skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just that, but when you look at the higher-end instances, CloudLayer's pricing becomes even more attractive. At $300, you get 8GB of RAM and 8 cores. Considering that Amazon's EBS has I/O usage charges, this is cheaper than Amazon's Large instance (7.5GB RAM and 2 cores with 2 compute units per core) with any I/O usage.

EDIT: SoftLayer is also saying that their base CPU is 2.0GHz rather than the 1.2GHz that Amazon's compute units are based off of.
It amazes me that in these discussions people always make a beeline right to the price, as if it not only matters but is the paramount point of concern.

I'm not exactly in the wily-nilly "VC money has caused me to lose all sense of proportion so I think I'm going to spend $20,000 on a nice big fishtank filled with tropical freaking bats" section of the market, but I look at $17 difference in these options or $8 difference in, e.g., Slicehost vs. Linode and wonder "What conceivable circumstances are there where this both matters and can not be compensated for by eating less pizza and more ramen?"

(Yeah, if you start buying dozens of them, it almost approaches real money every month. Of course, if you're buying dozens of them, you should ideally be running a business on top of them.)
Most college courses don't teach a language. They use a language to teach computer science.
At least the ranking system is all positive -- which is probably for the best. If you were to add the ability to down-vote, you'd have to watch out for some random teenage girl waking up one morning to a -50 because her classmates thought it'd be funny. That could lead to some trouble.

The site works well, I'm sure there's an audience for it.
Posterous is great for this because it handles photos and videos simply and effectively - a favorite for families. You cannot customise the look yet though. It's much simpler than Ning so non net savvy users have less chance to get lost. Good luck.
I hope I will be facing the same problem soon with UsabilityTest.com :) ! I just started by using Wowzy , have been playing with Red5 2 years ago which was complicated to get it running - now I guess when they are reaching RC it should be good. As for hosting - I only know good UK hosting providers.
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I make a beeline to the prices because the last two startup companies I worked for ran dozens of instances and was running a business on top of them. I've directed tens of thousands of dollars in to EC2, that's why I'm interested.
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Just clicked the register link [https://www.domainpigeon.com/users/register], got "Internal server error" with a load of info and a backtrace, which I imagine you don't want to display.
If I'm not mistaken, the comment you responded to was highly sarcastic.
So I'm told to start with the following:

- Subversion
- RCS
- CVS
- Git
- Subversion
- Mercurial
- Git

I'm seeing subversion as the most upvoted, I'll give that a go (starting Wednesday so there's still time to change).
From a little investigation, it's not really an Amazon EC2 competitor. I'd consider it closer to Slicehost and Linode.

It turns out the instances are only offered on a month-to-month deal, not by-the-hour.
Hey, that's my startup! Thank you :)

Any ?s, email me at mark@ramamia.com or 617.395.5633
What if the user put in their own twitter ID and then rated their friends?
I'm glad to see SoftLayer getting into this space. However, there are still some things I'd like to know more about.

For example, Amazon's Elastic Block Storage can be snapshotted to S3 (with at least 3 copies in at least two availability zones) very easily. Does CloudLayer's SAN storage offer such ease of backups? I see EVault is offered for about $1/GB which is really expensive compared to Amazon's backups. Can IP addresses be transferred between boxes? What if the boxes are in different data centers? Is the billing only monthly or will it be pro-rated hourly? Can CloudLayer instances be used in conjunction with SoftLayer's hardware load balancing and other services like that which Amazon doesn't offer?
Sometimes, but not always! Often over-engineered code can simply be reorganized to something simpler and more intuitive (and oftentimes, more efficient). The same is usually not true of spaghetti code...
That was called the yoga almost 3k years ago. I mean self-control (control of the thoughts and emotions) through behavioral exercises.
You're mischaracterizing their argument. They're saying that people who are poor at resisting impulsive behavior tend to be less successful because they're more likely to get caught up in problems associated with poor impulse control. Credit card and gambling debt, drug addiction, getting in fights, etc.

It's about people who fail since they consistently choose to spend time getting wasted or playing WoW rather than studying, practicing, or other things that pay off in the long-term. This isn't about conformity, because it specifically includes people who have trouble meeting their own goals.
AP courses are terribly laid out. They don't have nearly enough flexibility that they should. That's why Honors courses are usually amazing. They're more challenging than "regular" classes, but they have the freedom to pursue more interesting topics within subjects.

