skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you put zero effort into a attempt to reach the top-echelons of software developer/entrepreneurs and you expect the applicant to customize a resume? The person you'd like to hire most likely has a job, as well as a few offers a week from people that are actively seeking them out.

If you really want to reach this type of employee, you'll have to send individualized notes saying you have an open position, that you already understand the person's capabilities and why your company would be a great place for them to work.

tl;dr If you expect to reach the best employees by putting a few paragraphs on Hacker News, you're doing it wrong.
Ex-NASA OpenStackers launch Nebula cloud control freak appliance
DigitalOcean's deal still seems nicer. Two times the disk and two times the traffic.

I guess it depends on what you want for your fiver (5-6$). Ubiquity's deal has twice the RAM.

I'm suspicious regarding dependability, which I assume one should be in this price range irregardless.
MapR Source Code Now Available on GitHub
You win an extra internet just for using ‘HUNTER2’ as the example password.
Whoa - Sweet Price.

If you want to compare to digital ocean they are having a coupon code on Twitter - Includes 512MB RAM, 20GB SSD Disk, & 1TB Transfer for $5/mo.! Use promo code "SSDTWEET" for a $10 credit.
And we have come to age when we stop trusting our bodies.
We need papers and researchers saying how much we should sleep, how to sleep best and when not to sleep.

We stopped trusting in ourselves what to eat, how to sleep, how to walk and how to breathe, and when to go and relieve ourselves.

Everything must be boxed and timed.

Disconnected we are.
Much the same thing happens with cars. Assuming the same car, a heavy person will find the car costs more to run than a light person. This sort of pricing model would simply be continuing doing that sort of passing the cost on to the customer.

As it stands, small and light people are being discriminated against: they are subsidising the large heavy people. People just don't talk about it that way, normally.
Growing in London is damn easy, especially if you get a mini green house from Wilko to extend the growing season earlier and later in the year.

In the North it really depends on your garden. I have friends in Sheffield with protected terrace house gardens, who grow nearly as easily as me, but my folks with a mildly exposed small holding have a chore getting them providing as many tomatoes as I do - but they won't get a green house.
While I don't think forcing private companies to reveal this information is right, a legal requirement to support data exports (including for up to 30 days after the announcement of a closure) seems in society's interest.
LOL the site is now down :) bad sign for a hosting service!
Server down. I hope this doesn't reflect their offering.
Website seems down. Not a good sign.
I'm surprised the ArchiveTeam / archive.org scrape of Punchfork before it was removed didn't also get a mention in all this mess.

http://archive.org/details/archiveteam_punchfork
Here's the #1 question I have for any of these hosts, and I never see it answered: how stable is network throughput?

I run what amounts to a fancy real-time chat service. Are my users guaranteed a slice of the pipe? Do you have the resources to make sure they won't lag horribly if my neighbor is getting DDoSed?

Keep in mind that there is a difference between "we actively make sure you'll have a good experience" and "you happened to get provisioned on a machine with good neighbors", even though the anecdotes will be identical.
Richard Dawkins on science: ’it works, bitches'
I think the implication was that the military (or drone hobbyists) likely already have similar tech on their UAV platforms. Though maybe not capable of 4K.
>Why are Germany repatriating their gold? Why do they want it in their own hands?

Kraut here. Quite easy to explain, really.

The tabloids and some politicians made up a story along the lines that none of our politicians or central bankers has ever had access to the gold stash in the US and that probably this stash no longer exists.

So as to calm down people, the German central bank has declared they will repatriate 700 tons of gold (out of ~2000t stored in the US, UK, and France).
>In a fork/join program, you need just two orders: run all loops from 0 to N. run them all backwards, from N to 0.

Does this hold for the following code:

for (j = 0; j < 3; j++) a = j % 2;

In both forward (0, 1, 2) and backward (2, 1, 0) order, the final value of a is 0. But with the j==1 loop running last, a becomes 1 instead.
Programming is not the same as understanding algorithms and data structures.

