skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use PaaS because it allows us to focus our energy on the product that the customer sees, rather than on the backend stuff that, done right, never affects the customer. When our small team grows, we can afford to concentrate on our own hardware and make cost-saving decisions. But we are very light on system administration experience, and our scarcest commodity is time, not money.
What's your current bottleneck with the Linode 512MB solution? Is it processor, memory, I/O?
You have to admit that most people immediately roll their eyes when they read another die-hard Ron Paul supporter. That disclaimer lets people know/believe that this isn't a fanatic speaking. While I agree with Robin Hanson that I wish we didn't need disclaimers, it truly is an effective way of signalling, and often essential in tone-less, emotionally-ambiguous internet discussions.

Disclaimer: Ron Paul supporter (hopefully not too fanatical)
The argument for "everything-is-text" approach in Emacs interface is that the text is easy to work with and the possibilities are wide -- in this case for human. This is precisely the same argument for the choice of Lisp as a programming language the Emacs is based on -- the Lisp code is again easy to work with and gives a programmer lots of freedom, but it's easier for programs to work with S-expressions than text.

In other words, in the realm of code, the equivalent of "text" is "data structure".
Pascal's I/O was broken. Strings were broken.

Every Pascal I ever worked with (with the exception of the Pascal I used in school) had extensions to make it work in the Real World. Unextended Pascal was a toy.

Apple was a Pascal shop in the 80s, but they extended it to the point that I just translated (in my head) the C code that I wanted to write into the variant of Pascal they'd implemented. Pascal had a couple of nice things that C didn't (nested procedures, for one), but they weren't used all that much by us.

Strings were still a pain. Str255 stunk, and everyone knew it, but nobody had anything that was dramatically better.
I think the opposite, that sad people would buy more. Would be an interesting experiment :)
Older Hacker News Post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464213
I hear you and agree to what you said given the context (complicated concepts, etc).

But somehow I doubt these books (Lean Startups, Checklist Manifesto, Agile) are complicated concepts. Derivatives and HFT might be considered complicated concepts.

Quicker to read but if it is to the point (especially bullet points) might lead to quicker to remember.

I've seen many bloggers claimed they read a 350 pages book in 2 sessions, 1 session, a flight to Chicago (5 hours?) and claiming that they "get it" is a bit questionable. Perhaps they know where the points are and skip the irrelevant parts? If that's the case, why not make the book slimmer? :D

But, it is what it is: there's probably a demand from society expecting their money to be worth.

I'm asking for a separation of the theory and the application. Start the book with the theory first and finish it with the application (business-case, use-case) to avoid intermingling the concept and the examples.
>> You can't be dragged down because you have written all your code in a proprietary stack for each and every component...

> No. But you can be dragged down with buggy, poorly engineered, and badly integrated tools.

And that has nothing to do with whether they are proprietary or open source.
Why is HN helping David out by giving him exposure? Is it because we feel that he truly deserves a shot? or is because we want to believe that non-intrusive self-promotion should be gratified? I'm giving him an upvote on account of a little bit of both.
Samoa will do anything to make it easier to trade with Australia, including switching what side of the road drivers should use. It's getting a little ridiculous.
It's telling that folks can't wrap their head around the idea of someone holding personal beliefs, yet not attempting to press them into federal law.
It might have to do with how Smalltalk/Squeak comes from people who believed the OS is stuff that you wanted in the language.

Dan Ingalls: "An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one." http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.h...

Alan Kay mentions this idea in relation to Lisp and Smalltalk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQg4LquY0uU (It's buried somewhere after 24 minutes.)
Interesting. I've been looking into the Stephen Savage paper faking-acks part as well for a while now, especially in the context of hosted services in a shared infrastructure (cloud!). My hunch is that it can cause a lot of problems, but I am yet to verify. :)
I thought I somehow emphasized that, sorry. It is memory. We are running MongoDB and two Java servers (play framework apps) and a Solr server. we immediately reach a full memory and then some of the swap gets being used, which slows down everything. Our processes are mostly RAM-sensitive.
I think many people here are conflating offensiveness and propriety. You don't have to be offended by something to find it inappropriate for a service that you run. (I don't find profanity offensive, but I also don't find it appropriate for business conversation. I doubt Googlers find a bird all that offensive, but the people making decisions apparently don't find birds appropriate for public G+ feeds. Oh noes?)

He, and you, and I, have no inherent right to do whatever we want on a private service. Their house, their rules. Maybe he should start his own social network (with blackjack, and...). He can call it CrunchPlaid. =)
> there was always an accurate one-to-one mapping between a Unix time and a time in each time zone

That's not true in general. When the "clocks go backwards", there are two 1:30ams on that morning.

