skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All our stuff runs on one (1) server

This has nothing to do with MS, but why would you set up such an architecture? If one of the apps hits a memory leak (their HeatTest project did), than all of your other critical services/apps are interrupted.

That costs us about $200 a month. By the way, that's Amazon

What Amazon configuration gets you 8GB or RAM for $200/month?? Am I missing something?

Database servers for all of the above

MS SQL licensing costs are crazy stupid. You either (a) have to fork over about $2-3k fee or (b) the cloud based cost is an extra ~$150/month on top of the standards windows vm cost.

I'm genuinely curious about all of the above, because I am working with a MS-based startup and would be good to know.

But most importantly, because the customer doesn't give a darn.

100% agree.
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Though Putin has said he is outside the control of Russia, there has to be some sort of Russian authority in that transit area and I imagine they would have detained Snowden right away. He has no valid passport and he can't get a visa. Russia also doesn't need for Snowden to be a traveling circus in their airport with his mug being beamed to the world from Russia on a daily basis until they get rid of him.

I would also think that given his situation, that they would have to put through some sort of request to the Russian government for asylum or a similar scheme for staying there without a visa (from what I have read, you can only stay at that airport for 24 hours without a visa.) That process will probably take a while.

Maybe Hong Kong and Russia have been dragging their feet a bit as an F.U. to the U.S. but it seems like they have been following their own laws. All the chatter about whisking Snowden away to some safe location seems to have come from people with no authority to do anything.

I think it's simple. Russia detained Snowden in the transit area (if for no other reason than to keep him away from the media frenzy) and that's why we haven't seen pictures of him.
Competition, especially enough competition to start affecting prices in any meaningful way, doesn't just happen because alternatives merely exist.

The alternatives need to be extremely compelling in order to draw users away from very well-established incumbents.

From what we've seen so far, it's very doubtful that Firefox OS is capable of doing this. In terms of functionality, it is far behind what other mobile OSes have offered for years. What's worse, what it does offer is already offered by its competitors. It also offers much less flexibility when it comes to how developers can build their apps. It doesn't really compete in terms of cost, as used Android and iOS devices are widely available at very reasonable prices, even in developing nations. Finally, the claims about it being more "open" are specious, at best.

It's very difficult to find anything compelling about it. Regardless of what criteria is considered, it just doesn't offer any advantages. Widespread uptake just does not happen when this is the case.
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you were also looking for interns last month, does that changed?
Soocial is shutting down
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Unbelievable comment! Can't tell whether extreme trolling...or an extremely ignorant individual with a massive prejudice against the drug/author...
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>> don't have to write any tests at all

That is, until you find out that your state-machine matches incorrectly on an input text file...

>> maintenance is easy.

...and you are the only person your company can find to maintain your codebase.

You're zero for two, my friend. :(
Do check out the presentation (http://youtu.be/yL_-1d9OSdk) as he goes into a fairy bit of detail on the motivations and implementation of the project. Fairly moving actually
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German Prosecutors to Review Allegations of US Spying
BizSpark is fantastic, not for the free MS software but for the $150 a month of free Azure use for 3 years. For my bootstrapped project which has a significant server-side component it has removed my only monthly expenditure. There is also no compulsion to use MS products or to develop for Microsoft platforms either as i'm using Azure to power the Linux based backend of my iOS app.
I don't want to bash microsoft or anything. But 2.5 daily visitors and 1.5k new tickets daily can probably be served by nginx, a raspberry pi and a potato.
Wouldn't you be doing something horribly wrong if you couldn't serve 70k requests a day? It's actually less than 1 a second: 70000 / (60 * 60 * 24) = .81

I think this article is more about distributed systems being costly (yes) and perhaps overly complicated for the types of applications most people build. I agree. However, you could easily do the same with Linux.
NSA in Utah: Mining a mountain of data
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> INterestingly what you describe is probably not legal under EU privacy laws

Not only is it legal, it's essential for telcos to expand or enhance their cell coverage.
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Could someone explain me how one can implement offline features like navigation etc for this phone? Is there an API besides HTML+JS?
Exactly. The hard part of Java is not the language per se, but the myriad of IDEs and XML configuration files.
They're using the same method when reporting on Russia government activities that they use when reporting on USA government activities: send a stenographer to the press conference, and be sure to get press releases in copy-and-pasteable electronic form. Whatever they do, they never exhibit any skepticism.

Perhaps it's easier to see how little the popular news media contributes when they're "working" in unfamiliar environs. In this case, we can't rely on RT as a check because Russia. I just checked, and unfortunately Al Jazeera don't seem to have anything either. (Well, they had a link to the entertaining "Whistleblower" reggae mix, but no positive indication that Snowden is in the transit section.)
You can find everything here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Apps
Exactly. If he was paying list price for any of this, there would be a sudden, dramatic increase in price.

Which will happen, when BizSpark runs out.
> "Do you want to disable JavaScript?" is a stupid question, as you say. "Do you want your browser to tell Google, Facebook, Twitter, Omniture, DoubleClick, and six other companies you have never heard of, that you visited this site?" is not a dumb question. Given that option, 98% of users would say "hell no."
-> This overstates the case, because you'd still presumably load the 1x1 tracking png with ?resid=<X>&uid=<Y>.

