skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, before submitting their* sites, they could do the bare minimum of
1) Use the free version of CloudFare or similar.
2) Get a web host with unlimited / high bandwidth levels.
3) If using WordPress, use one of the many cacheing plugins.

I've been hit several times by being on the front page. By my estimates, that worth around 700 requests per hour (http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/whats-the-front-page-of-hack...). I don't think that's excessive and using the above, my bog standard WordPress install has never fallen over.

*I'm aware not all stories are submitted by their writer - but I consider the above to be best practice for any competent website owner.
Your mind is the only coffee you need
Yes, it does.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Estimated...

I don't know where an up to date image is but that goes to 2008.
Indeed.

So, the point remains: what value does this advice have over against the advice from Google, etc? It's a rhetorical question, by the way.
A better way is to do a hybrid single/multipage app as described here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6507135

It's a multipage app, that uses ajax to function as a singlepage app. From the user's point of view it's a singlepage app, but it's accessible from any of the URLs that it pushStates to, so it's like the best of both worlds. It's fully crawlable because it functions as a multipage app, but it's got the speed of a singlepage app (if your browser supports pushState)
Is it possible that EA is finally (belatedly) learning to listen to their customers? Could this be the point that they turn around as a company and become player centric?

Or am I naive and reading way too much into this?
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I read the blog post and was nearly persuaded that fastmail might be better in than US providers on some level of privacy.

But now reading this exchange I now see that your company doesn't actually know the Australian law any better than it knows the US law, and now I feel that fastmail might actually be WORSE than a US company in terms of privacy. Thanks for letting us know.

The title of this post should be changed to:

FastMail’s servers are in the US – what this means for you -> absolutely nothing.
All is true, but do note that zsync is, at least for now, a single file system. If you are rsyncing thousands of files over a slow connection (because only little has changed), rsync can often do this with just a handful of bytes more than the actual changes, and zsync needs hundreds of bytes per file just to see nothing has changed.

Use zsync to distribute a small number of large files that have small changes. If you need to rsync hierarchies with lots of files, rsync is still king.
I'll get you timtams if you run the fire escape with us...
HC walking dead video on youtube quite interesting Must watch this [video]
Laser video projectors are dropping fast in price now. Some vendors claims at least Laser video projector a lamp lifetime of 20 000 hours, 4X longer than a conventional mercury lamp projectors.
"paying back their debts" isn't a goal of any country, nor should it be. National debt as a % of GDP should go up and down depending on the economic situation, the current policy goals of the country, and so on. It's important not to let the debt grow too much, but having a zero debt doesn't make sense.
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So you're saying that using distro packages saves the sysadmin a lot of work because a lot of maintenance will be offloaded to the distro maintainers. Fair enough.

So what do you do if the specific Ruby version you need isn't packaged?

What's that I hear? Compile from source? How exactly is that any better than RVM? Every single piece of criticism you shouted against RVM applies just as much, if not MORE, to tarball compilation.
Funny, why is it then that there isn't a net migration into the UK from the US? Why are all these people voting with their feet and leaving the UK? Don't they know what's better for them?
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I'm not sure that "external debt" is a great measure in this context - it seems to include international liabilities so if people invest/deposit their money in the UK (which seems like a good thing) that creates an external liability (i.e. whoever put the money here will want it back at some point).

Given the UK has a huge financial sector you would presumably expect a large external debt:

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/2984/economics/uk-external...
Echoing what itsboring said; it's hard to describe but sometimes we just have to... be closer. For example, I can sometimes read incredibly small writing if I can just get it right up to my eyes and really squint but I physically can't read a number plate more than a few meters away no matter how much I squint even if, relatively, the size in my vision is the same if not bigger.
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No, it DOES make a single file update atomic. What it doesn't do is make multiple updates atomic.

The way rsync works, it CANNOT end up with a partially updated file! (unless you use --inplace or --append which implies it - and it's your fault if you do)
Before the Snowden leaks Fastmail was owned by Opera, it has since been bought by Fastmail staff.

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-st...
The thing is that the rvmrc has the jruby version env set. So I need to load it first. And it contains an 'rvm use' which I don't want to fail. I suppose I can slim the rvmrc down to just include the environment and then all I would need to do is source the rvmrc? Thoughts?
How many servers does Google have? from search results it seems more than 1 million.