Also, people end up teaching for the test, which is not good because will end up only knowing certain, specific, useless things.
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I got in touch with Pete LePage, a Project Manager for the Internet Explorer team and asked him whether we could expect to see the Canvas in IE9. Here is what he said: http://processingjs.org/blog/?p=30
This is true - more people are getting 4s and 5s. However, AP grades are complex. It's mostly on a weighted bell curve, so you're grading against the other people taking the test (and it's also adjusted against previous tests). So a roughly constant percentage should be getting 4s and 5s.

What we don't know is what accuracy is required to get a 4 or a 5, and how that has changed year-over-year. I know it fluctuates from test to test, such that I've got 5s on tests that I got every question right on, and 5s on tests I know I lost at least a 5th of the possible points on.

What this article neither proves nor disproves is the bigger issue - of the people getting 4s and 5s, how many are actually prepared to skip an intro-level college class in the subject?
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yes, but even learning how to game the system is shaping of the mind, it involves critical thinking to solving problems :P
> Students are likely just piling in as many AP classes as possible.

Motivated students don't even need to take the class. Adding the cost of a $20 (used) test prep book and a chance to fail, the price of an AP is -still- cheaper than Community College. Plus, if you're disadvantaged, I believe you can get a discount on the price. Economically, it just doesn't make sense to do anything but pile on the APs.
I agree with sanj. It has to be opt-in. I realize that's probably a bummer, but Twitshirt recently got into some hot water for pretty much the same dynamic, it was opt-out, and people were like, "how am I even supposed to know about this site?!?" There was a big backlash, they took the site down until it was only opt-in.

Plus, the nature of your site, unlike say favrd (which is not opt-out, but you'd only appear there if people loved your tweet, and would never appear there if they didn't) is something people naturally feel self-conscious about, appearance and attractiveness.

I do think the functionality and design is really nice though, you did a great job.
Schools also subsidize taking the tests, since high rates of AP enrollment have been billed as a metric to measure high schools. At my high school (2001-2005), kids in AP classes got to take the test for free, and also got their grade weighted (so a B+ in an AP was worth the same as an A).
Thanks for the pointer.

I've been working with Dreamhost to fix the Internal Server Errors, which plague the site. Next time no shared hosting.
Liked the idea of starting with several hundred popular profiles (with the ability to submit your own for review). If I was a model or celeb using Twitter, I could see Hot Tweeter being a method for building an audience with teenagers.
As much as AP courses are cost efficient, they're not good enough. The caliber of a good freshman introductory course ranges from school from school, but on the whole they're much better and more interesting than APs.

Then again, my argument only really works for people going to school to learn, not to specifically get a degree.
My disagreement has nothing to do with it -- the quoted remark was completely without basis in fact.
Just came in to suggest it, but looks like Network_punk and my cofounder Mark Bao brought it up already. If you have ANY questions, let us know:

email mark+I both get: founders@ramamia.com

my # if you need immediate support: 772.801.1058
School interfered with my programming.
Interesting people I know all agree that their 17-year-old self couldn't know what their 25 or 30 year-old self wanted.

Absolutely true. I just mentioned to my little brother yesterday:

"If 27 year old me had stepped out of a portal to 1999 and said 'Patrick, stop fooling around and study that freaking subjunctive case in Spanish, you'll have to explain how it works to someone in ten years in Japanese', I would have told him to take his crazy shapeshifting Terminator self back through the portal."
Taken from that same page:
"Note: CodeIgniter will run on PHP 5. It simply does not take advantage of any native features that are only available in that version."

So, it does run on PHP5, just doesn't use PHP5 only features for the sake of backwards compatibility. For PHP5 one can use KohanaPHP, as mentioned by another comment :)
Using Promotional Cell Phone Holders 
Promotional cell phone holders will have your brand identity - your company name, logo, and contact info - literally on your target audience's hip.
Maybe send the person a message saying "please accept this nomination for being wicked hot." Appeals to vanity tend to work.
it runs on 5. and 4.

edit: what arien said. plus, again, if it doesn't fit your needs, you can jump from CI to something else pretty readily.
Original Web video still a bust
Indian Yoga is teaching us about importance of self-control also people can improve their self control through Yoga.
People are getting benefited through yoga for self control from thousand of years. Whole concept of yoga is based upon self-control.
This research is simply re-inventing the wheel.
People who want to improve self-control should try Yoga for at-least couple of months.
One of favourite pieces by Feynman is a critique of fields like psychology.

http://www.pd.infn.it/~loreti/science.html
Here's a discussion on reddit on an Indian entrance examination: http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/8bxt9/an_indian_underg...

