skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course I knew it was a possibility, but my point is that "saying publicly" in press releases or court rooms is a lot different from having a conversation with your customers or partners.

Telling people that the affiliate program will be closed to them in 30 days would have been a lot nicer than telling people that their income stops effective immediately.
I'm not going to argue that everyone should use Virtualmin or any other control panel, and I'm sure if I were trying to fit my websites into a 64MB system I wouldn't be using a control panel. But, I do want to mention that Virtualmin itself can be configured to use approximately 11MB of RAM (though it is an application server that can cache libraries and modules, and can be as much as ~130MB, with about 20MB resident, in a large system with all caching features enabled). The services being managed are, by far, the biggest consumers of resources.

You can no more build a full-featured virtual hosting stack with email (and spam/AV scanning), web, databases, mod_fcgid or fastcgi with suexec, DNS, etc. in 64MB without a control panel than you could with a control panel. Likewise, if you just want web service, you can build one with Virtualmin in X+11 MB of RAM (where X is the amount of RAM the system and web server require).

Of course, Virtualmin (or cPanel or Plesk) are not targeted to very small deployments. They're for shared hosting, which tends to be on a larger system where a few MB for the control panel is of negligible impact.

I just want it to be clear that "control panel == memory hog" is not really accurate. It's probably all the stuff that users expect from a control panel-equipped system that makes it require more memory. ClamAV, for instance, requires more than 200MB. MySQL for a single moderately popular website can consume 300MB. Apache can grow as big as your imagination, because there are so many modules people can enable. A thoroughly stripped Apache isn't all that big, but the average Apache process is a couple hundred MB.
Special Relativity states (and so far all evidence confirms it ) that speeds faster than "c" is impossible relative to (i.e. _through_ ) local spacetime ("aether") . The mathematical model of SR (smooth manifold with static metric (and we know that our real world doesn't have static metric, so real applications of SR approximate it by considering only sufficiently local regions of space during short periods of time)) doesn't cover and thus doesn't preclude or contradict with other types of relative "motions" (for the lack of better term) which are known to exist and have speed faster than "c" :

- quantum entanglement (we don't know the machinery behind it, very-very possible that the SR's smoothness of space is also only a rough approximation of the real world.) Obviously any attempts to find the "signal" between the entangled particles in the conventional sense (something traveling through smooth static spacetime) have so far been and will continue to be futile.

- relative motion of the parts of the (our expanding) Universe that are far enough from each other (observed, space expansion, described by General Relativity, at this scales of spacetime the SR's condition of static metric just isn't valid anymore )
My 'slavery example' was actually a question I was asking you, not an example.

Not sure why you got confused with the headline or this discussion.
Great post and conclusion from an every day observation. I think the opposite lesson can also be made: Whenever you see people experiencing some kind of frustration, think about how you could develop a product that would make people in that exact situation just a little less frustrated.
Ah thank you - that completely threw me!
Yeah, but these are web apps, not command-line tools. I thought you guys would prefer command-line tools.
probably both. Pretty sure most of us have heard this. Tons of folks on google.com at least :)
OK, but can you detect in the spaceship when Q2 collapses? (I know no quantum physics beyond a few articles0

If so why can't you simply modulate the signal on top of a series of collapsing entangled pairs. Basically morse code with the timing of the collapses, you don't care what value they collapse too.
nostromo had the right response to that below. There are plenty of jurisdictions for the larger affiliates to jump over to. I'd be very surprised if Amazon doesn't have a 95/5 ratio like most affiliate programs in terms of revenue produced by largest affiliates. The bigger affiliates will have no problem incorporating in one of the no tax states.
Too slow, very seldom well done, too slow, can't link through to other things and come back, too slow, usually don't have want I actually want, too slow, can't skim, too slow, purely linear, and too slow.

And they're too slow.

I read really, really fast, and the ability to skim, pick what I want, follow a link, and get to the real question is totally blocked and prevented by video.

Additionally, they don't engage me. They are intended for a passive audience. People think they remember lots from videos, but I seem to remember some research that suggests that they don't. You might Google for terms such as video, engagement, learning, retention rates, etc.

I've got to go, but here's an offer. If you trust me, email me what you're trying to explain, and I'll tell you what I think is unclear, and get my wife (who is capable but not technical) to do the same. We'll tell no one about it, and you'll get an alternative point of view.

I'm really busy and have very little time, but I don't like being purely negative, hence the offer.
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I have no idea what you mean by that, because the obvious and naive reading of what you've written is manifestly false. You might try expanding on it to help me (and others) understand what you're trying to say.
Do you expect to ever have to update it to No?
Webmin uses ~11MB on a 32 bit system. It used to require an additional ~11MB for the data gathering cron jobs, backup cron jobs, etc. but now it runs most of those tasks within the Webmin application service process and so only increases usage slightly during those tasks.

