skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a kimsufi/ovh dedicated for a few years now. I switched when I was comparing various vps prices, and was annoyed by the small disk (and ram) sizes provided for the cheaper plans.

I'm on a plan that isn't available anymore, but it was sub-20eur/month, and the hardware seems to be P4 3ghz, with 2GB ram and 200GB disk. And the performance has been plenty for me.

Then the kimsufi brand was a bit more separated from the normal ovh offering. The kimsufi was branded a bit more on the do-it-yourself side, with no support apart from hardware failures. It seems they've now merged the kimsufi brand back to the main ovh site.

And I have been a fairly happy customer. I think I've had a couple of short network outages, but nothing alarming. My uptime is at 732 days.
Not to minimize other people's issues, but in (public transport-poor) Michigan it's been an almost unmitigated win. The vector-based maps load instantly, the UI is fantastic, it's beautifully integrated with the OS (in the lockscreen, with Siri, etc.), and %98 of the POI's and pathfinding are great. I've run into a handful of bad POI's and/or buggy pathfinding, but many of those were fixed. There's no way I'd want to go back to iOS 5's maps, and I imagine most people in suburbia, at least, feel the same way.
Wow, great, a condescending title! Fact is, I am using this. It used to be in the settings, I think, which is how I found out about it. And as others have stated, it's in a lot of mail clients. Apple Mail supports this, as does the iOS mail app, too.

"I haven't heard of this feature" != "no one knows about this feature".
That was not my intention. I posted several negative ratings myself. The point is not to stop negative reviews - my point was that if you're being truthful in your review, then you rarely need anonymity because the truth is on your side.

Think about car drivers versus pedestrians - car drivers are more likely to yell and curse without reason, because for them the risk of doing so is lower.

If you're being a anonymous jackass, then in the context of an app store this can really hurt an otherwise good app and the developers that are trying to build a good business. Anonymity plays an important role here, because in the real world and on the Internet when you hear or read other people's opinions, you tend to take those opinions with a grain of salt. For example, whenever I post an article on my blog, the second most page for the day is the About page.

An "app store" is different from the Internet at large or from the real world, because an app store is not distributed and because those reviews are used in the search rankings within the app store in a totally dumb way. Problematic is that the reputation of a reviewer or the quality of a review, or the relationship you may have with the reviewer (acquaintance, similar user, etc...) aren't currently taken into account. A review such as "this app sucks" shouldn't have the same weight as a review which explains with a fine level of detail why the app sucks. A review from somebody I know or from somebody that's similar to me shouldn't have the same weight as somebody I don't know.

And yet, that's the status quo right now and both positive and negative reviews represent the truth, determining the success of apps, even though rating is mostly subjective and context dependent.

And I absolutely hate the lack of a feedback cycle. At the very least developers should be allowed to respond to negative reviews with messages such as ... "this was fixed in version XX", or "we are sorry, but the app cannot do that due to platform restrictions", or whatever. I also want to be contacted by the developers, because when posting a negative review I do so because of 2 reasons:

(1) I want to warn others about the dangers ahead, in which case I want to change/delete my review in case whatever I said was not true or was definitely fixed

(2) a negative review is actually better than total indifference and many times when I post the review I do so out of sadness that the app is close to being what I want, but the suckiness is so annoying that I cannot use it, so of course I want to know when that gets fixed

It's worth pointing out that the Internet at large does not suffer from these same problems. People complain that filtering out the noise on the Internet is problematic, but for all the problems associated with its distributed nature and black-SEO, the impression you get about a product when searching on Google tends to be a lot more fair.
Tech Talk: Overcoming Scaling Challenges at Pinterest
I don't drink either, but I don't find it a barrier in hanging out with friends that do all the time. They have to get really drunk to start becoming obnoxious, which means they would be in no condition to play video games. As long as you don't act judgmental, many people will come to accept you not drinking.
Nope. I have been there for an hour, still can't buy it.
> Attachment size limits aren't there just to fuck with you.

