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Heroku Support Request #76070

To whom it may concern,

We are long time users of Heroku and are big fans of the service. Heroku allows us to focus on application development. We recently read an article on HN entitled 'Heroku's Ugly Secret' http://s831.us/11IIoMF

We have noticed similar behavior, namely increasing dynos does not provide performance increases we would expect. We continue to see wildly different performance responses across different requests that New Relic metrics and internal instrumentation can not explain.

We would like the following:

1. A response from Heroku regarding the analysis done in the article, and
2. Heroku-supplied persistant logs that include information how long requests are queued for processing by the dynos

Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide into this situation and keep up the good work.
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The drop from 90 to 45 is shown in Tesla's own graph.
I had a high tax bill due to non-realized gains...

Do you mind elaborating? I was under the impression that capital gains aren't taxed until they're realized, would love to hear when that's not the case.
Not what I meant at all. I just meant that in my experience, the counties listed have relatively low median disposable incomes, and are generally not inclined to pay for web products.
Nope. They lost because, even if some viewers did interpret it as a serious factual review with no dramatized elements, Tesla Motors still couldn't come up with any plausible justification for why those viewers would be mislead in a way that would actually harm Tesla even slightly.

(English libel law doesn't work the same way as US libel law; IIRC, if you can show that a reasonable viewer could have interpreted the broadcast in a way that's both defamatory and false, then that's libel even if the broadcaster never intended it to be understood that way and even if all or nearly all viewers interpreted it correctly.)
It's flawed over all space and time, yes, but it's true in a recession when total economic output (or at least, total economic output as available to the bottom 99% of the population) is shrinking.
Here is my version of a Markdown converter:

http://markitdown.medusis.com/

Converts any rich text to Markdown (vanilla Markdown, but selectable).
Thanks Steve, interesting stuff. It feels like revision-on-save is a significant limitation; I wonder if they have plans to tackle this in future.
In sense larrys is right, but your observations is correct as well, at any given time there is only so much wealth in a society and the division of that wealth will happen any way you assemble it. But to your point, there are periods of innovation that create new and novel wealth that expands the pool for everybody. But after that innovation period is over, consolidation and efforts to streamline happen. IBM is in that streamlining period in portions of their business while in others (Watson for example) they are very much in the innovation phase.
Eh. My car is thermostat controlled, and I often adjust the temperature because the vents are close enough to me that it can become uncomfortable. The size of a car makes it a little different than setting a thermostat in your house.
(1) Guilty as charged. How would one go about learning the environment of the VA?

(3) I found some web services they set up for scheduling, but with minimal functionality. And from the specs it looks like new data structures would be required, and I'd think those would have to go in VistA rather than being held in some external database. Is that incorrect?
> They post images, graphs, logs, maps, and more. I'm incredibly surprised at how well they're defending themselves against dishonest reviews - for example, I'd never have thought to log the changes to the cabin temperature, but apparently they've done so and more!

> After a negative experience several years ago with Top Gear, a popular automotive show, where they pretended that our car ran out of energy and had to be pushed back to the garage, we always carefully data log media drives.

Off-topic, but I'm curious whether they log this data for all cars, and whether this data is available to the driver (even if they need to work a bit to get it or ask for it)
Ask HN: Being a learner as a freelancer?
After 13 years of professional activity in IT covering multiple areas (sysadmin, data management, programming, project management) I went back to university to get a Master in CS. It was one of my best decisions! Now, the end of my studies is nearing, and I would like to continue learning in my professional activities as freelancer/self-employed. The problem is, a freelancer is called for his expertise, and not for letting him learn new stuff from the company's employees.

What is great at university is that you learn from people who really know their stuff, and that's what I'll miss most. I've always learn
t by myself, but now I would enjoy learning from others, also in my professional environment.

I understand that could not be realistic, but in that case, do you have tips or suggestions?

Edit: shortened text
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Today WordPress powers one of every 6 websites on the Internet, nearly 60 million in all, with 100,000 more popping up each day.

But have you ever taken time to think about how it manages content from a design and a Client perspective?

Let’s think about the WordPress Admin – is it focused on its users; is it easy to use; is it breathtaking? I think we’ll all agree that it could use some work in these areas.

Some of these issues are related to the Client experience, and some are related to our design process. All these problems are related in one way or another to user experience. Before we dive into the problems of WordPress, please understand that I’m not suggesting that we need to throw WordPress away and develop a radically different CMS. Nor am I necessarily suggesting that these problems should be fixed and embedded into the next core version of WordPress.

