skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes you don't have control over a subscription (semi-spam), other times it makes sense to at least have them archived "just in case".

The bottom line is: I have decided that whenever I run into a "this is wasting my time" situation, there is a single action (that takes seconds to complete) to solve it.

Also - Trying to compete with professional people trying to get my attention is a losing game - I just filter and they never find out they won part of the arms race.
Fair enough... You could say it wasn't very thoughtful of the presenter, probably distasteful even, but in my opinion there's a whole world between bad taste and sexism. I honestly don't understand why anyone would get worked up over something like that.
One could have enough money in the time of Lincoln
I assume he is referring to Basecamp Classic Mobile [1]. Reading the post, it seems they thought HTML5 was the "way to go" because they had more experience with the technology, not for any particular technological reasons.

[1] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2761-launch-basecamp-mobile
There is enough of a difference that when I decided to test with Bing and then Duck Duck Go (Fuck that name is complicated to type) for 2 weeks each I was missing Google's MUCH better results for the same queries. In the Bing it on challenge for example, Google wins 5 out of 5 for me.
For me the performance of Linode isn't the greatest factor, the greatest factor (and the reason I spend ~$300/m with them when I could get the 10 servers for 1/5th the price elsewhere) is that support is second to none. I have never experienced better support than I have with Linode. If I have a problem and submit a ticket (which is rare) it's answered within a few minutes, if there's a network or hardware issue they open a ticket with me before I've even noticed. No other provider I've used has ever had that quality of service.
It's also been shown that when they do ask for higher salaries or raises, they are perceived in a negative light whereas men who do so are perceived in a positive light.

So they don't ask because if they did it would harm them.
> increase natural population growth

A booty call app seems like a terrible place to promote parenting.
I wish they just put more effort into making their web interfaces more responsive. Trying to use Campfire from the browser on my Galaxy Nexus is nearly impossible.
I recently switched from Linode to a dedicated server from Hetzner as I found I could get better specs for only a few quid more / month (than Linodes 1GB package).

Linode was a great provider, but now I can manage my own VMs using Xen myself.
This line from the article was interesting: "And he does not think much of Benedict's tweets in Latin - 'the last one was a real case of messing up Latin word order'." That's especially bad, because Latin tends to have freer word order than (for example) English in the first place.

In my university days, I had a girlfriend who was studying German and Latin (to become a secondary school teacher in those two subjects). My wife I won over with the much more practical modern language Chinese. Incidental study of Latin is useful to native speakers of Romance languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and the like) to understand the origin of their native language, and somewhat less useful to speakers of most languages spoken in Europe, whether Indo-European languages or not, to understand the sources of much of their vocabulary. (Concentrated study of the sources of vocabularly of modern languages through study of word roots

http://www.amazon.com/English-Words-Latin-Greek-Elements/dp/...

http://www.amazon.com/English-Vocabulary-Elements-Keith-Denn...

is very helpful, but that doesn't require learning Latin as a language as such.)

As long as there are great landmarks in Western writing like Newton's Principia available in original Latin editions, there will always be a reward for learning Latin. But with many languages to learn to speak to many people, Latin will not be in first place as the language to learn next for interesting live conversation.
No bank wants the perception...

It's even simpler than that: no bank, and more importantly, no insurance company which carries banks as clients, wants to defend or settle a lawsuit alleging wrongful death through negligence of a would-be hero bank employee. The predicted loss of a bank robbery is high four figures. A wrongful death lawsuit would cost six or seven figures. This suggests a simple strategy which works fine: invest in the low-hanging fruit for physical security, comply with robbers, and pay for robberies out of the petty cash.
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These are entertaining. New posts regularly.
Thanks so much for your advice -- much appreciated. I've pulled back out my copy of Learn You a Haskell and have just re-read the Haskell wikibook chapter on monads.
Here's a site comparing different types of plans. http://serverbear.com/
Your argument seems to be "It's common, so it must be moral". This is a silly reason to say a thing is OK.
To echo mrtrosen, Grove is here to stay:

https://grove.io/blog/grove-here-stay

Happy to help in any way if you're having trouble with it.
This is why analysts get paid the big bucks! To randomly speculate on deals that when confirmed make them look like they know what they are talking about but when nothing ever materializes it doesn't matter because no one is calling them out over it.
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Performance Benchmarks for what.. Are these Benchmarks for a Remote Server for Work.. Or is it as a Webserver..

Benchmark does not prove thing for Webserver other than Disk I/O is greater with Digital ocean. If Disk I/O was so critical then no one would go with AWS since they have got the worst of all.