The bug this comment is refering to, is where you convert from local to UTC as soon as the user enters the datetime, and then use that from then on. Since the "local to UTC" conversion might change between now and the date, as the tzdata time is updated, you might get this bug.
Yes, you're right. In cases like that you should store future events as local time, and wait until a resonable time before the event (e.g. a week) to convert from local to UTC. Then you will have (hopefully) an updated tzdata file.
I upvoted because he did it and I like it.
IntoVPS is pretty good, totally unmanaged so the cost is kept down. If you don't want cPanel, it's especially cheap in my opinion. IntoVPS also has availability outside the United States, if you're interested in getting a server in Europe.

http://www.intovps.com/
This is the most important lesson here. I've heard too many stories that end badly and I've learned this the hard way myself.
Exactly my point. As I mention in the post, if you are using the APIs to provision or free up resources, then the cloud is definitely for you. Ultimately if you are using the flexibility and power of the cloud to your business advantage, cost stops being a concern.
It's easy, just use tzdata (you are using tzdata, right) and it'll take care of most of the transformations.
The first rule of working for an organization: You are not the organization. This goes for your time, your resources, your accounts.

People blur this line for various reasons. They're youthful and "motivated"/optimistic. They substitute the organization to lesser or greater extent for a personal life. The organization pressures them to co-opt their personal life in varying manners and degrees.

If an organization wants an account, they should start one. If that's not within the terms of service of the provider, that's the organization's problem.

If you work for an organization that continues to pressure you -- directly or indirectly -- to blur these lines, it's time to start planning for and heading for the exit.

I used to think my "detached" colleagues were unmotivated. In some cases, perhaps; but in others, I've come to see they were perhaps simply wiser and/or more experienced. (Meaning, with the ones who otherwise demonstrated significant intelligence and ability.)

When you work for someone else, it's your job. You may -- hopefully do -- greatly enjoy it. Nonetheless, don't forget to understand, demarcate, and respect its boundary -- and your own.
He's either lying now about the newsletters or he was lying then and in 1996 and profited from those lies.

I don't understand why people think he's an honest straight-shooter, any more than I understood that meme when it was applied to McCain. He's a politician playing a roll, that's all. He's not even a libertarian: he's perfectly fine with States grossly abridging freedom, just not the federal government. It's the same Southern conservatism that has been prominent since they lost the Civil War. Paul was smart enough to realize that you could sell this to a broader audience if you wrapped it in libertarianism is all.
If you don't agree with Ron Paul, it's because you've spent far less time studying the real implications and economic intricacies as he has. He's right on everything.
Feast of the Seven Phishes 2011
Case in point: vimium only works in chrome by loading a custom javascript file (basically how all chrome extensions work). Which means if a page errors on loading, that tab doesn't get vimium bindings. Which is quite annoying when flipping through tabs, only to stop at the error'd tab and have to use the mouse to get off that tab and continue flipping.
The metrics being used in the article do not have any basis in reality. The number of domains associated with a name server are not representative of the number of domains transferred. Godaddy could have transferred 100% of the domains they have associated with their parking name servers to domaincontrol.com nameservers and it would have looked like hundreds of thousands of domains transferred in by this metric. Any domains that didn't use godaddy's nameservers to begin with are also not represented in this abuse of data.
Is this what Hacker News has become? A place to whore yourself and your business? Please don't encourage these kinds of posts.
My upvote because I really love the way he structured that application. It has a very good balance that is not over the top but on point. Especially the personal-quotes+pictures is a great recommendation-letter-replacement idea.
Hindley and Seldin's Lambda-Calculus and Combinators: An Introduction is pretty solid.

http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item1175709/?site...
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I'm struggling to find Dijkstra's argument sufficiently compelling to conclude that zero is the 'most natural number'. It's a conclusion based on his aesthetics (plus an anecdotal story).

The natural numbers are generally considered to start at 1. Therefore, to people in general, such a system makes more sense.
There's a sweet spot where virtualized solutions make sense, but it's really easy to find reasons why owning and colocating your own metal is more economical. I have a 1/3rd private rack and a 100mbit uncapped unlimited dedicated port, for $570 a month. I have five servers in there, which I have cobbled together for pretty cheap (for the most part). I would be paying $3000 a month for the equivalent cloud solution....

For anything requiring real IO performance or tons of memory, stick with your own hardware.
Anyone know what happend to Google Drive? Was really looking forward to it...
If you are in Europe (especially the UK), there is almost no excuse for not registering for VAT. As long as you are a 'business' (and this definition includes freelancers), then there is nothing stopping you from doing so.

