skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dishes, the laundry and commuting have already been automated. Washing machines, dish washers, cars and public transport all made our lives so much easier that we seem to have forgotten the amount of labor that went into such simple tasks in the past.

So now we look to automate the remnant of actually having to operate the machinery. It's interesting because it shows how spoiled we've become. Even loading or unloading a washing machine or dishwasher are now considered work.
Is your SaaS B2B or B2C?
Puh-leeze. Everyone thinks some other software is terrible. Wordpress might have some funky bits, but a) it's gotten a lot better over the years, b) it's pretty damn popular, and c) end users don't care if the guts suck if the UI works and it does the job.

Get over yourself.
If anyone is interested in understanding IP programming in the most technical way, Stevens' Unix Network Programming (UNP) is the bible: http://unpbook.com/. I've dragged mine across 3 continents over 15 years and still refer to it regularly.

Jesse's book and release style is a fantastic resource for Ruby programmers who are digging down the stack. Well done.
AT&T did a very good job making the phone system widely available and phone equipment very, very reliable. I'm sure they would have done the same for the Internet, given the chance.

Obviously things didn't work out that way, and now it's actually more reliable to carry around expensive and rather-easily-breakable computers with you. It's kind of surprising if you think about just how fragile a laptop is.
Nope; no ricing allowed.
America Averages a $47 Cellphone Bill?
two words: slow cooker
"Update: After poking at this more, it’s possible that Apple is using a simplified tier structure in which entire files are moved to the SSD and backed up the HDD, rather than a more sophisticated caching mechanism."

Sensational blog post. Extremetech couldn't be troubled to follow through with due diligence, it apparently doesn't have any journalistic integrity, or editorial review. They literally falsely accuse a company (right in the blog title) of releasing an overpriced commonly available product. Then, at the end of the article excuse their horrible research, by starting with the sentance "it’s possible that Apple". Shouldn't Extremetech know what Apple is doing since you just finished writing a scathing blog post about it??

In fact, they are not caching at all. Extremetech completely blew it on this article, either revealing their lack of professionalism, bias, and/or, both.
True, thanks for the insight. I appreciate all the comments so far, helps me feel out what's next.
Well, it's your business, and advice on the Internet is worth as much as you paid for it. So don't worry, I don't take it personally if you disagree.

That being said...

No, there's no inference or implication that any WordPress configuration will scale on WP Engine.

I would humbly suggest that your entire Web site is a refutation of this assertion. Even moving beyond the copy on the home page to the fine-print "Common Questions" section of http://wpengine.com/pricing/ , there's no disclaimer or other "are there WordPress configurations that WPEngine can't scale?" fine print.

My point here isn't that you shouldn't promise scaling, it's that it's not hard to see how a mismatch could arise between your expectations (scaling is hard, customer code can make it harder) and customers' expectations (scaling is easy, WPEngine has figured it out).

Jacques complained about lack of 24/7 support, but I shouldn't have tried to reply and explain the reason for that because 'there's no crying in business'. ?????

Yes. If a customer complains about a lack of 24/7 support, you say "I'm sorry, but we're not in a position to provide that level of support at this time." And nothing else. The reason why you're not in a position to provide it is irrelevant to the customer, and risks sidetracking the conversation into a blind alley about the reasons.

It also feels a little bit like pleading for understanding -- "cut us some slack, this stuff is hard!" -- which is off-putting. Of course it's hard, that's why people pay you to do it for them.

WP Engine should vet and screen it's customers so that they must prove their code can scale before we sell them an account? ?????

As I said, you already do some vetting by disabling plugins you know to be performance-killers. Look at this list: http://support.wpengine.com/disallowed-plugins/ , there's an entire category called "CPU/MySQL Thrashing Plugins."

I'm not suggesting that you need to give your customers a full CIA background check before bringing them on board, but you've already moved beyond just taking whatever code customers throw at you. If there's other things that need to be disallowed to ensure that WP sites work on your platform, the thing to do is to find out what those things are and add them to the blacklist.

