skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use the domains, then any domain that ever had a cert revoked would hit, and need a secondary lookup. That means some of the busiest sites on the Internet would not benefit from this check. Also, I think if you re-issue or otherwise change your cert, the old one goes into the CRL, even if it wasn't for a compromise, right? (Which would explain a high number of revocations?)
"I'm not sure I would want to be married to someone I could only stand because I took drugs."

That's not how it works. The drugs allow you to explore feelings that you're otherwise not able to explore, and work through whatever emotional roadblocks you're having with your partner. Essentially it lets you find the source of your anxiety and problems, when normally you'd just be really anxious and unhappy all the time but you wouldn't know why. And then once you know why you are unhappy it allows you to communicate these feelings with each other so that you can use them to rebuild the relationship. It does also make you love and care much more about the other person's wellbeing, which is an important part of the process, but it's not why it works. The love and empathy part is just what allows you to fix your relationship, it's not actually what fixes it.

"I've never taken LSD but I don't think I would ever want to put myself in the sort of situation that trivializes the death of a child by making it equivalent to downing a pill."

You should take some time to learn about what the experience is actually like. You're trivializing the psychedelic experience by saying that LSD trivializes the death of a child by making it equivalent to downing a pill.
The term "NoSQLite" shouldn't be used, or at the very least it should be hyphenated "NoSQL-ite." The existence of a little database engine called SQLite makes this term more than a little confusing.
I think you're describing what Steve Yegge called "good agile" [1]. Each task is handled by the person closest to the issue rather than by the person whose job title best matches the perceived difficulty of the task.

"With a priority queue, you have a dumping-ground for any and all ideas (and bugs) that people suggest as the project unfolds. No engineer is ever idle, unless the queue is empty, which by definition means the project has launched. Tasks can be suspended and resumed simply by putting them back in the queue with appropriate notes or documentation.

You always know how much work is left, and if you like, you can make time estimates based on the remaining tasks. You can examine closed work items to infer anything from bug regression rates to (if you like) individual productivity. You can see which tasks are often passed over, which can help you discover root causes of pain in the organization.

A work queue is completely transparent, so there is minimal risk of accidental duplication of work."

[1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile...
$193000 / 4 months

If she was downloading at max 3G speed 24-7, that's still $22 per GB.
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He loves trance too :)
Oh man, imagine the consumer confusion if they tried to tier data prices by how crowded your area is. So, someone in the middle of nowhere gets cheap data, but someone in a crowded area does not. Now in addition to voice roaming, we'd have to worry about data roaming as we move around between city, suburbs, and rural areas.
Code is there https://github.com/superfeedr/indexeddb-backbonejs-adapter and tests are here [if you run Chrome!] http://blog.superfeedr.com/indexeddb-backbonejs-adapter/test...
I'd have celebrated if the news had been "bin Laden" captured -- particularly if the end result would be that he would spend the rest of his life sitting around in prison, waiting to die peacefully of old age. No martyrdom, and an excellent vindication of American values & justice. That would have truly been a shot-not-fired heard 'round the world.

And of course, celebrating that is not blood-lust. But instead, we shot him in the head, and represents a failure (for the reasons you mention, but also because it's very much "an eye for an eye"), and celebrating that is much harder for me to do.

We'll have to wait and see what measures they took during the raid, to enable taking him alive, but from what I've read so far they didn't take any.
MSSQL is easier to optimize at last for me than say Sybase and Oracle, which I also supported.

People can bash MS as much as they want but their products are dirt simple to use and for the most part efficient. MSSQL comes with some query plan analysis so you can look at hit and miss ratios. From this info you can make some decisions as to add additional clustered or non-clustered indexes or use stored procedure which are saved (preprocessed) for faster execution. I forgot which of the several books I used to do this. But I was pleasantly surprised at the performance increase with my occasional tweaking.

Performance was not a priority for us that is why it was done occasionally. Not my call. My main job was make sure replications happened effectively, maintain good restores and security, and create stored procedures and triggers.

I hated the ORM in Rails. I do not want magic when I know how to do it more efficiently. For example there are certain times it is better to use DISTINCT versus GROUP BY for unique values.

I miss MSSQL. I use MySQL and it is ok but not like my sweetie and, thank you, not like the ugly gorilla Oracle.

In smaller apps I use sqlite or flat files.
I wonder how much that cost them?
> diæresis

You might want to see a doctor about that.
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This is true, but it should be pointed out that Facebook scales very poorly. Messages disappear/reappear, friends are suddenly missing and suddenly back, your own posts suddenly vanish.

