skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I finally went to Rome the past June, 2012. I loved it and my GF loved it a lot too because I was able to translate most of all latin inscription she could find on the Roman ruins and other buildings. All the tourist around me were sniffing my back all the time because I knew a lot of the Roman history as well, but mostly because i was able to translate most of the inscriptions :)
DigitalOcean is promising, but they should probably hire a lawyer to fix up their Terms of Service. I notice they've attempted to appease adult content websites by removing the restriction against nudity and adding a statement that adult sites are expressly allowed if legal. But, they've left in a prohibition on profanity? That seems a bit backwards.

Inappropriate content is also disallowed, what does that mean? It's not a legal term of art that I'm familiar with. Why does a sentence begin with "Transmit"? And please, consider using bulleted lists.

https://www.digitalocean.com/tos
I am amazed a rant can go English -> Mandarin -> English via half the world's tech forums, and still be recognised by its original author.

But what really blows my socks off is how a tech forum in Beijing follows rants from Slovenian blog to a Californian forum and back again. And it actually matters to the Chinese because they liked it as much as we did.

Welcome to the new global culture, sharing the same memepool.
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Not sure what the downvote's about. Does HN automatically flag posts with lots of links?
I've been thinking about your situation and I'm reminded of my own words: "there is always a reason".

Would you be able to e-mail me (CAPTCHA here):

http://tinyurl.com/66srzt

I'd like to discuss your issue further. Thanks!
What's this about "you can't hand out precompiled library code and use the go build tools"...you really can't have binary libraries in Go and use the standard tools? That seems a bit strange for a native-compiled language.
Thanks a lot, I guess I need to start first with HTML and css
Anyone know of any similar hosts (VPS, SSD) for Windows Server? Seems like installing a virtual Win instance may not work [ http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea... ]

Alternatively, if anyone has successfully installed Windows on a VPS instance, please let me know :)
Thank you for raising this issue. We try to make our terms of service as fair as possible—we are not looking to censor any information or content on our customers' droplets.

As you have raised this issue, to make the situation clearer, the phrase referring to obscenity and profanity has been removed from our terms of service.

Thanks,

Etel
Heh... https://github.com/impressivewebs/HTML9-Responsive-Boilerstr...
I disagree with the part of his post that reads: "First, to do a chargeback when you are buying software and or intellectual property rights is repugnant. Its something you can never give back. No matter what. It can never be deleted. And you know this when you are making the acquisition."

There is not other way to signal to the developer that the software is not what you thought it was. For instance, I purchased a note-taking app from the App Store last night that turned out to not be what I needed. There was no way of knowing this beforehand because there is no free version that I could test and pirating it would have been way more trouble than it's worth (plus, I'm not doing that anymore).

So, what's the reasonable solution? For physical goods, if I'm unhappy with the purchase, I can return the item and receive a refund. For software, there is no good return method.

Now, one could argue that it's only a $10 app, but that isn't the point. The point is that $10 paid for something that I don't want or need, and while $10 probably isn't much to me, it should not be yours because your product failed to meet my needs.

As for the rest of the post, the purchaser in that case was out of line. He'd bought the product, used it for a significant amount of time, and apparently gotten some value out of it. At that point, there should be no ability to return the item.
Thank you. This will definitely be helpful and keep me busy for a while.
"Think of YAML as a human readable Marshal."

That's what people missed. YAML is a marshaling format, full stop. The Ruby community has to absorb this idea, and quickly, because YAML is everywhere.
I'm working on it.

;)
If it was an issue, wouldn't it be engine- or browser-specific?
Profanity clause has been removed.
Thanks for posting that. It's funny-- your strategy is exactly the way I do lead gen for my customers. I wrote a bunch of software to sniff serps (great expression, btw) and find long tail keywords that will drive leads for the client.

Then we produce articles (we actually hire real journalists) to address the search intent behind the keywords. Then we post it on the client's site, and charge them for the leads we drive via organic search from that content.

