skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mongo and nginx are both fairly complex tools. They stand to make lots of money from large organizations that want to optimize their back-end.

If generic webcorp X is paying $1 million per year in server costs, and you can reduce those costs by 10% for $100,000 with some new feature... webcorp X will pay you for that feature.
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Hosting is like commercial airlines. Everyone wants excellent service, but they shop on price, and expect it to be low. Those who can actually spend a lot, do it themselves anyways (private jets). This could be the beginning of a consolidation phase in the hosting industry just like what took place with airlines.
Spaced repetition at work. Works great for me too, whenever I actually remember to do that, but sometimes I'm just caught off guard and instantly forget their names, but I'm not too embarrassed to ask again if I think I'll run into this person again.
I had a terrible experience with MT a couple of years ago. GoDaddy won't be ruining them. They wrecked themselves.
Is this just speculation? It's fine if it is, I'd just like to know.
As much as I disagree with the way the Republicans are leading this shutdown, I can see their point.

Government gets soo bogged down in process after process, and no amount of breaking away from that gives any sort of relief. Companies _can_ be more agile and make change much quicker than government can.

I've also heard the stories from members in government. Some say that open source is evil, or insecure, or whatever.. Or another where pallets of unused supplies sit to be thrown away. Or I've also heard stories about more money thrown at a developer working in the Army that has to buy useless equipment so his budget isn't destroyed next year (and yes, he's at our hackerspace, and during shutdown).

Then again, I side with the Dems on the PPACA issue. Our health care in the US stinks. It's something in the general right direction...
It's hard nowdays to find a medium that will post your slander and lies so this is a good step for him.
Great for doing somthing a have wanted to do some time now

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sda
You are conflating risk and outcome. All drivers are at some risk, some bad and lucky drivers will never have a bad outcome, some good drivers will have multiple bad outcomes.

Risk of injury is similar. I would expect the understanding necessary to accurately predict cancer to be very useful in treating it (it should also have much potential to reduce costs...).
What happens minute-by-minute if US truly defaults
You also need to account for the larger mass at the bottom…
This is orthogonal to Tor.

SSL protects an adversary from seeing what you're talking about, not who you're talking to.

Tor will prevent an adversary from seeing who you're talking to, but not (in itself) what you're talking about[0].

Here, the topic of concern is an adversary (in this case, the government) finding out what you're talking about, so Tor isn't relevant.

[0]Because the last step is unencrypted and sent in plain text, even though intermediate steps are encrypted.
I'd describe AWS pay as "competitive". Most all gigs provide you a decent signing bonus and stock grants. This lowers your base salary as all these items together are taken into your total compensation, which I believe is pretty much the norm up in Seattle for AWS/Google/Microsoft.

Your signing bonus is pro-rated and you pay it back if you quit before one year, and your moving expenses are also paid back over two years if you quit before then. Your stock grants vest heavily in the back-end over four years. Every year you get a review and new grants are included in your total compensation package as your "salary". It's a sort of lock-in system that helps keep you invested in the company as you keep earning stock etc, but that was my perspective. Nothing exorbitant, and that fits with the Amazon ethos of "frugal".
In the late 90s i was a partner in a hosting company. To this day every time someone asks me to host a small site on my personal server I get flashbacks and the shakes. Never again. Hosting is not a game for people without very strong nerves. I won't even resell hosting.
Nexus 10 has a 22.75Wh battery, the HP Chromebook's is 30Wh.

Chromebook has a bigger battery than the N10, not a smaller one. Probably also a factor in why the Chromebook tips the scales at 2.3lbs vs. the N10's 1.3lbs.
Personally, I think the way you are approaching your situation mentally, is strong. Best of luck to you. I didn't get into YC when I applied in 2011 and it has motivated me so much to really improve myself. Now I'm in a position where my startup is almost too big for what YC offers and that is a great feeling for me.
Cross-platform Multiplayer may be here soon…
"That's quite a difference, and one of the main features of Bitcoin. See the message in the genesis block."

That is a political statement not a technical statement, and this gets to the heart of the problem with Bitcoin and with its lack of a security definition. Bitcoin is popular, particularly among those who distrust the banking system, because there is no requirement for a central authority; that is certainly true but only in a pedantic sense. Without a security definition it is hard to even talk about what Bitcoin requires.

What we have therefore is a situation where no amount of technical criticism can matter with Bitcoin. Polynomial time attacks are irrelevant, because there is no requirement that Bitcoin resist polynomial time attacks. There is similarly no particular scalability requirement, and so there can be no real criticism of Bitcoin's scalability. "True believers" in Bitcoin can easily shoot down criticism because critics cannot actually point to any requirement that Bitcoin fails to fulfill: there are no clear requirements to point to.

