skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the main difference that comes to mind is that in the airline business, the denominator in your "cost function" is probably going to be keeping $30-100 million dollar planes in the air all the time.

Whereas in low-end VPS services, the labour cost for Great, Responsive Service will quickly begin to approach your capital outlay.

Amazon on the other hand, doesnt make any money - http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/01/29/amazon_q4_pro...
All of the content screens in the app are still HTML5. Because of that direction, we now have a native experience on iOS AND a solid mobile experience in the browser. HTML5 still offers the greatest reach, a superior layout model and the fastest development. It's a myth that web views are inherently a poor experience.
>Are you suggesting death is preferable to six months in prison and a felony conviction?

If I had to guess, he wasn't weighing it against the plea bargain, he had already decided not to take the plea bargain on principle and was weighing it against the cost of taking charity and bankrupting all his friends and family to fight it and even after all that still possibly losing and going to prison for multiple years. In other words, taking the plea would have had the additional cost to his integrity, which even in this day and age still means a lot to some people.

I don't know if I would go so far as to say that the decision was rational (and I know the suicide prevention people hate it when people talk about stuff like this), but I can see the road he took to get there. Being human isn't always rational and we have to make policies under the understanding that people will have feelings and principles rather than making all decisions as rational automatons.

>Would that it were--we'd save a fortune on federal prisoners by executing them all!

No we wouldn't. It costs more to execute someone than imprison them because of the cost of all the appeals and safeguards we have for death penalty cases.

But even though you're kidding, I think it raises a pretty reasonable point: Why do we even have prisons at all, other than as detention facilities for pending death penalty cases? If someone commits a sufficiently serious crime (or re-offends sufficiently many times), put them to death. If their crime was less serious than that, make them pay back their ill gotten gains, subject them to a fine or make them do community service 20 hours a week for however many hours or years. What good does it do to imprison someone if you ever intend to let them back out again? Prison costs the state money, it takes the convicts out of the economy and makes them parasites, and when they get out they have no skills and no job history which is one of the many reasons the recidivism rate is so high. Prison is a profoundly broken institution. I think there is a very strong argument for just getting rid of it as a method of punishment.
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Deleted the comment to avoid offending people with that joke. But you can't compare developers with priests. I don't see being a priest as being a job, it is rather a life commitment to follow a certain path which includes "being poor". I was just joking because they never are, and in catholic countries like mine they often have a higher than average living standard.
Great documentation and support and there a lot of others using it.

+1 Linode.
That last sentence conjured an image of a person trying to drag a giant toolbox with him everywhere for some reason :) I do tend to disagree with the sentiment though.

The initial time investment per tool is steep.

Also, the tools' values deteriorate rather rapidly. Languages/Frameworks will become less used over time as something new replaces them (generally), and even your specific skills with a language will get worse over time if you aren't using it.
If I had a dime for every time this question was asked in the last 25 years, I could afford to own a VC fund.

Latin is Latin is Latin. It's been the lingua franca (sic -- hey, three latin words already!) of European culture for almost 2000 years, hence transmitting and influencing each and every field of human knowledge. As long as we value European culture, there will be a consistent amount of people who have to speak some version of Latin. In most of Europe, you can't excel in law, medicine, philosophy, biology, history or theology without a decent knowledge of Latin, and it certainly helps even non-European scholars.

There will always be problems with "updating" what is essentially a fossilised language in order to include modern concepts, but the core language will survive pretty much forever, at this point. It's the "K&R C" of human languages.
We have found quite the opposite. Route 53 has been very responsive for us all around the world. Also, Route 53 has Anycast support.
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A website to help explain Twitter to parents.
Apple Developing a Wristwatch-Like Device
People in the tech world easily assume that upgrade = better. But that is only true if you feel underserved by the existing software you are running. Many customers out there in other fields don't have that feeling of being perpetually underserved that is common in places like Hacker News.
> your arguments for concluding it is 'obviously wrong' to choose the kind of imagery

That's the wrong^H^H^H^H^Hincorrect antecedent. Sorry, my fault for using pronouns. I was saying that "because people like it, it is okay" is a flawed argument. It doesn't help that I meant "wrong" as in "unsound/incorrect" but the word has a second meaning of "unjust/immoral".
How easily is your app found for your major keywords compared to these competitors? If you're #1-#3, then maybe you don't need to change something that is going well.

It is what most experts (the MobileDevHQ, Appcod.es, SearchMan SEO and App Store Ranking peeps) recommend though. I tend to believe them, even if there are definitely other factors in ranking well.

It doesn't have to be tacky, like a list of keywords. Maybe those few keywords can make for a nice, short tagline?
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Really? transmitting just the data and letting the client handle the display and interaction seems a much more natural split.

