skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price for Hetzner's EX 4S is 49.58 EUR for non-EU customers and 59 EUR per month VAT-included for most EU customers (EU corporations registered for VAT purposes need to apply the VAT specific to their own country).

An Amazon m2.4xlarge instance (High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large Reserved Instance) with Heavy Utilization on a 3-year commitment costs $9'660 for the 3y term and 3 * 365 * 24 * $0.454 = $11'931 in usage fees, which means a $21'591 total, $7'197 per year or $600 per month (EUR 458 per month at the current exchange rate).

458 EUR versus 49-60 EUR is 9x more expensive at full-time usage. (instance type and price data extracted from http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ and http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ ).

If you were to consider just the Amazon Heavy Utilization term commitment for 3 years, that's still $9'660 / 3 / 12 = $268 (EUR 205) each month.
4th option: Yes but considering deleting it.
How to wipe a broken hard disk drive before sending it back to the manufacturer?
This is what i call 'Being at the right place at the right time' :)
Basic XSS flaw:

http://www.ollawalla.com/browse?city=<script>alert("xss")</script>
I think it's now so hipster to have deleted whatever social networking accounts one has that re-upping is becoming the new hipperthanthou.
> or to just look up a character you don't know the name of.

There's Detexify for that:

detexify.kirelabs.org/
Not that I'm a big fan of the douchey tone of the article writer, and apparently unlike this dude I find it trivial to switch between vim and Sublime Text or whatever other editor without having a crying jag, but...wait for it...vim does let you use the arrow keys.

He seems to be conflating vi and vim (personally I've only used vi once or twice in the last five years). Also, his grand sweeping pronouncement that you spend all your time in normal mode is, to me, utterly bizarre. I go into normal mode to do text manipulation. I live in insert mode because I'm actually writing stuff. In that respect it feels like every other editor ever.
Neither the FSF nor Apple have standing to get the injunction enforced. Though it might be interesting for Apple to contribute to Linux in order to be able to do exactly this.

Maybe when the Linux toolchain is LLVM instead of gcc...
Funny glitch: draw an alpha, get \alpha. Then draw a beta and gamma to the right, without touching or overlapping the alpha, and I get \propto \beta \gamma. I've found it shuns greek letters in general. I get an `x' from by best attepmts at \lambda.

Really impressive and useful, nonetheless.
FreeBSD. Although it is mapped to nvi instead, ever since 4.4BSD.
Two Things:

* In the ordinary world, public <> searchable.

* People forget things. The Internet doesn't.
I love how people love to pretend that Windows is so completely and obviously broken, even when that's actually the furthest thing from the truth.

And when it's explained to them why something is the way it is with perfect reason, they attack the messenger, or just make more shit up to complain about.
How can you have an article about downloadable physical objects without mentioning Shapeways? http://www.shapeways.com/model/227707/ The uploader chooses the materials the object is available in (Shapeways will print it in that material and send it to you), or whether you can download the file and print it yourself. http://www.shapeways.com/model/449442/the_piratebay_ship.htm...
This is a great idea.

1) Where do you get the data?

2) Will you do movies? I'd like to know what shirt Daniel Craig is wearing in several scenes from "The girl with the dragon tatoo" -- I'd like to know what shoes and suit Ryan gosling was wearing in "Crazy Stupid Love" etc...

3) if you get information from the costume designers/stylists of these shows - do they get a commission on sales of items from their designs?

Also - Post this to Quora and try to get the interest of Ashton Kutcher - he is very active on Quora, a well known startup investor and obviously entrenched in Hollywood.
Men Live Better Where Women Are In Charge
This is of course ridiculous.

I can be found in a cafe almost more often than not. I...

1) regularly use encryption for all traffic while in a cafe. Would you yell out your credit card in a cafe over the phone? It's easier to encrypt everything than handpick.

2) regularly have multiple phones out on the table. I'm usually doing Android dev.

3) travel up to six kilometers to get my good coffee. Apparently unwillingness to drink McD coffee is a sign of a terrorist?

4) love coffee and drink way too much of it. So if I'm a little twitchy from that third Americano I may be a terrorist?

5) prefer to pay cash to limit my spending so I don't get that fourth Americano.

