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Popping the Amazon Web Services Capacity Myth
If futz.me is the coolest, why not more users?
Why aren't more people using futz.me?

In it's simplest form:

Email yourself a note, link, or picture without logging in to ANYTHING first...

Example:

Just type into your browser's address bar...

futz.me/xxx Hey Mom this is cool!

...If your username were "xxx".

Check it out.
http://futz.me
Only at the end did I realize this was written in August of 2011, before 1.0 was released!
I'm really more surprised that Path has let presentations like this continue. I've seen 4 separate MVH presentations, with each one being in step with these complaints. and it always leaves a bad taste in my mouth regarding Matt and Path as a company.

I guess it comes down to the repeat occurrence. If it were is first, or even second offense, I could overlook it, but it's a repeated thing. Given that his job (biz dev) is to build relationships with big brands, it also seems like he's ultimately shooting himself in the foot regarding longer play, larger relationships with high dollar companies.
> The thing is, of the oil taken out of the earth, what percent has been used for plastic? I'm not sure but a very small portion.

RTFA: "Even though plastics are made on a massive industrial scale, they still account for less than 10% of the world’s oil consumption."
One more: "Fry - all he knows is that he bought 100 shares @ $10.00 from anonymous counterparty."

Didn't Fry sell 100 shares to an anonymous counterparty?
Using bikini shots in a presentation is over the top but the rest of the article seems a bit petty.
Most people label Riak a key/value store, as does the author, but I get a more useful mental picture thinking of it as a distributed file system. The same kinds of things that are fast on a file system are fast with Riak (direct access), and the same kinds of things are relatively slow on both (find(1)ing a file based on a pattern match compared to M/R for data). They both also excel at storing binary data assuming you understand the limits.

This model has helped me make better decisions about when & where to use it and the cost involved. For example, if you're on AWS, just use S3 and keep metadata in an RDBMS or search engine.
I'm a professional software product developer who writes messy code all the time (true spagetti code isn't really possible today, it's a thing done only in assembler).

After awhile you realize the pain of doing messy everywhere, and do it only where it makes sense (Prototypes, quick fixes, first implementations, etc).

But you know what runs worse than messy code? No code at all.
> It seems to me that there are two ways one can approach this subject.

There are a lot of ways you can approach this subject. I'm going to rely on an example I used before[1]. Let's assume that if you're on this site, you probably build some kind of web technology. Were you aware that a portion of your users are colorblind? Did you just do a mental double-check and go "shoot, I should check up on that?"

You didn't actively do anything against colorblind people, it simply wasn't on your radar. You can go through your entire site design, do A/B testing, deploy, get good results, and still be completely unaware of this. When someone comes up to you and says "I'm colorblind, you should add 'OK' to this green button because it's hard for me to use your site without that," what do you do?

"Sorry! I didn't intentionally mean to make it hard for you to use! I deeply regret that you can't use the site."

or how about

"Hey! Chill out! We were just trying to make a good site and the numbers say we're ok!"

Both of those answers sound pretty awful and insensitive. And yet, these are the responses to your "two ways" listed above. Probably the correct answer is "Oh wow, we weren't aware that was a problem. We're going to go fix it, can you tell us specifically what is wrong?"

Which is exactly the kind of response we need to sexism in technology. It boils down to being aware of how your actions make other people feel, and when an issue is brought up you consider it earnestly. When you figure that out, and learn to handle when you haven't, you can stop "being afraid of accidentally offending someone" (itself casual sexism) and you can actually work to make things inclusive.

One great read on this is Ellen Spertus' MIT AI Lab Technical Report[2].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3772919

[2] http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/pap/pap.html
Kickstarter's aggregate-laissez-faire-angel model has some notable successes under its belt. I suppose the failures aren't as publicized.

The legal mechanics of relating kickstarter-style funding to a share issue would add cost and complexity.

If a prospective company thinks it has a case for kickstarter-style crowd funding, it should probably make that case... on kickstarter.
I am going to print the last sentence and hang it on the wall.
Yes, I can see how a joking mention that "I secured a position in a company buy sending the cofounders nude pictures" can be considered controversial and unacceptable...

in rural Utah, that is. Comedians, from Lenny Bruce to Carlin have used far more controversial stuff --are we, tech people as a group more backwards than the 60's and 70's people that persecuted them?

(That he wasn't a comedian is not a reason to not allow the guy his joke. Or, are there levels of humor only allowable to comedians? I'd take my conferences with any grain of humor one would like to put in them, thank you).

Seriously (or maybe not), humor has to be judged for what it is, not as a manifesto or an agenda.

For example, your "Proposal to make unittest2 more accurate". People could take offense to that, especially if it was presented at a conference "what's with the profanity", "where's his professionalism" etc. You would consider that justified?
Isn't more shares available on the books the goal? You are describing an arms race that would be beneficial. Pro-rata based on order size, or a weighted lottery will work out the same over time, except a random lottery doesn't have the problem of clearing tons of tiny trades.

