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My startup is looking for some help. Was previously on TechCrunch.
Here to share a small story about a startup I created a year or so ago.

http://ebackers.com | http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/17/ebackers/

The idea is to help people who work on the internet connect and make requests for anything web-related. The site got a flood of traffic when I submitted it to TechCrunch last year. Then I went off to school and got busy with other things and pretty much lost interest in it.

The site has been sitting here as I've been involved in newer projects. Would definitely be interested to see if anyone here wants to partner up to bring this back to life. Lot of potential. No registration, very simple UI. Mailing list has 100+ subscribers.
While I agree that this problem could have been handled better in absence of a sexual harassment policy, there's a lot to be gained by having such a policy. In this situation I don't agree that conferences having sexual harassment policies are "scar tissue".

First and foremost, the scare tissue complaint largely relies on a policy being applied to an extremely rare event. Unfortunately this kind of thing is almost certainly less rare than you think. If you run a large or frequent enough event, sexual harassment will happen. It really sucks, but it's a reality of the world that we live in that we need to deal with. To make things worse, it probably will go un-reported and the person that it happened to will simply feel uncomfortable with the event and the community as a whole.

By having an explicit policy that addresses sexual harassment you accomplish a number of things:

* You make attendees more mindful of their actions. Often people who commit sexual harassment don't really realized the full extent and consequences for what they are doing. By stating that this type of behavior is unacceptable, upfront, at least some people will be a bit more likely to think before they act.
* Should something happen, the path to action is clear. Running a conference is a bit of a crazy job. You're keeping track of a hundred things at once and dealing with a dozen people's problems. This is not the best state to be in when you need to decide how to handle a delicate situation. By stating upfront how this type of behavior will be handled, it takes a load off of the organizers' shoulders on the day off.
* A strong signal is communicated to people who are concerned and possibly afraid to attend an event. People go through all kinds of horrible things in life. Often those experiences leave people (understandably) cautious about situations that might lead to similar experiences. By having an explicit policy, people with fears and concerns are given a strong signal that the event in question will be a place where they are safe and welcome.

As with anything you need to weigh the costs and benefits of introducing a policy given the context of your situation and as far as I am concerned, having a sexual harassment policy for conferences is an easy win for everybody involved.
1. Uses desktop grade hardware (i.e. no ECC, single socket, limited networking, etc)

To be fair to them, they do offer servers with ECC for a (slightly) higher price:

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...
That's a lot of "I"'s in an essay.
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site: http://ebackers.com

TC story: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/17/ebackers/
yss comes from Surround.vim. It's the command used to wrap the current line with "whatever" comes after:

yss<p>
yss"

and so on…

Surround is a killer plugin.
Thanks!

Annotations have the disadvantage of needing a recompile to reconfigure?
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Glad to see they were reasonable about it and +1 for going through with it. Hats off to everyone involved.
Pardon my simple understanding of wifi and relays, but could this method be used in creating a wifi mesh system? [1, 2] The relay distance of 1/4 mile could create a mesh network in NYC with minimal cost.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/fabfi/
[2] http://i4bi.org/?p=324
I know it's very un-hn and I'm going to get downvoted but..

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!
If someone is not familiar with the works of Mr. Åkesson, I suggest you check out his YouTube videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/lftkryo/videos

He likes playing Chiptune songs with eccentric DIY instruments.
It seems like they use really cheap HDDs. I'm a customer for a few years and in every server since then, one harddrive died. It's not really a big deal when you're using RAID.
You can have a single rack with redundant PDUs that comes from two distinct power lines (ups etc..). Then you can have networking devices with redundant power supplies or use single-power stackable devices and multiple ethernet connections. Same for servers, redundant power supplies or servers in some HA configuration

i'm not talkin about Hetzner, but generally
The Casey Trees foundation in Washington, DC, is working to improve the canopy here. I've helped out at a couple of plantings in our neighborhood (which is admittedly well off). The District government does plant a lot of curb trees.
Calling private Java methods publicly?
In general trashy gossip magazines sell, that is why there are so many of them. There is a feedback mechanism there perhaps...

But that is in general. It seems Buffet here is a focusing on specific areas with a population that will be very likely to be interested in a local newspaper. Small, well established towns, with a strong sense of community.

The problem is see with that is that local communities that used to be established and strong can be destroyed pretty quickly according to how the local employment landscape changes (say a GM plant closes).
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Forgive my shear ignorance, but why would two original co-founders who are no longer active holding 0.5% each scare off investors and such?
Porting 2001 year old code from Perl 5.8.9 to 5.14.2 - 2 million LOCs.
Use Scrum even if you don't want to be Agile
>Changing your strategy because you keep failing over and over until you finally succeed is 90% non-luck.