The funny thing is, our customers just view it as "content marketing," not SEO. Search data (search vol, competition, etc.) guides our content strategy, but I don't view this part as either good or bad. Or even really "SEO". Why would anyone invest in content nobody is searching for?!?

If we spun content or used Markov chains to generate gibberish or hired incompetent writers via TextBroker for $10 a story, sure that's spam.

But my calculation is that spending $500+ on an article written by a journalist with domain expertise is going to win long term. And since the lead revenue makes the ROI calculation >1, why not invest in quality?

And we definitely don't make Google guess what keyword we think our article would help.
Great info! What are you pinging? Is it the default gateway or a specific host on the Internet? Also how do you determine download speed? The numbers for wi-fi are so disappointing. I wonder if you're not really measuring the speed of the DSL connection (or whatever) that the wi-fi router is sitting on.
This is their third nuclear test and every single one has failed to cross the eight kiloton boundary at least. If this one is a plutonium weapon like the others it suggests that they are having major issues designing or fabricating the implosion lens around the nuclear material. It is quite striking that they keep conducting tests and reducing their usable nuclear stockpile further. It is almost like they don't have the capability to get a reliable warhead.
If this app let men review women there would be outrage in the press for months.
You are severely misunderstanding the use cases of bitcoin
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"but I automatically wonder what kind of hardware I will be on" that is actually a good point. Is the underling hardware server grade?

You can easily achieve good performance on some common desktop hardware (or some cheap home-built server) and some SSDs, but obviously, no one would host nothing more than a personal blog on it
Ah I see it now, interesting design choice. Thanks for replying and the compliment!
Related: don't "why" about religion, politics, or personal beliefs unless you're willing to seriously examine a possibly very alien worldview.

A lot of people have a shallow or false curiosity on these subjects. Their intent is not to understand, but simply to discover a question that is difficult to answer in only a few sentences, and then declare victory. The net result is that nobody learns anything of value, nobody is enriched, but somebody feels annoyed that their friend didn't respect them enough to really listen.

True curiosity requires a willingness to explore both depth and breadth. This is more likely to require years than minutes.
With twalentine, you can tweet something nice to someone you like. Anonymously.
Design is about trust and being able to do what you want to do without thinking. Facebook doesn't help users navigate to the places they don't want them to go to.
a decent knowledge of Latin

"Decent knowledge" is ambiguous. There is a huge difference between being able to read a language and being able to speak it. The OP is unusual in being about the latter.
Technically, even if the machines were used only by priest, Catholic priest are not always required to take a Vow of Poverty. Certain orders do take one, some do not.
>There's not that much of a difference between Google and Bing.

Exactly why it would be damaging. People still think of Bing, etc, as second tier despite similar results.
Unless you're selling underwear or sex…it is. You should carefully consider whether {sex,gender,race,religion,politics,…} is germane to the discussion that you're trying to engender with your presentation.

If you're a fashion designer talking about your latest underwear fashion? Go for it. If you're presenting about gender issues? Go for it—but be careful that your slide materials don't undermine the message. If you're talking about a web API? You've got to be kidding me if you ever think that such a thing is ever appropriate.

No one is saying that you can't have fun with your presentation slide deck—one of my favourite slides that I ever made was a for a RubyConf (San Diego, I believe) where I was talking about how to use PDF::Writer for presentations…and I presented the following code:

def takahashi
# ...
end

The response I got from the audience was worth it—and it was completely appropriate (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi_method for why).
They're a Techstars company, if that means anything to you.
Just hope those SSD are made by intel and are in raid10.

Otherwise 3-4 year failure is quite common.
That's what I keep telling me!
Go is all statically linked, so there's no such thing as DLLs made in Go. Creating DLLs may be possible in later versions of Go, however.
Random feedback:

On the THE GLOBAL ROLLOUT world map, the colors are not clear. They seem to be the same as the 2(?) pixel high lines below the labels below? Make them bigger! Or add a legend.