Again, just my $0.02, IMHO, YMMV, IANAL, etc.
Testing fork time on AWS/Xen infrastructure
And anecdotes about remission can be really dangerous. I've seen people who had spontaneous remission while taking some quack remedy and then parade their story around to convince people not to do evidence-based treatments.
Also for the food thing (and I'm sure most folks in the uk know this one already) just-eat.co.uk will tell you all your local delivery options and take your order/payment too. It's a great way to get fat.
Google : iOS app promoters can now measure downloads with AdWords
I fell in love with JetBrains IDEs back when I was doing Java development full time. I have been and on and off user of RubyMine for Rails development but RubyMotion support seals the deal for me! I know this is 'early experience' but it works really well. Being able to use the REPL inside the IDE is awesome too. For those that waited to get RubyMotion because the iOS APIs are just too hard to use without command completion...your wait is over :)
Until Letterpress I had no use for Game Center at all, but I just used its auto-matching to start two engaging rounds with strangers. Fun game.
I sincerely doubt many reasonably interesting articles can be accurately summed up in two words.
I think this is how every expert in a non-CS/IT field feels about HN commentary on their field. 95% of what I read about aviation/aerospace here makes me cringe. It's like hearing my parents talk about computers, but with 10x more self-assurance.
Still no zero-downtime restarts?!

I can only wonder what the phusion guys are thinking. Either way, stick with unicorn.
Almost all cards here have NFC, chip, and swipe
Guess I'm a cynic because that occurred to me too.

It's easy to imagine. You've got six months to live. You move to a place where you won't run into people you know. You reconnect with relatives and childhood friends. You realize you could transfer your identity to a brother or friend and hand off your pension/social-security. Or avoid inheritance tax. Your wife and parents agree.

You die and are buried overlooking the blue Mediterranean. There's a small ceremony. The sun is shining. Life goes on.
He also recalls being 5 years older than his birth certificate says.
"Spoiled" is a funny way to describe avoiding doing things that I don't mind doing, but still are taking my attention away from other things I should be doing instead.
No, what he's saying is that if you're inexperienced and completely uninvolved in a field, you should think critically about what an experienced insider has to say, and reconsider snarky flippant dismissals.

One thing that annoys me about software culture in general is how, by virtue of being a programmer, people are also political scientists, economists, biologists, chemists, astronomers, manufacturing experts, doctors, nutritionists, sociologists, anthropologists, and the grand poobah of dismissing speech because of the way it's phrased.
Un futur concurrent sérieux a Netflix en France
"After a few hours of copying files, I flip the DNS switches"

WAT! Just add the domain to your hosts file with the WPEngine IP and test the site first, it's crazy to change your DNS without checking the site works first.
No, a "supplier" has to pay for all of his raw materials costs. That includes inventory costs as well as distribution. Of course you can always restrict your timeframe and assume away this cost (inventory as already incurred), but this is not true in the general sense. In particular, if this is true, by assumption, the there is a limited supply by deduction. If you increased your supply [of information bits, not duplicate bits], you would have to pay to incur inventory at that margin precisely. So you never have together zero marginal cost and unlimited supply, this makes no sense.

notatoad 1 day ago | link

I don't think that rule applies for digital goods where the cost of reproduction is zero. The supply is infinite.

To sum, "the cost of reproduction" is <not> the cost of "supply", unless the supply is assumed fixed. Thus the second sentence does not follow per-se.
Although this is a neat idea (I converted a sharpie to a stylus last year, replacing the pen tip itself) and you've made a pretty beautiful website, the product inferior to the latest stylus usability improvements on the market.

Last week my Hand Stylus (http://handstylus.com/) arrived. Unlike other styluses (stylii?) on the market, the tip is on a swivel mount, meaning you never experience the "flop" or roll of the nib as you change direction. After using this, I would never consider a fixed nib stylus again.
BCrypt (level 3) is getting the basics right. Levels 4 and 5 are techniques beyond the basics used to minimize potential brute force attacks, which _are_ an issue, depending on the attack target (read the Verizon report referenced by another post on this page).

