skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Power failover and HVAC systems are on-going costs that usually exceed server hardware costs (both initial and replacement) by a long margin. Over a three-year period you'll probably get to spend 1% on actual server/networking hardware.

I'm just pulling that number out of fat air, but you'll be spending far more on other things.
Nothing about what Apple and Google provide for developers/App Store is "passive".
If your adversary includes the NSA, you have to consider the possibility that the NSA has required that they store logs and not tell anyone about it.
Every distro I've tried has something that annoys me about it too. And this is why I keep coming back to Slackware: it's the distro that annoys me the least. It's also Linux in its rawest and least dilute form, a natural step up from LFS: you can edit config files and use standard Unix commands confident in the knowledge that the package system and distro tools won't clobber anything you don't expressly tell them to.
is that all? that's only $10k per machine if they have 2M machines (which I'd guess is a conservative estimate)

NOTE: I'm not being snippy - that seems very efficient given the building, HVAC, networking, and the fact that they have probably had a lot of machines fail.
About €1000 from a subscription based web analytics niche thing and another €2500 from my wife as she works for the government.
A dedicated host would most certainly be a better (and cheaper) option for you, but hey, if you don't have time to look around, I suppose it's a reasonable trade-off.

>I need a server that has good uptime and good performance.

Then a single EC2 instance is not a good option for you. Terrible up-time, and terrible performance.
Even the top institutes like IITs engage in superstitious and fraudulent activities.

Here are some very recent examples.

Pseudoscience unchallenged at IIT Kanpur:
http://nirmukta.com/2012/08/06/pseudoscience-unchallenged-at...

Hall of Shame: On a Hindutva Apologist’s Recent Lectures at IIT Madras:

http://nirmukta.com/2012/09/05/hall-of-shame-on-a-hindutva-a...
"""
Gravity was not discovered (sic) by “Newton or Oldton”, but by Bhaskara II and is described in his work Siddhānta Siromani.

The spherical shape of earth was not discovered by “Copernicus or Silvernicus” but Indians knew it well in advance and is mentioned in Bhagavata.
"""

One can imagine what is going on in other less reputed colleges?

Granted these are off-school activities, but it would be better for them to seek entertainment in better ways.
Schneier sets up and knocks down a strawman ... The NSA and Obama aren't "discounting" the NSA's actions because it's "just metadata." They're defending the legality of the NSA's actions by saying that it's "just metadata."

Well, here's what the president actually said:

When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That’s not what this program’s about. As was indicated, what the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers and durations of calls. They are not looking at people’s names, and they’re not looking at content. But by sifting through this so-called metadata, they may identify potential leads with respect to folks who might engage in terrorism. If these folks — if the intelligence community then actually wants to listen to a phone call, they’ve got to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation. So I want to be very clear. Some of the hype that we’ve been hearing over the last day or so — nobody’s listening to the content of people’s phone calls.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/06/07/transcript-what-oba...

He didn't make the "it's legal because it's only metadata" argument. He did claim that the program is legal, and that it is overseen by Congress and a secret court.

Maybe it's just a matter of opinion, but I'm very comfortable characterizing this reply as "discounting because it's just metadata."

I'm unhappy about this, and I voted for the guy twice.
Your assertion that we may never know whether anyone was murdered was a surprise to me, which is why I responded. It seems relevant because whether the good outweighs the bad depends on how much bad was actually done. (Technically what's relevant is how much bad one would expect to have happened in advance, but what actually ended up happening last time will affect our guesstimates of what is likely to happen next time.)
You have serious anger issues all over the thread. Calm down a bit.
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Sorry, I was trying to be cute. Major Fail me.
Samsung employees cover iPhone line in New York
Ansible actually encourages the use of the names because they show up as task headers.

These are especially valuable when managing a large number of hosts.
The open source desktop is kept alive mostly through donated spare time. This time is limited. We would do well to maximize the impact of time spent creating and maintaining open source desktop software.

Right now the standard language to build Linux software is C, which is great for performance, but not great for development speed. There are ports of things like GTK+ to other languages, but ports are less supported and usually don't take full advantage of their language's unique flavor.

To maximize impact per unit of time spent developing open source software, and also perhaps to entice more people into contributing to open source software, I believe it would be a good idea to build a desktop environment/widget toolkit with an opinionated API in Ruby. Anyone who has experience writing Ruby on Rails code with an automated red-green-refactor cycle likely could testify that it is pleasant and fast. Why not bring that sort of experience to building desktop software?
>> I believe e-mail is in profile if you have more questions, but this should cover the big stuff.

It is not. `email` field is not publicly visible, you need to add it to `about` text field.
Just came here to submit this. It's a fascinating development. He's pulling an end-run around mid-level VCs.

Tim has a good eye for startups + the ability to personally boost their efforts + get them publicity. Now he can get them money without the hassle of individual negotiation with investors.

