skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's impossible to give an universal response. It's like trying to guess how much you will pay on gas on your daily commute without knowing the distance or the kind of car you're driving.

It depends how much work is done in each "hit". If 99% of those 10k hits are to display the 10 most recent entries in a table, a very small setup will take you very far. A couple of 96 MB Python front-ends, 64 MB for SQL, you would pay maybe about $40/mo for a decent setup.

Now if most of the hits trigger complex geographic queries against a database of millions of records, with a high write/read ratio, it's a whole different story. You need to know about the size of your working set (you can then infer your database memory requirements), and have a rough idea of the average request time and concurrency (to infer your number of workers, if you're using a synchronous server like most deployments of Django or Rails).

While the "per-megabyte" price will be higher than "raw hosting", keep in mind that the granularity will allow you to do huge savings. Instead of paying for this 1.7 GB instance, you can pay for just 200 or 300 MB of RAM if that's what your app requires :-)
oh they do check - this is either a total oversight or an inside connection that the developer has.
That's why you (in addition to all that has been said) should make very clear how easy it is to up- and downgrade.

Also there could be small hints next to the slider (yes, I'm a fan of sliders;)) as it snaps into the various positions...

But those are again just ideas. You should get a good designer on the case, this is their bread & butter.
Congrats guys on the launch! Looking forward to giving it a spin.
I have seen the pictures, and the interviews.

But those are hardly data and the kids who got the live version (due to a fuck up) are hardly better of.
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Lots of good people and good things in China but that doesn't change a thing about how the internet works there.
I love these guys. They have tons of other shitty/scammy apps:

- Fruit Defense (ripoff of Fruit Ninja): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fruit-defense/id527599882?mt=...

- File Manager (a game!): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/file-manager/id529097807?mt=8

- Orient Fight (icon is a ripoff of Temple Run's): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oriental-fight/id527894964?mt...

- F1 Birdie Driver (bird looks like an angry bird): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/f1-birdie-driver/id529098374?...

- Slider Customizer (obviously does nothing): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slider-customizator/id5316330...

- Videogram Pro (ripoff of Instagram, with almost the same icon): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/videogram-pro/id529801444?mt=...

- Tapped (ripoff of Bejeweled): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tapped-./id527589234?mt=8

- Real Robot Attack (I know it's a ripoff of some famous game, but I don't remember its name): http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/real-robot-attack/id529803195...

- Two other shitty apps: Beauty Meter (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beauty-meter!/id527010584?mt=...) and Oldity Meter (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oldity-meter/id529098528?mt=8)

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This is why I sometimes get mad at Apple. I do believe they have the right to curate their store, but I think they should do it more vigorously and reject every single shitty app, and ban those developers. App Store is getting filled with these crap...
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Boing Boing says he's getting pro bono counsel: http://boingboing.net/2012/06/18/funnyjunks-lawyer-sues-amer...
"That fits my observation of New York law firms, where associates routinely bill 3,000 hours each year. That equates to 60 hours per week during a 50 week year; including non-billable hours, these 3,000-hour lawyers generally worked 12 hour days, six days a week."

When I read that, my first thought is overbilling, not overworking.
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I just tried this. It's frightening how well this actually worked.
Apple, just a few days ago, also approved (and pulled once there was a lot of online press being caused by it) a fake Cydia. (Cydia is the alternative to the app store that distributes substrate extensions for jailbroken devices.) A bunch of people bought it and then left reviews saying that they had been ripped off.

http://cache.saurik.com/tinyimg/cydiascam.png
I haven't had a chance to dive into it, but the source is at https://github.com/mozilla/webpagemaker
Yes you can.

Just a few days ago, 'The EagleBook' changed its name to 'The CIA World Factbook', for example: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eaglebook-cia-world-factbook/...
We had a lot of ideas / pivots that were released or almost released and never made it: leaving video messages for your friends on Facebook (when the first platform came out in '07), a live streaming API, a gaming site for live video streams (yes, we actually pivoted to TwitchTV twice), CamTweet (a way for you to share live video on Twitter), and more that I probably can't remember.

As Tim noted, props are due to the JTV team, who stuck around and kept building things where reasons to continue were scant, which was often.
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I'd recommend writing some parsers (in python, ruby, perl, whatever) for large data sets ( http://www.quora.com/Data/Where-can-I-get-large-datasets-ope... )

It will probably speak to your analytical side and teach you stuff like string manipulation, loops, file i/o, etc. Plus you could use your math background to do some cool data analysis for the public good.
Just because he's an idiot and his case is baseless doesn't mean it won't be a pain in the ass to deal with.
In a local geeks gathering a few months ago with Yossi Vardi and some Facebook executive[1], Yossi asked the executive "Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Redhat, Motorola, IBM, Yahoo, Intel, Philips, [.. more international tech companies ...], which one is the exception?", alluding to all of those companies excluding Facebook having R&D in Israel. As a local, happy to see them joining the list.