6) Like to get out. Just because I have Internet at home and I'm using it somewhere else doesn't make me suspicious.

That being said, I have been suspicious of people using Internet at coffee shops before. But usually it's that guy who has parked right in front of the coffee house for the third consecutive day and has his laptop out. (I noticed his car when going to the cafe one day and realized he was just getting porn. The cafe owner and I had a good laugh about it.)

I have also called police about a young man who had made a giant map of downtown and making sniper signs and lines of sight across it. He also really wanted to talk about a recent mass murder. The creepiness and attention seeking was enough to set off internal alarms. The police followed up with me after and were very professional.

The only people I ever terrorised in a coffee house are the Mactards who think it is fine to bittorrent and bring even simple email checking for everyone else to a screaming halt. So far, it is the only useful thing I've ever made in Python.
SSH tricks
netflix for ties!
Ditto. This should be an option on the poll. Every time I log on I see tons of useless, inane comments from people I barely know and I quickly leave again. I mainly have an account so people know I exist (ie. it's almost a social faux pas not to have one.)

Logging on is like flicking quickly past a TV channel that is aimed those who watch reality tv. No thanks.
I suck at design yet I start with design. I'll make up a header and logo in Photoshop then transfer it to HTML & CSS, and at that stage block out a content area and footer. For me, doing this lets me envision the end product and get myself excited about getting to it quickly. Part of what's exciting is that I'll have something to show people at the end, so not looking like crap matters to me.

After that I figure out the data model, create whatever database is needed, open up the docs for whatever new tech I'm learning (that's usually the point of a weekend project for me), and get to coding the actual app.

This past weekend I made http://bookmarkly.com to learn Backbone.js and a bunch of other related things. It's pure JavaScript on the server and client, and I had to build a screenshot generating server for it too, which bled into the week. I'll probably post a "Show HN" after I give all the code a second pass, I'd like to open source the site.
I currently have 55 tabs open in IntelliJ (I counted). I have no trouble finding any of them. Side tabs and alphabetical sort are great.
Yes, this. About a year ago, I finally bothered to understand the buffer concept in vim (after a brief stint in emacs), and suddenly any tabbed editor felt clumsy.
Some unsolicited advice:

Never use the word "fanboy". It's a word used by people who hate joy.

Other people will call you a fanboy no matter what you do. Ignore these people.

You are a fan of vi. Nobody is fooled by your disclaimers: The joy shines through. This is not a problem. Advocate vi with pride!
Just the opposite. I find all that distracting. My hands never leave the keyboard. The mouse is a nuisance. I'm far more productive without all the GUI crap.
The list of the winners of 57th Idea Film - fare Awards
Finally, it's written in PHP and the way they draw people in Farmville weirds me out.

are you seriously saying that the language they use has anything to do with you not using it?
Yup. I suspect Biggs thought ending the title with a question mark excused his vague aspersions. It's just lazy.
Media Cyborg: How Mediagazer Editor Patricia Sauthoff Gets Her News
This article states a problem without giving a solution!

The most obvious solution is of course to use double parity: Linux's RAID6, ZFS's raidz2, NetApp's RAID-DP, etc.
Photos: Life Inside Facebook Headquarters
Why couldn't competition spring up once google starts charging ridiculous rates? It's not as if competition dies forever. It dies until someone else figures out how to do it better.
'Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights.' :(
I realise this may have been a while ago, but do you remember a particular provision or theme amongst provisions that caused you to do that? When was it?

(I work at Facebook, but I'm mostly just asking for my own interest.)
Cool HTML5 Analog Clock Demo
No. It's not how I want to stay connected with my friends and/or family.
LOL good find.
Cher Président - Redis, Celery, Django & Nginx
Wikipedia page might provide a bit more insight into the Mosuo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo
He prefers it to blackboard. It's a very idiosyncratic preference, IMO. I'm pretty sure I could refuse and he would have to oblige me; however, maintaining a facebook account with 1 friend isn't a big problem.
PHP 5.3.9 remote execution exploit fixed
Doesn't this assume users have no choice? If a better map product came along, couldn't they also make it free (to compete with Google's future raised prices) and then when Google is bankrupt, raise the price? Isn't this totally ignoring the business model and claiming a monopoly on price alone? What's the barrier to entry? Is Google blocking competing map provider's search results?
I just came here to write that. :)
The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 2)
For some reason, I still remember most of the birth dates of the people whom are the same age as me that I went to school with. Probably because we celebrated their birthdays in class each and every year.