If that statistic is true, I would say that they probably understand algorithms very well, can prove the runtimes, know which data structures to use and why, etc. What they can't do is actually implement it in working code, or write anything else outside of those concepts, like writing a graphical user interface or writing a simple website using some popular language + framework.
I did until their massive security breach a few months ago.

Also I lost all my data and backups.
Yeah that about kills the allure for ... well, anyone who wants a site that's up.
Servers couldn't handle it.
Given the Northern Lights are visible in the video, I think it's safe to assume it's the Great Circle route.
Related: Consider http://Pinboard.in with the yearly plan offering Personal Archiving. Anything pinned (bookmarked) gets archived and you can view it from your personal archive.
Nero - Two Steps From Hell
Why does every host offer a plan that scales at the same rate in every column (CPU, RAM, Disk space, bytes/month)?

I can think of almost no application which requires lots of all of these. Why isn't there a host which allows you to scale your own requirements? Is it a technical thing, or just another form of "oversell and underprovision because most people won't use their plan"?
Page wont load, great advertising lol
Like OP has demonstrated, this isn't how CSS works. To do so because this is how things are done in print is backwards. You could argue letters sitting on their baseline feels nicer to you, though I'd argue this was form over function.

This isn't a baseline - a typographic baseline aligns with the baseline of the letters because this is actually useful in design for example in order to line up pictures with the baseline. No-one said this 'feels nicer' it looks bad when pictures almost align but not quite with text, or when two columns of text don't align (check out CSS columns[1] for more examples of this lack of attention to typography in the spec messing up layout). If you call this a baseline, you'd probably steal sheep! [2]

CSS was created without much reference to traditional typography, and thus makes it hard to do good designs with grids, baselines etc. This is a failing in the CSS spec, not something to be celebrated as the new ideal. There are entire frameworks out there trying to address all the failings of CSS when doing proper design (Bootstrap, Foundation etc all feature grids, something CSS is lacking). It's a shame the creators of CSS didn't consider more deeply the centuries of thought people have put into placing type on a page (or vellum, or a stone wall, or a poster, or a screen, or a phone, many of these rules apply to any medium in varying degrees). If they had we'd have avoided a lot of the hoops people have to jump through just to produce pleasing designs.

I'm not clear why this grid is useful for web design, except perhaps as an illustration of another facet of CSS which is broken by design? Why would you want to align elements with the bottom of the line box as defined by CSS (which is usually invisible)?

[1] http://zomigi.com/blog/deal-breaker-problems-with-css3-multi...

[2] http://www.webtypography.net/Rhythm_and_Proportion/Horizonta...
Visa Demand Jumps
Canadian politics historically had a similar current, the Social Credit Party: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Canada

I think part of it is that farmers were historically socially conservative, but not particularly free-market oriented. Given the miscellaneous catastrophic risks to livelihood that small farmers face from fluctuations in weather and prices, from the perspective of economic politics, farmers have typically been in favor of vaguely socialized systems that share some of the risks and stabilize prices. Even when it wasn't done via the state, the tendency was towards agricultural cooperatives and other kinds of economic pooling schemes.
Words carry history. I can think of words that you might use in conversation with various groups without meaning to project any negative overtones whatsoever that would nonetheless be extraordinarily badly received; you could explain to the paramedic as he stems the bleeding that you didn't actually mean to cause offense.
it's far easier to standardize (xsmall, small, medium, large, xlarge) than to allow for custom requirements for the purposes of communication. Most people don't necessarily know exactly how much they'll need, so its easy to just say "large".

Plus, in a virtual setup, optimizing allocations with custom requirements is a far trickier algorithmic problem.
perl -pi -e 's/^(\t+)/" " x length($1)/e' recurse.c

seems to do the trick; vary the number of spaces inside the "" to taste.
For folks who lease cars (a poor financial decision long-term, but lower monthly payments) you need to take the car back to the dealership you bought it from at regular intervals (3-10K miles).
Agreeing with everything you've said. In addition, there are some really excellent gardening tutorials on Youtube. Last year I learned how to sucker tomatoes from youtube, as well as constructing those vertical string things that allow your tomatoes to grow up instead of out.

