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thanks for clarifying for me, I clearly needed more coffee before posting!
It's the same thing, an author who writes a business book (marketing), had to throw away a chapter about using amazon in your business before his book got allowed in the iBook store...

You can find the authors blog post at http://hollylisle.com/apple-made-its-decision-my-turn/
Yes that's exactly what happened. I originally thought our build times were short enough that it wouldn't go over the threshold but it was. It's surprisingly easy to trigger the cpu throttling on a micro instance.

Would be nice if they could/would average out the cpu usage over a longer rolling window. That'd be perfect for a use case like this (build server) where you're idle the majority of the time but want to max out cpu during the build itself. Seems like the perfect use case for a shared server.
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The same with IEEE: conferences are intended to make money for the IEEE and for the local organization hosting the conference.
Because it is Russia and no getting killed in Russia over politics or business isn't a rare event.
> Representatives up for election in 2013 should be flagged.

That's going to be a pretty short list, as regular elections for all seats of the House of Representatives (and one-third of the seats of the Senate) occur in every even-numbered year.

The only House elections in 2013 would be special elections, which would normally be to fill a vacant seat, and thus would not have an incumbent running.
When clients ask you why, the answer I give is that professional services people typically bill about 1000 hours a year. The rest of the time goes to sales, marketing, learning new tools, and other non-billable work.

That said, once you are consistently busy, you should raise your rates, just like the article says. When clients ask you about that rate, just say, "Well, that's what other new clients are paying." Nobody can really argue with that.

I've also found a lot of value in having a high headline rate that I discount when I actually want the work.
It is just anti-competitive censorship. In the past, Apple has done things like banning an Android-focused magazine app [1]. There have also been controversies over books linking to Amazon when referring to other books you might buy (as their print editions do) [2]. This Treehouse situation fits the same pattern.

[1] http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/26/apple-bans-android-ma...

[2] http://paidcontent.org/2012/02/29/419-who-decides-what-gets-...
I once firewalled myself and asked for help, a technician re-opened port 22 for me after a few hours (you can get instant support if you pay but it was for dev so I didn't care).
Please, lets not rehash the past again and again. If you want more information, this has already been heavily discussed on HN.

Compromised Linode, thousands of BitCoins stolen (bitcoinmedia.com)
316 points by tillda 510 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3654110

Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked (slashdot.org)
732 points by DiabloD3 101 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552756

The story around the Linode hack (straylig.ht)
349 points by foofoobar 79 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5667027
I agree being in a truly lawless or evil state, even with high quality privacy technology, means you can't live a normal life. I'm pretty sure well before the "get in the trucks to go to the concentration camps" stage, it would be time to demonstrate that cryptographic munitions are not the only kind of munitions. There have been some promising efforts by EFF, etc. to bring the rabid pro-gun crowd into this in various court filings; people who will change states, vote single issue, etc. over being allowed to own a .50bmg rifle (when they could otherwise have a .510dtc anyway) are exactly the kind of people who will go to the mattresses over crypto. I think they also brought in pro-abortion people who vote similarly single-issue.

The US is far from that stage right now. NSA is developing absurdly overpowered capabilities, but is actually using them in a relatively constrained way, at least so far -- they are not being used for even high level criminal cases or really anything except actual terrorism. The problem is exactly the same technology could be used with a change of administration for political repression, domestic criminal enforcement, or whatever.

Since terrorism is maybe 1k people with any connection to the US per year, it's pretty easy to justify deploying privacy enhancing technologies to the remaining 300 million people, and there wouldn't be a politically feasible way to stop it. The battleground would be any extension of CALEA to pure-Internet companies, or worse, to end user technologies. Unless that happens, there's not much to fear in deploying technology overall, although in certain verticals (finance, with various FinCEN/AML requirements), additional regulations apply.
Basically their customer database was copied. This special offer is a good way to get new customers and get some positive press.

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6083944
Searched for the android app, haven't found anything yet, hope it comes out soon!

(difference is, not really interested in the iOS part of the app :P)

Amazing business, i have seen you evolve from the blog i usually followed: Carsonified, if i'm not mistaking.

Btw. to bad a douchebag company decides how you should run your business...
Anybody have one of these that can benchmark it against a $5 Digital Ocean VPS?

$2.99 is a crazy price for a dedi.
Now I got downvoted in retaliation. Punished by my ineptitude.
HN is no place for weaklings! (Game of votes)
Can't tell if trolling or .... (5 minute old account).

Code is great. Know what else is great? Relevance.

Ubuntu brought that to Linux desktops via audience. Ubuntu made some projects not toil in obscurity. Ubuntu has given life to many an open source project.

