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I was replying to the stated belief that increasing funding for education would cause an increase in demand and thereby increase the price of education. I merely posited that this wasn't necessarily the case. Indeed, if one controls demand by limiting access then the argument about prices necessarily increasing collapses.

Your reaction appears to be emotionally charged. Society is not prepared to provide the funds necessary for universal access to free higher education. Therefore some form of rationing has to occur.

A large percentage of students who graduate do so with a lot of student loan debt. Apparently it isn't the case that everyone can go to university for virtually free in the present system in the U.S.
So if someone is a millionaire, they're not allowed to think that Glass-Steagall should be re-enacted, etc? Why must one be poor to align with the protesters?
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From the 'About' page:

"What's with the Hebrew?

I've always liked languages (especially Hebrew), and the phrase on this web site translates to a kind of personal ethos: societal longevity through truth and innovation."
Ah, so that's the reason. Do you ever have the problem that the reduce computation, for a given key, is too big for one reduce worker and itself needs to be parallelized? Or does this boil down to the same thing as my previous question - i.e. if the reduce computation isn't associative, you couldn't parallelize it anyway, and if it is then you can just do partial reductions on M.
Point of order:

If you don't even know what the law is, you might try finding out, before sniping about how someone supposedly is not "respecting" it.

If you did, you might then find, for instance, that the best course of action is to complain about the law (or lack of laws), and do something about that.
I have also switched to Xubuntu for these reasons. I'd probably be equally comfortable with GNOME 2x. I simply use vim with NERDtree and a bunch of other common plugins instead of an IDE.
All of these are social problems, not technical problems. It's really really not hard to programme up a vote up/vote down site.

The hard part is the community.
VPS hosting is the new shared hosting; so many applications and platforms exist that it's easy for anyone to get started operating a VPS hosting company. I could rent a dedicated server now for $200, install SolusVM and be a fully functional VPS host within a couple of hours and the majority of "budget" vps hosts are these. They don't have the funds to build a real business (like Linode), they just install some widely used software and off they go. They are limited by the software they use (whereas a company like Linode is limited by its engineers) so when things start to go wrong their response is to penalise the customers not make the engineers work harder and achieve more.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/BHyVe looks promising.
For some reason, I always find Friday afternoons the most productive "office hours" time; I suspect because people are too busy thinking about their weekends, too busy wrapping things up, or some other reason I'm not aware of.

Sometimes, I wind up working late on those days because I lose track of time and I actually don't mind. I find zone time related to my personal happiness, if I don't get into the zone, I become short fused and frustrated.
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"Still, work is a 7 minute walk away and I live in Manhattan. That's hard to beat."

For you obviously. Some people don't want to live in a big city, or especially some place like Manhattan. It is all in the eye of the beholder.

I live in the mountains in Colorado, work from home (20 second commute) and pay less per month for my mortgage. So for me THATS hard to beat.
I agree with you, but would point out that CmdrTaco hosts his new site (that got front page on HN a few times) on a Micro on AWS.

He does a serious amount of caching (obviously) and offloaded all assets to S3, but it looks like it is still possible.

FWIW, I am still skeptical given the amount of complaints you see about the Micros on the EC2 forums regularly. He could have just gotten lucky I suppose (as far as his neighbors on the host).
Have you ever used FreeBSD jails? I wish there was something as easy to use and flexible as that on Linux. The fact that each jail has minimal overhead and with dedupe on ZFS I can easily give every user their own "machine" while spending a lot less on hardware then a linux solution would require.

Having said that I also wish I could run FreeBSD on EC2 however I haven't put my money where my mouth is. I'm sure if you and many others wanted it badly enough you could sponsor development to fix any current issues. Also it would probably help if someone made a large business case to Amazon to ensure that things were targeted towards FreeBSD that would help too. (i.e. not needing an ext2 filesystem for the user provided kernel on micro instances, etc)
Wow. I lived in Point Richmond in a 3 bedroom, with utilities included for $1,500. Now I live in Denver and pay $1,200 for my mortgage of a 4 bedroom.
When we kill something it's almost always for some form of abuse: usually spamming, or in a handful of cases for particularly egregious sockpuppet upvotes. I don't feel like we owe such people much. Plus the more you tell them, the easier you make it to get around you.
It is hard (but doable) to make a car. It is nearly impossible to make a car that is cost-competitive and reliable.

Just one item: in order to cost-compete you need very high volume, and that means putting huge amounts of capital at risk. Automotive engineers care about component pricing at the sub-cent level since volumes are so high.
I would like to point out some counter-examples:

«Think of journalists. Many are losing their jobs. Newspapers are barely surviving. In the old days, for every news event, there were probably hundreds of journalists writing about the same story for their own local newspapers. Now, because of the efficiency of the Internet and search engines, a few journalists writing about it would suffice for the whole country. People would be able to find them. There is no reason why hundreds of newspapers should write and publish their own versions of the same story.»