Now since speed is no longer a barrier to entry, the spoils will go to the people willing to provide the most liquidity.
If you were coming from 11.04, you'd have to upgrade to 11.10 anyway, since you can only upgrade from one release directly to the next one, or one LTS to the next. That's why I suspect you were on 11.04 and not 10.04 (it's not possible to upgrade directly from 10.04 or 10.10 to 11.10).

The alternative would have been a clean reinstall.

So basically you did the right thing.
FreshDesk raises $5M
Do you see any evidence that the rank-and-file software developer lives on the far-right-edge of the bell curve?

Software developers are largely male for the same reason that construction crews and prisoners are - rather than the reason Nobel Prize winners in Physics are.

What, if anything, there is to be gained by encouraging women to join men in wasting their lives away in the IT salt mines, is another question entirely.
Well, this is a fair argument you're making, in my opinion.
You might not want a cheaper open-source 3D printer, but I certainly wanted one and will probably be buying in to this particular model.

I'd much rather pay $500 for a slightly finicky device than $1000 for an equally finicky device (MakerBot), and for me, more than $1000 is too much to spend on a 3D printer.
And not just women either. It's ridiculous to assume that 100% of the best/qualified programmers would want to work at a place like that.
It might not be the primary reason but it certainly doesn't help. Back in high school, I was really excited to join the robotics team and I really had a passion for it but I only stayed in it for a year before quitting. I was the only girl on the team and the attitude people took with me was infuriating. It felt like such a boy's club.

Sure, you can just pass it off as "boys will be boys", high school boys are stupid and immature. But even the adult mentors were so exclusionary. I had to fight tooth and nail to be involved in the programming and building aspect of the competition even though just wanted to stick me to making their website look pretty.

It took me a couple of years to get that bad taste out of my mouth. I initially didn't even go into college for a STEM degree before I worked myself up to take Computer Engineering.

When you have experiences like that in high school and you hear stories about sexism in the workforce, it's intimidating to enter a field even if you do enjoy it. I'm glad I made the choice I did but the vibe other women get from degrees like CS isn't conducive to promoting a better gender balance.
VUDU disc-to-digital program
That's like saying that until we can quantify how far Paris is from London, "Paris is far from London" is a pretty empty statement. Pretty sure that people understood that locations can be some distance away from each other before they could quantify exactly how much distance.
Vancouver developers build a social network for bus riders
[citation needed]

Please? I'm curious if this is local to you, or a more widespread thing.
The company that produced this is an Investment Bank. Clients would not be charged explicitly for the research - it would be part of their 'news feed' from the bank (but to receive that feed, you'd have to give the appearance of being a client worth talking to).

It has all the appearance of being something a bank's research people might throw together to show that they had a lighter side (during quiet summer months).

Most of the research they've pulled together comes from universities, though.
I wrote a similar blog post back at my old job about our usage of Riak.

http://devblog.seomoz.org/2011/10/using-riak-for-ranking-col...

Keep in mind we used Riak pre-1.0, so YMMV.
I think that non-tech people, especially recruiters, could be responsible for taking something like this and running with it. Recruiters, especially non-internal ones, are often grasping at straws and they may hear something about "brogramming" and take the concept and run with it thinking that they can seem cool to recent grads, younger developers, etc.
I don't think Nintendo could swing the $1 model anyway. They don't have a ubiquitous cellphone. They're just selling game consoles to people who want to play games.

Nonetheless, I would imagine there are an awful lot of (older) gamers for whom the retail price of the game is basically irrelevant compared to even one hour spent playing it. Bluntly, I want an excellent quality game that is going to richly reward the time I spend in it and I couldn't give a shit how much it costs. Doubly so when it comes to my family. Hopefully Nintendo (and the other console manufacturers) continue to cater to us!
The server crashed due to HN coverage: https://twitter.com/#!/aperiodical/status/195557677680689152

"the server has crashed after having HackerNews pointed at it. Trying to get it rebooted now, and then we'll enable caching! #toosuccessful"

Also, no search engines seem to have cached it.

EDIT: Blog linked to http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Mathematics_%28Bookshelf%29 .
> but also because a smaller proportion of women are interested in the particular types of analysis that are relevant to programming.

1) That's pure speculation. You have no way to be sure of that.

2) That same speculation is often, and very often used as an excuse for offensive discrimination.

So it's simply the most safe, skeptic, scientific and socially healthy attitude for us. To stay as far away from that speculation as much we can.
Your stylesheet is referencing "../img/.png", which clearly doesn't exist. 404s hurt a lot.