That points to poor caching and poor scalability.
Interesting stuff... I'd been thinking about leaving Slicehost for Linode anyway; now I guess I should at least wait and see what the new setup is going to look like. Any current Rackspace Cloud customers want to comment on their experience(s)?
Great. I hope rackspace fixes their control panel before this happens. The current one has required me to contact support to make dns changes because my end was throwing errors. After a year of that bullshit I left for a different host. I found rackspace's servers to be excellent but the control panel is very slow, buggy, and lacks functionality that the slicehost panel has. (like setting TXT records in the dns.)

Edit: Just to note. The only issue I've had with rackspace was the control panel. The support was excellent. The people working there are excellent. I want to use their product. The control panel not working just made me feel dependent on support for everything I'd rather manage myself.
Or you can switch to Linode, which provides more resources and a more fully-featured web interface for less money. I switched several months back and I haven't run into a single issue. :)

Edit: To be fair to Slicehost, they provided me with wonderful service for over a year and I never had a single issue while I was with them. I'm sad to see that they'll be shutting down.
Mmmh. You are wrong, but I would state that creativity and inspired thinking is something that can be cultivated without the aide of euphorics or psychedelics.
When I read stories like this (which I took care to do before commenting here), I wonder what hackers who are attempting to build software-as-a-service web-based start-ups think about this? Is it just plain immoral for a builder of a service to make a living from the service? Are creators of intellectual property not entitled to any protection of their property? Do you really want to live in a world in which any potential customer can steal your service rather than pay for it?
Judges basically rely on the trial lawyers to do all the research and package up all the information needed. Being able to detect BS in a description of the inner working of the internet or an ISP probably requires more background reading than that.

But at least some of the blame probably goes to the lawyers involved.
Misleading title: Slicehost accounts will be converted to Rackspace cloud accounts. They are killing the brand, not the product.
> Where is your open-source god now?

OT, but that raises an interesting question. Could you have an open source god? What would a religion be like if its holy texts were a wiki, that any believer could edit?
"__A NoSQLite might counter that this is what key-value database is for. All that data could have been retrieved in one get, no tuning, problem solved. The counter is then you lose all the benefits of a relational database and it can be shown that the original was fast enough and could be made very fast through a simple turning process, so there is no reason to go NoSQL.__"

Moral of Story:
Relational database should be used in most cases. NoSQL is overated & extra-hyped.
Looks neat, but I'm not sure how useful this will be in practice. If your problem domain seems to be linear, Eureqa won't offer any advantages over linear regression. If your problem domain is non-linear, Eureqa won't be able to answer the question of where the heck the sine and cosine terms are coming from, and might induce people to make up fudgy theories to explain their origin. I'm reminded of Arthur Eddington, who explained why the fine structure "must" be 136, then when better measurements were taken explained why it "must" be 137:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._S._Eddington#Fundamental_the...

I could see Eureqa being useful 100 years ago, when everyone was scratching their heads over the blackbody radiation data and nobody realized there was a big fat e^nu term in the denominator keeping us all from giving off infinite quantities of gamma rays. (Thanks Planck.)

Anyway, not to be a hater, but in disciplines where statistical significance is valued, Eureqa is useless, because by cherry-picking models it completely invalidates significance tests.
Nowhere in this entire story is the premise that the bandwidth was actually worth that much money even questioned. What is wrong with people?
Twenty-somethings, Quit Bitching and Write Your Own Ticket.
People that coal kills have accepted the risk to the same extent that you or I have accepted the risk of nuclear. In many cases, they don't have practical alternative to working in the coal mines. So yes, they choose to work in the coal mines, much like most of us choose not to move as far away from nuclear plants as possible, but it's not really that much of a choice.
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It does not matter that the person who did this was a woman.

Use of stolen SIM lands person in jail.
Rackspace Sites user here - same control panel, different product (was called Mosso). CP is pretty terrible, but services are fast/reliable.
The control panel sucks, see my comment above
I'd prefer the convenience, as I have yet to code up some jquery and think "damn, .attr is a dog", and now I have to refactor a bunch of code before I can upgrade, and the reality of it is that I won't. jQuery is awesome, but this is the first release that I've not wanted to jump all over
The last time I restarted Chrome for an upgrade, it freed up about 4 GB of swap. That's one large browser.
Making a crop circle with that equation in it is one of the most awesome things I've ever heard of anyone doing.

Somehow that makes it extra tragic that they got it wrong (it's missing a rather critical +).
So it took them 4 months to notice an unusual usage pattern? Or they did notice and intentionally let it slip?

Either way, this should have been a really bad publicity for Telstra, but I guess they don't really care.

ps. I know 100% that both my mobile operator as well as bank here in Latvia will call me within few hours after an unusual usage.
Does anyone know of a similar setup that allows client-side encryption as well, with some nodes (those in the cloud) acting only as dumb storage that never sees the encryption keys?

