), as it would make my life that much simpler!
I loved looking at the demo you linked to below (https://www.facecash.com/kiosk.html?id=3587). Any way we can get that front and center on the page? I would assume any POS target customers want to get their hands on it. Is your target more skewed towards big box or independent retailers?
Good. After the geohot disaster, I sold my PS3 and all the games I had, my vaio laptop, and my flatscreen TV. I refuse to patronize a company that abuses it's customers like that. Apple may have a reputation for disliking people who hack their products but they realized if they pursue legal action against them, they'd alienate the core base of developers they rely on for the Apps they make such a big deal about.
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