It alos makes my server software conceptually simpler - which is always nice
This begs the question for me, could the ipython HTML notebook* be wrapped in an Android app?

* http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/htmlnotebook....
I rarely see Rackspace Cloud mentioned on Hacker News in these sorts of VPS discussions. Anyone have insight as to why that is? Too expensive? Crappy service?

Background - my employer hosts on dedicated servers at Rackspace and we're considering using more of their cloud offering.
You're right. We had a lot of issues with servers not being able to communicate on the internal network at the datacenter.

Here's an uptime report of our hosts on Linode from Pingdom:
http://i.imgur.com/KggJZ.jpg

I handle customer support for us in a helpful and compassionate way. The support we were getting from linode sometimes felt like they didn't even read what we wrote to them.

I'm seeing 24 support threads listed in Gmail with them from 5/21 to 8/31 for various networking and uptime issues.
The fatal flaw in the model is "I'm going to click on all my friends to see who signals interest in me".
I'm quite happy that this article clears up the real meaning of 4G.
You're "advocating for an egalitarian society"?

I'm even _more_ for an egalitarian society. And far more actually than merely getting some "bikini slides" off of tech presentations or ensuring women make the same as men.

I don't want women and men being paid less than other men and women and being treated as trash in the first place. That is, i'm a pro-left, in the marxist tradition. Now, do I get to call you a "coward" or a "capitalist pig" if you don't agree with me in this issue?

Furthermore, is a place full of actual and wannabe startup founders/millionaires, the place to accuse me of "hiding behind my own narcissistic conception of freedom and unexamined privilege"?

I find gagging on the gnat of "sexist slides" while digesting the camel of economic inequality hypocritical and counter-productive.

Bosses don't pay women less because they are sexist. They pay them less because they can (e.g talking advantage of the fact that women get maternal leave, or are better at work-life balance than men, and thus deemed less "devoted" to the company and such BS). If they could, they would pay anyone less (and when they can, they do). It's not about making them less "sexist" (there are women bosses that also pay women employees less). It's about making LAWS to force them to give equal pay for the same job description.
Nice list, although we do end up seeing the usual 'canonical' titles.

I'll add "Passionate Programmer" by Chad Fowler as it contains some industry wisdom.
Didn't intended to offend anyone, apologies
I wonder if there's a generalized solution to this issue; that is, the inability to pay for most things using Bitcoin.

If I remember correctly, Visa will let you create a "virtual" credit card so you can shop online without giving out your actual information.

I bet a "bridge" between the Bitcoin and credit card systems could make a lot of money. Does anyone know if this is feasible?
Yeah, we had to write our own view nesting logic and allow this to be used within our dustjs templates.

Marionette (https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette) lets you do all of that stuff out of the box; I've not used it though so can't comment.
Im not an expert, but I will try (and if im wrong, let me know).

When you purchase something via bitcoins, it is public information. You have an address that is public that says abcdef bought this. abcdef cant be traced back to anyone unless you publicly announce you are abcdef.

When you buy a pizza, you are saying abcdef lives at this address. So anyone with a subpoena on Dominos records can tie your address to your previous purchases.
I'm actually experimenting with DigitalOcean for a side-project, but we've moved our main site on to dedicated hardware so no plans to try DigitalOcean for that.
We hardly have automatic transmissions in Scandinavia, in fact I had to explain it to my wife just the other day when she were using a rental car.

Also you have to use manual in driving schools including at the exam or you will get a second class license that only counts for automatic cars.
I know this article is speculative, but if it's true, this is why Google built Android. I know that tech pundits like to talk about how Apple is making the lion's share of the profits in the smartphone industry (which they are). But despite the fact that it doesn't make them a lot of money directly, Android has prevented Apple from gaining a stranglehold on the smartphone market. If Apple had > 90% of the smartphone market share, they would be eating 75%+ of Google's mobile search revenue for as long as they maintained that position.
ServerBear has all the $5/month hosts in one place:
http://serverbear.com/compare?Sort=BearScore&Order=desc&...
> drawing the inevitable conclusion that the the failure of the system is accelerating. The natural end to an inflationary currency is BOOM!

And yet inflation is as low or lower than it has been in the past 30 years. Not to mention compared to the high inflation of the '70s.
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Yeah, this is not working for me. I have far better inspiration sources online. Notes from Universe or something is pretty awesome, there are others.

http://www.tut.com/
Literally everyone bashes PHP, and it has had very few security problems in its history. Yes, I know it is not a framework, but still.
I don't think casual sex has been a major use of Facebook for a while- certainly during it's college-only days that could have been the case, but less so in a more social network aware world.