The only thing I'm aware of is drbd, which acts at the block level, so you can stack dm-crypt and any file system (including OCFS2) on top. As far as I know, drbd only supports 2 nodes, though, which kind of limits the appeal.

(I'm specifically not talking about tunneling a normal cluster file system via SSL, which only provides end-to-end encryption)
I'm not speaking of academics so much as tinkering, for which computers are the ultimate toy.

When thinking about the geek or IT fields, I expect that people should like figuring stuff out, the typical nerd/engineer mindset. That's not everybody in CS programs I know, but my inner geek wants it to be.
One Life
So, why don't they internally cap the data available to a card of that type? This is a technical solution that would take what, 10 minutes? 20 minutes? Rather than allowing someone to run up $193k of overage charges (all the while cackling manically and rubbing their hands), why not behave in a reasonable fashion?

In effect, this charge is a life sentence to a person. You don't expect the lady to pay this back anytime in the next 30 years, do you? Bear in mind that she needs to fulfill her regular needs with a criminal record hanging over her head. And since the fine is administered by a court, I don't imagine that it will be defaultable.

If an individual did this to someone, there's no doubt that it would be looked-upon differently. It's done by a corporation with no physical body and people defend it.

The goal of a society should, in general, be to construct a reasonable, fair place for people to live. This woman did not get treated fairly.
Unless you can truly experience reality through their eyes you simply don't know if what they have gained would have been possible without drugs.

I, for example, don't believe in God. But I would never be so arrogant as to claim that people who do cannot reach a more complete understanding of themselves or their potential, or that this understanding is somehow more shallow than my perspective on the world. Even if I believe to my very core that my perspective is grounded in reality, and theirs in superstition.

This is what you are doing though, only you believe your perspective is grounded in spirituality (whatever that means) and theirs in materialism.

Yes, psychological dependence exists, but people become psychologically dependent on all kinds of things. That some of these things exist materially, doesn't mean the individual concerned is descending into materialistic nihilism. I don't understand why drugs get singled out as such a particular evil in this regard.
This is why RIM is sinking. They only make poor decisions.
It sounds to me more like Telstra's standard rip off charging. Their excess usage charge across all plans (I think it's 25c/MB though has been higher in the past) and causes all kinds of problems where people (the ones who don't understand what a megabyte is) get $1,000+ bills without really doing all that much. A lot of these cases end up going to the ombudsman for resolution, so it's a hassle for all involved.
Tying yourself to LINQ is one thing, tying yourself to MS SQL Server is completely fine if you're ok with the licensing fees. SQL Server is probably one of the best enterprise databases out there right now, I imagine right behind oracle.
Direct Link http://go.rackspace.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?mkt_tok...
Afaik, Rackspace cloud accounts are more expensive than Slicehost accounts. Have you seen or do you know of how this changes pricing?
Probably - but that's mostly due to the fact that .val() does more to ensure that the value being returned is useful (such as turning selected options into arrays, etc.).
People use bandwidth differently depending on how they access it. Carriers design their networks and plans around the use patterns associated with particular access methods. Tethering is a difference access method, with different usage patterns, and so may not fit in well with a particular carrier's system.
They advertise starting at 1.5cents/hr. Does that mean the cheapest "cloud server" I can get is $108? Versus the $20 or so I'm paying now?

Edit: 1.5 cents is actually $10.8 a month. Nevermind :\.
My first instinct is to plan a migration to Linode or Softlayer. I use SliceHost because I want to push a button and have a running server, and push another button to resize it in less than a minute. If I wanted more control, I'd be using EC2.

I'm hoping someone with Rackspace Cloud experience can pipe in, but at a glance, it looks like a more bare-metal offering, like EC2, where you have to worry about more of the low-level concerns. Thoughts?
I think law schools should have mandatory "Internet Technology & Law" classes.

I have no reason to believe that that interesting suggestion would help solve the problem you identify. My basis for saying this is that I attended a law school in the United States, where as far as I know all law students have to take a course in United States constitutional law to obtain their degrees, and yet I graduated in a class that included graduates who acknowledged to me that they had never, ever read the entire United States Constitution (which is only a few thousand words long). Making a course a required course does not seem to guarantee that students will learn the expected knowledge to be gained from the course. Isn't the same result found in university computer science courses?
Don't want to be devil's advocate here, but it clearly states on that page: "$2 per MB. You can add an extra 1GB Browsing Pack for an extra $10 a month." Not even in gray tiny text, and that doesn't sound overly expensive. // Okay I'll go wash my soul now.
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This reminds me of the old couple who held hands while they waited for the Titanic to sink.
Ah, yet another misapplication of the "Turing completeness" idea. Turing completeness is about results, not methods of computation. If two languages are said to be Turing complete, it means that they are able to compute exactly the same set of functions, and not that they do it in exactly the same way. For instance, you have a problem that in one language is solvable in O(n), but in the other it provably requires Omega(n lg n), because certain constructs (e.g., random-access arrays) are missing from it.
I've been waiting for the final reason to force me to transition my sites off my Slicehost account. They've clearly been gutted and left in the dust; their plans haven't upgraded in specs while their competitors have. It's really too bad, Slicehost was so great before they were purchased.
I read the entire e-mail before posting it and my title is accurate. The brand is being killed as is the product because these are two different products with two different backends which the e-mail hints at.