To illustrate this point, consider this statement: There is a polynomial time attack on Bitcoin, and the whitepaper itself describes it. Now, is this a problem? Well, the answer I consistently get from Bitcoin devotees is no, that is not a problem because that is how Bitcoin works. With logic like that, who can argue?

So while you call the lack of an authority a feature, I call it a logical gap until a rigorous security definition is presented. Otherwise you have a solution in search of a problem, coupled with a community of people who all have their own vague notions of what they want Bitcoin to do for them.
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I (and others) tried submitting it, but all BuzzFeed links are [dead] on arrival due to the blogspam they've done over the years (along with gawker, etc).
The announcement said "We are of course disappointed by Glenn’s decision to move on, but can appreciate the attraction of the new role he has been offered." - that sounds like a news organization losing a great reporter rather than letting him go.
I'm not a fan of "me too"s, but I've been a DreamHost customer since 2001 and use them for smaller sites and may try VPS and/or dedicated with them in the future. I recall one rough patch with them in 2006 (http://www.dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2006/08/01/anatomy-of-an...), but I felt like they did a pretty good job of keeping customers informed and so I stuck with them.
I made the same experience with my hand optimized asm.js code.
http://s-macke.github.io/jor1k/
It runs as fast as asm.js in Firefox. Chrome is optimizing it really well.
Path laid off 13 staffers today, axing 20 percent of its workforce...

Path founder and CEO Dave Morin, who celebrated his 33rd birthday yesterday, has not responded to requests for comment.

Cmon Techcrunch, you should know that Path dude never answers his phone, it puts him on defense.
I suppose it is also "philanthropy" when a very wealthy donor pays for journalism which reflects his political views or objectives.

As long as you share those political views or objectives, that is, then it is "philanthropy" rather than journalism bought and paid for.
Sure. And small part of a system != whole system. Anyway, kind of off the point of the OP, I got rant-y there.
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Can you log in to Chromium OS without a Google account? I tried it (Hexxeh build) before I got my Cr-48, and I don't remember being able to then, but that was a while ago now.
Here, let me add a bit to your theory.

He's flying back from Brussels to DC tomorrow. Then back to Dallas on 20 Oct.

So he's in DC while the server is up.

source: personal communication (SMS)
"The spokesperson said that Path currently has 20 million users"

Has Path ever released a data point other than total number of registered users?
Some part reminded me excerpt of "Do things that don't scale" from Paul Graham in the way to create this "real" relation with the user
I wonder how many of those guys had job offers in their inbox before they had their exit interview.
I hate to be a conspiracy nut here. I think I've watched one too many political thrillers where they get rid of the nosy reporter by offering him a job he just cannot refuse.

Edit: grammar
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DH's shared hosting is bad, possibly horrible. Their shared servers go down frequently. Often they didn't even seem to know the server I'm on was down until I sent a support request. I keep my account for testing and sites I don't really care much about.
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I believe Node.js has solid technical foundations and it will not run into same troubles as Ruby or PHP. There are millions poured into JS research, Ruby never had decent GC or JIT. Also Node.js code base and unit tests are solid, not like client side JS.

Also there are modern strongly typed languages which compile into JS and run just fine on Node.JS. This solves code-base scalability for large teams..
I suspect he would have deleted everything if he could (when we shut down our mail service at Silent Circle, we deleted everything specifically because we still could). If he did it after this whole show got started, it would very likely have led to even more significant contempt (or even obstruction) charges.

Destroying everything does indeed cause some pain, but it also sets a very definite upper bound on just how much pain is possible (especially for your customers).
The greater robustness means that:
1. There are more high quality modules, so if you look hard enough, you are likely to find one for your tasks,
2. There is an even greater number of duplicative, half-assed, and poorly maintained modules than there were in 2007 (some of which existed but weren't half-assed or poorly maintained in 2007), and those are still quite often the first ones you'll run into when looking for something that does what you want.
We are Founders, and We are Afraid.
Speculation; nothing has been announced.

However, the first interview by Greenwald was given to the Washington Post -- which Bezos just purchased.
Layoffs in and of themselves rarely 'support continued innovation'. Sometimes they are necessary, but in isolation they don't make the remaining folks more creative. It can be tougher to pull people out of a project than to not have them there to begin with.

It's unfortunate but the more truthful answer is, "It's easier to fire these people and hire folks with different skills than to train the people we have."
I have used virtualbox and vmware player (free for non commercial user ). vmware player gave me much better experience.
A much better system would be printing money to fund startups, instead of our current, print money to fund debts.
Is Path particularly well-regarded?
Google Watch is happening soon
Some context for those who don't know the reference.

> "I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense." [1]

[1] http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/my-phone/2013/03/dave-mori...
In theory, you're right - even C compilers make decisions about what to optimize and how. But in practice, the variance in the performance of C compiler outputs to dynamic language VMs is enormous.