I think something like BangWithFriends is doomed to fail simply because of the visibility. People can see if you use the app, which would embarrass many. And like almost every single online dating/sexual site out there, the number of men dramatically outnumbers the number of women.
In a modern car, the ECU controls the air intake pressure, so all higher altitude would mean is that the turbo system would spin a bit faster.
Bitcoin has the potential to disrupt current payment processing. The main advantage to merchants is fraud reduction. Bitcoin transactions cannot subsequently be reversed by the customer once received by the merchant.

Additionally, bitcoin transactions have lower transaction fees than credit cards, wire transfers, cash couriers, and so forth.

No wonder that more startups are developing bitcoin applications.
Latine loquor. Inutilis id est, sed iucundus.

My brother and I had six years of Latin in school. He's a biologist, and used to put it in his resume for kicks.
The app is the best experience. If you don't have the app or it's not supported on your platform, then you have the regular mobile web views to fall back on.
I don't claim to speak for everyone, but discussions like this feel counter-productive because there's nothing to really say, and no amount of text is going to accurately portray another person's experiences. At this point, these posts are effectively just someone standing up and shouting "hey, there's some more sexism over here!" So what? Go confront the people that matter, like the people the original post is targeting. Sure, it's worth sharing so that we remain somewhat up-to-date on what's going on in the industry, but there's not much meaningful discussion to be had.
Thank you so very much for proving her point that there are a lot of sexist pigs in our industry, and that you're one of them.
Thanks for your reply.

I put the keywords in my app's keyword metadata section. My app shows up at about #18 for the given key phrase (it's a two-word "key word").

My main concern is that people don't know what my app is about due to it not being explained in the name. However, it is quite popular, so I am conflicted about losing the simple branding in favour of a more SEO-heavy name.

That said: I have added a tagline to the upcoming update and will see if that effects discovery.
Chances are that in a year or so, they'll release a completely native app. That seems to be the trend now - go HTML5 initially to get an app out fast, then create a native app later.
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I agree with the gist, but a modern car's performance won't degrade with altitude: the ECU controls the engine's air intake pressure, so you might get a bit of extra wear on the forced induction system from the extra compression needed, but I don't think you'll see a perforamcne drop.
Make things better than you found them
In practice, the results have been the opposite for us. When we threw in our two-year-old together with a bunch of others in the kindergarten, it took just a week or two to see big progress in understanding concepts such as sharing, ownership, anger management, empathy - both for pain of others and emotions of others, and a skill that I can't name - "understanding what will be the obvious reaction of others to your action X".

If our home had a bunch of kids with 1-1.5-2 year gaps, as is "classical" for homo sapiens development, then that wouldn't be an issue; but since he currently is our only child, then he needs a place to learn appropriate socialization norms with his peers, as opposed to adults, in whose company many socal details are very different.
What, you mean like this?
http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/iphone/
What Ockham really said
Why not? Starting from just $85/mo, http://kidswithout.us/ will raise them until they're 18.
Sorry for my joke. It's a great site.
I think its about time that we realize that Google is no longer the far and above better search engine for what most people search for. News, celebrities, sports, recipes, etc... these are all low hanging fruit when it comes to search. I have no doubt that Bing is on par with Google when it comes to these categories. I'm sure Google still wins massively on the "long tail" search, but these types of searches are only important to a small percentage of users. If Apple suddenly changed their default search to Bing (perhaps also removing branding), I don't think anyone would care besides the techie folks and the bloggers.
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Thanks, will check it out better when I get home (and don't have to use IE 7 ;) )
Ask HN: Any sinophile mobile devs out there?
Ask HN: Any sinophile mobile devs out there?

I have this idea for a great app if you build it I will do all the business stuff...lol.

I've personally funded and built www.fourtones.com. I'm Looking for a combination of skills here. The person/people I'm looking for hopefully fit in the following categories: sinophile, mobile developer, entrepreneur, speaks some engrish.

If you know anyone that fits these categories please have them email us.
That works in places with relatively developed legal systems and enough police and prosecution to eventually catch most bank robbers. Otherwise, there's an endless stream of people coming in, grabbing $10k, and leaving.

In the third world, I've seen banks with military/police with automatic weapons set up outside banks, or private security at the same level. (also, in these places, liability in the event of wrongful death is lower (or, by outsourcing to the government, you get to take advantage of sovereign immunity), and there is more cash on-site)
> What I see instead is that people can't get rid of state and put it as global variables into Python modules.

What I see is people writing classes that hold state in instances for far longer than is needed. Other code written around these classes then need to take this into account. This tends to the same place where global variables are. A tangled mess.

> If one function in a module calls into another function in the module I can only do two things...