What I am suggesting is that we as developers, designers, programmers, (really) “Solutions Managers” need to look at these problems and develop a creative solution for them. So read on, and put your creative hat on – you’ll need it!
oh, logs, we all love you :) I only hope owner can control retention and delete these logs if desired.
Absolutely - although note that, at certain historical time periods, the command and control situation was closer to the current one than the WWI situation. The early 20th century was just a period when weapons ranges and (off-battlefield) transportation speeds had gone up immensely, increasing the effective size of a battlefield from practical shouting/runner range, while battlefield communication still hadn't caught up. On the other hand, there are clear examples of maneuver warfare in ancient times, involving tiny (by modern standards) amounts of space and force.
Congratulations on this gem. This is a need that was not filled. I had thought about this, but our requirements changed.

BTW, the text does not scale up. And anyone have the name of the website that reformats a page with good CSS, just for future reference.
I believe the Windows 8 certification _requires_ that the user be able to disable secure boot on x86.
Again, "a lot" is a statement that is only true in context. And particularly given that Oil's ability to employ is completely dependent upon geological formations that no-one has any control over, it's disingenuous to try to generalize it beyond the context where it's true.
Yes, my main problem is having to give a 2 months notice at work. I'll try find employers (or clients) that are comfortable with that.

Thanks again
The summary isn't much more than common sense from people who understand technology and the web enough to tell the good from the bad, as opposed to the majority of people (from all walks of life). This is happening today largely through internet freedom activism and the like, as spotlighted recently.

I'd think for something to be labeled a next great counterculture it would have to go further, as in a neo neo-Luddite movement, possibly shunning consumerism altogether and having this weird duality of knowing a great deal about technology yet living with as few of it as possible. Though of course it would soon gobble up masses of hipsters following it, with no idea whatsoever of why they're doing so.
User interface bug in iOS 6.1 allows to bypass the PIN [finnish video]
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> When we are guests in someone else's home, seems only fair that we honor their requests. Asking you to simply create an account shouldn't be such a massive chore.

Or we can choose not to enter at all. They aren't asking us to just create an account, but to download an android/iphone App.
Gee, I never hear that every single time the word "RESTful" is uttered.
That article was one big euphemism, and I am no closer to knowing what a "Kill Chain" is or how it could stop an attack than I was 30 minutes ago.
I can't stand the Harlem Shake but I love this.
"Currently a technique called "ReLEx SMILE" is touted as the "best" laser surgery around here"

Interesting, what is it based on?

The University of Washington seems to offer LASEK (not LASIK) as the best modern technology.
Now that's an interesting idea: developer preferences for extensibility mechanisms in libraries. Anyone know of example libraries shipping with that capability?
You can see the workings of Heinz factories here (the video also corroborates the existence of restaurant ketchup inspectors):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz6FudM0zKk

They have full-time tasters who are amongst the only 8 people to know the full recipe.
Funnily enough, going further in stop-and-go urban traffic than on the highway doesn't violate the conservation of energy either. (Also, remember you can't just go arbitrarily slowly on the highway - that's unsafe and a lot of places ticket people for it.)
I don't expect an immediate response; I would have been happy with just: "This is Heroku's CEO. I'm on it."

But a link, that doesn't point anywhere useful, introduced by a PR phrase that sounds a little like "Your call is important to us", was a little annoying, esp. after reading the OP where they say they have contacted Heroku multiple times on this issue.
Seems like a nice article, though I have 2 nits:

1) I'd have liked if you would have dived into those cases where you do actually flush the CPU cache. I've run into this maybe once or twice in my entire career, and this was while doing MIPS kernel drivers. I'm guessing it would be cool for the audience to understand what shenanigans are needed to actually require it, particularly as more people will be transitioning from x86 to ARM.

2) You are ascribing meaning to volatile which it absolutely does not have (in C/C++). You really should be going deeper into read/store memory barriers. Using volatile in the hope that this allows you to do some kind of synchronization is misguided.
If your daily drives are three hours, I'm concerned for you.
Are you looking to start India China War here?
Just kidding.

I think cheaper is correct but not necessarily more qualified.
India has lots and lots people in IT Software (my guess much more than China), quality ranges, so you have lot more to filter from.
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Prefixes need to move away from vendor names and towards signature code names. If Gecko and WebKit both support the same signature, it should be one line of code to call that function in both browsers.

-bananaPageStyle: 2up, turn;
-pineapplePageStyle: turn, 2;

I don't care which browser you have so long as it understands the syntax for the beta feature I want to use.

This also addresses the fear of a WebKit monoculture on mobile. If Firefox implements the same signature, it will behave correctly on WebKit first pages without doing something silly like changing its prefix to webKit.
I have no issue with quora wanting you to sign up to use their site but to allow their pages to be indexed by search engines and then hide content on those pages to humans unless they sign up (with their "real name') is ridiculous. With $61 million, you would think that they could hire someone to tell them that this is a bad idea.

