skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$15/year? is it an OpenVZ (advanced chroot jail) VPS?

That's an interesting counterpoint to this discussion; advanced chroot jail hosts are still cheaper than Xen hosts, and OpenVZ (the common advanced chroot jail software on linux) is in between shared hosting and full virtualization with regards to how many resources are shared and how much host sysadmin effort is required.

With OpenVZ, all users share a kernel and share swap and pagecache; you can fit more OpenVZ guests on a particular bit of hardware than Xen guests, and generally speaking, more host sysadmin involvement is required when running an OpenVZ vs. a xen or kvm host.

The interesting part of the xen/OpenVZ dichotomy is that it goes the other direction; so far the market price for OpenVZ guests is much lower than the market price for Xen guests; OpenVZ mostly occupies the very low end of the VPS market.
Why do you say that has to be order of magnitude smaller? Other BigTable clones like HBase are atleast 100K lines of code, if not more.
I live in Europe, but absolutely "need" to watch American television. My only option is Hulu via a US VPN or Usenet. Currently, I choose the Usenet route. I would be glad to pay for some 3rd option. I have disposable income to give away, but if giving it to you is worse than my 2nd best option, you lose.

I just forked over nearly $100 today to buy access to Big Ten Network live streaming of football games for the 2011-2012 season. I did this because I need this access and there was no better option. There were free options, trust me, a little googling and I can get any NCAA football game for free, but Big Ten offered the best quality of service at a great price.

Regular TV. Why can't you learn from the football guys? I honestly have no idea how to access American broadcast TV from Europe. Outside of waiting 20 years for reruns of Twin Peaks to appear on basic cable.
I thought so too, but then I read "can't be a root CA because of stringent policies, isolated networks, key generation" and felt he was writing about the weird machine they put on their prem.
money is just a money and logic can be twisted any way. This is why there is GAAP, and anytime somebody creatively twist their accounting beyond it there is train wreck like Enron, Merrill Lynch or Groupon.

>eBay doesn't call it revenue because eBay can't spend that money.

amazing.
Ah, well in that case: "Even were that not the case, the consumer handheld market is dwarfed by the rest of the embedded market."
Ira Glass talks about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY

His recommendation boils down to keeping doing it until you code matches your expectations.
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Not available in my country? Did they put some background music in? Sigh ...
Startups are a religion. Founders are zealots.

Let me explain. In 1967, my parents received a letter from a missionary who taught at a school in rural Honduras. She asked them to help her run the school.

9 months later, my parents packed up all their worldly belongings into a Chevy pickup truck, and drove south 5,000 miles. Their 3 children under 5 rode along side my parents in the front seat.

My parents worked for 20 years in Central America, running schools, starting at least 10 churches, rehabbing 3 youth camps, doing refugee work ( Nicaraguan revolution happened then ), started a seminary, did literacy work, etc...

Most of their time was spent building community, getting people together to talk about shared values and beliefs, and helping people work together to build organizations that could help others.

I've spent most of my life hanging around missionaries. I actually dropped out of Bible school 20 years ago. My original plan was to be a missionary in the middle of a jungle somewhere. (True story). Last thing in the world I wanted to do was to stay in the US and start a business. Oops. Point is. I know missionaries.

Five years ago, my wife and I moved to Silicon Valley with all our wordly possessions in a moving van. And, we started work on our startup. Hackers & Founders is all about building community, helping other people connect and talk about shared values (building startups, and hacking cool stuff together), and enabling them to build startups that can help themselves, and their customers.

We're going to be building educational resources: Hackers & Founders University, a physical coworking space (at some point), small groups ( Hackers & Founders @ Lunch ), large events with a speaker (preacher?), and general community building at our networking events.

Missionaries and founders are zealots. They generally take huge risks for the sake of their quixotic beliefs and ideals. They are passionate and evangelistic about promoting what they believe in. They build communities of customers, and try their best to serve them.

Misionaries == Founders &&
Startups == a religion.

Laura (my wife and H&F cofounder) and I often joke around that we're building the Church of the Startup with Hackers & Founders.
I don't think anyone has read through this, in the second edition at least — 5 of the 13 chapters are blank.

I'm currently reading through SICP, and I think I'm going to stick with it instead of reading [the existent parts of] HtDP. I like the style of writing in SICP better. That said, if you're turned off by the writing in the first chapter of HtDP, this note appears at the end of the chapter:

"Oh, and by the way, the rest of the book uses a tone that is appropriate for a serious text."
That's the same way I got to know everyone I now consider friends and advisors when I moved to San Francisco without knowing anyone. I agree that coffee dates with brutally honest people are the best - they may sting a little but I've learned more from those who don't sugar coat their advice than those who try to spare my feelings.
This. But if they didn't do that, I totally would download them.

