skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. There are lots of providers on LowEndBox.com and many have them have SSDs etc.

DigitalOcean are only special because they "play" the start-up game - lots of hype, marketing, get journalists on their side to write nice things about them, etc. - and this gives investors something they can bite into.

The difference between DigitalOcean and other low end providers is that DigitalOcean isn't interested in making money as a business, they're happy to lose money as long as they get more in the front door from investors. Meanwhile other low end providers look more like lifestyle businesses and thus growing slowly and organically.
Update: I switched to ruby-2.0.0-head, and got a 131% improvement from the base case.
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Well said! On top of that, Madison already had over a dozen charging stations that popped up on the Leaf's navigation system when I first got back home. Nissan should have especially planned for particularly green cities close to their original roll-out states.

Now it's not really an issue. We've got two dealerships in the city, and they're both selling 2-4 Leafs per month. I just couldn't wait for mine.
No snark, this is a chance for the libertarians to be vindicated in a big way. Let's see if the geniuses of the software/IT world can design and build a world-wide infrastructure that replaces the DARPA internet, without government help? It would put paid to a lot of tropes propagated in the last 20 years about the decreasing importance of the state, the evil of the state (which is in clear evidence here).
Are we capable of allocating capital and human resources at the scale required? Facebook has a billion users, so the network effects should be easy to harness, no? Or does it only work for capturing ad dollars and spying on activists?
I am sincerely asking - if there is to be any hope, we have to advance past the internet as it is technically constituted, while preserving the huge social gains it has brought.

edit - maybe I should clarify - anonymity is not possible now, and it is at odds with the values of the police state and, unfortunately, the ad-driven media economy. I am agreeing that anonymity is important, and asserting that to reclaim it, we will have to come up with some revolutionary social constructs on a scale of the space program, that exclude the possibility of government involvement.
As much as I wish this was an option, there is a very large rift between the US citizens and the US government. It has been separating for years now, and it would take a critical mass of citizens in agreement about something to enact any change.

Unfortunately people are too distracted working or playing farmville to care about what's happening in our country. What's more is our media completely distracts us with things like abortion and gay rights (they are important, mind you, but not as important as constitutional issues that affect basic rights IMO) so that there's no chance of standing next to someone from the other political party. As the citizens become more divided, the government grows stronger. We've seen what it does with this power.
Oh great, Obama is pouting.
if you like to play with the AST, I think you could find useful https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy
> /rant

It's not a rant sir, it's rather a serious thought. Calling it a rant unnecessarily trivializes the problem at hand.
Not really. How did it change the game for service providers over at LowEndBox.com, who have been providing VPS servers for $5 or less, before DigitalOcean even existed?
Politics and diplomacy is and always has been childish. The US isn't acting any different than any other country has in the same situation.

They're all playing the same game.
> If you need to be stealth so you don’t tip off competitors, you need to really re-think if you are building a long-term business... At the end of the day, being a startup in “stealth mode” happens when founders put too much value in ideas, and not execution.

May I propose a contrarian narrative?

I see experienced founders use the "stealth mode" veil specifically because they are focusing on execution and don't really want to waste time in polite conversation debating the merits of an idea or rehashing a list of competitors. Talking too much about ideas is deleterious to the focus needed for building products. Sometimes the brain needs a break and a person wants to connect with other human beings for something other than work.

I'm sorry you weren't able to judge the last 5 people based on their ideas! You found another way, bravo!
Yeah, I'd like to see other countries do this to US, not US being the one pretending to be "upset" about it.
Personally I like to fuck with people who take themselves too seriously, and those companies -- companies that put "fully public, open-source contributions" at the top of their list of desirable (but not mandatory) job postings -- are certainly full of themselves.
> I can't see anyone buying a Nissan Leaf as their only car. The range is a big inconvenience.

Remember that for some, it's no problem. I live in the UK, I have no intention of ever driving more than 100 miles in one go, and if I really need to travel long distances, trains, buses, trams, planes are relatively cheap and available.

I doubt a Leaf is what I would buy, but given that Tesla want to allow free charging, so ostensibly free fuel, I can see that as very attractive in the near future.
Offhand I know that Chase.com uses JS in their online banking, almost for no reason too...
To the contrary, labels and breaks are the better design because they are far clearer than testing for termination in each outer loop. Get more than two loops deep and your problem suddenly becomes unmanageable without labels and breaks.

