skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the most important thing is transparency and correct expectations. If they set clear expectations, and they are transparent about how well they are meeting them, then it just comes down to delivery.

Agreed. So long as a customer knows what he/she's signing up for, and gets that, everything's fine. I might have misread what the "99.99% uptime guarantee" was supposed to be for and gotten too excited about it / taken it too seriously when I first signed up, or maybe this is for something else that's too complicated for a part-time tech guy like me to understand.

When I'd log in when the site was down, half the time CloudFlare would have the green arrow next to the site with a "Site Online" type indicator; other times it'd have the brown dot-dot-dot "Site Offline" indicator. I'd confirm numbers on this but apparently the service doesn't save this or makes it no longer available to you on account termination. Pingdom Tools would report the site as down, and when visiting the site, it wouldn't load, or would take 10+ seconds to load. There would also frequently be a "This website is offline; no cached version is available" page from CloudFlare when trying to load the site, even on the homepage, despite the guarantee to supposedly be saving and serving cached copies of the site in the event of downtime (and despite that being what I thought we were paying for, mainly) - sometimes those cached copies would show up too; though more often, there'd just be this page:

http://image2.romantika.name/2013/01/cloudflare-website-offl...
Just because someone else wrote it down at some point in the past, doesn't mean it wasn't an arbitrary decision on their part. Arbitrary doesn't mean "senseless", though. There are good economic justifications for the concept of a Jubilee; just no precise reason to have one over any given period or another.
> Throw out psychology and statistics/polls and....

And you lose the ability to talk about probability in a meaningful way.

If something does create an almost unprecedentedly large response in the brain, does that make it more likely to create lasting effects in the brain and cause the formation of new neural pathways?

I don't know. You want to claim that it's highly probable but you've provided no evidence for this. I know that porn addicts brains are different, primarily in terms of the reward system in ways similar to other addictions I believe, but you'd expect that to be the case. And you've certainly not linked any probability of large responses to the probability of potential changes to the probability of any potential to harm.

If you can't put numbers on it to compare it to other things, you really have no way to talk about probability that's not just waving your hands around and going 'Look at the brain scan!' Well, so what? Even assuming that all of your premises are true, (and the probability of concurrent events is the sum of their multiples so you've lost probability at every stage whatever the actual numbers would turn out to be; complexity penalty) and these brain scans actually exist, what does that mean? Is the probability of harm five times as likely as something else, twenty? If the initial chance of harm is quite small this doesn't make much difference. Is it three orders of magnitude out?

Neurology is a complicated area of inquiry, unless you know how often a given change links up with some result, it's just a picture.

You can't forget about psychology and stats and still meaningfully make statements like 'it's not even on the same chart' you have to know where both things are to be able to talk about that sort of thing - you have to have put the work in and have the numbers.
Have you found any brokerless mq alternatives? About to build a haskell project and 0mq looks good. I'll keep in mind setting up two sockets, for push and pull. The documentation shows, zeromq contexts being threadsafe, wheras passing off a 0mq socket to another thread requires, putting memory barriers around it.

http://api.zeromq.org/2-1:zmq
Exactly. The district has built an industry around patent litigation, pro and con. I'm not sure where, but a patent lawyer made the comment on the forum. That if you're a defendant you want it to be East Texas. You can take your chances with 6 jurors who are familiar with patent law. Any other district you'd have 6 randomly selected people that probably don't know much on patents.
http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests...
I don't buy the notion that the only two choices are invading Pakistan or using drones.

I'm far from an expert on these matters. But I imagine there'd be other options (working with local authorities, with coercion at the government level if necessary) that would be better than either of the above two.
Ask HN: Are you a self-taught programmer and founder?
I am looking for some general advice from self-taught programmers who have gone on to found successful start-ups. Did being self-taught limit you in any way? Did it ever cause issues when hiring technical employees? Did you wish you knew more about a particular technical aspect as the product grew?
Almost certainly the law will be written so that it's images of rape that are designed/published/created for sexual goals.

This isn't really hard to do, as you say, you can just include a "mens rea" bit. Laws include "intent" all the time.
This is very confusing from a user experience point of view. Users will expect this to 'Like' the page on Facebook which will either put them off clicking it (if they don't want it to appear on Facebook) or not give them the result they expect (if they do want it shared on Facebook).

IMO very few will spot that it is an anonymous custom replica.
I didn't have a paypal account before last night. After signing up I found the payment gateway quite broken (paypal have sent me several emails now saying i have successfully added a card ending in 0000). So now I have £800 floating around somewhere in cyberspace, accounts on two websites that I don't care to give any business to and most key to the issue; no pledge to this project.