Benchmarks need to prove a thing in its application, unless it does its waste of time.
This is a great read, it talks to me, I've run my computer business like this and it's certainly worked as well as some friends who have taken great jobs, and had them taken. At least my way I create my own failures, there is something satisfying in that even if it does not always result in a lavish lifestyle.
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Last I had to work on a video transcoder using ffmpeg, most codecs were not easily parallelized. That's what might have happened here, even though Linode has 4 cores, core vs core comparison it gets beaten.
My interest in learning Latin is to read Newton's Principia and Gauss' Disquisitiones in original form.
Doesnt seem like it? The miss-use of "To" in the HN title and in the article url is also hugely misleading when the actual title of the article is Google COULD pay Apple etc,etc
Despite the poignant quote, seeing Abraham Lincoln's face slowly coming towards me was uncomfortable.
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With Django in specific you can swap out a component. For example, if (like many people) you don't like the HTML template syntax, just swap it out for Jinja2 or Mako. In Django it is also usually easy to customize something minor by use of overrides (OOP).
My experiences with Linode have been excellent as far as support is concerned. That's just anecdotal and YMMV.

With that said, would you trust a $5/mo. VPS provider like DigitalOcean with "mission critical stuff"?
This was exactly the same problem when AirTime tried to use the Chat Roulette concept to create an app "to meet new people on your social graph".

Using FB connect killed all the fun in that. You can tell by the disclaimer they're now using on their landing page.
What's next after teacher evaluations?
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My thought exactly. Unless I'm misunderstanding, the only benchmark in which Linode came out in front was the Apache static page one and that was the closest of all the tests. Based on this DigitalOcean is a run-away winner which is a bit surprising.
> It's about "political" in the wider sense (that is "trying to be tactful", not to annoy various sides, etc).

No, that's a false etymology. The term "politically correct" in its modern usage came from leftist movements in the 70s to describe politics (not in the broad sense of "tact"). Think of it as a synonym for "ideologically sound". The civil rights movement was definitely about politics, not tact. The term "politically correct" was then appropriated by the same leftist movements and used sarcastically to parody themselves.

Afterwards, it entered the general lexicon.
Looks good. Shame there is no mention of Android at all.

The biggest thing I took away from this blog post was this.

"NOTE: Basecamp for iPhone requires an account on the new Basecamp (released March 2012). Basecamp Classic is not supported."

I wonder what % of users haven't switched over even after a year. I think this is a good lesson for anyone thinking about effectively launching a new product to replace one they already have.

The company I work for did a similar thing about 15 months ago. We still have about 10% of clients on the old system. We offered free upgrades to get everyone over but some didn't want it. New platform has now diverged sufficiently away from the old one that there is no direct upgrade path any more. This has effectively left 10% of clients stranded.

Looking back I think any replacement product needs to be 100% compatible and after x months clients are forced over. It causes some short term hassle and support costs but in the medium term really simplifies development work if old products are completely retired.
I might, actually. A huge part of the reason I own a VPS is precisely because I don't own a desktop, and having a persistent networked machine comes in handy often.
"(and for this case I am also including marijuana in that category)"

Really?

I've noticed weed makes a lot of people incurious and just sort of drift through things.
Google are paying Apple. If Google said "no", and Apple cared, Apple could still make Google the default. Then Google would look pretty silly for previously paying them.
i still act like i'm 5 all the time...i just bang on things until they work and then try and figure out what i banged on
Not having a fortran compiler isn't really a roadblock as you can use f2c to get C code, which is IIRC how we got CBLAS.
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I think this goes for the latest and most hyped where the communities could be small. A good middle ground would be well-established projects with a relatively big community and preferably strong industry ties. Usually projects over a certain size will survive by some faction of the community even if it's losing steam or something dramatic happens sort of like MySQL and MariaDB.
A new broom sweeps clean. Results even with VPS depend on who else is using the equipment and what they are doing.

Easy to spin up a machine with no usage and get great performance if there is nobody on it. That doesn't mean this data isn't correct of course but keep in mind the OP is making a comparison between 1 machine at Linode and 1 machine at Digital Ocean at a given point in time. Same equipment or different equipment at a later date could yield different results as the equipment gets filled up or depending on who else is using it. We had VPS's at Media Temple that would literally stall periodically for a few seconds. We then migrated to a different machine at a different data center and it hasn't happened since.
In the real world, just brake.

This is good advice for the common case of city and suburban driving, but very poor advice for mountainous terrain.

YMMV

(... sigh, couldn't resist that one)
One thing to note about those calculations is that, if you're using electric heating, the energy you used to mine would of being used to heat your home. So it's not so much of a cost.
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Ken Burns shot done creepily? I agree. It was kinda weird.
I've used that machine. There's an option for English.
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I am very curious also.