It's amazing to think that some consider it private information.
google page rank v.s. wikipedia... round 1, FIGHT!
Startup - How? or Should I?
I have developed a CRM for a mid-size travel company. CRM started as a very simple solution for their tours but then it became very sophisticated software to run every aspect of their business (CRM covers their tours, clients, reservations and also accounting part of the business). Continuously updated with feature requests.
Now, it has been heavily used for over a year now. I can easily say that the software is close to its mature level.

My questions are;
- Should I go for a startup and make the software publicly available?

If I should go for the startup-
-How to start?
-Licensing?
-Partnership?
-Funding?

Thanks in advance for any recommendation.
Stack Overflow Popularity: Annoying to Few, Liked by Many
okay, thanks for the numbers. they sure are enormous.

some points though:

people would buy far fewer DVDs
people are anyway not buying DVDs, whether the studios like it or not. the studios can't do anything about it. I can't remember the last time I bought either a movie DVD or a music DVD. I go to spotify or netflix, or a movie theater, so simply won't watch it, if DVD is my only option. Others might be different though.

I doubt it at that price point
If I go to the theater once, the absolute minimum I spend is 20$ (ticket + popcorn), and this is for a single guy. If I had a family, it would be in the 50-100$ range, especially in big cities. so 50$ is actually much cheaper, and my guess is many people would go for it.

One thing is sure - the whole situation is fucked up. It has to change, it will change. It is just that the transition period is going to be awful. And we get to watch it, and be a part of it.
But why do you stop using it in your scenario? Why does the restaurant have to go out of business?
Networx: A $10M Business Built in 50 Hours - with John Rydell
Antonio Jose Boluda
A frequency comb that can untangle the extreme ultraviolet spectrum
The free market doesn't fail in this case. Consumers fail. Just like when there is traffic on a highway, it isn't networking theory that fails, it is drivers.

Consumers choose to shop at Carrefour, and fill their coffers with money to smash smaller chains. Maybe if consumers were smarter, or cared a little bit more, they wouldn't shop there? I can only blame ignorant consumers and not carrefour or the free market in general.

Even if 10% of consumers thought that Carrefour was onerous and damaging to their society, and were willing to pay slightly higher prices - they would provide enough demand for other smaller shops to open.

But they don't, because people don't want to bother spending 50 cents more on gas, and paying 5€ more on their 70€ purchase.
This is fantastic! It's actually more robust than I thought it was going to be.
How to properly secure your iPhone or Android device
I use VS2010 every day and the tabbed interface drives me nuts. I wish it was more conceptually like Emacs.
Xbox Live Marketing Boss Joins Apple’s App Store Team
Except for the fact that none of the people who would give me the updates I'm interested in are on Google+...
Analyst: iPhone 5 Coming in June at WWDC
Hackers outwit online banking identity security systems
I remapped hjkl to htns (the keys directly under the right fingers on the home row) and it works wonderfully. 'n' then needs to be remapped, so I have 'N' set to 'j' and 'n' set to 'k' so that the two commands for repeating a search forward or backward are adjacent keys on the Dvorak keyboard.

No other changes required. I don't use vim's 't' or 's' commands, so no problem there.
Looks promising. I'll be using it in a meeting I have right now. Thanks.
How does XFS stack up with ZFS when it comes to speed, reliability and protecting my data?
How to connect two Computers using LAN
Events are the only reason I still have an account. If I had a better way to be notified of parties and small local concerts, I would deactivate my account in 2 seconds. The news feed doesn't do anything for me, I don't use any apps, and random people from my past already can't look me up.

I already use other apps to share the kinds of events and connections Facebook wants me to put on their platform, and I falsified my profile so ads show up in a language I can't read. But I cant get al the way rid of my account, because not having one would be too inconvenient.

