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Ask HN: OpenSource PaaS
Has anyone worked with any OpenSource PaaS systems? We'll be using AWS BeanStalk for our rollout of our service, but wanting to know if we can run our own PaaS-type service on our own choice of hosting.

Basically git hosting, auto-scaling and auto-balancing aswell as health monitoring.

I know there's a wealth of PaaS providers that provide this, but yeah, wanting to run our own on a chosen host.
I remember my father making fun of my uncle, his younger ~30y old brother, when we were at his wedding: "Man! When I was your age, my son already had 5 years, and my daughter already celebrated its first birth-day!" :-)
> Chimps commit brutal murders of their own kind

As opposed to human beings?
> I guess that nobody smuggled in a container of nukes was mostly because nobody cared to do that. Kinda like why the big guy in the supermarket queue doesn't just start bashing everyone to death with the cash register, even though they could.

Human decency only goes so far. A non-trivial portion of the population are fucks. But in civilized society, even the fucks know that they can't take on the whole crowd, and they know that justice will be swift, which is why they stay in line. But the promise of swift justice does not exist everywhere, and "human decency" only does so much. When I lived in Bangladesh, we lived in a walled compound (iron gate, high concrete walls with broken glass embedded on top), in a nice neighborhood in the capital city of Dhaka. One night we had an entire bus full of thieves show up at the gate demanding to be let in. It took the police almost an hour to show up, during which time the thieves threatened to run the bus through the gate.

The difference between the U.S. and Bangladesh is not that the former does not have indecent people. It's that in the former, such brazen lawlessness would have been met by a SWAT team, while in the latter a few cops showed up when they felt like it.

Also, ask Israel how well the whole "human decency" thing is going for them.
It might be an inappropriate time to say it, but this is rudeness, not sexism. How often is it that you are talking to someone, anyone, they comment on how attractive you are and you are sorely offended?

While pointing out they have power/money, while the other party has the looks?

That happens a lot, and only ever [edit: usually, 99% like] one way. Even older rich women who hit on me do it more like a young girl would than this dude would.

So, no. If you want idiocy or propaganda, try your own post.
Sort of. The cost of higher-education skyrocketed when the government got involved in the student loan business. It became easy to get loans for higher-education and then tuition skyrocketed with the suddenly available capital.

There other contributing factors as well; for example, the rise of the ridiculous requirement to have a college degree to get anything close to a decent job these days has created tremendous demand for degrees and allowed colleges and universities to raise tuition into the stratosphere.
cis male

cis male? Am I the only one who has no idea what this is?
Did the person from Google that you talked to happen to mention an issue number in Python's tracker, or anything of that sort?

Something seems very wrong if every 1 MB of data read from your SQLite database ends up consuming 150+ MB of memory in some way.

Are you able to provide any sample code and a SQLite database that exhibit this problem, so attempts can be made to fix it?
You can go traveling well before hitting 43 with the children. Take them with you!
A very poorly written article. Unfortunate because until now I have enjoyed a lot of The Atlantic's content.

Dude, not even the President of the United States can get away with that kind of thing.

Not to mention it was written to be as link-baity and "controversial" as possible, while making sexist remarks clearly without knowing it.
Not ok for me (Arch Linux), in fact, not even a single pixel, no cursor at all!
Numpy supports lots of array math, but another way to think of it is as an api for working directly with memory (and values stored as platform types instead of python objects).

