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Well, I think the idea is that those details are coming on monday. But there are some details that we can know now since Cloud Servers is mostly just Slicehost combined with Mosso/Rackspace's support/billing channels. So, they'll be Xen instances with persistent storage. Right now the bandwidth question is up in the air since the site doesn't specify. Given the pricing, I'd have to assume some bandwidth would be included. At $700, their 15.5GB server wouldn't look so nice against an $800 slice that came with 2,000GB of bandwidth (which would cost $400 at $0.20/GB).

They'll probably be integrating this with the Mosso control panel.

EDIT: So, talking with the Mosso support, bandwidth is not included and it will cost 22cents outgoing. Makes the pricing look a lot less appealing against Amazon's EC2 - especially since Slicehost's previous key (persistent storage) is negated by EBS.

Mosso's live help is answering any questions you have and they seem decently knowledgeable. The information doesn't seem to be embargoed at all by Rackspace.
Article was helpful, but read the comments as well. Fleshes out some real life experiences from folks who have used multiple packages.
Carrot should be placed very close to donkey head. "Just one cent above my bid! Beat it!"
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A million dollars? Over 50% of Americans have less than $25k in retirement funds. Even 40% of ages 55+ have less than $25k... Obviously no one literally lost their retirement (as long as there's a penny in there, right?), but all I was trying to say was that we should be sensitive about these things.

As young people with nothing to lose, we shouldn't be surprised to offend someone with optimism in this environment.
I'm glad Tony has been found. His articles always make for interesting reading. His plight is of concern to me, even though I have not met him. I'm still hoping to get some time off at some point to get scala training from the WorkingMouse guys.
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Even 40% of ages 55+ have less than $25k...

I know. These folks have no more lost their retirement due to the financial downturn than I have lost an aircraft carrier full of Swedish supermodels and propelled by unicorns.

An inspection of my back pocket will not reveal that aircraft carrier, but that doesn't mean I lost it.

Clearly if you've got $25k in your retirement account close to retirement, whether it declines to $15k or explodes to $100k is immaterial to your prospects of retiring: you're going to be almost wholly dependent on other sources of income either way. (Social security, pensions, income from working, familial support, etc.)
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Why is it people don't understand that all groups have different means given large enough N. Statistical significance has nothing to do with the magnitude of difference. Effect size is what you are looking for which looks at the magnitude of the difference in means taking into account the groups variance.

Also, 3 may well be statistically significant, and perhaps have a large effect size. This does not mean it is clinically significant.
I certainly agree that "tinkering around" can lead to amazing discoveries (e.g., penicillin, chemotheraphy) and/or great timing (e.g., pets.com)...

The reason why I posted the thread is because I've come across a lot of brilliant people who just so happen to be very "self-righteous." They assume that their intellect and sheer willpower will translate into entrepreneurial success...
You can't have a bubble with out a recession; they're two sides of the same coin.
Isn't this how you use closures? I think I've been doing this with my javascript code without even noticing it. :-)
Correction: They're switching from a prepaid bandwidth quota to per-GB pricing, so if you use less bandwidth the price is lower but if you use the full quota the price is higher.
Couldn't creativity be described with memetics. That ideas aren't tied to the survival of their host but, like our genes, with their ability to continue to replicate. Most ideas are just other ideas that have been refined to survive new circumstances.

Intelligence has given our species an advantage because of the predictions we are able to make on given evidence that allow us to avoid danger, the mechanism that allows us to make these predictions is somewhat obfuscated at this point.

So as a person develops from childhood their model of the world will contain many contradictory ideas. Given a certain set of circumstances these contradictions are brought to light and depending on the usefulness, and sometimes, but not always, the correctness of the predictions each of these ideas allowed one will survive or grow stronger.

The modern world has allowed us to measure things more closely, and more rigorously trim our ideas. This is done mainly in smaller elite circles of academia.

Then anti-intellectualism is simply the result of people who have models of the world that reject ideas which would do them harm, sometimes with no real benefit. I say no benefit because these new "intellectual" ideas simply aren't verifiable to most of the population. Them believing these ideas would be equivalent to believing parishioner.

