skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed a same kind of leak in one of our apps and this post was more than worth of gold on how to hunt it down.
Support matters. When your neighbor is being DDOSed and you're offline as collateral damage, active support is the difference between happy customers and angry customer losses.

For hobby boxes, yeah, sure, use whatever is the most cost-efficient.
Danielle who?
> I suspect abandonment rate is rather low.

I'd say it depends on the situation.

If you're shopping for something specific, say for a new hard drive or monitor or something, chances are you've been looking around for awhile and once you're in the checkout process, you've made up your mind to commit to that product. A few extra fields for payment data probably won't deter you.

But on the opposite side of the spectrum, if someone is going to impulse buy, each field you force them to fill out gives them a few more seconds to decide "Eh, I don't really need this..." and abandon. In those cases, you want payments as frictionless as possible. I know I've done some impulse buys a few times after being drawn in via an email campaign or something--and subsequently decided to just forget about making the purchase.
Except this is a good change, from what I can see. I think it really does make the site nicer to look at. Why would improving the site accelerate their decline?
Thanks for the links. Very interesting and very helpful!
Things dont come cheap, they might be beaten at the price..but the comparison ends at that..

Enterprise Hardware at 20 Dollars does not come cheap, and with their support unlike AWS or anyone else.. they are every bit worth-full
LiteSpeed's Free Anti-DDoS Proxy Service Returns to Operation
I have recently been thinking about moving to digitalocean, because they look like excellent value. I haven't made the move yet because of inertia, and Linode's customer service which is just mind-blowingly good. I suspect that in a couple of days I won't be able to spot a single patch of greener grass on the other side of the proverbial fence.
It's also a bit meaningless since no one ever wants to describe the thing they just designed as not being "beautiful".
Google Brings Its Local Discovery App “Field Trip” To The iPhone
> If you check out lowendbox vps, their top-rated providers almost always beats linode (and alike) in almost all category you can think of.

And then you go and try those services, and realize how poor performance and stability is. Having been through several providers, I have personally found nothing that compares.
I got all 50 states when I tried it. Make sure you use lowercase or it'll duplicate the ones you entered.
Yes, absolutely. If you're thinking of a low-volume, semi-manual system, you can simply generate a list of addresses, store them on a DB, and display them to customers for payment. Then send out your product/service once you verify payment has cleared on the Blockchain Explorer. That's a good, simple, low-tech way of taking care of things, as long as you carefully match addresses to customers and take care to securely store the wallet you used to generate the addresses. But assuming you can program, it's not hard to implement an automated payment processor, or to integrate a third-party API. Please don't be scared off by alarmists. As long as you are taking care not to store large sums of Bitcoins on your server, there's no problem. You can easily set a cron job to move the full balance off your wallet every minute to a cold, air-gapped, inaccessible, off-site wallet (Armory looks good for storage). As long as you're not distributing bitcoins (like exchanges have to do), you don't need to worry about keeping a large sum on the wallet you use for your app. Please feel free to contact me at the address on my profile if you have any questions (my user name is my real name).
Pretty much. Whenever I use it on my iPad that's probably 70% of the screen real estate now when I open up the app.
It's too late for that argument by that point. Sauron (and Saruman) are aware of hobbits and that one of them has the ring -- hence the Nazgul showing up in the Shire even before Frodo gets on the road.
if there is a view to just see the pages that you follow, this will keep brands happy. Otherwise - yawn!
Please. Major upgrades happen every single day among the various VPS providers. And whilst it is notable it isn't particularly useful to most Linode customers. In fact 99% won't see any difference at all.

Had they actually decided to offer SSD based instances to compete with the likes of DigitalOcean then we would have something interesting.

Also this is a terrible way for a company to earn trust. It should be earned based on their behaviour during the bad times. And we know how appalling Linode handles those.
Agreed. Any suggestions for those applied books? I haven't found any yet.
You can save a bunch of fields in the form (and has nothing to do with fraud):

1. Given postal code, asking for city and state is pretty much useless. There is a unique mapping from postal code -> city, state. Maxmind used to have free db, but you can download it from geonames here: http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/

2. You don't need to ask for card type given card number. Again, simple regex. Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72768/how-do-you-detect-c...

3. Only American Express supports name verification. Most other banks don't. So, asking name is pretty much useless. If you already have the customer name in you database, use that to fill them in.

4. Things like 'Company' are just not needed.

5. Phone verification is again something supported by very few banks.

That just cut down 7 fields with no compromise on fraud.

Also, any good payment processor will let you store card information (in a secure manner adhering to standards set by Visa, a.k.a being PCI complaint). So, you could just display the last four of the card along with card type and charge them at a later point of time (think Amazon checkout).

So, payment forms need not be nearly as bad as the one pointed out in OP. But, sometime bad design choices and legacy thinking comes in way.