Screw Paypal!
Yeah, just found it. Understandable, but I guess my comments about caveats still stand.
Check out this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6086269
32RAM? man, it's 2013 already
Yeah, I just don't see how the angel investor has all the power here if they are interested in getting something back from the investment.
I think bootstrapping means 'we didn't take any money before we were profitable'. I don't think taking money later counts, and certainly they didn't take any because they needed to expand or anything. I don't think they need to put any caveats. 37s existed for years and years, with their own web applicaton products, before Bezos came on board.
Best practices for management of a developer system on Mac OS X
Hmm, screenshots of tables with red squiggles. What's wrong with <table>?
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You just outed yourself as somebody who did not watch 'Office Space'; We very much recommend it. ;)
Bit of a misleading headline:

>> For example, with eight senders sharing a 15 Mbps link, a
>> Remy-generated algorithm achieved more than twice the
>> median throughput, with less than half the queueing delay,
>> of Compound TCP and TCP NewReno. It achieved 70% more
>> throughput than TCP Cubic and more than a threefold reduction
>> in queueing delay.
> If you can't raise the investment you need from proper investors, and you find yourself thinking of resorting to FFFs, I suggest you instead consider the idea to be out of your reach. It's better to work on another idea than to end up with the sort of nightmarish scenario that is all too common near the end of an FFF-funded startup.

This implies that there is a startup idea the person could be working on instead which would be within their reach.

For most startups--or at least YC's pure-software "we did it for $10 on AWS" startups--the "getting off the ground" money from the FFF round is pretty much to cover your cost of living during the time you're building and launching and gaining traction. So, I don't see how picking a different idea decreases your cost of living...?
Namecheap offers an $8 and $10 certificate at https://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates.aspx?aff=29535

(I included my affiliate link above, recently signed up to the program and figured why not, let me know if it is against any rules and I'll remove it.)

There is also a free cert authority but I've never used them. You have to put a link to their site somewhere on your site though.

https://cert.startcom.org/
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Seriously it does not ? Add something like this:

myapp:234:respawn:/path/to/myscript

to your inittab, and sysvinit will relaunch it (if it dies).

Regards.
That mantra is simply bullshit.

I have written massively distributed systems which have an insanely high reliability requirement and it is really not the answer. I've been doing this for 25 years.

A more appropriate statement is:

Fail early and gracefully, recover always, expect failure.

Fail early - assertions up front. Prevention is better than cure.

Fail gracefully - don't allow assertions to take the entire process out. Don't allow the language to crash the process out.

Recover always - design your system for recovery and understand recovery conditions.

Expect failure - know where and when something is going to fail and handle it.

Fail fast, fail often results in nasty shit like processes hung in restart cycles etc.
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How do you cope with hardware failure, corrupt memory banks, temporary network failures, you also just buy "hardware that never fails"?
Just testing something and deeming it reliable enough to "just run" is a horrible practice.
There is no software on earth that is bug-free, you do realize that, yes?
Why do you think the NASA builds rockets with many many safety measures? Because they use the latest and greatest hardware and software? Or because they KNOW that at some point something WILL fail. It's not a only a question of picking stable software. The skill is to be prepared for the emergency at any time, even if it is on a rare occasion.
If your only safety measure is to "just pick stable stuff", i'd surely never buy your service.
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Then you get shell companies and such being used for patent filing making it harder to establish who really is in control of the applications.
A phone that docks as a desktop Ubuntu would be perfect for my use case.

I use desktop computer (Mac Mini) in three locations, and I have bought spare keyboards, dual monitors and mice for all of these. My phone is already more powerful than the desktop. But even when I had a laptop, I never used it on the move - always plugging into docks with monitors and full-size keyboards.

It would be very convenient to have a single computer to set up and carry with me in a pocket, instead of having to either sync work and settings via "the cloud" all the time, or carry a backpack for the mini.
Isn't there a story about a guy who was in a similar situation at Apple or Microsoft and built a well-known piece of software during that time?
As a life-long FreeBSD user and a laptop owner I have to run my development environment in a VM. FreeBSD is a great piece of software, but it's hardware support is a bit... lacking.

From the article I got the impression that the main bottleneck is sharing files between VM and a host system. Probably, I can't know for sure because I don't do this. Instead I have all my files and software on the VM, including my IDE of choice. I have X server set up on Windows host (Xming) and when I really need to transfer files between a host and guest I do this over s(f|c)p.

