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If you are hitting swap often, you're doing it wrong. The second any machine I'm running is hitting swap I'm reconfiguring the machine or resizing the machine so that it does not hit swap. MySQL can be tuned to work with the memory you allocate to it such that it does not hit swap. With the doubled memory it will be easier to allocate for query cache hits.

There are definitely some things where disk IO is important, but swapping should not be in that equation unless you have a problem. I prefer better CPUs and Memory to disk IO on servers usually. The database server is the only server I care about having decent IO, and Linode does have decent IO for non-ssd drives (a lot better than AWS).
Inside the US there is a rough equality for opportunity to become "middle class" which is constantly shrinking.

To become an elite upper class person, family helps a lot.
No, we pay them more.
http://accumulo.apache.org/notable_features.html

cell labels
>$2,000,000 pizzas.
Because the FCC ruled that wired networks are subject to network neutrality rules, and that wireless networks aren't.

Verizon has every incentive to move efforts to broadband wireless.
Some apartment buildings (Including mine) have webpass which is 100mbps up and down (and in some locations 200mbps) for $50 per month. Other than that internet in SF is surprisingly bad
Sure, recursion is possible in Java, but it's rarely used because of the inevitability of hitting a StackOverflowError given a sufficiently large value of n.

Teaching recursion doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless you're using a functional language where loop iteration is not the paradigm.
Fresh leaves don't last very long.
The biggest problem with this release is how few modules are available. I see no end to the native modules they could make as in app purchases –– and that's not necessarily a bad thing. OmniFocus, Charles Schwab... these are just a few of the modules I would want before buying this app. Until then, I'm holding out.
The other caveat is that you have to be concentrating and paying attention to your performance for those 10,000 hours.

Very few people, if any, have the metacognition and executive function abilities to pay attention and steadily improve for 8 hours a day. The experts in Outliers and the research it's based upon would typically practice for only 4-5 hours/day and then rest, or do fun stuff like playing through pieces or doing a few flips or easy jumps. A bunch of anecdotal evidence from myself and my friends in Ph.D programs or professional jobs, plus RescueTime's survey of YC founders, also supports that most people can get no more than 4-5 hours of cognitively demanding work in per day. Hence the 10 years = 10,000 hours.

When you're working an 8 hour day, it's usually more like 4-5 hours a day of heavy concentration, plus 3-4 of overhead (checking e-mail, responding to e-mail, doing grunt work like unit tests that you already know how to do, talking to coworkers, sitting in meetings). If you're lucky. For many senior devs it's 8 hours of talking to people and zero coding.

(Although you can turn that into deliberate practice as well. For a while, shortly before and after I made Senior SWE at Google, I was spending the vast majority of my time answering questions from my peers and doing code reviews. I had very little time for coding and my basic coding skills improved very little, but I got really good at being able to dive into an unfamiliar codebase, identify what people were trying to accomplish, and find a way to make it happen in a not-completely-gross fashion. That skill proved invaluable later on, and basically saved the launch of one high-profile Google product.)
> The hourly, broken-up billing is a smokescreen

Its not a smokescreen if you are using AWS for a cloud (e.g., dynamically provisioned according to need) server infrastructure rather than as a simple VPS.
Agreed, I don't know if I'd be able to sleep if my status was displayed on anything with less than a 20000:1 contrast ratio
Coming from Wall St. it would be pretty absurd if it were irony. There's an entire world where billions are made from deal making and leveraging other people's work.
I want something which lives "inside the firewall" vs SAAS, too, since a lot of the metrics I want to track are on servers which I wouldn't want to have touch the Internet bareback.
Anecdote time!

I once had a small problem with either spiders or bedbugs; I sprayed extremely generous quantities of rubbing alcohol everywhere. It was extremely effective.

I've been curious ever since if anyone else has had a similar experience.
Why will there be a sale or something in the next week or two? This is Panic we're talking about, purveyor of high-quality apps that are priced to match. Not some $3 game that you're hoping to snag for $1 because you can't afford that $3 and a soda at the same time.
As much as I love the fancy XKCDs with scripting, I do wish that sometimes Randall would post some background info on them (maybe a week or two in the future after people have had their fun reverse-engineering them) rather than having to wade through dozens of pages of a forum thread to see what was going on.
I'm not sure if this is how the specific ones being talked about might be working, but a simplified way of doing it would be that when APP A is installed it connects to a server and tells it that it has been installed with UNIQUE DEVICE ID, that way APP B can connect to the server and see if APP A has been installed on UNIQUE DEVICE ID. You can imagine ways to do the same with viewing ads etc.
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Is it just European bias or is the US largely near a 3rd world country in terms of internet broadband access?
Haven't used the app myself but from reading what it does, one possible business model could be to land in deals with cab providers and allowing the user to book a cab when he is ready to leave.
I'm getting increasingly intrigued to how much advertising they're getting for their $30m
> Telling Google to "Choke on a fucking taint, Google. Choke. On. A. Taint." [1] is also not nice, in any universe, not even HN.

