skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Restore from yesterdays backup onto the machine below it in the cage. Then buy a new machine to replace it.

That 2nd machine is already running all the same sites (as a QA/Staging server), so it's pretty much good to go already.

Sorry if I wasn't clear that "running everything from a single server" doesn't equal "only owning a single computer".
They give 1.6 volts each. So you will need 3 of them for the power source and you may have a problem with amperage.

But yeah - people seem to gravely underestimate the power of the current hardware and how much of it is wasted currently.
Meh, I have an instance hosted on Linode for $26 per month (price includes backup + 1 additional IP used for an extra SSL certificate).

My Linode hosts about 3 static websites (2 blogs generated with Middleman [1], plus one Maven repository in which I publish stuff). It also hosts a Wiki and a CRM (both powered by Ruby / MySQL). So that's Ngix + Passenger + 5 MB of Memcached + MySQL + file storage.

I also host several apps I've made on free Heroku dynos, which can get you quite far if you use Scala/the JVM in combination with all the freebies ;-)

[1] http://middlemanapp.com/
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Do you have a source for your last two statements?

The idea that European intelligence agencies aren't interested in any data that the US could give them seems absurd.
Very true. It's expensive and complex to have real HA/redundancy, but they can't even bounce a DB server without taking down every one of their apps. I have no idea about administering Windows servers, but based on my experience with Windows Update on the desktop, I would imagine that you need to do that relatively often.

Hopefully they have a staging environment running somewhere internally at least.
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EventMobi - Toronto, Canada - Full-Stack Software Engineers - http://www.eventmobi.com/about/careers/

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Washington DC, New York, or Remote.

Vox Media is a technology-driven media company and the publisher of The Verge, Polygon, and SB Nation. Do you care about the future of journalism? We're working hard to solve the problem of scaling and sustaining high-value journalism & storytelling. We're hiring a front-end engineer to hack on Chorus, our publishing platform (built on Ruby & Rails, among other tech).

http://jobs.voxmedia.com/apply/z72Cnq/FrontEnd-Engineer-Ad-P...

More about Vox:

* Read about our team and projects at our product team blog: http://product.voxmedia.com/post/25113965826/introducing-syl...

* Episode 2 of Press Reset, the documentary our video studio made about the development of Polygon, our gaming site (good behind the scenes footage of what it's like to work on our product team): http://www.polygon.com/gaming/2012/9/5/3293687/press-reset-e...

* Video from Vax, our recent hack week where the Vox product team flew to Austin, took over the 20th floor of a downtown building, and made a bunch of neat things: http://product.voxmedia.com/post/44715740828/vax-13-document...

* Photos of our new HQ in DC: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clockwerks/sets/721576334439387...

Vox was named Publisher of the Year by Digiday in March 2013. Our investors include Accel Partners, Comcast Interactive Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Allen & Company. Together our properties have a monthly audience of over 30 million.
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1. PRIVATE CLOUDS:

- Ten-fold+ cost reduction over services like AWS and Heroku is not uncommon for decent sized clients (spending 10k+ per month), amortized over three years. Plus, since the hardware is yours, you get to keep it after the three years. Sell it, throw it into a Hadoop cluster, Christmas present for the wife, whatever.

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We're aware our core change-detection engine has many uses, particularly in the medical space. We're focussed on making a home-tracking service for moles to start out with that works with smartphone to begin with, although we plan to branch out into other areas as the company grows. We're not like the many apps out there that will tell you whether or not you have cancer for $2.99, we're working with dermatologists, GPs and image processing experts to make a service that is robust and safe.

We have a grant from the UK's Technology Strategy Board - a Government initiative - to research video-based capture instead of our current photo-based approach. This would alleviate many of the problems you've highlighted with regards to the convenience of capturing the data. Video capture would be the main focus of the person we hire.

We're also keen to point out we're not a diagnosis service, nobody but a trained medical professional can tell you whether or not you have a melanoma. All we're doing is helping you spot change as soon as possible.
I take it you didn't read my post that you original replied to ;) (I jest because I raised each of those points myself).