If Ubuntu succeeds in either the desktop or phone, all the underlying technology that Ubuntu is built on will get a huge boost. It's that simple.
I don't have the exact dates at hand but if I remember correctly the hacking happened few weeks before they acknowledged it.

And the only reason they admitted it (well at least it looked like that) was because the info had already been leaked through their irc channel[0].

[0]: http://turtle.dereferenced.org/~nenolod/linode/linode-abridg...
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##rritf/freenode, but I don't know if anyone is there now.
Except this was after Linode did a "password reset" email to their customers on the Friday 04/12 without explaining anything and saying everything was fine. Said blog post on 04/16 after log files were released in which the hacker basically said linode paid them to keep quiet about the "incident"
Treehouse's comment is included in the post:

We teach Android at Treehouse as well, but Apple has refused to let us release the app while including Android content. At the time of review several other applications in the App Store included Android content, but in our case we were told it was against App Store guidelines to have Android content in our app.

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/07/25/tech-education-startup...

I seem to recall someone at google claiming that Apple had not yet approved the Maps app and it wasn't even submitted yet.
[citation needed]

Some tech "reporter" heard that some Googler was concerned that Apple may reject the app: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/05/google-maps...
It's not necessary since the set of possible divisors is known in advance.

Also, "multiplying by the reciprocal" is a bit simplistic - there's some other instructions added in based on the specific divisor value. Adding more tests and branches for these likely would not pay off.
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I can't speak to everywhere, but in Kenya (the funding in the OP was for a Kenyan) many of the charity medical facilities are run by religious organizations, who recruit religious medical professionals from abroad to volunteer their time and services. If an OB/GYN happens to be volunteering the person could very well receive a C section. They also have stockpiles of various drugs which they've received from donations, so they could get an epidural if they happened to have the right stuff in the stock room.
Because they support spying on them. That's kind of the opposite of supporting them.
Aye. But if you are paying less than $75/month for a dedicated server, what do you expect? XD
its not as much luck as you make it out to be. If you don't have any friends who work for companies that need work, then go make new friends.

I had my fisrt gig within a month. in that month, I turned down a couple that would have been too low of a rate or bad work.
Experience comes to mind. Linode has been in the VPS space for considerably longer than DigitalOcean. Just based on recent HN threads, it appears that many folks are simply kicking the tires with DigitalOcean but may be hesitant to deploy production sites there. Given the low barrier of entry, I can imagine they see considerably more churn and volatility in their customer base compared to Linode.
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Closely related to CPU Steal time is memory ballooning. If an instance is starting to require a lot of memory, and other instances are not, hypervisors (particularly vmware) will steal memory from other VMs on the same machine and give it to the misbehaving VM.

This can result in swapping on the unfortunate target VMs.

You can detect it by seeing a vmware program running using a lot of CPU (ironically no memory), and by watching your free memory percentage decrease while your programs are not actually consuming more memory.
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Cool website and examples!

You should probably explain how ractive.js differentiates itself from knockout. It's the direct competitor out there, not angularJS which is doing things very differently.

I glanced at the source and (correct me if I'm wrong) it seems array templating is done by simply comparing the length of the current and previous arrays? That's naive and buggy?

Good luck
Headline implies Facebook lost value however the article indicated that the value we and investors assigned to Facebook was batshit crazy.
Book not allowed in Apple Store for making a reference to amazon
Know any more stories? Don't forget to add on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Apple
But these are Atom based meaning they are not great for a part of those certain applications :p
To amply on jeena's point, we used to do this by exposing seeds to e.g. cobalt 60 gamma rays, and breeding the surviving mutants that seemed promising. If you eat all but I assume the very best sushi in the US, the rice is probably a Calrose, do a search on calrose radiation (funny, the Wikipedia article doesn't mention this at all, then again I'm not 100% sure current day Calrose is derived from those earlier varieties).
I handle that by doing stuff like:

[ ] Copy foo data file to foo server
[ ] "scp foo.dat server:/path/to/foo.dat"
[ ] Copy bar data file to bar server
[ ] "scp bar.dat server:/path/to/bat.dat"

It's a reminder of one way to do it, but it's not necessarily the only way of doing it.
No apology needed, I was trying to make fun of myself, not you.
What the hell are you talking about?

a) Linode was extremely cavalier in releasing a public notification. It was all over slashdot and in their support channel, with ZERO notification from them (till long after the fact), leaving the community to assume the worst, which was inline with what actually happened.
Could you list some things they do to protect us so that we all have a better understanding?

