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Reading about Linode Managed on their website [1] appears to be nothing more than (1) OS backups, and (2) a monitoring agent installed on the OS to report the server is up and running.

Am I missing something here?

[1] https://www.linode.com/managed/
OP here.

I didn't want to appear greedy. That being said, I've increased the upper range limit a bit. :)
Twins are much more common among people using fertility drugs than the majority of the population; so if you are on those drugs, you might expect them.

P.S. not trying to be snarky, just thought it was an interesting fact
Agreed that not all startups need to be a go-for-it-all startup. But any business is going to a lot of work to get running. And then once you have customers it's going to be a lot of work to keep them happy. Even if it is micro business or a bootstrapped company.

The four hour work week is a bit of a myth. Everything is going to be hard work.
That jump is for new loans, fortunately. All previous federal loans are locked in at the rate they were originally signed for.
Discussed:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5785984
> Also, it would help not to have 3 kids when you're up to your ears in debt

if she fails to pay it off in her lifetime, do her children pick up the debt?
Your primary moral duty is to repay debt, eh?

Unimportant things like "giving your life meaning" are unimportant.
I grew up in a pulp and paper town that is a shell of what it once was.

Blame automation. Full stop.

But look at the bright side. Twilight themed tourism is booming.
The article mentions a signing bonus. Does anyone have an idea on how common this this and in what type of situation asking for a signing bonus is appropriate and what some of the common numbers are in these cases?
I have seen a lot of these articles on student debt, and they use the most bizarrely unsympathetic subjects. The meat of this article is not that student loans are bad, but rather that you shouldn't go to law school (or any graduate program, in my opinion), without first deciding what you want to do and your priorities in life. It's way too common to see people watch a lot of Law & Order and go straight through from college (my wife calls them "K-JD's") and then realize that $200k of debt is a lot and they really don't like working 12-14 hours a day at the beck and call of clients. Your first 80 hour work week sleeping with your Blackberry under your pillow is a shock, and you should really get it out of the way and decide if you're okay with it before you're $200k in the hole.
Twins are unexpected, but surely they knew at least one child will be born? Even one extra is a huge commitment when you don't have the means.
Well, compared with Rackspace's managed offering which doesn't offer either of those feature, I think it's a start.
>You shouldn't stop using ID's unless you have a reason to.

The opposite approach is more useful: don't start using ID's unless you have a good reason. Classes can do anything (CSS-wise) that id's can, and lack the downsides (namely reusability and dealing with increased specificity, here's a pretty good write up: http://csswizardry.com/2011/09/when-using-ids-can-be-a-pain-...)
My comment was meant as a joke. I don't expect Marco to sell his dog or anyone to offer sizable money for it.
Some of it might have been bad luck but I didn't really think any of it was. I knew that I was bad at interviewing. I just didn't realize how bad

I've been working for 8 years in three different companies: I found the first job (out of university) because a friend of mine worked there. The two following jobs were "found" because our manager moved and we (me, my friend and some others) move consequently as a team.
I did some interviews during these years, never an offer. I really couldn't say if it was because of my salary (definitively above - italian sh###y - market) or because of me (my skills, my attitude, whatever). Of course Headhunters and HR are so kind not to give you any feedback (sometimes neither a response).

Now our last companies has failed, I'm unemployed and I've decided with my wife to relocate to Luxembourg where she can have a stable job (at least her..).

So here I am, unemployed and looking for a job[1] in another country (with the additional problem of the language: I'm a real novice in French, I don't speak German and my English should be far better..).
I think that probably I'll discover which part of me was the problem...

[1] or coming back to university or learning coding (i'm more a sys/net engineer) or studying some online courses or trying to think if some startup ideas I have are feasible
Hi, Elli from HireArt here. She didnt get the job because she lived in Michigan and couldn't move to SF but she made it as a finalist. I was directly involved and was astonished at how well she did given her lack of "formal" education. I wish more people were like Patti. She really inspired me. The fact that Michigan is struggling economically and that she was unable to leave is a different and very interesting topic.
My only problem with vague "X sold Y" stories that have no dollar amounts is often it's not a success story. I've seen TechCrunch report on sales of companies where literally no money was exchanged and there was no upside for the acquirer (basically just one dude decided to give up his failing startup to join another one, and they framed it as an acquisition). I'm not saying this is the case here, but without any numbers we can't say it was a success for sure.
> Not very responsible, in my opinion, and certainly not a good lesson to pass on to your kids (along with your debt, because guess where that's going when you die, since you've decided not to pay it off?).