It probably helps that my IDE is Emacs :) (Before that - gVIM) And I don't see any problems with it. Moreover, the only development related thing on the host system is Xming and VirtualBox, so when I change the computer I'm working on I just need to copy the image and install these two programs and I'm ready to go - with exactly the same environment everywhere. I used this setup from Linux, too - the only issue I had was that xhost alone didn't work for allowing external X connections, I had to edit startx script and remove the 'no tcp' (or similar) flag from there.

At work, where I have a proper desktop with nvidia graphics, I have FreeBSD installed as a main OS. The difference in speed between my environment in a VM on a laptop (with 1GB RAM allocated) and on a host system on a better hardware (with 8GB RAM available) is not that big, which makes me believe that I found an optimal way of working. I don't know how more costly virtualization makes disk IO, but I think that compared to general slowness of disk IO this difference is negligible (I don't have SSD yet, so my opinion may change in near future!).
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Yep. Brit here. We tend to laugh when we hear the Democrats described as 'Center-left'.
Specs don't make the phone. Original iPhone with lousy specs still would kick some modern Android phones asses in smooth-scrolling department.
The numbers are correct. These numbers have been reported by GungHo (the company that has made Puzzles&Dragons). They have to report their revenue numbers as they are traded in the Osaka Stock Exchange. [1]
Also these are April numbers, recent revenue estimates will be even higher as the game is now climbing up the top grossing charts (iTunes) in US too.

[1]http://www.gameskinny.com/bdbci/gungho-made-376-million-a-da...
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Reminds me of something similar I witnessed while working in one of the big international corporations. A new guy joined our team and was waiting for a whole week to get a laptop to work with (and there wasn't really anything in the job description that could be done without a computer). A laptop was ready in the IT department, but they didn't give it to him as corporate accounts were not prepared yet.
The guy was sitting at an empty desk all day long and reading newspapers, right in front of the manager desk. The manager, when asked, did not allow him to leave the workplace any time earlier, in spite of him doing distinctly nothing. Yeah, in the end who cares if some corporate money or employee's time get wasted.
So the message from the company to the employees is clear - no matter what you do, as long as you comply with our policies (reagrdless of their rationality), you are paid, which means not rewarded, but recognized as "us". Other employees who generate more profit to the company will compensate for your doing nothing, because you are a member of our big family now, and our strength is in quantity, not quality..
How many versions it would take before it targeted Microsoft systems only?
I see down votes in this comment I did.

Sorry if someone did feel offended.

I did feel offended by Cannonical seeking my funds, and I've my personal reasons to not fund them.

Maybe I did not express it the best way, but anyway it's my personal opinion.

I could fund them if I could make them sign a contract, about what and how is going to be done. I don't trust them, and what I did say in that comment it's just 2 little examples.
I made this working < 2 days spread over a few weeks.

http://howfastisthenbn.com.au/

It's a comparison of the broadband policies of Australia's two opposing political parties.

I posted it on the /r/Australia subreddit at ~4pm on a Tuesday and tweeted about it. 1.5 hours later the Minister of Communications and Broadband had retweeted it and then 30 minutes later the Prime Minister retweeted it.

Received 64k uniques between 4pm and 12am first day. 73k the next day after it was front-paged on the Sydney Morning Herald and news.com.au websites. Since launch I've had about ~186,989 uniques. Average time on site is 2:17.

At the top of the page are social sharing buttons for Facebook, Twitter, G+, and LinkedIn. The explosive growth definitely came from Facebook likes (58k) likes.

Lessons learned: NEVER make a website that doesn't have prominent social media buttons, and make sure your Twitter button has some worthwhile default tweet content and a #hashtag or two.

It was hosted as a Github page with Cloudflare in front.
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You haven't considered the load balancing. You don't write everything to a single disk, you stripe it across multiple disks.
Some times you can get around this issue by removing the SFP checks in the drivers, which is the case with some Intel cards.
People have tried to start this discussion already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6087828

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6079079

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6072298

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6072086
Khronos Releases OpenCL 2.0
It'll (theoretically) be faster on any hardware that supports 64 bit operations, as SHA512 ends up doing fewer block operations.

This assumes you're hashing something at least 8 bytes long, and that your hash implementation is smart enough to use the 64 bit capabilities of your platform.
I know tens(and if one could immediately talk to their friends and figure) their could easily be hundreds or even thousands of such people in Indian IT companies.

I say they are perfectly fit for a B-School, they know how to make more out of doing nothing than the guy who actually works.