You are loading google analytics [1] and jquery synchronously at the top of the page. Moving jquery to right before </body> is advisable at the very least if you can't load it async for some reason, so that it won't block the rest of the page. [2]

Most of your static assets have no caching headers (max-age or expires) at all.

Your map image could be 128 color png (neuquant + pngout) and nearly 50% smaller with no discernable to the human eye loss [3], and similar can be said for the phone template [4].

Your background tile image is unnecessary, or at the very least could be a 1x1 instead of a 100x100.

All of these things will improve performance for everyone, and would have been better targets than messing with keepalive. There is also more left to do...

Hope this helps. :)

[1] https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

[2] http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#js_bottom

[2] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/571990/settle/map.png

[3] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/571990/settle/phone_template_bg.png
I admit I'm guilty of that at times, but in this particular case, I was not complaining about being downvoted — I was suggesting that the downvoters reconsider their motivations. It was a sincere comment. You will note that nowhere in my comment did I whine about the unfairness of the downvotes or bemoan my lost magical fairy points.

I don't know if I'd venture to call it engrossing reading, but at any rate, I think it's less boring than recitations of the guidelines.
Regarding the paleo science, or lack thereof, I enjoyed this talk from Robb Wolf:
http://robbwolf.com/2012/03/07/darwinian-medicine-talk-suny-...

I'm sure some see 'paleo' as pseudoscience, but there are definitely people in the community trying to pin down the science.
People do use news stories, blog posts, Twitter, pretty much anything to algorithmically generate profits. But that's not really the domain of HFT.
Personal Branding
Hello! I'm one of the site's admins. I forgot to turn on caching :(

Anyway, what the post was linking to was this page on Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Mathematics_%28Bookshelf%29

Many of the textbooks there have been rewritten in LaTeX and now look just as good as the originals.
I find STR reliable, stable, fast and good enough that I think hibernation isn't really needed any more...
There's also this guy, who painted every day for nine years, and went from a completely unskilled beginner to a master artist:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3031684
Facebook strengthens security with AntiVirus Marketplace
I should plug my own startup: we have vision processing algorithms designed for exercise tracking on mobile devices. If you pointed you phone at yourself, we could track this kind of stuff. Email if you're interested in sdk access.
What?

Ctrl + Alt + cursor key works exactly as described. Also,

sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv

works like a charm. Maybe you tried while their repos were being slammed on release day. Perhaps you should give it more than a 15 second effort. :)
"Women don't want to do software development because it's boring and difficult".

Except it's a well known fact that until the 80's, roughly half of US programmers were women, and all around the world, the percentages of women in computing are growing, not shrinking.

And please don't say that people who stay away from technical careers do so because it's "difficult". You are one conjecture away from suggesting that white and asian males are intellectually superior to everyone else.
I tire of this facet of postmodern culture whereby one can avoid being held to account for one's character flaws and unpopular attitudes by hiding forever behind a veil of ambiguous "irony".

Make a claim in a possibly-ironic tone; see how your audience takes it; if they seem to agree with your overt sentiment, become unambiguously sincere; if they seem to disagree, become unambiguously ironic. Either way, you can adapt your apparent opinions to fit in to your current social group without any risk of reprimand for expressing a dissenting voice.

I sometimes wonder if the perpetually-ironic actually have any thoughts or opinions of their own underneath their layers of dry snark.
I didn't realize you could have more than 1 seed round of investments... I thought a seed round, by definition, was the initial round, and rounds after that were label differently.

Was this simply a continuation of sendhub's initial funding, or am i missing something completely?
Show HN: Boomerang Calendar - a smart calendar assistant in your Gmail
The Brogramming and Gender Problem needs to be reframed. And Fast
I have little to add on the substance other than to note that I find these posts (and the discussions here) incredibly informative. They shed light on an area that turns out to be far more interesting than I would have imagined.

However, the last example may be more realistic than you suppose. DEF CON last year contained a presentation[1] on security considerations in HFT networks, which I attended. It's thought-provoking and something I hope gets a little more attention.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjIdzBtTBnI
Introducing SwaggerSocket: A REST over WebSocket Protocol
Parenthetic - A language of parentheses
This is an interesting development. I have a lot of colleagues in the architecture industry who are heavily dependant on SketchUp for early-stage conceptual work. I wonder if Trimble, a company with focus on hardware and BIM will push sketchup away from its easy to use, conceptual design origins.
Yes. The reason you didn't read about it is because the markets didn't really consider it a "problem" that they were fleecing people who needed to cross the spreads to make trades; it was just part of the business model.
I am fully aware that the Pandora is good for some people, I am just saying that is nowhere near something that would appeal to/work for the masses.
Rick DeVos also started http://www.artprize.org/. It's good to see things happening in the midwest.
...every trade that executes because someone wanted to trade while the price was somewhere between the bid and the ask would cut the HFT folks out of the loop...

See the first post in the series. This is exactly how the markets work. The best price always wins.