Don't think for a second that certain government agencies can't brute force a BCrypt-based password hash, especially given they will know the cost factor and salt. If the hash is encrypted, and then chunked, if an attacker doesn't have the constituent encrypted chunks and/or the encryption key _for a valid time frame_, the possibility of a brute force attack with modern computing power is almost impossible.

While you may not care about such concerns, some of Stormpath's government agency customers do, and so we provide these additional safety measures. That an average website can benefit from them is icing on the cake.
I certainly know about Nouveau. I even contributed to it, albeit indirectly (I'm the guy that wrote decuda). But reverse engineering GPUs is a thankless process, which has to be repeated for every new release of the hardware (in a certain sense, even for every stepping). Of course the tools are better these days so a part of reverse engineering can be done automatically, but still...

And sure, having the userspace and kernel driver open source is only a start. But having everything that runs on the CPU open source is great from a separation-of-concerns perspective.

Open sourcing the firmware and even the hardware itself would be cool, but is a battle for another day... And that'd no more be a matter of the just the GPU, but of all hardware that has firmware, including the CPU, network equipment, 3G radios...
Does this mean that Passenger can now run an EventMachine service next to a Rails app?
Surely it's not that popularity in high school gets you higher wages later, but that charisma gets you both of these things?
Still, statistically unlikely ;)
There are probably many ways of doing it. It is very context and person dependent.

-infectious enthusiasm

-team emphasis

-rationally addressing all of their concerns

-leading them up to the idea so they 'come up with it'

-giving people a detail that they can change

-make sure one of their value added ideas is implemented within it

-putting someone in charge of a section of it

-reward/punishment

-scratching each others back

Essentially, making the other person have skin in the game.

A chef I used to work with would yell and rile up one worker when he saw we were going to get busy. One day the worker exclaimed, 'I hate this. why don't you yell at Bob?'. The chef replied, 'Bob works like shit when he is angry, you work like shit if you are not'.

Each person has their own trigger. Knowing that trigger is a huge part of managing people.
The text doesn't show up for me on Chrome 22.0.1229.94/Ubuntu 10.04. I get some flickered "short time ago" and "Star Wars", but just blackness after.

Looks cool on FF.
I don't know how you reached the conclusion that AMD is doing really well in graphics and the 7000 series "crushed" NVidia's 600 series. Aside from numerous inaccuracies in your analysis (for example, the 600 series was released three months after the 7000 series, not six - March 22nd 2012 vs December 22nd 2011), in most benchmarks Nvidia fared really well against AMD with equal framerates and lower power consumption/temperatures.
Why should he make it known that his links are referral links? I have seen a lot of negative comments around HN regarding bloggers that include referral links in their posts.

You are reading their writing. If you are reading it, it must be somewhat interesting. If you click on a link leading to a list of items the author included in his post, he probably just saved you some time. If you buy one of those items, you probably would have bought it anyway. Why not let the author benefit too? Why complain or question? Why do you care?

/rant
The scribd link is down for me, but there's a free version available here: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~agaleo/wp_files/NewStuff/Popu...

If you don't want to read the whole paper, the interesting sections are, Table 2, sections 3.2 and 3.2 (including Table 3), and, of course, the intro and conclusion.

Frankly, I'm surprised the wage premium for popularity is so low. The wage premium for managers (and execs) is high, and folks who have good people skills are much more likely to become managers. So, why isn't the wage premium higher?
Thanks for sharing. These will come in useful
Isn't this exactly what intel RST does?
Too offensive;didn't read
This is extremely well done ! kudos to the site creators. I've always wanted something similar for Java. Any tips ?
For The Love of Tesla, Encapsulate Third-Party Code
No. This angst of affiliate links is getting tiresome. What terrible horrors are unleashed upon you when you click a link with an affiliate ID attached to it? Right, ... none.
The market for computing devices has shifted. Desktop devices aren't as useful as mobile devices, which also use less energy to achieve the same goal. Consumers will leave behind companies which aren't making compelling mobile devices.