What? Loans don't pass to kids at death, that's absurd. They stay with the estate. If the estate doesn't have enough funds to cover the debt, tough shit for the lender. Though there are lenders who try to con kids into taking over their parents debt obligations. There is a special place in hell for them.
Google+ is certainly not a huge success, but they won't step back as far as they can offer it together with other services. Do you imagine Google offering Facebook tab instead?
This is a good point. There's no sense in thinking yourself out of a startup, but at the same time it's likely something crappy will happen while running a startup.

You may want to go to a cushy job at that point in time, but you need to be able to at least be comfortable enough to say "No, I'm going to do this."

If you're terrified of a crappy situation it's a good gut call for yourself to figure out if you're cut out for being a founder or not.
> Malicious files were placed on association.drupal.org servers via a third-party application used by that site.

I wonder what 3rd party app this was...
She had a 6 figure job, but quit because she was miserable. Not to sound Callous...but she should have kept that job and made paying down those loans the first priority.
I prefer shift+C since it makes Chrome pop up a separate window (I like alt-tabbing to reference when writing e-mails... maybe that's just me)
Yup, I just got an email.
Wow, what a complete content-free "aww, look how cute and backwards the flyover state people are" entitled whine of an article.

I really hope this article is a joke, but I fear it's not.

"Why haven't companies upgraded their dotmatrix printers so they can use expensive ink and print 4 part forms by printing 4 pages one after another, rather than use a printer technology that lets them print all 4 copies at one time, faster, and cheaper?" Why, indeed.

And that's probably the /least/ insulting of the examples.
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The article also mentions proactive response to issues they discover on your behalf. FTA: "If a check fails, our experts will take immediate steps to get your systems back online as quickly as possible"

There are a number of other services listed on that page, including "Longview Pro - the professional version of our system-level statistics collection and graphing service (currently in beta)."

I got all that from reading the page you linked.
This is so, so true. Having a strong BATNA is 90% of negotiating.

It's not true at all.

No other offer? Unemployed for a year? It doesn't matter. When you get their offer, flinch, flare your nostrils, make an 'oof' noise on the phone - whatever, do what you need to do to convey you're not impressed. Then say "you'll need to do better than that," and shut up until they say something.

Often you'll get an additional raise on the spot; most likely, they'll ask what you'll need, you'll throw out some ludicrously high figure, and you'll split the difference somewhere in the middle.

By the time a company makes you an offer, they're emotionally invested. They're already thinking about all the work you're going to do for them, and how much longer it's going to take to find another suitable candidate. They also know that many candidates negotiate, so they likely didn't lead with their best offer. In this situation, you are extremely likely to improve your position, strong BATNA or no BATNA - you just have to have the courage to ask for what you want.
Are you running some kind of marketplace matching buyers/sellers ? - if so you're probably breeching Stripe's Terms and Conditions. Because such solutions can essentially be used for money laundering, etc. and are high risk fraud targets you typically need to abide by various compliance standards and be insured for the additional risk.

One option would be to use a dedicated solution such as Paypal X or Balanced Payments, or alternatively make a custom agreement with a merchant account provider.
The point is that practical experience in a Master's that offers research work is more valuable than a coursework-only Master's. Graduate courses are usually easier to complete than undergraduate courses, and they are excellent for complementing a research program.

If you want to do machine learning, go and do a Master's with a thesis option where your advisor does research in machine learning project and where you will be encouraged to publish your work at conferences.
While what he's doing is obviously good, I am uneasy with the whole idea that one man accumulates so much wealth in the first place, and then decides as an unelected individual what's best for a country. Having said that, I'm not sure i have a particularly good answer to this conundrum.
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My student loans weren't quite $100k, but I was single-minded about paying them off. I got a (decent, but not spectacular pay) software job right out of school, and managed to get back to zero debt in about five years.

I'd say it worked out well for me, but my situation is very different from that of the woman in the article. First of all, I graduated in 2005. Interest rates were much lower, and dollars worth a little less, than in 1994. I also didn't have children, or any intention of having them in the near future -- children are very expensive. Finally, I did have to live frugally for that period. For example, I carried groceries about 3/4 mile so that I wouldn't need a car. It wasn't poverty by any means, but I skipped many things my peers considered "essential".

For that reason I'd say, while it worked out for me, it is certainly not for everyone.
I earned a MS in computer science in 2006, so things have obviously changed since then. However, I found it was hugely beneficial for me because my undergrad (also in CS) was very, very weak. As a result, I had the opportunity to realize my deficiencies in an environment where I could learn from them.

I spent four years in the MS program and, looking back, I could have done more with the time I had there. Even so, it was well worth it and opened a lot of doors for me.
sorry for the noise. I was wrong. I can't make the case.
Security, presumably, is a major motivation for using a managed service like this. If they can't keep their own house in order, why should I trust them to look after mine?
As a consumer your only duty is to obey they law.

