skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that if you have someone using Hetzner's network for spamming or other illegal activities, you'd expect the ISP to want to keep their network clean of these sorts of things and investigate. Instead, they just say 'whatever, not our problem'.

On top of that, though, forwarding the complaint to the server owner just makes a mess of things, because now the server owner can target you and make your life hell. They can send you threats, DDoS your mail system, flood your inbox, etc., all the while knowing that Hetzner has their back.

It's like if you saw someone assaulting someone in an alley and called the police, and the police took the information you gave them and gave it to the person who assaulted them. Now they know who you are, and they can come after you too. Now your only real solution is to just not report it when someone does bad things, because you know it's not going to get fixed and it's just likely to cause problems for you down the road.
Why I hate meetings, emails and phone calls
I suspect the "must work 24/7" thing is probably rooted in the fact that some folks are just like that and those folks are often crazily successful.

Are they? What if you just don't notice the unsuccessful ones; they're at home spending ten hours a day drawing pictures of butterflies, or they're down at the gym obsessively lifting heavy things over and over again, or any one of a number of other obsessive activities that don't bring success.
Just after the Linode Upgrade Blogpost is posted, we have people from all the other VPS provider flocking the Hacker news to spread the message about "how awesome they could be.."

Shall we stop and Concentrate on Linode now please..
Remove the "?" at the end of the link:
http://norvig.com/21-days.html
Exactly. That omission costs him the job.
Yeah, such generalizations make no sense. Your mileage will depend on the characteristics of your workload.

I've been working on a HN clone. The HN codebase creates a ton of small files for storage (one per post or comment), which need to be loaded up en masse on startup. Switching to Digital Ocean from Linode reduced startup time by 50x.
> I too once worked at a defense contractor, I just didn't let their billed hours == productivity myth infect my thinking.

Count me in this group as well, though what contractor did you work for where you actually billed all your hours worked? The place I was at previously only allowed us (and required us) to bill 40 hours per week unless otherwise authorized. Such authorization was a rare occurrence.

There was still significant pressure to work 50+ per week, though. The attitude there was this weird mix of "if you don't do this you aren't loyal and committed" and "you should be lucky you have a job in this economy".
I still get a kick out of seeing apps running in the browser. It blows my mind. Oh, quick link if you want to try a few https://www.cisimple.com/featured_apps.
Continuous integration is huge, both for productivity and company culture. Nice to see mobile dev tools start to catch up with web tools. I'll be giving this a try for sure.
What conclusion do you draw from this?
As SSD technology improves and prices lower, it's great that consumers can easily upgrade their laptops with a 960GB SSD or perhaps a 480GB mSATA SSD.

Meanwhile, MBP Retina owners have to sit on the sidelines because Apple decided they didn't want to use a standard connector.

"Keep in mind that although the interface is electrically SATA, it is not physically SATA or mSATA or any other standardized interface - this is entirely Apple's own creation."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6005/apples-new-ssd-its-fast
Yes, freedom is also a side benefit. I don't really have to do much with my micros. Very little code maintenance. Actually spend more time answering emails than anything, but its about 30 minutes a day, if that.
Support is awesome.
It was a development box/env. Anyway it was not a problem with Arch. Same set of updates on Linode worked absolutely fine.
Between this and the cost per developer, I don't think there's any way I could ever justify using it.

It looks really nice, though, definitely good job.
Probably because they have -webkit-text-size-adjust:none set in style.css.
Why STL? I'd wager OBJ is a much more common interchange format for 3D models.
The next generation of consoles - at least the PS4 - presumably come with a mechanical harddrive. That honestly surprised and disappointed me a bit, but I'll wait a few years, until I take the plunge anyway.

At that point, they hopefully come with SSDs by default.
I wasn't talking about backups I was talking about a Recovery option which allows you to boot into linux and mount your existing virtual drives to extract data or fix errors/look at logs.
Or, viewed another way, it is evidence of Linode's attention to detail, which will help you many more times than it will hurt you.
Cool, it works pretty well.

