skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heres why you should persevere though: I have 5 ios apps; together, they pay for my property tax and my mortgage. My house costs $1.1 mln btw. Prop tax in CA is ~1.25%. I am not deeply wedded to ios btw inspite of my revenue. I moved my client side code to Android. Took me ~3 weeks. Unlike Simon, I hedge my (appstore) bets.
And here I just finally finished migrating to RamNode for this very reason a week ago. Frick.
I wonder if investment will start to take a hit when they understand the enormous risk they are taking.
How is this comparing to EC2?
Probably not, because the migration also gets you onto new Sandy Bridge hosts:

http://blog.linode.com/2013/03/18/linode-nextgen-the-hardwar...
Relationships with potential contractors, or anyone, really require the same two things: respect and communication. Replying--even a short message--in this case would satisfy this; you respect them enough to recognize their effort on your behalf, and communicate that this (for the time being) will be the end of your interest.
Great point. You can log into each website with a different email address.

Someone can build a Persona identity provider to automate Pseudo Anonymity.
I did, in fact, post another comment, so the literal answer to your question is "no". Answering your question in, I think, the spirit it was intended (assuming you weren't simply being facetious) I feel that pithily observing that there is a general principle at work of which the article being discussed is merely a minor example is in fact a pretty decent contribution.
Geeky Uses Puzzles To Filter and Recruit Smart Engineers in Vietnam
Indeed. The central point of this post seems to be that "an infinite number of startups" would be "arguably more diverse". Well, okay.
Congratulations to the team, keep up the great work!
Digital product placement creates adverts out of thin air
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"Explainer Videos" explained in 3 Steps
I believe the only justification for the process is a SSL certificate. In the past, it was "pay 1.00 and get 1 extra IP, automatic, no questions asked."

I understand why Linode follows that procedure. I just miss the old days. I have to be more careful about cross porting, cross data, cross domains, and hosts which can't access anything but port 80. I used to just follow the principle of website x, y, z on port 80 on IP1, website a, b on port 80 on IP2.

Luckily, digital ocean basically sells ips for $5/pop.
Nitpick: It seems impossible to scroll down and read the stuff below the actual editor (at least in Chrome), since the editor keeps auto-scrolling me back up to itself whenever new data comes in.
your talking only about the default boilerplate.

but what yeoman primarily is, is a rails-inspired generator system and you can personalize it and build up your own collection of generators. for that it works quite well and better than grunt's own which is simpler.

for instance I'm about to write one that clones compass-bootstrap and creates a _variables.scss and a screen.scss and a test page and hooks up guard reload into a grunt watch task. so I can then live tweak a bootstrap setup while looking at my example page (with all elements( and easily comment out all the features I don't want for a given site.

other simple generators do things like create a single bootstrap model.

or you could have your own personal reset and .scss libs and clone or copy them into any project.

you can write your own using the generator that generates default generators. build up your personal collection.
Staff in their IRC channel indicated people will not be charged the new amount until their next invoice date.
You can read the orignal plugin author's response here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-social-media-widge...
Thanks -- this is one of the best essays on Bitcoin I've read.
Yeah, if you tell them it's for another https site, they'll make you prove you've bought the cert. A bit of a hassle, but I can see why they don't want to just hand out IPv4 addresses and have them sit there unused.
That's incredibly interesting. I'm actually working on a startup with my SO too. It's been a trip so far. I really feel like we're growing closer because of it. Plus she doesn't bother me about working odd hours because she's next to me :)

Any advice for someone starting down this path?
You still benefit from SSDs...
This is long overdue, I've been a linode customer for almost 5 years and I moved to Digital Ocean just yesterday, because their offering was just too compelling to pass up.

Looks like their (Digital Ocean's) pricing shook linode's cages a little bit, and that's a good thing.
Anyone who works with large datasets for machine learning, image processing, robotics, science data processing can use this capacity.
I think thats a culture thing, in china a dog is no more valued than a pig i think. But generally i don't think there's things would be considered cruel to do to a pig but not to a dog.
Activities in Android
I'm confused - What is the difference between this and sites that let me login with my Google account?
That may be due to their ISPs/datacenters rules. Did you try to file a ticket and got refused? I'd be really surprised. Whenever I needed their help, they were awesome every single time. One time I was traveling and I couldn't pay on time due to bank issues. They gave me extra time to pay rather than terminating on 10th day!
Part of the issue - only about 200 of those billionaires are under 50. People can be "Tony Stark" after that, but I think its probably more likely that younger people will have the energy and willingness to invest the decades it takes to build large disruptive companies.

A non-negligible amount of wealth is inherited. Again, not to say that inherited wealthy aren't going to be making innovative companies - Tony Stark himself inherited Stark Industries. But I think the Elon Musk assumption is for serial ambition in entrepreneurship, which probably more likely comes from self-made people.