However, moral duty is relevant when it comes to how society should think about debt. Everyone has things they would like to do if they had more money. Society should not be arranged to give people a free pass just because they want to do something that requires money.
I graduated 5 years ago with a BS/CECS and a MS/CS from USC. It was the best decision I've made.

I finished my program with $60,000 in debt. $40k for undegrad, and and another $20k for graduate. As bad as that sounds, I had a pretty good financial aid package; the estimated cost of attendance was $60k per year, and most of it was paid for through a mix of work study, scholarships, and a very generous need-based grant from the university [1].

I've made enough since I've graduated to repay my debts a few times over, have a great job, learned valuable leadership skills, participated in a couple research projects, and learned things I never would have known how to even approach had I not gone.

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[1]: Good schools will give need-based grants if your financial aid package doesn't cover the estimated cost of attendance (minus your EFC, as calculated by the FAFSA). They'll ask you to take out Stafford loans, but those are capped at about $12k/year for undergraduate study.

That said, my advice is to stay far away from any school that asks you take out private (non-federal) loans. Those are uncapped, and will easily bury you more debt than you can handle.
bah side effects what useful thing can you do without side effects? The only way to have no side effects is to frame the problem in a certain way.
Thanks for the heads up!

Do you have time to explain why bacon is better than Reactive Extensions, and thus the only frp library for JavaScript that you chose to link to? I don't have too much experience with frp in general (primarily just the Reactive Extensions for .NET), and even less with JavaScript implementations, so I'm not really in a position to begin making the comparison.

Edit: ah, found https://github.com/raimohanska/bacon.js#for-rxjs-users for starters!
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If you "give up," your lenders will eventually garnish your wages anyway. Better to pay what you owe voluntarily than have the choice of how much and how long to be taken away from you.
It wasn't meant as an insult - honestly!
Must be literal translation from Russian, "N degrees above/below zero" and "N degrees of warmth/cold" are common expressions in it.
Not really. If they are dedicating resources to this instead of improving their across the board woeful security practices then it is relevant.

And it does beg the question if they can't manage their own infrastructure why would anyone be silly enough to let them manage theirs ?
A copy of the email (slightly different from the notice on the site):

Easier to read: https://gist.github.com/sergiotapia/d241db48ec4f31dfd0fe

Dear community member,

We respect the privacy of your information, which is why, as a precautionary measure, we are writing to let you know about an incident that involves your personal information. The Drupal.org Security and Infrastructure Teams have discovered unauthorized access to account information on Drupal.org and groups.drupal.org. Information exposed includes usernames, email addresses, and country information, as well as hashed passwords. However, we are still investigating the incident and may learn about other types of information compromised, in which case we will notify you accordingly.

This unauthorized access was made via third-party software installed on the Drupal.org server infrastructure, and was not the result of a vulnerability within the Drupal software itself. This notice applies specifically to user account data stored on Drupal.org and groups.drupal.org, and not to sites running Drupal generally.

We have implemented additional security measures designed to prevent the recurrence of such an attack, and to protect the privacy of our community members.

The next time you attempt to log into your account, you will be required to create a new password.

Below are steps you can take to further protect your personal information online. We encourage you to take preventative measures now to help prevent and detect the misuse of your information.

First, we recommend as a precaution that you change or reset passwords on other sites where you may use similar passwords, even though all passwords on Drupal.org are stored salted and hashed. All Drupal.org passwords are both hashed and salted, although some older passwords on groups.drupal.org were not salted. To make your password stronger:

* Do not use passwords that are simple words or phrases
* Never use the same password on multiple sites or services
* Use different types of characters in your password (uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols).

Second, be cautious if you receive emails asking for your personal information and be on the lookout for unwanted spam. It is not our practice to request personal information by email. Also, beware of emails that threaten to close your account if you do not take the "immediate action" of providing personal information.

For more information, please review the security announcement and FAQ at https://drupal.org/news/130529SecurityUpdate. If you find any reason to believe that your information has been accessed by someone other than yourself, please contact the Drupal Association immediately, by sending an email to password@association.drupal.org.

We regret that this incident has occurred and want to assure you we are working hard to improve security.

Thank you,
Holly Ross
Drupal Association Executive Director
Please read the article.

Law degrees take 3 years to complete.

Her father, a doctor, paid for a year of her undergraduate studies, leaving her free to dodge student loans for a while.

Not full, just one year.

"My intention was to go back to work after my first year of law school," she said. "[But] I did so poorly that I didn't think I could [keep a job at the same time]. So that’s when I started borrowing money."