I too have been trained to avoid quora search results.
The notion was that a pattern of articles that tend to support the same group should raise our estimate of a bias in favor of that group.

All of them could be perfectly accurate, incidentally - consider a journalist who investigates 100 stories for every one he publishes and only publishes those that are favorable; while none of the articles would contain actual falsehoods, clearly this is a bias.

Whether that's the case here is a much deeper question that I can't answer from my extremely limited skimming of the available media and this thread.
Here's my version of this article: http://floatsolutions.com/blog/2010/05/my-history-of-persona...
In reading the article and thinking back to being a kid who'd create free-trial Juno accounts and dig through drawers to find the Post-It notes that my parents' AOL accounts' passwords were on just to spend hours talking to strangers on the internet because it was exciting, I have to agree with the notion that this software rubs me the wrong way.

This is an issue of parenting; you can't just turn on an app and expect it to do your job for you. Kids won't be dumb if you treat them with respect and show them what can happen if they don't keep their eyes peeled.

Like the ridiculousness of the Dateline conversations, it was always very obvious when someone was creeping on me and it only took one click to block them. Allowing my already-fearful and ignorant parents to read random snippets of messages I was sending and receiving - particularly because a lot of our ASL?? comments were jokes to begin with - is a violation of my privacy and trust. Growing up in an environment like that would have completely shifted not only the way I use the internet today (especially if they'd gone ahead with their plans to implement it in social sites for kids), but would have affected my relationship with my parents in ways that would have left me hesitant to be myself at all.

Worse, when my cousins reached those ages at around the time this company was starting, social mediums had progressed and their problem wasn't talking to people online; it was posting very promiscuous photos and embarrassing YouTube videos showing the inside and outside of their homes and not putting any privacy barriers up. Those are much bigger concerns to me than knowing how to deal with stranger danger in text communications.
Even a cursory Google search shows how false your assumptions are. There were many external factors which regular North Korean citizens had no control over. Most accounts of the 'origin' of North Korea involve to some degree the proxy war between USSR and USA in the aftermath of the Japanese invasion in Asia. I doubt very much that "regular" North Koreans had any say in how some foreign governments decided to divide up and control their land. Follow that up with a great deal of propaganda, and you have a massively uninformed (or misinformed) citizenry controlled by the state.
Here's a gist of our unicorn.rb config (https://gist.github.com/apangeajwrubel/4953849)
Using env variables lets us adjust parameters without a code push (still requires a restart). We saw dramatic reduction in 'long tail' requests when we dropped the backlog to 25. We're experimenting now (thanks to @scottshea) with even lower values. At some point the routing mesh will give up retrying and throw an H21 (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/error-codes#h21-backen...). One data point that would be useful from heroku is how many retries we get.
VWs can do a thing where the windows open if you hold the lock key down - fortunately this can be turned off in the cars configuration settings for people who live in rainy countries!
I'd rather just not visit their site at all. It's a big Internet.
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Sure you are.
It stops attacks using intelligent measures!
That seems like a lot of speculation to me. Other reviewers have given the Tesla S a positive review and have not been destroyed by the oil industry so why should this guy be any different? There seems to be a lot of he said/she said going on and a lot of speculation, but not a lot of demonstrable facts.
Just checked my site and no ads so I'm not sure. Perhaps they are a/b testing this?
This guy was eventually adopted by a US family:
http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com/2013-01-adopted.htm
Somehow Ghostery saw this coming a long time ago... it seems like anything running across multiple sites turns to advertising for revenue eventually!
I previously left a nostalgic list of the computers I owned on a HN comment last year - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4052679

One thing I didn't previously mention is that the first computer I saw & used was a Sinclair ZX-81. It was my best friends but he couldn't make head and tail of it. So when I visited he left it mainly for me to use and that started my addiction to programming :)
I don't know how the thermostat logic is designed, but thermostats generally have tolerances built so that the heat/AC isn't always turning on and off right around the set temperature point. So is it possible that the journalist turned down the thermostat, but this "woke up" the thermostat and made it react to the temperature sooner than it would have, and upon seeing it still to be colder than desired (even after the change, or maybe a millisecond before), start a heating cycle, before later correcting?
> He's built 20 companies and failed at 17 of them.

This is oddly inspiring :)
I found that interesting in the other direction. Elon Musk originally claimed it was a "long detour." When Broder pushed back, the "long detour" claim went away; now it's just a "unplanned detour" through Manhattan.
I too have left ORM-land (in C#). I found that the first two of your points are absolutely true. I've also found that if you know how to code a clean, well-factored data access layer then it doesn't necessarily even take a whole lot longer than wiring up an ORM does for non-trivial cases.