(Which you may well realize...)
Isn't it also true that private institutions have seen an equally fast or faster growth in tuition expenses? That would invalidate the article. For reference btw, $3 to $6 in 1981 dollars is $7.50 to $15 in today's dollars according to Westegg.
Comparing Internet Radio Apps
And now beside having more slaves than any other time.in history in absolute numbers without counting prisoners in countries that allow prisoner slavery, like the US, we have people.that would happily.volunteer to.be slave if.they had a guarantee of food, we have sweatshops, we have young people desperately working in jobs they hate to pay student debts
Oh, I am not slave, I am free, I am free to work in whatever job I find, or die starved and in debt.
Yep, it's all about your attitude, what you put into your body and your physical activity.
Genetic modifications can't alter human nature. What you'll have is a different species, closely related to humans. You can argue that's just semantics, I can agree to a point but unless you give a proper answer to what does it mean to be human my criticism is still valid.
That property exists for all news media.
I think they did.[0]

[0] http://ing.dk/blog/hvorfor-man-ikke-kan-sammenligne-suborbit...
Oops, you're right - I guess I fell too much in love with -i as a plural suffix. I don't know where that came from.
It's a term commonly used by feminists and transgender people to describe straight white males.
How a 10 Million Dollars Startup Uses Free Software
I don't see anything wrong with that as even our POTUS has openly told the opposite sex this. Some of these statements are definitely irrelevant, but I find that it should have been said using different wording. He could have mentioned something relevant, and then addressed that she is attractive on this day, or everyday. He should have definitely left the dirty old man part out.
I disagree. There was another picture of Marissa Mayer to see.
It's quite heavy for me (too much for my liking as well) - Chrome 27 on OSX.
The culprit is http://shkspr.mobi/blog/?custom-css=1&csblog=1&cscache=6&csr... giving a font-weight of 500. Probably affecting OSX people only
I friggin' love NetNewsWire and am glad they've figured out a non-Google syncing solution.
I did not have a clue, so I searched on Google... It is apparently the politically or academically correct way to refer to a male who identifies with the male gender identity; see 'cisgender'.
What about the other ethnicities?
I thought this was ironic too. This assumption that only a man would be interested in football, is like a woman going to buy a car and only being shown the vanity mirror, because clearly only a man would interested in the rest of car.
How about django-public-project? The following is from their description at http://django-public-project.readthedocs.org/en/latest/:

Django Public Project (DPP) is a specialised content management system written in Python/Django for building an information website around big projects. It is open source (BSD licence) and can be used by civic groups to monitor the progress of publicly funded projects but also from within governmental institutions itself to bring transparency in the proceeding of a project, inform the interested public about what is going on and thus enhance the acceptance of the project by the different stakeholders.

It is currently being used by the investigative comittee of the Berlin city parliament in order to investigate the massive clusterfk that is the city's new and very disfuntional airport (BER). The source code can be found at: https://github.com/holgerd77/django-public-project

Regarding participation of ordinary citizens, the docs say:

On DPP websites users can comment on nearly everything and connect their comments to various elements of the project. Comments are then shown alongside every connected element. All admin users having activated the “Receive new comment emails” in the admin user settings receive an email after someone sent a comment and can then activate the comment to be shown on the website.

http://django-public-project.readthedocs.org/en/latest/users...
Exactly. It is also great on a Galaxy Tab.

Do any of the alternatives to Reader have a good app for Android ?
yes - it was hilarious! Rejsekortet is such an embarrasment to Denmark, my only constellation is that I once had sex with the CEO's daughter.
> They're calling for Snowden's blood and telling America that this is serious stuff.

Of course they are. He called the cops on their illegal party.
Someday, somebody with a lot of Bitcoins is going to say “no.”
Expanding Search Bar Deconstructed
Here’s what happens to asylum-seekers who stay in airport limbo indefinitely
Redirects in Ruby on Rails
A comment doesn't have to cause offence in order to be sexist, just as much as causing offence doesn't make a comment sexist.

