skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lifetime costs seems quite high in comparison to the monthly cost. It works out cheaper if the VPS is still running after 3 years. Then you are getting a discount.

But, in 3 years, what will the VPS market look like? VPS pricing is dropping considerably year over year, so these will look expensive in 2-3 years anyway, and then there's the lifespan of that particular spec.

Their 2 year pricing looks better, however. The sort of price that's decent value if they last 6 months to a year.

The lifetime 2Gb one looks interesting. But $4 a month gets you what kind of virtualisation? OpenVZ, so you're dealing with contention ratios and overselling. Xen or KVM - then that $4 is a basement price now, but in 3 years?

I'm not sure $140 once-off lifetime cost for a 2Gb is actually worth it - it's risky, considering the lack of visibility and experience with this company. If Linode or DigitalOcean or VooServers did something like this, it would sell out very very quickly.

I guess these are probably useful as a remote shell server, a private git repo, a private documentation server. Running single-user web apps / cloud. Personal use stuff.

I've seen these kind of deals in Cpanel/WHM Reseller packages around (ebay are littered with them). The typical business rationale is to bulk up their customer numbers in preparation for selling out, or to eek out as much cash from an old server on it's last legs . Or the traditional cash-grab and run. These packages have a tendancy to last about 2 -6 months before things start going off the rails.

Where are their data-centres located? Looks like Canada, from some quotes in this thread.
Yes, Node.js is the new Ruby on Rails. It's amazing how EventMachine and other similar frameworks failed to gain traction.
so it doesn't work on firefox..
Love the idea of keeping the data at home, but 'in the cloud' at the same time. I hope to soon start a project of doing something similar for photo/video management.

A few recommendations for you that I also plan on for myself:

1. Keep the backend 'database' as simple (and portable) as possible. Files and folders is ideal, with metadata stored in the files (in this case probably as ID3,etc tags)

2. Have a simple API to the data so 'rich clients' could be developed that are capable of caching limited sets of data for offline usage.

3. Make the HTML interface somewhat skinnable so people with conflicting tastes to you don't get turned off just because of the style.

4. Focus on a great personal experience before adding lots of sharing features.

Good luck!
Or go straight to the source, Evidon's FAQ page:

https://www.ghostery.com/faq#q16

"GhostRank data helps them market to consumers more transparently, better manage their web properties, and comply with privacy standards. "

And when GhostRank is enabled it isn't perceived as being a bad thing by the advertising industry:

“When a new web tracker comes on the scene, they often want to be listed in Ghostery. It’s proof that they’ve arrived and have influence"

says the CEO, at

http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/31/ghostery-a-web-tracking-bl...
My Web-Wishlist for Christmas 2013
I was also pleased to find that in version 1.4 a MySQL login health check was added "option mysql-check".
My worry in situations like that is that the `fast prototype' ends up also being the final driver, because it works well enough and nobody feels the urgent need to rewrite in C.
The tech sector does absolutely nothing for the unemployed or to allay the wider social problems in Berlin. The last big wave to hit Berlin was the move of parliament from Bonn, with countless media companies settling in Berlin in its wake. However, these companies also attract people from outside, these are the now (in)famous "Schwaben" coming in. Berlin is hip, and young, educated people come from all over the place (and world) to be part of it. That, however, does very little for Hellersdorf, the Märkisches Viertel, Siemensstadt etc. etc. What all of this brings is a further social divide in the city and further gentrification á la Prenzlauer Berg and Mitte.

So far, I fail to see how technology companies are going to be any different.
V8 is backed up by Google, I guess that's pretty big deal.
"We were 14 times faster than compiled C in Chrome..." I feel this part needs clarification. As I understand it the "in Chrome" part is key, as they were bypassing the browser and interpreting javascript through compiled C (matrix3d).
Sorry Roadster ... we cant really take your word for it.
You just had your account created like 6 hours ago.

The whole whois and the website ... they just dont add up.
Well have to wait a little longer and see.

If there still there i might get one, but like everyone we want something that will last and not worry that it might die 3 months from now
> When a Java thread crashes it doesn't bring down the whole JVM any more than when an Erlang process does. Just the one thread dies.

I think this is inaccurate also.) Technically there is no memory protection from one pthread to another, so "crashed" pthread could damage shared data or the common stack. It is, however, not JVM's problem but of the pthreads as a concept, and Armstrong argued that only share-nothing architecture (process-based) could be fault-tolerant, and pthreads are just "broken by design".
The Code Documentation Fallacy
It seems the demo doesn't work on FireFox, but does on Chrome. Firefox just redirects to http://famo.us/c
The demo doesn't work on Firefox 27.0a1 on my MacBook Pro. Any effort to reinvent the web needs to keep compatibility in mind.