With C you might get a 2-3x difference in common cases, but in a JS engine if it decides incorrectly to stay in the interpreter, you've lost 100x. If it enters a vicious cycle of deopts, it can be even worse. If it does a long GC all of a sudden, you can lose 300ms in an unpredictable way.

Again though, in principle all this is solvable in dynamic VMs. We know that theoretically and based on logical arguments; it would be great to see it proven in practice, but it hasn't yet.
Greenwald is partisan, it's just that his politics aren't Democrat
That simple parabolic reflection animation explained the concept more elegantly than words ever could, I think.
My business idea is to collect your social data and sell it to the highest bidder, in exchange for letting you play some free games.

Some people love that. I personally cannot then conclude that the business plan is 'good' (for what I consider a reasonable value of 'good' - certainly it will make me buckets of cash).
"So what" is that the article says it is new when it is not new.
I felt it was a way of getting people to look at their solicitation, nothing more.
"If Bitcoin developers do something that miners don't like, they lose their base"

How is that any different from what happened with Chaum's startup (digicash)? Bad management resulted in a failed business.

"The balance is that developers are accountable to miners and users, unlike central banks that aren't accountable to us."

Central banks are accountable to their customers insofar as the management of a currency is concerned. If a currency is poorly managed, it will fail, which leaves the bank without any authority. Sure, the bankers might remain wealthy if they happened to hold assets other than the currency -- but the same is true of Bitcoin developers, who might simply sell their BTC on some exchange and thus protect themselves from a Bitcoin failure.
To the fanatic, absolutely everything is further proof of his own pre-existing beliefs.
I haven't looked at gandi.net before, their prices are reasonable and they have a very clean layout.

Unfortunately, the second I noticed their motto (no bullshit) I realized I cannot use them for our clients. Sigh :(
Just looking at some of those photos gives me a fear of heights!
The Guardian is also independent. It is owned by the Scott Trust and has been consistently loss making. The Scott trust turned into The Scott Trust Limited in 2008, but the same independence is maintained. Of course, the problem is that The Guardian may run out of the money eventually.
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The way he has so skillfully broken stories from the Snowden documents at just the right pace has been brilliant. It is hard for me to imagine another journalist handling it better.

Which makes the question of whether he is "polarizing" or not almost irrelevant. He now has the perfect reputation as the man to go to if you have an important story involving powerful people you want to be told in the most impactful way.

Drudge broke a big story (Monica Lewinsky) to launch his career, but I don't think he has broken many big stories since then.

Mother Jones does serious reporting all the time, so I agree with another poster the equivalence with Drudge is not fair.

In any case, I would put Greenwald in a different category from anyone with a reputation based mainly on being a "polarizing figure".
This news could not make me happier after moving from Mediatemple completely about 6 months ago. I would say I got out just in time. My experience with Media Temple (I was with them since the beginning and all of the teething problems they had with their hosting in the early days) was fairly good. Support was great, but if you soon find you hit the limit of their hosting pretty quickly. They used to market their Grid Server (gS) plans as being "Digg Proof" and it was once upon a time but then eventually the Grid Server plan lacked behind and getting Slashdotted/Digged meant you had to scale up with burst addons.

I would argue that Mediatemple kind of killed themselves in many ways, I can't see how GoDaddy will do much worse to be honest. People put them up on such a high pedestal as they got bigger, they just couldn't live up to their glowing reputation because of how big they were growing which is a problem not many companies can say they have, Support stayed timely until the end, but Media Temple lost out to Digital Ocean and Linode big time and just couldn't keep up in the end.

I wish GoDaddy all the best, but for the moment I am very happy with my Linode 1024 virtual server plan which never buckles under anything I've thrown at it thus far. Even hitting the front-page of HN once upon a time didn't cause it to break a sweat.
Recklessly Claiming Obamacare A Failure Creates Distrust
Obamacare’s healthcare insurance exchanges made their debut. And, predictably, there are Obamacare opponents, like their counterparts in Congress, who are willing to say or do anything to get rid of it.
That's a fairly imprecise and inaccurate statement. Lots of governments in the US are still functioning (i.e. state and local), many of which are represented there. And even then, the administration is only partly shut down at the moment, even if it IS a pretty big part.

We've not actually descended into anarchy here at the moment.
Thanks, mikeg8! I do see YC as a mean, i hope someday i will have this great feeling of succeding, with or without YC.
Do you happen to know why they don't and what do they use?
If they are using Apache, I assume they have a custom version that is highly optimized.
http://www.serverwatch.com/article.php/3911511/Google-Speeds...