I work for Balanced Payments. When we were PoundPay (previous avatar of our product), we used to serve the payment frame via iframe. Our form looked like this:
http://imgur.com/wF2Z2qZ

It encapsulates lot of points I discussed earlier.
I don't like this trend towards icons without labels. They make things prettier but don't increase functionality.
Hi, I tried that but my ssh version doesn't have the -W flag. What would you suggest?
> Join the waiting list
Sounds like building fake hype to me...
It always drove me nuts that I had to repeatedly set my news feed BACK to 'Most Recent'.
People don't mind paying a premium if they trust the company. I know that linode won't disappear tomorrow but I'm not so sure about an unknown VPS company.
Google licenses VP8 patents from MPEG-LA
Can music help treat children with attention disorders
What Places Have the Worst Commutes?
Post Mortem for Performance Woes
There is another reason as well - at least in the UK if you are VAT registered. You need to know if your customer is in the UK, EU or outside of the EU, and if they are a business or not (their own VAT registration number), so you know if you need to charge them VAT or not. When the tax man comes calling, you need accountability to ensure that you have been charging the correct amount to the correct people.

Extremely frustrating for purchasers and sellers to need to provide and collect all of that information simply to accept a payment. Far too much friction.
If anyone from FB is here: is the live news ticker going away? I can't see it in any of the new design preview pictures. I honestly love that feature and would hate it to go away in the new design.
Why Your Company is Not the 'Warby Parker for X'
Indeed. I used the ... notation rather than an abstract index to indicate a countable index set. If you expand out all the details, it's tedious. For instance, each Ai also has to be measurable.
This is the main reason I am a contractor -- I take a LOT of time off. For my clients, it is normal for contractors to have gaps in availability. For my on-site colleagues, they know that the vacation is unpaid.
Well, that depends on your friendlist. Most of the stuff on my "feed" are news articles and blog posts, there's almost nothing about cats and rarely food related posts.
Most medium sized vps will provide DDOS measures to a certain limit (no one will provide full-proof DDOS support). Fast and good customer support from server providers are not as rare as they used to be, they are pretty much given.
New Asynchronous APIs for Dart
I was lucky enough to give a presentation at an Intel "Perceptual Computing" meetup (their version of the LeapMotion), and I met a dev advocate from LeapMotion.

I think it's very interesting; the API is solid, and it's really easy to use with Javascript because you can interface with it directly through a Websocket server. That, plus three.js, means you can do some interesting things with examining 3D models. It isn't a far stretch to see medical and industrial applications, as well as interesting games (Infinity Blade, laptop edition?)

There are a few companies working on this at once[1]; I think it's definitely something to keep an eye on. It seems like a natural evolution of webcams.

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339266
soo G+? is this live now? or not yet?
Immediate interesting conclusion is that traffic conditions often aren't as important as average distance from workplace.
But the remote host can limit your ServerAliveInterval, however most hosts don't close your session if there is something running. On our clusters this is the only working solution, and I tried both, trust me.
Also, bigger pictures…
Are you kidding? I often evaluate offerings from lowendbox and it still surprises me that for many of them images for some of the distros don't even work (solusvm seems to be crappy too). Linode is probably the only company outside of Rackspace (slicehost) to get Arch Linux images right to the point where it works great for production use. The support is always under 5 minutes.
This is probably my favorite redesign from a major company so far. Very minimalistic and clean.

Also can't help but visualize how Instagram will come into play, with such a heavy emphasis on photos in this new update.
Documenting the recreation of an IBM 1130 computer
If you check out lowendbox vps, their top-rated providers almost always beats linode (and alike) in almost all category you can think of.

There are more things in heaven and earth, pavs, than are dreamt of in your vps comparison tables.

People choose slightly more expensive hosting because it is often less oversold, not maxed out (you're sharing resources with everyone else on your server after all), they have libraries, example stacks, backups and extra services, and the support is better. If you pay $5 a month, you'll get $5 a month of support (or the provider will go out of business). How much of your time would $5 a month pay for?

I've used both slicehost and Linode, and a few other hosting companies who promised the moon and failed to deliver. Currently a happy Linode customer and have more important things to worry about than saving insignificant sums of money per month on what is a critical service for a web company.
I'm not ajacksified, but I have a Leap, which I got by joining the developer program. I love it.

I've been writing about it at http://leaphacking.com

Leap has announced that the devices will be available to the public on May 13.

I've been hacking around using JRuby and JavaScript. It's quite nice to work with, and so far my biggest issues are thinking through just how to handle user movement (i.e. what hand/finger combinations and movement should equate to what action).

It's a nice compliment to the XBox Kinect, too.