I also found that using the ORM was having a detrimental impact on performance and scalability in a subtle way that had nothing to do with the ORM itself: It's that I got used to operating so far from the database layer that I wasn't really aware of what was going on down there. Last time I did a conversion of a project away from ORM, the number of forehead-slapping moments when I noticed a simple way to improve an operation's performance by at least one order of magnitude was downright embarrassing.

That said, that's where I depart on the third point. I've also moved to using stored procedures for everything. I don't know if the situation is quite the same for MySQL users, but in Microsoft-land the amount of tooling SQL Server and SQL Server Management Studio provide to help with managing, analyzing, and refactoring SQL code is really pretty impressive. . . and if you divorce your SQL code from its native environment by demoting it to being nothing more than string resources that are subservient to the application code, you're letting go of a lot of those tools. Or at the very least, creating a lot of unnecessary friction when it comes to getting at them.

However, as a RAD kit I think ORMs are fantastic. They can, as the article highlights, do a lot to protect someone with limited skills in database work from getting themselves into trouble. But they're still just a RAD kit, and like any RAD kit they have their limitations.
Pushing a battery too far can affect its characteristics. What tradeoffs Tesla made in the protection circuitry (is it more important to protect the battery's lifespan or get you to your destination this time?) is interesting, but getting at it that way could well change the outcome of the current test if they've opted to stress the latter.
New Research Suggests Start-Up Experience Doesn't Help Social Entrepreneurs
Exactly like Top Gear set it up.

Face it, he's biased. Even if he made every effort to be honest in the review, in the end, he's true to himself and his own ideals.
Does anyone have a link to a site that's currently showing these adverts? I can't find any with ad's showing
A heartwarming story. I imagine they'll go on to make several highly efficient babies.
This is why I never even thought about using disqus.
No comments anymore in the blog, and old comments lost? Not good...
All these articles are a couple of years old now the impression I gathered from chmag is that this is an emerging trend yet, 2 years on, it's still largely unheard of. So I do wonder just how often infected machines (via user space) become subject to rootkits. I'd say it's likely quite a low ratio.

Which brings me back to my original point: the vast majority of attacks happen in user space.

However, I will concede that I assumed rootkits had pretty much died out entirely. And as security is about covering all bases (both high risks and low risks); I welcome your correction and consider myself better informed :)
Office photos (groupon, pinterest, airbnb, twilio, etc)
Uh oh. The title reeks of linkbait.

> I’ve never done anything that stands out. No “Whoa! This guy made it into outer space!” or, “This guy has a best selling novel!” or, “If only Google had thought of this!”

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel." (Steven Furtick), etc, etc

> I’ve started a bunch of companies. Sold some. Failed at most. I’ve invested in a bunch of startups. Sold some. Failed at some, and the jury is still sequestered on a few others.

Okay the title is really slipping here. Who wrote this?

Oh. James Altucher. That guy submits a lot of articles here. And that's okay. Some of them are pretty good! But being the goddamn prince of link-bait titles leaves me with a sour taste.

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jaltucher

"I Want My Kids to Be Drug Addicts", "How to Be An Effective Loser", "10 Reasons I'm Giving Up On Having Opinions" (the jokes on us there.), etc, etc

Anyway, back to the article. The problem with articles like these is that they're 2 parts enjoyable read, 7 parts snark and 1 part decent advice. It's not a bad article, but I'm certain you could get the same information across with just as much amusement while still toning down the Malcolm-Gladwell-esque linkbait-snark machine.

A few things that stood out to me:

> Procrastination could also be a strong sign that you’re a perfectionist, or that you’re filled with shame issues. This will block you from building and selling your business. Examine your procrastination from every side. It’s your body trying to tell you something. Listen to it.

I think that bears repeating as worthwhile, sincere advice.

> Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.

My Bosnian sculpture teacher always said the exact opposite. Once most artists tend to "make it" and live very comfortably, they tend to stop producing as much. When times are tough, when their mind is filled with desperation, is when they tend to make their greatest pieces, he'd say. I have no idea if this is true or not, but it's always made me wonder. Certainly, for me doing programming and writing, I need to be clear-headed and emotionally unperturbed, etc, but maybe its different per person or discipline.
To elaborate, I'm looking for something that provides a landing page, user signup, stripe integration would be nice, and an api that I can hook into. I'd pay for that. I don't want to mess with all that other stuff. I just want to focus on my app.
You do understand that NYT made previously a statement for unconditionally supporting their journalist, although Tesla promised contradicting evidences?