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My nodejitsu applications have been having a notable amount of trouble over the past two weeks. At various times there would be momentary downtime, broken deployers, and slow updates to status.jit.su. This, however, has been the longest and most agitating downtime yet. Looks like I'll have to move back to handling my servers myself.
In China, we get something like 20 RMB a day for lunch; this is a government-specified benefit that the company can give us tax free, which is why Microsoft, which doesn't otherwise offer free food in Redmond, will give us this benefit in China.

On the other hand, we must pay tax on our health insurance, as the PRC laws on this subject are still too ambiguous.
I agree, this would not be too out of the ordinary at my institution; although I usually would take the approach of going to a different class each day for the first week of classes.
Apps are easier to get paid to build.
One tip from experience, make disclosing your age part of follow up info when someone is interested.

I started freelancing when I was 15, I found that when told upfront, potential clients would bail very quickly. When I tried not disclosing my age straight away but only after talking over projects, giving suggestions and pricing (the things that make clients feel taken care of / comfortable), no one cared...

I think there was only one person who was a little annoyed by this tactic.

I'm a coder so YMMV with the different client requirements.
Thanks for your support, Mz. After reading "Guess what? Men don't possess this kind of self-doubt. They don't start arguments, they start companies.", I am officially out of words (but at least I had a few laughs). Knowledge and understanding don't come as an all-inclusive package, and it is a shame we see otherwise smart folks speaking so authoritatively on topics that are deep and multi-faceted and begin at birth, so-much-so that they couldn't possibly understand them (just as I cannot speak on behalf of someone else's life experiences and do not wish to). Ah well, just another day.

Have a great night :)
I was referring to the sale of the 700MHz C Block LTE band.

One of the conditions of the spectrum license was that VZW couldn't restrict what devices were allowed on the network and that they couldn't restrict what applications ran over the network.

VZW got hit with a $1.25M fine by the FCC last year for blocking tethering apps on LTE.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/31/3207193/verizon-fcc-tether...
And? This is the very definition of a margin call. Retail investors ought to RTFM when it comes to financial services products, especially when it comes to forex.
> I however am told that it is quite an uphill task to join Google without an already established credibility and get to work with their core set of products.

I joined Google a little under three years ago. I dropped out of college, worked at a startup for a few years, then worked at EA for eight years. So, from Google's perspective I had essentially no cred when I started.

My current project (working on Dart) is basically my dream job and I work with a fantastic set of people. I've never once gotten the impression that my lack of education or relevant job experience was being held against me. Once I got in, I was a Googler. At that point, everyone just assumed I knew what I was doing or I wouldn't be here.

Aside from occasional bouts of imposter syndrome, it seems to work out pretty well.
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Doesn't this issue affect Tumblr (and Blogspot, and Wordpress) as well? They all allow arbitrary javascript to be injected by the user in a subdomain, so how are they tackling it?
They both know it was the validated owner of user@example.org, so if Service1 and Service2 compare their users, they will see the same e-mail address.
Micro startups can make seven figures, even with one person. There are some truly amazing business models out there that I never see many hit upon. HN members, in particular, seem to miss them. However, I expect that there are folks who do work in these areas but have the sense to keep quiet about them.

I see most going for pie in the sky type ventures that often have no sound business model (not always true). While it is true that sometimes they are bought out for a billion or your app will make 100k, it is so infrequent I am surprised more don't go after the low hanging fruit all around them.
This used to be called Robocode back in the day.
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Same confusion happened when ATT's cellular business was sold to Cingular, there were two types of customers.
This is very interesting, something I will read as I take a break from Infinite Jest.
What are the implications on taxes? Is this legal?
This is the kind of downtime that would never happen again: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rk8FQr-...

The employee page is unavailable right now. But if you look through the bios, they have a bunch of young open source hackers, but virtually zero operations experience, and virtually zero ops culture, unless you count hanging out in an IRC channel sometimes.
The 2011 census estimated 70000 homeless people in Calcutta. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-21626113
Error handling in Node sucks. I hope they can find what is causing this.
https://twitter.com/nodejitsu/status/321775765962240000

"Sorry for the inconveniences, we found that our database provider (@IrisCouch) is down at the moment, we are bringing up the cloud."

I'm pretty surprised to learn that they don't run their own databases (and also that their database is CouchDB, but maybe I'm just old fashioned).
A fair point, although it seems that Microsoft has designed the Surface Pro in such a way that it is particularly difficult to take apart and put back together. iFixit gave it a repairability score of 1/10.