[1] Actually David Fischer, son of Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer
This was a really interesting talk. Does anyone know where to find other lectures (or whatever this is technically called) by other influential programmers/computer scientists?
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Facebook kind of already has facial recognition. I've seen it auto tag before. I would doubt this is in an effort to increase their existing capabilities (which seem to be pretty good already) my guess is this is more likely an anti-competitive bid.
It's getting ridiculous - I'd heard of this happening a lot, and then last week one of my GPL'd Mac apps that's hosted on GitHub appeared on the Mac Store, being sold for €23.99 by some person (obviously Chinese with a really dodgy website). Surely the dodgy website should ring some alarm bells at Apple?

Despite going through the process on the store feedback to notify Apple of counterfeit apps, I've had no response...

I don't really care that much that someone's profiting off my work (they didn't even bother to do their own screenshots), I'm more concerned that some people are going to pay that money for that clone of my app, when it's free (although not in the App Store), and the other developer is very unlikely to help them if there are any problems.
I'm very impressed with the super-computing community's commitment to energy efficiency. Sure, we could throw more cores at the computations, but making meaningful strides to minimize energy consumption -- in parallel with the iterative improvements to computational power -- is pretty noble and prudent.
Except, I enjoy working all those hours. When I am coding, I am alive, it is my creative outlet and the way I contribute to the world.

On the other hand I will readily admit that maintaining a healthy work/life balance is key, and knowing not to push one's self to the breaking point is an important bit of self awareness.

Now for management, well, they need to judge by both results short and long term. Employees working extra long weeks to complete this sprint? Sure the sprint gets done, but if after 2 or 3 sprints half your team leaves, well, the product schedule is going to suffer. :)
Anyone else getting a 500 error? Looks like they are having some server issues at the moment
My problem with the kudos button is I had no idea the first time I was doing it that I was rating something. Secondly, it's at the top of a post so in order to validate it - presumably after reading it - I need to scroll back up and keep my mouse over it. I went to hover over it again to try to take my vote back, but no dice. I generally love Dustin's style and his writing on design, but I don't find Svbtle as an interface to be very refreshing or UX-friendly. I wasn't sure if I could legitimately base the weight of the article on the kudos number or just assume people thought it was cute to interact with.

As an aside, even though I had seen that Svbtle was a network some time ago, every time I come across a blog in its style I just assume it is some Wordpress theme. I sort of wish there was a better callout than at the bottom left to highlight everyone in the network.

I guess you could say Svbtle is sometimes too subtle. :)
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I haven't read the article yet, going there next, but I really like that last quote:

'“Find a happy person, and you will find a project.” - Sonja Lyubomirsky'

I think of people who often try to make an unhappy person their pet project. It would be an interesting twist to do the reverse. As a life-long pessimist I have made many happy people feel sad. Were these my projects?
Bookmarklets can do such things on a case by case basis, for any adjustments you don't want to commit universally (via user.css).
The article addresses lawyers, consultants, and analysts, and later brings up an anecdote involving law firm associates.

Of course these people work long hours -- they have an incentive to do so, as they wisely learn that they must at least put up the facade of working long hours, else they will be passed up for promotion and eventual partnership.
You can call it JamJS if it makes you feel better ;) Obviously, I'd have preferred to avoid a naming conflict had I known about this project but it's getting pretty difficult to find unique names for JS projects these days. There's already a 'jam' in NPM!
eh, the IRS will call it a "company" even if you don't, unless there is zero revenue and you are paying for it out of post-tax dollars.
Have you guys done any experiments with option chains or you're targeting more of tick farm solutions?

I use objectdb to store option chains as serialized java object. Retrieval is very fast, even inside VMs. 1600 SPY option chains retrieved in about 14 seconds. This was using embedded DB.
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The learn more page needs to be a single page in the browser history. After I clicked through 125 of them, I wanted to get back to the home page with my back button but couldn't.

I would have liked to see 4-5 of those "people hates" and then a demo of the product in action.
You can always prototype in the Sandbox and use the 'dotcloud info' function to get current memory usage, so that gets you all the data before you ever push to 'live'.