Although bandwidth and storage have greatly been raised, the scaling problem remains: send a single email with the usual limit of 10MB to 20 recipients, and it will balloon to 200MB total at some point, possibly multiple times even. Scale this up, and you've quickly got a problem. What's more, either you put on limits or become a target for volume-filling DoS, and whatever limit you put on will be used and abused (ever seen those professional PPTs filled with ridiculously sized, uncompressed BMPs?).

So when sending big files email basically becomes a form of push signalling mechanism, where voluminous resources can be pulled on demand. Maybe a standardization of this process is in order instead of everyone coming up with its body-embedded HTML presentation mimicking regular file attachments? Something like a multipart message with mime type application/email-attachment-uri, which would make it nice to text-only modes.

BTW this really looks like what's currently implemented in Sparrow with CloudApp or Dropbox.
Merck had a sweetheart deal with Elsevier to publish a vanity journal which passed off marketing copy for Vioxx as "research".

Why not point to the days of phony, deadly cures being pushed on a naive population?

That's still going on, except these days the pushers of phony, deadly cures sound a lot like Alex3917. Hint: look for accusations of medical researchers being "shills of big pharma".

Vioxx gives us a handy, recent example of big pharma actually behaving badly,and they had to undermine science to do it. Just like the peddlers of unproven "alternative cures" -- and quite unlike, and to the dismay of, the medical research community.
Actually you can view Coursera's courses whenever you want and do it at your own peace.
Something I've long wondered is the differences in efficiency between a Stirling and a peltier for generating electricity. Stirlings has the disadvantage of requiring moving parts, but I believe it's more efficient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
I think rules are the same everywhere for management. The guy was going in for a CEO position one where he has to at least have the perception that he was in sync with the brand. Going even further, I think fitting in is appreciated everywhere, even in tech.

A couple of examples: Look at the whole anti-brogrammer movement: There were people conflating being fit, wearing polo shirts and dressing preppy with being obnoxious, sexist assholes. I am fairly certain that there were examples of such people but that doesn't necessarily mean that everyone who tries to be fit or dresses preppy is one. Personally, I don't like ironic graphic t-shirts and dressing in Cargo shorts and looking like a slob but that doesn't necessarily mean that I would go to a startup interview in a 3-piece suit. This is mainly because while I try to make an effort to dissociate the image you present with who you are, it doesn't necessarily mean that I should expect everyone around me to do that.
I'm surprised nobody here has yet mentioned Fight Club...

"The things you own, end up owning you"
And just in case somebody isn't comfortable using the french website, the irish one has the same offers:
http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml

(the german one is strangely enough more expensive)
I'm a hypocrite. Coffee, anyone?

http://raganwald.posterous.com/coffee-anyone
I used the word hackers as defined in McKenzie Wark's 'Hacker Manifesto' ( http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/warktext.html ).

01. There is a double spooking the world, the double of abstraction. The fortunes of states and armies, companies and communities depend on it. All contending classes - the landlords and farmers, the workers and capitalists - revere yet fear the relentless abstraction of the world on which their fortunes yet depend. All the classes but one. The hacker class.

02. Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things. In art, in science, in philosophy and culture, in any production of knowledge where data can be gathered, where information can be extracted from it, and where in that information new possibilities for the world are produced, there are hackers hacking the new out of the old. While hackers create these new worlds, we do not possess them. That which we create is mortgaged to others, and to the interests of others, to states and corporations who control the means for making worlds we alone discover. We do not own what we produce - it owns us.

03. And yet we don't quite know who we are. While we recognise our distinctive existence as a group, as programmers, as artists or writers or scientists or musicians, we rarely see these ways of representing ourselves as mere fragments of a class experience that is still struggling to express itself as itself, as expressions of the process of producing abstraction in the world. Geeks and freaks become what they are negatively, through their exclusion by others. Hackers are a class, but an abstract class, a class as yet to hack itself into manifest existence as itself.
Dustin's article was worth a read. It was as enlightening to his perspective as this article was to it's author.