The comment is sexist, by "I have 2000 Yahoo shares", he means "I have power over you", and "I'm a dirty old man and you look attractive", could be interpreted as "I don't respect your power over me, you're just a woman and all you can do is be pretty", which is an attempt at debasement.
Australian Minister for Broadband resigns
Now’s your chance to own the famous computer from WarGames
What If The Moon Were Replaced By Other Planets?
It tends to be used as a way to describe what is considered the most privileged group of people by certain rights activists groups (and also a few bigots, as with every group, there are bad eggs.) White people are considered more privileged than say, black people, because of studies showing that more black people tend to be brought up in poverty or that Mexican people tend to be brought up in worse neighbourhoods. (These are generalizations which I don't support by the way, I'm describing an external viewpoint, not my own.)
doesn't google do the same thing?
i don't see the problem here.
they collect public info, run it through their proprietary algo, and try to monetize the results.
so what?
An absolute disaster for my productivity would be getting a performance review which accounts for my Hacker News karma score.
Oh they very likely believe they are the best patriots. Just as Hoover did.
Aaaaand here is the revelation: not everyone who is the same age feels the same way about it!

You're welcome.

There was a series of AskMeFi threads that were much more interesting than either the post or the comments here:

http://ask.metafilter.com/140223/A-Year-in-a-Minute
I've historically been of opinion that #!/bin/name is preferred. Then I hit a workplace with network mappings and mixed architecture servers. It makes me appreciate linux's default mapping because when you start going off on your own it becomes nasty.

Some machines only have python 2.4 and others 2.7. So /usr/local/python is not a good answer for python scripts in /project/x/bin (network mapped). Worse someone puts gnu coreutils in /project/x/bin, but for sparc architectures, so PATH becomes touchy if you're on a x86 server.

I've resorted to having my bashrc build my path by scanning uname for architecture/platform and conditionally adding path entries to these network folders.

All organization scripts on network drives now have caveats "This only works on linux x86 servers" or "This only works on server X". Not because it can't work elsewhere, but because the PATH and #! management problems when the dependencies are installed at different places on different servers.

Blegh </rant>
Fair question. If I asked you to do a phone interview and you told me your reasoning why you'd rather another form of interview, I wouldn't have the slightest issue with it provided the job your applying for doesn't involve any phone calls to clients!

In short, be upfront and completely honest. Some people really struggle on the phone, that's life.

That being said, the same concept wouldn't necessarily apply to face-to-face interviews.
The 500 weight makes the font look bold in both Firefox and Chrome. Both Latest. Windows 8.

http://imgur.com/YPHkdno
I've done both and I have to say distributed is guaranteed to win in the long run.

In my last venture we had the Palo Alto office on University Ave, and I've walked a few miles up and down SandHill Rd, so when I say distributed works I'm contrasting it against past experience of trying to hire developers, architects and (worse) project managers in SV.

The challenges raised above in many of the comments about "being within shouting distance" and "eye contact" - together with the fear of distributed workers being passed over for promotions because of their lack of water cooler time - goes away when the ENTIRE team is distributed.

In a situation where the "core team" is within a fun, social campus and George is working from Seattle in his bunny slippers then it is very difficult to convince the in-office workers not to have chats over their cubicle walls and innovate during lunch on the bean bag chairs. Using the collaboration platforms like GitHub and Basecamp becomes a pain in the ass to them. But, when EVERYONE is distributed, then a lot of that goes away, and we've found adoption and proficiency with Google Hangouts (wired or WiFi, sorry) and all the other tools go way up.

In our current team for Infinite Monkeys[1] we've built the entire venture with funding from founders and SV sources, but a team that is purely distributed using over 200 contractors through oDesk[2], literally on six continents. It has allowed us to move beyond "hiring the best people who coincidentally live within 30 miles of San Mateo" to just hiring the best people. And so we have designers in Bulgaria, developers in Spain and India, marketers in Singapore, a bookeeper in Mauritius and a PR Lead in Michigan. It has allowed us faster release cycles and massive savings in our GoToMarket burn.

There are still challenges no doubt, and the fact is building this kind of startup even 36 months ago would have been almost impossible, but tools like Google Drive, oDesk, GitHub and Hangouts, I think are making it possible.

We have replaced the water cooler with 15five[3] (ironically a SFO startup) - asking each team member to write a 15 minute shared report of what went well this week, what challenges there are, and what ideas they have for improving the business. I'm getting better feedback now through my distributed team than I ever did with our hub and spoke teams before.