Sadly space is the issue. The one I bought (which was more along the lines of £3) sadly pushes the dimensions of the device I'm building much too much. At some point I'm going to have to re-investigate the issue though - as I plan on adding voice control which means I'll need a mic in.

As for sound quality, that's really a non-issue given the it's going in a car with crappy speakers. So there's no point wasting money on a decent audio chip if I can't reproduce that sound accurately. (in an ideal world, I'd throw in some zero frequency curve studio monitors and use my spare Terratec Phase 96 as the Pi's sound device - but then the price really starts to jump. So instead I make do with what I've got)
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The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS
See [1]

Firefox:
about:config > gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled > false

Chrome:
Add --disable-remote-fonts as start parameter

1: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=184198
First of all, there are no silver bullets and no overall "better" languages. It depends on the situation, and a good software _engineer_ should be able to reason about the trade-offs of using statically/dynamically typed languages in each situation.

In this case, it is about shifting the costs to different stages of the projects lifecycle. Statically typed languages require more mental effort while developing, and, by definition, catch more bugs early in the process (compiler has more information to play with, and the programmer is required to be more thorough). Pushing it even further, formal proof systems require exponentially more effort at development time, and, in some cases, rewards it with the proof of software correctness (i.e. no bug-fixing costs at maintenance stage). On the other end of spectrum, dynamically typed languages allow for much faster development (which can be mission critical), but a rapid release comes with a price of long-term maintenance difficulties.

It's up to the developer to choose which approach is the most appropriate for the situation (amongst the myriad of other trade-offs, like performance, scalability, user requirements, existing infrastructure and so on).
Presumably one would need to review population growth, movement, etc trends.
Have you tried running for example Cyanogenmod on your Galaxy Ace?

It is my impression that both the Galaxy Mini and Ace have a big and active developer community.

On my girlfriends Galaxy Mini it made a huge difference in both responsiveness and stability. (Running Cyanogenmod7 Stable based on Gingerbread.)

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Cooper_Info
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Tass_Info
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ There are tabs for SQL Server Web and Standard Editions.

Depending on what version of SQL Server he needs, it's either a $0.136/hr additional cost to add Web Edition or $0.610/hr additional cost to add Standard Edition. That works out to an approximate $97.92 or $439.20 additional cost per month. So, not a huge jump in cost.
Mad Scientist Sees Future Where We Sell Our Quantified Selves on eBay
I respect your view, and cannot compare it to PIC as I have no experience with it. You comment makes me angry though, because I've seen this view before from others and I think it is false. Arduino has been immensely empowering tool to learn, a joy to work with and the community is incredibly helpful and supportive.

To back up this claim I am making, here is an arduino 3D printer I've developed from scratch. I mean we milled the parts we needed based off a reprap frame, I couldnt get the idiotic firmwares and code available to work so I started with an arduino and a stepper motor and figured it out.

https://github.com/fluentart/arrowprint
I'm a self taught artist that got interested in code so I don't claim to be good at it, as I really have no base to compare my quality of code to others except for the end result and the process of it for me personally.

Please tell me how a pic would be better? I am eager to learn.
The previous discussion on this article you link to is only on the second page!
Say "No" to coding what are basically boring static blog and brochure sites as if they were dynamic real-time webapps. That would make me say "Yes" to javascript.
The vast majority of startups in the Valley use MacBooks for development.
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price is an important factor as well. try finding a treadmill that supports lateral movement for $300 USD.
here's some pretty good haskell cheats. [[well nigh impossible to cover all the language extensiosn in a short doc]]

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ns441/files/thips.pdf

http://blog.codeslower.com/static/CheatSheet.pdf

http://strictlypositive.org/slicing-jpgs/
(handdrawn!)

http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/11/how-to-read-haskell/

http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/cursos/proggen/Transparencias/Po...
I've worked in IT for 12 years. Microsoft server stuff never just works. I'm in the process of replacing a $1 MM video asset management system that sits on top of Windows Server with OpenStack/Debian precisely because of this.