Intel makes SSDs too. Intel made chipsets and wifi chips for centrino in the past. I think Intel has made every major internal PC component, just not all at the same time. Now, they're getting into ARM chips and fighting to put x86 into mobile.

Likewise, nVidia has made nForce chipsets and other major PC components. And doesn't the Tegra also do general-purpose processing? Either way, they're becoming entrenched in mobile devices more firmly than Intel.

AMD is better positioned to come up with a unified product, but after 10 years of fanboying for both brands, I'm still not convinced that their merger made any sense. A unified product could have been made from a technical partnership, without having to merge the companies. I haven't seen a compelling product since the merger. I haven't even seen a roadmap for a mobile device component.

The AMD/ATI merger seemed only to happen because both companies were based in Canada. At this point, it only makes sense for AMD to swallow RIM, another Canadian company -- at least that way ATI would be a mobile device manufacturer.
I'd also like to know how much the fee for this is.
I'd actually really appreciate the affiliate link, thinking about trying it out. Would you mind posting it in the comment thread here?
> Delegation is just getting someone who earns less money than you to do your boring stuff for you.

They don't necessarily have to earn less money than you.
I just saw a video review of this here - http://thetechblock.com/morereal-stylus-cap-for-the-ipad
Making the source code open doesn't help unless you can flash the devices, since you have no guarantee the source code is what's on the devices.

Plus, if the backdoors are in hardware (say the hardware AES implementation has a small key scheduling "bug" or something) , not software, source code wouldn't help.
Pretty killer interview. Love Jonathan Fields' interview style. He really has a nice ability to get people talking.
Thereby exposing a problem with subscribe and save... we did the same thing, but it turned out to be more hassle since the baby changes sizes just about every month anyway.
Well said. Happens to me every couple of months, that I know of. Heck Dropbox might have just deleted a file from all my computers right now, how would I know? Last time it happened the deleted files didn't even show up in the Dropbox event log, but they did show up as deleted files. The only way I know it happens is when a build fails -- shame I don't build my documents. I wish I'd never started using Dropbox, but now I'm too busy to switch my workflow off of it.
I just can't believe that my tweet launched the entire story. That was insane.

My friend IM'ed me at 11:27a PST yesterday saying "Dude, my whole studio just got laid off. We have 2 hrs to vacate. Can you email someone?" Hit twitter, and it was off like a rocket.
I'm not really certain that this is a valid concern to add into the mix. Yes there is the stat issue with NFS, but if you have a fast filer then 2+ms is an eternity (for example: http://www.storageperformance.org/benchmark_results_files/SP...)

If WPengine is getting 2+ms response times then something is very wrong (are they using linux backed vanilla linux style NFS storage? ....bad, bad, bad). If not, then they need to investigate their load averages on their filers :P.
Nontraditional sleep patterns are a common fad here at HN; though you've been around to probably see one or two of those and are probably trolling to catch people like me, so ... I'll just shut up now.
They have it in Passenger Enterprise.
I am probably reacting too quickly, but I note about 3 other places (not including the sibling comment to this one) where people have asked you whether or not you charge a markup and purchases, and you've not answered.

Granted, it's only been an hour, but that silence doesn't make me feel good.
If it had all of those things, it wouldn't really be Plan 9 any more.

Grab a decent Linux box, shove it under your desk, and use VNC or X forwarding to display those programs on your Plan 9 terminal. You can keep your storage on a Plan 9 file server, then have your Linux box mount that (9p support is in Linux).

Or, if you're willing to put up with some slightly outdated software, Linuxemu can be a decent choice.