But man do people hate it when you're curious about their religion, politics or personal beliefs. Such a minefield ... don't "why" there unless you're ready to handle some very annoyed people.
We're not saying your thoughts & feelings are wrong, just that you shouldn't do it in professional contexts.

I find having a wank nice. Doesn't mean I should do it at a presentation.
DigitalOcean seems like they are worth a look
Good carpenters ship. Or at least they get wood.
I've had the same experience with Linode. They have great support.
Some automatic cars even put the parking brake on a pedal close to where the clutch is on manual. It's quite... surprising when you're used to drive stick.
There is no debate between skeuomorphism and flat design. There are people who think that there should be a debate and thus spend 5 pages spewing personal opinion, but in the world of business and making products there is no debate.

There is nothing wrong with either and both can be over done. The reality is you have to meet somewhere in the middle, and most importantly, you have to do user testing for your specific application. Reading every blog post ever written about skeuomorphism vs flat design isn't going to help you build a more usable product, or a product that sells for that matter.

And for god's sake there's no such thing as "visual realism". The Internet and mobile phone apps are "real". This is what skeuomorphism is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorphism . Anytime anyone feels compelled to define it, don't. Just link to the wikipedia page.

TLDR: Blowhards and drama drama drama.
"Unless the speculators are constantly buying from each other,"

I would wager that yes, that does account for quite a large volume of the daily exchange volumes.
I am unsure about the following suggestion (on naming your app):

> My suggestion would be to find a name that not only sounds good, but is also relatively explicit and contains a major keyword.

I have a fairly popular app out at the moment — it's name is simply a single word.

A lot of competing apps use the "Name - Some Keywords" format in their iTunes app name. I am hesitant to update my app to do the same because it feels tacky.

Does this actually help customers find your app? Has it been shown to produce a real difference in discovery?
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Your reply makes sense. I'd note also that running 4 parallel encoding jobs would expose the CPU difference.
Bummersauce, dude.
We just switched over to Digital Ocean and I'm very happy with it!
Doh. "Due to a high load that we are experiencing with Trial Accounts - we have temporarily disabled them." However email after signup tells: Your trial period will last 12 hours.
Those close to him think so. Larry Lessig called him his mentor (not mentee). Tim Berners-Lee said "we have lost an elder".
Advertising aimed for male gaze vs. advertising that attempts to sell to women are a bit different. For male gaze advertisement, women are reduced to an ownable sex object, typically parts of their face will be hidden or out of frame. You'll also see ads where the actual product is turned into a women or made to look like a women (for a media definition of a women looks like, in any case). Ads targeted towards women use other women to try and sell you the product so you can achieve what the ad represents the woman having.

In both cases, the ads are alienating. In male gaze ads women are explicitly not desired except as an object, so there's a very direct alienation there. For advertising selling to women, the ads serve to highlight elements that a women should have or is missing to in order to be the ideal, which is alienating as there is no such thing as an ideal women and everyone's needs are different.

I mentioned it earlier, but Killing Us Softly is a nice video lecture that covers a lot of this kind of material (this link is trailer only, I'm afraid): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTlmho_RovY
If you don't rev match then when you down shift your revs will be higher and as such you'll be fuelling again without having to touch the throttle with your foot.

This is not how modern fuel injected cars work. Fuel consumption is determined by the ECU and is directly proportional (but not linear) to the load required to fulfill the accelerator pedal or maintain idle RPM. When the wheels drive the engine, no fuel is consumed regardless of the RPM.
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That is the question. They are the new kids on the block. I plan on moving some less critical projects to DigitalOcean. I'll be monitoring uptime very closely.
> (top tip: it won't be)

You seriously think so? Casual sex has been a major use of Facebook for quite a long time. This particular approach may not catch on, but I guarantee you that some variation of this idea eventually will work.
Latinos? Having a Dan Quayle moment.
That was a little touch we put in at the end but can quite easily remove if people don't like it..
I've been evaluating them for the past 6 months or so and it's definitely one of the more stable cheap VPS providers out there. I believe they added a DNS manager a few months ago but I haven't used it as yet.
Yes, it is a compliment :) btw, if it is possible can you also show the link to the Chinese version?
I know this is only tangentially related, but this has always annoyed me in Windows. For example, "My Pictures" does not contain my pictures. My photos are in c:\photos.

And it gets worse with every Windows release. The standard file dialog in Windows 7 is absolutely ridiculous. There is a tree on the left, with absolutely worthless (to me) entries: Desktop, Favorites, Recent Places, My Photos, My Documents, etc., etc. The actual hard drive navigation is at the very bottom, and usually requires scrolling.