I feel that their aim would be to collect non-domestic information that could be used to push US interests. Is that really a positive thing?
Ooh, ooh, I know, you mean BitTorrent seeding.
I apparently failed to make my point. To informed people, that overhead is being funded by separate donations is clear enough. Uninformed people are developing a habit of thinking Watsi is a for profit business (and then making angry noises). It is my view that phrasing like "The idea of separating overhead from donations" exacerbates this source of noise.
Every time I upgrade I lose email functionality. Anyone having the same problem?
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All of which were publicly acknowledged are reasonably quickly. I didn't ask about breaches. I asked about ones that were not acknowledged or not acknowledged quickly which is what was claimed. ;)
Likely not the choice of the author; the editors of no so Scientific American know using that using the company's name is like waving a cape in front of a bull, certain to attract a lot of attention.
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Yes, if we all keep predicting that facebook's traffic will drop, eventually we will be right. But that's not useful information, nor does it add anything to the conversation.
Oh, the delicious irony! For those of you who missed the original:

http://notch.tumblr.com/post/9038258448/hey-bethesda-lets-se...
Lack of transparency leads to speculation.
To continue that analogy, its roughly equivalent to keeping $200k cash in a briefcase the floor of your apartment instead of in a safety deposit box at the bank.
That may have been true for whichever couple of days the talking heads devoted to the unfortunate Ms. Dean, but it simply isn't borne out over the long haul. If you look really hard, I doubt you can find a single piece about Dean that was produced today, while most outlets have several about Snowden.
Jottacloud looked interesting, and I signed up. But then they pulled the stunt that really aggravates me, which is:

Easy signup, only needing email and password. But then on first login, require personal information to continue, and will not allow to skip.

I always feel scammed when software does this to me.
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There are now millions of users of "Linux" because of Android. Where is the huge boost to the underlying technology?

Ubuntu brought users, but no benefit. Unless posting bugs to the Fedora bug-tracker their own developers are too incompetent to fix counts.

You are delusional. Ubuntu is no more true to open-source ideology than OS X. I would argue that Apple contribute significantly more open and useful code back.
The problem I generally have with the FSF can be summed up with the Emo Phillips joke (I think it's called "Heretic Scum"?):

I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge,
about to jump off. So I ran over and said, "Stop! don't do it!"

"Why shouldn't I?" he said.

I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!"

He said, "Like what?"

I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?"

He said, "Religious."

I said, "Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?"

He said, "Christian."

I said, "Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?"

He said, "Protestant."

I said, "Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?"

He said, "Baptist!"

I said, "Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?"

He said, "Baptist Church of God!"

I said, "Me too! Are you original Baptist Church of God, or are you Reformed
Baptist Church of God?"

He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God!"

I said, "Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1879,
or Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915?"

He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915!"

I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off.
Ethanol is classified by the WHO and the American Cancer Society (and others) as a carcinogen, in the same group as asbestos, hepatitis and plutonium.

That doesn't mean it's "equally carcinogenic" as those others...just that our knowledge of its carcinogenic properties are similarly confident. It's definitely a carcinogen.
For reference, C# vs Vala:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Vala/ValaForCSharpProgrammers
In the per test tear down you could reset the pointer to the start to reuse the same memory repeatedly?
Overlooked by most churnalists yesterday was this: The release of methane from thawing permafrost beneath the East Siberian Sea, off northern Russia, alone comes with an average global price tag of $60 trillion in the absence of
mitigating action — a figure comparable to the size of the world economy in 2012 (about $70 trillion). The total cost of Arctic change will be much higher.

Methane can be converted to (much more environmentally friendly) methanol: http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Methane_to_methanol

There have been recent and successful field tests of fuel production/extraction of methane hydrates, with the bonus of performing carbon sequestration at the same time. This financial year, we're spending the princely sum of $11.5 million on further research: http://energy.gov/articles/us-and-japan-complete-successful-...

Original news report from 2010 on ESS emissions: http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/03/04/us-climate-methane...

Current releases of methane worldwide are about 600m tons per annum, though some of this is cyclical. http://epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/ch4.html
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I think the point should be to find a dependable email provider in the same country you live in. That way, your data is subject to the same jurisdictian you are and can only be used against you with a court order.

Also, look for a service with good support. You don't want Google shutting down your account for no reason with no person to talk to for getting your data back.