It seems similar--one manufacturer restricts modification by changing the connectors, the other by changing the casing.

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Pro+Teardow...
Beardy: "$8/month billed annually"
I frankly quite hate it, and no.

Depending on the kind of error they're experiencing, Heroku will show a quite unhelpful and generic "Application is down" screen.

I know they're limited in what they can show back given a certain kind of error but it's real crappy to let your users or clients hung out to dry.

It's especially loathsome with clients because it's indistinguishable from you fucking up. I do wish they showed a "Oh hello we're having a spot of trouble. Please hang tight" instead. Mad points for letting you style the page to match your site.

Of course, as a service provider this would not quite be something you spend a lot of time thinking about or optimizing for.
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They are currently looking for algorithm designers, and will be releasing functionality so that you can charge usage of your algorithms shortly. If you are interested in adding algorithms to the platform or are looking for new algorithms for your application contact them on the contact us page. Let them know what you think.
Happy AppGratis customer here. Note: we never paid for their services in cash but cross promotion.

A game of ours have been featured by AppGratis twice. They blow our charts what was then followed by a reasonable amount of paid players. That made a _huge_ difference for us. 2.5 months after the deal, there are still more downloads than was after 2 weeks of the release.

If you are a small team with very very limited resources. AppGratis is a really good way to get exposure this way. Would happily recommend them.

BTW, you can use other services to climb up the charts, like Chartboost or FB ads and I don't think any of them is any better or worst than the paid service of AppGratis.

Building great apps is hard. So is their marketing.
Time to hire a recruiter. His/Her job would be to be a point of contact, responding to candidates and filtering them, even with the help of talenbuddy or the likes.
lolololol. Not surprising considering they're a bunch of hipster amateurs.
Nodejitsu is incredibly unreliable. I use them only because they are so cheap and quick. Anything of value should not be hosted on Nodejitsu. This disappoints me greatly as Nodejitsu is a company i want to love.
This problem has nothing to do with node. It is a problem with a hosting service for node.

JavaScript has exceptions. It has booleans. It has integers. What more do you need to handle an error?
iPhone users learned this a long time ago. Last time I updated, it removed apps I paid for because they had been removed from the App Store.
We are working on a major outage from our database provider, so, please, keep calm :) Our platform will be up asap.

Check http://twitter.com/nodejitsu for updates.

Sorry for the inconveniences and thanks for your patience.
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Interesting but confused on the conclusion...

If the real story is that Yahoo bought the technology to summarize articles from SRI International, who partly owned Summly -> why did Summly's owners make 30 million?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rk8FQr-...

"we are community leaders in the node.js project."

I pity the node.js community if this is what they consider leadership.
Not sure if the message is that clear. If this were their stance they should have announced multiple cities today instead of piggy backing on the Google in Austin announcement.
As an exchange student that doesn't want to go home for his final year, remote degree would be nice too. Mobile work is a relatively trivial problem compared to a long-distance relationship.
Can you please give some details because that's quite a damning statement for a company that professes to be build on enterprise ready infrastructure. I would default to be skeptical of statements like yours, everyone has downtime.
Brain-reading technology has been in use for years. It's possible that direct mental interfaces will completely obviate the keyboard, mouse and touchscreens in the near future, but it's a pretty distant possibility. As impressive as the technology is, it hasn't been shown to be anywhere near suitable for this application yet.

Who's to say that Watson's technology is even sufficiently well-suited for a search engine that it would give not only better results than Google, but results so much better that it would overcome inertia? Google has over a decade of machine learning specifically applicable to search engines. The fact that Watson does cool stuff on Jeopardy doesn't mean it's anywhere near ready to beat Google at its own game.

Simply put, these things are possible in the boolean sense of "not impossible," but are they remotely likely? No, I don't think so. They're stupendously unlikely.
Not that furniture might not, say, be scaled to fit human proportions or anything funky like that.
Perhaps their next project will be a game that teaches kids how to smoke.
For that purpose I use ticgit which creates an unrelated branch in a git repository to store data. There's even a web client if you want to go fancy.

https://github.com/schacon/ticgit
iMessage is great for communicating with less-technical people who I'm never going to convince to use something like AIM. And once I'm using it for them, might as well use it for everybody, at least within the Apple universe.
Empirical evidence is not required to prove what is common sense.

Lets say I was born in Darfur. Bad luck, bad pedigree.