The advertising has to be short and not take up a huge portion of the video. Also, smartphone and tablet compatible formats, please.
(2009)

I wonder how many of these they sold.
So it's the same exact tune, just different instruments and different visuals.

It's really not as cool as you think. It gets boring very quickly.
My comment about software DNA is not central to my point, so I take that back.

Regarding the game business, it's not a good comparison. Selling games is like the DVD business: games are produced at a fixed cost and sold at nearly zero marginal cost. This is true of games sold on disc as well as games sold online through Steam.

But this is not how the movie streaming business works. Content is licensed, not sold. It's licensed to a single buyer for a fixed window of time. After that, it's licensed to someone else. This is why HBO, AMC, and Netflix will never be showing the same movie at the same time.

This is a profit maximization strategy by the studios. I doubt that major studios would make more profit with a direct to consumer model, at least not with one that would replace the windows in which Netflix typically buys content. It could potentially work for new releases, though. I'll leave the exact reasons why as an exercise to the reader.
> When I go back and look at code I did in the past, without having looked at it awhile, I see that it is really quite brilliant.

We have the opposite experience. Whenever I see code I wrote in a past life, I see ugly code. I certainly would have written it differently if my future self wrote it. I see it as a reflection of how much I've learned since writing that old code.

I tell a lot of people: Code I wrote yesterday is great; code I wrote a year ago sucks.

Unless, of course, I do as the OP does and look at other people's code. Then even the code I'm writing now would not be good enough.
The Case Against Summer
Weirdly, that's the reason I switched from OS X to Debian. OS X's hardware support is fine, but I do a bunch of hobby and open-source programming, wrestling with getting stuff to compile under OS X is just not my idea of a fun afternoon. MacPorts is a joke compared to the size and reliability of Debian's package archive, and Debian doesn't make you compile everything yourself, or leave multiple, uncleaned build-trees lying around for every package you install.
Is it me or does he seems to be making a speech to the camera?
Ooh, that's appealing. One of the authors, Roy Baumeister, gave this very interesting address on how cultures use genders differently: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm
I think you didn't quite understand me or else you are bringing up a point that has nothing to do with the discussion. I was talking about the viability of market mechanisms, not the difference between being disabled and not being disabled. I didn't use the words disabled, handicapped or normal once in my comment. It was completely abstract.
Let's stop talking about how much we work, stay balanced.
re 11) In my experience, Palm hands out WebOS devices like candy; I know very few people who have a WebOS device, in fact, who didn't get one free from Palm because they had expressed a vague interest in developing for the platform.
Starving for hours and ignoring your body's warning signals? Whatever happened to "don't eat less, eat better" -- "don't reduce quantity, increase quality"?

If you enjoy eating and don't enjoy the sounds made by a hungry stomach... you can munch down as many of those fresh veggies as you like and will feel all the better for it, while not gaining a pound. Something to consider. Not the same for fruits as they do contain sugars... but veggies, the sky is the limit!
Because

1) Taxes

2) Legal issues (much easier to deal with problems in a local jurisdiction)

3) In India, for example, there's a culture now that everyone wants to become a developer, because that's where the money is. It resulted in the markets full full of talentless hacks who took 3 months of some HTML/Javascript/PHP courses and call themselves programmers. I had to work with some of these guys, they truly don't get programming, and spend 10 to 100 more time to do anything compared to your average local programmer.

Don't get me wrong, there are many talented programmers in India, it's just your chances of finding one are pretty slim.
The Dangers of Productive Procrastination
No, I understood you perfectly. It's me that is very frequently not understood at all. I don't happen to see my points (about changing demographics, the mental models we use to frame such issues, and so on) as unrelated. It is often hopeless to try to get others to see why those things can matter a whole lot. It's perhaps best to end this exchange here, as neither side is likely to learn anything or be swayed.

Peace.
Promoting Yourself To Friends?
A question for anyone on the AppEngine team that may also be useful for other developers:

I have an app that I want to deploy and control my costs. I would like to pay for 1 FE instance to always be running and limit temporary FE instances to a maximum of 1 (free?) instance when needed. I expect my app to have a relatively small number of users, but they will be active.

I would like to prevent the scheduler from ever spawning more than these 2 FE instances. Occasional unavailability when the site is busy is OK. Except for bandwidth and storage, I would like to know roughly what my costs will be.

Just to be clear, how do I set this up?
Is US and EU growth stalls, China blows up
You're either trolling, or you've completely missed the point.