However, if there are other actions like logging or reporting that are occurring it may be better to not use them. Here's some Ada:

Outer: loop
Inner: loop
Handle_Head: declare
Head : Human_Head;
begin
Acquire_Head (Head); -- Entry will block until head is acquired.
exit Inner when Head = No_Head;
exit Outer when Head.Exploded;
Log ("Head unexploded.");
exception
when Brain_Error =>
Log ("Brain deficiency detected.");
end Handle_Head;
end loop Inner;
Log ("Head exploded.");
end loop Outer;
I really liked http://newsycombinator.tomodo.me with the favicons posted by citricsquid (see below).
Indeed, I guess this is a +1 against storing passwords plaintext (well, obtainable in any case) - as a person could change your password and take over the account completely
Once you get in the under $10 vps offerings it's highly hit or miss. After all, this is the you get what you pay for price range. At $5/mo DO's offering is roughly on par with what you get from Linode or the former Slicehost. This is what makes them special IMO. I'm always evaluating $2 and $3 offerings from lowendbox and so 90% of them suck. Plus I would only trust those for use as backup servers and wouldn't bring them near anything that needs reliability.
I agree with others that is odd to focus on "name" high-end art for this article. I'm sure most of the sales will come out of the lower-end decorator market. Where people want to buy a good-sized under-$500 photo that will make a room, and it's very easy to use this service to browse a lot of pieces and find that kind of thing.
It's not the stupidest issue. Absolutely not

Don't you think he's getting some "interesting" visits and talking about "curious" topics?

What else does Edward knows about?
Binary is the enemy of View Source, with all that it entails. Tou think code is self-documenting and you only use FORTRAN because anything invented after 1990 is rubbish? Can't interop. Your schema doc is a bit out of date? Can't interop. Your schema is under NDA? Can't interop. Your competing standard is plaintext? You've already lost. And so on, and so on.

The search for network efficiency is often just premature optimization.
What about their security? Seem to have been quite a few issues recently.

From just two days ago, here on HN:

"Digitalocean.com has misconfigured their network in a way that allows for anyone to monitor customer network traffic." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157747
Hacker News at its most pedantic.

http://readwrite.com/2011/08/02/older_people_not_using_smart...
Nothing new by default, but its opening up a lot of hardware potential. Its not just a screen and camera that's at eye level, its also setting new social norms that make that acceptable. Even now, Glass isn't far from Bluetooth levels of socially okay, which is say annoying to most but acceptable. Once it reaches that point, I expect AR to be a focal point of development. It only makes sense.

A simple street view overlay + wikipedia filter would be basic AR, and that doesn't seem difficult at all. Google could monetize with virtual window ads that businesses would buy for glass+streetview users.
The value, I think, is in challenging your own beliefs.

To be honest this reminds me a lot of how Microsoft used to treat issues in their code/software 'Oh, that's a user error. That's not a bug, that's a feature!'. And then when you get pushback you go 'I've discussed this enough, no more talking with the plebes'.

Your axiom seems to be that anyone with access to your computer should be 'trusted'.

In other words, if I hand my laptop to my spouse I am essentially granting her root privileges.

A lot of us are making the point that this isn't true. I may have a wife, children or a roommate who I trust to use my laptop but don't want to make my passwords easily visible.

When I hand my laptop to my wife I have an expectation that without resorting to some special tools she should not be able to find out what my Amazon password is or what my hotmail password is.

Your position seems to be that by making these passwords visible you are encouraging more secure behavior - ie. I will now log my computer into a 'guest' account every time I give it to my wife.

It just seems like you don't get how people ACTUALLY use your product. For many reasons I'm not going to lock my computer every time I give my laptop to my wife or a roommate. I have an expectation that there is SOME obscurity that protects my passwords even if it's just obscurity by not explicitly showing the password. You're not going to change my behavior and frankly most of us are pretty shocked that a) you are so resistant to challenging your own axioms b) you think this is somehow our fault for expecting Chrome to not have a giant 'show passwords' button.

You need to challenge your assumption that the 'attacker' is some malicious agent. Widen the scope to also include the suspicious spouse or the prankster roommate and you'll understand why we think this is a bigger deal than you seem to consider it. Even if it just presents a small barrier I think most of us feel that small 'annoyance' is enough to prevent pranks and snooping spouses.
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Interesting so I tried digital ocean and was at first pleased but with constant network outages and no private network support it was not ready for a production env as far as I could tell - for toy projects definitely nice and if they get the private network up and resolve their stability issues I'd definitely give it another go
Door locks are the same thing. Crooks can just break a window. Who cares which is easier! Door locks provide a false sense of security.

For maximum effect, remove doorknobs to make sure people who can't even turn doorknobs can get in. Doorknobs provide a false sense of security.

Oh to hell with it. We can't have people lulled into a false sense of security, and educating customers is bad for biz. Doors themselves must go as well.

