skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depositor insurance replaces the bank's credit with the state's. That happened here. It's just that the state's credit is trash. If you are in a country with trashy credit it would be highly advisable to move your funds to the closest Switzerland, Germany, or United States.

Why is the EU promoting such fragmentation? Again, remember there are a lot of political and financial flows constraints here that are unique. Pragmatism must trump principle. The choices to the bailout team were let the Cypriot economy crater by refusing funds, grant funds and watch foreign depositors leave the islanders with 145 percent debt to current GDP, or take rapid measures.

My hope is that this prompts the EMU to finally implement a pooled depositor insurance scheme. The present scheme is akin to each state in the U.S. providing its own depositor insurance.
I suggest the book "Release your brakes" for removing some of the self limiting beliefs that are coming through on your post.

I used to always think I was too old, had missed by chance, the ridiculous thing was at the time I was like 20. Not I'm much older and realize that thinking is counter productive and untrue as long as your alive you can improve your life.
Just checked it out on my tablet (iPad) - I don't see much of a difference (of course, it's responsive!) except for the menu, which works pretty well :)

Minor points:

- When in "mobile mode", the search box changes colour so it doesn't look like a text input any more. I'm not sure if that's a good idea.

- I agree with the others on this one again: the gradients and the shadows are a bit excessive. Maybe you could try a "flat" shadow instead? (ie. a shadow with a 0 blur radius)

- I really loved the old docs search mechanism where the site had a local index of keywords and could search without hitting the server. I hope you don't lose that.

- I'm not sure what the concept of the two navigation bars is. What is the top bar for, and what's the second bar for? I see "Documentation" in two places. Logically speaking, I'd expect the upper bar to be the primary navigation, and the lower bar to be the secondary navigation, but clearly, that isn't the case.

Anyway, is this open source as of now? Where can I contribute?
The example should be runnable!
Keep in mind that Ray Croc didn't start McDonalds until he was 50.
It is great on an iPad. Works very well.
Step 1 is changing your self perception and self efficacy. A wise man once said "success is 80% psychology, 20% mechanics"

I'd like to refer 2 resources. One is Dr. Robert Maurer's "The Kaizen Way: One Small Step Can Change Your Life".

This book is about how you can bypass the fear mechanisms of the brain, which cause procrastination and failure.

The second is "The Winner Effect" by Ian H. Robertson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlxCN1aCa2M

Both of these books are grounded in research and not "rah rah" feel good stuff. With regard to Dr, Robert Maurer's Book "The Kaizen Way". I'm a living case study. Through direct application of his theories in less than 4 months I accomplished something that I had been "thinking" about doing for 8 years.

Totally ground-breaking. I'd also recommend Darren Hardy's "The Compound Effect" and Jeff Olsson's "The Slight Edge".

All these books are about understanding how the brain works and using it more effectively to get results - THAT STICK AND LAST.

If I had to throw another one in it would be Charles Duhigg's "Habits". It's been said that up to 50% of our daily actions are habits - things we do without thinking about it. That included "how" we think. Right now if you see yourself as a "failure" you're going to have to work to alter that. You have the mindset and daily habits of a "failure". So you have to literally program in the habits and mindset of a "winner". You could try a gazillion things right but if you miss that, it will be all for naught.

Good luck!
What's your definition of "at scale"? HAProxy can handle over 100K requests/s and 10 Gbps. Is there any Heroku app larger than that?
What is wrong with the random routing they are doing now? Random routing works if your dynos can handle concurrent requests.
Something interesting happened at SXSW
Okay, Phishing 2.0 may have gone a bit too far. I hold my hand up there. As for LastPass, I use that and it's great -- but this poses a problem for those who don't use LastPass, etc. or those who use mobile.
I think if they really meant an apology, the blog post would have read something like:

"Hey all our customers, We're terribly sorry for all the black magic stuff
we did (the shitty Newrelic reporting, etc.) and we've refunded your account
with $100*x for all the losses that we knowingly caused you and your business."

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case with this blog post.
Introduction to Huginn - Web Agents that you control
How Much is a Trillion Dollars?
It's not semantics. Persons who promise a "cure" are usually snake-oil vendors (with or without accreditation.)
You don't specify much about where you are now and where you want to get to.

Do you have some job at the moment? Is it a programming job or something else?

Just "starting a business" is easy but the harder thing is having a profitable business that you enjoy working on enough to make it a success. Does it have to be a tech business or just any business?

How profitable do you have to be to consider yourself successful, is paying your own bills good enough or do you want "fuck you" money?

Perhaps just concentrate on building a small tool that makes some tiny aspect of your own life easier or more fun in some way then launch it here. Charge money for it, or don't. Get feedback, make it better etc etc.
Good luck! I wish you the best. You can do it! I have a similar sense that I need to do my best right now to set the remainder of my life on a good trajectory. I just turned 27.
HN is not a democracy, and it's not an open forum (whatever that means). It never was. If censoriousness drives users away... well, maybe that is itself a solution to a problem.

