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No, it's really part of a vast conspiracy.

After the content has been accidentally upvoted to the front page of HN, the OP will then make sure to only serve porn when your IT department goes back to verify whether or not the content was actually SFW.
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Looks impressive, but a simple N x K contingency table would help understand the data better. Here, N=K=15 and entries of the table would be raw counts (e.g. number of major i in career j).

You could color the cells by a few different criteria, e.g. absolute scaling, row normalization, and column normalization with red for "lots" and blue for "few". Maybe toggle those three criteria via a radio button.

The advantage of such a visualization is that it allows you to see both trends (which rows/cols are more red, and which blue) and specific numbers. It is also immediately interpretable for a new viewer without any explanatory preamble. Sometimes the simple stuff is best.
The categories are a little confusing. If you go into scientific research, say at a publicly funded institution, where does that put you? College Education? Technology? Engineering? Government? or just Other?
Indeed. "It's the app developer's fault, the OS rocks!" is a bikeshed argument in my opinion.
I must have missed it. Well, did everybody have a smartphone back then? Having a dashboard for a screensaver I think is something that would click immediately. I would use one on the desktop too, provided it's nice on the eyes and is easy to fill up with relevant things (like HN articles).
Nook I bought several years ago. Touchpad was over a year later. Mini didn't exist at the time that either device was available. Also two devices vs one?

I have been tempted in the past to get an iPad but couldn't justify the price when I could get a full Windows laptop for the same price. All I'm saying is that for us lowly poor people, price is a factor especially for a "want" and not a "need".
I saw a talk on Mozilla Persona [0] the other day from one of the devs. I like the idea of these decentralised authentication systems. I was (and still am a fan of) OpenId too.

There is no practical reason that website operators need to know that a user typed in the right password, only that they are who they say they are. Anything which is able to prove this (to a satisfactory level) with the least amount of information being stored by the website is good in my books.

[0] - https://www.mozilla.org/persona
The info I get is that the smallest instance is a micro instance at just $23 for 365 days, not on demand, but a reserved instance.
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Nice story but it exaggerates her ability. Going from here rating and list of games here:

http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=10000399

She is a fairly weak tournament player, good enough to beat any casual player but I personally know some 10 year olds that would beat her.

She is ranked 14th in Uganda ( out of 15 rated players ) but only 3 of them are women (the bottom 3) so I doubt she won the National Champs since the top few players are pretty good. She probably won the Women's champs since she's the second highest rated woman.

http://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml?ina=1&country=UGA
Ha! You are dwarfed by the mighty Physics/Astro contingent. Except on HN, where you seem to outnumber us 2:1.

edit: now 3:1
The only issue I have about silence is that horrid dead and awkward feeling in the room. I work best in a quite but active environment.

And I actually liked working in a small (~6 people) busy startup where everyone was in earshot and you were all on the same page at all times.
I wasn't aware of that... anyone know how that's handled when you're buying an SSD instance from say, Amazon? Do they predict failure and replace the drives before they go bad, or do you have to bake this into your deployment logic somehow?
Well, anecdotal evidence, but plenty of my friends who have experienced startup weekend summarized it as follows:

"Seeking technical cofounder!"
I've heard a few times before that the iOS keyboard invisibly grows the touch target on the letters it predicts are most likely to be typed next. Unfortunately, my quick attempt to find a source failed.
Wow, so it's already landed in Webkit, presumably behind some experimental flag. This is really neat, thanks.
They also have the same with "24 hours"... For the slow readers among us I guess. Given the 10-minute book on PHP has 264 pages, it's about 26 pages per minute, or a little more than 2 seconds per page, not counting the time it takes to turn the pages. One must be really quick.
Surprised someone hasn't posted Betteridge's law yet.
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I have a feeling that for the coming year or so, these visualizations will be overused in much the same way animated web site intros were in the late 90's. Because right now they are still new enough that the casual viewer will inevitably be impressed by their pretty colors, even if they do not particularly clarify any information. I suspect a slight backlash by late 2013, then a convergence towards legitimate use thereafter.
Some of that is intentional. I've heard lore about people eating faster and getting out sooner if the restaurant is louder.

Also heard lore about casinos using extremely bright and dizzying carpet designs to get you to avert your eyes from the floor, and onto the gambling equipment.
Thanks! This should be fixed now. :)
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Does a $64 SSD have enough charge to flush pending writes after a power failure? If not, then be prepared for widespread corruption.

See comment by pjungwir.
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> On Android I'll turn down the sound only to have an annoying notification sound go off in a meeting because notification volume is still at 100%.