Lets say I was born in Afghanistan. Bad luck, bad pedigree.

... do I need to continue

BTW, pedigree is not the same as "breed" -- it is the totality of everything, including what family you come from, who your parents are, and all that. Society judges you heavily, just based on that, starting with your first day at school.
"JavaScript has exceptions"

But I miss those colorful exceptions like javax.management.modelmbean.InvalidTargetObjectTypeException :P
The best TODO tool for me is pen & a paper. Silence is also the best music I have found to listen to while working :)
They are evidently a bunch of amateur, let's-change-the-world hipster types, as are most of the JavaScript and Node communities. The current "leader" of the Node.js project is a former vacuum cleaner salesman, hahahaha.
Yes I was just walking through the mechanics of a margin call on a short position that goes sour. Lots of people understand that shorting helps you profit when prices decrease, but not everyone understands the risks, especially in the face of manic bubble buying.
Also for anyone that uses both Alfred (2.0) and sublime check out https://github.com/Humanoidism/SublimeIt
This is a pretty cool looking library with a nice site design, great job.
Regulation? Do you _really_ want to open the door for further Government regulation of tech? How about: if you're building something important (e.g. software that forms the basis of a 45-employee business), don't use iOS.

These days, there is zero excuse for being ignorant of the way the software 'market' for iOS works. Which means that companies that continue to depend upon iOS software sales are either taking an incredible gamble, or simply aren't performing any sort of risk analysis as part of their business process.
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FOIA letter generator: http://www.rcfp.org/foia

Note that there's an art to writing an effective request. Too broad and you will be told 100,000 pages are responsive and how would you like to pay for the photocopying. Too narrow and you will get back "no responsive records found."

I think getting useful data on customs clearance would be a long shot -- good luck.
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Operations, like management, is something that engineers who haven't been directly involved in, under estimate. It's like Python programmers telling an embedded systems guy that an ad-hoc database is pretty straightforward, just use a b-tree for heavens sake, everyone learns how to build a basic tree.

That said, there is also a tremendous seduction in leaving the problems to others. Nobody really wants their programming or configuration mistakes to call them up in the middle of the night.

Scaling is hard and it's why many products die when they find they can't scale. But it also keeps good devops people in high demand. So I really can't complain.
For Mac OSX 10.5 and Above.

I will have to check this out when I get access to a Mac that I can install it on. I loved the vim game at vim-adventures.com
So then what happens if twitter also fail-whales?
Back in high school, kids would wear that image. One day while helping my friend at his family's coffee shop, his coffee supplier - who was making a delivery - told us about how Che's army butchered his entire family aside from him and his brother. I've never looked at that image the same.
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What the profess and reality don't seem to agree. The world is bursting at the seams with hucksters who will proclaim anything you want to hear. You should judge based on what people do, not what they say. Anything less is incredibly naive.
> Does it mean Google will attempt to become a mobile provider as well?

Google's been heavily involved in efforts centered around the use of spectrum "white spaces" for broadband, including for mobile devices; they aren't likely to become a traditional mobile provider, but...
Here's what I can remember off the top of my head:

- Deployments often fail with a nonspecific 500 error. I'd say near 50% of my deploys end up failing because of this.

- Downtime occurs at random times. It's usually just a few minutes (maybe 10)

- In the past I've had problems with certain routes always returning 500 errors when loaded in groups, but not alone. This problem hasn't happened for a while.

- The admin panel is at its best only "kind of" responsive. Most of the time it's a complete mystery as to whether commands issued there ever make it out to your instance(s).
Never? There are many cases of highly successful businesses being based upon a 3rd party API. E.g.: every successful software company that sold CP/M, DOS, Windows or UNIX software.

Perhaps a better statement would be: understand that there are risks inherent to building for any given API, study those risks, and mitigate them.

CP/M seems to be dying off? Hope you've started your DOS port already :)
I know I'm getting in the weeds here but no, 400 is not appropriate -- all 4xx errors indicate an issue with user input (with the possible exception of 418). 5xx errors indicate the problem is occurring on the server side.
I'm guessing it's because "CSE 8A. Introduction to Computer Science" at UCSD is taught in Java.

A lot of universities start their CS students off with Java these days.
Really? I've wound up doing a drive swap on every laptop, and almost every PC or server I've ever owned, sometimes more than once. I might have a higher propensity to do that than average, but surely drives are just behind batteries for "most replaced component"
I have a Nexus 4.

