skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yin and yang perhaps. Companies that are entirely schleps tend to be self-limiting. In software I imagine the typical "enterprise trenches" of folks making software based on requirements set out by people who are themselves far removed from the customer as being the typical example of such "all schlep" work environment.

On the other hand, an all passion company is likely to end up making inconsequential products, or failing to meet schedules, or having poor customer service, or otherwise just failing at being a grown up company. Perhaps the best companies are those that mix schlep and passion in the proper measure. Apple and Google definitely come to mind as examples.
Does it really need spelling out? Justice is not necessarily what the law says.
> 1) We need to comply with Canadian privacy laws, so need Canadian VPS - and those are way more expensive than in US.

That might not be an issue: http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ecic-ceac.nsf/eng/gv00508.html

> 2) To be PCI compliant

AWS is PCI compliant: http://aws.amazon.com/security/pci-dss-level-1-compliance-fa... and Rackspace might not be charging extra anymore.
Agreed with (1).

I don't know if (2) is necessarily true. Experience, skills, talent, and ability to focus well could easily make this sustainable.

In my experience, (3) happens when they were hired at 1x salary, proved themselves to be 3x as productive, but continue to get just 3% cost-of-living raises. If you compensate them well (and the work-environment remains hospitable), they have very few compensation-related reasons to move. Nevertheless, I agree that they can still leave due to personal reasons.
Do I have other developers? If so, I'd have to consider the effect of hiring that 3x guy on my other developers. I'd assume the other developers are going to find out that guy is making a lot more than they are, and if that doesn't appear justified to them, there could be problems.
A hacker that was 3x as productive as the average hacker in my company that specifically wanted 3x as much pay, as opposed to other benefits, as my average programmer would be suspicious to me. Great hackers want to be paid well, but they generally first and foremost desire other things, like benefits, control, respect, and a good working environment. Anything beyond the pay at which they become stable financially generally is of a limited appeal to great hackers.
Keep in mind that they use S3, so they pay for what they use, not what they have committed to their free users. But if they were, then for 50 million free users:

2gb * 50,000,000 = 100PB. That would qualify them for S3's over 5PB pricing of $0.055 per GB-month. So that's $66 million per year just for storage.

But again... they're probably actually using far, far less than 100PB on their free customers.

http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
I don't know if Ive just seen too much but equity is one of the poorest motivators you can give me. I don't think I'm totally alone in this sentiment in that it seems like many are trending towards cash payment over equity.
As mentioned redundancy is important but
you can accomplish plenty with just one developer to start, think ruby, python, ruby on rails, javascript, etc..
Based on my gut feeling I answered yes although this sort compensation seem to be rarely practical. It's a simple poll to a sophisticated problem. What if you can only afford to pay for 2 developers ? Or you can afford 3x the pay but the developer can really perform the task of 10 developers ? Moreover there are other variables that are not easily quantifiable in a pay check but may be important to the developer like the company's culture and reputation.
The iTunes music store can be seen as a schlepp solved. Apple made tough deals with record labels and Bill Gates' comment "This time somehow he has applied his talents in getting a better licensing deal than anyone else has gotten for music." does seem like a symptom of schlepp blindness.

Dropbox is also a case of schlepp solving I think. It solved the problem of syncing, backup and history maintenance and did so by going all out on integrating into OS file system interfaces (findEr, explorer, whatever) with all their quirks.

Maybe we should start a "schlepp exchange" at HN where people posts their schlepps that they don't want to work on and whoever else does picks them up and runs with them.
Designing a high quality and compact spell checker for agglutinative languages like Turkish or Hungarian is definitely a non trivial and challenging problem.
I agree. This is a very simplified version of an immensely complex issue. In short what I was trying to ascertain was - is there a linear relationship between productivity and compensation or is it close to logarithmic?
Hard though it may be for people that live in the Valley and work as programmers to believe, most of the world isn't permanently connected to adequate-speed internet. For the 99%, they do need to worry about where files are stored, specifically why they can't access them even on the laptop they used to create them.