I don't understand your problem. On tablets like the Nexus 7 the volume slider is global and muting will mute the device completely. On a phone turning down the ringer volume to vibrate/mute will stop all notification sounds. Only the media volume of the music player and games and whatever is separate.
Just a minor point of criticism; require and include are statements, not functions. Not that it's a big deal or something, but I just thought I would let you know.
Hacker's Keyboard is awesome for SSH/terminal.
Thanks for the mention! My goal for Sidebar is actually to have it become the "HN of Design". I'm starting small, but I hope to get there eventually!
Some definitely are. I don't think there are many male waiters in Hooters, are there?
Server Check.in will never have ads, and the privacy policy (https://servercheck.in/privacy) is pretty clear cut. The revenue comes from the users, so the service is 100% user-focused.

I noticed their service when building Server Check.in, but didn't create an account for testing, so can't say anything with 100% certainty. However...

- SMS is not free (unless they're using email-to-SMS gateways), so I'm not sure how they're supporting that, unless they have alternative revenue streams.

- Database bandwidth/storage for more than a few servers costs money—I've calculated at least a few MB/month/server, meaning the data storage and access is a real cost I have to find money for.

Finally, they mention on their about page that they won't do paid until at least Feb. 2013, so I don't know if they'll still be free after that anyways :-/

(This is not to say I don't think their service is bad or anything—I think it looks like a worthy alternative... it's just not what I wanted to use, otherwise, I wouldn't have built Server Check.in.)
What do you guys think is the best price/feature ratio for that kind of service? I can't find any detailed feature listing on the website, but it seems you can't offer much for ~$1 a month.

Do you think 15 minute interval is enough? I assume the checks are made from one network location only (can't find details on the about page), would anyone be confident of the results with such setup? Is there any re-check in case of failure? API access? Etc.

I think this service might be popular with amateur bloggers/website owners. I don't think it would satisfy businesses that consider downtime a profit loss. I think they might be looking for a bit more advanced solution.

P.S.
I'm a bit biased here. Since I started my own website monitoring project it seems that everyone else and their dog are also running one... :-(
Good news is that my service becomes recognizable in Poland and I'll be launching it for the rest of the world soon :-) Hope to get some feedback here when that happens.
I think you're looking for "straw man" as I didn't attack you personally but you think that I'm attacking a point you didn't make. I brought up one counter-example, but I have seen many more out there.

I'll go back to the top again.

>Justin Bieber was a nobody until he put his videos on Youtube. Kendrick Lamar was discovered this way too. It's easier to gain recognition now than ever. If the world enjoys what you produce you don't have to worry as much about a distribution channel like you did 10+ years ago.

Yes, they get more recognition, but for what? They can convert this Youtube recognition into a small portion of money through Youtube ad monetization (a brand and a distribution channel, though I guess not a label). These examples ended up with a major distribution channel (a major record label) that will bring in enough revenue to survive on or to become a star (something Youtube ad monetization can only do for a very small few). Youtube was just the equivalent of that buddy you have in the industry that can pass on your sample tape with a kind word to get them to look at you. That one buddy probably means more to people in the labels than 100k views.

To continue with your direct response, music labels were promoting artists before iTunes. "[E]mployees of the companies that create the software to distribute the music and videos" most likely include employees of the label itself or contracted companies to write the software. Promoters have been around since the town crier, and their value has kept the job existing (and now unfortunately they take the lion's share of the revenue).

I make no comment on the middle man's ability to adapt to modern distribution channels. I don't think it's relevant to them picking up artists.

Concert venues and software contractors do create jobs, but they very rarely spawn into the giant companies we see represented by the RIAA. If they did, why would this power imbalance exist?
The question is, how do you license it? What if licensing it costs a government fee of 10000$ for the bureaucracy?
I'm shocked at how many people here find loud environments to be totally OK, some even preferring those to quiet ones.

And I'm a little bemused how so many people can cope with living in urban environments rather than rural ones. The noise, smells, neighbors right through the wall, traffic, etc. But I suspect the majority of HNers live in urban environments. Noise tolerance, like urban, population density and crowd tolerance, is personal and subjective and it's tricky to rationalize why people do or do not want to "control" it.

I fall asleep more easily if I have chatter around me (so I listen to podcasts). This is unusual but not something I need to rationalize away. It's just how I tick and other people tick other ways.
I can appreciate this sentiment, and to some extent agree, but it strikes me as overly simplistic. The reality is probably more complicated. Just leaving them to their own devices, isolated, is arguably just as bad in terms of propping up the regime. The NK regime is built on control, particularly of information. Any sort of relations with the outside will inherently have something of a subversive nature.
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>I don't think you ARE missing anything. From my reading, the gains are obtained by pre-computing the string concatenation a single time (rather than while rendering) for all cases in which it can be.

