skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it doesn't support dynamic configurations, it does support hot reconfiguration (the new daemon signals the old processes to gracefully finish up and shut down), and reconfigures very rapidly. You still don't want to restart it multiple times a second, but you don't need to:

A two layer approach largely prevents this from being a problem. You can afford total overkill in terms of the number of haproxies as they're so lightweight - running a few hundred individual haproxy instances with separate configs even on a single box is no big deal.

The primaries would rarely need to change configs. You can route sets customers to specific sets of second layer backends with ACL's on short substrings of the hostname (e.g. two letter combinations), so that you know which set of backends each hostname you handle maps to, and then further balance on the full host header within that set to enable the second layer to balance on least-connections to get the desired effect.

That lets you "just" rewrite the configs and hot-reconfigure the subset of second layer proxies handling customers that falls in the same set on modifications. If your customer set is large enough, you "just" break out the frontend into a larger number of backends.

Frankly, part of the beauty of haproxy is that it is so light that you could probably afford a third layer - a static primary layer grouping customers into buckets, a dynamic second layer routing individual hostnames (requiring reconfiguration when adding/removing customers in that bucket) to a third layer of individual customer-specific haproxies.

So while you would restart some haproxy multiple times a second, the restarts could trivially be spread out over a large pool of individual instances.

Alternatively, "throwing together" a second or third layer using iptables either directly or via keepalived - which does let you do dynamic reconfiguration trivially, and also supportes least-connections load balancing - is also fairly easy.

But my point was not to advocate this as the best solution for somewhere like Heroku - it doesn't take a very large setup before a custom solution starts to pay off.

My point was merely that even with an off the shelf solution like haproxy, throwing together a workable solution that beats random balancing is not all that hard - there's a large number of viable solutions -, so there really is no excuse not to for someone building a PaaS.
You're right! I would add Bastion (currently $3.49) to the list as well.
Whenever I read the good, realist observations of the dark underbelly of hippy culture, I always think of the movie "Easy Rider" which explored some of that effectively.
Earn a profit and focus upon revenue and creating a real sustainable business as early in the process as you can. Anything else and you are gong to bleed or not have enough time to develop your product and idea. I call this limited goals and you need it to survive. You have to have the discipline and intestinal fortitude to hit your revenue targets each and every month. Bills don't magically pay themselves, and as you watch your account dwindle you can estimate how long before you hit zero.

We've been doing this for 10 years and growing like gangbuseters.
Actually you cannot. Even if, like me, you can see the justification for disabling the site a deadbeat client asked you to build, you cannot logically say that retaining possession of a car is the same thing as taking someone's online presence and turning it against them as a debt collection mechanism.
16tb, oracle 11g

ruby-oci8, jdbc, etc, nothing special.

Correcting: 16tb x 3 backup servers
According to the article I found this in, it started off as a travel blog, built a newsletter database, and when people began asking them to help book trips, they bought a travel agency and began selling holiday packages.

[Edit] found the link to the article (paywalled)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/have-kids-will...
I think being an onocologist is the most depressing profession one could go into. I mean, you have this disease that is hugely fatal, many of your patients die, you have lots of noise on survivability, sometimes you win, often you lose. You can cause lots of anxiety with a misdiagnosis or a prediction that doesn't pan out.
Top users of H-1B guest worker program are all offshore outsourcing firms
Cruise control is a more steady speed by applying more power up hills and such.
"I can't have 8 chat rooms open, that's just silly"

Why is that silly? Why would messages about all 8 projects be going into the same space? Shouldn't they be separated? That's exactly how we filter out all the different messages. And Hipchat has shortcuts to switch between different rooms, and highlights rooms that have new messages. Works pretty well, from my experience.
On a fairly regular basis I see print jobs being requested that have watermarks of the designer over it; clearly the client hasn't paid and is going to print with the low quality proof. It's weird that people believe it to be acceptable.
Awesome request. We have talked about that in the past. Hearing that it is a problem for you will bump it up in our priorities.
For me too, it sounds like there should be more but he runs off one side and appears on the other. The room never changes. Chrome on Linux here.
Microsoft, Adobe, Amazon; all have or had their headquarters near Seattle.

Puget sound metro is just as big and bad as Silicon Valley. It's also subject to more indoor weather, which is why engineers who live there are more productive...
I really think this table would look better if you just did 3 significant digits.
Let's start one
Save and when you reach the point you think you've saved enough, save some more. Never ever bootstrap a project without savings or a day job, possess monetary discipline and no what you want to do before you do it. If you have a girlfriend/boyfriend understand when you struggle they'll struggle too, so make sure you have some cash saved up to last you a few months before you consider going down the bootstrap route.