Once you're VAT registered, you can claim back VAT on allowable purchases (eg servers, hardware, software, etc). You will have to charge VAT on services you provide, but seeing as most businesses you sell to are also VAT registered, it makes little difference to them.
I'm thinking in your scenario the employee probably didn't entice the employer (under false pretenses) to terminate whatever their previous arrangement was and relocate to MN, with a much smaller job market.
That actually seems pretty cool. Do you have a server in London or know any that we can measure round-trip time of IntoVPS? How good is their support?
Unlock + fetch authcodes to leave GoDaddy
My opinion is that we have not given anti-matter a serious enough thought. It certainly is expensive to create now, but it seems like the scientists are and were focused on creating antimatter to confirm it's existence and properties. Once they were able to confirm these things, they moved on to trying to use their devices to confirm the existence of other things, like the Higgs Boson (a noble effort). Has there actually been a concerted effort in the physics community to design a more efficient anti-matter creation/storage mechanism?
These kinds of self-indulgent sites make me so uncomfortable. I get that it's probably good to have one, but I don't know if I could actually make one for myself.
This is very cool. Not the tasydrive, your "keynav"

http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/keynav/
I Don't Like The Term "Cloud Hosting"
Hardware limitations on the CDC 6000 may have made an interpreter impractical.
I've used Gitx, SourceTree, and Tower each for more than a week exclusively. So far, Tower by far comes the closest in most features. One key feature for me was being able to easily switch between commit-list view and file-browse view (the latter to get to a file and view its history). I haven't tried Gitbox, because based on their feature list, it doesn't even come close to SourceTree, which in turn had less features than Tower.

One of my biggest problems is that all of these programs seem to emphasize pushing, pulling, merging, rebasing, etc. But I don't want any of that stuff, the command line is awesome for all that. I just want to search, browse, and compare commits a bit more easily.

There are a few small things Tower is still missing, but the Tower team have been really responsive and receptive to implementing those changes when I talked to them (which I think is a benefit of actually having to pay for the app).
I don't have a company. To me, 99% of the comments describing their companies sound like value-less propositions. What am I missing? Vision?
Funny. But really, you are looking at Amazon reviews because you probably care about the design of every day things. I wish more people did. The people that do tend to be very successful.

I think about all the ladles I have ever had. I don't think I have a single one I'd recommend. Here's a few things that pop into my mind as things I wish ladle makers cared about.

First, they all have the problem of not being able to catch anything when a bowl gets to the end. There's still stuff there, but a ladle becomes useless at getting the shallow stuff. Why are ladles are shaped like cups with handles? Why couldn't a ladle have a design to help sweep the bottom of round bowls?

Second, ladles are awkward to put anywhere after using. Their handles make them oddly balanced to lean on most things. They also tend to get very hot handles when spooning hot mixtures and you leave the thing in the bowl.

Third, I'm not sure I've ever successfully used a label to get a full ladle of anything in the target container (my cup) 2 times in a row. Inevitably I spill something somehow.
really? for what value of incredibly? i bet it's way faster than writing all that code.

[edit: to save people reading below i missed the sum requirement, which this wouldn't do, and a rough back of the envelope calculations suggests it would take about the same length of time as the code took. so i was wrong, sorry...]
They tend to be out of stock, but VolumeDrive comes pretty close: http://volumedrive.com/vdrive/?a=dedicated
The other thing you have to consider is the 150 euro setup fee on the Hetzner server, though that becomes less of a factor if you keep the server for an extended period of time.
A truly frightening situation would be in the near impossible case that Ron Paul does get elected president: that he ends up looking just as paralyzed and neutered as President Obama and we find out that it isn't a matter of conviction or fearlessness but that the collective power of interest groups and the media has just gotten too powerful.
> If people in a society want to pay for poor people's problems, they can just do that. On the other hand, if people don't want to pay for that, then of course they would never vote for a law to make them do that.

In most countries people do not vote for individual laws. Instead we trust the politicians to write laws we like. This means the government being a single huge entity can have a more holistic plan where less obvious groups get left out in the cold.

I for one have no idea what groups really need help in our society and do not want to spend time to figure it out so am very happy that I have a government doing that job for me. Sure they do it quite poorly but I am positive I would do a worse job.
Isn't packet scheduling experimentation also one of the reasons for the Click Modular Router project at MIT PDOS?

The Click codebase is one of my favorite pieces of C++ code ever.
Why is it a shame that they haven't retired something cool?
lose the word "intern", it is sort of a big turn off.
> Has he outlines a plan for doing this? I assume he couldn't just turn up on day 1 and basically tell all federal employees to go home.