Lazy evaluation: waiting until a computation needs to be done to perform it.

Problem here: it was inefficient to do a particular computation at the very moment before it was needed.

So, how is this not a lazy evaluation problem?
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Linus Torvalds said O_DIRECT shouldn't be used because Linux's already implemented page cache and application developers should not bother to re-invent the wheel.

However page caching algorithms are pretty generic and database people think performance could be improved by using customized db caching routines instead of the generic OS one.

There are two ways to bypass OS page cache: 1) directly access the disk as a block device; or 2) use the O_DIRECT flag to disable page cache on a per-file/directory basis.

Direct access to disk as a block device would be ideal from the performance and flexibility point of view, but then you lose all the benefits and tools to manage databases as files. O_DIRECT flag seems to strike a sweet pot and that's what ended up being used most in the real world.

Then no body is really interested in improving the F_ADVISE interface, which is supposed to be a better than O_DIRECT from Linus's perspective. You know, the “worse is better” thing.

I'm not a db or kernel dev, but I've been watching this argument for a while, and so far that's my understanding. Very interesting.
I find language lacking, promise of single language to handle html, css and js is simply not delivered.

I kind of imagined something like components where you would have html, css and js and you can say

login_form = new loginForm(loginProcess)

where loginProcess would be callback that would get username and password... or something along those lines.

I guess those are html components that someone was writing about...
Not at all. If it's a cause you support then it certainly makes it more compelling, but any reason against donating normally still exists when donations are being matched.
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Thanks for your response and kudos to a very clean UI, powerful feature set, and low cost.

You are correct, they are using email-to-SMS gateways.
I've been doing something similar. I'm on my fourth iPhone, so I'm well invested in that ecosystem. I recently added a Galaxy S3 with a new line for testing purposes. I'm comparing both devices: if I prefer the S3, I'll transfer my personal line to it, and use the iPhone as the backup/test device.

I have no problem buying apps. I have a few apps I depend on, and many I like. My thoughts so far:

* The S3 is a superior piece of hardware, hands down.

* Most of the OS features are superior on the S3 as well, and the built in apps are as good or better than what's on iOS.

* The app situation is what kills the S3.

1) Many apps I depend on that are awesome on iOS don't exist on Android, and the "substitutes" are really poor in my opinion (for example, OmniFocus vs. the generic to-do apps)

2) Some of the same apps don't have ad-free Pro versions on Android as they do on iOS. Perhaps there needs to be a separate app store filled with more curated, paid apps? (Say Google Play and Google Pro)

3) Some of the same apps are absolutely horrible on Android. I suspect they are quick ghetto ports of successful iOS apps, not properly developed Android software. (Example: The Chive is pretty decent on iOS, and a bug-filled mess on Android)

Again, I was really cheering for the S3, but honestly, ecosystem trumps innovation.
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interesting, but probably suboptimal in a quantitative sense. As an immigrant, it is interesting how Law is a universal dumping ground in the US...whether you major in Arts or Econ or PolSci or English or Philosophy or Culture Studies....you end up in Law !! Why ?
The clearest trends were Biology & Chemistry...almost always end up in Healthcare.
Is "college education" a proxy for gradschool ? If so, nice to see some strokes ending up in that bucket even in these very difficult economic times.
2010 (my year) was about 7-10 I believe. And about half of those were double majors.

Edit: 13 majors, of which at least 10 were double majors (including me and Dave below).

Edit 2: Good grief. The whole lot on HN. Do any of us Ephs get any work done?
Callbacks are actually one of the things this is explicitly trying to avoid: http://elm-lang.org/learn/Escape-from-Callback-Hell.elm
Silence is not the same as quiet. Our office isn't silent. It's softly quiet.
Very good questions, and ones I had to think about quite a bit while building my MVP:

15 minute interval: I had to make sure the site was scalable in the beginning. My early testing data tells me that, for my target audience (as you say, probably not larger businesses at this point), 15 minutes is a good interval—it's better than most free services, but not so frequent as to incur extra expense on my end for bandwidth and database growth.

One location only: This is a compromise I have made for now—I have built the service in a way that I'll be able to add another node or two for the back-end checks once I get enough users. But for now, if the main server is down (hasn't happened yet, in four months of testing, but it will...), I only have a small bit of contingency, and don't have a hot backup.

Re-check for failure: Yes; if Server Check.in notices a site is down on more than 50% of node checks (once I have more than one node), it will check the site once more after a minute before sending a down notice.