Everything fails, but poorly made things fail in less predictable manners.

Really this is a false dichotomy. Anyone who always buys the best everything or the worst everything is missing a whole lot of nuance.
Does the cost of housing in the Bay Area coupled with older people's need to provide bedrooms for their children cause them to move to other parts of the country even if they've spent their 20's in The Valley?
Just out of curiosity, what language/platform is Google Play running on?
Thank you for writing out your perspective on this. It had a positive impact on my perception of my coworkers. I see that they are simply looking for an optimized customer experience to solve real problems. Previously, I saw them as part of the team but not part of the "problem solving" team. My perspective has shifted. Thanks for sharing.
I would display a big picture of a nun on the homepage if it made advertisers happy about the rest of the site. I have been talking to ad people for a while now and I can't seem to get around it. But I will continue to try.

I tried some searches on imgur and nothing nasty comes up. On Twicsy it is very easy to get nasty stuff to appear.

Looks like imgur uses Google Adsense, they have cut me off several times.
Turkey decision flowchart
Hi, founder here. Thanks for a great list of competitors! We have a product we feel have both business application and education tool potential. Perhaps we could focus on teaching both kids and business people who have no knowledge of programming.
Does anyone care about top posting any more? I feel like I haven't heard the term since my newsgroup days.
I know plenty of 20-somethings that are married (I'm from the midwest) and relatively experienced in their work. (6+ years professional experience)

I also know yuppies angling for a "big win" whose only joy in life is playing Xbox at work and getting drunk. Who at the age of ~26 only have a couple years experience because they were too busy partying in college and didn't build anything while in school.

But they totally know how to run a company because they 'get' product and engagement and read Hacker News.

People come in all shapes and sizes.

It's not about the age, it's about wisdom and where you are in life.

You could be 26 or 56. I don't care as long as you care about your work and what you do.
Second Life makers introduce Creatorverse for iOS
I got through the shopping cart and ordered an 8GB model about 5 minutes ago.
I see a difference between having the worst flatware but the best laptop (I've used Apple for over 20 years and I'm perfectly content with it). By buying a reliable brand that I have experience with, I save a bunch of time.

All in all, I agree with the OP's article.
Immediate Gratification: Employees say long-term benefits can wait
> Now with Drive, you can insert files up to 10GB

Hmm, how much space do I have in there now?

0% of 5 GB used... Now it makes sense.
Unlike OVH, server4you use nasty 5400rpm hard drives on their low end. I actually am waiting for someone to come out with a low end server with a small SSD drive. I need performance not storage.
Google Pairs Gmail, Drive for an Easy Way to E-Mail Huge Files
> (a) avoid income volatility that becomes more unacceptable with age, (b) evade the "job hopper" stigma

(a) Ding! I had to drop out of college to support my parents.

(b) Ding! I stuck around with jobs that made my physically unstable and emotionally depressed because otherwise I would have been unemployable.

I was originally an iOS dev, which I love, and I hate Android programming, but I've been forced by circumstance to get reasonably good at it over the past two years. And yet to some of the people I know, I'm the "old" guy, and I haven't even hit my mid-twenties.
Hi, founder here. Apologies, that was a mistake. We'll fix it soon.
You can use Plex to get YouTube on Roku.
The Importance of Solar Software
It has mostly to do with the fact that decent ad networks won't touch Twicsy. But I also do have a lot of international traffic which is harder to monetize.
29 days to go.
Hi, founder here. Would you mind letting us know what's bad about the kickstarter? we're here to learn :)
Try using it on an iPhone, where the site interprets any sort of horizontal swipes (such as ones you might make while zooming in and panning on some text) as an intention to go to the next/previous article in the blog.
You realize Google offers an official guide to SEO right[1]? Why would they offer a guide for 'tricking search engines into preferring your content'?