That's why Dropbox will continue to annihilate any service that doesn't locally save data. If my files are in Dropbox I can freely access them on the laptop I used to create them whether I'm sitting in a hotel that has so many stars you have to pay for WiFi or on a beach in Thailand. And the next time I have my laptop on within the range of publicly accessible free WiFi, it's all in the "cloud". If the internet connection is extremely intermittent I can have my updates save asynchronously without the endless frustration of browser error messages (or even worse, an Ajax smokescreen concealing the failure of an app to update server-side).

And even if I'm sitting in my office with a perfect high-speed connection doing average office work, the chances are that at some stage I'll be using a program with functionality not available in filesystem-less SaaS. In which case I don't really begrudge the extra few gigs of disk space Dropbox takes over pure cloud hosting.
Ask HN: How do you do your email delivery?
Following on from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3466168 a couple of the options deal with email hosting, but within that email hosting is subject to further definition.

The question in the prior poll didn't distinguish between accounts of staff, notification emails, mailing lists, etc.

Additionally whilst the comments recognised that email is hard (DomainKeys, SPF, Spam blacklisting) few people shared how they solved each of the scenarios above either in-house or using a cloud provider.

I'm personally using Google Apps for staff email, mailman for mailing lists and postfix on local servers for notifications (queued via the app).

There is a time sink in managing mailman and postfix however, and recently it seems for some users email reaches the spam box, so I'm looking for (a) cloud provider/s who could replace both the notifications and mailing list roles.
It's not that easy today either. Loading a list of words in a hashtable will work for..Chinese (pinyin), but most languages have declensions and conjugation. And you want to validate both "cat" and "cats", both "walk", "walking" and "walked" and the word list normally wouldn't contain those. (haven't checked the English ones, but it certainly doesn't for languages with more complex inflection).

Yes, you don't have the memory complications that are really hard, but you still need to think. Get a proper data-structure (Trie, for ex), and fill it with all forms of the words.
I've started a "Ask HN" to help get more info on how people are doing their email delivery as it's one of the areas that isn't answered well in the responses below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3466865
I would pay them 2x or so and ALSO hire a second junior/entry level developer with the remaining budget. The senior developer benefits by having a sounding board and someone to put more menial tasks to. The junior developer gets great experience learning from a wizard, doesn't get stiffed on pay, and provides the n+1 redundancy needed to at least keep the project going if anything happens to your superstar.
I would rather hire a beginner developer with the right personality and attitude, and assimilate them in our company culture.

Senior developers are too arrogant these days...
No. You pay them good bonuses but the way you actually pay them is by giving them more responsibility, authority, and titles and putting bigger and bigger projects under their belt (which will make it all the easier for them to find better and better jobs in the future). And equity, of course.

The way for 3x or 10x developers to earn that multiple in pay is to become consultants or founders.
الجلطة؛ كيف تحصل الجلطة؛ مفهومها الطبي؛ إنواع الجلطه ؛ ملف شامل
When to use volatile keyword in Java
It really depends on the project and your own context (or your customer's).

For some projects (eg: https://www.wisecashhq.com) I go DotCloud or Heroku, because I'm willing to pay in favor of focusing on features.

For some other projects (eg: http://www.hackerbooks.com) I use a VPS and Chef, because it's a low recurring cost and it's a smaller deal if the server is offline for a while.

Even if I go app hosting but the project works well, I take care to think about what it would need to redeploy it on a VPS instead (eg: create a staging server with Chef and a VPS).

One thing I will not host in all cases is email, because I feel it's really easy to do it wrong.
http://www.shipwire.com/ is used by many Kickstarter projects.

I have no relationship with them. I just read about them in an article.
The promise of HTML5 - brief post on WebGL, three.js and 3D graphics demos
See the 1988 paper "The world's fastest Scrabble program" by Andrew W. Appel	(Princeton) and Guy J. Jacobson	(Carnegie-Mellon).