Once you push a configuration to a 'live' flavor then you can also get an estimated bill via 'dotcloud info'.

There are some sample prices from real apps available too:
https://www.dotcloud.com/pricing.html#slider_pricing
> Everybody who works for a living is in business.

That is, to me, a very depressing thought. I'd much rather write code or come up with ways to solve problems (related to code or that can be coded) than have to think about business.
Javascript is not an essential part of web development. This tool is geared towards web pages rather than applications, where client-side scripting might play a bigger role.

Unfortunately (and with some good reason) there are still many people who use NoScript et al to browse the web without javascript.
Kudos to the author but I don't like yet another package system (this one specifically hosted on packages.jamjs.org). What happens when that goes down, or the author calls it quits, or spammers take it over etc? IMO it's much better to adopt the existing npm ecosystem as Ender has done.
Please not again. Discussions of passwords always brings up these stupid scrypt bcrypt fanboy comments.

Repeating it one more time won't change anything.
I'd imagine Apple has to review and approve the change, though.
You'd think they would know about your app by now and not even let it get approved. ;)

(Amazing work btw, you rock.)
One of these does not belong, IMHO. I mean... jeez.
NeXT's acquisition valuation was far below the valuations it accepted investment at years before. I'm pretty sure it was a net loss for its investors, if not directly that certainly on an opportunity cost basis.
Or the "front page". Or some front interface such people are likely to encounter.

Give me a reason to trust your site. When the first thing it wants from me is to execute arbitrary code, well, usually I just say "no, thanks", unless I already have a pretty good reason (so, from a third party or prior knowledge of the site's ownership and maintenance) to trust it.

I'm fine being an edge case. I've seen too many examples of friends, coworkers, family exploited -- and put a lot of effort into cleaning up a few -- to waste my time and well-being on those bent on transforming the web from content to executable, particularly some "anonymous" executable.
I think Apple's position is "it's not our job to police your trademarks, since you don't tell us when you license them to developers".
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Kochan's "Programming in Objective-C" is decent http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-Edition-Develo... and I'm a big fan of Erica Sadun's "iOS 5 Developer's Cookbook" http://www.amazon.com/The-iOS-Developers-Cookbook-ebook/dp/B....

If you've never programmed in C, you may want to seek out a good C tutorial. You can get pretty far in iOS working only with Objective-C objects, but plenty of C-isms leak through so it helps to be familiar with pointers, structs, functions and memory management.

Objective-C isn't too hard to get up to speed with, especially if you've ever worked in both C and a dynamic language like Python or Ruby. Wrapping your head around Cocoa Touch is a little more daunting, but Sadun's book does a good job of building up the basics step by step, then providing chapters on specific frameworks you can page-fault in as needed.

Apple recently added "Start Developing iOS Apps Today" https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#referencelibrary/Ge... which is probably worth taking a look for a beginner.
Holy shit! On the 30th page of the results on HN while searching for this story, I found another thread asking for the same thing, and its been answered! In case anyone else is looking for it -
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3628887 (HN Submission)

Its titled "A Senseless Conversation" by Zach Barnett.
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I unfortunately don't know much about steampunk but I think I probably wasn't specific enough. There are a number of sub-groups in the art world and I was more referring about that larger group rather than just those that practice modern art that are usually seen in hoity-toity galleries.

For example the whole flash mob stuff got moving originally through performance artists trying to innovate. The underground music scene is another great one in that most of the stuff that gets integrated into the mainstream originally originated from niches of independents far removed from commercial music. Interactive artists probably don't get nearly enough attention by the HN crowd - a lot of them have been experimenting with all sorts of stuff. I can remember 5-10 years back some artists experimenting with peoples movement and technology - somewhat like rudimentary version of kinect.
i agree. i can't figure out this pricing. a simple slider like Heroku or Pagodabox would be much easier.

I can't get the examples to come out right. Looking at the 3rd one for $172.80, if i get out my calculator and crunch, it looks like it should be $112.32 to me.

(256 x 1) + (448 x 1) + (128 x 1) = 832 total MB RAM

at $0.006 per 32MB ram per hour you get $4.32 per month per each block of 32 MB

832 / 32 = 26 blocks of 32 MB RAM

26 x 4.32 = $112.32

what am i doing wrong here?
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I don't know. I am going to keep on hoping that I will be able get by with the router built into my DSL modem when I switch from cable to DSL. Or that I can use ethernet to get my Mac mini on the net while using the mini's Wifi to create an ad-hoc wireless network to get the iPad I plan to buy on the net. Or that I will build a Linux box and the motherboard will have wifi onboard. Or that I will build a Linux box and there is a cheap PCI card I can add to it to get all the ethernet ports I will ever need.