I seriously doubt she had a 3 year scholarship to law school, especially after doing poorly the first year.

Also, she graduated in 1994, so either that year, or 1993 was the last year she took out student loans.
I read that as well. But having someone else log into my server to just restart it doesn't seem all that appealing to me for $100/mo.
Hey... give your life all the meaning you want... just don't come crying when people start coming around looking to collect all the debt you rack up while doing it.
If you want to raise a family and work for the state, don't take on the debt, your life will be easier.

If you have Federal Loans and hold a public service job for ten years (and make your payments of I believe 10% of your gross income), your remaining debt is forgiven. The same is true after 25 years if you aren't in public service I believe and I think Obama just railroaded a change to make that 15 years using Executive Order. This is the reason why if you are struggling with Federal Loans DO NOT consolidate them through a private lender. Their terms will suck for you if you think you will struggle to pay them off.
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Signing bonuses are fairly common. It's not a number that is well-arrived at by picking at random. The figure should be based on a calculated value exchange: ie,"I'm not fully vested at my current company, and will be giving up $5k worth of stock options if I leave. I'd like to have a $5k cash signing bonus as part of any new offer I'd take to offset that."
It actually is possible to recreate the full genome and sequence it from just fragments. In fact Craig Venter's strategy during the Human Genome Project used this idea. They made countless copies of the full genome, then fragmented each copy at different points. They then sequenced each fragment, since it's much faster to sequence short ones. After that they looked at all the overlaps in these fragments to create longer, continuos sequences.
To me the idea of doing security updates on someone else's VM running someone else's stack/application seems very impractical. It will probably work most of the time, but when it doesn't work then basically you get credit for shutting down their service. And you don't really have any clues about what might possibly cause an issue because you don't know details of their application or stack.

And then sometimes software might need to be restarted which means you have to tell them to restart it themselves or get them to explain enough about how it works so you can restart it.

So unless you are going to charge hourly and staff accordingly, it seems like a no-go.

In this case, $100 per month is really going to pay for maybe two or three hours of sysadmin or application development work max. I.E. helping with various issues that come up in ordinary dev ops or software configuration that are specific to that particular customer's setup. And you just have to count on the idea that most people won't take advantage of more than that average amount of help, like only when they are panicked. And then hope that it is something that you can actually fix in a short amount of time.
I've been on Linode for a few months, after years on AWS, and I'm not nearly convinced to trust them with these "Managed Services".

Why? Too much "scheduled downtime" (few hours/month) vs. AWS's 99.999% uptime.

Why else? Well, it's a perverse incentive. If they have less reliable systems, the pain goes up, to where more people will sign up for "Linode Managed". We should all get good uptime, not have to pay extra.

Most importantly, their offering is not an SLA. I don't see anywhere in the "Linode Managed" where they are guaranteeing uptime %'s, or penalties for lower performance. And, how can they realistically handle even 50% of the 3AM panic problems, if some of those will be my website's inability to talk to 3rd party sites (which neither of us have control over).

If they really can fix 90% of the 3AM problems, then they are the root cause of most of those in the first place. There's not many good reasons why Linux will break at 3AM often if you've setup your stack correctly.
It's fairly crazy, but then again there are ~700 programming languages listed on Wikipedia, so really, there are just a lot of programming languages in general.

In terms of Foo->JS there seem to be two main camps, at least that I've noticed: writing a "better" JS (CoffeeScript / Dart et al), and writing something that converts your language to JS so you don't have to learn JS (ClojureScript, Scala.js etc) at all.

The latter can have ~700 of those before you've even started to duplicate yourself, so there is still a ways to go :P

Arguably there are only half a dozen or so "real" contenders in the former category (in the same way when you decide you want to learn a new programming language you don't pick from all ~700).
Public loans at least are cancelled when you die.
Short answer: yes, but it'll cost you, figure out a better way.

First thing to know is, if you're talking to banks you're sort of talking to the wrong people. You need to be talking to Banking Host providers, or Core Banking System providers (they go by a few names). These are the companies that actually provide the back-end for the banks. So if you're talking to bankers, they won't have any clue because that's not something they do.

Second, read up on ISO 8583 - that's a common API that's used. You may need to implement it, although there are a few open versions around.

Third, it's going to cost you lots of time and money. If you're solo or small, figure out someone who has already done the hard work and pay them for this.
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There is a third kind of meaning to an MS-CS degree.

For international students, it becomes significantly easier to get work authorization and permanent residency in the US if they obtain a higher education degree (basically an MS or a PhD) from an American university.
This is one of the main reasons that students from India and China in my university who have a BS and already have very employable skills still go for an MS.