skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm french and I've been using low-cost offers from OVH (Kimsufi) or Illiad (Online.net) since a couple of years.

I just have ONE objection: If you plan to do something professional with them, just, don't.

For them, every client is dispensable (even if you rent 200 servers or more). They won't hesitate a single second to delete your server if they have a small problem with you (for example, getting DDoS'd).

OVH have shutdowned servers from a small association who was offering hosting, on the basis that the server made 3 DNS request to some "weird" server in Poland, for example.

So, it's okay for personal stuff, and, backup everything- your data is definitely not safe on their servers.
Compulsively. It bothers other people.
I don't do it. I've always seen people doing that.
I have one project with Foundation at the moment, I like it quite a lot. I think it has a nice clean look and isn't as ubiquitous as Bootstrap. I don't use anything else with it at the moment, but this is something I wanted to do for it anyway, so I will definitely be using it!
http://css-tricks.com/overriding-the-default-text-selection-...
the annoying kind: top post, bottom sig.
The end of the World, is it really near?
I dunno if "pandering" is the word I'd use to describe those who intentionally take on an attitude of openness and curiosity.

The fact is, most of the older people I know (my parents, grandparents, etc) still listen to the music they were listening to at age 25. Many of them (such as my aunt) are still working at jobs that use technologies they learned 30 years ago. It's not because they are incapable of evolving. I think it is because they never made it a point to sharpen their openness & curiosity.

If I saw a 55 yo engineer with a Github portfolio of Ruby and Python projects, hell yes I would interview that candidate. But the reality is that when I've interviewed older candidates in the past, they are in general more likely to be behind the curve when it comes to speaking the language of the latest tech and developments. My hunch is that complacency breeds this attitude. It is hard to constantly learn new tech for 40+ years, because so much of the learning process is about being wrong repeatedly.

My solution personally is to try to constantly force myself to understand and appreciate the zeitgeist of music, programming, and design as I age. In terms of personal empowerment, it seems to me one of the most sensible routes to fight ageism.

Calling out others who promote ageism is good too, but it doesn't directly address the fact that someday we will all be old, and we'll need an actionable strategy to succeed in spite of that.
There was an upgrade discount when Win 7 came out, too, down to $50 [1]. Additionally, as others have pointed out, it's unclear how many of the 40M licenses are upgrades vs. OEM licenses.

[1] see http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-7-upgrade-discount-..., for instance
Well then, hopefully we can win you over with quality products, a great value prop, and a nice design and brand aesthetic!
I do it to reduce contrast, not increase it. White on black is awfully harsh. Never use black: http://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/
why would you want to delete a thread history?
Scrolling. Selected text or word is just a marker when scrolling fast. It is much easier to follow visually fast moving selected part of the text than to keep track about sentence that I'm currently reading.

When using keyboard it's not that important, since one quickly learn how much PgDn scrolls, but when using mouse it is good to have a selection marker to quickly continue to read from there after scrolling.
Apple staffing decisions at the level of individual projects are pretty deep "inside baseball" for us technology-folk.

The average Xmas shopper isn't going to notice this; on the off chance they do notice it won't figure into their iOS6-device purchasing decisions; on the tiny chance it would affect their decision it might be a positive -- "Apple is actively cleaning up the mess!".
There is some really shitty flatware on the market. My old roommate bought a cheap set that had handles constructed entirely from plastic. The connections between the plastic handles and the metal "heads" would often break.

I bought my current set at a restaurant supply store. It was really cheap and is really durable.
After a few hours use I'll definitely say the robustness is not there :(

I can't use it for more than 10 minutes without it crashing, which is a shame because it looks really nice.
The Synology was purchased primarily to store our large collection of media files. It arrived, I inserted my hard drives, plugged it into the LAN and booted it up. I don't consider this as part of the setup for sharing.

The sharing features were then enabled with a few clicks on the appliance's locally hosted (ExtJS) web application. This step was much less work than going around to every PC in the home and office installing Dropbox.