And yet, you can still find incompetent people. I've read so many inaccuracies, grammar and typographic mistakes from information professionals (apparently) that makes me wonder if the price to pay for such efficiency is too high. And I'm talking as a consumer, information consumer.

«Corporations are increasingly getting bigger (in terms of market caps), more global, and more powerful, yet they are getting smaller and smaller in terms of the number of people they employ, because they have mastered the art of efficiency.»

Okay, take IKEA for example. IKEA sells furniture and other home accessories world wide, and everywhere you can find the same model. However, how many people do they employ on each store? A hundred? I don't know but I'm under the impression that is not a shrinking number. And IKEA is a particularly good example because it's expansion model is not based on a franchise like fast food restaurants.

Of course, I might not understood the intention of the author.
That's right, I remember reading that somewhere. Thanks for clearing that up!
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comment on post from Jason Block:

Conversely, a lot of engineers believe that you don't
need great designers--just great products. It's a
relationship that absolutely must be synergistic if
one wants to captivate an audience of millions with
their work.

lets qualify that. Apple clearly establishes markets where the first-to-market guys couldn't. That's because they build products that make people feel good. Need design and engineering synergy.

Apple was also originally a garage startup where their product was a jumble of exposed wires on a breadboard. Need engineers.

Lets not lose track of the spectrum here.
Appreciate the heads up on Burst's network. I noticed their bandwidth for big chunks on dedicated machines is ridiculously cheap (40TB for like $100 [1]) but if the routes are inconsistent that doesn't help me a whole lot.

Also noticed while speed-testing the different nodes the CA connection (to Tucson, AZ) is phenomenally fast, but to PA about half the speed and to EU it drops quite a bit again.

When I do the speed tests for Linode using similar locations they all perform fairly well, same goes for AWS.

[1] http://burst.net/servers-la.shtml
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I just moved to Arch (always wanted to use it) from Ubuntu 11.10 after Unity (compiz) became intolerably slow on my 5 year old machine. Now running a custom DE using Openbox. It's blazing fast and highly customizable.
Agree totally. For instance, I could never figure out if these American polls take pension deductions into account. Where I live, the employer pays additional ~20% on top of base salary into various pension/saving funds, but since everyone gets it, it isn't taken into consideration when comparing salaries. I always wondered if seeing a quoted $100K salary in the US - does it include these pension payments or not.
> It's just easier to develop in Linux than it is in any other OS.

Uh...

> Being able to hit "sudo aptitude build-dep python-psycopg2" and then being able to "pip install psycopg2" without having to hunt everywhere for deps and it just work is one of the greatest things of all time.

Implying other operating systems don't also have package managers. There's myriad Unix-like operating systems (and one fully-ceritifed Unix I can think of) which can run that exact same software stack.
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why don't CS degrees teach you much technical skills?

Because its a good CS school. CS is about the mathematics of computation, not about the computers. Technology is an implementation detail. ;) (It's an ivory tower academic course, not a course intended to help people start businesses).

You can find Dijkstra's notes online and they're all handwritten, for example.

How can I change this

Study and practice whatever it is you specifically want to get better at, I guess, be that database administration or dealing with small business taxes, taking payments or whatever.
The point is Apple is a great marketer. The extent to which they are an innovator, on the other hand, is often exaggerated.
Just a reminder to everyone that prices out the flat On-Demand rates of Amazon, a 3-year reserved instance price is 48% cheaper than OnDemand.

So if you know what your deployment needs are, take the On-Demand price and roughly divide it in half for your real cost-per-month (with a majority paid up front).

If you don't know what kind of deployment you need, then yes, running everything on-demand can be pricey compared to alternatives.
I believe it expires an year after you started using it. Do you have a reference saying it won't be available for anyone after November 2011?
Current suspected, unpopped bubbles:

Food bubble;

Commodity bubble, esp. the

Gold bubble;

Higher Education bubble, esp. the

Student loan bubble;

Health care bubble;

Tech bubble;

China bubble;

Developing world real estate bubble; and the

Luxury bubble.
Some people might use recorded music instead of a live singer at their wedding.

That job isn't automatic.
On your IKEA example, the question is how furniture was produced and sold before IKEA existed and how it is build and sold now.

There are other furniture makers who are out of business because they cannot match the efficiency of IKEA. The argument is that people put out of work because of IKEA is greater than the number of people hired by IKEA. (Provided that the market size does not change)
Ok, that statement seems a little misleading. I just turned on showdead. Yes, I can see the text, but the link doesn't seem to be there, so I can't convince myself that the kill was warranted. Am I missing something?