Well, I should clarify that by "luck" I really mean "anything other than the strategy a person attributes their success to". For example, it seems that Steve Jobs believed very strongly in magical thinking. In the end, it probably cost him his life, but he really seems to have believed that his success was, at least partially, due to his spiritualism. In that sense, even if his success were due to his other skills, I would categorize it as "luck" in the context of discussing the effects of Zen Buddhism. If you took 1,000 other people and had them apply the same spiritual principles to their lives, you would find that Jobs' success was still anomalous and would need some other explanation.

So when I say "luck", I am not making a judgment about whether the person "deserves" their success, or whether there was "skill involved" with their success. Instead, the meaning of "luck" that I am using is more related to the concept of statistical noise. It may seem weird to say "Steve Jobs wasn't successful because of Zen Buddhism; he was just lucky that he happened to have one of the best marketing minds of his generation combined with an excellent understanding of aesthetics and user interface, and an aggressive instinct for competition", but that is what I mean. Admittedly, using the lottery as an analogy may have been distracting.

The fact is, simply becoming successful cannot give you a strong idea of why you were successful. It gives you one data point and no scientific control. You will encounter other successful people, but this is not a random sample, and it only tells you one side of the story. The only way to even begin to figure out what strategies are actually causally related to success would be to analyze a proper random sample of both successful and unsuccessful people and look for correlations.
I'm sorry I don't know but I recently came across this device which is I guess a complex mechnical trajectory tracker and I believe was the only device used to determine any corrections needed to steer the spacecraft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voskhod_Spacecraft_%22Globus%22... .. It's definitely an interesting read.... and sorry again for not answering your question.

EDIT: So from what I understand this is how it worked: they would record their initial trajectory observations from the ground as the rocket was fired into space. They would then enter that data into the mechanical Globus or IMP which would track the rocket while it was circling around Earth. Russians could only visually track it while it was over their own space as they did not have bases all over the world. The Globus would make sure they weren't flying totally blind. It wasn't perfect, however, and as the spacecraft came back into their observable space they would have to make minor corrections on the Globus and then instructed the astronauts in the spacecraft which firing sequence to perform in order to stay on course.
Personally I'm far more intrigued by this:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/04/asus-taichi-notebook-tabl...
Netflix now streaming videos over IPv6
Hopefully it is better than the dreadful tablet/laptop hybrids MS hawked a few years back. That standard is painfully low, though. They were awful.
Also dug up a video I made for it:
http://vimeo.com/18109889
Skill: Can you read a HOWTO? http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html

Cost: Cheaper, because you're doing the work yourself and only paying for a VPS or two.

Time: A weekend.

If you're running a start-up and you can't hire a sysadmin, yes, managed hosting is a good idea and will net you a reliable system for a decent price. But if you're spinning up test/hobby projects which aren't mission-critical, take the time to build your own stack/servers. It takes a minimal amount of time and energy and will give you valuable experience you can use for the rest of your career.
I wonder if beer can would work. can increase portability of of the kit. Drink beer, cut the can insert the antenna. Also can use some of those cheap tiny tripods. All that can make a killer traveller wifi kit. I some areas getting reliable signal is such a pain.
Parse, Firebase and the comeback of Two-Tier
Whenever we (http://brighterplanet.com) sponsor hackathons we always do a "Healthy Hacker" component, with yoga, healthy food, etc. e.g.:

http://numbers.brighterplanet.com/2011/04/12/healthy-hacker-...
http://numbers.brighterplanet.com/2012/01/27/cleanweb-hackat...
You contradict yourself a little bit. If you decide your PC is a heater, well, then it is one!

It is commercially unviable to sell it to someone third as that, but if you managed that feat, it would be a bit strange if this person then came to you: "You sold me this electric heater, but I looked into it and it is warmed by an especially hot Intel CPU. So I decided it is a PC and despite you are being in the heater-selling-business I want you to not void my warranty when I reflash the firmware so I can install Windows XP to play Solitaire in long cold winter nights."
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I think that is a little unfair. The physical rack structure generally provides two things, a networking switch and power hookup, and both are two of the more reliable things that datacenters offer. In order for your application to survive a rack failure (either power cord unplugged or network switch breaking) then you need to have fully double every necessary part of your application on another rack, which is going to be pretty inconvenient.

Companies like Amazon and Google no doubt spend a lot of time thinking about the physical locations of servers and how failures might affect them in terms of uptime and data loss, but for your average small application I think it is ok to accept very small risks that will result in downtime as opposed to spending a massive effort or engineering around it.