3) Adjust the function to include the behaviour that you need. In Python, default parameters often mean that you can do this without breaking backwards compatibility. If a function is deficient in some way, why not fix the function rather than working around it?
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A very detailed technical review of USB chargers, which are not all the same.
This.

As I say in my updated post, this is a complex issue with clear combinatorial factors. More than likely it's not limited to one chip, one packet, or one EEPROM configuration. A quick reading of the web shows various unexplained issues with this family of Intel ethernet controllers randomly exhibiting the exact behavior I've described. Different controllers, different mobo OEMs, different EEPROM settings. Are all of these issues related to some kind of "packet of death"? Certainly not. However, are at least some of them? Almost certainly, even if they're not vulnerable to my (extremely specific) "packet of death". We still don't know exactly why this is happening (even in my extremely specific case).
My expeerience is they mostly wants to know as little as possible about computers. Computers are necessary evils to most craftsmen I can think of. And I kind of understand them.
I am also one of the happy linode customers for more 3 years, but I also think we shouldn't judge by using the price tag only - constructive competition is always good for us.

I still remember the old days when I switched from slicehost to linode, 30% (360MB vs 256MB instance) cheaper and later 50% (512MB vs 256MB)..
How I went from non-technical noob to [amateur] programmer in 6 months
i think its bullshit, just buy 10 vps and write garbage to disk, in a month you can wipe their entire stock of ssd disks.
I always love these redesign post-analysis. I think it's one of the best ways to learn design, especially reading the intentions behind "the purpose" of the design.

That said, I feel it's a little odd that the profile picture on top is unaligned with the rest of the content. No other content is pushed to the left like that so I'm not sure what the purpose of that was...
Well, that's the ITU's definition. Unfortunately they didn't acquire the trademark for the 4G designation before carriers already had started to use it on their "slightly better 3G" networks, so there is no regulation on the use of the term in the market.

I think it's funny that AT&T called one of their earlier networks "4G" so now when I have an LTE signal, it doesn't say 4G and when I don't, it does...
I'd love to see a C-64 style intro for a Linux distribution
I don't have a lot of experience with DO's support, but my one request was solved in under 10 minutes. Other than shared hosts, I've had this type of support from all hosting provides I've used. If a provider took more than 15 minutes to respond to an urgent request (eg server down) I'd find a new provider.
Re turbochargers: For a sufficiently high fuel price, compression becomes a necessity. Atmospheric engines have more or less disappeared (100% for diesel since about 10 years) from the lineup of European manufacturers for example.
We've had an absolutely horrible experience with Rackspace (managed, managed cloud, and unmanaged cloud). I think Rackspace has seen their day come and go (used to be a very loyal customer) and are really struggling. Their tech is old and outdated, they're awash in duplicate controls panels, their billing isn't unified, and their UK presence is completely out of control.

We're moving away as quickly as possible to Linode and AWS.
No problem. Feel free to drop me an email if you get stuck.
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Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5188620
The answer to "this is useless, drop it" is "I'm enjoying it, so it's not useless."
>No, that's a false etymology.

It's not about etymology. It's about usage. The term has a long history and differing uses. The etymology does not matter (it rarely does, and if it does it's mostly for historical reasons).

It's the use of the word that matters.
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Well there are certain cases, when it works and when it does not. But the point is there is a huge room for improvement when it comes to remote working.
Pay by hashtag
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"My friends who have searched 'My friends who use BangWithFriends'"
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>> Exasperated, I silenced her questions with a bag of Cheetos.

Is anybody still surprised that more than 66% of this country is overweight/obese?
Hey Kevin, think of it as akin to "hanging punctuation." Since the photo is a circle, I consider its visual "edge" to not be its literal edge.

Notice also how the edge of my face sits along the imaginary line of the left margin.

Thanks for checking it out and commenting, and good work with HackDesign!
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If you want to get up and running in a SaaS kind-of-way, check out Tropo.com. Great developer support.
They broadcast news in Latin on their international station.
Except when the seismic signature doesn't look like a natural earthquake.
I love how YouTube approached this: Choose the simplest and most stable tools and use those.

It's a great strategy for developers that want to ship. Otherwise one can easily be lured by the siren calls of new tech.

I've certainly fallen victim to this temptation, but I've found that as I let go of the new pretty things and focus more on using the old boring workhorses of the interwebs, I get a ton more done.

Plain vanilla seems boring - but it's bad-ass in web architecture. We forget that YouTube had plenty of competitors that were well ahead them before they dominated.

They kept things simple and solid and that allowed them to scale. It's certainly not the only reason they won, but I'd bet it's a huge part of it.

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For more on YouTube's stack, see: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/3/26/7-years-of-youtube...
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I tried to email you. I got a delivery failure. HN username@gmail.com right?