I don't know the details of the algorithm but can we assume that Google can factor 20 bits more?
It's as useful as the degree to which you trust the company giving this advice. And that's always going to be the case regardless of who the company is and what they say.
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As a mid-twenty-something who thinks he's pretty sensible overall with his cash, it's reassuring to see I'm not alone, but running with the current generation of financial wisdom.
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"Go to sleep soon in order to wake up full of energies"

True. But generally (and particularly so in my case too), the late night space offers something that the day isn't able to provide. A calmness to think about what one is working on. If the going to sleep early is accompanied by starting work quite early in the morning, it could certainly serve the purpose :)
I've given unison a lot of chances over the years, but I keep going back to rsync with "inbox" and "outbox" directories (if that can be done), or [le]git push/pull/sync if not.

unison is very slow compared to rsync. version at both ends must match (which means you'll likely need to compile your own unless all your machines run the same distro and version).
One of the interesting things about basic income, is that it generates responses like this, yet you probably already do this in your country, whether it's welfare linked to job-seeking or disability or having kids etc.

Worse still, the way in which these people are currently given the money makes it economically idiotic for them to go and find a small amount of work, since they'd often end up getting less money overall, so they're trapped in this life of which you don't approve.
I'm afraid that if get fit and stuff I won't want them anymore! :'(
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http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/ANN-luje-01
It's meaningless in this context. Stop nitpicking
Sorry, it wasn't recorded.
Huh? Try driving without proper ID in an 'unfit' vehicle.
The problem of this "disclosure" is that to the people writing the text the implications of Australian laws aren't clear, as seen in other thread here, started by westicle:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6506711

In short, don't expect that you can get any advantage from FastMail being Australian company -- you can even be worse off.
There's a great Japanese term, omakase, it means "fuck the community I'll do what I like".
Whenever I see interesting events like this, my first thought is not "what would happen" but always "how could I profit from what would happen [or the uncertainty around it]".

Unfortunately I never know how to answer that question convincingly enough to put my money where my mouth is. Does anybody know if there's a place where people discuss these sorts of things, e.g. a "Hacker News for Financial Markets"? Any interesting ideas for coming out of this on top?

EDIT: Two answers have pointed to gold. Yup, I have already played with investing in gold ETFs, which generated a 20% return over the past 2 years, even after fees. However I was wondering if there were any more ideas specific to the present circumstances, and where, if anywhere, people discuss this sort of thing?
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Making JS heavy sites crawlable is also possible with libraries like https://github.com/minddust/jquery-pjaxr and https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax . Plus the push state has the advantage of "real" urls.
SEO is a war of attrition more than anything. Unless you're working the blue ocean strategy, it takes up to two years to get sustained top search rankings (using legitimate SEO methods and best practices).

By the looks of it, Lyricful deserved better. Hopefully someone with deeper pockets can bring it back.
Calm down, I was giving my personal view about where I would live.

To answer your questions:

1) There isn't free entry to the UK. We don't just let everyone in.

2) Poor people can't afford to fly from the US to the UK.

3) People prefer "the devil they know".

> Why are all these people voting with their feet and leaving the UK? Don't they know what's better for them?

How many people leave the UK? About 300,000 people left the UK in 2011. How many of those were poor people leaving for an easier life elsewhere?

<http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/cross-cutting-topics/migrat...

<http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/migration1/long-term-internati...
There's one question they haven't answered: Why do they even need to have their servers in the US? Their blog post admits that there's a big chance that the US is spying on their customers. Given the fact that FastMail is a Norwegian/Australian company, why don't they just move their servers to e.g. Norway?

I realize that even if the servers were in Norway, an email from a FastMail user to a gmail.com account would still be read by the NSA (because it would pass through American servers), but email sent from FastMail to other email hosts in relatively safe countries would not be read by the NSA.
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Very cool, but something I don't get:

- Try to go to prerender.io, press "Install It -> Ruby on rails". Now it loads the ruby on rails example.

- Then go all the way down and change to "Prerendereed content". Pressing "Install It -> Ruby on rails" doesn't do anything now.

Shouldn't it render the same content? "Add the middleware gem to your Gemfile..." and so on.
This Calculator Unboxing Parody Is Hilarious
"Last year, Nielsen estimated the average mobile user has 41 apps on his or her smartphone. In April, a Flurry study showed the average smartphone user opens only eight apps a day, with the most popular being Facebook, YouTube and game apps. And according to a 2012 report from Localytics, 22 percent of all apps are only opened once."
Google Chrome 31 Beta gives developers plenty to work with
rsync already supports that. It has an "offline"/"batch" mode - you can generate a diff, only send that, and apply it at the other end. However, you are unlikely to save any traffic that way. rsync is super efficient and does not necessarily send complete directory listings.
Have you ever tried to debug an electronic circuit?