However, I would say certain discoveries, or actions broaden general populations worldview and prime them for scientific ideas. The moon landing, technology in general are good examples.
Back to the IBM example, I recently had to help install their "distro" (rely just a wrapper of redhat). I had to downgrade from 64bit to 32 bit. rather dissapoining. next the package system was half-broken. It looked as if IBM had not maintained there system after an update of yum or something (there were no package catagorys until after adding a secondary repository). after these small disapointments, I had to reconfigure the Xorg server myself to deal with the graphics card and two moniters. I can't rely fault them with that though. all in all, it was better than there version of windows (slow does not catch all of it) but worse than most systems that I have had to deal with (excluding windows systems).

so, yes it seems that the avalability of third party software and the "cryptic" way of installing things has them confused.
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I think he's defining what it means to be intellectual too narrowly. If he considers only phd level research "intellectual" then of course he'll be disappointed by an inventive game imagined by a child.

But what are most phd programs but social rituals in which people first absorb all of the field's dogma, then take prelims, and then work on a niche area of their own advisor's well known work? Such a ritual confers upon the participant the status of "intellectual", but it's primary purpose is social filtering, much like a fraternity hazing ritual or a Dick Cheney duck hunting trip.

Why is creativity not more widespread? Simply because it isn't valued by society. An established professor isn't looking for a totally fresh take on ideas, he's looking for someone who highly values his existing contribution and is willing to do grunt work in exchange for the stamp of institutional approval.

This is also what Society wants. The role of the intellectual is to help keep the status quo in society... hence hte need for a 5 year ritual to pass the gilded baton. Now, anyone can simply look at the embossed seal and feel totally confident that the recipient knows what he is talking about.

In my opinion, intellectuals are people who enjoy being rational and creating biproducts of rationality. Most doctoral theses don't fall under this definition. Most are so unbearable by the time of the defense that the student drops the area of study completely and enters the private sector, aided by the official seal of his institution and the perks of being part of a select social group.

Some people don't like to read, to think, or to discuss ideas. So be it. Such a person may still come up with a brilliant solution to a problem, even by accident. In most cases such a person (like the phd student) has no incentive to change the status quo, merely to play along with it and collect a paycheck. But so be it.

Intellectuals typically surround themselves by others with similar interests and skills. To the true intellectual, creativity is everywhere, from the lyrics of a rap song to the carona on an espresso to the small improvement to the glibc strlen function.

When creativity and insight are coupled with personal courage we get things like linux, Einsteinian physics, and many smaller but equally courageous accomplishments.

Sitting in academe complaining about anti-intellectualism is not creative, intellectual, or courageous!
I've always wondered this too. It is very strange that no one wants to talk about it. Maybe we could all get together and put up a bounty somewhere for someone to make this?
Being a Fox rather than a Hedgehog would nicely summarize relentlessly resourceful Vs relentless mentioned in the essay.
> These folks have no more lost their retirement due to the financial downturn than I have lost an aircraft carrier full of Swedish supermodels and propelled by unicorns.

I LOL'ed. I think you are just taking what I said too literally. I get what you mean, though.
Actually, most of the websites I write don't use SQL.

I don't think your "poor fit" comment is true. You don't need to model the threaded nature of comments at all in your database. Since there's a relatively small number of comments per post, and most access to comments is probably show-me-all-comments-for-this-submission, you usually just need a single foreign key, each comment to its original grandparent submission.

In this specific context the relevant advantage of SQL over rolling your own is that there is less distinction between keeping data in memory and on disk. Otherwise, you can certainly do anything with memory + SQL that you can with memory + disk.
Ha, I actually thought of that as I said it, but I actually prefer the colloquial meaning of that phrase.
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By your logic, just about everything here is propaganda of one form or another.
You clearly are in marketing!
I think this graph is why: http://superjared.com/projects/static-generator/
I used to say "I work for a financial software startup." Then it was "I'm starting a web software company." Now it's "I work for Google."

The latter seems to be by far the most effective explanation.
I had the same problem using 3.1.0, and with some suggestions from the news group, the html5lib alternative works fairly well. I never had a problem so far parsing about 6 sites i previous had to clean up using regexp.
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it sounds like yet another reinvention of the J vs. P (corresponding to left-brain vs right-brain) spectrum of Jungian psychology
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I'm willing to accept sounding like an asshole, but I certainly don't think I need to say nothing, and in fact you telling me so makes me think that of you. And not that you sound like one.

I find it's best to discuss problems before they become a pattern. Not to mention, this is a pattern. There was a whole similar (though far less urgent and interesting) thread from Zed Shaw that had a few top posts here before. There was the dude from Justin.tv, which at least you could argue was relevant due to that startup's affiliation with YC. I'd bet there were others I've missed or can't remember.