E.g., "[dead] Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, hacker in AT&T iPad case, on Occupy Wall Street (youtube.com)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146776

Edit: another killed link, "Funding for venture capital industry plunges" from the mercury news. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146633 The article seems pretty relevant to the audience here.
What's a pension payment? :)
Currently they're bandwidth bound, but I'm dissolving that. In the next year I imagine that it'll move to being more memory bound. Then that will turn into being bound by I/O, but that can be solved with memory and more clever caching schemes. CPU should never be an issue unless I move the video encoding back in house, but I don't see that happening soon, and I would separate that into a its own server farm.
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Good article, goofy title.
You are willfully confusing need with want.
The volume of helium needed to lift the weight is physically large. This makes blimps large which results in some significant disadvantages:

* They are slow. In the beginning, they competed (effectively) against ships. "In July 1936, the airship also completed a record Atlantic double crossing in five days, 19 hours and 51 minutes." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_129_Hindenburg Today, they have to compete against jet aircraft - not effective.

* Given their immense volume and slow response times, they are very sensitive to wind taking off, landing, and when on the ground. This severely restricts their use under conditions that conventional aircraft have no problems handling.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1485612 - some comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=441670 - a link to this amongst other Git stuff from 3 years ago
Who cares what you think
please, please, please, do not re-invent the wheel. HN software is fine. http://arclanguage.org/item?id=4718
I know what the point is, but I'd say that the extent to which their innovations are understated borders on the ridiculous. The only people I ever see really overstating Apple's contributions are those that are refuting the fact.

<rant>We live in amazing times technologically, with amazing gadgets that I could only dreamed of when I was a kid, yet many commenters, with little of their own to crow about, have what can only be described as entitlement issues. The problem seems to be that Apple are now a success, perceived to be abusive by a very small bout incredibly vocal minority and individuals feel the need to knock 'em down a peg or two. Yes, some of their contributions, like many other businesses are overstated (Google didn't invent search and neither did they release Android out of altruism for instance); however the extent that some go to to discredit one of the most influential tech businesses of the last 50 years is churlish.</rant>
Cost of living varies dramatically across the globe as does currency value.

To make it truly a global poll, I suppose he should have asked how units, x, of a mixed basket of local goods, b, could you buy per year worked. xb = only possible correct statement of income.

You come up with b and repost the poll if you so desire.
Of course they can have an opinion, but celebrity involvement threatens to turn the protests into the fashionable left wing cause of the second. There's something artificial and glib about rich entertainer's politics - even when I agree with them I shudder when they weigh in on a subject.
> They're banned because they created an army of sockpuppets to vote up their posts.

That is inaccurate, and libelous.

We have never used fake accounts to artificially upvote anything.

Your users and moderators harassed me to the point where I would be forced to create a new anonymous account every-time I wanted to post materials, so I wouldn't have to deal with the onslaught of your abusive community.

I was very candid about this, tweeted about it, talked about it in IRC, it wasn't a secret.

These accounts were all used once, then instantly abandoned. You have full logs of all of this.

I think you've been fed some bad information, because if you checked your logs you will find what I'm saying is accurate.

Show me one instance where our "army of socketpuppets" upvoted something from nodejitsu.com. You can't, because it never happened.

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It isn't always true that subsidizing something increases its demand and thus its price.

I didn't make this claim. Let me repeat: "...if you subsidize something more, you are likely to increase demand for it and raise prices further..."
are there actually less jobs than there were 100 years ago?
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...but some of those OSs (not necessarily talking about any of the BSDs here) are more like the Northern Hairy Nosed Wombats than a viable genetic pool.

(http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/11343/0)
I never needed one of those editors. Vim works fine and I do not need previews. Am I alone?
“The Mythical Man Month” is still a good read
The original PageRank paper is irrelevant today, except as an introduction. The scheme here dosent work anymore because Google catches it. Remember the "rings" of a decade back, where you added your site to a ring and got a boost because all the other members of the ring linked to you?..You dont see them any more because Google caught on.
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> Why must one be poor to align with the protesters?

They're protesting against inequality of wealth distribution, and a multi millionaire represents said inequality. It's one thing to agree, it's another to be an icon.
Yes that is often a problem and is probably my biggest criticism of mapreduce as a framework. Extreme reduce keys often have to be handled differently and in a way dependent on the nature of the problem. Mapreduce doesn't provide great tools for handling it, though I'm not even sure what abstraction you could build that would be comprehensive enough.
Perhaps it could be- but the trouble is, building a car is still so much more than just making an nifty interface.
I'll let it rest here as I'm sure you've thought much longer than I have but I do feel it a bit unfair to assume it's always the spammers submitting content when the domain is shared.

https://twitter.com/#!/FrankDenbow/status/128144916655259648
The correlation between company size and amount of insurance premium paid by the company isn't very strong in my experience, at least for tech companies. The smallest percentage I paid was at the smallest company, actually.