Next step: support Wavefront's .OBJ files.
Big improvements. Nice progress.
If not longer. I live in KC and am probably going to have to wait another 1-2 years.
A full server+client build and JBoss startup and deploy takes around 15 minutes.

Of course a full build is only needed every once in a while but single components take 1-3 Minutes to build as well.

I usually use the time to get coffee or put together a new playlist (listening to music 99% of the time).
Quite a persecution complex on display. Reminds me of the evangelical conservatives in the U.S. who are always crying out about being oppressed.
I found it hard to compare VPS offerings and ended up making pizza instead:

http://workforpizza.com/posts/2013-04-04-comparing-apples-an...
Agreed. The technique did wonders for the depth of my productivity once I got into the habit.
We at Hacker News do not have a sense of humor that we're aware of.
What's that old quote, $200 billion here, 200 billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money?
Book: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics

Free PDF edition available there.
when it comes to slim bloatfree distros, Id rather just install archlinux. because there isn't a smaller footprint than core.
Transitional Interfaces
"But 4x less CPU."
You are seriously naive if you think the number of logical cores the hypervisor presents to your VM is the sole determiner of CPU execution resources.

Here is a counter example, imagine I have two VM host servers with 16 logical cores. On one I could pin each VM to 1 logical core, on the other I could run 300 VMs and give each VM 24 logical cores... The first one is going to perform much better.

Also some hypervisors (for example VMware) only executes a VM when they have as many cores as the VM has cores available for execution. So having many logical cores in your VM can negatively influence CPU scheduling.

"And support is a joke."
Not in my experience
Enterprise Support in GitHub for Mac
Have used this app since the summer/fall. It hasnt been wrong once and the UX is really great (The push notifications even sound like airport bells). No idea what the business model is, but the 8 or 9 times I've used it, I've been extremely happy.

I would say - if they supported longer lead times (so I could put in someone's info a week or a month in advance, and it would notify me, that would extend the value quite a bit). Otherwise, this app nails it.
Apache CouchDB 1.3.0 Released
Aw shucks, thanks!

Unlike Google in 2005, Mozilla is a non-profit actively working to protect user privacy & build a better web. Also, everything we build is open source :-)
This is not a PR release - not even close. It's written by a freelance writer who does not work for Neo4j, and in this instance is working for DATAVERSITY. DATAVERSITY's mission is to provide education. And that's what this article is, to inform and educate about Neo4j. In fact, this is the first article in a series of reviewing some NoSQL DBs. The writer honestly downloaded Neo4J, tested it out, and wrote an article on it.
Would adding a HMAC string to the cookie value not get around this issue? For example, Tornado has the set_secure_cookie method (http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/web.html#tornado.web.Req...), would this not prevent this sort of attack? Even if a script modified the cookies, they would never (well, hopefully never) be able to generate the correct HMAC token so the server could just discard the cookies. You'd still be able to sign a user out but there wouldn't be a security issue (I think). Anyone smart able to verify/refute?
What It’s Like Raising More Than $300,000 on Kickstarter
And, what about Groupon and Living Social? All they do is promote a different business every day... If Apple is going to make rules like this, they need to be consistant on how they enforce it.
A company like Apple can be lordly and draconian in their practices, but it would still pay a dividend for them to be consistent, fair, and to have a reasonable review and communication process that distinguishes between some kid writing malware and a mature company with a serious investment in iOS and a history of asking questions and getting approval for their product as it develops.
I stand by what I said. But I would be perfectly happy to frame that as running in the other direction: That folks who are crazy successful often have this group of traits. Since we have whatever brain we have, articles often focus on the fact that they work long hours as the thing others have a hope of emulating, as if that's all that really matters. I see no reason to believe it is.
But companies such as Nintendo post losses in Revenue because of USD / Yen fluctuations.