Can someone more knowledgeable comment: is there a maximum amount of money this can be used for? Or could this conceivably be used for much larger rounds as well?
FYI with OneNote and a digitizer stylus as the Surface Pro comes with you can just write your notes on the screen. OneNote will recognize the handwriting and allow you to search through it etc.

Sorry if you already know that, from the way your comment is phrased it looks like you don't so I thought I'd throw it out.
Interesting to note that you've hosted your beta clients on Kim Dotcom's Mega service. This is the first time I'm coming across a legit & popular service hosting its public client files on Mega.
I think some of the less explored portions of LFS contain well-documented reasoning for implementing some of these things yourself. For example there is a single solution (out of the many ways to solve this problem) to the package manager dilemma in the hints section of LFS

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/packag...

which explains reasoning for the package manager and how to implement it yourself (in a much less copy-compile-execute manner than LFS itself).

Implementation is a great way to learn but generally people will survey the literature first to understand why things are implemented the way that they are. Understanding what all package managers have in common will allow you to distill it down to the simplest factor and implement that.

A lot of the core utilities and why they are expected should be covered in the standard (POSIX in this case).

I guess what I am trying to say is that implementation is a useful way to learn but it requires you to know the details whereas understanding the literature first will give you a better idea of what to implement.

Good luck with your project.
How do you market StaffSquared? You mentioned SEO and ads; is this your main source of customer acquisition?
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Works for me when I am not logged in (Chrome incognito mode).
I've always wanted to work, game & live in Sweden.
Looks great!

> assumes the terminal is 256 colors

Would there be a way to degrade gracefully somehow if not? Perhaps using grayscale?
Lenses are hard for people to write and error handling is poor though, so it can be very frustrating. The lineinfile method does work fine for simple files, and there's also an INI file module.

In most cases, we recommend using the 'template' module for this reason, in cases where you know what you'd like to put down for the file contents.
He's definitely being sarcastic.
And I have spent tens of thousands on rent.
Deterrence for Malware
Note: ECC-521 is not a typo. It is really 521-bit curve.

Standard: http://www.secg.org/collateral/sec2_final.pdf

Explanation: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/6219/why-do-the-el...
Also worth noting, ansible comes with a 'template' module which allows you to generate custom files with variables.
How long did it take you to make this app?
Still no keyboard that can be used without a table. Most people spend less than $700 on a laptop. Not many people are going to spend more than that on a device that was intentionally rendered less capable so Microsoft could sell gimicky keyboard covers. Microsoft knows how to make nice hardware. All they need to do is create a true hybrid device that sets the example for the industry.
I make around £400 per month on tutorial videos for music production applications. It used to be more like £1000, but I've neglected the site in favour of pursuing programming (so I can make my own music applications, instead of talking about other peoples').
Not really. It is usually used as a deceptive argument by one person. This is what you implied by leaving out all the people who supported his assertion.
Can one get Debian, SUSE, or CentOS running on either of these yet?
Just take the keyboard of?
My guess is that"s why they're bundling a free 2yrs skype wifi with it - no 3G, but free access to many hotspots.

Not sure it's a worthwile tradeoff for everyone though.
I too have had issues with connectivity with Rackspace. Also anecdotally I've heard that the main recommended solution by the article in the OP, hetzner, is one that crashed non stop for someone in the past.

You just can't beat AWS right now for reliability, feature set and speed. We started using them recently and they are a tiny bit more expensive. But it's the difference between fresh air and breathing carbon monoxide.

At least so far.
>Personally, I think pointing out how casual racism is tolerated and ignored in certain situations is quite a bit more useful than the other comments on this article.

The real ignorance spawned when you compare Asians (multi-racial, genetically diverse, many cultures) with black people (colour of skin). That is racist. You are generalizing a continent of people into one homogenous ethnicity.

Of course the author wouldn't group "black people" into a category. Firstly, "black people" are the most genetically diverse group of people on the planet. Africa is also home to again, many, many cultures.

I think you attempting to be PC, has clouded your judgement. Look at your upvote/downvote ratio. Do you believe most people are just "ignorant" to your "valid and true" beliefs on political correctness? You said it yourself that this is just casual racism. And to many (including me) it wasn't that at all. If anything, you were the one who brought race and conflict into this discussion. Ask yourself if you're truly right.

The story is simple. Apple got sold out of their gold iphones in parts of Asia. You're right, everybody likes gold. They state that in the article. Let's see the articles sources shall we?

> gold in Asia is perhaps even more fetishized than in the West.

Wow, talk about bias! Perhaps!?!?!?

> said Mr. Lian, who works at a local TV station. "Chinese people like gold."

What?!?! A Chinese person generalizing their society?!?!? Hold the phone. We got a self hater here says mikeash...