This is not an article about trivial word counting. This an article about mathematical abstractions behind all batch data processing (unix pipes included).

Just because we already know how to count small numbers of words in bash doesn't mean we can't learn anything from this article.
This struck a chord with me today.

"
-I want to start my own business…
-Oh it will never work, I don’t know what it takes
...
-I guess I should just hope for that promotion at work…
-Good, that sounds safe
"

I decided a few weeks ago that I'd had enough at my job. Some new management came in and have really messed up a good place to work. And I missed out on that promotion...

I finally decided that I needed to do something. I've wanted to start my own business, but it takes a lot of effort, and I'd rather play with my kids. But there is time, you just need to find it.
Teagueduino: Arduino + Processing = Realtime Awesomeness
"The best sites for content"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1606148

"What other sites do you enjoy"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2491971

"Ask HN: What Other Community Sites Do You Read?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=268673

"Ask HN: What other sites do you regular?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2829269

and of course...

https://encrypted.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&sa...
No worries. I was not trying to be a jerk, I really did not understand how the two parts of the sentences worked together.
It all sounds very nice, but unless you have professional tech support, this will not scale. Imagine your registrations grow 100X - you will drown yourself in email requests.
Geeks In Movies
I'm using Selenium on a major project, and from the start refactored out common tasks. I record new tests using the Selenium IDE formerly, now the Sauce Builder plugin, then export to code and replace quite a lot with calls to our own much-simplified API (often cutting out huge sections of test code & replacing with one call).

Updating the tests even when we make significant changes to the website is must easier because of this approach.

One issue we ran into quickly... tests need to verify just one thing as much as possible, not long strings of actions that wander through the whole site. The problem is that there's considerable setup before testing that one thing -- creating users and getting them to the appropriate state, especially (worst of all when test cases require 3+ users to interact).

To address this I've set up some helper requests Selenium can make -- actions that aren't included in our production build -- to create/destroy test users of different types & in different states directly. I'm also thinking of adding a page that'll simply return a full dump of info on a given test user, so we can test that the end result of actions in the UI have resulted in the expected data.

It's all very much work in progress, but I'm convinced that with a little extra elbow grease added as pain points show up, we can keep a full suite of Selenium tests alive and useful.
This is one of those stories that sounds suspiciously like urban legend bullshit, but upon further investigation, is actually true. Huh.

Most surprisingly, Italian borrowed the word "ampersand" as-is from English. German uses the more sensible "Et-Zeichen" ("et sign/character"), though.
Congrats baydin team!
Is this the class you are talking about?

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15213-f05/lectur...
Considering that we are pretty much going digital now these types of repositories will become invaluable in a few hundred years if not earlier. Thankfully a lot of people love their books and will not dispose of them even if they could digitize them. So even if a book could not be found in a repository there is a good chance that somebody around the world will own a copy.
They need better examples in the video. There's nothing that wowed me. All I saw is some lame and boring interactive "art". At the same time I understand that something really cool can be done. So show us something truly cool.
10 Problems with OSX 10.7 Lion
You know an explanation is good when you read it and think "Wait, that's it? Well of course I get that - I thought this was supposed to be complicated!"

Thanks for posting this. I have been trying to read & understand the Yudkowsky article linked to from this one for literally months without quite getting it - or I'd think I got it, then get confused again 2 paragraphs further down.

This one is MUCH more accessible and intuitive. "What we've effectively done is change the Universe from U (all people), to B (people for whom the test is positive), but we are still dealing with probabilities defined in U."

It's… almost like a closure for probability? [disclaimer: I don't really "get" closures yet either ;) ]
That's a super interesting idea, but how do you stop caring in the first place?
a) How are they market specific? Stackexchange tries to target every possible topic that is popular, while Quora targets every possible topic.

b) See above

c) Is there any evidence for this? ChaCha also has comments. The badges seem to be a gimmick to promote addictiveness, the novelty of which seems be gradually wearing off. Does a Google searcher care about the addictiveness of a website, or do they care about finding what they want?

d) The majority of topics are not discussed from relevant links from blogs and tutorial sites. In fact, many of the answers from Stackoverflow are taken from blogs and other websites.