Lastly, and only because it hasn't been mentioned above, but I think another example of a long-term distributed company that has done it well is Mozilla. Say what you may about their products and direction, but the fact is their developer base is massively distributed and has been for years.

[1] Infinite Monkeys - www.monk.ee
[2] oDesk - www.oDesk.com
[3] 15five - www.15five.com
you may be confusing feminism with the equal rights for women movement. While there's a large crossover and the former certainly tries to pretend to be the latter, there's also an element of male-targeted sexism within the feminist community that would always prevent me from identifying with them. I'm not saying at all that feminism = sexism, but I wouldn't want to back a community that doesn't seem to address these issues.
There's nothing wrong with the comment in and of its self, in my opinion. In fact, I appreciate it. But it's too bad that relevance to the original article seems to have so little correlation with votes.
Ask HN: Place to sleep in San Francisco?
Hi guys,

I'm currently in SF because I'm looking to move here. I just secured an apartment, but along with that I've basically paid around $5K in deposits and such, so I'm a bit strapped for cash. I've spent the night at the 24 hour Starbucks on California working on various things, but I'm really tired. Does anyone have a place I can crash at? At this point, I'll sleep on the floor. I just need to get some sleep soon! Thanks everyone.
CoffeeScript still suffers from many of the same problems that JavaScript does, as it's basically a very thin syntactic veneer over JavaScript.

Like CoffeeScript's homepage current states, 'The golden rule of CoffeeScript is: "It's just JavaScript".'

The problems with JavaScript are very inherent and at its very core. They aren't the kind of things that are fixed by changing the syntax. While languages like Dart and TypeScript go far beyond where CoffeeScript does, the mere presence of JavaScript underneath still causes problems and forces in limitations.
This is so much fun. Thanks!
Air/Train/Bus travel in China during the 2008 Olympics wasn't as troublesome or degrading as in the US (but was still more than it ought to be).
Comparing deployment times and error rates for AWS, Rackspace and HP Cloud APIs
Thank you for making /r/gonewild a better place!
Not handling edge cases, making them explicit instead
Seconded. I used the word 'frippery' in my opt-out comment. I only remember seeing this word in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe books.
You're ignoring the basic fact that 99% of communication is context. "Hey you're hot" conveys an entirely different message in a bar than it does in a shareholder meeting. In the latter context, it's equivalent to saying: "you might be a high powered executive, but you're still just eye candy to me."
It sounded like his comments followed the format of <why I'm (allowed to be) here> <interesting tidbits about me> <what I wanted to talk about>. The 2000 shares is the first part (which doesn't count as having power/money given how many shares yahoo has); the inappropriate comments are the second part; whatever he goes on to say after (there is something, but I didn't pay attention) is the third part.

I would think that format is typical for public (or semi-public) meetings where anyone who wants to is allowed to present to the group.
OpenShift (proven), or dokku (very new, but promising).

But the question is not very detailed. What do you actually look for in a PaaS as supported frameworks and middleware
> yet

Now you're making assumptions.
It admittedly had a learning curve roughly on-part with Eclipse over POTS with a drunk monkey at the other end of the call. I was rather happy when Firebug came into my world.
Thanks for posting the link to their webpage in here Sunday. I don't want to miss any chance to fling poo at the TSA.

edit: FYI, My comment hasn't appeared yet. When I submitted it, the form had a notice that comments were subject to moderation and that it may take (a few days?).
Turns out the guy who found the Iphone 4 and sold it to Gizmodo regrets it as well. At least Gizmodo earned a pretty penny, though.

"Gizmodo told me they would give me $5,000 for the story, and another $3,000 after it was confirmed by Apple to be real. They knew that there was no way in hell I was going to be able to ask for the $3,000 after the story aired, but I didn't. I ended up having to hire and expensive lawyer and had to pay him much much more than $5,000."