If the bid/ask is $10.00/10.05, and I offer to buy at $10.05, I will trade immediately. If I offer to buy at $10.03, I jump the queue and will be the first to trade (provided someone is willing to sell at $10.03 or lower).
The Factory: Berlin’s Brilliant New Startup Epicentre
Be happy that you can get that far. My Dell Vostro V13 crashes as soon as I uncheck the "mirror displays" checkbox. Some light research pointed me to a known bug for this which didn't make it into this release.
Use showhn as beta code if you want to download.
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Hey HN,
We just launched Boomerang Calendar (private beta) and would love to get your thoughts. It helps you see your availability from your inbox and streamlines scheduling meetings.
It's not that people weren't willing to pay for Wii games above mobile game prices, they clearly did. The problem is that mobile phones became more powerful than the Wii and DS faster than Nintendo probably imagined, and the value was lost. The other factor about the Wii which worried me was that 3rd party authors didn't have the success that Nintendo's own games had on the console. It seems that Nintendo have only themselves to drive game innovation.
It's an intellectual, not ethical, defense, as he explains in the second paragraph. His defense has nothing to do with remorse and everything to do with helping people understand the concepts so they can participate in an informed debate.
Or they could just decide not to make their career their personal identity. I rarely feel the need to go out of my way to talk about my career, or tell people what I do, unless asked, in situations where I know their line of work has nothing to do with mine.
a) These "jokes" are beyond unacceptable.

b) Violent video games do increase aggression in kids, it took less than 2 seconds to find dozens of journal articles on the subject.
I am against Browser Plugins. If it requires a plugin, I will not use it.
I agree that the current CSS and HTML is not the best. There are many workarounds. But I believe in evolution. I think we have to improve CSS and HTML.
And the people are creating Frameworks to solve problems and to hide workarounds. What works actually pretty good. It is not perfect, but it works.
I think AXR is important. If people are contributing to AXR and starting to using it, that shows that something is not OK with CSS and HTML. And that could lead to faster improvements in CSS and HTML.
there are places where you really need type checking, and there are places where you don't.

show me the monads.
Makerbot stopped selling the 1k version, and now only sells a 1.75-2k version. I was going to buy the 1k Version. I now just bought the Solidoodle at

http://store.solidoodle.com/index.php?route=product/category...
The third. That his presentation really was acceptable, and people are making issues out of nothing --just to prove that the far-right should not have a monopoly on prudes and squares.
Indeed - the author seems to confuse trade volume with liquidity.
Polymorphism in Clojure
All right, let me get this straight. So this guy gives a speech criticizing gang bang interviews, and people walked out because they don't like the term "gang bang".

Or is it because they are so addicted to gang bang interviews that they aren't willing to give them up and are offended by anyone criticizing the practice.

I also despise gang bang interviews. There is no advantage to them and they should be stopped.

I also admire this guy for having the balls to come up with the disparaging and offensive term "gang bang interviews", because it does a great job of reframing the discussion about this practice. I will definitely start referring to them as "gang bang interviews" myself when mocking the practice.

Cheers!
Be realistic, there isn't really any culture that 100% of the best/qualified programmers would want to work in.
Korean publisher Nexon is trying to buy EA
What did you learn from this? I found the slides and read them, and it seems like he's just saying "the people who build these systems believe that firewalls and TLS add too much latency to be deployed".

(I have a lot of opinions on this subject but I am mercifully restricted from sharing most of them owing to professional obligation; we do a lot of work in this field).
>a) These "jokes" are beyond unacceptable.

Well, I accept them 100%. And millions of people too, if I judge from every comedy show, comedy movie, joke book, etc.
The problem is that you're trying to link a recreational culture predominantly consisting of 18-22 year olds with a degree of affluence to that of a lifelong trade career. They just aren't compatible. No one will ever list "10 years of social experience" on a cover letter or resume. It would be absurd.

It's equally absurd to view these two cultures in the same light, or to make one more like the other.
Former STALKER team will develop Survarium openly with community
Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3893173
I'm just incredibly happy with the books they already have on the history of mathematics. When I got my BS in math, the history bits always fascinated me but I never took the time to dig into them with the fervor I'd have liked. Thanks for this!
A conference isn't Comedy Central Presents, is it now? That's a roomful of people who came to learn, not to watch you hobble through an offensive routine. If I buy tickets to see Lewis Black, I know what I'm getting into, and Lewis Black isn't representing his startup at a trade show.

No matter how you try to butter this guy up, what kind of jokes you tell is a large part of who you are, because you find them funny (or you wouldn't tell them). I can tell a lot about you just from this comment, and it's not positive.

Jokes might not distinguish people. When you choose to tell them does. Would you hire someone who told a Holocaust joke at an interview? Sounds like it. Would the rest of us? Absolutely, unequivocally, no.