Tomato tip: make sure you understand the difference between determinate and indeterminate plants before you buy. Determinate plants fruit all over the bush at one time, and then pretty much die. Indeterminate are more like vines and keep fruiting sporadically over the entire season.

You'll be sad if you are expecting a long tomato season from one or two plants but accidentally buy a determinate plant.

Semi-related, if your climate is warm enough for Jalapeños...those plants just never die. I abused and neglected mine all winter (South Carolina, so never freezing temps) and the poor little plant kept producing fruit. I hardly watered it, never fertilized and it lived in a pot outside. Despite that, it's still happily trucking along ready for the summer :)
There are cures to the majority of speech impediments, if its affecting your life day to day its likely you can also get this (this being speech therapy etc) on the NHS - you should speak to your GP for advice. I've often considered it myself, I have a mild lisp.
This is pretty much a free advertisement for non-competitive pricing.

You have no idea how many neighbors you have on that vps.

And that "vcpu" is likely a hyperthreaded core, not physical, so it's a "half core" in reality.

Monthly	vCPU	Memory	SSD	Transfer
$6	1	1GB	10GB	1TB
$12	1	2GB	20GB	1TB
$18	1	3GB	30GB	2TB
$24	2	4GB	40GB	3TB
$48	2	8GB	60GB	4TB
$96	4	16GB	100GB	5TB
$192	8	32GB	200GB	6TB

At that "4 core" (virtual) pricing I'd take dedicated from OVH instead [1]

The $6 pricepoint is likely to just get you in the door for an upsell.

Why would you subject yourself to unknown neighbors with unknown abusive habits on the server resources when you can just get a dedicated with SSD for less money and co-host your own projects with known behaviors (and without the overhead of a vps hypervisor).

[1] http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/sp_32g_ssd.xml
I'll just hope that if someone decides to go down that route, then at least one other person does too :)
Red flags:

> Ubiquity offers a 100% uptime SLA on our entire Cloud infrastructure

> In the unlikely event that one of the solid state hard disks fails on the Ubiquity Cloud there will be no data loss and no impact on the cloud instance's performance
"Samoa Air passengers must type in their weight and the weight of their baggage into the online booking section of the airline's website."

Uh, Ok, good luck with that :-)
> The truth is that it doesn't work because the bag restrictions are there for reasons unrelated to the weight of passengers.

The truth is that a big proportion of the cost of a flight is fuel, and therefore weight.
I really wish people would test their sites before doing this. I can understand if someone else submits your stuff and you had no idea it was going to happen (but even then...), but if you create an account with no history for the explicit purpose of submitting to HN as the OP did, you should at least test it under some semblance of load.
I'm now confused about what "Cloud Hosting" is. I thought it was a "virtual" dedicated server. All that ubiquity provides is a control panel:
> Our managed cloud servers come with cPanel/WHM access. No root access is provided.
How is this different from regular hosting you can get elsewhere far cheaper? Is it just the promises of RAM and SSD?
StageXL for Dart: Migrate Flash projects to Dart
A part of your question is answered here:

https://www.ubiquityservers.com/ddos-protection
My e-mail is also on my profile page - if possible, could you send me a CV? :-) (To be honest, if you have a portfolio/CV online, you might do better posting it right here as I suspect there will be some interest.)
You're comparing a consultancy rate (of which you'll be lucky to pocket 20%) in Ams with a salary in SF.
“Passengers are then weighed again on scales at the airport, to check that they weren't fibbing online.”
The reddest flag of them all being that the site is currently down, especially if they were promising 100% uptime.
Could you possibly take some time to tell us how the switch from Linode went and how you feel about it now? (I'm a Linode customer)
This post reflects an attitude that is a shining example of so many things wrong in the startup community, from the sense of entitlement...