It's also key that we plant our feet on this issue regardless of what damn near every person on the planet would prefer: a deterrent against theft by someone unable or unwilling to break a window.
Public and open-source contributions aren't a measure of skill, in fact they're not a measure of anything other than public and open-source contributions.

Personally I try to keep all of my work as private as possible. There is no particular reason, I'm just a private person.

Do you really want to work for a company that measures competence based on pissing-contest and attention-whoring mentality?
Yes, with KVM you can load kernel modules and run things like kerberos which you cannot with OpenVZ.
The Taoism analogy is an interesting one. Underpinning much of it is the idea that there is a time to move and a time to stand still. iow it's useful to learn when to resist and when to yield.

Many times when people express opinions, they are given with the urgency of "this needs to be done, now!" e.g. we need to stop them from stoning women to death Right Now(!), we need to let gays marry, now.

But the belief that we can do these things right now is an illusion. That would be like me walking out of my office to the airport, buying a ticket in cash to Iran, finding someone who stoned a woman to death, and killing him with my bare hands. It's not strategic.

The Tao is a collection of wisdom of strategy that says, "Don't do everything that you feel right now, right now." Instead, "Find the right time to act." And you don't always act all of the way. You have to figure out how much when to act and how much.

So it seems to crass to sit still while listening to stories of gut-wrenching atrocities, but at least one school of ancient wisdom teaches us we have to be strategic and flow when the time is right, when others are moving at the same time and our force is multiplied, when the "bad guys" have their guard down, etc. And we need to learn to perceive these conditions.

And we need to tame this urge to railroad our opinions into other's actions and forced agreement. In the slavery and suffragist examples, their opinions were much more powerful as they gained domain knowledge and when they coordinated their efforts, becoming the smoothly flowing, powerful water, instead of a disparate cloud of angry electrons.
"IT'S﻿ LIKE SANTA FOR YOUR VAGINA!"

(Yes, that's also top comment on YouTube comments)
Well, he could very easily create an independent committee with input from EFF and such organisations (they should be able to find some technically competent people with TS clearances they trust) to go in and review the systems.
When you save your passwords in Chrome, it tells you that it's saving your passwords. If you don't think that that implies that the passwords will be retrievable at a later date, I don't think you understand what the word "save" means.
>> it's all just theater and won't actually stop anyone willing to invest minimal effort.

> So are all the policies and procedures of the TSA, if not the entire agency itself, but nobody is suggesting that making it a tiny bit harder to get weapons onto planes isn't a worthwhile goal.

Very large number of people have been, in fact, suggesting since day one of the TSA that the restrictions imposed on travel in the name of advancing security theater are not worth the costs that come with them, in some cases in some states (particularly Texas, but I think other states had started the process) going so far as moving to criminalize some of the TSA actions, until the TSA escalated by threatening to retaliate against Texas (who was the State where this had progressed farthest in the legislature) by shutting down all commercial air travel in/to/from the State if the bill was passed.

So, the basic premise of the analogy you are trying to use here is rather critically flawed.
The point is that 4 clicks is a LOT more convenient than most people would expect.

Not to mention this doesn't seem to be an oversight by the Chrome team - it seems this is 'as designed'.
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In my experience, a lot of the services on LowEndBox.com are pretty sketchy. I'd go to production on DA.
Aren't there homogeneous states in the U.S.?

I believe it has been shown that for similar cities, the U.S. system is worse - I think I saw an example of an U.S. and a Canadian city across the border, similar demographics, the U.S. one had 10 times the crime rate, etc..
Thanks for the example. Agree entirely then :)
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's all take a step back and try to see the forest for the trees. I read Mr. Kember's article (as well as numerous others linking to it around the web today) and what I read made me concerned enough to delete all of my passwords from Chrome until I understand a little more about the issue.

justinschuh seems to have a deep technical understanding of programming and program security so I will defer to his greater understanding and make sure that I secure access to my computer when I am not physically present.

With all of that, my concern is that justinschuh seems to believe that anyone who has physical access to my computer and wants to do something malicious will have a deep understanding of programming, and that is silly. What about my druggie cousin who comes to my birthday party. He has no programming skills, but if he knew one simple URL he now has passwords to my bank account, my Amazon account and a ton of other accounts that he can use to transfer money or otherwise feed his habit at my expense. Or how about my ex-wife who gains access to my laptop because my daughter needed it for a school project. Now my ex, who has zero programming knowledge, nor does she understand what "threat model" even means, has passwords to all of my accounts including Facebook and Twitter that she can use to seriously harm my social/professional life.