Tried it on my phone and the performance was good but still noticeably stuttering. Could be an interesting approach if they cut down the hyperbole and carry on improving.
Scientific American blog editor admits to sexual harassment.
It seems that Ruby never won over Python in big tech companies. Probably it has something to do with Python being widespread in science (as far as I understand, tech companies are dominated by graduates from the best colleges) - if you're a graduate, you already know a scripting language, why learn another one?
If you posted a comment to HN with 127 spelling mistakes, which you then corrected, should you be applauded for that?
Honest question, why should it be the responsibility of tech companies to solve social problems? They are in the business of solving tech problems.
Off topic:
Why does it say Urasium Michael Arrington? Urasium was a typo in some Apple demo event.

[0]https://twitter.com/onesleepynerd/statuses/34425107788713164...
It should be illegal, but I'm not a fan of people going to prison for non-violent crimes.

A heavy fine would probably be most fitting here, since I'm guessing he ran it for profit.

Posting videos and photos of real people being abused, hurt, tortured or even killed, can cause real distress to the victims and relatives of the victim.
Obama signs bill ending partial shutdown, raising debt ceiling
I remember these guys, is it just me or have they been in beta for like 3 years
Brendan Eich on EME
OutRun: Augmented Reality Driving Video Game [video]
On features and tiny computers
Oracle Whitepaper: The Department of Defense and Open Source Software
Microsoft Recommends You Use a Third-Party Antivirus
What's the law for someone always mentioning Betteridge's law of headlines when a headline is posed as a question on Hacker News?
Is this just a closed-source ripo^H^H^H^H fork of Three.js?

The example shown on famo.us is identical to MrDoob's Three.js example that uses CSS3:

http://www.mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/threejs/css3d/periodict...

Edit: looks like it's the other way around -- according to MrDoob's G+ post from last year, he based his Three.js CSS3 example directly on the design created by famo.us:
https://plus.google.com/113862800338869870683/posts/QcFk5HrW...
Well, if you have a product, you also need some form of advertising to let people know your offer.

Sad thing is of course, that modern advertisement is based on subconscious influence to make the product part of your lifestyle instead of presenting you a balanced presentation of the benefits and drawbacks.

Shameless plug: I released a desktop app for project tracking in the Ubuntu Software Center a few days ago as side project. Here is a non-subconscious manipulating presentation about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA_KckRueLQ

Note: the initial package has a dependency issue. A fix is in review.
Thanks for the feedbacks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I take note.

rdubigny
> The Mirra has recently been commandeered by my SO, so I bought a used Aeron for $200 to replace it. Not nearly as good for my frame. Ill probably replace the Aeron with a Mirra 2.

Miller isn't the only one making nice chairs, have you considered e.g. Humanscale's stuff? (spoiler alert: I've used a Liberty for the last 6 or 7 years and have been very happy with it, my only kind-of complaint being the gel seating which is comfortable but gets too warm/humid in hot summer, but their most recent chairs have mesh seating as well as back)
If you actually would like to stay in a place, perhaps it would be good if that place actually functioned? Berlin with its brilliant handling of its airport (delayed), public transport (broken), water supply (to be bought back) and famously brilliant decision making in all things concerning finance[1], pretty much doesn't. Berlin is the state with the second highest debt of all German states, just behind the notoriously broke Bremen. Another reason is Soziale Marktwirtschaft, which, actually thinks that exactly that is one of the functions of economic wealth[2].

[1]: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/bundeslaender-rank... (2011 data)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy
I quit OSS
I'm pretty sure it's actually one of these guys:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts#Apoll...
It has a USB 3.0 port, and 70MB/s cards/sticks are around.

Not sure if that's fast enough, but at least it's better than the typical 20MB/s for USB 2.0.
This should actually help you - the less developers support IE, easier will be to find reasons for the switch.
Thing is their IdeaPad Yoga isn't an X220 replacement. X220 offers two full-speed cores (2x3.2 GHz) with higher TDP, 16GByte RAM, ExpressCard 54 slot, optional WWAN, matte display, TrackPoint, ThinkVantage system update, replaceable batteries up to 95Wh, yada yada yada.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the X240 to not become an Ultrabook. So far it looks like a downgrade, or at most like Lenovo managed to put in FullHD over a course of two years.
I'm curious, was this in Linux per chance.

I was looking into embedding lua in a kernel module in Linux, just to hack around with stuff.

How did you strip out the stuff that means it won't compile for kernel space?
>The problem is that there is no proof that the Mittelstand model can work for tech startups, while there is proof that the SV model can.

To me it seems pretty obviously that one is the antithesis of the other. Mittelstand seem to work well in established markets with a sensible good quality product or in niche markets where they could often be the only manufacturers worldwide. It does not strike me as the kind of enterprise that aims to grow fast and disrupt markets.