A lot of wealthy (and innovative) people like doing things behind the scenes. Like Tony Stark, but without the fireworks and cheerleaders.

Finally, as others have said, there are other people who have made multiple innovations on the scale of Musk - Edison, Tesla, Ford, Howard Hughes in the past, more recently Gates and Allen, Steve Jobs, Larry and Sergey. Maybe Zuckerberg and Dorsey are the next to join these ranks. And that is just in the computer and internet industries.
"with the exception of Fremont which may take another week or two – we’ll be explaining more on Fremont in another post."

Interesting... the Fremont data center had some pretty serious issues a couple years ago, and though it has been better since then the bad memories remain. I wonder if they're finally switching to a different data center vendor.
> Is that so hard?

Yes, actually. To say that it isn't implies that either (a) you aren't doing much hiring, or (b) that the number of applicants you get is very small. For an admin position, we might get 150 applications. Of those, less than 50% will have met the stated job requirements/pre-reqs. Even if I were to automate it, how much time have I spent automating it? Maintaining it? And for each person, there's certainly a few seconds/minutes of "Let me make sure I get the name right..." And that's just one position. It is hard to do what you're saying, unless (a) you aren't doing much hiring, or (b) that the number of applicants you get are very small.
From my experience, there's a ~30min. difference between various data providers and even the airport on a flight status so I'm not sure if this would be my primary source of information.
I bet MBP Retina owners would love to upgrade their machines with this SSD.

Oh wait, they can't, because Apple came up with their own butchered SATA interface instead of using the standard one.
I hate the idea of AppGratis and I'm glad its been removed.

Who really benefits? The cheap user who will not normally pay for a high quality app? The app developer who spends $$ to get featured in AppGratis to then artificially climb the app store ranking?

Dls are one of the worst vanity metrics out there. Devs should focus on building high quality products, monetize, then acquire quality users in a sustainable manner.
Linode is hard to beat these days. I've been a customer for a few years and adore the shit out of them.

Digital Ocean has become quite a competitor (and I have a box with them now for a staging environment) but the fact that they do not provide a private/internal network between your boxes is something that I can't live without. I like to keep app servers and db servers isolated from the real world by one box in front of all of them ... which is not something you can currently do with Digital Ocean.

I love Heroku's platform and think they've done some amazing things for our industry, but I don't agree with any of their recent PR moves. Linode, on the other hand, has never stirred up drama or bullshit since I have started working with them. They're straight shooters and this gives me a great deal of confidence.

I had a personally hair raising experience this weekend trying to migrate a smaller server that kept swapping over to a larger one without too much downtime. I was able to do this pretty painlessly but man I wish I would have waited just a few days for this!
We are building a real time HTML synchronization engine at wikidocs.com (using a custom OT engine). It's still work in progress, but you can already try it out - if you fire up the inspector and manipulate the DOM, your changes will be synchronized automatically.
Check out my HTML5 hack of Pacman
My experience is similar:

From time to time I partake in the HN freelancer thread. Not that I ever got any business out of it. I still think in principle it would be nice to do business with fellow HNers, that's why I keep trying it.

Usually, I get about 2-3 inquiries per month from the Freelancer thread - by far most of these from people who apparently came through a search engine and aren't HN users at all. Of these, 2 are general carpet bombing mails, asking me for things that I didn't advertise and can't/won't provide ("would you like to move to Berlin and work as an entry-level tech support person?"). Sometimes, that leaves one real contact.

Here's where things start to get on my nerves: there will typically be an exchange of 3 to 4 emails back and forth. It starts with a project introduction (which is often excellently detailed), then we're moving on to references and code samples, then we're talking fees (even though I explicitly state them on my profile website), after which it's all "I'll totally do this project with you", and after that: nothing. In two cases, there were even 30+ minutes Skype conversations, all for nothing of course.

Last month I decided to do something different, be more proactive: I sent out emails to people looking for freelancers on HN. Same procedure (see above), same results. But I got something very interesting out of it: a few of them told me they received upwards of 30 applicants! Holy crap, even for the lamer job postings!

It's now clear to me why the freelancer thread doesn't work, at least for "normal" HNers like me. As a freelancer, there is so much competition, the chances of success are exceedingly slim. Companies are drowning in applicants. Of course they're going to choose either the cheapest one, or if you're lucky enough to inhabit something of a niche, the most famous one.

So why are they not responding? Why are they just breaking off communication after a short exchange? Because they don't have any reason to value our time. There are just so many of us.
He's not? It sounded a lot like he was telling him exactly that.
I agree with you on a certain level, since there are so many outside factors influencing how quickly you can become a good programmer. It's not as if you are an average programmer for 10,000 hours and then you magically become a great programmer in the 10,001st hour.