I also appreciate that services like Heroku hand stuff like this for you, but what I'd be really interested to see is take your average dedicated machines at your average datacenter and compare the uptime to a service like Heroku. Because while dedicated machines have failure cases (power outage, networking switch breaks, one of your machines hardware dies, hosting company has networking issues, etc), AWS/Heroko have them too (AWS outage, DDOS attack against Heroku, AWS/Heroku engineer makes a mistake, etc).
Then they'd have to admit that the subsidy exists.
Probably a better idea would be to decide the appropriate content based on various criteria on the server-side. Otherwise the stylesheet will become a nightmare to maintain and would contain a lot of inappropriate logic which doesn't belong to css.
They wouldn't. The active founders were greedy.
Just in case someone decide to make one - I have Type N bulkhead connector with probe already soldered into. $10 + actual shipping (I am from Austin, TX) :) hippich@gmail.com
yes, I do think it's a good idea. we're talking about a novice here, who won't run a site that requires 99.9999% uptime and with your selection of topics you're probably already digging too deep into marginally relevant technicals. they are in my opinion not required for successfully running a server (except maybe for the reverse proxy), however I believe you failed to mention a few things I would find very important: focus much more on the security side when you're running your own webstack. things like:

* restricting .htaccess and other folders

* escaping mysql requests from user input

* sanitizing user input

* handle DDoS attacks, spam prevention

* correctly setting exipration dates for caching

* DNS configuration (round robin, etc.)

* correct amount of worker process

Calomel.org has got an excellent guide for setting up your nginx server https://calomel.org/nginx.html
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Seems possible that there could be 2 options, a Windows option and an unlocked option. You'd think the Windows option would be more expensive. How many vendors are really set up for that?

Windows really took off because of this practice. Vendors would license it based upon total PCs sold, regardless of if they even had windows installed or the customers wanted it. It was so effective that the competition dried up and died in a remarkably short time. This was competition from IBM, you could lump some others in with it BeOS and maybe some early Linux but Big Blue had their ass handed to them which was remarkable. At the time there are a lot more (maybe, maybe not, it seemed like there were a lot more) tier 2 type vendors: name companies with support and such.

I'd argue MS doesn't know how to build market share other than with subsidies or lock-ins and that's what this is. If devs don't pick up Win8 pretty quickly, that ARM tablet isn't going to look so great, why wouldn't you want to try Android with its piles of apps? Then it puts the vendors in a very interesting bind, you have to pick which platform to support, a market leader (Android) or a product from a market leader in a different market. I don't remember the results of the anti-trust but I could see how this is designed to do the same thing but is different enough.

A handful of motherboards now come with 2 BIOS, I think I have an Asus mb with one that you can "tweak" and overclock and then like a failsafe backup. Something like that, maybe with a hardware jumper setting seems like the real solution for your vendors, but that adds some cost. Either that or Win8 just flops, industry wide, that seems like it might be the better solution. There will be win8 tablets at Walmart and Target and such though and million of less technical folks will buy them. I suspect dual boot is dead forever unless someone certifies some sort of kexec like application.
The skills gap myth: Survey reveals why companies can't find "good people"
Why would you want to use CSS for something that seems like a job for JavaScript?
Dark matter is an explanation!
But the mass of the black holes from the outside universe count on what I call the energy/mass balance sheet, don't they? In other words, for the parent universe I would think you get to count all mass and all energy in all child universes. But in a child universe I don't see a way to count the parent's mass and energy.
(Disclaimer: I've only been to one school - a state university. Your results may vary.)

I think we've forgotten that higher education is supposed to be an investment in a high-paying career (the return). As a current-student twenty-something, I can remember in high school when the rule was basically: people go to college, losers go to vocational schools, failures go straight to work.

As absurd as it seems now, it's unfortunately what we were fed (though not in so many words). College was never an investment for us, it was just the next phase of school if you weren't so terribly below average that nobody would accept you.

There is a lot of resentment, especially in the liberal arts and sciences type fields, toward higher education. Personally, if I was in charge of any hiring right now, I would look a lot more at practice and experience than at degrees and education. And I don't think I'm alone.
Complex password requirements lead to post-its on monitors in cubicles with passwords written on them. That's a much worse result than a weak password for pretty much any system that relies on passwords to stop bad things from happening.

For regular websites, generating monitor post-its is inexcusable. Let your users choose the letter "a" as their password if they want, but warn them about the implications. The only acceptable password workflow for a website is this:

- Choose a password
- complexity check
- if failed, "Seriously? That seems like a bad password" popup.
- "Yes, seriously. I don't really care if this account gets hacked
enough to memorize a complex password."
- done.