Besides, there is already Middelstand tech businesses. They are the software houses that write niche B2B software like time table schedulers for schools and such.
Do German tech companies not participate in the much vaunted Apprenticeship system?

In the UK we normally think of Germany as having very good technical education that puts us to shame - for some reason does this not work in IT?
|"I feel like we're working with a car that has a lawn mower for an engine"

Metaphors are powerful.
Is there a performance problem with losing proprietary GPU drivers?

Keeping them seems one benefit to dual OS (reusing the Chrome kernel). It's nice to be able to watch HD video without hiccups.
Thank you for cheerful feedback!

The app is developped for Cozycloud which is a personal platform as a service (= the app is independent from the platform). It has been written with an ODM (JugglingDB) so you can switch the data layer at your will.
Also, this is a single page app meaning the server is only a REST API Backbone (and everything allowed to) can access.

For the "skinnable" part, we didn't have time to bring those features but it is something I would love to see!

On a side note, we, at Cozy, have developed a photo management app (https://github.com/mycozycloud/cozy-photos/, demo: https://demo.cozycloud.cc/#apps/photos/) if it can help you in any way! Or maybe you'll like it and contribute to it ;)
Now, if only I could Square my BTC into somebody's fiat account without friction...
direct link to the whitepaper: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/cloud-app-found...

Oracle argues that open source for military applications would be 1) more expensive and 2) less reliable than commercial software. The whole paper is a rehash of an old oracle whitepaper from 2009 [1]. Ironically both points are refuted by the DoDs own FAQ on Open Source Software [2]. It's noteworthy too, that the DoD has long years of experience using open source software and has published its take away lessons [3].

So what's the reason for Oracle to rehash its old FUD right now and picking a target that obviously knows better?

[1] http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/046045.pdf

[2] http://dodcio.defense.gov/OpenSourceSoftwareFAQ.aspx

[3] http://dodcio.defense.gov/Portals/0/Documents/FOSS/OTD-lesso...
I assume the point is that countries don't want to break with "The Internet", just "The American Internet".
> Welcome to famo.us

> a javascript engine and framework that solves HTML5 performance

And doesn't work in Firefox. Aweso.me!
No, it's not released.

The release is imminent. Ubuntu is developed in the open, so you get to see candidate release images on the page linked.

Ubuntu is not released until the release is announced. If you're in doubt, expect to see an announcement on the ubuntu-announce mailing list, or its archive at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/

Also see #ubuntu-release-party on Freenode. At the moment, the topic says "... No, it's not out yet | No, we don't have a set time for release"

(written as of Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:55:59 +0000; obviously this post will become incorrect as soon as it actually is released)
They don't. The German apprenticeship system[1] requires formal certification and a coordination with Berufsschulen (trade schools). This would require a far longer existence and half-life than most startups have.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprenticeship#Germany
True, but this is not black-and-white, but a matter of degree. Erlang processes also share memory: ETS. A crashed process could well leave an ETS table in an applicatively illegal state. So isolation is a scale. With Quasar we try to tip the scale closer to Erlang's isolation levels, but, as I've said, shared data structures could be extremely useful, too.

If fault-tolerance is your most important requirement, that far exceeds in its importance any other requirement, then by all means use BEAM. It was designed for precisely that kind of application.

If, however, fault-tolerance is just one of several important requirements, then the JVM will be the better choice in many circumstances.
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.mic...
There aren't many other world governments that yield the same kind of international power on the Internet. You might have a point about governments in general, but I think the situation actually gets better if no single government can wiretap on such a large scale.

That being said, the tone of your comment makes me think you are not interested in an argument, but rather just want to deflect attention away from what the USG is doing. Because everybody is doing it, right?
Now that's depressing.
Asking The Beautiful Actress Nina Dobrev to the Marine Corps Ball in Vegas
Can't open the article right now, but here is one question I have that might fit: hasn't Sillicon Valley actually started in the middle of nowhere? These days the saying is to go there because that is where the investors with the money are. But the money is there now because some people succeeded with their factories built in the countryside?

Here in Germany there are also quite a few towns that are built around one big company, for example Wolfsburg for VW.

No doubt Berlin is attractive at the moment, but the things that make it attractive are quickly disappearing - cheap cost of living, lots of empty buildings, lots of diverse culture.

I for one don't look forward to the living conditions of the valley, where people have to share rooms at extremely high costs just to be able to be there. It seems very ironic that while it is presumably one of the richest places on earth, the valley sounds like a horrible place to live in.
Not really. If one cooler breaks, the card shuts off on its own.
Vaporware. This stuff was announced years ago, we saw only one basic demo , they raised quite a lot of money though, yet there is no product today. What did they do with the money?