Maybe this is just me, but I think hyperbolically telling a for profit corporation to stuff it (e.g. screw AT&T), is far more socially (normatively) acceptable than making a personal attack against an individual.

Neither are _nice_, clearly.
Oops, forgot to include the link to our OSX desktop app as per the parents request, you can get it at: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/telemetry/id571033468?mt=12
Actually pretty unimpressed, and I usually like most things Panic makes. The UI seems like gloss for the sake of gloss, and it is very hard to parse too. What's with the super-bright colors and super-bright whites on a super-black background?

Not only that but Emails Sent seems like a useless vanity metric, so I'm surprised it made the demo screenshot. Is anyone really going around thinking that they need an emails sent dashboard?

And is it a personal status board or a team status board? Do I really need to see a MacRumors feed on team board? And a clock? All in the screen space of an iPad? Seems like they went with a "hey what can we put on this screen" design process instead of things a team _really_ needs.

Edit: I wasn't sold when Dashing[1] first launched, but the demo[2] that siong1987 posted seems pretty promising.

1: http://shopify.github.io/dashing/
2: http://dashingdemo.herokuapp.com/sample
No, that would be us here in Canada :) Especially on pricing and caps it feels that way sometimes.
No, yes.
If you add 'sex' to your list, you have a complete list (of the major factors that matter). So it's not like there are a whole lot of reasons.

"If you cannot prove you have any proper reason, a racist reason can be assumed and you're facing trouble."

No, this is not true. In the general case, the burden of proof is on the claimant, i.e. the person feeling discriminated against. There are specific circumstances where case law stipulates that discriminatory motifs may be assumed unless proven otherwise, but those are far and few in between, and to be interpreted narrowly.
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The article states that in this case, the account was not penalized.
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From experimenting with the app, it seems your custom input can be:

* RSS

* CSV

* JSON

* HTML <table> which the app formats to look nice

* Raw HTML which the app does zero formatting of, and they provide a PDF with the information necessary to make it look thematically appropriate (e.g. correct fonts, colors, etc).

The JSON/CSV can be displayed as a Graph, and CSV/HTML <table> can be displayed as a Table.
If you don't mind me asking - What did you spend $15k on?

15k isn't really that much. One month of his time is probably at least 10k, especially once you start thinking about health care and other benefits.
Substitute technical drawing for aircraft maintenance and I would probably agree with you.
I don't think its bias. I cannot get DSL, CABLE, Fiber-anything... My choices are: Dialup, Satellite, or wireless internet.

I can get 3G cell coverage -- sometimes.

My street does have cable television, they just refuse to service the area with internet access. My country has an exclusivity agreement with this cable provider, so no other providers can come into the area.

The sickening factor for me is the fact that I live practically on the county line. I can SEE houses with time warner service from the end of my driveway. They just can't go that extra half mile.

Crazy. So, basically, I end up paying $50/mo for 1down/.3 up. That's with lots of packet loss, too.
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BerkeleyDB is not so fast actually comparing to modern alternatives

http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/
Even if they do end up following through on this, knowing AT&T it will be subject to the same 150 GB/month cap they have on U-Verse.
According to the page, it downloads packages during installation, so yes,you will probably end up with a big installation once you have everything you want, but at least you don't have to download a big ISO containing software you don't need.
And a way to search for only non-VEVO videos. (I hate the VEVO player.)

In Firefox, click the Searchbar drop-down "Manage Search Engines", and then the link "Get more search engines". Find and install the YouTube search engine.

Now edit the $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/<your profile>/searchplugins/youtube-video-search.xml file. Change the os:URL tag template section from "?search_query={searchTerms}&amp;" to "?search_query={searchTerms}+-vevo&amp;".

Your Youtube searches will now default to excluding the term "vevo" from any result.
I've got this, I've used it a couple of times when I needed to pick my wife up. I think the last time I saw it on HN was a day or two before she was flying back from somewhere, so I gave it a shot just for fun. It worked great, thanks!