API access: I don't have it yet, but I'm going to be building it (everything I've done on the site already has API data structures in place—I just don't have any of the interface or any kind of authentication system in place). I'm working on a mobile app that will be free for users, and will need the API up and running before I can launch it.
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“We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so’s money is Sequoia’s money, that would not be a good thing.

Do I correctly understand that Paul, Jessica et al are investing Sequoia money, or that they are somehow a large partner? Would someone please explain this paragraph from the article?

Update: Is this what he was referring to? http://m.techcrunch.com/2010/05/21/y-combinator-closes-new-8...

I wouldn't exactly call it a "co-opt"; I am still interested in whatever insight someone shares.
Having 2 passwords does not really solve the problem. I understand where the writer is coming from, but it is a gray area to define what is considered "high risk" vs "low risk". Using two factor authentication for selected task seems to make more sense.
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+1 to this idea.

Also, this is awesome OP. Got some genuinely honest feedback and it's much appreciated.
Just filled out the survey. Small gripe: under "benefits" it was unclear if I should consider whether each feature is currently valuable, or would be valuable if I had it.

Edit: I'd also like to second DanBC's comment about super easy encryption. Having a diagram to indicate which parts of the transmission are secure would be great, too. (For instance, visually display that the email is mainly secure during transit, but is still plainly viewable by the recipient's email server.)
It's really not that dangerous considering the technicality of being at war has existed for decades. Nobody wants a war on the Korean peninsula (to the perennial disappointment of human rights activists):

1. China- prefers the buffer state between itself and US-aligned South Korea
2. South Korea- has seen what happened with Germany's economy after re-unification, fears that times 100 with the state of North Korea's population
3. North Korea- has absolutely no chance of defeating the South without Chinese intervention, which is unlikely to happen.

That combined with the mass destruction and slaughter on both sides of the DMZ which would occur makes all out war unlikely.
This is the third or fourth time this story has been on the front page in the past 24 hours. Here's the bulk of the discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4899236

Today's had unusually high front page turnover. I wonder if the site's traffic is getting to be too much for the ranking algorithm.
I am struggling to find any actual facts to back up the common falsehood you are repeating. Want to point out something?

[pg. 11] "International companies would only invest in research in locations with sufficiently strong IP."

Yeah, I would prefer to put my investment where I have government helping me strongarm people into paying me more money too. Somehow your paper failed to mention other possible factors like being able to get away with testing sexual dysfunction drugs on children and only getting fined $97: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-16381458

[pg. 15] "Most policymakers reported that the IP system was an asset to encouraging domestic innovative activity. Changes in the IP system in Brazil was seen as significant in setting the foundation for innovative activity."

This is just bare assertion from policymakers.

[pg. 37] "A common measure of the output of innovation used in the literature is the number of registered patents in the country. In particular, it is common to see analysis based on the number of international patents (defined as the number of patents granted to
inventors from a particular country)."

[pg. 43] "There has been a clear increase in innovation in terms of patents. Leaving aside South Korea, this again shows the dramatic performance of China, but also gradual progress in a number of other markets."

This is ludicrous to measure innovation by the number of patents. The "dramatic performance of China" is an increase in patents due to strengthened IP laws in recent years, that's it. If the mechanisms for enforcement of an IP regime are strengthened, then sure you will see more people using it. More companies are willing to disclose trade secrets because they have patent protection. That's all this shows, not that innovation is occurring because of IP law.

I don't really see much more that needs to be addressed in this paper, certainly no supporting evidence for your claim that IP is beneficial besides to the monopoly holders and monopoly givers. It's your claim, so you need to do better than just link an article. There is a more meaty section in your paper, but you would have to actually read your own source to find it and then I can proceed to demolish it.
Lengthy, length discussion on this topic a few hours ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4899236

The original post got 103 points, so I'm surprised we're seeing it come back around again so soon.
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Great, thanks for the pointer!
Sure thing! I considered using email-to-SMS and lowering the cost to < $1.00/month, but didn't want to make that compromise.

I do have to limit the SMS messages to 50/month (600/year) maximum at this point (see: https://servercheck.in/sms), until I can better track people's usage patterns and make sure I don't get hammered with larger fees than I'm taking in. That limit will hopefully be lifted at some point.
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Urban noise is like a noisy clock ticking in the other room, or an air-conditioning system blowing air around. 99% of the time you honestly have absolutely no perception of it, but that last 1% of the time you can't understand how it wasn't driving you crazy before.
I have written a lot of code for OS that doesn't get committed into master.

I was wondering what I could do to improve my code written to code committed ratio.

Still open to suggestions.
Not to quibble with the overall point, but the "default image" is Debian-based, but not derived from Ubuntu, I don't believe. Maybe they thought Raspian sounded better than Rasbuntu...
seems like the most relevant question for this forum