Microsoft server just works. Hah!
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I have several dozen asp.net sites and one startup (asp.net + background services). And people ask me why I use MS products, they are expensive. But reality is: prices of win shared hosting are almost exact like linux shared hosting. Windows licence on Hetzner (or many other win VPS providers) is 15€/m. I don't mind paying 15€/m, I spend more on coffee and cola, and dont make any money from that.
And for database, if sql express is not enough, I go with mysql/postgre, simple as that.
I also played with ruby and php little bit, but don't find any special advantage or stuff that are hard/complicated/long to do in .net, even they're nice products (RoR at least). All those tools looks very similar to me, and hosting price on VPS/cloud is really low also today.
Maybe one thing that's missing in .net compared to some other ecosystem is community, but last few years that changed a lot (to better of course).
Right, but the article and the rest of us are saying that that is arbitrary and unhelpful and we really ought to stop it if we're ever going to have an adult conversation about all this.
Totally. We use github for everything, but in this case, we are hosting a private repository since we need to trigger a compilation of code in a builder/worker of the cloud app we are developing. We modified the beginning of the post to clarify what our goal is by hosting privates repos with gitolite.
> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I have not seen anyone question the official story that Snowden is "in the transit area" despite a complete lack of independent confirmation.

While it may be that it's just a matter of safety that he is kept out of public areas, it is still an interesting and unreported aspect of the story.
Isn't it also likely that while detained, a parade of agents from Russia's special services would be attempting to talk to him? I have a hard time believing that any country, let alone the US or Russia or China, would not be at least attempting to talk to a person holed in your airport with thousands of classified documents.
No, it's not an answer. It's just a name for a the thing we don't understand, and (often) an implication that that thing is unknowable. If I ask "how are we conscious", and you answer "because we have souls", you haven't given me any new information. It sounds like new information, but it doesn't change anything about the predictions I will make for how the world behaves. It doesn't constrain my view of the observable universe, so it's useless.

Edit: also, you're describing substance dualism, not theism. You can be a dualist but not a theist.
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As a Technical Sales Engineer http://www.softartisans.com/technical-sales-engineer, you'll provide the technical aspect to our Sales team in interacting with our pre-sales customer base of Developers and IT Professionals who are using our products to add functionality to their ASP.NET, Reporting Services and SharePoint applications. You will provide assistance in creating Proof of Concepts and technical demonstrations for our pre-sales customers.

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Unless mono has improved dramatically in the last 5 years it has that poor man's C# feeling about it - when I had to develop for it was nightmare - it had problem managing a lot of io buffers and silent improvements like making dictionary thread safe had some very very bad side effects in non blocking io applications.
Well, AFAIK he can easily switch to MySQL for instance, under the same ORM.
Is mailgun a US-based company that would comply with a national security letter if faced with one?
Like what kind of data?
SEEKING WORK

Junior web developer, looking to get some more experience.
Finished my first site (bootstrap-y CSS due to time constraints) about a week ago.
getwellbe.com

I have a full time job already, but would like to work on web projects on the side to broaden my portfolio and keep up with modern web techniques (again just trying to get experience here).

I'm experienced with Agile and this is my preferred style of work.

If you aren't so much concerned with getting your site out as fast as possible, I'd be able to work weekends with you to either help maintain a site you have already, or build one from the ground up! I wouldn't necessarily be expecting compensation, but if you think I do good work I'd love to make some money to pay for groceries every week :)

Shoot me an email @ bambielli@gmail.com if you'd be interested in talking more.
Medium does not pay a majority of their authors, however, I've heard that they pay some "big names" to help them gain traffic.

So unless you are a well known blogger/journalist, don't expect a check.
I am very excited about this initiative. While some may argue that a 'cheap phone' strategy isn't going to work in the expensive and presumably highly competitive mobile market - aka price-to-value-to-possession connotation - but I think Mozilla is doing just the right thing with its Firefox OS and low-end pricing strategy.

As the so-called smartness of smart phones becomes a commodity (already is in some ways) what would be important to people finally is the utility of the handset. And at that point pricing and workmanship of the product, and perhaps openness, would be the only deciding factor.