I've got a suggestion though. On the last flight I was on myself, just a couple of weeks ago, I was talking to the two guys next to me and one of 'em said something about wishing there was an app that would do basically what Just Landed does. I knew I had it but I couldn't remember the name of it and didn't manage to find it to show him before the conversation turned elsewhere. Neither "Flight" nor "Airplane" nor "Airport" in the search page turns this app up. It seems like it's possible for it to - "Flight" shows TripAdvisor's app for example. You might have been a couple of bucks richer if I'd been able to find the dang thing to show it off for you. I don't know how you get things other than your app name to work on the search page, but if TripAdvisor manages it, you can too! I believe in you! Make it happen! Also because I'm going to forget what it's called again by the next time I have to pick someone up at the airport.
US is very much behind in terms of quality and adequate pricing for Internet access. It's mostly the result of sick monopolies developed around it.
"under the fair use doctrine,"

You either didn't read the article or missed the point completely, 'fair use' has no relationship whatsoever to this case. Youtube is free to host the video or not, at their discretion, regardless of copyright law.

"A good lawyer could even get slander of title up there against Universal for claiming copyright on a video which they clearly don't own, in which case he could get a nice paycheck out of the lawsuit. They could also stick some RICO act in there."

Please don't make uninformed legal claims of things you obviously know nothing about.
That's nice and all. But it didn't help in this case, didn't it?
Woah! It's Dashboard for iOS! ;)
Have you looked at Suse Studio? http://susestudio.com/ Frankly, as an Ubuntu/Debian-derivative user, I'm a bit jealous. I wish there were something like this based on Debian (or Ubuntu for that matter). You can tailor a system to your needs and then download or share your custom ISO.
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Yes, it's changing. But it depends on the software and whether it's specifically built to work around monthly payments. As an example, Diablo III was beatable in a few days and left you with absolutely nothing to do afterwards. Whereas a game like World of Warcraft has you paying monthly for several years to play a seemingly never-ending game.
> I can SEE houses with time warner service from the end of my driveway. They just can't go that extra half mile.

Is there a way to create some local network with people who have access in that half mile? Then you can share the bandwidth accessible from their location.
> My county has an exclusivity agreement with this cable provider, so no other providers can come into the area

I see this over and over, and I don't understand WHY a local government would ever do this. What do they get out of these exclusivity deals?

Meanwhile in my old town in Sweden, the city-owned power company built a supplier-neutral fiber network to promote competition (and a price war).
As someone who purchased Sublime Text 2 over a year ago, I'll have to pay a $30 upgrade fee. Someone who purchases v2 now (or any time after the announcement of v3) will get the upgrade free. Anyone who purchased v2 in the 90-day period before v3 was announced will be able to upgrade for only $11.

This doesn't strike me as wildly unreasonable.
It worked out my location (nice) but didn't bother changing dates and temperature to metric/local format so it immediately looked confusing.
I bet that's it. And/or, "hey the sales are falling! Better hide that bad news" Both are bad ideas, blinding them just when they need the data.

I'd rather risk having my competitors occasionally get some of my data, than risk not sharing data freely within my own team.

The competition is likely already getting those signals anyway, and the larger your organization, the more likely that you've got many internal blind spots that you really need to address.
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Do you eat at McDonalds every day? Most places aren't quite so cheap.

Ironically, my roommate actually regularly pays $8 + tip to get delivery McDonalds (via Postmates Get It Now).
When I use remote machines I mount them with samba / ssh so I can use an IDE / Sublime
I haven't ever said that doing good shouldn't be profitable. Please don't put words in my mouth.

I've simply said that it feels like profitability here, especially given the target market of this venture, is a much more important goal than is being disclosed, and that's a problem. Further, there are already free offerings doing just what this proposes to do, so before anyone pays for it, it should be made clear what advantages this has over them.
This German site [1] had an article on the bare cost AppGratis asked the developers to pay:

In Germany you pay 15.400€ for a slot.

They work on a CPI basis. The CPI rate is 1,1 euro for iPhone and 2.2 for iPad. They list the amount of downloads that they "generally can achieve in Germany, Austria and Switzerland"

iPhone : 10,000 DL - iPad : 2,000 DL

[1] http://www.iphone-ticker.de/15-400e-pro-aktion-wie-appgratis...
Well the pilot program is what seems to be drawing the most ire, and that's the one I was referring to. I'm not debating either side of the argument and I believe in charging for a good product. I was just asking a question because I was curious about the thought process of some of the comments.
This is as opposed to the bug reports you can file with other smartphone makers?

I'm not trying to be snarky (well, a little bit), but you simply can't file a bug about an iPhone. You can go to the Apple Discussion Forums and see threads that go on for pages and pages with no involvement from anyone from Apple at all.

The only difference is that Apple releases one model at a time, so if there's a problem, everyone has it at once and it garners enough media attention to warrant a response.

I have no idea how one would file bugs about Windows Phone 8 either.

That Google makes their bug tracker visible doesn't mean they're doing any more or less than the other guys.
We lived with that situation for years. Finally we banded together to start a WISP, signed a few people, and put up some antennas (with the blessing of local government) We then started passing out flyers.