A sane navigation tree would just be a list of volumes.
Great post and full of truths
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Sorry we'll get that fixed asap D:!
>My personal question is: are DigitalOcean making a profit?

Yes. If you do the math they actually do break even and manage to squeeze some profit.
https://www.unumoja.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=5154429... At least they had a deploy stage
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Off-topic:

Who is this "Terrence Andrew Davis" fellow who comments on pretty much every single post that reaches HN?

He sounds like a lunatic and religious fanatic constantly quoting bible verses and sermons. Pretty darn creepy to read at 4am.
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The author has some other apps in the store, including a gnuplot port.

One of them appears to wrap octave and gnuplot in a more native interface:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addi
Simple, dumb questions: So what is the point of it being hybrid, actually? Speed of development? Multiple platforms?
From my experience adoption of new versions is always pretty slow with 'normal' users. They don't care for new versions as long as the current version they're using gets the job done.
Who would know?

At least on the UK version of the website you can pay with cash on arrival. This would remove any credit trial.

Even without a credit trial Dominos would have a record of a pizza being delivered to your address.
I've been on Digital Ocean for around 6 months now and I have to say that their support is pretty awesome - very responsive when needed. I couldn't be happier with DO so far.
Cheers for doing this!
You may be onto something. For some reason i thought it was a large formation when in reality it is only half a centimeter tall. At that size i don't see why it couldn't be some sort of weird rock formation. The two circular shapes above look interesting though. That's probably what throws many people off.
> That is, if the controller could do that then it would solve the Halting Problem

The halting problem is actually decidable for limited-memory machines, though you need O(2^n) memory beyond the n-memory of the machine to actually decide it.
Another problem with this is that tech companies (mostly startups) also fall into this trap where they feel like if they're not using the absolute latest and greatest frameworks they cannot be successful. This leads them to only hire developers who are "experts" with these frameworks (which is basically no one since they're so new) and they spend more time figuring out how to adapt this new technology to their business than they do shipping an MVP. It becomes a viscious circle because now the developers who are experts in some older technology feel like they have to spend all their time learning the latest shiny toy so that they can compete for jobs with said startups.
You shouldn't be slipping the clutch while engine braking. At that point you are simply moving the braking from the brake pads/rotors which are designed for it to the clutch disk/friction material... which is definitely not designed for it.

Engine braking works well when you rev-match as you downshift, then when in the lower gear simply let off the gas completely. You will slow down, and at that point your drive/axle is pretty much directly connected to the engine which is simply turning without gas being injected into it, thus using the compression cycle to slow you down.

In a manual car you don't want to shift to 1st gear when you are driving 100. That's bloody insane (Whether that is 100 km/h or 100 mph).
That's really cool! I'm definitely going to have to give it a try.
>it's cool and all, but a Rails-killer, it is not

I don't consider any of these to be Rails-killers, for comparative lack of the combination of lots of web-oriented libraries/plugins and ease of configuration, Rails' biggest draw.

But OP asked for frameworks designed for security, ostensibly to suite the needs of his upcoming project. GWT and the others could be options for that project, depending on requirements. Only OP knows, but worth suggesting.

>And after all is said and done, if you had wanted to develop the site in Java, you could have just used J2EE.

Yup, as I mentioned.

>You'll never find another developer who wants to maintain your Haskell code.

That's an absolute with which I absolutely I beg to differ.

>I would also add Revel, for Golang, to that list.

Looks interesting, but not mature enough yet to include it in this answer. And when they say 'modeled on the Play framework', that's a yellow flag to me, given that Play wasn't designed from scratch for strong security. Originally Play was easily vulnerable to basic attacks like XSS and later patched - eg, not designed around security from scratch. They seemed to want to build a better Rails on the JVM, but they seem to have also adopted the Rails community's preference for 'cool, quick, easy, and magic with security bolted on later', and just added 'fast'. Hopefully the Revel guys do better.
Are only priests allowed in the Vatican now?
I thought the same. Still cool site though.
I haven't had too much experience with using the support at Digital Ocean since they're pretty stable but I don't think it is as fast as Linode. I've had the same experience with Linode too--everything gets responded to in under 5 minutes. Digital Ocean is good to checkout though, they seem to be committed to providing good service and added Arch Linux :)
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I'm doing my part in building out the community here in southern Connecticut. We've started frontend and backend developer meetups, a nytm-style tech meetup, founder's breakfast, hacker news lunch, planning for open government initiatives, etc.

If you're in Connecticut, please join me on the HN Connecticut google group, or come out to any of the events!

http://groups.google.com/group/hn-connecticut

http://meetup.com/builtinfairco

http://meetup.com/the-stamford-tech-meetup

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