If you're struggling to pay your bills, you've gone about things wrong.
This. That a Tesla customer rep would ever say this seems beyond belief.
Assess? That wasn't an assessment, that was FUD.
I'm a bit surprised to see a startup addressing the farm market. Back in the 1980s, there was software from Pro Farmer that was used with the Radio Shack Color Computer(!). All this time I figured Pro Farmer had a lock on things, with that early start. I see I was wrong to think that. Good luck.
There's a difference between "You're going to die" and "It is very unlikely you'll make it"
Quantum cryptography put to work for electric grid security
As a ratio to population, Washington DC is #1, Washington State is #2. Go Washingtons.
A lot of people read this and this kind of story and they want to talk about the morality or value systems of these kids, themselves, and so forth.

I propose that there is a much more important reading:

Youth unemployment is extraordinarily high (effecting minorities even worse than these mostly-white kids, of course). Youth incarceration rate / engagement with the justice system is very high.

The numbers of people "dropping out" of legitimate society altogether look to be high and growing.

People's personal feelings about all this aside, it pays to notice when society starts to fray so badly as this.
Chrome incognito... not that I advocate that sort of thing.
Gender Binder - The Magazine has published thirty-six men and six women so far.
I wonder what Apple would do in a hypothetical scenario where a company like Gradiente Eletronica gets its trademark and doesn't want to settle. I really can't see them renaming any of their products, so perhaps they'd withdraw from the market until the problem was resolved. Or not?
A substantial pain no doubt to have to rebrand the most valuable product on the planet just for the Brazil market, but given it's such a huge market I'm sure they'll figure it out.

Apple Phone? iPod Phone? iOS Phone?
Judge allows case over HuffPo ownership to go forward, adds fraud claim
You should have 18-24 months worth of runway before you begin.
You Think You Know What You Want Out Of Twitter Search, But …Not
"As a merchant, it could hypothetically be easier or cheaper to deal with Bitcoin than other currencies online. (For example, note how aggravating/risky PayPal is.)"

As a customer, I don't care about how aggravating/risky PayPal is to you. I also don't care that you have trouble with any other merchant account. I'm going to use the payment option that gives me the most protection and is most convenient to me. Credit card companies and PayPal allow me to dispute charges for unsatisfactory service. Even though I've rarely used that in my life, it's a huge reassurance!

As I understand it, Bitcoin is like a cash transaction with very little recourse for the customer. Once the transaction is complete, you can't reverse it (I'm still learning about it so please correct me if I'm wrong).

There could come a day when a middle man comes between the merchant and customer to give customer protection but then you're pretty much in the same boat as we are now.

Note: I'm also a merchant, so I know the pains of PayPal and merchant accounts. Just reminding you to look at it from the customer perspective.
What is the tech scene like in Spokane? My family lives in Spokane and I visit a lot, but I can't imagine ever finding a decent job there.
Do you have your email program open with 8 different mailboxes, one for each project you want to receive communications about? I doubt you do.

Notifications like these are conceptually a queue of stuff that requires your attention. There is no point in separate notifications into multiple queues, they are all equally important. If project A is throwing a fit, it doesn't matter if I'm currently working on project B, it needs my attention.

I don't know Hipchat, but with Campfire and Propane, each chat is designed to be in a separate window/tab. If you bury the room behind a kind of modal selector (as seems to be the case, there's a sidebar with each room?), that's really no better. After all, if I've focused project A and project B starts blinking, I need to switch there. That's an unnecessary switch when all I want is a queue of items to read. (And no, email is way too heavy for this, and I don't want it interleaved with my regular email. We used to use email, those were bad times.)

It's not unusual for all projects to have incidents during a day, whether it be deployment information, exceptions or monitoring alerts.
Mostly correct, but I remember standing outside my 5th grade classroom window waiting for the teachers to unlock the door. At that time the school doors were only unlocked prior to class starting if there were blizzard conditions, not for cold. The classroom had a thermometer on the window that read -50C at the time. The only reason I remember it was because it was the first time I realized -40C = -40F.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Minnesota_weather_recor...
Plants are just parasites of the sun man. And even the sun is just a rapist of mass energy.
Hippy Valentine's Day
Based on your reaction, I am guessing you have never faced a serious illness like this with tedious, painful treatments. The senseless statistically unlikely occurrence of cancer in a young person is almost guaranteed to produce overwhelming anger. It's natural to express this, especially in the face of doubts.

source: I am 30. I am days from finishing a year of radiation, surgery, and chemo for cancer.
I thought the point of the NYT article was to review the Supercharger network, not the car itself. Plugging into a regular charger unnecessarily (and it would have seemed unnecessary at the time) would defeat the point of the article.
I put a graph together showing all the points/counterpoints and here's what I'm left with.