I suspect its going to stay this way for a long time, for the same reason I have a Yahoo account I never use.
LLVM is licensed under the UI license, which is basically the BSD license. The only part that is GPL in LLVM is some C/C++ code derived from GCC.
This is pretty cool, although it doesn't seem very efficient if you goal is to write TeX. It would be interesting see how well it works to OCR hand-written notes or old-timey typewritten (that is, typed on a typewriter) math manuscripts where the mathematical symbols written in afterwards by hand...
Hi folks,

A small note on what we don't support yet:

no cube roots, no nth roots either

square root's top line must be a single line (make it wide enough up front)

no matrices

no system of equations

no corrections, no scratch out (use top left undo/redo arrows)

leave enough space between integral/summation symbols and main expression for better accuracy

LaTeX output pleases MathJax as much as possible (thank you guys for your lovely rendering library)

Hope that helps,
Thank you for trying it out.

PS: MathML seems to get little attention, why is it so?

--- LIST OF SUPPORTED SYMBOLS (encoded in UTF-8) ---

Letters

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Digits

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Maths symbols

€ $ £ ¥ ₩ ¢ ( ) < > [ ] { } ! # % & ? @ / \ | ∥ © ∂∅ ∇ ∞
ℂ ℕ ℚ ℝ ℤ
+ - ± × ÷ * ∘ · = ' , . : ; _
← ↑ → ↓ ↔ ↕ ↖ ↗ ↘ ↙
⇐ ⇑ ⇒ ⇓ ⇔ ⇕
∀ ∃ ∄ ∈ ∉ ∋ ∌ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊄ ⊅
∼ ≃ ≠ ≡ ≢ ≤ ≥ ≪ ≫ ∝ ∠
∏ ∑ ∫∮∧ √

Greek symbols

Γ Δ Ω α β γ δ ε η θ λ ν π ρ σ τ φ χ ψ ω ϕ µ

International convention units (with cursive support)

km hm dam dm cm mm µm
ha
hl dal dl cl ml µl
kg hg dag dg cg mg µg
ms µs
GHz MHz kHz Hz

Other mathematical terms (with cursive support)

sin cos tan sinh cosh tanh arcsin arccos arctan cot coth
min max arg argmin argmax
inf sup lim liminf limsup
ln log
dx dy dz dt
> people are anyway not buying DVDs, whether the studios like it or not

You're really out of touch with reality. In 2011, the top 100 movies sold 146,455,878 DVD copies (estimated, not all retailers disclose exact numbers).

Here's last week's North American DVD (non-Blu-Ray) sales:

http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/charts/weekly/thisweek.php

> If I had a family, it would be in the 50-100$ range, especially in big cities. so 50$ is actually much cheaper, and my guess is many people would go for it.

This is working against you... in arguing that people would spend $50/mo for this because it's an alternative to theaters, you're also arguing it would cannibalize the revenue from box office sales. Remember it was 480 million subscribers for just the MPAA's 6 studios to break even if the box office revenue was untouched.

There's only around a billion computers in the world -- so here's a good recap of your plan: Get every single computer owner in the world to subscribe to a $50/month studio-backed streaming service. If they can't get every computer owner in the world to subscribe, then they will make less money than they do today not offering the service.

That's all it takes to see why the service doesn't exist.
This is bound to disrupt a lot of industries. I can already imagine the massive lobbying efforts and propaganda against it.
That is so incredibly meta.
>it said she was in Country Y, city Z on date D, with ME

This has nothing to do with whether or not you have a Facebook account, but rather is based on the behavior of your friends.
I use TextMate day to day. If I'm not on OS X I use Emacs for making software, and sometimes I use Emacs on OS X. It's great for JavaScript.

Though vim is no longer my main editor I still use it every day. Right tool for the job and all that.
This comment is full of interesting info:

http://www.elpauer.org/?p=1146&cpage=1#comment-101986

Things are in this case a lot better than it seems at first.
Samsung Galaxy S III said to be launching in April
كلمة كمال الجنزوري في جلسة اليوم بالفيديو
Google: How to set always open search result in a new tab.
Its an amazon product. See their "hiring" page for more obvious proof: http://www.junglee.com/f/1000604193/ref=footer_hiring
As I posted below (and seemingly got downvoted for it), "Never had one, Never will"

The people I want to stay in touch with, I stay in touch with. Those I don't, I don't.