You might be interested in reading Paul's proposed budget for his potential term in office. He realizes that instantly switching to a constitutional federal government would be terrible, so he takes a more gradual approach.

http://www.ronpaul2012.com/the-issues/ron-paul-plan-to-resto...
what? no, that is a horribly convoluted solution to account for a rare edge case. store UTC and an olson string, and if people live in an area where the dates change, it is their responsibility to move their appointments. if you want to be really nice, you could run a batch job to switch all effected events a day forward.
The Effect of University Monopoly Licensing in 3D Printing
Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A Million Pages Down
I am writing this here on HN, because at the moment you cannot access our blog. Our domain name was shut down this morning, and I'm trying to get it back. Here's what happened...

Our company provides tools to help people put together pages for their businesses. Our free tool has been used to create over million page tabs on Facebook. Unfortunately but predictably, sometimes bad people use our app. Like spammers.

Overnight, our domain was blacklisted by Spamhaus because one of our pages contained spam. (Anybody want a free iPad?)

We run our infrastructure on Heroku, and use Bluehost for domain names. Well, as soon as Bluehost recieved notice from Spamhaus, they shut off the DNS for our domain. All million plus pages, gone in the blink of a DNS propagation.

Thankfully we were able to switch over to [appname].heroku.com for now and most of the pages are back, but we have paying customers who are in the dark because they rely on our custom domain name.

Our product, that over a million people rely on, suddenly ceased to exist. No advance notice. Nothing we could have done to stop it. Because of ONE bad apple.

This kind of thing will happen in SOPA world, if we let ourselves get there. But instead of being able to call my registrar and yell at them, I would have had to call the government, and oh-by-the-way they might fine or imprison me for having hosted spam.

Let me end with a practical, really-important-to-me-right-now question: is there any possible way to not get randomly nuked by Spamhaus?
2012 predictions? Not here
I agree with Ron Paul on economy more than any other candidate, but he's racist, anti-semite and a homophobe, or at least pretended to be one in order to get rich, which I find highly unlikely[1][2]. In my opinion, no matter how right on economy he is, we can't have someone like that as a president.

[1] http://www.mrdestructo.com/2011/12/game-over-scans-of-over-5...

[2] http://twitter.com/#!/RP_Newsletter

Edit: sorry if it was tongue-in-cheek! FWIW, I didn't downvote you.
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström are both Scandinavians.
"""wacky, radical, no-hoper and quirky"""

That IS a great summary of Ron Paul, so the Economist is being reasonably objective - as they usually are. Only the libertarian fringe and people who don't know much about anything support Ron Paul.
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Their support is very fast and knowledgeable.

You might be able to use Kimsufi dedicated servers @ $17/mo:

2 GB RAM, 1 TB storage, single core Atom processor:
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Based on reviews: Their servers are great, unless you need the company to do something on their end. Their support has mixed reviews.
AeroFS also has a Windows port that works, too. I had no end of trouble with the Unison port.
When Smalltalk methods are so short (averaging between 6-8 lines) it hardly makes sense to focus on its text editing aspects.

This is part of the paradigm shift!
I deliberately used a dated example because I figure it would probably ring a bell with a lot of people. Realistically this is a choice a lot of people were probably making around 5 years ago, and the answer at the time would almost undoubtedly have been PHP. Or Java/JSP. From what I've seen I think PHP is a pretty horrid language, and we all know how boring Java is. But the point is five years ago they were both well documented and it was easy to find answers if you got stuck, which wasn't as true of the others, especially for web programming purposes. Once you learned PHP it would have been pretty easy to understand where Rails or Django was coming from as they became popular, and "get" how they differed from PHP and why it mattered.
Not to mention, there's no reference to older, pre-SOPA data anyway.
I'd rather someone tell me that the problem is flawed and offer me another alternative to avoid future problems -- that would be experience talking. I'd rather have someone FIX problems and not just patch a system continuously hobbling down the wrong path. I'd like not be too far down the rabbit hole and figure out we need a major architecture overhaul.

More research and planning from the start, saves time and money in the end.
I'm hoping that was tongue-in-cheek.
Ron Paul didn't decide he had never written or read his newsletters until 2001

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/12/27/395391/fact-che...
It also supports IMAP, which is key for those of us who like the GMail interface well enough but loathe Google.
Ocean Marketing holds N-Control’s accounts hostage, relents after more drama
Most countries offer low turnover businesses the option of opting out of VAT (i.e., they don't charge VAT on products and they can't claim it back on supplies), which means that, as small, labour-intensive businesses, most freelancers opt out of VAT.
I get not knowing who Ron Paul is, being from the UK, but at the same time I would expect you would at least know his name, being from the Internet. He's not exactly a low-profile figure in these tubes of ours.
I would note that you are on to something: Ron Paul is unlikely to ever "support efforts to make the discriminatory status quo more equitable" but his reasons are likely more constitutionally-based than personal. But, either way, that is not the same thing as "against gay rights". Refusing affirmative action is not the same as promoting the segregation.