When all USD transactions are hurt by 7% because of a stronger Yen, Nintendo's business in America is worth 7% less all of a sudden. True, wages in Nintendo probably didn't change, but their American Investments have been damaged by the stronger Yen.
Good startup ideas
Why do you think that is? Could the implementation maybe, possibly... be harder than you think?
I bet big corp would pay the design firm designing their intranet big bucks to buy this.
Very well written blogpost, but it would be nice if they didn't downplay the severity of the original blog post:

A PoC of how you could clone private repositories, such as the github.com source code itself at github.com/github/github (as an assumed example)
>Whether it’s transparent batteries, flexible displays, nano bots, affordable and effective VR headsets, highly-accurate and highly-portable motion sensors, self-driving cars, doors that unlock when you walk up to them, swallowable computers, affordable genetic testing

I think it's worth noting that many of the areas are saddled with burdensome regulation, with the caveat that this is certainly not the only or even the primary hindrance, and that the fact they may be hindrances doesn't in itself mean they aren't warranted.
See my added comment. This is not a PR on any level.
Until less educated consumers value SSDs over an e-peen number like raw hard disk capacity, this is not going to change. If you don't know the virtues of SSDs, you'd choose the laptop with more space for your personal photos, videos and music.
Hmm, I still don't follow you. Does Linode have this? After moving I haven't found any difference in features. Perhaps I just wasn't using this on Linode? What does it let you do that restoring from a backup can't?

(The use case in this thread is backups as voidlogic mentioned.)
Only a matter of time before someone writes a service hook for automatic 3-D printing of a model after each push....

That or Thingiverse integration.
Throwing money away after crap apps sucks after awhile, especially when you try a few. My iPad is a graveyard of apps that I don't use anymore.
Panel Calls for Broad Changes in Science Education
"A year later, when Apple did release a model named “iPhone 5” that was far better than the 4S and had an external redesign"

Huh? I thought the iPhone 5 had the same external design as iPhone 4.
Another excellent option, if you'd rather not have to use Chrome dev tools:

https://github.com/mgood/flask-debugtoolbar

It will include a fixed positioned panel on your page including a bunch of server-side inspection, including request vars, environ variables, and logs. It works with Flask, and there's a version for Django as well.
Interesting that in the last 6mnths to 1 year for everything I see on HN pushing a yearly subscription model.

While it's certainly proven to make more $, I wonder what the repercussions really are.
Litecoin on Mt.Gox
Gamers Of HN I Need Your Help
Hey HN, I need your help. My idea is essentially Groupon for indie games. After contacting and getting rejected by over a dozen independent game developers, I was able partner with Heartbit Interactive and Benjamin Ficus, the creators of the game Doom & Destiny. We came to an agreement, that if I could collect 200 emails of interested people they would do a deal with me. I've exhausted my network asking anybody interested for their email. Here's the link to my MVP, it's just a simple landing page to collect emails right now. http://girps.com . If you're interested in the game or indie games in general, please sign up.

If you have any advice for gathering more emails, please let me know.
Thanks for your help!
I said the same thing about my 2TB iMac hard drive. Then we had a baby. All of the sudden, I have thousands of pictures and videos.

I would strongly consider putting this in a computer, only to make tasks like video editing faster. Using tablets all of the time makes my tolerance for poor performance very low ;)
Persona works with any email address, so the major difference is that you can get the "Sign in with Google" experience, with just one button, but without being forced to choose (and phone home to) Google.
That is why I put problem in quotes, I was responding to the parents reply about migration.