The problem is, of course, that these sorts of stories could overrun every social news site with ease, especially given that each one will lead to multiple posts. Every time someone says "I'm going to commit suicide" dozens of people on each site will think "Hey, I can help find this guy by posting to HN/Digg/Reddit or upvoting." And since saying you're going to commit suicide is clearly a cry for help (those serious about it just do it) and it clearly gets attention, there will be a torrent of these. Each one will be followed by at least one or two updates too.

I feel like there's some game theory there. You can decide to allow them all, in which case you're encouraging them, which will in turn make the web suicide threats (and other urgent stories) increase, until they're a huge problem. Or you can just delete them all and decide that while we all want to help those people, this just isn't the proper venue, and that having those things here probably hurts the mentally ill people they're meant to help in the first place.
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I'm not willing to go quite that far. I think at the base it's because most of the people here are decent and want to see a suicide prevented. I just don't think they understood my argument, which is that there are so many tragedies out there that if we let that sort of thing go on here, it would eventually monopolize the site. I think it's really an all or nothing (or maybe nothing except for a few rare exceptions) decision in the long run.
I vowed the same thing years ago when I lived west of my job location. Squinting while driving 55 in stop-and-go traffic? Eh, no thanks.
Then why isn't every single emergency in the entire world posted here? Every time a child goes missing, one of the tens of thousands of people here might know them. Why doesn't this site automatically post Amber Alerts? Is it noble to limit our help in finding missing persons only to those who've contributed to a programming language?
Best of luck to you! When you do your next thing, absolutely feel free to submit - don't let criticism this time stop you.
I kinda feel that in this day, you just shouldn't be running Django on DreamHost. New Xen hosts (like http://prgmr.com/xen/) are popping up a lot now and they're offering real capacity at DreamHost prices. DreamHost is fine for certain things, but more advanced hosting has come a long way since 5 years ago where DreamHost offered a lot.

Even if you want a shared/managed solution, WebFaction offers a much better environment for Django since they don't kill long-running processes and officially support Django.
I've been on Grand Central for a couple of years, I think. It has a feature where I can blacklist phone numbers. You even have a choice to play a "number disconnected" message to those callers. I have some head hunters from florida (I'm in Oregon) that got me in their database and wouldn't quit calling me. They now get the "number disconnected" message.
I agree with Matt. I don't think this is the correct forum for this kind of thing and I don't think his contribution as a programmer or a human being for that matter makes this post any more appropriate. I'm glad he is OK, but this person does not deserve special treatment from this community. A suicide note on the JOS off topic forums a couple years back promoted a similar discussion and ended with Joel shutting down that board.

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Qik does it on jailbroken iPhones, and does it quite well from what I've seen. Trust me, 3G is a much bigger battery whore.
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Is "Night Camera" the 3rd party app you're referring to? It is definitely much better, although the UI needs polishing...
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on that train of thought I am called a 'technomancer' by my family,and have addopted the term for public use. apperently fixing things that you seem to know very littl about is a skill. I am also the official dvd player/cable box/game system expert and operator of my household. my family has now decided that they are toast when I go to college.
So you believe there should be more emphasis on grades in school?
In at least the one narrow area of their lives where they make a living, maybe. And that's assuming that they are the kind of intellectuals that run empirical tests on things and not the kind of intellectuals who invent elaborate networks of concepts with little relations to the real world (post-modernists, non-empirical sociologists, feminist philosophers, and literary critics - I'm looking at you).

I see no evidence that intellectuals are less prone to human biases than the rest of us (well, I suppose I qualify as an intellectual, but the rhetorical point stands).

If you disagree with popular beliefs in academic social networks, you can be shunned by your peers as quickly as a high school student that doesn't follow the latest fashions. Human nature is universal.
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This is great info, but I would have liked it if the video looked at more sides of the equation. Granted, the advertisers have the most complicated corner of the triangle, but figuring out what I earn as an ad seller is equally useful... which also lets us solve for what Google's share is.
True..I try to avoid volatiles as much as I can. And as someone else pointed out on the blog in the commens, many implementations even get the volatiles wrong giving rise to a lot of bugs, so even if you were utmost careful about it, it can still cause issues.
I suspect like Skype they are being careful not to claim they are a telco - so they don't get hit with all the regulation and requirements stuff that real phone companies have. At the moment they are treated like those companies that sell cheap international calling cards.
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>As soon as I utter the word "programmer", I can see the light in their eyes begin to fade - but mentioning the iPhone brings them back and suddenly I'm a person with a cool job.