The answer? They aren't offering a guide for tricking anything, they're offering a guide about how to properly structure your site so that it is easily crawlable and identifiable by their spiders so searchers can query for what you have to offer.

The core purpose of SEO is to do exactly what you said here: "The whole premise of the open web is that natural selection would allow rich information to be filtered through because it is good." It's called Search Engine OPTIMIZATION for a reason. The goal is to build very well structured sites by following specific sets of best practices.

Sure, there are lots of spammers out there. But just like a square is a rectangle but a rectangle isn't necessarily a square, a spammer is an SEO but an SEO isn't necessarily a spammer.

Stop spewing FUD.

1. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-s...
Google ought to pause its work on driver-less cars and magic glasses while it learns how to run a 1990's-style online retail store. The Google Play Store experience is shockingly poor.
Android app reviews move to Google+ ID system
Does anyone know of a way to select multiple passages to be quoted automatically? A control+click/drag if you will?
Note that bullet point #7 only seems to apply to housing.

For the second link, it seems like most include protection for marriage status, but almost none for familial status. I'm not sure how that translates in this scenario.
Hi, founder here. We're really trying to promote HTML5 development, and we believe can pull it off with our team.
As a person who doesn't really believe in the innately "deeply intelligent", I'll add that this is a skill that can be practiced, like any other, and the more curiosity you cultivate and act upon, the more you'll learn and get better at learning. You'll be much more pleasant to be around (instead of being known as a knee-jerk critic) and before you know it, they skills and insight you gain may have people calling you "deeply intelligent" :)
Moxie,

Check out "Paradox Of Choice" by Barry Schwartz. It deals with this very subject but defines the two groups as "maximizers" and "satisficers".

Here is a good overview by the author at TED:
http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...

ISBN-13: 978-0060005696

V
i got an 8gb. was around 3:03pmEST.

Went to cart, clicked "Proceed" .. got "too busy" error. Waited a few seconds, clicked again...same error. Waited a few seconds, clicked again, and it worked.
Sadly it seems that the "ubuntu generation" of people who don't RTFM have won out.

The sheer amount of recent MongoDB hate has been extremely annoying, not to mention the half-assed reasons for justifying it - we've learned a lot of things from running MongoDB at scale, and none of them are what the haters usually whine about.
Hi, founder here. Thanks for the suggestion! We'll fix it for the next video.
I think RAM usage should be a function of work load. However, here I sit with 12 tabs open and Firefox using almost 1GB of RAM. I don't know when this became okay, but I could see Firefox using 4GB of RAM, easy. At this rate, that would be due to the ungodly workload of 48 tabs.
The future of retail is weird
I bottom-post all the time when emailing certain (tech-savvy) individuals. Makes it much easier to reply point-by-point.

However, bottom-posting's value is lost on the vast majority of people, so I don't bother unless it's someone I know will appreciate it.
Apple is missing the point of the backlash. Of course customers hate Apple Maps...but they are complaining because they have no alternatives. I would be complaining about my Android Browser if Google Play did not have Dolphin readily available.
Reading some of those reviews, it doesn't appear that people are complaining about the number of conversions, rather they don't understand why you included unit conversions that don't make sense in the context your app claims to target. Which actually seems like a legitimate criticism, IMO.
Just wanted to say this is the best, most helpful yet humorous feedback I have ever read for any app ever. Thank you!
Yes. I just opened up more tickets.
This is a horrible misfeature.

Often, I select bits of an email, to copy and paste elsewhere to check things. Then I hit reply, and wonder why only the currently selected text is there.

There should be a way to turn this "feature" off.
I don't think I've ever seen a dedicated option on there.
Hetzner also offer a Dutch auction for servers: https://robot.your-server.de/order/market
You will pay through the nose (compared to US prices) if you have high bandwidth traffic, but this is a great price for a dev server.