Features that make HN disproportionately less attractive to the kinds of users who vote up comments like the one upthread sound like a good idea.
Wanted: People Willing to Die on Mars
Jonathan Swift started to write when he was 53. And delivered a hell lot of worthy software, rewriting the wetware of his generation.

You have plenty of time, man.
It requires a much larger number of dynos to achieve similar performance as the same setup with intelligent routing.
that would imply guilt and I'm sure their lawyers are pushing them very strongly to avoid such statements.
If you have good business ideas, zeeder.ch might be able to help you and get you connected.
Here you go: http://jsfiddle.net/chime/xs4MK/3/

Thanks so much! Everyone is welcome to share/extend this. If the 3D part works better, I can make a JS function to convert: 1-WH-[001:011]{A:D}, 30,{0},[20] into:

{"1-WH-001A":[30,0,20,1,1,1,10329599],"1-WH-001B":[30,1,20,1,1,1,10198015],"1-WH-001C":[30,2,20,1,1,1,10987519]}

The data is in the format bin:[x,y,z,sx,sy,sz,color] - the color will obviously be dependent on the data. Position and size are fixed in most warehouse simulations.
The title makes it seem that they may be solving the underlying problem. Unfortunately, they'd rather update their users about how the routing mesh behaves (spoiler alert: poorly) than update their routing mesh to work as they had gone to great lengths to falsely claim.
You already have some assets that will help you: You're interested and have knowledge in the technical aspects, you have imagination regarding projects (don't know how realistic, but let's find out) and the willingness to do something.

Do something small first: duration 3-6 months, can be done by yourself alone (maybe with outsourcing parts, but nothing with a team/partners), little costs and risks. Don't focus too much on the technical side, i.e., look for a problem to solve and only use the tech you can handle (thus making it a product exercise, not a tech/programming exercise).

1st lesson: Execute something from start to end.

2nd lesson: While doing the whole process (coming up with a goal, planning, researching, building, contacting prospective customers or users) you see where your strengths and weaknesses are and what you like. Focus on what you're good at. You might find that you have a technical understanding but aren't enthusiastic enough to do the technical nitty gritty yourself. Maybe you're good in understanding the big picture of a market or you see that you're actually pretty good in negotiating.

This gives you an understanding of the process. Then you have to look for the problems you really want to solve. This exercise gives you hints whether to do something alone or with other people.
LastPass works just fine on my Android phone. :)

Phishing is an everpresent problem, and does require vigilance from both browser vendors and users, but I really don't think that this contributes to the problem in any significant way, simply because there are completely legitimate browser features that can be used to exactly the same effect, and for which the differences between "benign" and "hostile" use is entirely subjective and undetectable by software. Fixing this would have exactly no impact on the bad guys' ability to conduct a blind redirection.
60.

Probably not as many as most people suspected, but it is a niche service that not everyone needs.
Meh, iron deeds are better than concrete plans. But smelting goes first. And this is what happening with him now.
Just pick letters and symbols that are the same on both layouts.
I don't fully agree:

> Then came Flipboard, Prismatic, and all the other content discovery platforms that became smarter than just Google Reader in lipstick.

Lots of people don't want content discovery or anything smart. They just want a list of articles from feeds.

> Google Reader, the product, seems to be a textbook example of how an incumbent failed to head where the puck was going.

Reader didn't join the party on all the new-and-social stuff, and just stayed a usable product in the form it promised when it started. For me, personally, that was not a failure, but a great thing.
Honestly, having a professional tell me that I was depressed was the turning point in my life. Suddenly the big problem in my life wasn't that I was such a loser, it was that I was inclined to think that I was such a loser. And this new problem was one that I could manage: finding new triggers to my depression and avoiding them; understanding when I'm being unreasonably demanding of myself or others because I've entered an episode; knowing how to help break the negative thought loops that sustain an episode of depression.

If you ask how to start a successful business, then I will give you advice on that. If you ask how to stop being a loser, then I will suggest that you are not a loser and you have some depression. In that case, what helped me was getting a diagnosis, reading books on psychological disorders, understanding CBT, and mindfulness meditation/vipassana.

And if you are both depressed and wanting to start a successful business, I suggest that the best place to start is in learning how to deal with your illness.
Same here, over 40 and Swiss. Let's do someting.
Feeling like an idiot is a big part of learning. The key is to persist with whatever you are learning and doing. It's not too late, but you need to start making changes now so that you don't find yourself where you are now in 10 years.
This is the equivalent of the eternal September:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

It's a regular occurrence for a newbie to submit the bookmarklet, I've lost count of how many I've seen. Flag it and move on. When enough people flag it, it will disappear and not pollute the feed.