If that's too much, you don't need to use it. (You could shut it down when you're not using it, though it loses a lot of its utility when it can't communicate with your slave DNS servers, keep resource usage data, etc.)

Virtualmin is a more complicated beast, and can take quite a bit more memory, if caching is enabled, but that is optional, and when disabled it takes the same ~11MB as Webmin.
My bigger question is, have you created the 'No' version yet?
Are you, in fact, the author?

In the post you say "Effectively the past 5 years has served to wean developers off what came before and start learning the future of Windows development."

I really wonder if this comes from the same planet I'm on.

I'm a software developer at work and our products don't currently depend on anything newer than .Net framework 2.0. A huge percentage of our customers are running XP SP2 or Server 2003r2. I can't imagine how far into the distant future that anything announced for Windows 8 and above is going to be an acceptable dependency for commercial software development.

As someone who's seen people's careers peak and die as MS promotes then abandons one generation of APIs after another I hardly agree that this kind of speculation is "little more than pure hysterics". It's an industry survival skill.
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From what I've read, it looks like the people most concerned are the ones who have become accustomed to the 'visual' programming interface.
I left corporate IT over 8 years ago for my own biz (after over ten years of doing it nights and weekends) but I was an administrator and an MCSD/MCDBA who made unix and windows play nice together so I often was approached with broken enterprise apps that almost always turned out to be Access .mdbs or VB programs that were being used by hundreds of people across large networks for critical (often financial) tasks. Fixing them taught me a lot about the capabilities of the authors (hard working good people) who were allowed to appear as much better software developers than they actually were.

Going through 'wizards' and setting properties in a drag and drop visual environment are great for prototyping but these developers were often pressured by their managers to make these prototypes live immediately. Problems were fixed with 'work arounds' and users complained constantly. Often, all I had time to do was clean it up, trim it down and move it to a SQL Server. A temporary fix at best.

I can only imagine that the fear of losing support for these tools is driving a lot of the forum posts that I have seen.

I for one am extremely curious to see what microsoft considers to be HTML5.
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After she was kicked out, she left an angry voicemail that the theatre turned into an in-house preview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L3eeC2lJZs
What provider would that be?
Playboy interview with Bill gates 94'
Gates and his thoughs out the future in a interview from 1994 with playboy magazine.
You completely nailed it.
The Met in NYC has an amazing guitar exhibit (until July 4, 2011).

Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York

http://blog.metmuseum.org/guitarheroes/
Have you tried homebrew?
American and German Robots Hook Up, Make Bavarian Sausage Breakfast Together
We've had our 60 mile fiber link go down twice. Once when a plane hit one of the towers it is on, the other from a fire in an underground tunnel.
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A good list of hadoop alternatives: http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-promising-open-source-alt...

my personal favorite is BashReduce (~120 lines shell script vs ~600k lines of java code in hadoop): http://blog.last.fm/2009/04/06/mapreduce-bash-script

If you're in bioinformatics you might be interested in this talk on handling ridiculous amounts of data (PyCon 2011): http://blip.tv/pycon-us-videos-2009-2010-2011/pycon-2011-han...
Odd, it's just a parked GoDaddy page.
mutability in Haskell? I thought Haskell was purely functional i.e. lazy and immutablility are foundational. Can someone clarify please?
I think there's a very good chance that the Silverlight "brand" is going away. People think of it as a browser plugin and, whether rationally or not, popular opinion has turned against browser plugins.

Just like with Zune, the brand going away doesn't necessarily mean that the actual technical components are. (Did you know that the development platform behind the Microsoft "SPOT" smart watches initiative from a while back is still being actively maintained - they just released a new version with significant new features a few days ago? It's been repurposed and rebranded as the .NET Micro Framework, a competitor of sorts to Arduino, but the API namespaces still begin with Microsoft.SPOT!)
They actually used the phrase "spear phishing", but then failed to describe it properly. Spear phishing is much more targeted, sometimes as finely honed to one or two people.

Of course, the rhetoric is always hyped. I've seen over the years where individual connections in a port scan was counted as a separate attack. Without details, this could be similarly "simple".
I'm paying $60 for 2000 GB of transfer/month on VPS with 4GB of Ram.
Shouldn't Open Source Desktops be a hotbed of innovation? A carnival of new ideas, metaphors, experimental interaction designs?