On HOW SPEEDS COMPARE I had to read the rotated y label first before I had any idea what the graph showed. Either add the unit to the numbers or add a clear title that is read normally.

LTE PING VS OTHER TECHNOLOGIES seems completely random. What are those numbers, how were they created? Ping to where?
the bottom line ...

"Water levels in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan are the lowest they've ever been since records keeping began in 1918, according to the US Army Corps of Engineers."
I don't believe that's true anymore: http://www.dges.mctes.pt/NR/rdonlyres/D10976FF-C05F-4BF0-B57...
Pretty well-balanced article. Like in the 'bad old days' the mega-artists that appeal to the mass market are the ones reaping the rewards of economies of scale.
Indeed. It was just funny seeing both posts pop up on the same day.
"some version of Latin" is right. Because, really, Latin is not Latin is not Latin. For a language that had such wide use for such an extended amount of time, learning one form of Latin, such as ecclesiastical, does not necessarily help much in understanding Ovid or Plutarch.

This is much the same as with ancient Greek. Knowing New Testament Greek is almost useless in understanding Plato or Homer. Even Classical Greek from extreme ends of the period differs substantially.
"A good carpenter will crave wood with its own teeth if he can't have good tools." :)
Probably because Catholic priests are not universally required to take a Vow of Poverty. A notable group in the Church that does take the vow are Jesuits.
Just curious why you think the article is "spammy"? That is a pretty pejorative term to toss around.

It seems like sound testing and analysis of the things that are readily tested.

He doesn't even have a link to either provider. Doesn't look like he is looking for referral $ or anything other than sharing what he learned.
Some countries even mandated that Christians couldn't engage in such businesses.

Or that Jews couldn't take up other professions.
Well, that's a function of the 'true price' being measured in a different currency than the one you're paying in. Some retail businesses that accept foreign currency rectify this with a flat exchange rate.

For example, in Canada businesses (at least on Southern Ontario) will generally accept payment in USD instead of CAD, but they tend to have a flat exchange rate (e.g. 1 USD = 1 CAD or 1 USD = 1.10 CAD). If they priced the exchange rate to the current exchange rate as measured by some currency exchange, that would be different.

You run into this same issue when using a US credit card in Canada. The credit card company will exchange (and usually charge an extra ~1% charge). IIRC, they use up-to-date exchange rate info, so technically the price in USD is constantly changing.
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lowendbox.com - best VPS deals. Companies are shady sometimes, mostly dedicated boxes that are divied up. Some good providers - buyvm.net has a proud following and are very stable, others not so much.
Always appropriate: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...
> Just curious why you think the article is "spammy"? That is a pretty pejorative term to toss around.

I did not say anything about the article being spammy. I said "hosting comparison companies". The article is quite obviously on someone's blog.
I did a write-up on my website redesign. http://www.ri.id.au/posts/a-personal-brand-to-be-proud-of It's a less technical reflection than Kadavy's, but it's always interesting to have insight into another designer's thinking.
For that amount of Bitcoins you can buy a house nowadays.
The combination of Latin and Comic Sans is really weird.
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What a skewed view of the world - I hardly think you will find MSNBC by poking FOX reporters, NYT reporters or Christian Science Monitor reporters (not to mention al-Jazeera, BBC, RT, etc.) And Obama has gotten plenty of bad press.
It isn't creating a new anonymous function every interval. It's created once and passed in as an argument.

It's presumably the call stack that the memory is used for.
I don't think that's what's happening. The anonymous function is created just once, before calling setInterval, not within the callback itself.
I did agree much with that the article said, and i've been leaning towards a more minimalistic approach recently.
A nice font, some decent shadow, and maybe a gradient with a border.