Now this is just hurrible... Of course this POS article doesn't have contrary opinions... Oh Wait!

> 28-year-old Chris Wong who works in marketing. “I think the metal casing looks much better.”

And there you have it. A different opinion.

But yes. The article is racist. I'm racist. The people who downvoted you are racist. The whole word is racist. How about you take your white knighting to tumbler social warrior! We'll miss you!!!!
How NASA will build its very first faster than light warp-drive.
He can't really do that with the present approach. :)

Each 'drop' of rain is really a circle painted using the reflection scaled to the size of the drop. This approach is very fast, but won't scale well with odd-shaped drops and larger drops. With a small enough spherical drop, it's a good enough approximation for refraction.

With larger drops, you'd start to notice that the reflection isn't a refraction (i.e. the reflection is cutout in the shape of a circle, rather than truly refracted as in a drop of water).

Other approaches could be adding more expensive texture transforms, or WebGL + a refraction shader for bigger and/or non-spherical drops.
Otherwise, you are making something for no one.
Few years ago I wrote a solution manual to one of my text books (half of it was part of the assignments). I sell it on Amazon for $30 for pdf download. Been making around $200/month.
Yea I mean the entire debate shouldn't even be about whether he was stupid to do this. Because of him, we are able to say in hindsight that travelers should be weary of these kinds of things.
And they didn't even put in any investments or work hours ;)
Between $1450 and $1650 a month from ads on Android apps. One app does about $1100 a month, another does $325 and the rest collectively maybe $150.
Gmail service disruption
I think it's a worthwhile endeavour to stick a distro together, however I agree with a lot of the other commenters here. If you really, truly want to learn about how an OS works, you're going to need to get your hands dirty and learn about the kernel. There are so many tradeoffs made on the kernel side of things which impact userspace, and knowing about them impacts the decisions you're going to make in terms how how you configure software and which software you're going to use.

If you can afford it and have a week to spare, I'd really recommend taking the Linux Foundation's one week crash course on the kernel. It talks about how the scheduler works, gives you insight into modules, how processes and threads work and hooks the kernel libraries give you for semaphores, mutexes, etc. It's expensive, but it's well worth the money.

http://training.linuxfoundation.org/linux-courses/developmen...
JavaScript Warrior - play a game by writing JavaScript functions
"Apple got sold out of their gold iphones in parts of Asia."

"Parts"? Apple sold out of gold iPhones everywhere.

"You are generalizing a continent of people into one homogenous ethnicity."

Where the hell did I do that?

"If anything, you were the one who brought race and conflict into this discussion."

Excuse me? Race is in the fricken headline of the article we are commenting on.
I make between 5-10k a month on my apps and book. (It depends on the season. Summer and Christmas are best.)

http://buildanappbusiness.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/30-south-llc/id331245760
That is insane! How did you attract users in the beginning, and do you use the same strategy now?
How do / did you market it? As it seems as if you're only hosting it on your personal website? How do people find it?
Do you think ads are a better way to make money than charging for the app?
I've bought some digital art from a freelancer and received it via there.
With newer versions of Windows, Microsoft has attempted to bring powershell on par with the linux terminal. Supposedly, every admin function possible in the OS is now capable of being performed in Powershell.

The only downside is that some if the commands are uneccessarily verbose in comparison.
If there's a demand I'd be happy to share our lifecycle email updates...either way I'll be sure to keep track of our progress so I can report on it from time to time. Getting the onboarding process exactly right really is a combination of art and science (mostly science).

We launched Staff Squared about 18 months ago, it was originally an internal app that I used at my software company http://atlascode.com that we realised could be useful to other companies. We bootstrapped the app from the outset and haven't taken on any investment as I wanted to see if we could make this thing work first. Turns out it's possible to make a profitable business from it but it's by no means easy.

I do pretty much everything...sales, marketing, support, QA, specifying new features, and so on. My team of devs at Atlas consists of four full time .Net developers. I now also have a part time person who helps me with marketing, newsletters, copywriting and design. Our office manager assists with some of the support requests we receive and manages our oLark chat on the site...

We're looking to grow now and take on more developers as I'm finding it hard to balance the client work we've got at Atlas and keep Staff Squared "fresh". All good problems to have :)

I'll check out lifestyle.io and see if I can contribute something of use to that community. Thanks for your interest!
Run the demo.
Is "Asians love gold" a common racial stereotype? Serious question. Is it common for racist non-Asians to think, "Them Asians, they sure do love cat chow mein, blonde women, and gold"? [EDIT: If you like, substitute "math, martial arts, and gold". I'm asking only about the existence of a stereotype, setting aside how demeaning or inflammatory it's considered to be.]

I've been hesitant to assert cultural differences in another thread, but I think it's safe to say the color gold, like red, has a different significance in China than in the West. (Less sure about other Asian countries.) It's possible some people stupidly associate the preference with race, as if it's genetic, rather than cultural; I've just never encountered that stereotype.