Eagerly waiting to lay hands on my handset.
ZipRecruiter - Santa Monica, CA - perl and/or python - full time/intern ok

ZipRecruiter is a small (~40 employees/10 programmers) internet software company focused on the jobs industry. We have two successful products: a job posting/distribution/applicant-tracking service and a job-search/email-alerts service.

We're bootstrapped (have never taken investment) and profitable, and we're growing rapidly. We're looking for programmers (or sysadmins or DBAs who like to program a little) to help us in these areas:

- ZipRecruiter web site (primarily perl + catalyst)

- search engine & related backend services (python)

- database (mysql) and EC2 infrastructure (linux)

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If you're interested in learning more, please email me at will - at - ziprecruiter.com or apply:

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MediaMath -- Cambridge MA and NYC NY. Fulltime. H1B.

We're looking for software engineers, especially with systems experience. We're also looking for a UI dev and a QA team lead.

http://www.mediamath.com/careers/postings/

We're working on lots of big data challenges in the online advertising space. MediaMath bought out Akamai's ADS division a few months ago and most of the Cambridge office consists of those folks. I'm happy to answer any questions: msalib@mediamath.com.

I personally work on our high performance streaming data analysis language that compiles to LLVM and runs on Hadoop. We're definitely looking to hire in my group.
Interviewstreet (YC S11) is hiring in MountainView & Bangalore.

Our mission is to connect great talent with great opportunities in the fastest and efficient way.

We have two products -

a. One for enterprises (interviewstreet.com) which helps companies to screen programmers effectively using coding challenges. It's used by leading technology companies like Facebook, Amazon, Walmart, Box, Evernote, Palantir, Groupon, etc.

b. Build the community of programmers in different domains of Computer Science at hackerrank.com. Every hacker has one type of challenge in a particular domain (AI or ML or functional programming, etc.) that really intrigues him/her. We are building the centralized platform for the most interesting problems across these domains from novice to real-world.

Fast forward 3-5 years, we will be a company with thousands of technology companies as our customers and a million programmers in HackerRank building one of the most effective and fun platform for talent. The result is much bigger than just jobs but an aggregation of the "brains" of all the problem solvers - hugely powerful.

We are well-funded by YC, Khosla ventures, Jawed Karim and many more. We are a team of 23, fast growing and hiring across different roles - hackers, sales, marketing, etc.

If you're interested, please e-mail team [at] interviewstreet with your strongest forte and biggest failure. We'll take it forward from there.

Looking forward to working with you - Vivek, co-founder, interviewstreet
After looking at their portfolio, I'd say that high-cost/low-audience apps are hard to make profitable. Let alone building a business around such apps.

That being said, some of their apps look beautiful. Wish them all the best of luck on their next venture.
If this person was REALLY good, they would have changed the word to 'duck' and used 'goose' as the semi-colon. duck duck duck duck goose
Boston - Cognii - Full-time, Intern

NLP Engineer

Cognii is an ed-tech startup solving the assessment problem. We are seeking a very bright and talented NLP engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for advancing the state of the company's automated grading technology to solve practical problems in the educational technology. The position demands a person who has broad interests and is motivated to design and implement improvements to the company’s system. Some of the responsibilities include:

• Design and implement algorithms for educational assessment

• Do data analysis for different requirements.

• Write different scripts and tools to measure the performances

• Maintain the assessment system.

• Contribute to technical documentation of data analysis systems, solutions and results

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• MS or PhD in computer science or related discipline

• Strong background in statistical modeling and machine learning

• Extensive experience programming in C/C++

• Proficiency with SQL, Ruby and Matlab.

• Experience in analyzing data using statistical/psychometric techniques

• Demonstrate a willingness to learn and apply a wide range of technologies

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Please send your application with the CV to jobs@cognii.com with the title "[NLP Engineer] YOUR NAME"

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What about the concerns with running your apps on a single server? Or do you Hyper-V within a single instance?
Not surprised. Mozilla, being an important entity in JavaScript ecosystem, obviously wouldn't disapprove web developers willing to shove JS down everyone's throat.