Well, yes, when you invest in your data, you feel entitled to it. I would argue you are entitled to it.

Which is why Advection, as a streaming VOD provider, has maintained -- at our own expense -- license servers for users who bought movies from content owners that went out of business up to a decade ago. We believe in digital ownership, and believe that non-evaporative content principles are good for the whole ecosystem.

I applaud any archiving efforts that help end users have a greater sense of trust in future digital products.
You may be entitled to protection by disability laws (http://www.stammeringlaw.org.uk/disability/disab.htm) that will help you gain a raise or new employment.
Bingo. Thoughput of all kinds is the number one gotcha of low end budget hosts. Disk, network, etc. I work with tons of these kinds of hosts for clients and I'm just not at all surprised anymore when everything goes to shit a month after I sign up and suddenly the VPS gets transferred off that special "new customers" node for any number of bullshit reasons.

Bottom line: You get what you pay for. End of story.
Or sometimes the CEO stacks the board with his buddies, so he almost certainly won't be fired and any votes on pay increases will sail through.
Spot on. Perhaps I could have used a different term, but 'baseline' gives visitors an immediate sense of what the tool does.

The purpose is to mimic the effect of a print baseline by enforcing vertical rhythm, and while not perfect, it's often better than none at all.
Proving sort correct in Agda
What is with that obsession with innovation? What's wrong with maturity?
Too often I come across the comments of a "no innovation there, it's a crap" kind and I wonder where does this attitude come from.
Medical Care in the U.S is Bad, But Insurance Sucks Too
Lets not forget the whole fuselage thingy.
""How can gaming on linux be taken seriously when the same tired old ports and poor quality games dominate the "top" list by user reviews?""

Well, the answer to this question is this: those making bleeding-edge interesting games for Linux, or those playing them, learn about sites like this and decide to publish reviews.

Anything that makes that happen can only be a good thing, right? There are tons of nice games for Linux, or at least buildable on Linux, out in the universe .. its no longer a dirth of 'good games', its just a matter of knowing what and where to find what you like and get it running.

I personally am a huge fan of Linux gaming, both on Ubuntu and Android, and as a developer myself have absolutely no problems getting into any game, either distributed or in source form, and getting it running on my system. I rarely game on anything but Linux.

In the last few days, my sons and I have played:

* WorldWarVi (fantastic retro shooter)

* crrcsim (I play this on OpenPandora nowadays.. the boys have the big-screen Linux machine with the bluetooth gamepads .. we fly and are trying to make models, not there yet)

* PacPac (we're making new levels..)

* OpenCity (it needs love, but entertains..)

* PangZero (nice and easy)

* TORCS (makes me puke, the boys now want a proper drivers wheel)

* Faster Than Light (mostly me)

* Cave Story (mostly the wife)

* Serious Sam (also makes me puke, we boys get in trouble for playing it right now tho', but we do sneak..)

* Garden Of Colored Lights (very fun!)

* FlightGear (mostly me, and I also need a decent controller)

* AtomicTanks (mostly me and the elder son)

* Voxatron (we play this most of all lately, its just cute fun)

So, with many of those games .. the source is available. Or at least the ability to edit levels. Some games not so much, but where it exists .. we always poke at it. And thats not a bad thing for kids who game with their Dads on Linux to be learning.

So maybe the answer to your question is, if you're not satisfied with Gaming on Linux right now, wait until another generation grows up with it first, it'll continue to keep improving ..

