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They contacted the company after being shut down. Not before, when it should have been pretty clear to them how many resources they were using. There's a simple indicator in the dashboard. "BANDWIDTH SAVED".

This line in the article "I tried to monetize it through ads some time ago, but failed. Advertising-Networks don't want us as a customer, but I'm fine with that." was not conclusive that monetization failed via other means. Not a user of the site, but at first glance some choice links to pr0n affiliate sites would do the trick.

Throwaway ey... hmmm.
I have done some scraping of the amazon.com previously, but they are pretty good at detecting bot's and shutting them down, how did you get around this problem when scraping millions of pages?
yeah because creating a closed fork of an open source project is really popular.
Show HN: SXSW RSVP Concierge
Every year people ask me which events they should go to at SXSW and how to get the most out of the craziness. I am so burned out by SXSW this year that I'm not even sure I'll be going, but that doesn't mean I can't tell you which events make the most sense depending on your interests.

http://www.sxswrsvp.com/

Would you use this service? Their are free options that just RSVP you for everything, but that isn't what we're going for here. Would you pay to have a curated list of events selected, RSVP'd for you, and a lovely itinerary emailed to you? Looking forward to hearing what you think.
'tis true :/
A quick google turned up this: http://www.1up.com/news/shock-awe-gabe-newell-doesn

Soo... there's still a lot of console fanboyism going around even now about this generation, and it's hard to be objective about the hardware without getting yelled down by people shrieking "Cell! Cell! Cell!", but, based on the games that have come out, how they compare with the XBox 360, the hype, and all the breakdowns I've read about how the internals of the PS3 work, basically Gaben here is all but objectively correct. The PS3 is a very poorly balanced machine; it is full of bits and pieces that have a lot of power, but it's virtually impossible to actually hook them all up to each other and have them all firing at full power at the same time. All the powerful parts are crippled by lack of bandwidth to move data in or out of them.

None of this looks like bitterness or permanent anger, so if Sony builds a better-engineering PS4, with a focus on real performance over benchmarks and marketing hype, there's nothing in that rant that would preclude working with them. I hope Sony has people internally who understand the PS3 to be less than the sparkling gem of design that the marketing department wanted people to think it was.
This is a cool version. If the simple English was changed a little and the illustrations swapped for watercolor, this bone chilling tale could be packaged as a sort of pseudo-childrens book.
wasn't that the goal of webOS ?
They've considered it as being released since they launched the Dota 2 store.
Perhaps easy deployments are not worth the performance and blackbox trade-off. An alternative approach is a cloud infrastructure provider with baremetal and virtual servers on L2 broadcast domain, and one that provides a good API and orchestration framework so that you can easily automate your deployments. Here are some things we at NephoScale suggest you consider when choosing an infrastructure provider: http://www.slideshare.net/nephoscale/choosing-the-right-infr...
Thanks, I'm glad you like these.

I was deeply influenced by the writings of Daniel Ingram. I encountered his book shortly after my first set of experiences, and the experiences were not like anything I had read about or assumed. Despite the controversy around his books, he has a framework I find useful.

He introduced the notion of a "concentration object", and I realized you can use anything as a concentration object. Since a lot of people are out of touch with the senses, it is better to use a physical sense as the concentration object -- breathing, candle, etc. at least until you realized enough insights to go straight to just being.

However, you can also use concentration objects that are constructed. They come and go anyways, so why wouldn't you use something that is not there? I have a wide network of acquaintances with people practicing all sorts of traditions, and I can render what they do in these terms. There is a whole class of practices where you create the concentration object and the concentrate on it. For example: a Buddhist mandala or pathworking the Sephiroth in Kabbalah.

Where I find it useful in coding has more to do with the concentration skills gained from one-point concentration. So that is not strictly vipassana.

However, more importantly, it has allowed me to consider code on its own merits instead of reacting to my Jungian shadows or to other Jungian shadows. There's a tendency for nerds and geeks to get emotional about their code, even defend it, and yet they will not admit to the emotions that run amok. Look in any thread about "What is the best programming language?" and you'll see it.

Another useful thing is that ... knowing things come and go, that there is always an ending to anything that begins, means it is easier to let go of code. You don't get attached to code, so you have attachments to keeping it around. Leaving commented out code. Or diving back in and refactoring. Or recognizing when you are about go yak shaving, and no, that neat feature you did really isn't that important.

Finally, as your awareness broadens, you really start thinking about just what kind of impact your code is making. Not in the social activist sense so much as one deeply informed by the realization you've gained on the cushion. Do you really want to be working on another social network for cats?

Hope that helps, maybe provide some interesting things to explore :-)
Before 9/11, all plane hijackings in America were a matter of a hostage scenario with some money. The safe thing was to let the hijackers do their thing.