I don't even see the tip of an iceberg.
I have an honest question why should I pay when the product they are offering is inferior in every way to the setup I have been using for the last 2-3 years? For the past few years I have used a irssi script that is setup with the tv shows that I want to download and the quality i wish to have them downloaded in this takes about 5 minutes to setup and about the same to maintain every season after this five minute time investment I’m getting shows less then a half an hour after they air on the east coast in 720p with no commercials that means when I’m ready to watch them that night or later that year they are ready to go with no hassle no worrying about whether or not its on netflix or waiting a week to see it on hulu if i want to see breaking bad i can watch it 15 mins after its done airing on the east coast and be done before its even done airing in Texas until they can offer up something to match that I don’t see any reason to meet them half way.
When I try to install it tells me that "the item you are trying to purchase cannot be found". I've not seen that before. is there an apk on the net somewhere?
SFPD statement on aiding Apple
In web we trust
Side note -- I definitely agree about not using Selenium to check for alignment, images loading, etc..

But... it's pretty cool to have a single Selenium test that does nothing but zip through your site and show all of the unique views at rapid fire speed, so as soon as the page is loaded it has already filled in any relevant form and is loading the next page.

Make sure someone with good concentration sits and watches that test run once in a while; anything seriously wrong will pop out, and they can watch it zip along while taking a coffee break.
Still a simple example, but this video shows some basic analog communication/feedback using 5 boards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRSNKgDEQ2g
Of course one needs breaks.
One interesting point is that people who view their willpower as limitless can be more productive with fewer breaks.
Here is an article with comments from the researchers clarifying their findings: http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/10/25/willpower-can-be-an-...
"My only gripe is the lack of transparency as to what this is primarily used for within the NSA (to be expected I guess)."

It's likely just used exactly how you think it would be; to hold massive amounts of key/value data. No doubt, the NSA likely has tons of data to work with. A NoSQL approach would be seemingly beneficial for this use case.
I think one point in the submitted article is spot-on, that summer is not the best season to take off in many parts of North America. What technological or social trends would families enjoy vacations when the weather is actually best where they would be vacationing? It seems to me that a more flexible school year would help many parents of school-age children plan vacations on a more rational basis than just when schools announce vacation periods. If education becomes decoupled from seat time in schools, and matched more to self-motivated activity by learners, a relaxing family vacation could count as part of K-12 schooling, and allow families to take vacations at whatever time of year fits each family best.

Of course I don't like at all (even though I appreciate that it is an exaggeration for humorous effect) the article author's comment on "Math Camp," which he considers a form of torture. The actual program with the name Canada/USA Mathcamp

http://mathcamp.org/

is a delight to most young people who attend, and a fine way to develop an interest in mathematics not taught in most school systems. Too bad that program is scheduled for the summer (but usually in places where the summer is a season of good weather).
Does that wow you?
VoiceOver is crazy easy to integrate. If you use UIKit, you're already 95% there. The visually impaired community is very social and you'll be winning yourself some advocates if you do it right.
Syntactically LINQ is a breath of fresh air, but it's totally the opposite when it comes to debugging. Right now the experience of debugging a nested loop (which typically could be converted to some form of LINQ) is way better than if you look at the equivalent LINQ.

It's totally possible I am missing some magical IDE feature, but if you want to do something like take a look at the 4th item in some intermediary part of a LINQ query, you're out of luck unless you can either break it up into smaller units of syntax or convert it to a loop.
And, if you're not sure if you're doing it right, I bet it would be pretty easy to find some visually impaired folks who would be incredibly happy to give you a lot of very detailed, specific feedback.
But if there is a back door, doesn't releasing it as open source open the possibility that China's or Iran's equivalent of the NSA will audit the code and find it too?
Awesome. I think my use case is common. I live in an apt where UPS can't leave packages and I am also not home during the day. I get my packages shipped to my relative's house, but I know several people who just don't order things online much because of this problem.
Ha.. Well, I guess the cat scrambler is really more my kind of thing. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0xwdhOoT68
I'd be interested as well.

I wrote a custom test runner as well, though not addressing the same issues; mine is specifically for non automated testing. It's a Java GUI that lets you choose from all our existing tests, tinker with parameters, and run the test live in your own browser against our test server with a few extras (like stepping through the test, go/pause, run all tests in sequence, etc.).

It's partly to let our CEO really interact with our testing -- i.e, see what's being tested, and rapidly explore the site as a whole -- but also is pretty useful as a robot; i.e., when I want to register three new users to try something out, I don't have to do it manually.
No. I would not do that. Advertisements are just distractions. Paying a reasonable amount for reasonable conditions (like no available way to recall or restrict media) and high quality would be a better and viable option for me
Ofcourse with no adds.
I can easily see them using a custom client so that they can segment the shows and add localized/fresh ads even as you go back and watch reruns.
If you do this, you might as well stream them on a hulu-like site, and even charge a little (do some A/B testing to find the "sweet spot").

It's actually easier to skip ads while watching downloads.