(PS; I'll go review the games above at the new site, I personally love it when things like this get a kick, its certainly worth watching when new game releasers/developers start utilizing these things .. in point of fact, merely keep an eye on http://repo.openpandora.org if you want to know where the bleeding edge Linux gaming is happening .. oh and here is my personal favourite Linux game-review site right now: http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=all&cat=Game&s=new... ')

edit: list formatting
edit2: Found another great tome of Linux games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_games
I don't think you understand what discriminate means.
Three Steps to Making A+ Hires that Fit
Well, of course ;) Thanks!
Getting Web Application Security right from the start with OWASP ASVS
First one is not necessarily a red flag. It doesn't mean that you get 100% uptime. It just means you get paid back if you don't get it. It's an service-level agreement, not a guarantee. (it also doesn't necessarily mean that uptime == your machine is responding... read the document carefully)

The second can be interpreted two ways... Do we start at any state or a perfect state? If you start will all good drives and one fails, it shouldn't affect anything assuming they're using raid. With raid mirroring there shouldn't be an impact on the performance either. However if you start with some number of disks already failing, of course there will be data loss. They could probably say that they're doing N+X redundancy instead to be clear.
The web lets me instantly view a video from a mis-remembered TV show from fifteen years ago. I can instantly fly to anywhere in the world and peer at it from space. I can communicate across thousands of miles and search a massive repository of information. Humans have been imagining such god like powers for thousands of years. We don't lack imagination but self knowledge. Will that power corrupt us or make us better?
Yes, I've seen it. Have you given it a serious look? It looks great in quantity, but would you ever consider purchasing anything for a decent sum from any of them? The only remotely reputable merchant I'm aware of on there is BitcoinStore.

Furthermore, there is noone offering general groceries, household supplies or clothing, just niche approximations of those categories. Also critically lacking are complex B2B services(their professional services section is...well, not much to look at - I certainly would not be investing my business's money in any of them at this time).
At www.gandi.net you can add processor core, ram, disk space and network interfaces separately.
Yep and as I worked on sites for a big Audi dealer in the past they would not be happy giving stuff to scrapers as opposed to getting the lead direct.

BTW for information in the UK a lead for our Audi B2C site was worth around £60.

Sounds dodgy from a Google perspective republishing other peoples content - though I know that Google looked at doing a niche car product - like they have with hotels etc so might not be a viable long term business.
Cookies Wrangler
The visa situation in the US is ridiculous.
Honestly, I'm sniffing, but not seeing any reason to go that path. Automated Aesthetics as you offer, indeed, replaces the need .. ;)
if only all young learners had full opportunity to develop their abilities

The irony here being that our public education system operates in a way that strictly opposes any sort of "meritocracy". As a result, we completely fail to help young learners develop their abilities... wash, rinse, repeat.
Where do you find time to fix bad code?
I made the same switch.

I had a Linode 512 and switched to a 2x512 Dropplet setup and put my Database on one 512 and my Rails app server on the other.

My stuff runs as quickly if not quicker and I spend $10/mo less. In addition to this I also have a clear scaling path (e.g. If my DB grows I can up it to a 1gb. If my traffic grows I can either move the app server to a 1gb or maybe get a few more 512's and setup a load balancer.)
I really like the idea :) Interface looks great.
Disclaimer: I work for UpCloud, also a cloud hosting company.

This is a great question. Something I've been thinking about a lot is also the benchmarking of redundancy and the protection of one's data.

It's easy to benchmark performance, but as Pirelli stated in their advertising: speed is nothing without control. I feel the same about online hosting providers.

Naturally I have no knowledge of US redundancy solutions, but it's one of the most critical yet toughest things to compare when choosing a new hosting provider.

Best of luck to US though!
There's providers who cater to real time hosting needs:
i.e. http://www.synapseglobal.com/index.php
As a follow-up: if you aren't using some sort of system to push merit to the top of the chain, what system ARE you using? Seniority? Random choice?
Well it's all just a mater of personal taste but tbh ... when someone says "GPS. I don't use it, even in a car. I'm old-school as I like printed maps." I don't find it that surprising he has no trouble letting stuff like gmail, google maps and google search go.

It can be done, but for some it's easier as for others.
“obese people have enough of a hard time just getting by”

Do they really? Especially in the US and UK, where obesity has really gotten out of hand, people don't even recognize it anymore. Only the super obese (BMI >45) get the “look at that guy” comments. In reality, obese is BMI >30. For instance, if you're 5'10" and you weigh 210 lbs, you're obese.

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