Last time the Linux desktop felt innovative was the release of enlightenment 0.16. I had 9x virtual desktops and a completely skinnable UI with a reasonably robust scripting language running on some POS Dell laptop, and it was speedy.
I just finished building a proof of concept with disco doing some simple analytics calculations on one machine. I did run into a couple of bugs (http://groups.google.com/group/disco-dev/browse_thread/threa...) and the documentation is awful but overall I'm pretty impressed. Now if I could just get discodex to run...
There are already multiple search algorithms that have been proposed that use Wikipedia to cluster and sort search results based on the relationships gathered from Wikipedia. They haven't been able to show any meaningful increase in search accuracy over Google's existing PageRank algorithm though.
I don't see that in the cards..
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Connecticut has increased its state spending by about 50-60% over the 2000-2010 period while its economy grew by only 15% in that time.
I do, sort of. I tried a makeshift standing desk and the most significant comfort issue was definitely feet, though standing on a pillow and walking around occasionally helped. I suppose body size and type makes a difference.

Ultimately I think what made me go back to a sitting desk was (unrelated) lack of sleep. Even when I could handle using a standing desk after being paged at 2:00 AM, the next day I'd be exhausted and lack the necessary willpower to keep using it. I'd wind up opting for propping myself up on the bed with the laptop, which is a horrible alternative.
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I'm not a fan of software patents, but one of those linked in the article is the first software patent that gave me pause (patent 7620565). Most software patents I read consist of "apply <canned algorithm x> to <situation y>". This one doesn't read like that. I think it's very important that this patent is pure fluff - it does not actually keep you from producing a good product in any given field.

The patent was filed in 2006. From my recollection, I can't think of any websites or devices that used this sort of feature before 2006. Today it seems fairly common, but in tech people are so used to blindly copying features (because its so easy to do after someone else has already done all the research) that I can't rightly say this innovation didn't originate with the inventor. All the devices used by potential infringers involving this patent existed for years prior to the filing of this patent, which to me says its not as easy to dismiss as obvious.

The patent was also created by someone who seems to be focused on inventing things. People rail against software trolls because they don't produce an actual product, but if the inventor could not license or sell this patent, this fairly common feature might not exist today.

Because of all the above, this isn't a patent I would point to as an example of why we need to abolish software patents. That said, I'm still not a fan of software patents, and think abolishing them would be a net good.
Maybe not given the rate the First World is flying apart at the seams. I'm watching from the Third World, I've lived through a genocide, hyperinflation and massive social unrest and the signs in the US and Europe look horribly familiar.
And even more sadly, it's not the "entire area." I've seen too many folks get stuck on the edge of a county line and end up serviced by neither of two providers due to their weird geographical location.
This has nothing to do with being a psychopath.

You can be stubborn and still be a lover.

You can be firm and still donate your time.

Psychopaths are "me, me, me". Startups are about "how can we enter into a mutually beneficial voluntary exchange?"

So, no, psychopaths do not help startups at all. In fact, I'd say it would be quite rare for a diagnosed psychopath to have a successful startup.
Hostigation. Another good one would be BuyVM at $15/y =)
You're the idiot
A few points:

Virtualmin and Cloudmin have CLI apps (imaginatively called "virtualmin" and "cloudmin", respectively) that can do everything the GUI can do (and a little bit more, since they can readily be wrapped up in pipes and for loops and can do things in batches very easily).

At some point, when the scripts are advanced enough, all you're doing is data entry. Data entry may be easier/faster in a web-based UI with dropdowns, radio buttons, multi-select boxes, etc. It is also easier to delegate to untrusted or partially trusted users when you can control every option they have available to them. Ever tried to limit someone to only being able to modify some DNS records, but not others, using sudo and filesystem permissions?

A primary reason Webmin is web-based is that a web browser is always available. An ssh client may not be. We do have plans to create a "webmin" CLI tool, at some point in the future, that does the same thing for Webmin that the virtualmin and cloudmin tools to...though that's a trickier business since Webmin isn't really like either of those tools, and is a lot more open-ended in its purpose and capabilities.

But, sure, command line tools are awesome, and Webmin doesn't prevent you from hitting the command line when you want to. I spend my time about 50/50 in Webmin/Virtualmin/Cloudmin and in vim via ssh.

Again, I'm not opposed to people doing their job any way they want. I'd just like to see an end to the FUD that only incompetent sysadmins use tools that make their jobs easier ("It has a GUI!? How dare they!"). I've spent my entire professional working life trying to make sysadmins jobs easier, so I want people to make informed decisions about the available tools, and I've almost never met a sysadmin that couldn't save some time or hassle by using one or more of the tools I work on. It's not the right tool for every job, and I don't recommend everybody install it on every server they ever see (though some sysadmins do), but it's got a lot of niches that it serves very well.
This is falling into pop psychology. Psychology is like linguistics - you can describe it using a rough model, but should keep in mind that it's all just an abstraction.