Usage-wise, I find it to be less work to share something via my Synology than with Dropbox, particularly because A) I don't need any special software to share something from any computer in the world, B) most of the time my files arrive instantly and C) there are no limits to the size of files that I can share. When I was still using Dropbox, I'd hit that limit often enough to make it a PITA to use.
Logic Programming talk from #HNLondon
That is in fact a brilliant feature, but the one I like the most is the sending undoing, saved me lots of times.

BTW, are you the Google Matt Cutts?
The problem is, if repeated often enough, this process leads to a house full of crap, most of which you no longer care about.

With The Best philosophy, you have much less crap and clutter around you.

With The Worst philosophy, you may have a lot of crap and clutter, but at least you didn't waste much money on it.

Most of us in the rich world end up in an in between place that's not very satisfying.
Hetzner are awesome, especially if you want high specs. Had no problems with them so far, although most of my important stuff is still on Linode.
> it forces you to understand types.

If understanding types is so important, then why not go all the way and use either ML or Haskell, or at least Scala?

Most freshmen who stumble through a Java-school curriculum will not understand types at all, and based on confusion among a number of colleagues just yesterday (all Java programmers) about what a "sum type" is, it's clear to me that Java doesn't encourage developing a rigorous understanding of types, even for professional programmers.
I understand the way in which I'm hindering the tool I use. I am doing so intentionally.

And I understand that having text cover images in this situation can be described as "by design".

But it's still a case in which I select text.
I typically don't UNLESS I'm on wikipedia...It's way too common for me to look up one article and end up with 10 or so tabs of different topics/words from the first article...
So, for posterity's sake, the original title was...?
I do it as a nervous tick. It consumes me as OCD usually does.
Licenses sold is pretty clear. What else would you like them to say? This is the figure they've always given. It would seem odd to me if they created some new metric that we couldn't compare with Win7 and Vista sales.
Save her child?
Your legal costs shouldn't approach 100k in a seed round! 3-5k ...find a different attorney.
Well, people probably skew toward people "like them", broadly speaking.

But it would be interesting to run the experiment in a psychology lab and see what kind of results arise.
Yes, because I am neurotic. (No, really.)
Yeah, but only if the text is unreadable(there's too much text in one paragraph).
I think it's strong in one respect: it alleges somewhat convincingly that the book is based on appallingly scant evidence. On unpublished paper by the author, two maybe-reviewed papers also by the author, and one anecdote (whence the title). And the rebuttal does provide evidence that the author's studies, if not wrong, are probably not applicable to the question. And notes that WDA even ignores half of what her own papers showed. If true, this is pretty damning, in that it reduces the entire book to "I think this is what is going on. Here's a totally-vague plan of action that focuses on this one dimension." If true, we shouldn't be citing the book in conversations about what reality looks like. All in all, I think the part of the rebuttal that said 'the science in the book was shoddy' was relatively strong.

This perhaps-useful rebuttal is, I agree, buried in a largely-unrelated rant about what the rebuttal-author wishes every discussion of feminism (or privilege in general) was about. As you say, third-wave feminism talking points. Whether they're interesting or not, they're not what the book is about. Sorry, jstrecker, you don't get to dictate the content of all conversation.

(To give the ranter eir due, I think ranting about privilege -- the subject of the rant -- is largely correct, and deserves more of us thinking about it more often. I'm not sure the tactics of the crazy-street-preacher are the most effective ones, though.)
Why not? Because the energy of which it's composed doesn't interact with photons?
THIS. This absolutely works. To clarify, copy-paste this script in the address bar of the browser when you are on your cart's page. Don't forget to add javascript: in front of the one-liner.

This sort of hacking is why no one else can order it. :P
People are polarized because some find it very useful and some very annoying. Seems like a perfect example of what would be the best candidate for configuration option.
The greatest Google Mail feature you are not using
Regardless of what the math said, I'm afraid it's a big notch down from Holden. Holden was cool, masculine and classy. This is just masculine, in a fishing trip kind of way.