What I don't understand is how it's got up-votes.
I didn't mean the "rgba()-fillRect-command", but why the font blur is still slightly visible as dark green, while the character itself has already faded to black.
I'm having a bit of trouble writing a couple of sentences that explain why you should listen to me. I think this is partly because I'm not good at selling myself. But I've been where you are, had the same thoughts over and over, only I have a few years on you and have some life experience to offer. Like a great number of people, I have changed careers multiple times. It's not a big deal. As of right now, I've got another 40-50 years to fill up that I don't relish spending in front of a television drooling on my bib.

I told myself the same thing in my 20s. It was data structures for me, not pointers. I remember thinking, I'm just not smart enough to write code. Man, no lie... I'm slow and these concepts are tough. What's different now is that I know a number of people who are willing to take time out of their busy days and explain stuff to me when I get stuck. Very few people build things alone. Even using a language to build a thing of value is going to leverage libraries and packages that someone else wrote.

If you feel like a loser and a loner, this tells me that you somehow feel isolated and that you don't feel like you have a peer group of like-minded people to associate with. For me, the internet has helped tremendously in this way. Many times you cannot talk to someone candidly in person, but you can do this online. The fix for this (which you seem to have already discovered) is to find some way to talk to people, and talk to a lot of people, until you've talked to enough people that at least one of them sees something valuable in you.

Honestly, the words "This is my last chance get my life back on track," are melodramatic. Every day, people all over the world set different goals for themselves and learn new habits in order to meet those goals. If you are convinced you "don't have much time left," you are setting yourself up for failure. How long do you think you will live? After you turn 30, then you turn 40. Then you turn 50. And so on. How many times will you screw up in those decades? Lots. The only way to learn how to make better decisions is to make bad ones.

And to cap this inspirational response off with something totally saccharine, willpower (or discipline) is like a muscle. The more you use it, the more of it you have.

Viel gluck!
Their presence on HN does not show that there's a real problem, only that there's a quorum of users who will act to promote whatever stories fit their pet tribal conflicts.
I'm not sure if you singed up or not. But right now all plans are free during the beta. When the beta period ends, I'll make sure there is still a free way to try the service.
Thanks for your concern, but I'm not depressed.
Constructive criticism: When people want to buy a painting, have them pay the $50 upfront to look through the database of available comments minus the phone numbers and let them choose the comment they want printed to canvas as art.

Aside from that, I don't understand what there is to be upset about. First off, who cares if someone has your number on their physical wall? If you posted your phone number to a public site, it will receive a lot more exposure there than hanging on some persons wall. Also, they claim to only produce one piece of art per comment so really they are only adding one more venue for viewing the number to an infinite amount of exposure via the web. And most likely, the people that the phone number is being publicly displayed to on porn sites are the people you wouldn't want to have your number. So how about... if you don't want people to have free access to your number in connection with some dirty thing you said online, don't post your flipping number on a porn site with your dirty comment, you silly goose!

With regard to this being extortion, the "erase a number from our database for 1000€" thing is a joke, whether intentional or not. The certificate of Unicity (the hell?) stipulates that they will sell a painting of your number only once. So if somebody ever buys a painting with the number: they just erased your number from the database. And if I plug the number of comments in their database, the number of people willing to buy one of these painting, and the number of places you and all of your aquaintences go that might publicly display the art in to my handy probability calculator, the odds that you or anyone you know would ever see the painting containing your phone number are 25 jagillion to 1. Not to mention that if you live in the US or anywhere outside of Italy really, the cost of shipping a 70x100cm canvas would be prohibitively expensive for many. So the only people being extorted are going to be the extremely gullible.

Anyway, it's time to get off the computer and party like an Irishman. Happy St. Patrick's Day.
So as a sort-of-amusing counterpoint to this article, I know at least one ASV who insists that the only way to mitigate BEAST is to disable all ciphers but RC4. Still scratching my head on that one.

That tool you posted is great, hugely helpful for anyone who has to deal with this stuff.
This is great. I was in Paris a short while ago, and it was impossible to find anything on the restaurants online. I assume things like location and contact info will show up in Google results as well?

If I could make a suggestion, a checkbox for "vegetarian food" or "vegan food" upon creation would be great, so I'll know right out of the gate whether I'll be able to dine there.
dot_baiki@hotmail.com lass uns etwas machen. Good Luck!
You're correct on HAProxy - I didn't realize HAProxy had a 'maxconn' flag. I'm guessing the issue for Heroku is that that don't have 1 router/haproxy per app, and that 1 server can handle many dynamos/apps.

Heroku likely has their own custom routing software that communicates with their databases to route incoming requests to the correct dynamos, etc.