That being said, I'm a strong believer of "you want a design? Code it"

It's not enough being able to sling it on photoshop, you have to learn the code to make it happen.
As an aside, there is an old article in Dr. Dobbs Journal (cannot find it right now) that talks about
Botanical Latin and the precise description of plants.
You make a really fair point. In fact, its why most really successful apps (and software companies in general) all have a free-to-paid model or some sort of trial basis.

With Apptopia, we build in a "Code Review" layer. So if you are concerned about the quality of the code you are buying we can dive as deep as you would like before the acquisition is final.

Also, all apps listed on Apptopia are currently on an app store (so all buyers can and should be testing the apps as a consumer, before acquiring it).

Either way, appreciate you getting involved in the conversation. Hope the code is of some value to you =)

Jonathan
I was sadly expecting that to work.
My post was kind of off topic actually. The point was that it is frustrating that this kind of thing is seen as an issue but sexism against men is ignored or claimed not to exist and if you do bring it up, you are labeled as a misogynist.

Regarding the actual issue, I agree with you that it is not okay to show women(or men) in underwear at a tech conference in most cases but I am not sure if it was sexist or not because I was no there and didn't see the presentation. I don't think that this kind of thing has any place in a professional environment under normal circumstances though.

edit: My point proven by halostatue. Who is hinting that just because I am a man, I have no right to complain because everything comes so easy to me despite him having no knowledge of my particular circumstances.
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You could compile the .a files for the different architectures, and let them link against that, instead of recompiling and linking from your source--but the 'go' tool won't currently accept it if there's no source. That could change, and there is a workaround (IIRC): Make an empty folder in the src/import/path.
Good support is not exclusive to Linode (_especially_ at that price range). For equally good support at cheaper prices look at BuyVM (NY/CA), Prometeus (Italy), Ramnode.com (Atlanta, if you need SSD/SSD-cached) and SecureDragon (FL). And thats just the ones I have used for my personal use.
No one I'm friends with is using it! That's so disappointing.
This is scary, we are loosing diversity at an incredible rate.
How long will the prices stay low? $5 is low-end, not mid-tier.

"Investors are really looking for a couple of things... At DigitalOcean, we were able to differentiate ourselves by focusing on the mid-tier market, and catering to the needs of individual developers that were being completely ignored by the larger cloud hosting providers." http://www.forbes.com/sites/danreich/2012/09/19/startup-ceo-...
Looks good! I love those short lines of text ;)
that was my first though, when i saw this website.

"another website, which will be only used by men kind" ... and nobody got banged ever...

=========

but damn now i want access to the open graph search :D just to play around with it.
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Pretty cool. Once tiny design hitch would be the flash that accompanies scrolling through the quotes. Each time the screen flashes a few times which is off putting.

A side note on that: There are people from non-profit photosensitive epilepsy foundations that scour the net for that kind of stuff. I've gotten emails about it before...it was an interesting discussion about such design features.
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It isn't really clear from the article under what license the source is available. For instance, is it using a common Free Software license such as GPL or a BSD-like one, such that interesting parties can actually do something with it? That would be much more consumer friendly than the mere permission to have a look at it.
You have civil and mechanical engineers at your bank?
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Hey guys, been on HN for a while, but Lightermail is my (our) first attempt at a startup. Looking forward to any and all feeback from my fellow HNers and answering whatever questions you may have!

For those interested in the tech stack, the application's built with Backbone.js, Python, Redis, and Postgres. We use both tornado and gevent on the backend (with tornado being my personal favourite) and we're using Jekyll for the blog. If you want to get a little deeper just ask!
So you think that the "stuff white people like" meme finds its roots in prejudices arising from the Arab slave trade in the 9th century?
This is not my strong suite, but if you look at the assets which large holders of t-bills are divesting into, you'll find strong inflation.
Seems pretty sensible to me, though some folks seem to be linking it with the revival of CISPA.
It's still just 512 megs of RAM. I'd love to find a VPS provider that gives me like 2 gigs of RAM, and charged me by how much of that was hot during the month. It's frustrating to have to pay in advance for the maximum amount of RAM I might need.