More specifically, "pistol" = wild west, unkempt cowboys, sweaty mexicans, dusty towns, etc. Similarly, "lake" = tranquility, fishing, retirement, discomfort (to the urbanites). It's just a conflicting mess of associations. I think you are shooting yourselves in the leg with this rebrand, and I really wish that you weren't.
Yes, I search for stuff to know more about the subject.
Linode Simplifies Plans, Reveals CPU Priority
Simple is the operative word. I work for a robotics lab specializing in bipedal locomotion and we're developing a robot that exploits the periodic, superpositioned waveform nature of passive dynamics to produce a stable gait at varying speeds while only actuating at the hip. The mechanics behind the project involve tuning the sinusoid that governs the hip joint pitch in conjunction with the up/down motion at the knee. This tuning is done using a fairly neat tendon network since we only introduce mechanical power at the hip joint. The resultant behavior is clearly a non-linear controls problem, but at it's heart it's still trig. Just not simple trig.

The robot is modeled after an ostrich. You can read more about it on our organization's website if you want: http://www.ihmc.us/groups/fastrunner/
KMail has this as well and it can be deactivated.

I really don't know what the big deal about this is or why an article about it has so many points here.
> i know full well how much time is spent parsing these things and how the mechanism works - i don't believe this proposal will actually improve that.

Well, then you're pretty much 100% wrong in most C++ projects.

I honestly don't know what to tell you here. That persisting header ASTs between translation units is faster than re-parsing should be trivially obvious, and if it isn't trivially obvious, then the mere fact that precompiled headers and ccache dramatically speeds up builds ought to make it empirically obvious.

The facts just aren't on your side.

> namely that whatever preprocessed import module thing is created, it still has to be included into the compilation unit somehow

Well, yes, obviously. In the current model the compiler slurps the header into the source file, and parse the entire combination, resulting in the parse tree of the header + the parse tree of the rest of the file. In the proposed model the compiler pulls the parse tree of the header out of cache and just builds the parse tree of the file. Since in C++ header parse trees are often quite expensive to build (since template declarations have to live in the headers and their parse trees are incredibly expensive to build), this ought to be a blindingly obvious win.
No. I avoid using the mouse if possible.
This is how I can tell my roommate is reading: he constantly double clicks, probably once every other second.
Thanks for the pointers. I have heard of QnX through a book about message-based programming with SIMPL. SIMPL I think borrows the QnX APIs for making modular and networked systems.

I prefer open source so I've been taking a look at Minix 3. It seems really cool. And it's only 6 or so years old -- at the time of the argument Minix wasn't meant to be a production system, but now it is.

I feel like it must be easier to trace application performance with Minix since you have natural points to insert hooks. With monolithic kernels it's hard to understand what is really going on.

I see a lot of potential advantages of a microkernel in distributed systems. For example, Amazon EC2 has well known I/O sharing issues. With a microkernel, you could fairly easily reimplement the file server with your own custom disk scheduling logic based on identities (not Unix users) and priorities.

In Linux I know there is some work with containers, but I don't think it is as customizable as you would like.
> Stripe has the same features as paypal without the monthly charge, it's a no-brainer

Stripe has substantially less features, while allowing you to accept payments from a smaller portion of the population. You only need to be doing a few thousand dollars a month in volume for the difference in transaction rates to more than make up for the small monthly fee too. Stripe is 2.9% across the board until you're doing $1 million a year in volume. Paypal discounts start at $3000 a month in volume and go as low as 1.9%.
Cultivated men are still jerks today, as a general rule.

Extraordinary claim. What evidence do you have for this one?
Yes, sometimes, for both increasing contrast and track reading position.
Can substantiate your three bullet points in any way or are you just listing some qualities of a few people you've observed?
Worth watching before it’s gone: A collection of every Apple television ad ever
French IT situation : a 4-cores, 8Gb RAM & RAID dedicated server for 30€/month.