I guess for all fairness, yeah, let's only count public facing. I think with internal proxy nginx will probably be even higher.
Path itself is likely not regarded poorly, but with a shortage of good devs in the valley, I suspect the data people they've (possibly) let go would have had offers. Not so sure about marketing.
That's pretty cynical, I highly doubt he's going to be asked to shape a story to fit someone political viewpoints. Unless you think he's going to work for Fox News ;)
Not necessarily. But Silicon Valley engineers with startup experience who just lost their job and are likely to accept lowball offers so they can continue to pay their hyper-inflated apartment leases, those people are highly sought after.
Overlooking their privacy issues, the app was well done. The experience felt fresh when the app first came out. A few things I thought were particularly neat: the circular menu for posting statuses, the polished timeline, and the drawer (which to my knowledge they were the first to do).
Seriously? Network Solutions was the original domain registrar.
IMHO, every dollar that a customer gives you could have gone somewhere else. If you can't figure out where the consumer would spend that money if you weren't around, you probably don't understand your customer very well.

If you think there are no competitors, you are probably missing something.
A nitpick: he's saying "high profits" when I think he means "high gross profits". It's an important distinction. The low cost-of-goods-sold (COGS) is offset first by the competition and later by the cost of hiring people the manage it and deal with customers.
> get a new certificate without it?

The certificate isn't what control PFS, it's the allowed (and preferred) cipher suites.

You can enable PFS without changing your cert.
No disrespect intended (or involved at all, in my view), she was born male. Curious how you would describe the situation at birth though?
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Does the people how think this is astonishing also think it is astonishing than one will not move forward when walking backwards on an Escalator?
I know what NDA violation they could make. It is called "NDA violation". It is where you sign an NDA and then you disclose information. Release of source code could be considered a disclosure. Now Apple can go right ahead and do a whole lot of nothing against VirtualBox and Oracle because no one cares. Neither should you. Stop lionizing contract law. It is a civil matter and no big deal almost always and especially when no money has changed hands.
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I would also love to contribute to such a project.
I wonder if ISP deliver anything through nginx.
I write my Android apps (and my enterprise Spring apps) in Scala, so there's no guarantee at all that Android will keep Java alive.
lol.... that honestly made me laugh. I never read the interview before but will make use of that line sometime. Regarding path, they need to boost numbers, so started exploiting peoples address books, when this worked they raised more money but those users where spammed and probably just deleted the app. The only thing i hear about path is the design, if you did a frequency distribution of word usage in path articles, it's about design. The funny thing is, i downloaded the app last year, then invited my wife to use it, she text me saying she didn't know how to use it and never did so i deleted it as well. Therefore the great design appealed to the tech inclined but to cross the chasm they needed familiar design like instagram & twitter.
Its difficult to tell whether a fish is smaller, or larger than your self. Might color code them based on whether you can eat them or not.
ICYMI, Reid addresses today's climate, too:

In 2013, it’s whether you can break through the noise. Today, there are probably a thousand consumer internet startups founded every quarter — how do you become one of the 1 to 3 that matter in a 7-year timeframe?
He already shapes stories to fit someone's political viewpoints.

If we are going to be cynical about Fox News and everything else, why should Greenwald be the one exception to our cynicism?
I've been a Media Temple customer since 2007 and a GoDaddy customer since 2004 [edit: I say 2004 but I don't think that's possible. I must have switched to them sometime after 2006 but I can't recall who my previous registrar was.]. I like both companies just fine though apparently not everyone has been as lucky. I don't know if GD is going to be a good home for mt since GD specializes in cheaper hosting. But...

GoDaddy does a lot to support their customers. Friendly people over the phone. They've walked my dad through some hosting issues he had when he was trying to set a site up. They call me every couple of months to make sure I'm satisfied with everything (and probably try to sell me on that bundled registration). Making them out to be The Devil is too dramatic. And transparent too when he could have linked to the #Philanthropy[1] heading on their Wikipedia page but chose to focus on #Controversies to support a position.
The only thing I use java for: Android apps and Minecraft.
Python is dying!

Anyone offended and feels like writing lots of blog posts about that statement? That's ridiculous and doesn't deserve a comment, I hear you say? Well, that would exactly be the right (non-) response to such a statement.
Baconreader... I'm not going to lie.. I expected this to be a reddit or rss feed.
Ruby does seem to be, if not dying, at least losing a lot of the buzz it had a few years back, but mostly that seems to be because Rails has lost the buzz it had, and much of Ruby's buzz was actually not Ruby buzz, but Rails buzz.

That being said, I think the vision Rubinius X has about where Ruby should go is great -- both in terms of language features and conventions -- and I think that besides the specific details, the high-level strategic vision is something Ruby needs.
How is that relevant? You can solve the same problems in Java as you can in Ruby. An ENT surgeon is not interchangeable with a physical therapist.
I agree that there are other (more valid) points on which to criticise them.

However, Bob Parson is still chairman and the largest individual shareholder. I can see why people may not want to support him financially [based on principles, he's rich already].
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