They used a data structure they dubbed a DAWG (directed acyclic word graph) that was a trie for common start patterns with words and also collapsed together common endings (every "tion" ending word ended in same portion f the graph. As I recall they used 5 bits to store ASCII uppercase characters and either 11bits or 19bits to address nodes in the graph leading to a data structure that compressed words as well as any lzw type compression with the advantage that it was directly readable with respect to word extraction.

While the paper was published in 1988, the program was written and being used much earlier in '82 or '83.

http://wiki.cs.pdx.edu/cs542-spring2011/papers/appel-scrabbl...
It sure seems like in the last few days the floodgates opened against this bill from a lot of reputable organizations. What were they waiting for a month ago? Was there some report/statement published recently that convinced them?
‘DON 2’ SHINES AT THE BOX OFFICE; ‘PLAYERS’ TANKS 
Shahrukh Khan’s thriller crosses the Rs. 100 crore mark at the end of the third week, while Players struggles in its first week
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I'm not in a startup and I know nothing about LLL but I do know this: if you're firefighting and say that you don't have time to draw breath, and that you don't have time to learn the right way to get things back onto track, then that means STOP! Reassess where you're going because you're heading for a crash. Take some time out to get things in perspective and take the time to do it right. Cut back a bit on those tasks that seemed so essential but perhaps you could afford to skip them for a week or two.
"By the time SAGE was completely operational, the Soviet bomber threat had been replaced by the Soviet missile threat, for which SAGE was entirely inadequate."

They still kept it running for 20 years though.
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Yes, I agree 3x performer should get 3x benefits but may not be in the form of salary alone. These guys would like super work environment, control on their plans, even top performing teammates around and long term benefits.

If you don't have productive environment & plans, even these guys can perform below 3x I guess.
SHOOTING OF JOKER 3D IS OVER 
The Akshay Kumar-Sonakshi Sinha-starrer, which was originally supposed to be India’s first 3D film, is finally done with its shooting schedules
Ad For Color Features Guy Stalking Girls In a Bikini
Color is getting desperate and creepy.
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We used to manage the setup ourselves (spf, domainkeys, bounce tracking etc), but switched to Sendgrid (http://sendgrid.com) for all our outgoing e-mails a couple of months ago. Delivering around 600k e-mails/month. Delivery has been great, and we haven't had to spend hours of troubleshooting and managing our own outgoing mail servers. The Sendgrid management interface is OK, but could be better.
I think PG does make one contribution in this essay -

"The most dangerous thing about our dislike of schleps is that much of it is unconscious. Your unconscious won't even let you see ideas that involve painful schleps. That's schlep blindness."

The critical post left out that single observation and just ran with "creating a business involves lots of unpleasant work" which is not even the point. How many times have people named files with time stamps and version numbers in them? Yet it took a Houston to see that version control is useful for normal people too and build a company around it.
What about advertising on manga forums? They still seem to be popular
Military technology: Magic bullets
3x developer is equivalent to Triple-Core Processor...you will see the increase in performance but that won't be 3 times more, so I will pay accordingly.
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They may be well established, but remember ComodoGate [1,2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_Group#Breach_of_securit...
[2] http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/6177/A_Web_of_Mis_Trust_Co...
"Extradition requires that the crime is also a crime under the local laws."

We should perhaps also require that the likely punishment be comparable.
I doubt it would be so bad -- I am pretty sure you would learn alot about banking.
> Most people don't consciously decide not to be in as good physical shape as Olympic athletes, for example. Their unconscious mind decides for them, shrinking from the work involved.

Being a world-class athlete is essentially a full-time job. Most people quite consciously do decide not to work two full time jobs, or simply don't have the energy for it. Not the best example...
I disagree. He's British, and allegedly committed a crime in Britain, against British law. He should be tried and, if found guilty, punished in Britain. Why is that not happening?