I actually favor more open immigration, my grandparents were some of those mexicans who came illegally and had a great life.
Why not link to https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/just-landed/id520338005?mt=8 instead of http://search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZContentLink.woa/... which just prompts me to open iTunes?
Canon LBP2900B + Ubuntu + Printing + Custom Paper Size = Life Sucks
For my business, we are trying to use ubuntu desktop. but we were not able to get a custom paper size printing in ubuntu desktop. It works out of the box in mac os x and windows xp / vista / 7. any experiencing?
I think he means iPhone 7. So far we have iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPhone 5.
On Linode it is never hundreds. "On average, a Linode 512 host has 40 Linodes on it. A Linode 1024 host has on average 20. Linode 2048 host: 10 Linodes; Linode 4096 host: 5;"

On the other hand as far as I know DO don't tell how many VMs share a host.
Writer sounds like he will either burst in to tears or go on a violent rampage if the next Apple phone is received badly.
i would say not bad but the fact you are asking me to pay to use it when i can have something like d3 is a bit of a joke
Pg on exploding accelerator offers
Because, as the OP says, he spends more time programming than doing SysOps.
Smoothing time series in python. Part II: wiener filter and smoothing splines
Show HN:We're launching a satellite with your face on it. To scare away aliens.
That's a good question, and I don't have an answer for you. However, since I've heard how awesome Firebase is, I'm wondering what you offer over Etherpad. After Google acquired it and open sourced the engine, lots of other websites have sprung up that use it. I'm sure there are great reasons to use your tool rather than an Etherpad-based one, so it'd be interesting to hear them!

http://etherpad.org/

http://piratepad.net/

http://titanpad.com/

http://www.cynapse.com/syncin

http://openetherpad.org/

Mozilla and no doubt many others can easily deploy it on their servers:

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/
I have zero sympathy for Simon.

AppGratis business model is dirty at its core because basically it's just a way for developers with cash to splash to have a big burst of downloads to help them climb the App Store Rank and get "organic download".

An even dumber thing is to bet everything its iOS app when you saw that a far superior product from one of your competitor was banned from the App Store 4 months ago (App Shopper) . I hope that the App Shoper banned at least made you think about the possibility that could await AppGratis and took preemptive measure. But No, instead you build an iPad app...

Now you come crying to the public in hope that a significant public outburst will make Apple changes his mind and reintegrate AppGratis in the store, I hope Apple stands firm on its decision.

I'm in no way an Apple fanboy or whatever, from a business point of view it make no sense. You knew the rules, you got burned and now you cry.

The only sympathy I have is toward AppGratis' 45 employees.
I think our pricing model will evolve over time. Right now it's a bit simpler to start this way, but we have a lot of ideas on how to make the model fit the use case better. We've also had some success with the subscription model for some other projects we've worked on, so there is some precedent there.
Another option would be calling it the new iPhone, like they do now with the iPad.
Thanks! I think you're right, the 3k Facebook likes were great to see.

Unfortunately the page was modded off of HN (like all the other April Fool's jokes) after rising to the top super fast... I think if that hadn't happened we would have ended up with quite a bit more traffic.
Indie Game Devs moving toward Sony and away from Microsoft
Same thing happened to me, and at the time I had no idea that that was how SSDs failed - it was my OS disk, and suddenly I couldn't sudo.

Popped in a bootable USB, and had the data copied off and a replacement SSD in within a couple of hours.

I wouldn't depend on that failure mode, but it's a nice feature.
Really good, but the per-developer pricing model doesn't make sense. Just stick to one price for commercial use.
Backplate is not glass and dimensions changed.

See for thickness comparison: http://cdn.thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/...

Bottom side of the phone changed slightly too.
But you're on Hacker News, surely you're only a couple clicks away from throwing your own SSD into your new laptop? That's what I did when I bought a band new non-retina MB Pro a few months ago.
Identity Bridging will eventually get 60-80% of users functionally off of our fallback and onto their provider's native authentication paths, but I do wonder if the Persona fallback support two-factor auth natively for the remaining 20-40% of users.

Thoughts?
This is the quintessential first world problem. Out of the range of problems facing society that you could solve, of all the ways you could create value by making peoples' lives better, you settled on "making airport pickup easy".

Now, this is probably a completely rational move from the company's perspective. Silicon Valley over the last few years has been backstopped by acquihires and other such soft landings, and big companies desperate to hire outstanding talent are often very willing to pay high prices for a great team. From the landing page at least, it certainly doesn't look like the Just Landed guys are amateurs. They're probably a very talented, capable team.