I know just the situation. It's game consoles instead of iPhone in my case though. If I talk with youngsters I usually top it with 'coin-op' and 'have more than 70 consoles in my house' for maximum bang :).
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This was written by Don Lancaster, the fellow who invented the TV-Typewriter waaaay back in the day. For those who don't study arcane Apple lore, Woz used the TV-Typewriter for the I/O of the Apple I.
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Thanks for the reply. My friendly response to the suggestion that I should consider mostly what subject a person has earned a Ph.D. in as the basis for whom to believe on what subject is that sometimes good ideas for one subject come from people who learned another subject. Sometimes that's the best way to make progress in a subject that has become stuck in outmoded theories. I observe that Ph.D. psychologists

1) were taken by surprise by Flynn's research on IQ test score trends over time, having initially predicted precisely the opposite trend,

2) proposed very stringent standards for acceptable data before believing the trend was real (and Flynn credits Jensen, who has just the sort of credentials you have recommended, as being especially tough in demanding certain kinds of evidence),

3) reviewed his publications before allowing them to appear in the leading journals in the field of psychology,

4) invited Flynn to attend major conferences written up in specialized monographs with acknowledged experts in psychology,

http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Intelligence-No-233-Novartis-Fo...

5) praised his work in standard textbooks on human intelligence,

6) devoted whole monographs specifically to his findings,

http://books.apa.org/books.cfm?id=431712A

and generally accorded Flynn greater honor as a researcher on psychological phenomena than most psychologists gain in a lifetime.

http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=978...

Anyway, scientific issues aren't decided by credentials, but by data. Flynn found and analyzed some very important data that caused a lot of psychologists to reexamine their assumptions. John Raven takes care to write, "The results surprise many psychologists. Eductive ability has turned out to be more easily influenced by appropriate educational and developmental experience than reproductive ability." In other words, what Jensen and others took as a "culture fair," "g-loaded" IQ test turns out to reflect modifiable educational experiences that children have or do not have.
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Things the US can do

- kill Sarbanes-Oxley (and other burdensome regulations but this is #1 priority)
- introduce a Hong Kong style tax system

I have no familiarity with how to combat "patent trolls", but something should be done there.

Its not enough to just be #1.
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haha I'm not quiet sure how to take that, so I'll assume it's a compliment. Thanks!
Good question. How about having no emphasis on grades as such, but lots of emphasis on student-directed learning projects, and perhaps academic competitions among schools? Many students learn a lot more mathematics from their math team than from their graded math lessons, for example.
I think the equation needs to be tweaked a bit, honestly. Some of these stories that get 100+ votes stay on the front page for longer than they really should, taking up space that many other interesting, yet less popular, stories could occupy.
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I'm with you. The SMS feature would still be useful if your contacts still use it. Or if you are the one stuck with SMS, route that as an email (assuming the recipient does not use Google Voice).
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Yeah, that would have been a great headline. Then, no one would have read the post, no one would find out the guy would like some help, and the project would be that much closer to sinking into oblivion.

Enough of this nonsense. I think the highly popular nature of the post, and the productive discussion that ensued, means that the post and headline were good. I certainly did the guy more good than harm, by bringing the attention of a community of hackers to this issue.

This reminds me of when I was editor of my college newspaper, and I wrote a headline that said "Student Raped in Gesling Stadium." The university and the campus cops all wanted us to say sexual assault and were pitching a fit. But we felt the strong language was justified, and we printed the word RAPE in big bold block letters. As a result, there was immediately hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on improving campus security.

In this case, I wrote that headline because I knew people would read it, and I knew that they wanted to read it, and I knew that they should read it. The last thing I was doing was trying to give the guy a hard time.

I think Bit Rot is pretty catchy.
> Anyway, YCombinator isn't the only option

For sure. But if you did get accepted then...

> Unless there's something REALLY special about your circumstances, you almost certainly couldn't

I'm not sure I'd go that far. I'm not a layer, and I'm not encouraging any sort of illegal activity, but the visa waiver program might (at a push) be ok for something like YC. Anyone tried? I worked for a firm in the UK that sent me to the US to conduct 'internal meetings' once or twice before I got an L1 visa. I never dug into the detail of exactly what is allowed, but they seemed confident that using the visa waiver program in that way was ok. The YC term might require a trip to Canada. A lawyer in the back pocket might not be a bad idea either..