Gesture recognition has been added so I need to spend a bit of time with that today.
Yea. I'm hoping as part of this nextgen upgrade they announce more RAM. SSDs would of course be nice too, but more RAM is what I want the most
Linode is great during stable periods but when there is an outage or DDOS they are completely absent. I was sick to death of waiting whilst my Fremont instances were down due to power issues and receiving no response from support tickets.

And based on their security incidents Linode is absolutely in the hobby box category as well. At least Amazon is PCI DSS compliant.
That strengthens the case for having the user type in the value rather than using a drop-down menu. That way you can do the heavy lifting of normalizing the format rather than forcing the user to do it in their head.

This might seem really petty, but I'm always a little annoyed when I have to mentally convert the number on my credit card into a month. It always takes a moment to remember that 04 is March, or whatever. It's much easier just to type the value.
Looks like completely normal math to me. It's not like they're trying to shove category theory down your throat or anything.

A useful book! Look just like what I needed. If there's something heavier about it, it's the terse encyclopedic feeling of it, it's not a gentle introduction in this sense.
I'm risking showing lack of understanding, but I think it would be really nice to have some kind of a redis API that allows archiving certain keys (to disk). Perhaps the same way that keys can EXPIRE, they can get archived into secondary storage. Another API would allow retrieving keys from secondary storage.

Of course you can do this in your code, but then you step out of redis. I think it would be nice to bake this into redis, knowing that once loaded back from secondary storage, you get exactly the same object, and avoiding the whole (de)serialization process. Of course you won't achieve the same performance, but this is at least a known penalty.
Looks like Google+. Obviously obvious. Difference being, very few people actually use Google+
Though I do not use Facebook actively, but I still have my account and do check it a few days so the new/cleaner look is certainly a welcome break.

Now, it depends upon what Facebook "pushes down the throat of this new feed".
If it's all the same but larger ads, spam posts or those app posts then nothing changed and if it did, it changed for bad.
How to write a job offer (not only) for millennials.
There's not only one right way > "5+ years of experience if no degree"

You rule your own world > "Create your own workstation with any type of equipment."

Will treat you with dignity starting from your application > "All applications receive a response. "
In case you are running Chrome and Java refuses to run, this is a screenshot I just captured while Landsat 7 was over SF less than an hour ago http://i.imgur.com/NXKCKBY.jpg
Then there are bigger issues at hand and no amount of money or 'alternative' raises will make a difference.
It's not IP based, it's billing address based.

Amazon has a UK presence so it's only natural they accept payments from there. But it's very myopic to insist all other vendors do the same since many don't have the resources to pursue fraud cases overseas. They barely manage to get through locally.

I used to work at a fashion house that didn't ship outside the U.S. simply due to our AVS not being able to valiate addresses outside the 50 states. Losing thousands of dollars to fraud during a bleak economy isn't how people stay in business.
G+, Android, and the Note II. A beautiful combination. Unfortunately, nobody I know uses G+ so I don't check much.
Introducing Passion Projects
My comment wasn't clear. Linode has earned my trust along the years (been a costumer since Jan/2009), via top notch support and quality hardware/network.
I have read other accounts of that "strategy" being used by Nixon - would take me a while to find the exact references so I used that Wikipedia article.
more levels!!
Yes, I believe I was performing searches from the Start menu in Windows back in the 90s, but it was always horribly slow and still missed results. Ever since I got a Macbook in 2006 I've enjoyed instant results from Spotlight--I mean within 1 or sometimes 2 seconds, not 5 minutes!
How is this different from earlier job boards?
Your thread title is significantly misleading. It implies that there is some urgent...need...for her to have access to graph search. That does not appear to be the case.
Craigslist Search DOWN for almost an hour
Beautiful, amazing, and "super" are the three most overused and annoying words that the young hipster tech community uses.
To get to OUR OWN WEBSITE, my manager goes to his yahoo toolbar and types "google", find google on the search results, then types in the google search bar "companyname.com", then finds us in the results list and clicks it.

yeesh.
How Stripe Builds Software: Conversation with CTO Greg Brockman
I'm not even on Facebook, and barely knew what timeline looked like, but having just read this I'm impressed... in part because it looks so damn close to work I've got in progress for forums :(
Err. Linode has pretty average performance compared to the SSD providers.

And during my time as a customer Linode was the worst out of all the VPS I had ever tried up until that point. Constant outages at Fremont and heard about the same at London DC as well.
More is not necessarily better (for longevity):
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/moderation-as-the-s...
As somebody that consumes OS like a maniac, thank you! Next time I am in TX I will take you up on that offer :)
Take a look at this, a new anti-DDoS proxy service provided by Litespeed. this type of service seems to be the future of how handling DDoS attacks.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339500
The big lie is right up top: "All about your friends."

If you look at the layout, it de-prioritizes who is posting as a sidebar avatar (or multiples, in the case of reshares). The left gutter of the feed then becomes a morass of icons and avatars, with the inevitable descent into noise as the calendar icons and companies like CNN proliferate. I wouldn't be surprised if companies start redesigning their FB icons to look more "friend"-ly.