It's doable. I did an awful lot of my graduate work sitting at a Plan 9 terminal, from writing code to just browsing the web with Opera.
You feel that you're protecting password hashes from government sponsored attackers, and yet you're iterating SHA2 as your password hash?
Chrome thinks the page is in French - well, half of it is - and offers to translate it for me
Its better than pretty much every 10" netbook keyboard I ever used. If you don't like it you can still use a bluetooth keyboard with it.
I'm a new Ruby developer. I came across Jesse's "Working with Unix Processes" by chance. I thought it might be too advanced, but it was actually perfect for even a newbie like myself.

Jesse's writing style is clear and concise, and he offers examples as to how one might implement these in the real world. (I think most books fail in providing examples of practical applications.)

His first book was so well-written and informative, I didn't hesitate to purchase his new one when I saw the announcement land in my Inbox.
Apple's charging $250 for a $99 SSD plus some software. It's overpriced.
Is there a limit to how much they can spend? Can someone set the limit?
Just an FYI: websense seems to be blocking your domain, classified as adult-and-pornography.
They seemingly don't. Which gives the current reader a, what, 2 year lifespan max? They shut swipe-based transactions down entirely at the beginning of 2015, IIRC. My Visa already is far more likely to flag a transaction as suspicious if it isn't chip-authenticated.

Between that and the total lack of Interac support, this is honestly a pretty lame offering. It feels like Square has absolutely no awareness of the current state of Canadian payment systems.
I really wish IntelliJ would work harder on keeping their plugins up-to-date...the version of the Ruby plugin for IntelliJ (which they sell as supporting all of their various language-specific IDEs) is well behind RubyMine (It's not even on 4.5).

I had the option at work (we are moving into doing some Rails stuff) to get either IntelliJ or RubyMine. I decided to get the full-blown suite, at over 2x the cost, because we do do stuff in other languages.

Had I known that I was spending more of the companies money to get a product that was inferior for my main usage, I certainly would have just gotten RubyMine.
I'm pretty sure your actual bcrypted password doesn't have that cost factor on it.
I agree, but the gap exists for "fully" managed WP hosting for someone who isn't quite there yet but needs more power, etc.

We recently chose not to go with WpEngine because of the confusing help solutions we could see, a few reviews we saw. We ultimately went with ServInt and have been really happy with the move and support.

And to your point the pricing didn't feel right, it didn't make sense compared to similar options (or what we thought was similar)-- maybe I am off base though, it just what we discussed at the time.
You would have done better linking to the technology page (gushing marketspeak and "Cloud Communicartions APIs" notwithstanding) in the first place, instead of the barely decipherable press release. Explain what you offer before you throw
gobbledygook like "cPaaS" at us.

In the past, I've Voxeo IVR platforms, and they were relatively serviceable, if poorly documented. I'm confused about the division between Voxeo Labs and Voxeo, why the separate entity?
Explore the Grand Canyon
seriously? where are you located? I can't think of a place that doesn't use swipe.
Most of the advice they gave was mostly affecting performance for a single user, not performance of the site for scaling to many users. Only the number of requests for javascript files actually would affect the scaling of the site and not much since they are just static files.
Vous en pensez quoi ?
Who said I'd put that little effort in learning something that is actually helpful? But hey, thanks anyway for your concern. ;)
Yes, but to be fair no they shouldn't have known. Apple is infamous for not revealing any technical details (they won't even say how much memory their iOS devices have!) and the units have not shipped.
The closest thing I can imagine to what he wants is something like a "t+15 years" version of the Motorola WebTop (and many other similar ideas). You carry a powerful processor with you and either use it "bare" or connect it to a standardized interface setup. You'll never get enough of those kiosks to completely get to what you described, but when your phone can be a perfectly capable standalone device as well, that becomes less important. You have the "docks" at home, work, and a few popular public places like airports, coffee shops, etc.

The idea of something like these dockable phones is almost certainly going to be a big part of where the industry is headed. It's just too obvious not to be. But it requires advances in both ubiquitous broadband availability and power and battery life available to mobile devices, so it's just not feasible right now.
Macbook Pro, vim, and git. Honestly, when there's a discussion of people's work setup on HN, that's kind of what I assume it's going to be.