That being said, I don't think the estimate is totally wrong. I've been programming for five years, have just gotten through a Software Engineering degree and am comfortable using three or four languages, but there are many people around me with more experience who's development skills I am just in awe of.

The main point is that nobody can teach themselves to be a programmer (or at least a good one) in three days. To build up the amount of skills and experience required takes many years.
Most providers ask you to justify extra IP allocations.
This is fantastic! I'm really excited to see Mozilla improving the login experience for users across the web. It is a problem that is sorely in need of better solutions.

For the Node.js developers in the crowd, I'm happy to see Mozilla is using Passport.js (http://passportjs.org/) (which I'm the developer of) to power the OpenID/OAuth dances when doing identity bridging. You can see it in action at the BigTent repo: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-bigtent

Passport.js can be used in your own applications to easily perform the server-side part of Persona/BrowserID as well as integrate with or transition from an existing login system.
It strikes me as interesting that probably a year ago LulZSec was held as a some all-consuming, faceless group of digital wizards, (that naturally needed significant funding increases to combat.) - the press, the wrong footed FBI / Police, and ourselves accepted that they were a real threat.

It seems less so to have a mundane trial with mundane breaches of a mundane law.

We have built houses of straw, and the strength of the houses is being clearly illustrated (perhaps LulzSec achieveing one of its goals then?).

that reminds me, must change the default password on my router.
Setting up Sublime Text 2
"Computer software, or just software, is any set of machine-readable instructions (most often in the form of a computer program) that directs a computer's processor to perform specific operations."[1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software
Controlling Security Spend Before it Controls You
There is a joke in somewhere.. this reminds me of all those start-ups on a mission to kill email with some great alternative which asked you to register by entering your email.
As for hireart ...Since I'm building a company in the same vertical, after the flashy title in techcrunch I went really quick and registered.. and guess what ??? You can't go beyond step one without uploading your frickin' resume !!! How can one have the statement that resumes are bullsh* and make it mandatory at step one to upload your resume... Really ??? .. http://i.imgur.com/IxDJ3sB.jpg?1
An interesting side to this is they seem to be keeping various hidden/old levels going even with the upgrade. I went to upgrade a Linode 768 (no longer available) and it said it'd upgrade to a Linode 1536. But I don't need that much RAM.. so I might first downgrade to a Linode 512 then "upgrade" to a 1024 for free.. ;-) Update: Seems I can't, but I can upgrade direct to a 1024.

Random observation: The Linode 1024 is now the same price as prgmr.com's equivalent.
Linode claims their HDDs are faster than el-cheapo SSDs.. Still waiting for migration to test myself though.
Yeah, though that's still controlled by Facebook, since you're actually paying them rather than some third party.
It's an arbitrary amount of time that relatively few people are able to dedicate to any skill. The rare people that do are known as "experts".

But you won't be as "expert" as someone with 20,000 hours. IMO it's a tautological phrase based on your chosen definition of "expert". That's why I dislike it.

Pilots' experience is often measured in hours. 10,000 is nothing special (10 years?), but to a lay person they sure know a lot about piloting, and at a dinner party I'd defer to them as an "expert" on anything to do with flying.
It both shock and disgusts me how few laptops sold have SSDs in them. Even today only the very top end and very bottom end ships with SSDs (Netbooks, and Macbook Pros respectively).

Everything in the middle is purely HDD even with SSDs offered widely for the same amount of money if you're willing to lose storage (e.g. 256 GB SSD == 1 TB HDDs).

Come on Asus, Dell, and similar. Start offering SSDs across your entire range. I should get the choice of either a smaller/faster SSD or larger/slower HDD. It isn't a premium feature and hasn't been for a long time.
I completely agree with this. Extrovert vs Introvert has been a large subject of thought for me - not only as a developer with a desire to lead a startup and a passion for product management, but also as a 60/40 extrovert/introvert with a 100% introvert significant other.

I always recommend to anyone to read the book "Quiet" (http://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/d...) to appreciate differences in personalities and learn how to communicate effectively with opposing personalities.

This post in particular puts me a little as ease, because I've largely felt that I'm one of the rare ones not in an extreme. Glad to know I'm not the only ambivert out there.
Joke detector not working today?
You know, it might be more useful to write up the entire episode in a single relatively brief article, rather than keep it in its present disconnected cliffhanger form.

It's an interesting story, but it would be more useful if it were written as a single article with no repeated sections.
Yeah I was also quoted a flat fee of $100k, around a couple of weeks ago.
Advantages of Using A CDN (or why I use MaxCDN)
Spectacular landing page. Really great. App looks nicely designed as well. Best of luck!
Why do you say butchered? I don't think it's any worse (or better) than standard mSATA. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
It sucks to be at that stage, but well said. I hope you find some rest and can downshift into normal life for a while.
I was in the same situation. Downgraded few days ago to 512MB and now will get 1GB.
I was messing around with Yeoman this weekend. The real strength I think is in the library of generators and the tools that the generator has in addition to the grunt derived ones.