Now that we know that the hijackers maybe be terrorists who want to use the plane as a weapon-- the American people will resist.

Flight 93 hijackers had box cutters. I'd be happy to go toe-to-toe against a guy with a box cutter.
You're Too Smart For Your Own Good
Who doesn't love MUMPS?
Somehow I feel that a more accurate title would have been, "Fail to meet agreed terms, screw yourself".
Essentially, on 9/11, the US total death rate doubled for a day. From a statistical point of view, a minor blip.
CryEngine 3 vs Unreal Engine 4
I don't think so, it works fine for me.
I believe it also serves as a public works program of sorts. 50,000 decently paying jobs with great benefits and plenty of opportunities to steal passenger's possessions for people who, quite frankly, aren't qualified to do much else.
I completely agree with the article.

Apps are just fancy web bookmarks with some advanced abilities (interruptions, native code, state). I prefer to have as little apps as I can get away, so anything that can be viewed in a browser, I view in a browser.

I just want to know if you can get around this forced solution by picking "Request Desktop Site" in Chrome for iOS?
The title is a bit disingenuous, but the story is worth reading. Thanks for taking the time to write and share, Jason.
This is a good place to use alsfkj@example.com

With example.com (which cannot be registered) you know you are not potentially smacking around the domain of a poor company
Worse than that:

* 89/100 requests failed (according to
https://gist.github.com/a-warner/c8cc02565dc214d5f77d ).
* Heroku times out requests after 30 seconds, so the 30000ms
numbers may be timeouts (I've forgotten if *ab* includes
those in the summary).
* That said, the *ab* stats could be biased by using overly
large concurrency settings (not probably if you're running 50 dynos...),
but still...

But still WTF. 89/100 requests failed? That's not happy-making.

Uncertainty is DiaI (death-in-an-infrastructure). I just created a couple of projects on Heroku and love the service, but this needs to be addressed ASAP (even if addressing it is just a blog post).

Also, if you have fewest-connections available, I've never understood using round-robin or random algorithms for load-balancers...
You don't have to go offshore. The same thing happened to me. What you need to do is get an accountant or get a copy of Turbotax for that year. Then you enter in all your info and make sure you fill out Schedule D. They'll give you the person's (examiner) name on their letter. I filled out a new tax form, and sent the letter below to the IRS. A few weeks later, they said "Thanks for the info, and we'll contact you if we need anything else." That was a few years ago. Haven't heard anything since.

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Dear Examiner:

I have attached a Schedule D form, which I did not include in my 2009 tax return. According to the CP 2000 letter, the securities income reported to the IRS was $xx,xxx. But this was using a zero cost basis for stocks sold. The schedule D form I have included provides the cost basis for all stocks sold. The final total for the Schedule D shows a net loss of $xx.

Sincerely,

xxxxx
When discussing timeframes, it's important to keep the moving goalposts in mind.

Back in 2009 it took order of 16 months to write a competitive JIT. But today's JITs are a good bit faster than they were in 2009, which means more special cases that need to be considered and made fast, from what I've seen of JIT development.

I should also note that I included QA resources of various sorts in my team size estimate....
This was posted an hour ago and still no one has released a bookmarklet to circumvent? Come on HN!
You are right. I think I prefer reST because it produces documents. It's not a quick way to add markup, it's a quick way to structure a document (and provide links, sections, inline code etc).
Win/Win. For them.
I'm sure it's because the idea of heroku is so great.
Thanks for the tip, I just filed a report.
North Korea has been working at it for a longer period of time?
Has anybody here using Meteor for something serious? I am aware that tmeasday is writing a book about it here http://themeteorbook.com/ and it was discussed on HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5179828, but would like to know if Meteor is being used for something real at the moment.

There is also Derby, which I am also looking into.

I am starting a new real-time project, and I need to decide what framework to use :)
Don't Kill the Viber App
Its all pointless, unless they scrap the legacy crap build a new system piecemeal. It is the legacy crap that has the current system snafu. I'm a vet and I can tell you this is a waste of yours and my time without a total solution that asses the system as it exists now, throws away what sucks and is broken, and build anew.
How did he know to escape to China? How did he know how to get there? I'm genuinely curious.
I would like to join in stephth's inquiry. I have no experience with anything intense like vipassana, but I used to meditate regularly, and eventually made some progress in the way of walking meditation and the like. When I write code however, the focus is on "holding" the right thoughts until I solve the problem, at which point most of those thoughts get flushed. But in many ways it is as if these thoughts are holding on to me! It is more of a reactive process then a contemplative one. Of course, this is just my experience. Perhaps you have a different experience when writing code, or are talking about a different kind of mindfulness.
Yup, "of other people".

Remember that the median number of flights taken by an American in a year is zero.