OVH competes with Online (former Dédibox, by Iliad (Free)) and the prices goes low... http://online.net/fr/serveur-dedie

Welcome to France, IT paradise.
Thanks for the context, my faith is restored.
I fon't think resale value is why most worry about it, but ptobably some. If scratches decrease resale value so much, it seems those in the market for a luxury car should seek out a scratched one.
Rdio 2.0 Design
I think that our definitions of easy differ.

I don't consider any of those kits very easy to deal with, despite the fact that I am fully capable of building apps with them.

They're certainly nowhere near the realm of kits like RealStudio/RealBasic, FileMaker, Access, VB4/5/6 or even WinForms with Visual Studio (some of which I know are not cross-platform...but they are easy).
Never seen the ad introducing the iPhone for the first time. Pretty surreal.
Coinbase.com (YC S12) Hiring First Engineer
Bitcoin is helping shape the future of payments - and as the first YC-backed bitcoin company, we're right in the thick of it. We're off to a great start - 15% growth per week in transaction volume, closed a deal with a major U.S. bank, and raised a $600k seed round. We're now looking for a great engineer to join the team (founder is also an engineer - worked on fraud prevention at Airbnb and previously build another company to profitability).

You:

* Full-stack generalist, comfortable shipping features from conception to launch
* Experience building large scale Rails apps, designing APIs, building mobile apps, and javascript front ends (jQuery, Coffeescript)
* Uncanny ability to create user interfaces that non-technical people can use, and communicate complex ideas rapidly
* Strong CS background, comfortable optimizing databases, good understanding of web app security
* Passionate about bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and bringing fast/cheap/international payments to the world
* Bonus: background in finance, economics, or trading platforms
* Bonus: background in app security, white hat, or fraud prevention
* Bonus: a deep understanding of the bitcoin protocol or contributions to bitcoin projects

What it's like to work at Coinbase:

* We're based in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood, near the Caltrain station at 4th and King.
* You can work any hours you want, at the home or office (although the office is fun) - we prioritize shipping code
* You must be based in/near San Francisco or be willing to relocate
* We practice "maker hours" which means there is only one required meeting a week (Monday at 1pm), and we block out long periods during the day where everyone codes
* Headphones in = no interruptions
* We work hard and play hard - company happy hours are a weekly event
* Once a year we travel somewhere fun/exotic and work there for a few weeks to a month (we also travel for conferences)
* Compensation is $100k plus 2% equity
* We push to production a dozen times a day, and love good test coverage
* This is a chance for you to help build a company and product from the ground up

To apply send an email to firstengineer@coinbase.com and include the following things:

* Links to 3 awesome things you've built
* Links to your GitHub/StackOverflow/Blog/Twitter/etc
* A resume
* An answer to this question in 500 chars or less: If hired tomorrow what's the first thing you would build at Coinbase? Why choose that first?
New 3D printers that cost less than $500
Yes, just select the emails you want and then click More...Mark as read
Away from Scranton, Dunder Mifflin Thrives
It isn't a matter of quantity. You need the same number of forks and knives no matter whether you find them at Target, Urban Ore in Berkeley, or the FT's How to Spend It[1].

[1] http://howtospendit.ft.com/

Edit: Oooh, even better How to Spend It link: http://howtospendit.ft.com/home-accessories/5004-tableware-t...
Yep. Series seed can be done for under 5k, and so can convertible equity/notes. It's less about the type of tool you're using, and more to do with how much modification to the standards you want to do. Thats the beauty of standardized documentation, minimal negotiation and cost.
bumperless/caseless iPhone. Living on the edge!
Ericsson sues Samsung for patent infringement
And people wonder why I recommend redis. Having run redis for over 1.5 years on production systems as a heavy cache, a named queue and memoization tool (on the same machine), redis has never once failed me. It's clear with antirez's blog post, his attention to detail.