I don't use the OS native sip functionality on it, but I do use GrooveIP and I have run into this issue. With GrooveIP you can work around it by fiddling with the various echo cancellation options GrooveIP supports at the cost of introducing a voice latency on your outgoing voice that is just long enough to be annoying (but usable once you acclimate to it), in my experience.

There are generally a lot of audio related issues with this phone with various users unable to get loud-enough volume from the device either on calls, from the speaker or via the headphones Seems to be a software bug as many people report if you root the phone and run alsamixer you can boost the audio up to decent levels, but this isn't a great fix because any time an app adjusts the volume at the SDK level the problem returns.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=41042

Google's stellar customer support consists of no-questions-asked replacing your device (which is great) with one that has exactly the same problems out of the box (which is not so great). Haven't seen any kind of official acknowledgement of this as an issue despite it being very commonly reported online (google: "nexus 4 volume too low")

An otherwise great phone hampered by a pretty serious fundamental issue.
My two cents: CouchDB is great in that it allows you to remove the backend and rely solely on a database with REST baked in. However, it has its drawbacks, like database queries can be costly do to transactions over http.

It's like every other argument in the community, how much control over ease do you want?
Yep! We pump a lot of messages through this per day. Not sure why Travis is failing, probably a recent em-hiredis bump. I'll check it out.
I have not paid much attention to SIP recently but aren't the implementations of theAEC and other components up to the OEM to create or license, as much as, say, baseband firmware, graphics drivers, etc. are the OEM's responsibility?

If Google actually had their own unencumbered implementations, wouldn't they be in the AOSP source tree?
Jolie O'Dell is like fingernails on the blackboard for me, too, but ironically this clip of her includes none of the things that bug me.

In other forums, she is so often in a mood, rolling her eyes and making snarky asides about how we all know how sexist most developers are or how racist some conference was, or how over-the-hill some 50-something CEO is for not realizing that "young people today all [think Jolie's way]", followed shortly thereafter by "speaking out" against stereotyping. Her stereotyping of male developers or older CEOs or "corporations" apparently doesn't count as stereotyping, because stereotyping is bad, and it's not bad to criticize designated perpetrator groups. Anything that she can find a way to interpret as non-praise of a member of a designated victim group or the group as a whole seems to demand that Jolie "speak out," roll her eyes and sigh, and "not put up with it."

And yet in this video, she's not castigating the tech industry for political infractions but just trying to learn some tech herself. She's a lot more likeable in this role.
I don't even understand his position? Why should it be disrespectful? She didn't came late to an appointment, she didnt' disturbed the class by arriving shortly after the beginning, she arrived simply an hour later to an open event (kind of). That is not disrespectful where i come from.
We also really wanted to love Nodejitsu, but our patience on the downtime has been exhausted. SSL has been down at least once a day recently from load balancing issues.
I don't really want a lot more. I used to use JustLanded on my iPhone before I got my Nexus4. It's the quality of apps like this (let alone first party apps) being better on the iPhone that makes me think about going back. The 4.7" screen, however, it keeping me on Android (for the time being).
Sorry, I keep that whole plugin as part of my dotfile repo. When the plugin upgrades itself, I just commit that upgrade. When I install my dotfile repo on a new machine, I have a script that symlinks everything to the repo, including my ST2 data. I then have my .gitignore set up to ignore all the plugins that get installed, but specifically track changes to the package manager plugin, as well as any other custom plugins I write for myself.
>if you can't handle the consequences then you're not fit for life

This is pretty harsh. If you applied similar harshness to your own actions, do you think you'd approve?
Tech news from the USAToday news section and TechCrunch to Anandtech and, yes, Hacker News was dominated by news of the Summly acquisition for five days.

That PR alone was well worth the purchase price.
It would indeed stabilize Bitcoin, but I don't see what's so ironic about it. Short-selling and other derivatives substantially stabilize a lot of markets, popular delusion to the contrary notwithstanding.
We are back to life, thanks for your support and your patience.
Come on guys, every provider goes down some time or the other!
Unfortunately, today it was their turn.

Let's just give them some space to improve and they will!

I think Nodejitsu is a great company! They are cheap, and awesome in support! :)
this is shitty. sorry about your business Nodejitsu, but you just lost us all.
Sounds like Google TiSP: http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html
There are a few ways you can work with AppGratis, but 20k per app is no where near close. They're good people to work with and as an advertising medium for a small shop are excellent value compared to running ads elsewhere.