- not charging past 90% at the 1st station is defensible. Especially if Tesla warns it will shorten the battery's life.

- It'd be better if Tesla's software took temperature into account when estimating mileage range.

- Broder is being ridiculous about the cruise control and his speed estimates, and the temperature. He has partial accountability for the NYT graph. Turning the temperature down to 70 does not mean "sharply downward". He turned it down once more at around 250 miles, but that's far after the 182 that the article/graph indicates, and markedly different than "a little over 200 miles". He writes about how his feet were freezing and knuckles were turning white, but he didn't turn the heat down below 70 until (if my math is right) right about the time he got to Manhattan, which was mentioned afterward in his article timeline. On the other hand, it looks like it was turned down for most of the leg between Manhattan and Milford.

- The leg from Manhattan to Milford sounds legitimately stressful, but Broder claims low-speed cruise control that never happened. He tries to blame this on wheel size later, while simultaneously using Tesla's logs as showing that he wasn't driving very fast. That makes no sense.

- Tesla claims they told Broder to fully charge at Milford. He did not, and lists a lot of justifications for not following their advice.

- Broder complains that Tesla didn't tell him more about how to get the most out of charging stations, but Broder's a veteran at electric vehicles even if it's true that he hates them. And his defense for not charging overnight is laughable - plugging in overnight is not the same as plugging it at every Walmart stop. It's overnight in cold temperatures and the car was at less than 50% of its range. He's just being obstinate here.

- It's laughable to say that the Tesla fell short of its projected range when the projected range was from the day before, before not plugging it in on a cold night.

- Tesla and Broder directly contradict each other on whether they gave him the go-ahead to stop charging after an hour in Norwich. Broder's being vague in his wordings - he phrases it as if they approved him to unplug when they might have just said to plug it in for about an hour when they were trying to find him the plugin station ahead of time. Tesla, in turn, says that he unplugged over their objections.

- Broder just can't "account for the discrepancy" about the logs showing him driving close to 55 when he said he was limping along at 45, back from Norwich.

- Broder seems defensible on the parking brake - how is he to know not to turn off the car? - and the driving in circles, although it would be interesting to know just how clearly marked that supercharge station is. Musk is probably guilty of the "fundamental attribution error" here.

Anyway, even after Broder's latest response, it still reads like Broder was trying to stack the deck.
Looks good! Happy Valentine's Day to you too!
Maybe a driver should be responsible enough to be aware of his vehicle's range, and able to locate refueling stations?

This is like saying "I ran out of gas because I couldn't find a gas station" when you're a block away from one. It's ridiculous and, in this 21st century, not an excuse.
We have no idea what the doctor actually said vs. what the patient heard. One could imagine the doctor says "you are unlikely to make it" and the patient just hears "you are going to die."
PyPgDay 2013 Schedule - Santa Clara
This is somewhat a non-sequitur, but I just want to highlight one significant distinction between SE and Quora, which is that "[All user-generated] content (questions and answers) posted on the Stack Exchange Network is licensed under a Creative Commons license, Attribution Share Alike." So in fifteen years when SE is no longer in fashion, those answers can live on in some form.

Atwood had an idea that SE would be "like Wikipedia" for QA, and Stack Overflow has certainly had success in that regard. I think that contributors to the site get very much the same value proposition as that of Wikipedia, if not slightly more in the user profile/karma regard.

Of course, none of this negates your point about the influence of funding!
Loses right? They never had it to begin with in Brazil. Also, I may not remember it accurately, but didn't Apple have to buy the rights for the iPhone name in US from Cisco, too? I don't think it was publicized that much back then, but I think I remember something along those lines.
Anand's thoughts on Intel's TV initiative
Wrk – an HTTP benchmarking tool
The most obvious opportunity IMHO is a country with a country collapsing due to hyperinflation. Had Brazil suffered from inertial inflation today instead of the early 1990s, lots of people would have adopted BitCoin and the administration of Fernando Henrique Cardoso would never have had to introduce the Unidade Real de Valor under the Plano Real.

There must be a startup opportunity in simply creating a system that can be rapidly introduced and be communicated from person to person virally in a country with a failing currency.

I'm curious it possible for someone, or some investment fund, with enough cash to distort some countries currency enough to destabilize it enough to get the citizens of that country to dump the destabilized currency in favor of BitCoin.
Not only are they most often right, but doctors know to under promise and over deliver. Which is better: "You'll never have use of that leg again" followed by a success story due to hard work and PT, or "Don't worry brah, that'll be healed in like two weeks" followed by a long slog of missed goals, unmet promises, and malpractice lawsuits? "You said I'd be walking in two weeks, and it's been two months!" Enjoy your new lawsuit!
Ask HN: Can one user be part of two applications?
If I am working on two apps since I am a developer can I be part of two applications with different co-founders?
Let's just drive the route again. See what happens.
Ask me anything: Mega CEO Vikram Kumar
The GPL is a hard sell to anyone. But with your commercial license, where do you draw the line between building functionality for your game on top of an engine versus extending the engine? It seems fuzzy. Besides, not having an option to build a game without either making it open source or publicly evangelizing your product will make adoption a non-starter for many serious developers.