Millions of armchair patriots are perfectly happy to sacrifice someone else's convenience for the edifying notion that we're beatin' them terr'ists. The war on terror they see is a far-off unreal spectator sport, not daily personal violations of human and constitutional rights.
Why would TPB settle? They make more than enough money from porn ads and autoplaying popunders. I'd think they'd relish the publicity and would love to get an actual judgement.
I work on New Relic's ruby agent, and you're right (hey Justin). In fact we support both methods (i.e. passing a timestamp or a duration). We rely on the front end server (e.g. nginx, apache) to set a timestamp in an HTTP header and forward that to the ruby application. In the case of heroku there is a special header that they pass which describes the queuing duration. Because we're in the ruby application we don't have control over whether this timestamp is accurate but I'm very interested in ideas on how we could do a better job in this situation.

We do provide javascript based browser instrumentation ("Real User Monitoring") which measures request time from the browser's perspective. This might give you a more accurate idea of what real users are experiencing in this case.
Congratulations, you've justified a world where everyone is a hostage to the aggrieved. How do you think that will work out for the not-rich / not-strong / not-smart / not-popular?
There is something interesting in the Taoist canon, though I imagine many teachers in other traditions know of this.

People don't know why they should be practicing mindfulness. And then for whatever reason they gain insight -- be that practice, or ritual, or psychedelics -- they get it. A lot of things open up. There's a whole layer of meaning in textual traditions that opens up, and you realize a lot of people have been trying to say the same things. And you wonder how you missed it?

And then you want to go back. Now you jump into the practice diligently, to try to get back to that peak experience. The thing is, peak experiences are just that. Like all things, they come and go.

Coming through the psychedelics, it is easy to spend a lot of time taking hit after hit to get back to that peak experience. It was part of why people who have not been initiated into this fear it. They see people drifting out from the real world, and these people then say crazy things like, "well, reality is much bigger than you think."

The thing is, this happens in any mystical traditions. Someone who realized these insights while sitting on a cushion starts become uninterested in anything but sitting on that cushion.

Which is ironic because all of this is about experiencing reality, not escaping from it. That is another reason I pointed out the connection with vipassana. The point is to experience reality, something that seems counterintuitive when people talk about psychedelics.

Usually, you have a sangha -- people who are cultivating with you, whatever the modality -- helps you stay grounded.

Generally speaking, once you had some psychedelic experience, you'd find meditating much easier. It's the journey, not the destination. Of course :-)
Hyped Products that Have Flopped in Recent Memory
eBay is not exactly a poor company (current owners of x.com for some completely bizarre reason)
Yes, it is very hard to do it at scale, but so what?
I mean, isn't the whole premise of their company to do intelligent things at scale so you don't have to?

It's not an insurmountable problem by any measure, and it's definitely worth it.
I hate when they say "Log in to read the answers".
Read The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg.

You'll find the answer.

You'll know willpower is really overrated.

You can't motivate yourself to accomplish a thing, but building a solid system around [your achievement] will do the course.
At least EE had the funny mis-pronunciation -- "expert sex change" going for it.
As an expat living in Asia, I have known people like this.

It's a good life :)
What about the dildo-shaped scissors?

These designs are just too complicated for the size that they will be viewed at IMO.
The title is misleading, immature and in poor taste. If HN moderators had a clue, they would edit it.
> Soon we can get rid of the standards committee and just talk to the implementers of webkit to define the "standard".

Your comment in 1995: Soon we can get rid of the standards committee and just talk to the implementers of Netscape to define the "standard".

And in 2001: Soon we can get rid of the standards committee and just talk to the implementers of IE to define the "standard".

And in 2006: Soon we can get rid of the standards committee and just talk to the implementers of Firefox to define the "standard".

...and for more comparison:

Your comment in the late 70's on computers: Soon we can get rid of the hobbyists and just talk to Apple to define "standard".

And in 1996: Soon we can get rid of Apple and just talk to the creators of the PC to define the "standard".

And in 2010: Soon we can get rid of the PC and just talk to the creators of the iPad to define the "standard".

Just sayin'
It was before.

http://success.heroku.com/rapgenius
Sounds like jQuery could benefit from committing their own fixes to WebKit rather than working around them. If the bug Opera fixed really was just one line then why did they have to wait for Opera to do it?
I have the same frustrations as other people regarding the choices Quora has made regarding its platform.

However, I have also found a lot of high quality answers to some very interesting questions on the site. It has some really good content once you get inside.
I'm late for some sitting with friends -- I'll respond to this when I get back later tonight. I think what you brought up is worth exploring.
It's really interesting to get the opinion of a jQuery core contributor on this whole thing. I can't imagine very many people are in a better position to comment on the state of current WebKit bugs than the folks writing the most popular DOM/AJAX library on the web.
The laid off people can keep allocating themselves however they want. They just will discontinue receiving a salary.
> But still WTF. 89/100 requests failed? That's not happy-making.