It may be the case that he has also committed a crime in the US. If Britain feels that the crime he is supposed to have committed in the US is heinous enough in nature to extradite him, then the proper procedures should be followed of course. However, if the crime is not heinous enough to cause a prosecution of him in Britain, it is not heinous enough to extradite him to the US.

In Thailand, I believe it is illegal to insult the person of the King. If someone in the UK insults the Thai king on the internet in a racially-aggravated way (and funding the site via advertisements), but not heinously enough to cause a prosecution in the UK, should they be extradited to Thailand to face prosecution there? I'd argue that they shouldn't and that this fictitious case is almost identical in nature to the one under discussion.

Your allegory is flawed (I believe) as I cannot imagine how one could facilitate copyright violation for pirating CDs remotely, in a way that is merely speech and is illegal in the host country and would cause extradition to face prosecution. Can you fill that detail in for me?

(The idea that there is a crime of facilitating copyright violation is nauseating, by the way. That's similar to the UK's offence of possessing information that may be of use to a terrorist. In practice, almost anything can be outlawed that way; the law is so broad as to be useless for punishing any single offence and capable of punishing any offence.)
What are the benefits of accepting life as it comes?
> You are not worth answering to.

Are you always so pleasant? Who pissed in your wheaties?
Are you kidding me? It's US-only?! Then they haven't even STARTED on the "schlep"!!!
Ask HN: Why did WhatsApp disappear from the South-African AppStore?
I discovered that WhatsApp is no longer available on the South-African Apple Appstore. A short while ago, it was the number one paid app on the store.

Why would it be gone? Is it also gone on other countries' appstores?
I use google apps for email accounts and postmark (http://postmarkapp.com) for app notification type emails. I've had no problems with deliverability with Postmark, they are more expensive than some alternatives and if you're doing hundreds of thousands of emails I believe they have some issues with queuing (a complaint I saw from a person I know off) but besides that they're fantastic. I've sent about 80,000 emails in the past 6 months and had nothing but a great experience, I've never once had an issue from a user complaining their email didn't arrive, which is nice.
There's an excellent comparison of transactional email providers which can be of help:
http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/transactional-emailin...

On another front, we use to use mailchimp - great product, but can start to get expensive when you don't use any of its features, so we switched to mailjet for our largest list.

Most important point is that rolling your own is more headache and time investment than its worth as compared to the costs associated with these services.

Still setup your SPF records and domainkeys though!
Exactly. Managing hardware sucks.
Heroku, GAE and other SaSS are great, if and only if they have everything you need. For my own purposes, most of the things that I do now involves PostGIS which mean I have to use a PostgreSQL server. The cheapest option for PostgreSQL on Heroku starts at $200. That's just way out of my budget for now. I'd love to know how people do GeoSpatial searches and other GIS stuff using MySQL or other NoSQL solutions.
Murdoch Calls Google Piracy Leader
It doesn't have to. You can rent a physical server from one of the many companies out there.

You get a few IP addresses (I've got a /29 on both of my servers) and a fresh install of whatever distro you choose with sshd running. It's just like purchasing a VPS.
Project to pour water into volcano to make power
Vector Images and Raster Images Difference
Vector images and Raster images are two different categories of digital images. Digital image is nothing but a few arrangements of bits, including (zeroes and ones).
well I used to be a project manager and a methodology (either PM or software development) evangelist for a medium-sized company before going freelance.

for me going freelance was starting a business - a one person business, and you might call it a startup or not - does not matter really.

what I agree on, after reading this post, is when you're pretty small and you're struggling to get things going, and doing many things on your own (or with just a cofounder or so) (you don't want to lose those customers, do you?) it's pretty hard to use any process methodology / method.

to me what LLL is proposing is an ad-hoc methodology wrapped up in a tool, and I would not use it. because of the dragon. and because I have to make a living.