So, you see, I get that you understand the programmatic "threat model," my problem is that you seem to be too smart to see that not all threats come from tech savvy "hackers." Some threats just come from opportunistic malfeasors, and I don't need to add any new opportunities to the seemingly unending list of ways people can screw up my life.
Because Railscasts switched to Digital Ocean a few months back...In all seriousness Digital Ocean is a great product and I have nothing but good things to say. The command line tool Tugboat is quite a joy to use and they keep adding new features all the time.
Perhaps you're right, however I hold my country to a higher standard than "I'm not talking to you because, um, you won't give my balloon back!!"

I have lived a short life compared to some, but I've never seen anything that equates to what is happening now.
No offence intended but I don't see the value of your experience buying a Leaf. To me it lacks a critical opinion, thus looking more like free advertising.
I am a rocket scientist. Kind of.
We elaborate briefly on various related work at http://yang.github.io/reactive-coffee/related.html, but absolutely - there's a large body of existing work and trailblazers we liberally draw inspiration from. In the case of RxJS in particular, the styles actually feel quite different - RxJS is more about explicitly merging streams and constructing the data flow graph with some set of combinators, whereas dependencies are inferred automatically in reactive.coffee (along with a UI-building layer).

We're also strong believers that the entire stack can be architected in this way. Stay tuned! For now, check out projects like Fun, Ur/Web, and Meteor/Derby:

http://marcuswest.in/essays/fun-intro/

http://www.impredicative.com/ur/demo/

http://www.meteor.com/

http://derbyjs.com/
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As a big 3D and VR fan, this is the best news I have heard in a long time!
I don't think the term HACKERS means what you think it means.

In any case, I imagine if you're already working at a bank and the CIO, you can introduce node quite easily to your organization.

If you're building a product to sell to banks, I imagine you're going to have to stick with Java/C# but might be able to get away with Scala (only because of the JVM). Node will just be perceived as too cutting edge for many organizations.
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Absolutely spot on.

And: People are repeating "Never forget." - and at the same time, people seem to have forgotten that there was a time when we had no terrorism (true story!).

The question nobody's asking anymore: What is the reason for terrorism? How did we get there?

Nowadays, fighting some symptons seems to be all we can come up with. (The only reason I can see for this is: Because it's big business.)
They don't need to tell you the full story. But saying- we are trying to solve how people discover new products that their friends buy. We should have a product out in the next few months. That's a lot better than saying we are stealth. You didn't give away anything.

Ya feel me?
man pages aren't tutorials. While it pays to go through the man pages of certain essential utilities, not all man pages are created equally. Try reading ffmpeg's man page to learn how to use it. But its indispensable once you learn your way around the command.
interesting. thanks Oculus.
Right, I've been doing too much lisp recently, I assume macros everywhere.

Couldn't `bind` be ordered (meaning always reading its input) to avoid '.get()' ?
Yes. And he's focusing his words on things that don't make sense, rather than speculating on what might work out.

When well-off people build homes, they want art for the walls. So they buy a bunch of art en masse ("will these colors work in the study?"). This site could work for these people, or for the consultants that they hire to recommend work. Another related use case would be boutique hotels and other public spaces.
> We were not so long ago lauded as the greatest nation in the world.

Only Americans ever thought this. The rest was propaganda.
>So for whatever reason (joke, marketing, etc.) WINE changed the meaning of the acronym.

It's likely they did it for the same reason for which "Windows Commander" famously had to change its name to "Total Commander": to avoid infringing upon Microsoft's trademark. Christian Ghisler got a letter from Microsoft's lawyers about the name of his file manager, though [1]; AFAIK, Wine didn't.

[1] http://www.ghisler.com/name.htm
Smart thing would be to add logic to say:

if type = "Unique Work" then disallow reviews.
When I first clicked on this I assumed it was over the blatant homophobia in Russia, but no it's over them giving asylum to a whistleblower because if he goes back to the US he will almost certainly spend the rest of his life in jail + 23hrs/day in his cell.

I'm beginning to wonder whether the US even cares anymore about maintaining the illusion of its moral superiority.

Obama, what a disappointment you turned out to be.

UPDATE: That'll teach me for not fully reading TFA. He does mention the homophobia but seemingly in passing. The Snowden issue takes priority, apparently. My points stand.

/politics
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The problem with "Real change starts at X" statements is that they necessarily handwave around the circularity of the problems we face.

We can't get better policies until we elect better parties, but we can't elect better parties until we address campaign finance and fix the electoral system, but we can't address campaign finance and fix the electoral system until we elect better parties willing to pass better policies. And the merry-go-round goes on and on.
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As usual, the terms are misused.

Any discussion of currying vs partial function application needs to start by explicitly stating what the author intends each to mean.
How about we all flag political articles on HN?
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