> "I have a checkbox that will make it so they don't track you, but it will also break those sites. Is that ok?" They will also respond "hello no".

This overstates the case most of the time because doing this generally breaks relatively little for those domains listed, and to the extent it doesn't, making that decision on a domain-by-domain basis seems to work pretty well (ask any Noscript user)
If you're playing by the rules, it includes any scenario where a Git repo is stored within Dropbox.

Git expects to have full control over the files in the git repo. Git does not expect any changes to the files that it does not perform itself. Any scenario where an outside process performs regular changes to the Git repo is an opportunity to corrupt the repo.
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Once again showing the eerie prescience of The Parking Lot is Full? http://www.belligerati.net/archives/chicken.gif

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I suspect any hope will have to be provided by a court of justice. Or a X-Wing.
It depends on how you use Racket, since it is actually a family of languages, but if you use R5RS I would say it should be really easy to port apps between them. And the community is great so I don't think you would have problem picking it up
> What Amazon configuration gets you 8GB or RAM for $200/month?? Am I missing something?

You can easily get near 8GB for way under $200/mo using reserved pricing. A one year reservation, heavy utilization m1.large gives you 7.5GB of RAM for $40/mo and $676 up front, or about $100/mo total.
D-Wave’s quantum optimizer might be quantum after all
U.K. Parliamentary committee 'too busy' to question intelligence agencies
Learning by hacking
Sorry You Aren’t A Priority
Ecuador president: Snowden out of our hands
Why would these communities need money? On what basis would they be taxed with no income?
Yeah, 8gigs of RAM on ec2 works out to about a m1.large? I assume they're running SQL Server Standard Edition (do Saas apps like this one qualify for web edition?)

Shouldn't that be more than $200 a month?
I generally agree with you, but I think it's bad for the Hacker News community when people don't get thoughtful replies, even when the decision is a "no". It feels the slide away from a small technologist-centric community into the corporate way of doing things is underway.

[Edit: to make it clear, the social contract is different on a job board, because it takes no effort to send a resume and they probably get hundreds of unqualified, spamming applicants. I just hope that isn't what Hacker News has become. I could be wrong, though. Maybe each company does get hundreds of crappy resumes.]
I hadn't heard about Ghostery selling data. I read about the story at Mashable [1].

[1] http://mashable.com/2013/06/17/ad-blocker-helps-ad-industry/
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> edit: now I did downvote it for posting a duplicate where a simple list of countries would have sufficed.

Um, uh, er. Yeah, you're right, darn it. I didn't think about that (duh), but in retrospect, it should have been obvious to me :(

I won't make that mistake again. Thanks for pointing it out!
Or, if you are a company and need some structure and ease of use, you can try contacting the guys at gitgear.com
Yup. For the ultra concerned, its battery and sim removal.
How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe
How A Journalist Turned Developer Built A Startup From Scratch For $6,000
80% of my costs come from securing client data and having a HA environment. We were using Oracle DB for many years, switched to PostgreSQL last month due to usability problems, not cost.

I hope you make clear to your users that there will be data lost (to the point of your last backup) in an event of failure (which is certain thing in AWS).

If you think Multi-AZ will save the day: we lost a whole region of data in 2011 and again in 2012. If we didn't have a slave node on another region, we would have to restore a 13 hours old backup, that would pretty much make us go bankrupt.
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I'll pluralize this anecdote.

Every bit of my little software empire runs on a single Windows box. That includes my 3 main money-making products, a couple dozen smaller sites being hosted for consulting clients and my partner's businesses, and the Expat blog. Lots of steady-state traffic to lots of sites, several Techcrunch, Reddit and HN poundings, nothing to write home about as far as downtime or drama in the 6 years it's been running.

Say what you like about Microsoft, but their server stuff just plain works.
> A more pragmatic mitigation is to still separate the auth cookie from a dedicated “remember me” cookie and use the latter to re-authenticate the user but impose some restrictions.

What are the benefits of using a separate cookie for the "remember me" feature, provided that you impose the same restrictions (e.g. requiring the password again before accessing sensitive areas of the website) and same security measures like "httponly" & "secure"?

I've been using a single cookie with a randomly generated and periodically replaced session identifier, which expires at the end of the session by default but lasts longer if the user selects "remember me". I'd like to know whether there is a compelling reason to switch to two cookies.
Build simple tools to solve complex problems
It's ineffective in the sense that it doesn't stop all of the evil. It IS effective in the sense that running no javascript really limits the amount of information people can learn about your system. Like, why should a website be able to learn about the size of my screen, the complete enumeration of all of my plugins and fonts, etc?

As far as blowing off your leg, sometimes you just really hate tennis elbow, you know?
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Roger. Nice idea, copy that !
Your main obstacle, the real wildcard, is going to be WPEngine. They are not very proactive about helping people to leave.
Thanks!

Hmmh, but all I see is WebApp, WebGL, JavaScript, HTML, ... I don't see 'native' -> How would I implement an offline navigation? (which is currently really not possible in JavaScript)

Or is it just not possible to create a resource intensive or tricky application in FireFox OS?
Tpcc-mysql: Simple usage steps and how to build graphs with gnuplot
Surprisingly effective. :)
Note that in testing, you'll want to use the semi-minified version of this language, "cock".

For production, the fully-minified "hen" is naturally preferred.

EDIT: There is a lua implementation available also: 'pollo.