If they're successful, I won't begrudge them their success. However, I do lament the idea that the best minds of a generation are being focused on getting people to click on ads and minimizing the number of loop-arounds you have to do at the airport. I don't buy the idea that these guys wouldn't be focused on "harder" problems if consumer web didn't exist; of course they would. This kind of talent rises to the challenge. The idea that these are the problems whose solution drives us forwards is just a monumental lapse of creativity. Technology is an amazing thing, and we can do so much with it. I really think it's just an exposure issue -- people are used to web, and fields like the life sciences or hardware seem mysterious and complex. How do those become opened up?
I cannot understand why the developer would be surprised, since guideline 2.25 explicitly warns not to create an app whose purpose is to promote others' apps in a similar fashion to the app store?

Did they not stop to consider this could be a problem for even a second?
I just wanted to jump in and describe a bit of what we're trying to do over at cisimple. We know testing is hard, specifically for mobile and automating it with a CI process is even harder. So, what we've done is make it very easy to select which platforms you want your tests run on and have them automatically run every time you commit code.

We've partnered with Kickfolio so that you can also pull up your entire build history and just click a link to interact with that build. Our hope is that this makes it easier for mobile developers to reproduce and catch issues.

I'd love your input on what we're building and what would be helpful for your process.
24. Dad worked at HP, so that helped: started at around 6-7ish years old with a 286 that had Qbasic. Moved on to QuickBasic 4.5, then some other Basic variants (Rapid-Q and even CorelDRAW's scripting language), C, PHP and JavaScript, then Python, which is what I still mostly do.
A smiley works as well :)
Ah. This site. I came across this when I was a kid - like 5-6 years ago - I had googled the term "how to become a hacker".
This guy had opened my eyes then - I was 14 then. He still continues to do so. His links are still relevant and an amazing starting point for anyone who wants to learn.

One should probably keep visiting this page like every 6 months or so - just to check whether you are on the right track to learning.
D3 takes ages to build graphs with. That's why NVD3 made such big news.

What you get when you buy a license is support. Which I remember was the main reason we had for not choosing NVD3 last time, and went with a library with much better documentation.
Can't think of a reason. SLC is a bit faster at writes, but a lot of new MLC SSDs are able to fully saturate SATA 6Gb/s, so there's really no point in going any faster.

If you're really worried about write endurance, stick to MLCs with a lot of spare cells (I think Intel is a good choice there).
As someone who has used D3, I think you are vastly underestimating the audience of D3 users who would happily pay for a far easier solution ;)

(do agree with other comments that per-dev pricing is a bad model, though)
A programming-language-aware, refactor-ready merge tool
>does anyone actually need this sort of capacity

Anyone using a laptop with a single drive and lots of photos or videos will. Photos and videos are the real drivers of most people's HD needs.
Partly it's the UI. It's hard to tell how many snapshots they promise and what frequency.

Partly it's observations over the past week. I noticed a few days after moving that I had two backups the day I created my account, and no backups for 3 days after. Contacted support and was told they have some 'randomization for load balancing'. Asked what the worst-case frequency could be, and was told it's "usually 24 hours". This is the kind of thing that can bite you when the shit hits the fan.

(And the experience definitely shows what other commenters said about Linode's support.)
Esamek, I was wondering if you can contact me by email. I have a few questions.

Ruben.leija@me.com
> And if it's not and you believe your manager is lying to you about your specific score, I'm sure he'd be happy to get you to STFU (hard, I know) by showing it to you directly.

It seems entirely unambiguous that he's saying "You can get your manager to show you your scores by making enough of a fuss that your manager will do it just to make you STFU".
Jury finds Exxon Mobil liable for $236.4 mln in U.S. pollution suit
If you have some talent and enjoy it, you can teach yourself programming to a pretty high level in a few months. But to master it, like any complex craft, takes a lifetime.