The exam is more rigorous and broader in scope than the APs. It also has a far more punishing "grading curve" (a 1.8% admit rate). The general notion among Indians seems to be that preparation -- and only preparation -- matters.

While I agree that not every American should aspire to be the next president, one should put things in a global perspective: it's only fair that water-deprived kids from Third World countries who spent their childhood cramming end up taking the jobs of the more fortunate who did not take a single simple AP exam. In an earlier post on HN, a highly upvoted comment went like "take every AP exam". That is a good idea, but it hardly ambitious at all, given that you are in the land of opportunity. Participating in olympiads and science fairs is far more worthwhile in every way.
This just reminds me of the Half Bakery, it's also got a whole ton of crazy, outlandish, unrealistic ideas that won't work. Otherwise known as brainstorming, yes?

www.halfbakery.com
I find that I compensate by varying my reading speed. You have to slow down to read Feynman, but you can often take the New Yorker at a few thousand words a minute.
regardless of price and features, any new competition is good for the consumer
The 'Key Advantages' sidebar lists "Pay As You Go or Monthly Packages". I assumed they haven't yet announced their pay as you go pricing. Did you ask somebody at Softlayer about this?
There have been to many things that try to just take hot or not and bring it to a new network. This might be a short lived fad, but I think people that really enjoyed this would end up using something like hotornot in the long run. I could be wrong but I am not sure of the staying power of the site.

I also agree with others it needs to be opt-in
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I was quite a keen CakePHP user until it dawned on me how slow and clunky it seemed to be.

Have since switched to Ramaze (http://www.ramaze.net) - a light, modular Ruby framework. Bearing in mind I knew zero Ruby at the time, I have never looked back. Definitely worth a look. (irc.ramaze.net/ramaze offers good support, too).
Is this also true when the query would involve a full table scan or clustered index scan anyway?

Maybe I'm missing something crucial, but that doesn't seem to make much sense for me from a data-access perspective.
And you have to differentiate your definition for 'compiler' from 'interpreter'. And point out, that those two sit on opposite ends of the same spectrum.
This was the same at my university (Santa Clara University, http://www.scu.edu/engineering/cse/): introductory courses used C++ (for "intro to computing" and data structures), assembly (for a computer organization course) and Haskell (for the SICP equivalent -- not sure if it's still a requirement).

Upper level courses would then expect students to pick up Verilog/VHDL, regular C, assembly, lex/yacc, Scheme/Lisp, Java and Perl/Python as needed.
a few thousand words a minute

Reading, or skimming?
Not only did we (Loudoun Valley HS, #164 on that list, 2001-2005) offer free tests if you took the class, the class grades were weighted for AP classes. An A- in an AP class was worth an A+ in a regular class, and a B+ was worth an A (+0.7 on your GPA for the class).

The elimination of a lot of non-AP honors classes increased AP tests taken even more. I was in 7 APs my senior year, simply because there were two tracks: AP and general. If you had been honors-track in Middle School and early High School, you were basically pushed into taking AP History (World and US), AP Government, and AP English.
Opt-in would also help narrow the profiles to real photos of people. I mean, that logo for the corporate account was hot but I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for.

You'd also have fewer profiles, giving the chance for more votes for top hotties.

And you'd have a better group of people to market dating offers to... :-)
Besides the 140 character limitation and the old bridge Twitter had to SMS, what's the similarity? SMS messages aren't public, they aren't searchable, and they don't have "followers" or a social graph.
WOW! The author links to a Microsoft community feed-back page where people can vote on web standards they want Microsoft to implement/comply-with! And the author says "It worked with True Type", meaning TT fonts where added after community outcry?

Why on bloody earth wasn't this exploited? why can't Microsoft take the pulse of the web developer community and .. do the right thing on its own without having to be told?
Stepanov (i.e., Mr. C++ Standard Template Library) has said some comparably strong things about the expressiveness of C++ templates for the kinds of things expressed in STL, and he doesn't seem to be guilty of not investigating Lispy alternatives.

e.g., http://www.antiquark.com/escape/public_html/stepanovusa.html

There are various gnarly problems with C++'s model, some of which show up as gnarly problems in STL, even in fundamental stuff like implementing collections of refcounting pointers last time I looked. But as far as I can tell, every language which tries to get this correct within the language has some serious limitations or issues, arguably at least as bad, especially if like Stepanov one of your top priorities is eliminating every last bit of runtime overhead in the generated code. (E.g., implementing arrays of objects only as arrays of fixed-size pointers into variable-sized objects on the heap, as in typical CL and Java, is a no-go given STL priorities, and thus STL constantly wrestles with a bunch of problems that lots of other implementors have dodged by giving up on them.) As far as I know, no one has a comprehensively satisfactory solution for metalanguage facilities within the language.

