skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For comparison, I moved a bunch of servers into a local datacentre a few months ago. It took us ~3 days to get a rack assigned, access arranged, and a couple of days to move and set up the physical servers for a single person. Fully loaded cost of the time spent was adds up to about $4k. Total leasing costs of the equipment (some of it has already been written off, but lets assume it was all new), rack cost, and 10Mbps CIR is about $1600/month for servers totalling about 80 x 2.4GHz cores, and ~20TB storage. Of course we need to factor in some maintenance cost, but the time cost for work spent managing the actual hardware as opposed to supporting the application environment, which we'd have to do regardless of hosting, adds a few hundred a month.

Comparing EC2 costs to what sounds like a completely botched project isn't very fair, in other words. Of course there are worse alternatives than EC2 as well.
"The problem was Gagarin. Already a Soviet hero, the first man ever in space, he and some senior technicians had inspected the Soyuz 1 and had found 203 structural problems — serious problems that would make this machine dangerous to navigate in space. The mission, Gagarin suggested, should be postponed."

This helps puts things in perspective when I'm obsessing over trivial things like the max length my RegExp will allow on some arbitrary form field. One of my user's phone won't blow up if he/she wasn't able to use five more characters in a message.

We should do our best to minimize the amount of bugs we code, but when we (inevitably) do code buggy software we can fix it relatively fast. Unless of course one is coding a GPS system for SpaceX or something of the such.
Keyboard/mouse peripherals have been sold as add-ons for game consoles as early as the original Playstation, if not earlier.
Reminds me of some companies where the team knows that a particular project is doomed from the start but has to still work on it as no one has guts to tell the boss the truth.
Apparently you didn't understand my comment. The company is Shyp Inc.

http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?company=shyp&match=c...

"No matching companies."
I've seen a lot of snakes, but in my experience it is more common for them to be incompetents - throwing wrenches into productive people's work to distract from the fact they are a fraud. UX and marketing people are the most common because it's harder to be a poser programmer and not get caught (though I've seen several of those as well.)
If they can stop the bleeding, which I suppose they will if their goal is to chop shop it. They'll fire another 30% and start shopping parts of BB
>"the cause of Google's flagging stock price and Android's failure to effectively compete with iOS in the mobile market."

Was your comment sarcasm, or just terribly misinformed?

"Flagging" stock price? You mean the one that's hovering around all-time highs? Android's "failure to compete" with iOS for the mobile market? With 80%+ of global market share?
ActiveAdmin is usually pretty horrible when it comes to releases.
Surface Pro 1 ran Linux just fine.

Its a full laptop. Why wouldn't Surface Pro2 run linux?
Next Generation Magazine reported that Atari earned US$25 million in sales, but netted a loss of US$100 million.

Doesn't seem like it was a good idea, though.
I'm surprised they didn't stress Windows 8.1 more. I have an original Surface RT ("O.G.") and it was essentially unused in my house until I got Windows 8.1 on it...changed everything. It's a much more usable OS.
It's unwatchable for me too. It appears to be buffering fine (I see the gray buffering bar quite a bit ahead), but just stalls and stutters quite a lot.
There's no limit to how much someone can spend on lotto tickets, slot machines, craps tables, options, etc. Why is startup investing any more dangerous?
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"A typical scalable database engine like App Engine's Datastore will only look at each entity in isolation. Since the entities are technically fine in isolation, there's no guarantee of consistency from the engine level."

This is not true. A feature in app engine called entity groups were added to work around exactly this type of problem. The Dog entities should have their entity group (parent) set to The DogWalker. This will ensure full read/write consistency among that group of entities.

Combine this with transactions, and cross-entity-group-transactions, and you can ensure that you don't have dangling or incorrect pointers like what you describe.
No, they haven't. They have released bits and pieces under NDA, but never actual complete docs. That's the problem. Maybe you should have listened a little closer to the "flak" to see if it was actually legitimate problems.
I see Steam's long tail being more on the Indie side of things, giving the little guys a way to monetize their hard work without needing huge budgets. As long as they come along for the ride I think the platform can be grown organically. That said, Valve's own AAA titles alone will be good for the platform, so if they can get a handful of other major players on board I think it can be very compelling.
Microsoft Tech Evangelist Jesse Freeman Talks HTML5 & Indie Game Growth–Part 2
So you're saying we should rely on a private company for law enforcement? Presumably gun manufacturers should also be responsible for tracking down people who use their products illegally?
You only take 4% profit margin? Seems very low.
What is it they say that caused Blu-ray to beat HD DVD? Gamers and porn.
I am with you, but I am a PC gaming fan, not necessarily a Windows gaming fan. WHat I like about this is not the ability to put a Steambox into my living room, but to replace windows with SteamOS on my PC.
tl;dr: denial of the 10X productivity we all observe in practice in any large group. Implies its not true until an 'official study' says its true, regardless of vast empirical evidence that supports this obvious fact.
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> Whenever possible (and it’s almost always possible), have someone do a day or two of work with you before you hire her; you can do this at night or on the weekends.