Actually, there's some value in telling people that narrow-minded prescriptive grammars are "correct" - that encourages people to write the same way. Encouraging people to think of every little deviation as a disorder can do much more harm than good.

Queue an onslaught of self-diagnosed "Hare psychopaths" who will try to act out the role.

Yes, there are probably a few real psychopaths out there in the extremes. But that's no reason to encourage people with a mild case of "Asshole Personality Disorder" to start telling themselves they are merciless machines who are capable of anything.
The latest release supports workers written in any language. Disco comes with worker libraries for python and ocaml.

http://discoproject.org/doc/howto/worker.html
...I don't see why there's a problem with something arriving at B before B sees it leave A.

The problem is that if something arrives at B before B sees it leave A, then there is a way to arrange for a message to be sent from B to A, and a response back from A to B, such that the response arrives before the message was sent.

This is a consequence of special relativity, which allows any spacelike vector to be transformed into any spacelike vector (and any timelike into any other timelike) by a subluminal (less than light speed) change in observer velocity. If you can do any spacelike (FTL) transmission of data, then you can do every spacelike transmission of data if you care to go through the trouble (which is not to say it would be easy, just that physics doesn't prohibit it). Combining spacelike vectors lets you move back in time, so causality is screwed beyond belief.
That's the default. There are, however, many other interesting computational environments you might want to use, which Haskell let's you enable: controlled, strict evaluation (the use of seq and rnf); local mutable state (the `ST` monad); mutable state with transactions and rollbacks (the `STM` monad); arbitrary effects on the world (the `IO` monad); computations with backtracking (the `Logic` monad); deterministic parallelism with shared state (the `Par` monad) and so on.

Just remember: in Haskell, persistent and immutable is the default. You turn on other environments as you need them.

Why is it the default? So-called "purely functional" programming is a rich, safe, environment for most programming problems, and makes lots of nice things possible, such as trivial parallelization, automatic thread safety, proofs on code via simple equational reasoning, and powerful optimizations.
I'm surprised so many people have such issues with linux. Running Kubuntu on multiple machines, I've had no more issues than I had in the past with Windows.

A lot of these complaints are hardware related. A quick guide based on my experience with my new coworkers installing linux:

Lenovo Thinkpads: Work seamlessly

Dell Latitudes: Only minor issues

Macs: Hell setting up
I've been using a stand up desk as well for the past few months. Here are my observations:

- barefoot is better, especially with a low tech mat to make a soft surface. I never wear shoes while working and I don't regret it.

- the first few days are a bit tough, you may experience some back pain. Nothing too hard, but depending on your body that could last up to one week from what I've heard. After that, I'd never go back to sitting all day. It just doesn't reasonate with me anymore.

- the desk that you intend to use will make a hugr difference. I got mine at Ikea after seeing a recommendation here on hacker news. It's basically a desk with three adjustable panels, put the bigger in the middle http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/60111123

- it's important that you experiment with a few heits if you're unsure. A couple of inches can make a big difference. Make sure that you eyes are watching slightly below to avoid neck pain.

If you work from home, you'll love it. You can literally think while walking around your room, there's no resistance rom a chair. You'll take more breaks and feel better overall. And if that doesn't work for you, you can always go back to a regular chair.
I switched to a standing desk this week, standing for 7 and sitting for 1. My back is definitely sore, but in a good way. I'll probably keep going with it.

Also, going barefoot is the best way to do it.
Cory Doctorow-inspired question: World population by timezone
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From what I have heard, serial killers are typically small business owners. It helps give them the freedom they need to do as they please. (I think that cuts both ways and can also be a force for good: Supposedly, the founding fathers of the US felt strongly that democracy was best safeguarded by having plenty of independent small business owners -- i.e. people positioned to speak their own minds publicly and not fear being fired for it.)
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At which point Google releases and update which 99% of Chrome users have within a month vs several months for Firefox and several years for IE.

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/05/web-browser-market-s...
Arkansas did too earlier this week.
I agree. It works quite well! If it can be formatted to look like Readability's default (which is really quite plesant to read) it would be nice.
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Self-described "psychopaths" are pathetic, in my opinion.

First, you're probably not one, just as a person who occasionally plays video games till 3:00 is not an "insomniac", a person who double-checks locked doors is not "paranoid", a high-strung, finicky person is not "OCD", and a mild rush of anxiety caused by an unpleasant situation is not a "panic attack".

Why do I say this? Because a real psychopath would never find it useful to discuss his psychopathy. Psychopaths don't overshare, because they don't really ever share (although they may feign emotions and share those, if it suits them). It doesn't benefit them to self-identify as psychopaths.

Your claimed lack of empathy is normal emotional awkwardness, not psychopathy. Welcome to HN.