Put ISPconfig on it if you want a free control panel:
http://www.ispconfig.org/
This reminds me strongly of the arguments between the "Worse is Better" and "Do The Right Thing" philosophies. Buying ridiculously cheap forks so you can treat them like they're disposable is a perfect example to me of someone living out "Worse is Better".

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
No personal experience here but my gut feeling is that older developers are more likely to be closer to the one or the other extreme. The theory being that those who are average tend to move to middle/senior management, leaving behind those that are either brilliant hardcore hackers or incompetent clock punchers.
I believe cloud by definition means third party, but something like the host wont know what it is storing, just who accesses it. So in OP's case if his computer is shutdown, the server wont be able to serve the file, but if it is on "cloud" there is a lot less chance of downtime and greater latency as "cloud" can have multiple data centers around the globe to server same file.
The article annoyed me, about the flatware even.

Then I remember what I went through finding 'our' flatware for the wedding registry. I'm particular about it (weight, fussiness, traditional shape). So is my wife. The intersection of that set is really small. And it most definitely doesn't include the choice that he made.

On further reflections though, it sounds as if he's becoming attached to stuff, because he's made the investment in choosing it. I'd rather not have that attachment to the stuff.

There's a small selection of things that I consciously choose the best of, and they matter. There's a much larger selection of things that are good enough, in whatever metric that is, be it quality, cost, availability, or combination. My keyboards? They're the best. Model M13s, the best of which sells for $250 on ebay. The truck? It runs. It hasn't stranded me yet, and I don't care if I haul a yard of compost in it.
Moxie,

I read your "Money Machine"[1] in print and loved it. After becoming aware of your security work and browsing your website, I discovered you are the author. Small world.

My partner and I often fall asleep together listening to "Letters of Insurgents". Thank you for that!

[1] http://www.thoughtcrime.org/stories/money-machine/
It only leaves your cart if you refresh the page while the other page turns to 'out of stock'

So my advice is to not refresh the page. Keep 2 tabs open. If you get the 'there was a problem' message...go to the other tab and refresh THAT page until its back.

Then head back to the cart and continue pressing, "proceed"
Nice. I'll be sure to post it as a reminder next time they go on sale.
Can e-commerce be regulated?
Ironic, Onion'ed or Hacked? Kim Jong-Un Named Sexiest Man Alive
the issue i have with this is that it deletes all previous messages from the email thread. So if someone wants to read back through previous messages or forward the email onto someone who does - no es posible.
Hi, founder here. In fact, we build on top of Phonegap, and enhance it with plugins that don't exist for Phonegap yet, i.e push notification, SMS, facebook connect, and so on. We'll make the change in the kickstarter page.
Still seems like an awfully long time to switch to proper defaults -- 3 and a half years?
RAMnode has been pretty good for very fast mid-range SSD VPSes (watch their Twitter; they have 30% off specials all the time). SoftLayer also supports SSDs but they aren't low end, for the most part. I'm a happy customer of both but an employee/beneficiary of neither.
Sigh, we need to stop with that annoying "maps will magically get better with usage".

No, they won't. Stop claiming that. There is no magic algorith m to fixup maps based on people being given wrong data. Even if some people will give some feedback, that requires humans to process that input and translate it into map changes. Which can take a loong time.
Wow. I on the other hand have drinking glasses, plates and cutlery I bought from a thrift store for like $20 for the whole set and it's been holding up fine for years. Maybe the lesson here is it's better to buy a decent product for cheap used, than to buy a new product that was cheap from day one.
Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley for Hackers
Microsoft has sold more than 40 million copies of Windows 8
Elephant in the room is payments. Was sad to not see this mentioned. Sure, building a web app might have a better chance of onboarding folks. But now try to get them to enter their credit card number. On mobile, they tap the "Buy" button.
Microsoft: We've sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date
Cyberattacks on Banks Escalating