No. Absolutely not.

If a candidate really is as good as you think he/she is, they already likely has a full time job that they're perfectly happy with (as you already well know):

> Often, to get great people, you have to poach. They’re never looking for jobs, so don’t limit your recruiting to people that are looking for jobs.

They might have other compelling offers, and they'll certainly have personal projects, hobbies, and people that are more worthy of their time than this insulting little game. The developers who know what they're worth won't put up with this. Why are you trying to hire the ones who will?

Hire fast / fire fast is fine, but seeing a founder do this is a big red flag for me. It screams indecisiveness, lack of confidence, and mediocrity. Does he try to pull this stunt with everyone he hires? What am I supposed to think of the rest of the team? Can I get behind someone whose hiring process is so driven by fear that he's willing to miss out on the best candidates?

This tactic might help you hire a decent candidate over a mediocre or a terrible one, but you'll be missing out on (or even creating ill will toward) the great candidates. It's already hard enough to get them on board -- why would you make this harder on yourself?
and probably the branched version from activision used in their `call of duty` franchies.... -_-''
I don't believe this is true. Most windows store apps run on both of them, but I think there are some, e.g. graphics, API's that your app could access that would limit it to x86 only
This is great insight. Really like the moneyball quote.
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This is great! I usually use jsFiddle or Codepen for front-end demos on my blog, but it would be so much nicer to host it all myself.
Nope, you nailed it. There is nothing in payments that requires more dev work than could fit in an Excel function. Patrick admitted as much with this screenshot of the complete Stripe codebase earlier this week: https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/381779690567913472

That said, the pingpong tables aren't going to play themselves...
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I'm attempting to solve this, at least for iOS devices. My technique is to collapse everything first. If you want to continue in that discussion, you tap to expand. I think it helps mitigate the need to comment on the top thread, and should make for more diverse discussion.

I think every platform needs its own interface for this, and I suppose the thought behind the web interface is that you can always just scroll down. It's suboptimal on long threads, though. I found my technique worked best on mobile, since you can quickly tap the entire comment to expand it. With a little JS, this might also work on the web.

(If interested, the app is called Pivit, and is in review -- follow @alariccole if you want to know when it drops in the next few days.)
111 8th Ave was already a major carrier hotel (there are several on the Island). And it once _was_ cheap real-estate, before Chelsea became trendy and before it was renovated into one of the most high-tech office facilities on the island. As is, it has more usable square footage than the empire state building.
This seems to be what I was looking for. Thanks, will play around with it today.
To be fair, Watsa is a current RIM investor and a former board member. That suggests he probably has a good idea of what he's getting into.
>1080p video is nowhere near 1458 bytes.

It doesn't matter, that's the point. Your MTU is almost certainly 1500 bytes. You are sending 1500 byte packets at the most. That does not cause latency. If you want to argue that we're incapable of encoding or decoding video with acceptable latency go right ahead, but doing it in response to me correcting a misconception about network latency doesn't make much sense.
It makes much more sense for Yelp to go after spammers, in the same way Google does. Not the NY Attorney General.
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Aren't games pretty damn portable these days? It seems like most non-firsty party titles are all multi-platform now. I don't know anything about game development but they must be developing with portability in mind.
> or Mac-only
I don't use ActiveAdmin much, but I do have RailsAdmin set up on Rails 4, no problems:

$ grep \'rails Gemfile
gem 'rails', '~> 4.0'
gem 'rails_admin', '~> 0.5.0'

https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin
Co-founder of Shyp here. We don't only just provide a pickup on-demand service, we also package and provide an amazing experience the entire way through. Take a picture with your phone and tell us where its going. That's it.

We do all this for the same price as USPS retail.

We do charge a $5 pickup fee if you only have one item. The reason for this is because the largest cost for us is the pickup so if we are able to incentivise you to hold until you get 2+ items everyone wins.

Oh, did I mention we don't charge anything for packing materials either (tape, box, air pockets etc.)
5 days left 37% funded. Fuckung GTA
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How open will this be? Will game developers have to licence the right to develop for SteamOS? If not, it'll potentially be huge!
Steam OS needs to be on the Public Domain like an Opensource Project..Which it will most likely be..

In addition to that the Hardware should also be opensourced, like how to build the most optimal gaming console to work on Steam OS...