I'd say the "fiddliness" of electronics is orders of magnitude above any high level software development. Turns out you have the wrong resistor? 2 day wait for a new one. One slip of a wire? Chip's blown. 2 day wait for a new one. Weird behaviour? If you don't have an oscilloscope you're completely in the dark. Debugging CSS may be tricky, but there's a suite of tools available which are yours in a few minutes. The power available in free debugging tools is equivalent to a 6 figure rack of electronics equipment.
Just out of curiosity: why did you choose Portage over Paludis?
I never accepted their agreements, and still I use Facebook (and many other sites). When I clicked on "accept", I lied.

Usually, I still follow those agreements - for fear of legal actions or them deleting my accounts. But that doesn't mean that I recognize, accept, or internalize those terms.

And "stop using Facebook" is just not a realistic option for me and many others, because it has become so important for me socially.

The real solution IMHO is to regulate Facebook, and to either have its terms put under some form of democratic control, or to force them to do federation with third party services.
It's entirely possible for a country to pay off its debts, gradually, if the politics lines up. The US was making plans for that eventuality under Clinton. Germany paid off large amounts of loans, even if it took them fifty years. Stop fighting so many wars, stop cutting taxes on the rich, and you'll get there.
I quit using marijuana just over 8 months ago now. It was extremely hard for me to stop. The physical withdrawals are minor -- a slight headache, trouble sleeping for a few weeks or months, crazy vivid dreams -- but psychologically it can be as addictive as anything else.

Years ago I was a daily cocaine user, tried heroin a few times, etc. but letting go of those was easy for me. When I decided to stop, it was over and I haven't touched them since. With marijuana I had wanted to quit for at least a year before I succeeded. The adverse effect on my life was clear, but the ritual was completely ingrained. I eventually managed to quit by radically changing my lifestyle so that I was no longer surrounded by the culture and the drug itself.

I still definitely have cravings, especially at night, and very occasionally I need to go have a few beers as some sort of substitution therapy (even though I don't really enjoy alcohol, and never drank before quitting).

That said, I agree that the author of the article is being ridiculously presumptuous and is wrong about the mentality of most marijuana users. (Edit: I also think this guy is totally, totally full of shit and making up the entire story.)
People who put their money in generally want some form of return, so its not a bad measure.

A large financial sector shouldnt mean you have large net external liabilities. It does tend to mean they are very hard to measure though.

Clearly the UK financial sector is too big for us to bail out, we should have let it go under in the last crisis.
Arduino boards to run full Linux thanks to TI’s new ARM-based chip
Why not make the source available and put it in public domain?
Australia also paid off its debt once.
It's misleading to call those unfunded liabilities. Most of that is Social Security and Medicare projected expenditures. Unlike true liabilities, those are not legally guaranteed. The government can reduce eligibility for those programs, reduce payouts, etc, without being in default, unlike say a state pension plan.

Comparing them against current assets is equally misleading. Say you plan to spend $2k on rent for the indefinite future. That's $24k per year, $240k per decade, etc. Are you insolvent if you don't have all that in the bank now? No, of course not. Those are ongoing expenses paid out of ongoing income.

The Medicare trustee estimates the unfunded liability of Medicare at $40 trillion over 75 years (the $123 trillion figure includes a Medicare estimate of twice that). Projected GDP over that period is $907 trillion.

Finally, there is nothing wrong with quantitative easing. The people that'll be hurt by inflation are by and large the same ones whose fault the current financial mess is (older people own most u.s. assets). The government will probably encourage inflation at some point to reduce the value of these expenditures as a percentage of GDP without making nominal cuts. I don't see a problem with that readjustment.
What didn't you like?
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I dunno, if the US government can't figure out if it wants public healthcare by the end of this month, they are gonna have to sell off some of those datacentres to pay the national debt...
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Static rendering of dynamic content? I don't think this does make sense.

If it's pre-rednered, it's missing something. If it has all the data at first, then it's not dynamic.

Pre-rendered(static) javascript app(dynamic)...? Hmm... I don't see anything more than something like JWT in JS instead of Java?
I'd like to know how you find working for/with them - is communication ever an issue?
Some people invest in gold, silver and/or Bitcoin as a hedge against fiat currency collapse.
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Of course it CAN and it DOES NOT. If I flip two bits in a large file - one at the head and at the tail - then no matter how clever the algorithm is, the update cannot be atomic without proper support from the OS, because it would involve two separates Writes into the file.

On Windows there's Transactional NTFS whereby you can bind an open file to a transaction and then have either all or no changes applied at once. But that's only Vista+ and I am pretty sure rsync doesn't use it anyhow.
Wouldn't it be more quick by filling the hole with 7 stones for 34 times? They could use 34 extra stones (or goats) to keep the count. That could be done by any farmer.
I thought it was kind of obvious that all the sites are spammy because they are illegal anyway. Its just lazy to set up a content based business model without owning any content. Now a service to people who do own the content, that might have been worthwhile, monetise your lyrics.
I dont like attitude that programmers have some sort of super powers. Sure you can put your tiny script on github, but there are zillions of half baked repos there (including mine).