You are free to disagree with my title but don't accuse me of things I do not do.
Which changes (I assume, to .attr()) are affecting you, in particular?
In addition to killing the branding, they're removing all existing slicehost interfaces (control panel, api, etc), and migrating all users to rackspace boxes.

That's all of the slicehost product that's left for now. If that's not killing the product, I'm not sure what is.
What do crypto & network pros think of lastpass, keepass, 1password, et al?
I actually had this happen with one of my apps and I do think it is a quite surprising behavior that it rollbacks transactions in the main thread and commits transactions in the other threads.

I actually find it surprising that it commits my transactions in any kind of unexpected behavior like my process being killed, but the part of it behaving differently in the threads is somewhat amusing.
I want it to run in a separate process and minimize to the system tray though...:(
That is good, but still 109Tbps is 2 million times faster. That's an improvement of about 1.5x per year for the past 35 years. Hitting 45Mbps out the gate is great. But improving it at that rate for 35 years is some serious engineering.
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Yes! I can't believe the control panel has been able to exist in such a shitty state for a long time. I mostly interact with cloudservers through the API these days, but last I remember, the control panel didn't let you set up wildcard DNS, which was a major use-case for me. It actually had javascript validation to disallow it, if you turned off JS, it worked fine.
I'm not especially bothered personally as I had already decided to make the jump to Linode in coming months... this has just hastend my resolve.
There were three posts with the same news in the "new" section with appropriate headlines all before this post. I think it is more a failing on those up-voting the most catchy headline.
I don't know how feasible this is; but it would be killer to be able to have a 1-click migration process.

i.e. "Moving from slicehost? Provide your credentials and we'll bring everything over automatically. Just click this button!"
The cost of using Facebook. Priceless.
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> Typically, a faster program will use less memory.

The "typical" time for space tradeoff says otherwise. Exceptions abound of course, but I haven't seen your assertion hold up over the vast majority of algorithms.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/184/1
Excellent take on it.

This has been bothering me for a bit in the "android takes the market share" reporting. It totally misses the point that Apple makes a ton of money off it's bit of the market but the android segment is full of lots of companies making low margins and not really doing that well.

Amazon is, on paper, brilliantly situated to do something really good in this space (including a fork of Android of their own perhaps - no idea if the licensing would allow that)
Government monopoly. It's in Australia which has a telco monopoly.

Internet is very expensive there. I was there as a tourist and left earlier than planned because it was so hard/expensive to get internet access. In third world countries on the same trip it was easier/cheaper to get internet access than in Australia.

Wrote about it here: http://creativedeletion.com/2008/11/05/wifi-in-sydney-availa...
Ask HN: Review my startup (it's called Kumbuya)
We're about to launch Kumbuya (www.kumbuya.com) - where you promote the businesses you love by creating and sharing your own deal of the day. It's another take on the coupon / deal phenomenon, but with Kumbuya, you create the deal for the products and services you want. Any thoughts would be appreciated!
I hope they keep their articles section, it was really helpful for me when I was setting up my first VPS.
> LSD is something everyone should seriously consider doing at least once in their life.

Yes, but no matter how great it sounds, you still have to consort with drug dealers to find it. Not sure that the risk of arrest (or worse) is really worth that reward.
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While it's surprising they ever allowed it, it's good to see Apple working on bettering reviews.
As just one example, the geologic record of Puget Sound would beg to differ.
I have a Linode VPS and I really dig it. My Slicehost VPS has been running without issues for years, so my gut is full of FUD.

Maybe it will just work out...
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I think Facebook does a pretty decent job considering that they have hundreds of millions of users, with many of them hitting the site many times a day. They've got an absolutely tremendous amount of traffic.
Actually, I made the switch from Slicehost to Rackspace because it was cheaper. It's pay for what you eat pricing, so you don't get a free allotment of bandwidth, but it's around ~$11 for a 256 meg instance.

My biggest concern is that the Rackspace Cloud product doesn't seem as polished as Slicehost. Slicehost was a great service for newer users, with great documentation and help resources.