But It will all come down to the gaming pad, how the gaming pad will be designed and how it will integrate with build your own systems
"Experienced" employees are also more likely to need/want that cliched work-life balance. They may not want more money, but they may not be willing to work incredibly long hours indefinitely.
People have been giving details about their lives to their doctors, lawyers and priests for centuries, relying on convention that they keep it private.

It's not convention. Those conversations are privileged (literally 'under private law' and the notion is relatively recent in legal terms. Until 1840, for example, a lawyer in Britain was not expected to defend a client that he knew to be guilty.
Can you give me an example of a rule that is true ("holds across a broad range of environments") and the truth of which does not depend on a "specific (and closed) set of assumptions"? How does one arrive at "rules" like this using mathematics? I think that's quite a revolution in the foundations of mathematics...
Yes . Most of the revenue coming in goes out as employee salary and vendor payout.
Yeah, I came to that conclusion just from reading it and ctrl-f'ing 'open', as I was in a rush. It looks like I may have been wrong.
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I read in Influence [0] by Cialdini that telling people you're going to do something actually makes it more likely you will because you feel consistency pressure

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini
Feynman point
Materialized views (PostgreSQL)
If stripe was a public company, their share price would increase today and even more-so when this is official.
If you don't have a beefy machine, then you're probably not using Steam much anyway, which means you're not in their target demographic. (And if you were playing old games or small indies, you won't need a beefy machine to stream them).
I had to reset all my .google. cookies to work
logged with the Google user it works, but when I sign in with the secondary google apps for domains user it stops working for some reason
Co-founder Shyp here.

We waive the pickup fee if you ship more than one item. I used to be an eBay power seller and I would have loved a service like this. Also how I came up with the idea.
Other submissions of the same story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374404 (cnn.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6379512 (forbes.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6383244 (archinect.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6384794 (cnet.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6406719 (mavish.com)

Not much discussion on any of them.
No one has made one yet, because the Surface wasn't popular enough to make it profitable.

Microsoft proved with the first generation that they have the chops required to make hardware that's just as nice as Apple's. Everyone praised the Surface's hardware, they just didn't like the battery life of the Ivy Bridge version nor Windows RT. Unfortunately, the inability of the Surface to be used as a laptop makes it a secondary device for most people. A $900 secondary device is going to be way too expensive for most people, who as I already said, pay less than $700 for their primary devices.

1st party devices are almost universally better than third-party devices. For example, while I loved my Clamcase Pro, I bet it wouldn't have died after less than a year if it had been made by Apple. That's why I was hoping that Microsoft would see the potential in making a proper keyboard for the Surface 2.

The closest thing we have right now is the Lenovo Helix. It's a nice device, but it was launched with Ivy Bridge right around the time Haswell was released, and it costs a fortune when compared to the surface or a Macbook Air.
Geo based DNS is the job of the auth nameserver, not the recursive as you know. So, the client subnet extension is a good idea, as otherwise it just relies on the address of the recursive resolver. I assumed, wrongly perhaps, that the ISPs recursive ns would be located close to the user, which has always been the case in my town. Well, moreso helpful than hoping the auth recognizes the client subnet extension.
Cyanogen: Helping to unify Android
I'm going, also taking a friend to introduce her to the tech scene.
Most Entrepreneurs Suck at Giving Advice
Take a look at Wefunder response above.

"waiting period for Form D is a proposed rule that has never been voted on"
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...and then announce the game that you'll be playing on the box?!?
I work at one of these IT service companies. This year I complete my 10 years. I love coding, solving problems and learning new things. But unfortunately, with extreme reluctance I will have to become one of these managers. I just do not have any other way, no body cares about writing code here and writing good code will not get you nowhere.

I am too old for the product companies and I am not from a top tier college. So its game over for me, however the only hope I have is that someday I will manage to build something on my own that will free me. This is what I have been dreaming of ever since I passed out of college. You may ask me why I did not do it then, but for a guy from a lower middle class background, it was not an option. I needed to survive.
They live stream/video record start-up school.
I haven't read the book, but your justifications here send up as many red flags as the quote you are addressing. First, a proof is either valid or it is not. You cannot have a "different view" on this. Second, there is no hacker/compsci divide. Terms like 'the real world' are used solely to demean the work of another person and offer nothing useful.

Your example is especially frightening. You cannot build proofs on weak rules-of-thumb. In fact, it is difficult to even quantify values surrounding heuristics like the one you give. There simply is no valid data.
I don't think so.
It will be probably based on Ubuntu LTS
Notice that the higher numbers are shipped, not sold.

The iPhone 5S seems to be selling briskly, but how many 5c are still in the channel after 3 days?
If I were them I'd make Half Life 3, Portal 3 and whatever next versions they have of their own games, exclusive to their own Steambox, at least first months or so.