I'd go as far as having banks do it this way. Anything to avoid having access to a $20k wire transfer be as simple as sitting down at somebody's desk when they're gone for the day and reading a post-it saying "BofA - wAffles$2".
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Check out SASS's control directives. They do everything you want.

http://thesassway.com/intermediate/if-for-each-while
To summarize:

- 10% of employers admit that the problem is really that the candidates they want won’t accept the positions at the wage level being offered.

- Only 15% of employers who say they see a skill shortage say that the issue is a lack of candidate knowledge; instead, by far the most important shortfall they see in candidates is a lack of experience doing similar jobs.

- Yet only 21% of U.S. employees had received any employer-provided formal training in the past five years.

- Computer software used to filter out job applicants introduce a rigidity to the process that may lead to near zero real world applicants being qualified (and willing to work for the wage offered) for a position.
So, $500 iPad3 or $800 for Windows transformer tablet?

Full keyboard, proper general purpose OS, running a fairly powerful CPU and GPU and offering all your standard set of I/O ports. This is not an iPad competitor, but a Macbook Air competitor, that can also be used as a tablet in a pinch.
Each additional major shareholder is a required signature on documents, it is a question that has to be asked, "Why aren't they with you any longer?" For 'the next Facebook' investors aren't going to care if they're able to put money in at a valuation they like. For a more marginal investment the extra time to look through stuff like that may shut the deal down.

To compare, think of it like a personal resume. If you're a developer applying for a development role but you took two years out of the last five to go teach English to kids in an emerging market nation where you coded on the side (and could show Github / other public repos) anyone taking the time would commend you for the activity. Someone rushing through reviewing resumes may toss yours on the floor.
I don't think the OP is claiming that everyone should learn to code. He's just saying that people can think of creative ways to find a job, whatever industry they might happen to be employed in.
Most of the defeated older programmers I've talked to feel that it is a young person's game and they don't want to have to relearn something new and come back as a junior. Quite often it seems like something simple that that is holding them back, like not having knowledge with jquery or more UI tools, or not knowing how to work in linux.

But I've never been unemployed for over a year and I have no idea what that does to your confidence.
They use regular consumer grade HDDs on the cheaper servers, and enterprise grade on the slightly more expensive ones. For instance, their EX6 servers have 2x 3TB of high quality hard drives (€70/month) and their EX5 servers have 2x1.5TB consumer grade hard drives (€56/month).

For comparison see: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...
The quotations say nothing of the sort. A vendor could provide a dual-boot device providing they have an Android bootloader signed with Microsoft's signing key, which is a service that Microsoft will be providing.

A more open question is whether any of the existing Linux vendors will be doing this. Fedora is willing to use Microsoft's signing service for x86 because users will be able to disable the feature or enrol their own keys. We're not willing to do that for ARM because users won't have that freedom and so wouldn't be able to replace components like the kernel.
No, it isn't that easy of course but as the trainee accountant is getting nowhere right now, perhaps some voluntary work with a local charity or an 'umbrella' organisation that provides book keeping/accountancy services to local charities might help generate a bit of experience and a CV?

Just on a 'nothing to lose' basis with no expectation of magic. And getting out the house, engaging with people who find keeping their books straight a chore and who perhaps don't have a clear idea what their financial position actually is... that bit where you have to explain the procedures and perhaps adapt them to a specific organisation's needs. Might just give the trainee accountant that edge in the letter writing.
Same here, been there a few years now and recently had 4 drives fail in 24 hours! But, as usual, fast and professional support.

Just make sure you don't have anyone on the server (client, etc) running SSH attacks on their core routers or UDP floods, because that becomes a nightmare!
Yeah! Get a pitchfork!
This is a well-understood problem in GR. To an outside observer, things never appear to cross the Schwarzschild radius (R_S), giving the impression that time stops for in-falling matter when it gets to R_S. This, however, is an illusion forced on a distant observer.

The stuff that is actually falling into the black hole never notices R_S because the velocity they measure is not greater than c, and crossing the event horizon is a completely benign event. It's the later extreme tidal forces / spaghettification that destroys in-falling matter.

So it is fair to say that stuff enters a black hole.
But still inside, you'd expect E+mc^2 to be increasing over time, right?
There's a bit difference between building a business that preys on the fears of a new parent and a business that acknowledges that new parents already have fears and tries to reduce them. This I would say falls firmly into the later category.

It's the difference between a tool which helps you make sure that your baby is ok and one which tries to persuade you that if you don't use it you're creating unconscionable risks to your baby which this product could save you from. The former is a tool which is good, the later is one which preys on parents.