Before the announcement, my overwhelming impression from American writers was not that they love gold. Quite the opposite: they did not expect to like the color, and were trying to come up with an explanation for why Apple would go that way. They were flailing for some conclusion, not rationalizing a conclusion they particularly "want[ed] to reach".

I'm skeptical of the theory myself, for a couple of reasons, but it doesn't strike me as racist. It might if I were convinced the racial stereotype was a common one that I happened to be unaware of.
XMPP Queries
I want to build a private chat app using XMPP servers, but I don't know where to start, and I haven't used XMPP before.

Which is the best/easy to use Library with good documentation for using XMPP in my own app?

I'm using Python, Flask.py to write the webapp so I have searched for some Py Libraries, but I'm still clueless.
I noticed an odd omission in the tables at the bottom of the chart:

Statistics (Federal)
No. of Men Enlisted 2,850,000

Statistics (Confederate)
No. of Men Enlisted <blank>

I wonder why why the number of Confederate men enlisted was not shown.
Really.

I guess you are entitled to your own imagination.
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The investment pitch is interesting and while I own my own startup I don't think I have the knowledge it takes to take a page of text and determine if I should invest, even if the sum is small.

Regarding Shyp, it would be great to imagine a huge untapped potential market around "the first mile" problem but it's hard to see the market there.

For example, in almost any sized company I've worked in, FedEx or UPS would pick up daily from the office for free. So there is a ceiling for this to become B2B and there is already distribution and experience doing this with other carriers such as FedEx and UPS.

Also, I've been able to print shipping carrier labels on packages before and have them picked up directly from the carrier for free so there is already a mechanism there for residential albeit I don't know the details for this program.

But more importantly, while I hate taking my packages down to a UPS store as much as any one else, I rarely do it. And making it easier for me doesn't mean that I would do it more. It just means that it would be easier to do it a few times a year. Which is a scary thought for a business; to think that perhaps you are entering a market that has no room for growth and that the best thing you can do is take a small market away from a large company with more potential to squeeze your margins.

I wish Shyp the best of luck, and if this company is successful it's just a testament to how I probably don't have the wisdom to take a page of text and make a decision on whether or not it will be successful.

EDIT

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I've done some more research and here is what I found:

For $10/week (Flat) UPS will pickup daily from your house [0]

For $5.50/pickup UPS will do a one time pickup [1]

[0] http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/bussol/browse/pickup.html
[1] http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/shipping/time/service/value...
Not everything that is poorly researched is racist. But everything about race that is poorly researched is racist. This is poorly researched, and it's about race, QED.
First link is to 9/3/2012, not 2013 as labeled.
If I'm reading the SEC rules correctly, to be an eligible investor, you must have an income in excess of $200K. Is that right?
I believe this is an amazing window opportunity to revive RSS.
Disabling iptables - which is unfortunate that's the part that IMO can be tricky, maybe someone here has set things up with iptables?
As someone who has written utilities to check for configuration changes presented by packages systems when they update, glossing over this issue is a bad idea.

Having a unified configuration that you can track and push is good, but if you are installing from RPM or DEB, you want to know if the package is pushing a new config itself, or providing a new config for review.

The utility I wrote looked for .rpmnew and .rpmsave save files and checked with a central repo for whether they were whitelisted (by MD5) or not. Anything not whitelisted resulted in mail being sent alerting admins. Along with an fairly comprehensive per-host auto-update exclude list (which I got yum-autoupdate patched upstream to allow), this allowed us to be fairly confident in allowing our 100+ boxes to auto update every day.

Without paying close attention to packages release notes, interesting things can come down from the maintainers, usually from them back-porting a fix from a later version (or a feature, if it's a RHEL point release).

I think configuration management is a good thing, but I'm not sure it's the best thing to be taught first, unless there's mentors to work with. Some things you just won't think of until it's bit you in the ass, and have that bite be at small scale until you've figured it all out is probably a good thing.
Your CA doesn't have to be (read: shouldn't be) the same box. Also, it doesn't have to be (read: shouldn't be) connected to the internet. I recommend a USB key you keep around your neck or on your keychain, but it's really up to you.
If you visit the site with JavaScript disabled (e.g., using the NoScript add-on), you can immediately see a couple of "secrets", before certifying that you're over 18.
I am a data point for the worst-case example. I don't have a hot application or a popular website, and most of my money is earned the old-fashioned way.

My passive income from my investments in government bonds is enough to cover mortgage, basic living expenses for my family, and two family trips a year.

Source of money for investments:

- savings from many years of working and diligently saving

- some real estate investments
21, drop-out, profit ~ $7k a month, working part-time, and no partner. Up from $31/month last December. Comes from sale of plugins. Not recurring, but stable.