Unless something has changed recently, ab doesn't handle dynamic pages very well. It takes the first pageload as a baseline, and any subsequent request with any portion of the page that is randomized, or is a CSRF token, or reflects most recent changes, etc., is marked as "failed" because it doesn't match the baseline's length.

The page in question does have a block in the footer reflecting "hot songs", which I'm guessing changed a bit during the run.
I don't see any facts supporting your assertion that the countries will spontaneously collapse due to the size or spending of their governments... What I do see are a long list of countries with higher tax rates, budget surpluses or much smaller deficits than the USA, and much higher ranked healthcare systems (You point at Greece, I will point at Germany, Norway and Sweden. Let's just get that out of the way).

Let's leave it at this, I am not going to say that a public healthcare system (or a single payer system) is the only right way of doing things. What I will say is there are a lot of other countries out there that are able to provide a better health care system through that route while still remaining financially stable.

Maybe that is just not something that is in the cards for the USA though, maybe the trade off is that you have lower taxes, but a lower life expectancy if you are not wealthy.

I certainly am not going to pretend to know all the answers, but I do think refusing to learn from other countries because they are not doing it the "American" way (read: with a free market) would be a silly reason to accept having one of the worst healthcare systems in the first world.
You made my day :)

It reminds me I have to build some feed with published comics :)
Regarding #2, to register as a module you just need something like this:

https://github.com/umdjs/umd/blob/master/amdWeb.js
The only time I've been through a body scanner is in Australia. Just recently returned to the US through Melbourne airport where I had a 'wtf' moment when I saw the scanner. I was selected (about 25% of the people went through it, I'd guess) and when I said I'd rather have a pat down - as I do in the US - they told me that if I refuse, I would be escorted out of the airport and banned from returning for 24 hours.

I argued for a little bit but eventually had no choice, not really being able to miss the flight.

The old system with metal detectors and xray screening of luggage was more civilised, imo.

Things have really changed, ... When I was a child I used to fly from Devonport (a small city) to Melbourne a lot. In those days, you didn't even go through security to get onto the plane in Devonport - they put you through security after you disembarked in Melbourne!
As an old teacher of mine used to often say, "Check's in the mail. Love you in the morning."
Because the premise is a good one, abstracting away some of the lower level details so people can just worry about building their apps. It has always been a tough abstraction to pull off though. It is possible the answer is simply that rap genius has outgrown heroku, in the same way as twitter outgrowing rails it doesn't make it a bad tool for everyone.
There aren't enough air marshals to place one on all domestic flights. The cost would also be astounding and unsustainable.
http://www.utsalumni.org/news/how-one-man-escaped-from-a-nor...

Another version that explains more.

SPOILER: Park told him about China. He didn't know how to get there.
That doesn't stop their need to work around the bugs in the existing version. It's easier for the jQuery maintainers to work around a Webkit bug than to submit a patch and hope that it gets applied in the next few years.

EDIT: I misread the article on how the bug was actually handled, and that it was fixed five years after it was reported, not that it took five years to apply the patch. However, it still is easier for the library maintainers to use a workaround than to patch the browser itself, especially when legacy versions still need to be supported.
Hey folks, thanks for all your great comments and watch out for v0.2 :)
HP to embrace Android for its tablets, pretend WebOS never happened
Malware evolving to defeat anti-DDoS services like CloudFlare?
Show HN: We're a group of HS students going to NYC to learn about startups.
Should sell yours to this guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5216938
Looks at profile... must know what he is talking about.

That's fantastic. In the future though, a physical switch seems like a good idea.
Yeah, that is also a good way to get your phone confiscated at the border in the US ...
The real problem with patent trolls is that this entire spectacle is completely out of the public's eye. Outside of business/startup circles, the concept of a patent troll is completely foreign. It would be amazing if Vice or someone of the like did a documentary on this modern day mafia to educate the public on this new form of crime.

Once the public is actually conscious that this issue exists, congress would be pressured to act in order to keep their voters happy.
I know. I went to Barnes and Noble in Baltimore and was directed to a bottom corner of a small section near the magazines. 'We don't have much' was the answer when I enquired. One book on arduinos and no others on hardware or engineering at that level. The section on math next to it wasn't much more varied either.
I was thinking the same thing. And 200ms for what exactly? To me the elephant in the room is that 99 server instances are spun up to handle 15M uniques per month.
I think I would use the word "excuse" in place of "justify".
We moved our Twilio app off Heroku for the same reasons. Extensive optimizations and we would still get timeouts on Twilio callbacks.

The routing dynamics should be explained better in Heroku's documentation. From an engineering perspective, they're a very important piece of information to understand.

We're with https://bluebox.net now and are very happy.
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