It really is that simple. You don't need facebook, or anything else, to stay in touch with the people who are important to you.

I call shenanigans on anyone who thinks facebook is a required part of life. Or Twitter. Or any other "social network" for that matter.

If you use it and enjoy it, that's great for you. Keep using it, keep enjoying it.

I'll stick to emails, phonecalls, IMs, and text messages. Hasn't failed me yet.
Here it is, hiding inside the Russel's paradox article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox#Applied_ve...
When on Windows, I just leave an instance of Process Explorer running. My own machines I have set to fire it up upon boot. (These are not servers.)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653
It WAS a while ago. I think the main trigger was about the ownership of the submitted data. Can't check anymore, because t&c changes constantly.

But don't tell me, now everything is much better. That is what all software people say about the last release, isn't it? Just get it right from the beginning.

It was a good decision, though.
Everybody should check t&c before signing something. That sheds a clear light on who is really evil and who is not.
Downvote this comment if you must, but I have to say it:

Meh.
Apparently Pinterest has already surpassed Twitter in web traffic referrals so maybe there's something there.
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NASA Probe Captures 1st Video of Moon's Far Side
Monsanto Accused In Suit Tied To Agent Orange
ETextbook Market Still Very Much in Flux
"Why do all articles about how wonderful vi is end with condescension?"

Because one way to get someone over the initial learning hump is to "encourage" them by challenging their manhood. Same principle behind a boot camp sergeant telling every single incoming group that they are the worst bunch of nambypamby girliemen he's ever seen and he's been in this army for 25 years and that he will consider it a personal failure if he doesn't cause each and every one of you to quit in a crying mess. You're supposed to be motivated to try your best in the hope that he'll begrudgingly concede at the end that you didn't suck after all.

It works, but it has the side effect of creating a strong tribal identity among those who pass the bar, an "us" who are good enough to make it and the "them" who didn't. The military deliberately exploits this side effect; I'm less convinced it's a good idea in a programmer context.
Does any backbone/whatever involved?
Tech University Institute Bans Electronic Devices From Classrooms
And the response to this is... to force the monopolist to keep its prices unnaturally high, hence raking in even more profit and making it even more likely that competition will be squashed, and screwing consumers?

Because that's what this judge is arguing, basically: that Google and other mapping companies should "cartel up" and just be fair among themselves, smaller companies (and progress) be damned.
It provides a measure of quantity, not a definition of what it is.

I don't think this is a matter of definition.

Here's an analogy. Back before we had an understanding of matter in terms of atomic details (or anything deeper than that), people could have disputed about what is a liquid and what is a solid and what is a gas. Different people might have given different definitions of these in terms of qualities that differentiated them from each other ("solids maintain their shape", "a gas does not weigh much" etc).

But we now know that this question was not a matter of definition but a matter of understanding what was actually going on underneath the phenomenal appearances.

Understanding what a liquid is not a matter of definition, it's a matter of understanding how the phenomena actually works. And in this case we have even been able to show the categories we thought existed weren't even literally different categories.

Returning to the question of what information is, the idea that it's just something to be defined in one of a number of ways is an assumption.
Hehehe, yes I keep opening printer dialogs and new windows in my browser because of this. Though to be fair, that's often more due to being on Windows and not having 'focus follows mouse'.
What is it? I loaded it up in Internet Explorer and the page wouldn't render.
Fiery Demise for a 3,500 Year Old Titan of Nature
Well, I use Xcode because the performance loss in writing Objective-C without autocompletion is larger than the performance gain from using vim. However, navigation is just so painful, and "awful" is really being kind about Xcode's find/replace.
Is not some of the best learning those things we don't appreciate at first but then we encounter an example and that pearl of wisdom someone imparted on us years ago flashes up and all in the world makes sense? :)

I love the lisp... can I post it on twitter? What's your twitter handle?
I'm going to put together a brochure, its called "You might be a fucking idiot if don't do these things when accessing the internet from a public terminal."
While wayland-native applications would not be network transparent (as wayland does not support this), you would still be able to run X11 applications over the network. You can run X11 applications in Wayland (like OSX) so you can also run remote X11 applications in Wayland (like OSX).