It's got more to do with the attitude of management, but oddly, even the companies that pay all or almost all of the premiums don't seem to discuss that.
Your claim that Nodejitsu "created an army of sockpuppets to vote up their posts" is outrageous. Let me enumerate the issue here:

1. Your moderators are simply unable (or unwilling) to distinguish "sockpuppets" from a legitimate community of developers (that is the node.js community). Yes, when we post something to HN we send out the link via Twitter and IM to colleagues in the node.js community who may potentially upvote it. This is natural "word of mouth". We have never used bots, or any kind of malicious automation to ensure posts reach the front-page.

2. There is no transparency for bans, nor is the ban every communicated to the owner of the HN account. If you think an account is unfairly trying to manipulate the voting system; you have to contact them. Anything less is blatantly ambiguous and unacceptable.

3. Given the silent nature of bans on HN, we have no choice but to move onto a new HN account and continue to submit legitimate posts using legitimate word of mouth dissemination. Perhaps you view this as "sockpuppets," but what other choice do we have?

4. In the particular case of Nodejitsu, this behavior is even more unacceptable. We are a platform-as-a-service where any user can create a publicly available application on a subdomain of nodejitsu.com. How can you ban the entire *.nodejitsu.com domain when we are not responsible for malicious actions (real or perceived) taken by a given user? This is not an admission that any such behavior has taken place; I'm sure that your claim is addressed in [1]-[3].

In the copyright world, site owners are protected by malicious actions of users through DMCA safe-harbor. In such senarios, the owner of the site will be contacted and the malicious behavior (real or perceived) can be addressed and/or removed. By silently banning posts and not communicating with members of the HN community about what you perceive as malicious behavior you are doing yourself a serious detriment. This has (and continues to) raise questions about the legitimacy of the content on HN as just a shill for YCombinator.

If you'd like to speak with me personally you can email charlie@nodejitsu.com

Charlie Robbins
Founder and CEO
Nodejitsu Inc.
I strongly disagree - Apple could never do wrong in his eyes - he is way too biased.
Does anyone have a good recommendation for a host with a nicely spread out global presence?

I am aware of the big players (AWS, Linode, Softlayer, RimuHosting) but they all seem to have shortcomings that don't make anyone particularly ideal and I'd love to avoid a combination of all if I could.

I am looking to minimize network latency and maximize disk space with memory and CPU being secondary concerns. More or less think CDN edge location requirements.

For example:

AWS - Speed to China and AUS/NZ from the Singapore region
is subpar. Speed to Japan from Singapore is much worse
compared to the Tokyo region directly. Managing many
images in many regions across the AWS stack can be time
consuming.

Linode - Their CA datacenter (hosted by HE) has a terrible
reputation and uptime. I love that they normalize their
bandwidth pricing across all data centers though. Disk
space is an issue for us (media distribution).

Softlayer - Looks solid, nothing for the AUS crowd or
Japan/Chinese users.

Voxel - Not cheap, again nothing for AUS/NZ crowd.

RimuHosting - Doesn't buy enough in EU/AUS to offer budget
bandwidth pricing, the London bandwidth is horrifically
expensive.

JoyentCloud - Single data center at this time.

These are all nit-picks, each of these services are great and I've hosted with them at different times and been very happy (other services like SliceHost and VPS.NET have been bad/very-bad - respectively) but I am curious if I am missing a single host that could meet most of these requirements that I just don't know about yet?

For example, I had never heard of BurstNET or BHost or A Small Orange until reading this thread... so I'm hoping I might be missing some fantastic host somewhere with medium/large VPSs or small/medium dedicated solutions.
If you read what I wrote I didn't claim you said that price would increase. Since it isn't necessarily true that the price of education would increase given more subsidies for it then one should argue that this is likely to be the case in this instance. Indeed, it seems unlikely to be so to me because it's easy to limit the demand.
Audience defines the scope of the site, not the country where it is hosted.
Salary is unfortunately not (jut) about how good you are, and not even how much money you really make for the company, but how much your managers THINK they need to pay you (minimally) to keep you, while still making it all profitable. So it's much more complicated than just making good code or being efficient, it's just not that linear... like with any other job, it's also about your personality, connections, who's your manager and does he appreciate your work properly, what company you work for, what field of work, etc.