The default generator is a one page webapp and that makes everybody think that that is what yeoman is, but there are many more:

https://github.com/search?q=yeoman+generator&ref=cmdform

65 repos there
Are you willing to loan out your bitcoins?

Do you believe that you will be able to purchase say... a house or a car using bitcoins? Do you think any financial institution will come out and loan you bitcoins?

As a financial instrument, this massive deflation will prevent any form of financing (ie: Credit Cards, Mortgages, Car Loans, etc. etc.) from growing inside of the Bitcoin world.
12; 20 years.
http://codecollab.gamooga.com/ - does server side OT
Google is building a moat and scorching the earth (2011)
Assuming you still develop for iOS, what is your setup for developing while using linux?
Email accounts are almost everyone's achilles. Even without Persona, the attacker could still go around to websites and request password resets if they have access to your email.
A quick google led me to this: https://github.com/mrbrdo/rack-webconsole
It already works with any email address, including Gmail. But the Persona team works on a dedicated support for Gmail, that will allow Gmail users to use Persona without a need of an additional password.
Isn't total data loss the default for a mechanical drive failure as well?

I don't think this should be counted as a major weakness of SSDs.
Give Me the Movie I Want, In the Format I Want, Right Now
It's an open protocol so someone just has to write a gem for it. My friend Kevin at VHX is working on a ruby port.

https://twitter.com/ksheurs
There's also a huge market for scientific collaboration. GitHub has lots of space to grow. https://www.scigit.com
ok, this story is going on now, I can't write the future (for now).

I'm keeping the first post updated but I added a shorter one for describing this last episode.
Malware that turns computers into Bitcoin miners
Why, when I CTRL+ their site does the text get smaller and smaller while the images get larger and larger? I have a 1920x1080 display and don't have super-human vision...
Are there things that would be considered cruel to do to a dog, but not a pig? I suspect most people in western cultures would say "slaughter". That might not be the most well thought out position (though it is not a position I hold, so it may be unfair for me to say that), but I suspect it is a common position nevertheless.

Anyway, as I said in another comment, my take on it is that we are all performing the same mental calculus (Americans, Vietnamese, French; Vegan Americans, Omnivore French, ... Everyone.) but we are going into the calculation with different values. Some Asian cultures have the "willingness to eat it" cranked way up so that they are more willing to eat animals that could be considered cute (sparrows, dogs, etc), while at the same time other Asian cultures have "willingness to eat it" cranked way down. The calculation is the same, only the values and weights assigned to things differ.

If you started to dial down the "willingness to eat it" I suspect that "creepy things" (snakes, bugs) might be the first to be spared, followed closely by whatever things that culture finds cute. Maybe the other way around.
The end of Moore's Law on the horizon, says AMD
I moved over the weekend as well. Even after this update, Digital Ocean is cheaper: 1GB RAM + 30GB SSD for $10 vs 1GB RAM + 24GB disk for $20. Linode offers 8 CPUs compared to Ocean's 1, but the SSD seems to more than compensate in my experience.

The one aspect that has me considering going back: Linode's backups seem much more confidence-inspiring.
Relevant Marcus Aurelias quote:

"Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realize the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again." (Meditations 2:4)
Details? I've only had one fail about 4 years ago but that was almost straight out of the box so it was bad from the factory.
World Wide Student Ranking (just lunched)
Thanks for sharing those!
I've definitely met these people and have learned to avoid them. But is this website (and avoidance in general) the right way to deal with this class of people?

We're smarter than them. We ought to be able to extract some use from them.
They probably should but there are many providers (e.g. Softlayer) who, on the more expensive plans, will give you your own /28 or /29 for free without even asking if you need it. (Comcast and AT&T are also guilty of this on business tier cable/DSL plans.)

Linode is definitely the strictest in my experience when it comes to enforcing ARIN's rules (if HTTPS is your justification, Linode actually checks to make sure you're serving up a valid certificate). This is a good thing for the Internet but somewhat frustrating when other providers are so much laxer.
Remember the Status Board from Panic? Now it's available as an iPad app.
Original blog post (3 yrs ago): http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/
> Johnny writes back and asks, "What is it that I could have done differently?" Do you respond?

You respond back and say "Unfortunately, due to the high number of responses we received, we're unable to go into detail as to why we moved forward with some applicants and not others. We wish you the best in the future." Further responses go straight to the trash (unless they stand out enough to be placed on the never-hire-these-people-ever list).