Licensing aside, it seems strange to build a platform on HTML5/Javascript without support for the desktop/web. To me, that would be the whole point of building a game in HTML5 in the first place.

Other than all those caveats, it's nice to see more alternatives to ImpactJS beginning to emerge.
Become a HTML5 game development guru in 30 days
Expanding preschool = expanding waistlines?
"go to the place and talk to someone"

Dev in Germany, Company in San Francisco.
Time spent on collecting is also irreplaceable. I do a bit of freelancing, and honestly if the amount due were anything less than a few thousand dollars I'd probably just write it off, or sell the invoice to a debt collector for whatever fraction they would pay. I can make more money working for other clients in the time I would spend on collecting a small debt.

For something more substantial, you need to protect yourself by getting some of the money up front or as defined project milestones are met. And final delivery/live site should be held until final payment is received.
Without even reading it, I assume he's very supportive and thinks they are going to succeed. It's quite predictable of Anand when it comes to Intel. I'm very skeptical about it, though.

If even Apple, Google, Netflix and others are struggling with this, there's little Intel can do more, even with their "spy-camera" enabled by default. Plus, I doubt their equipment will be anywhere close to $99, which I think is the sweet spot for specialized hardware like set top boxes.
Happened at a time when I was considering Disqus as my main comment system on my new (being built) blog. The main visual appeal of my weblog is going to be(at least that is what I want it to be) minimal and also engaging - as in discussion.

Looks like I need to search for alternatives now. Maybe sth similar but installed on my servers that I can control, or some other paid option where the main business is handling their customers' reader comments and not advertisement. There might be some with clean and easy interface where a commenter does not have to go through much hassle.

Having said that, Disqus being a free and non-charitable organization one should have seen this coming.
The simple depth of engagement required by Tesla engineers for this test drive, and now the amount of nitpicking being done about the minor details of this trip suggest that this technology is not prepared for the average driver.
This video is purely rephrasing the same question over and over to receive rephrased nonsense each time. Its exactly what I expected.
There has been a very obvious Chrome|Safari|Webkit only trend recently, usually for either demos/pocs, but also often for MVP/betas (I believe Mega may have been one of those).
I don't think there is a right answer to this question but in my opinion it depends a lot on your responsibilities.

If you have got dependent family on you donot do it without some form of cash flow coming in.

If you do not have dependents and you are young take the leap with faith and from somewhere somehow things will just move along as long as you believe in it. Thats what I have seen in mine and my friend's case
Oh yeah, it would be sooooo much better for a small business to spend possibly thousands and thousands of dollars on a judgement that will never get paid. But you are right about installments. I have a very specific set of language in my contracts regarding payment and deliverables. And if they stole my code which this guy claims, well, I'd probably pull something like this before bothering to spend thousands of dollars on a wasted legal battle.
Tesla employees give the guy a ballpark estimate that an hour of charging should get him enough juice. He charges the car an hour. The car says it doesn't have enough juice yet.

Instead of waiting until his tank is full enough, John instead starts driving. Why? Is he just stupid, and decides to ignore the gauge and risk his own safety based upon the ballpark estimate of a Tesla customer support rep? Or did he decide that now his ass was covered if the car did somehow end up dying, giving him his story? Either way, the story stinks.
Definitely a nice and comprehensive table that shows what's out there. Thanks!
You are correct.

Using the same hyperdriving techniques Tesla is recommending of driving 45mph on the freeway in 80mph traffic, and turning off heat/air conditioning, one can get over 80mpg in a diesel rated 31 city 43 highway.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2012/05...

Obviously the Passat here is not rated to hyperdriving techniques like Tesla Motors is now saying are required to get the stated range in the $101,000 car they lent to the NYT journalist. No one would claim it would be reasonable for Volkswagen to advertise that this car gets 84mpg even though it has been proven to be possible. Likewise, it is not reasonable for Tesla to advertise a range that is based on hyperdriving techniques.
... or OpenFrameworks, Polycode, Cocos2d-x, Haxe NME
I wish somebody from Google would just search his inbox for the "Google OS" from April 07 and put an end to this discussion.

If it's there then Antoine should have known about it. Why wasn't Chrome build on top of this Google OS. Why hasn't he heard of this guy.