This post is fantastic.
I think this might go back to our reading habits on paper. I've noticed that many of my friends who use their fingers to guide their reading on paper like to highlight text or move their cursor to mark their position when web browsing.

I've never done that though, so I never felt the need to do so on a computer either.
I'm a heavy trackpad user, I'll scroll the window to the text I'm reading. Even if I'm half way through the page, I'll scroll the next paragraph to the top of the window. That's how I "record" my reading position.
I'm not sure about the definitions, but if the Arrow theorem doesn't apply to the Approval Voting sistem them I think that it must not be applicable to the "majority rules" criterion.

In this two system the idea is that you get very little information from the voters (best candidate / a set of candidates) and don't know all the information about the order of preference and the relative strength. So I don't understand why having less information is better (theoreticaly).
The Truth About The Tooth Fairy
I sometimes select text while reading to track my reading position. Sometimes as a nervous tic/add.
Completely and totally breaks instapaper.
AlgoRythmics - Dancing to algorithms
"I discovered that many of my students could not read code, and imagine how it would flow at runtime."

In what language, and what sort of code? I cannot really blame a novice C++ or Java programmer for not being able to see what some snippet of code will do at runtime. Some languages are just less amenable to being run by a human brain than others.

"These same students could write code with loops, but if I gave them code with a loop in it, they wouldn't "see" the runtime behavior"

That is because loops are not very informative about program behavior, except in the simplest cases.
Agreed, Apple Maps are pretty much 7-8 years behind Google Maps. Money can't solve their problem. They need to do so much:

1) Build and train huge team to update the maps, stitch imagery, correct mistakes

2) Build tools for that team

3) Either buy the cutting-edge data, license it, or build it themselves. I don't see a point of licensing, since they might as well have used Google Maps.

4) Build the website. A maps app without a web interface is a lot less useful. They are basically sending their desktop users to their competitor.

5) Rebuild the brand. Right now Apple Maps is a joke, it's synonymous with bad directions. Nobody takes it seriously.
So he's smart and gets stuff done? Good start. Do you like him? Any foreseeable possibility of drama working with him?

I wouldn't worry about someone outside the HN/SV/Startup bubble/profession never having shown interest in startups/business ownership. It's possible he somehow recently came across PG's or Joel's Spolsky's essays or something similar and realized 'Hey, I can do this'.

I would have the whole-hog conversation about it with him though, don't hold back. Some questions:

1. I know you're smart and have a strong worth ethic, but aren't a coder, so what do you envision as your role and responsibilities? Mine?

2. It seems this is the first time you've really been interested in startups/business ownership. Is that true, and if so why now?

3. This won't be easy, the default outcome for startups is failure, are you prepared for that kind of slog and possible outcome? It may sound like a good idea with a ready market, but odds are it will turn out more difficult than it seemed at conception.

4. If I say 'no', what will you do? (if he says, find someone else, good answer = determined)

5. ... had a few others, drawing blanks, will add later if I remember. Reread some of pg's and Joel's essays on people for some more inspiration [1][2].

Try to gauge how realistic and informed he is about startups and business ownership, and how committed he is to this endeavor.

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

[2]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing...
How much of this is age bias, and how much of this is looking for the likely candidate to work for no money for 80 hours a week like this might turn into something huge?
Some people just want a specialized tool for a particular job, rather than a swiss army knife that requires a lot of fiddling and presents you with a ton of stuff you can't use for your current task.
Yeah sorry I worded that poorly. My point is that I'd guess most ageism is probably imaginary and is just older people not being hired by falling into the traps I mentioned above. I'm pretty skeptical that many startup entrepreneurs have a "if you're over 40 we don't want to talk to you policy" but instead decide based on 50 year olds coming into their door telling them in their interview how relational databases were figured out in the 70's and NoSQL is a fad. (Not that they're wrong :))
As someone who always has to close the original reply, deselect the text and hit reply again, thanks!