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1h2m81/i_leaked_the_ip...
India Passes Japan To Become Third Largest Global Smartphone Market
I couldn't agree more.

We should all be egalitarian: characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil rights for all people, rather than feminist: defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women.
The article doesn't disprove end-to-end encryption.
No, exactly like human beings. That's the point.

They use tools, make wars, and create words.
Here in Brazil at least that is true. The Brazilian boomers thought us that we needed college, period. Then lack of colleges happened, thus government started giving student loans, and private companies building colleges like crazy, and the government build at a more reasonable pace

Now most people.of my age have a.degree that only proves you can wipe your ass with it, because most universities here have terrible quality, considering the amount of them grew much faster than we had teachers, and people.are terribly indebted. I pay for example permonth 2 times the minimum monthly wage. And most people stay stuck earning minimum wage until they retire. And I am not a exception, the only people I met that are below 28 and don't have absurd debts are dropouts or child of someone with net worth bigger than. 5 million.

EDIT: In the fields I got my degrees, every year we have more students completing their courses than the total number of employees on those fields in the country...

Or the one that is so absurd to the point of hilarity: Brazil has more law schools than the rest of the world summed, last time I checked in the justice department site, 5% of our population has a bachelor degree in law... (remember Brazil has a 200 million + population)
That's true at some universities (especially private ones), but costs don't explain the results everywhere. In the University of California system, the per-student cost of providing education has actually gone down: total university-system expenditures divided by number of students produces a number about 20-25% lower today than it was in the '70s, in real-dollar terms.

Why has tuition gone up, then? The state of California has cut its per-student funding to less than half of what it used to be, which leaves a substantial gap even after the cost improvements.

Here are some funding numbers I compiled, via the rough-estimate method of taking the state allocation to the system and dividing by its undergraduate enrollment: http://www.kmjn.org/misc/uc_funding.txt
showing off that your language has features that Go doesn't have is kinda missing the point of Go. Half of the reason that people like Go is how few features it has; not how many.
Hmm. Sorry about that. I didn't see it at all during development. I'll do some testing on my Linux Machine when I get home, and can hopefully get it fixed soon.
Yup. Make it impossible for people to get this kind of money, and the schools will change to meet the new realistic tuition amount.

People argue that this would mean only rich people would be able to go to college, but I think colleges would rather keep the number of students up high, and not become an extremely privileged institution.
I see the religious implication. But that system indeed has a designer. Somebody spent weeks making sure that features are combined and evaluated in a certain way in which the cars can evolve.
I travel internationally and do not notice a stark difference between the security checkpoint procedures in the USA and in other countries. The only difference I can recall is having to stop for a few seconds in the millimeter scanner instead of just walking through a traditional gate, but this is hardly a major difference. Can you mention anything else?
Probably stolen software that requires work to deploy.
The irony of this article is that it tries to oppose the whole "getting older" lament while the author is a measly 27... thereby underlining the ridiculous standards for youth by suggesting that late twenties might possibly be viewed as getting old in any shape or form.

Our society/culture has a very narrow definition of youth: if you are older than 25, you are "getting old" or "past your prime" in the eyes of the people that are close to your age. Hell, if you are between 21 and 25 those that are three years younger than you might very well refer to you as "old". It's as if as soon as you can't chow down chocolate icecream for breakfast every day without feeling lethargic and gaining weight, or drink a bottle of vodka one night and get up the next day and run a half marathon you're "getting old".

It's like you have a hot second from the time you are legally your own person and can make your own decisions until suddenly you are "getting old" and you are supposed to spend the rest of your life regretting all the things you didn't do "in your youth" because you are 27 and your brow is slightly furrowed... what the hell?

(But I'm in my mid twenties myself so I don't know how it is to turn 30, 40... take what I say with a grain of salt)
Be a better developer: Octopus Deploy
Should other nations start watching out for space Vikings?
Short launch video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rva9J_3njnI