They might not get as much money on the games themselves initially, but they'd make so much more on the hardware (they don't need to all Blu-ray and all the extra crap, so they could be profitable on it), and it would also be a great way to seed their console into the market, so developers target it.
if you want to go down this road Android !== GNU Linux || Android !== Linux as the first compare two OS, and the second compare an OS and a kernel. Sure they share a lot of libraries that are in use in those sort of application (more so than GNU Linux and Windows variant) but still, those are not the same.

Mind this is begging a question: with all the TV box running Android, are manufacturer going to target Android or SteamOS (More and more so called smart TV are running some version of Android)? And what about indie developer? Right now you can pick up an Android TV Box for anything in between 50 and 100 GBP.
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I love SimpleForm, but I still wouldn't want to roll my own administrative interface. With RailsAdmin, I make changes to my database schema, or add a new model, and those changes are automatically reflected in my admin interface. One less thing to maintain.

Also, I don't have to write any CSS, I get PJAX thrown in for free, and I inevitably have clients say "oooh, pretty" without any extra effort on my part.

They also say "How did you build this so quickly?", which I have no complaints over.
There were some rumors about Crytek and Unreal guys wanting to support Linux, too. With these latest announcements, I'm sure they will now, if they weren't going to do it before.
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I've yet to see this anywhere but numbers on the Internet. I hear people talking about Ubuntu, I see people using Ubuntu, and I see computers coming pre-loaded with Ubuntu. I've never seen anyone using Mint, heard anyone talking about Mint, or see machines pre-loaded with Mint.
The co-working trial is a two way street. Wouldn't a good developer want to make sure the new co-workers are also good?
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If I'm being generous, I'm a slightly above average engineer. Spot me 10X and I'll outperform any engineer on the planet. Do I believe in the 2X engineer? Definitely. 3X? Sure. 5X? Possibly, if their name is Ritchie or Torvalds or the like. But 10X? What I do in a week, they'd only get 4 hours. What I do in a year, they'd get 5 weeks. Doesn't exist.
These aren't (just) spammers, though - they are people committing fraud against New York State businesses[0]. They just happen to be committing fraud on an online platform.

[0] Or rather, New York State businesses themselves committing fraud (if they are the ones writing fake positive reviews about themselves)

(Edited to reflect argumentum's reply),
You should consider expanding this to include other types of therapy workers. I know from doing tech work amongst mental health professionals that most are required to log x amount of hours doing y before they can obtain licensing as a z. Since you have the platform and domain knowledge you should be able to add features to widen your target demographic.
Ansible also has a "script" module:

http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/modules.html#script
Webpage has a play button to "Listen to Komarov as the Soyuz capsule began to fail".

And then - unbelievably - there is a link for buying it for "89 cents at Amazon.com".

At Amazon they're selling one man's last words of despair. And linking to that you are even advertising this.
The whole thing is sick and sad.
That's a misleading summary. No one is saying that all engineers are equal.
You're just bringing up the tired thought experiment about whether "true altruism" exists. Is it really corporate "charity" if the company expects good PR and eventually profit as a result? Is it really individual "charity" if the person gets a really good feeling as a result?
I kinda look at it like a lean startup practice. If nobody signs up for his blog why start? if some people sign up there will be pressure to put something out.
How solid is the foundation of your startup?
Another interesting read is the timeline of the other famous reentry disaster, the Space Shuttle Columbia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster...

One of the things that I find surprising is the amount of time between when the breakup started ("8:53:46 (EI+577): Various people on the ground saw signs of debris being shed. ... Dialogue on some of the amateur footage indicates the observers were aware of the abnormality of what they were filming.") to last radio contact (nearly 6 minutes later).
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Overall, I thought this was a great post, but. . .I've always been kind of hesitant about the "hire someone you'd want to hang out with on Sunday" bit. Well, not when I first heard it. . .but over the years, I've come to believe that so many people hire or want to hire people just like them that it weeds out a lot of otherwise qualified people. Yes, I know you want people who share your company's cultural values. . .and that in a small group it's important that people like each other or least don't dislike each other. I guess it depends on how tightly you draw your box. . .and how "boxy" your box is. . .and the alignment between your comapany's values and your personal values.
Hmmm... that's disturbing. It's stuff like this that keeps me up at night: not things breaking, but things breaking without me knowing. Thanks for chiming in. I've sent you an email to follow up.

If anybody else sees this issue, and you're willing to take a few minutes to help me troubleshoot it, please let me know. james@letscodejavascript.com . Thanks!
There are too many holes in the story. Highly recommend the followup, where it's confirmed that many parts are flatly made up or just vaguely inaccurate: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/03/135919389/a-cos...