I'd like to be able to leave processes running that might have a lot of data mapped into their address spaces, but for much of the time that data can safely be paged out to disk and not used. When I come and use the machine, I'd like to have a large amount of RAM, but when I'm not using it, I don't want to pay for it.
Bit9 hacked after it forgot to install ITS OWN security product

Gosh, can we please stop copying The Register's randomly-capitalized words in the title? This isn't reddit.
Well, I suppose the argument would go that a Taiwanese engineer would, by dint of shared language and culture, be more susceptible to coercion and bribes than someone from europe, south asia, etc...

And I agree that you don't want to be too paranoid about this stuff. But at the same time, if you were expecting and looking for an "illicit backdoor" in hardware, this is exactly the kind of thing you'd expect. Firmware in a place virtually no one knows about gets modified on a per-product basis to do nefarious things. And this is exactly how you'd expect such a modification to be discovered, by accidentally introducing a bug that distinguishes itself from the clean parent.

I mean, I'm not screaming "spy" here, but if I were to have read this story in a techno-thriller novel I'd be writing a post applauding the author for her excellently researched and eminently plausible plot hook.
Hey Kris. Welcome to HN. I remember you from Astricons of years past and used astlinux on alix a lot over the years. Good stuff.

I didn't realize you guys were so close. I live just off Televast, about a mile and a half from Star2Star.
You can dynamically resize your servers via DigitalOcean's API.
DigitalOcean is good value but I found their I/O speed not anywhere close to SSD levels. I ran this bench mark from github. RamNode is the best.

https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench
Both can still be made fairly easily after the collapse
(Well, perhaps not cigarette paper, but tobacco and pipes, anyway)
I can attest to Linode's great service: One Sunday morning I was playing around with a Chef script, which meant occasionally wiping the machine so I could re-run the script from scratch. At some point the machine wouldn't come back up. I sent in a ticket, but I figured the rest of my Sunday was shot. By the time I'd made some tea and sat back down, I had a reply that the problem was fixed!
Thanks for the tutorial rec, a client wants me to implement visual statistical analyses of what's going on in his business, and I could use these. All his data is in a proprietary dental office database (Patterson EagleSoft), and I was just thinking that D3 would be perfect for this project once I get it out of there.

P.S., Some of the scripts on the OpenSignal page could be moved from <head> to the end of <body>; other than that, it looks good!
That's irrelevant. There are multiple reasonable possibilities here. Saying "Do X, now get on with coding" as if X is somehow obviously the right answer is a very dangerous attitude. The original article might not have mentioned those kinds of testing explicitly, but still, professionals decide among various choices being considered based on merit, not personal preference.
Cool service but it's not available yet?
Right, but you can regenerate new IDs each time? So it is anonymous in the sense that you can have throwaway names.
On Apptopia you don't buy apps, you buy all of the source code and distribution rights to an app. So in this case the buyer bought the previously closed-source code, took what he needed from it, and then filed a chargeback. That's much different than buying a packaged app for personal use from an App Store.
Your graphs are pretty -- and it's an interesting page, but your ping section makes me wonder about the rest of your data.

You don't qualify what you're pinging, but if we're talking ping to the internet gateway, ping over a strong 802.11n connection on my iPhone 5 is 2 - 5 milliseconds on my local network. The same is not true of LTE which has more typically a 100ms latency to the carrier internet gateway.

LTE definitely brought down latency from 3G! But it's nowhere near as low latency as a good 802.11n connection!
Yet. ;)
The order should be all critical computers like power-grid control should not be able to connect to the internet in any way or have usb ports or DVD drives.

I have this fear that somewhere an ICBM is on an internet router because some general wants to monitor it. Sounds insane right? Well why are power stations on the internet?
Or, you know, you could close the Gmail tab and turn off push notifications..
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