The flyers did it. The a cable company had everyone hooked up in less than 6 weeks. They had previously told the county that geography made this impossible while reupping their exclusivity contract.
This reminds me a bit of the situation we had in Zurich. The (city owned) electric utility had a few hundred million reserves and decided to invest it into a fiber network.

Actually - since the utility was owned by the city - the decision was based on a popular referendum, which sailed through. Needless to say that the established telcos and cable providers fought tooth and nail to kill the referendum.

The interesting thing was that Swisscom (the largest telco and ex-federal monopolist) argued that fiber is not necessary and too costly.

After EWZ (the utility) started construction the private providers went into hyperventilation mode and started their own construction. Later the networks merged into one fiber network.

The network is managed, and I think wisely so, in a way that EWZ grants equal access to private ISPs which then compete for customers. They don't act as an ISP.

While in the first step construction was in the most dense areas of the city the network is now extended to the entire city. Extension was also accepted by popular referendum.

Would construction not have been started by a government owned utility (well, that's us the citizens - we don't necessarily see government as the enemy) we could be sure to wait an additional 10 years until private entities would have deemed it profitable enough to step in.
Internet prices in Canada are awful... Videotron is charging me 50$/mo for 10 down / 1 up and a supplement of 30$ for unlimited download... and the other provider in Montreal (Bell) has exactly the same pricing scheme... we have a lot of choices.
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Different anecdote.

I had a problem with clothesmoths. I took all my clothes and put them in vacuum bags, and sucked out all the air. I never had a problem again.
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Much easier to use/browse version: http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/

It's still ongoing. I bet most people (like myself) completely missed what was going on here when they first saw it.
Google's customer service is absent. EA's is actively hostile.
When I saw the original press release earlier today, I thought the company name was a typo.

It's clear now that AT&T is making a political statement instead of announcing a premeditated expansion plan. Regardless, this seems like one of the worst possible ways to draw attention to purported "special incentives" that the city of Austin is granting Google. There is a large chance that AT&T won't come through on the plan at all--and when all this has blown over, AT&T is much more likely to be remembered for reneging on their plan than for being a proponent of fair regulatory laws.
Happens all the time when I eat at Taco Bell. Yet I keep going there...
If you look at the job descriptions on facebook.com/careers for technical positions, all of the development roles I see listed require a) a college degree, b) a specialized skill set no entry-level candidate would bring to the table and/or c) a certain number of years of job experience.

So the question remains: just what evidence backs up your assumption that there are significant numbers of entry-level technology jobs paying above national averages for high school graduates with less than a year of vocational training? That seems to be a big part of your pitch, both to schools and to students.
Buying things for the home. I'd like to see an interconnected network of pneumatic tubes like banks have at the drive-thru. Connect every home and business with these tubes and integrate it with internet purchasing.
So, at how many RPM does Che turn in his grave?
We grabbed a 3D printer for the office a while ago.
And, yet, running the same test on my own varnish server yields 33k requests/sec with 50 concurrent requests and 28k requests/sec with 200 concurrent requests.

Something tells me that perhaps Tod Sul is doing something wrong.
We're constantly reading content on here that tells us to follow our passions, take risks and solve problems.

Just Landed does that, but it's not an "important" enough problem to solve. He "wasted" his talent and should have focused on the larger problems that plague humanity.

I get that entrepreneurs need feedback, but there's a difference between helping and just plain being an asshole.

This kind of stuff isn't helpful to the community - we see it over and over. My hope is that people won't be deterred by it in the future....otherwise HN will lose it's value.

@jgraili I think this app is cool - kudos to you for the awesome execution. I'm downloading it - I could have totally used it yesterday :)
How is this a first world problem? Air traffic is growing means of transport in lots of developing countries.
India's air traffic has been growing at 17-20% per year. Smartphone ownership is also growing in developing countries.

Now think of the fuel and productivity costs of airport pickups. Usually if I'm early I end up driving around the airport, or worse, spending lots of money on parking. In India people typically wait at the side of the road with their AC on.
If this app works perfectly, there is a lot of real gain to be had, and not just in the US.
I'm getting 81 Mbps download speeds right now on my laptop and have 4G on my phone wherever I go, not really near a 3rd world country as far as I know.
> AT&T's expanded fiber plans in Austin anticipate it will be granted the same terms and conditions as Google on issues such as geographic scope of offerings, rights of way, permitting, state licenses and any investment incentives.

Sounds more like AT&T is expecting to make a deal with Google to resell bandwidth off Google's own fiber after Google puts up all the initial expense to lay it. That would indeed give them "exactly the same terms and conditions as Google."