I prefer to polish my Rails skills to prepare for the next startup-to-be.
This has all been done in Japan for 5 or 6 years now. There are plenty of Izakaya in Japan that you order from wireless color tablets. They have the entire menu in color with pictures of every item. They've been around since at least 2005.

(Izakaya = the type of place Japanese people drink which is most easily described as booze and tapas)
While this might become an interesting discussion, the submitted page is pure seo spam linkbait without any content.

Better submission would have been the linked http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/youtube-th...
Your ignorance was excusable a decade ago

How about you think about words you are using? They have meanings, you know.
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Previously on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3251299

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3165694
Israeli Hackers Hack Back Could It Lead To Cyber War?
I am surprised nobody so far has mentioned AWS as a hosting provider. You can start with their free micro instance plan for one year (http://aws.amazon.com/free) and resize the server as needed. Having the ability to take a snapshot of the full server (you need to use EBS) and clone it to test changes before going into production or just for backup purposes gives me a peace of mind that I never had with dedicated servers (even if they had RAID). Plus you can get a myriad of services around EC2, like managed MySQL (RDS) that you cannot get from traditional VPS hosting providers. (Disclaimer, I created http://bitnami.org/ and we work a lot with Amazon)
If you have a site that is not exclusive to visitors from the USA you might want to write "United States of America" instead. And "US Congress" (I guess). America is two continents.
Programming prodigy passes away at 16
In the LaTex editor that I'm using (WinEdt), I have a custom color highlighting that marks \rigth and \heigth in red+bold+strikeout, so I don't have to wait to compile and see a strange error to spot the mistake.
I know it's HN folklore to claim "Trivial! Would do over a weekend!", but please...

Doing a half-decent production spell checker is STILL a major feat. Same as "just crawling the web" (further down the discussion). Both require problem understanding and engineering you can't see and appreciate at a glance.

And no, looking up individual words in some predefined dictionary doesn't qualify as half-decent spell checking, especially for non-English languages. Spelling correction is another step.

"Their coming too sea if its reel."
I guess our economy will never completely bottom out as long as we can export death.

Just wait 'til your local police get these for "domestic terrorism crowd control" (aka protesters) with the shrapnel replaced by "less lethal" rubber bullets while drones fly overhead for more accurate targeting.

Oh it would never happen, right? What if a congressman owns stock in the company?
In case you missed the details THEY WON'T TELL THE PARENTS.

Parents of minors. The parents clearly state they don't know.

Be sure to watch the video too despite the annoying pre-commercial.

Some are guessing they all got a bad immunization for something or gardasil at the same time period, but we won't ever be told apparently one way or another. They only confirmed it's not imaginary or faked.

When it's up to a dozen people, it's a public health hazard at that point (they've been slowly finding more victims as a few weeks ago it was only half a dozen).
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Switch mode & phihong switching power supply. Condor, power one, mean well & ault ac power supply, ac to dc or ac/dc power supply. Switchmode, medical, open frame, external ac, linear regulated, universal, Cosel, linear & meanwell power supplies.
I use BuyVM vps, and very happy with them..
$25 bullets and $25000 rifles are insanely expensive. And I don't see how better rifles will bring an advantage - most coalition casualties are from mortar fire and improvised explosive traps - rebels have already lost preference for gun standoffs. But I'm sure H&K and Alliant will love to sell lots of these to whatever army is corrupt enough to buy them.

Also... aren't exploding bullets illegal under the Hague convention?
TM does work well in Haskell, though, where constraining IO effects during a transaction is simple.
Surely it's just a 1 axis accelerometer and perhaps a lookup table or some basic maths?

The military sure do like to make themselves seem important. Super secret alien assault rifles being attacked by unspecified hackers from unknown locations. Yep, better keep funding new and exciting ways to kill people.
Maybe it's not fair to cite the work of super heroes, but Peter Norvig wrote a spelling corrector in 21 lines of Python: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html