Point is that I want to avoid adding yet another box to my home -- especially if the box is plastic rather than metal and requires its own external AC adapter like the first of the OP's buying recommendations does.
The thing I hate most about modern UIs is the lack of information. Instead of buttons with text, it's just a whole bunch of mysterious icons. Give me at least some idea of what will happen when I click your icon, and please try and make it look clickable, rather than some background glyphs. Oh, and mobile OSes need to come up with some sort of analog for keyboard shortcuts.

Consistency is nice, but usability and discoverability are more important.
Beat me to it. On a similar thread imagine if interface design hadn't evolved since the first 5 years of GUIs.
There is nothing bad about it (other than the price). It just seems an outrageous claim that MemSQL, with all its constraints, is even in the same game.

At the least they should come up with some seriously impressive benchmarks before dropping names like that.
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Hold it!

Kernel module seems a bit drastic. You can just change the file association.
Was it paid, or free? (I kinda know the answer, just want to make sure!)
Thank goodness the sentiment in this rant is not more widespread. The author would prefer that app designers y to avoid from standing out? Good luck with that. And really, is it that bad? Functional apps frequently make good use of prevailing design. And consumer an entertainment apps absolutely should be exploring. The form factor is so limited already that it's much harder to go very far astray.
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Sorry, but I find that hilarious. Who in their right mind would believe that Apple would let Cydia into their own store?

Of course, Apple shouldn't have let the scam app through either, and should remove it ASAP, but consumers do have some responsibility to use their faculties.
I've been wondering if Facebook will do general object and/or product detection in photos to help them match highly targeted adverts to the content (and location, season, etc.) of a photo.
Inventables used to provide monthly subscriptions to design teams of "interesting stuff" - much like what was provided here.

They pivoted though - now they provide hardware to designers directly: https://www.inventables.com/
It's true that the computer components themselves have good support, but that doesn't yet extend to many printers, smartphones, gps devices or suchlike.
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To follow the car analogy, an exact copy would include the 3-point star logo, which would take you into the realm of counterfeiting which is illegal in an entirely different way.
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If they provide the source code on request or in the credits or something similar, isn't that perfectly legitimate?
I wrote a tool (along similar ideas, starting out is always a needless time sink) called GluStik (punning Paster) https://github.com/leetrout/glustik#default-djangoglu-method...

Now GluStik scratched my itch of needing a very specific, custom layout, represented in code, and plopping in Django's files (like settings) so it provides hooks to use Django's templates. I'm curious what sort of design decisions went into project builder and what plans exist to support emerging trends?

For instance, I would much rather have a settings package with base.py and local.py inside where my local settings can extend base settings (like INSTALLED_APPS += ('debugtoolbar',) ala Brack3t's Modular Settings https://github.com/brack3t/django-modular-settings

I realize this isn't the default Django behavior but I know more than a couple developers that use this format. So if project builder is about "sane defaults" and the masses prefer this is there a plan to support it (or other, similar developer centric preferences that are outside the "Django way")?
Funny.

I use Mono, other people use Mono, it works fine. It means I can target Linux and Mac OS X, and even develop on those platforms.
One of the biggest misconceptions about the corporate form is that it fully shields investors, officers, or employees from liability for their actions. It does not.

Employees remain liable for their own actions, though the corporation may also be liable for its employees actions. (See "detour and frolic" doctrine.)

Officers can be held liable for their decisions in running the corporation. However, officers are usually indemnified (by the corporation) for lawsuits against them if they were properly acting in their capacity as officers.

Investors can be held personally liable for any of the corporation's liabilities if the corporation is "undercapitalized", i.e., it does not hold sufficient liquidable assets or insurance to cover its current predicted exposure to the sum of its liabilities. This usually describes most S-Corps and smaller C-Corps, especially solely-owned corporations.
I should add to that - not just results but quality of results. Software development is a tricky profession to measure for quality - outside of bug count (which may be heavily influenced by quality of testing) and code coverage numbers (those can miss some really nasty edge cases) the only thing you can measure is how long it takes to make change to existing code.

I have seen numerous cases where the person implementing the code is rewarded and next one comes along, and rewrites the code since first one is too hard to change. He gets rewarded too and cycle continues.
> This is like trying to get more kids to program by trying to show them how easy and fun assembly language is.

Doesn't this way make sense if you are a manufacturer of microcontrollers, for example?