On a side note, I worked at a major 1,50,000+ IT firm in Bangalore, India. While on bench I practically worked 18+ hrs/day while the project manager sitting next to me couldn't get work done with his employees who were billed. Mangers did this all the time, to be known as people who got more work done by lesser number of billed people.

Back in those days, it was common for some one to be officially on bench but yet would have to work for a project.
You're not paying that much for the "privilege" of an unlocked phone, it's more when you pay any less than that you're sharing thew phone cost with AT&T and locking you into the network is their side of the bargain.
I've been thinking about switching jobs for a long time; I guess 'workplace safety inspector' is now on the list of jobs I'd potentially apply for. :F
They have maintenance engineers who have no choice but to keep it working because nobody is going to replace it :)
> they want other companies to do it and they will show them

Isn't that what the iphone inadvertently did anyway though? If Edge succeeds, the logical consequence would be that other manufacturers would start to pay attention in one form or another, Canonical just seems to be upfront about the fact and is trying to presumably leverage it somehow.

Apple's strategy is based around ios exclusivity on a limited set of 'high-end' devices though, so it's hard to predict what exactly Canonical is planning for after the Edge succeeds/fails. I'm fairly certain Shuttleworth is heavily inspired by the Apple playbook, but their hints at android-like distribution are admittedly somewhat confusing. It's almost like they want to do both modes of attack, but I'm not sure how that would work (nor how competing directly against android would succeed either for that matter). Only time will tell.

Personally, I find the sheer fact that they're actually Open and trying something new to be quite inspiring on it's own. Long-term? That's anyone's guess, but I wouldn't exactly bet against them at this point, that's for sure.
Ask HN: Planning resources for a Startup
Which resources do you recommend for planning a start up?

Looking for tools/methods to expand on an idea and to plan out the idea in more detail. Charts & Business plan layouts etc.

Any particular methods used for planning out your idea and discovering business viability etc.
Firstly, calm down. I gave you a small peek into my world and you're drawing a lot of bad assumptions from it.

We mitigate hardware issues with either hot spares or clustering. We have three datacentres distributed geographically with entire redundant sets of equipment (4x 42U racks in each).

With respect to software failures, we test everything thoroughly including failover conditions etc. Everything is load tested as well.

We are prepared for emergency. We have dedicated people ready to jump on that.

However preventing these things ever being needed is a professional responsibility which is my point.
A man in a desert will also pay a lot more for a glass of water.

Your comment isn't really as relevant as you think it is. It would suggest Linux would be a highly lucrative platform to target for games, however the more normal it becomes to port games to Linux the less likely people would be to pay that price. This would happen much faster than you would think too.
My first job was at a "non-technical" startup, in a technical capacity. Despite being essentially a beginner, I was able to build a good product and web presence for us, and after almost two years we were acquired by a huge company.

The new parent company separated the technical team and moved them into their own department in the main business, and left the rest as a separate entity (which has now been dissolved). As a part of the new team they were invited to their companies Christmas party. It's tradition for many people to get hilarious drunk and say things they shouldn't. I had left the company as this point to take a job elsewhere, but the friends I worked with saw some crazy things. One story that stood out was about one guy who was drunk, and spoke. He hung around with the new people and told them about the company.

They then asked him what he did, and he said "oh, nothing really, just this and that".

He had worked there for twelve years, was promoted in his eighth year to work under a manager, but after his manager left he was never assigned anywhere else in the company. During this time, the recession hit, and some restructuring was done, and he was promoted to manager of his department, despite him being the only member in the department. His project was long-finished by then, and he just stuck around, did around an hour of work a day helping others.

I hear that he doesn't slack off though, and that he spends his time improving his skills, uses up his training budget to gain new skills (apparently he gets a lot), and basically does the stuff around the office that no one else wants to do, like rewriting a ton of their internal systems.
I worked as a business development guy on a major contracts team. So my usual role was finding £100k+ contracts and negotiating the tender process.

I'd regularly get bonuses when the deal was closed.

However I really was a coder. I proposed a CD that we'd send to architects to showcase our work. It was a simple HTML interface that would pop up when they put the disc in. I did all of the coding, graphic design and packaging. Then mailed it to prospects and made it available to my team.

I did this without pre-negotiating any kind of extra payment even though it 'wasn't my job'. I just knew it would be incredibly useful to have a high-res portfolio.

I was very pleased when a Director gave me a £4.5k bonus for the work. Note that I completed all of the work on my salaried time.

Too many people box themselves into a 'not my job' mentality. I don't think a bonus should be expected by the OP as it was just doing his job. No harm in asking though!
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