EDIT: Key problem with the 'at scale' part is that Heroku does not have a single router, they have many many routers. I don't work there, so I have no idea if/why a single HAProxy couldn't handle it all, but obviously it can't or they'd just do that and save money!

Using a HAProxy with 'maxconn' flag works only for that single router instance. If a request arrives at a different router, it has no knowledge that server is wants to route the request to is already processing a request. That knowledge is internal state in a different router.

The key here would be to communicate this state between all routers. As I thought in the OP, the correct way to handle this at scale is some form of multicast - across a 1gbps network, broadcasted status updates should account for a tiny percent of traffic/processing, yet allow intelligent routing that would decrease latency immensely.

So I guess the original question still stands: is there any router project that communicates state between multiple load balancers/routers to allow intelligent routing at scale ?

EDIT2: Here we go - looks like research is being done in this area. Maybe Heroku should read this paper:

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10...
My understanding is that the term "Cloud" comes from the cloud-shaped symbol used as an abstraction of network infrastructure in system diagrams.
So the Greek bonds get a haircut and in the process the Cyprus banks are thrown under the bus. At the same time Germany, the Netherlands and Finland enjoy the capital influx of insurances and some fonds, who are regulated such that they can only invest in the Eurozone. These capital influx creates a nice boom, low unemployment and ensures the reelection of the idiots who did throw Greece under the bus in the first place.

This crisis would be so funny, if it would occur on any continent I don't live on.
Here is a better link. That dailytech article says things such as "Monsanto won damages of $400000" which isn't true. It also didn't mention that the sued farmer knew what he was planting after it blew into his property, he claimed "property rights".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmei...
conceptual stuff, nice.

a note: this idea of buying paintings of porn comments actually seems pretty good(despite the phone numbers part), I mean, it makes a good gag gift... I know plenty of people who would gift this type of thing and some that would actually put it on their walls, given it's not absolutely gross...

- what the hell is this on your wall?
- internet comments art.
- :¬| ... :¬o cool
Netflix already built and killed an amazing social network
Is 30 too late? Guess someone should have told this guy that at age 65:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harland_Sanders
Linus Pauling on Having Good Ideas
Lollipuff (YC W13) eBay-like Fashion Marketplace without the Fakes
Oh dear God, 30 already? You've got one foot in the grave!

People start things when they're 75, man, and succeed. The best time in your life to start anything is now.
Ok. I believe you. You are also not approaching any sort of "last chance" for a tech career.
What's you're Quora user? You seem like an interesting fellow to follow.
Wouldn't this cause spreads on stocks to get very wide? Liquid stocks are a penny wide now, I could see that going up to five or ten cents with such a tax. While the average investor isn't going to get hit much, in aggregate it seems like it could cost average investors billions. I'm not saying that's worse than what HFT allegedly costs, but just a point of comparison. Not that I'd expect this tax to get enacted anyway.
Damn, what can I say? Thanks man! Will take your advise to heart. My post probably came across as a bit too much whinging. Will make sure that I deliver stuff from now on, rather than empty talk.
Always look forward. That doesn't mean you can't take a few minutes now and then to look back; just don't get stuck in it. Get back to looking forward. You always have the choice.
I cannot relate to much of the OP's story, but nonetheless you just got me so fired up. This is all such damn good advice! Thank you!
First off, you are not a loser. It is a word that you decided to label yourself with, it's totally arbitrarily chosen and not based in reality if you really think about it.

Second , this is not your last chance. Life is a collection of tries and failures but it is important to distinguish between yourself as a human being trying to win at the game of life and your professional achievements (or failures). They are not the same thing!
Like every living organism, you are part of this infinitely complex ecosystem, proliferating, processing and modifying the light from a star.
You are the spearhead of thousands of generations of winners at this game of life, who managed to transmit their strong features into the future with the ultimage goal of achieving a form of immortality.
If you look at yourself from this perspective, rather more important and deep then whatever number is associated with your bank acount in some SQL database on some server belonging to some bank, then the term 'sucess' or 'loser' is really unapplicable.

Likewise, success is a rather arbitrarily chosen label. Our society generally defines it as people who were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time and be born into the right parents and to have met the right people and to have been blessed with the right obsession (which we call talent) to become sucessful at increasing their financial and political score.

But this is just a small piece of the whole puzzle!

My sugestion is to really try to look at your spiritual side and try to realise what your other purposes (besides making money) really are.

Eventually, who you are is really what stories about yourself you believe in.

Oh, and your life is only just begining !
Thanks Scott, glad to be here :)
The code's not open source yet, but it will be. The idea is we'll deliver what we've promised to the PSF, then launch the site for real (i.e. replace python.org) and open source the code at the same time. We want to make this into a community-maintained thing, but first we got some real work to do :)