I am German. Thus I use a German paid mail provider with good customer service track record.
Uh. When was the last time you had to deal with cross-browser compatibility?
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I've recently started hosting with 6sync and been very happy with their services so far. It's a lot lighter on documentation and has fewer users than linode. But functionality and performance is there.
Maybe we should not trust central key emitting authorities but each other and our friends instead. For e.g. the government could run shadow CAs which normally perform their duties but at demand provide MITM certificates for them.
Then why are they the same in this case? Coincidence? (I won't believe that... but unfortunately I don't have more samples right now to demonstrate the correlation).
FWIW, I think the WAPO-PEW phrasing is slightly biased in favor of the NSA. I think the following would be more accurate and thus more closer to neutral (italics indicate changes):

"Q: As you may know, it has been reported that the National Security Agency has been getting secret court orders to collect telephone call records of nearly all American cell phones in an effort to investigate terrorism. Would you consider this collection of telephone call records an acceptable or unacceptable way for the federal government to investigate terrorism?"

What isn't clear to me is if the phrasing has changed from the survey a month ago to the most recent survey. If the phrasing (of the entire survey because cross-question context is important) is not identical then the results just aren't comparable no matter what biases may or may not be built into the questions.
I do the related small allocations from the pools, and the pools are destroyed at every compilation end. If the pool element is for example 32K and the average element is e.g. 32 bytes that's 1K times less "real" mallocs. Having separate pools for the members of different "structures" also makes for better CPU cache usage.

Edit: as aaronblohowiak writes, this method is commonly known as a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based_memory_management
These are quite different circumstances though. Bethesda were trying to apply their trademark in an overly broad way to an unconnected game, whereas the makers on your site are using Mojang's exact trademark to sell unlicensed goods based directly on their product. Had Bethesda actually taken Mojang to court it was debatable which way the case would go, although on balance most opinions I saw went with Mojang. In this case it's very much more clear cut.
This answer convinces me to prefer jQuery for apps that aren't Facebook or Gmail.

It has an "architecture astronaut" feel (explicitly eschewing graceful degradation!), which most web pages don't need.

I'd be interested in "controller" plugins for jQuery, so I can opt into upgrading from trigger->DOM to trigger->controller->DOM as my app grows.
I think he is speaking in terms of usage by developers. IE used to be a great browser back in the day, but now it is practically the leper browser among developers.
Every startup is different so it's hard to point to resources without knowing what customer acquisition channels work for you.
You can have a lookup of one overs as well as the hash table sizes?

Would be interesting to know if a simple bitsshift hash table is faster for a compiler usecase anyway?
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It will be hard, but I think IE can do it.

1. With WebGL support and the other new features in IE11, they are close to finally being comparable to Chrome and Firefox in terms of being a modern browser. Yes, bridges were burnt, but IE11 and things like TypeScript are making Microsoft cool in the web space again.

2. Previews appear to show IE11 is also competitive in terms of speed with other modern browsers. (IE was already fast at 2D canvas, but not much else.)

3. The tech community was disturbed by the NSA spying scandals (that involve most major browser vendors), which led to some movement to switch to alternative browsers and search engines. Even if people don't switch entirely away, they might choose to put less eggs in one basket, so prefer to not do Chrome+google.com or IE+bing. Of the other combinations of those options (there are others of course, but just considering those), IE+google.com seems more likely than Chrome+bing, so IE might gain a little there.
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Walter, could you explain why lexing was a bottleneck? That's very surprising to me. You don't re-lex template instantiations do you?
I agree in general, but I think it depends on the kind of work you're doing.

Right now I'm doing some actual consulting (in contrast to contract work), and being available by the hour has been helpful. I turn up at a couple of regular meetings; when some issue comes up that I can help with, I help.

On a day rate, the expense is large enough that people only want to call you in when there's something they perceive as big and serious. But when it's just time worked, they're happy to grab you for a short chat. Which often turns into something larger. And it makes it easy to leave the contract open; I've been doing this with one client for circa 6 months. That has let me influence them a lot more than a short burst of days would have done.
Not the point. Idiots will be idiots. It's better to hold yourself to a higher standard.
"that overhead is being funded by separate donations is clear enough"... that's not always the case for all nonprofits.
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I dunno, maybe I just expect too much? I suppose when you're at the top, it is just down in all directions from there.

He is writing another book - The Bomb Boys. And his daily output of articles, etc. is impressive (even if there is a sense of glory days about lots of them).

1) It seems like lots of ex-pats wander into Thailand and fade into the sunset.

2) He keeps talking about going back into the action (Korea, Syria, Libya back to Afghanistan, etc.), but never quite gets there.

Maybe I'm wrong? Who am I to judge?
I reverted that part in dmd once. Same speed on my Intel i7 processor. Branching vs division is probably a tricky tradeoff.