Getting metalanguage correct by stepping outside the language and upstream from the compiler, writing a separate program to generate the target program, has been a solved problem as long as we've known how to write compilers in Turing-complete languages. That approach is sometimes used for app code in conventional languages, as in FFTW, and to some extent it's what Lispy macros do. But for some applications, including STL as I understand it, stepping upstream is unsatisfactory. Sometimes what you'd really like to do is have your code generator query the compiler about what the compiler knows. STL in particular, IIRC, wants to have its code generation depend on what the compiler knows about types and typedefs and so forth. In an ideal world it would be routine for code generators to be able to ask the compiler about other things, too, like dead code, namespaces, and safety and other pragmas.
++ for codeigniter for the ease of learning. Althouth i'm going back to cakephp at the moment for all the "automagic".

Best of luck
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Interestingly, the work of many highly regarded "artistic" architects fails the basic test of keeping water from leaking on the inhabitants - Wright, Gehry, etc.

Maybe best not to look at contemporary architecture as a model.
I would like to see this criteria for 'earned it'. Does working at a non software company count?
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EVault is a backup appliance, it has a software agent running on your server and a dedicated web interface to manage backups. Probably overkill if you just need snapshots.

We use their iSCSI storage space for that, which is about 75c/GB (free server-to-server bandwidth). Their cloud storage appears to be even cheaper 25c/Gb
This is very reminiscent of what I did when I worked at AmateurMatch.
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That's what I originally assumed, so I used their sales chat thing.

Apparently the Pay As You Go only refers to the storage and CDN.
Even if you're going to school for a degree, APs are frequently insufficient preparation. They're sufficient for "get rid of my liberal arts requirements", but if you plan on taking a higher level course because you AP'd out of the prerequisite, you could have problems. A lot of classes in college build on their prerequisites, and assume you know them cold.

If your only calculus experience is the practice tests out of the AP book, even if you got a 5, multi-variable will kick your butt. If your only economics knowledge comes from a Barrons AP review book, you'll be behind in your banking class.

Passing the test is necessary, but not sufficient, proof that you learned the material. If your AP test wasn't backed up by a hard class, plan on studying extra your first semester.
you still will not burn as many calories as running.

W = Force * Distance. When you lift weights, you're moving them 6 inches for things like the bench press, and maybe 3 feet for squats.

That simply does not compare to running for sheer calorie burn. You're running miles = 5280 feet.

Running is the best form of calorie burn, bar none. That's why it's recommended for excessively fat people, rather than weight-lifting.

When you get down to the lower body fat %'s, people suggest you switch to weightlifting only, simply because you don't need as big as a caloric deficit, and generating that big deficit when you don't have that much fat puts you in danger of losing muscle.

Also, having a heart rate of 200 BPM for an hour a day would kill you. That's the equivalent of a full, dead out sprint, for 45 minutes straight.
Personally, this disgusts me.

We should express admiration for people who earn it, by doing admirable things and being admirable people. Being "hot" is not a valid criterion for judging people.

And, no, it's not "just fun." I don't see how anyone could enjoy participating in this kind of misjustice.
A combination, of course. Let's say, "skimming with awareness of what I'm leaving on the page." If you've never seriously tried it, you might be amazed just how far you can push your reading speed on low-density material while still retaining 90-95% of what you care about.

The two key techniques for doing this effectively are to 1) eliminate subvocalization while reading, and 2) expand your field of vision so that you are reading sentences and paragraphs instead of words.

Of course, if you're reading contracts you're going to sign, you probably want to spend more time on each word.
This does look really ridiculous at first. But when I come to think of it, both parties do have a point.

If ground water is something that is shared, then it does make sense to ban one from drilling a bore and extracting all of it even if one were to drill it in his property right?
Templates, the implicit ctor/dtor paradigm coupled with scoping, to name a few. I know Lisp has a unique feature - let's say, unity of code and data, but hey, there are plenty of languages with unique features not found in C++; nevertheless I think my statement still applies, that no language compares to C++ in terms of power of meta-language facilities. I think I understand Lisp and I'd be happy if we could avoid Lisp wars in this context.
And don't forget Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. That's where Simon Peyton-Jones works on the Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
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