To change local news you could start blog, podcasts or video tube channel. Single person can bring down tv channel or corrupted major, this happened many times before.

Internet is like amplifier. But sometimes it just multiples number of people who will ignore you.
This is most certainly going to happen because negotiations to prevent the shutdown and the default should have been going on since the summer.

The problem is all the negotiations had a hold placed on them. Take a guess who put the hold on them.

The timelines dissecting what actually happened next month are going to be epic in a very bad way.
Tell me when I can buy large sheets of it at a reasonable price.

The article says absolutely nothing about "sooner than you think".
As far as I know, Australian law is common law and would allow a judge to seal a warrant. So, fastmail's asertion that there is nothing like an NSL where they couldn't disclose a search is incorrect. I'm sure it is just lack of awareness, rather than intentional deception.

(Ianal, ianaa, but I am pretty sure I am correct on this point.)
Frankly speaking, I don't mind good people growing by working their way out of tough situations.

The only thing that bothers me is bad people unfairly beating good people because the situation was easy.
The US can't default on their promise to pay or there is a very high risk it will be lights out for them for world reserve which will be instant hyperinflation.

As world reserve they have had to spend into existence a metric craptonne more currency than their economy requires in order to lubricate world trade (google Triffins dilemma).

ie: For Turkey (say) to buy oil off Saudi, they need to sell something to the US in order to obtain USD first.
When world reserve status is lost, suddenly Turkey doesn't need USD in order to acquire oil. The rest of the world is holding USD for trading purposes and those USD currently never go home in order to claim something from the US economy.

Now lets turn the lights off on USD as world reserve: Those now useless trade dollars will try and find their way home to the US and start chasing things milk, eggs, cars...anything in the real world that has value as the currency devalues.
Meanwhile, the USGovt is having trouble acquiring its goods and services with its rapidly inflating USD and doubles down on printing under Executive Order 13603.

When this one blows, one doesn't want to be caught holding assets denominated in USD.
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@edem

It's also at these two places

https://googledrive.com/host/0B_n1OLMaOursX2hsRUhZNElwZmc/

https://googledrive.com/host/0B4G_4-zdiD1gU2NoX285dmxpTXM/
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Project LeChe, great name!! Leche is the spanish word for milk.
Fascinating, but it doesn't stand up to a few minutes of googling:

http://www.editors-wastebasket.org/nexx/pro/vinland.html

"What drove the two groups apart was a killing. Some of the Norse men killed a skraeling who was attempting to steal weapons, which Thorfinn had forbidden as trade items."

The Skraelings, being mammals, and observers of other mammals such animals they hunted, would have been familiar with milk, even without owning livestock.

If they bought raw milk, they probably intended to use it for their children, but it seems a rather difficult trade item, as a liquid, and having a shelf life of only a day or two.

They probably were trading butter or cheese, neither of which contains enough lactose to cause problems. Fresh cheese would have been known from the stomachs of suckling animals, and might have been a prized delicacy before they were aware it could be manufactured. Butter would have been completely new to them.
This is very common, and there was a pretty lengthy discussion about interview anxiety on HN a few weeks ago. Had this person been tasked with writing a loop outside of an interview environment, they likely would have had no issues at all.
Decide what you think would replace assets in Central Bank balance sheets to allow world trade to continue - ie: what would settle world trade deficits.

Yuan, gold, silver or bitcoin?

Hint: Bitcoin and silver are not held by central banks as assets. Yuan's value is subject to the policy of China's politburo. Fool me once on the USD...

That leaves one asset that can't be printed into existence:
http://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/wfs/2013/html/fs130924.en....
Back in reality, the US with its global militarism is one of the worst cases for not paying ... because they don't have to. Good visuals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_pu...
Of course. I'm not running from any 3-letter agency, just from overly-aggressive marketers. If I ever did anything a 3-letter agency would be interested in, it definitely wouldn't be on the Internet.
Sorry, but the idea that a failure to raise the debt ceiling "is most certainly going to happen" is laughable.

It might happen. It's highly unlikely, but not impossible.

If you're so certain, you should be shorting the whole market and laughing your way to the bank.

EDIT: Not to get too partisan, but the justification for not negotiating on the debt ceiling is to put a stop to the use of the debt ceiling as a form of political hostage taking.

To let this sort of thing go on gives Congress a de facto veto power over the executive branch that was never laid out in the constitution. Once you let Congress know that a majority (in a single chamber!) can get whatever they want simply by threatening to tank the whole economy, there's no going back.

That's why it's the rational policy to refuse to negotiate when a single house of a single branch of Congress starts threatening that sort of thing.