The redesign also copies a problematic design feature of the last revamp of Twitter where the resharer (retweeter) is grayed at the top of the post, minimizing its relationship to the content compared to "Foo shared a link," "Bar is going to Event Name." Curiously, this attributory distinction is more apparent in the mobile view.

So, at the end of the day, as content gets visually divorced from the people associated with it, it makes it easier for FB to slip more and more paid content into feeds.

P.S. "Join Waiting List" ...I'd be fascinated to learn how they use the waiting list and graph traversal to structure the rollout. You know they're going to try to maximize something like that.
I honestly couldn't find another job board that only listed remote jobs. As of yesterday, there's one other :-) And searching for remote jobs on the established sites was generally very clunky. So I think it's a niche that needs some attention.
probably because of this quote:

On the internet, everything is measurable, and fraudsters leave behind tracks they’re not even aware of. What IP address is the user coming from?

edit: oh, you probably mean 'why do you think (random business) refusal is IP based'.
Vertically Responsive Design : Keeps important stuff above the fold
I think Dropbox should pay developers to do this. You already have n apps storing x MB of data on Dropbox, sign up now for a free account!
Twitter data scientist Oscar Boykin: Programming Isn't Math
Look at our checkout form on http://systemdiscs.com/

In the expiry drop-down, we have all possible permutations:

1, 2, 3, ... 12; 01, 02, 03, ... 12; jan, feb, dec

and for the year 13, 14, ... 22 and 2013, 2014, ... 2022

Basically, I addressed my own pet peeve of never knowing what format the drop-down contents would be in and therefore never being able to select it via the keyboard correctly.

What I would really like would be some way of having all those permutations, but when the user actually clicks the drop-down (instead of keying in the stub) only one of those sets is displayed.
They are gradually rolling it out on the web to users over the next month. Then iOS, then Android.
The question you propose to ask is "can this species understand its own fairness to other species?"

That is absolutely not testable by our current means, not for any rigorous definition of knowledge. There are numerous instances, for example, of mothers of one species nursing the young of another species. Sometimes even of predator mothers nursing prey young. So, prima facie, assuming a reasonable definition of "fairness" it would seem that a vast number of species are capable of exhibiting this trait, including many of the ones you eat.

Second, it's also completely arbitrary. Why test for fairness? Why not ability to generate a profit on the stock market, or to do square roots, or tie shoes? It's a stupidly chosen metric that, at its heart, embodies circular logic -- choose a human trait, and then apply a human-centric test (which we don't even do by the way) to see if the species can be eaten. What do you expect the result would be? Even dolphins can fail this exam.

The bottom line is, your criteria is arbitrary and untestable. And it cannot even be applied consistently, as you would have to admit the consumption of severely encephalitic fetuses and the like -- which is something only a person arguing an abstraction could endorse. No socially well-adjusted person can seriously admit that they want such a thing to be permissible in their civilization.
"In terms of academia and career, engineers at companies like Google are used to doing really well and rejection is not a frequent event in this part of their lives. They probably got into one of their top choice schools, where they then left to work at one of their top choice companies."

Is there any evidence that this is actually true? It certainly wasn't true for me.
How research misses the human behind the demographic
If you're actually running a business off of a VPS, where the cost of downtime far outstrips the monthly bill, it's absolutely worth paying more.

I have a VPS I found on lowend box. $5/month for a 512MB OpenVZ. It's a pretty good deal, and it does what I need it to do; I have full control over it, I can give other people access to it, I can run any kind of website on it as long as I don't care too much about performance or uptime.

But there's no way I would run any service that was bringing in money on it. It basically has downtime every single month. Usually only for a few minutes at a time, and they tend to scrape by just barely exceeding 99.90%, but still. There also was one time when they emailed me saying there had been a power loss or some other reason that the rack my server was on went down, and I actually ended up having to go into the console to start my server back up and get everything working.

I've also found their support ... not particularly supportive.

Sure, Linode is 4x as expensive for the "same thing" (though to get Xen from my provider is only about 3x cheaper than Linode), but the amount of total money is negligible. $15/month. Maybe if I needed more resources it would be a difference of $100/month, but if I need a 4GB VPS for a service that's meant to make me money, that should still hopefully be trivial. For a service provider with much better uptime and support, that's a no-brainer.
Seems like -W disables the delta transfer.
The only drawback of a far laid-back position is that the neck might start to hurt.
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Facebook's New Design
It's not true that zip codes are unique to a particular city and state in the United States. Where I live, for instance, several couple of cities share the same post office - and thus zip code. It does cause confusion in some instances, especially with address verification.

There have been times when I have had to put the wrong city in my address because of zip code enforcement. Fortunately, the post office does a pretty good job delivering anyway.