Mr Doobs did the same demo, even better since he used the framework he created ,three.js :

- http://www.mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/threejs/css3d/periodict...
Stop Turning into a Phishing Victim
Genuine questions:

* If it really is that lucrative (I do believe the figures he mentions) then why isn't everyone doing it?

* Who tips a guy in a costume $100 for a photo?
Hi everyone. We are developing (http://eyevel.com) an app that allows you to "travel without moving" :)
Although you can't compare it with the real experience, imagine if he had been wearing google glasses, would you have liked to at least see / live /experience through the web some of the key moments of his journey?
IMessage Privacy
http://blog.quarkslab.com/imessage-privacy.html
Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending Crypto and Cryptology Conferences
Why Do Stores Give Receipts?
My assumption is that the author doesn't believe much in trickle-down economics. His last statement is particularly telling:

Let me finish with a question: what do you think who
employs more people? A company like Facebook with a world-
renown brand that is worth about $100 Billion on the stock
market or a hundred companies that most people have never
heard of which are each worth a billion people?

The reality is that Germany's Mittelstand is full of SME's doing well for the themselves and employing lots of people. They have built themselves up using a very traditional model:

1. Idea

2. Borrow money from the bank

3. Employ people

4. Build products/services

5. Sell products/services

6. Profit

7. Re-invest and repeat from [3].

8. After 20 years of repeating - sell company, take-over, child inherits

Failure in this instance is often catastrophic to the founder.

I also think that there are a number of SaaS startups that are simply SME's and use the label "start-up" in order to try and get target investment from the VC daisy chain. Their model is often aimed at short cutting and gambling without risk to themselves:

1. Idea

2. Borrow money from investors

3. Build products/services

4. Sell products/services

5. Repeat from [2]

6. After 10 years of repeating - fail, acqui-hire, sell (and integrate) or IPO

Failure in this instance is often a learning experience to take into the next start-up venture.

One notable point that the author doesn't mention is the German adversity to risk. The average Germans doesn't take massive risks. The start-up model holds massive risks to investors, but or course the returns for success are equally huge. Germans would prefer a guaranteed 1.5% return per year to a risky 1000%. That isn't likely to change in the near future.
Well... No, if you're a proponent of the micro-kernel design.
Actually, it is not always necessary to write a lot of boilerplate code when using a SQL database. For example, with Pony ORM the same SQL query could be written as following:

select(p.name for p in pokemon
if "Hydro Pump" in p.learn_moves.move.en_name
).order_by("p.sp_atk").first()
public transport isn't that broken, I get around quite well. The water supply things seems to be mainly a battle of ideologies, again my water supply works fine atm.
Presumably the tech companies will at least pay taxes and alleviate the debt. I am no specialist on that subject, but I suspect it also comes from the unique history of Berlin, not (just) financial incompetence. Problem for a long time has been that Berlin is very big, yet has no big industries.

Actually I often wonder what all the people here do for a living. I guess the main employer is the government now.
The public transport certainly has its problems, but overall it works rather well and is far from being broken.
* If it really is that lucrative (I do believe the figures he mentions) then why isn't everyone doing it?

Yup! I suppose you wouldn't typically expect someone in a costume to be making that much.

* Who tips a guy in a costume $100 for a photo?

People on a business trip, also some people from the middle east.
Not a good idea if anybody is thinking of doing this. I actually lost my Canadian Passport once, and they take it quite seriously. Canadian Passport renewals are quite simple and painless, but not for me. I have to go to the office and fill out special forms, I can't get a 10 year Passport like other people can, etc. etc.
Highspeed HTML5 rendering for everyone.
Isn't there some kind of regulation for that? Where I used to live there were only a fixed amount of street performers allowed, and licenses were given out on a daily basis very early in the morning (or so I have heard).
Agree, this is probably premature. However the homepage does advertise 13.10 so it's probably imminent:

> Ubuntu Server 13.10 with OpenStack Havana, are you ready?
Adi Shamir wrote that the president of his institute says:

"It is clear that scientists have been singled out, since I hear that other ‘simple citizen’, do get their visa in a short time."

Scientists get more scrutiny? What in the world is going on there?
Are you serious? it's is short for it is and not the possesive pronoun.
Why is that? has the chamber of commerce which appears to be in charge not been doing It's job and defining an apprenticeships for IT or where they to concerned with traditional engineering?

Why are not larger companies in Germany not training IT apprentices.

A start up almost by definition requires more experienced workers.
I've ... never heard that.

> it could be bad timing for Amazon and it's new Kindle Fire HDX tablet

Is it valid here? If so, why? I've always been taught that "it's" was only a valid contraction of "it is" or rarely "it has", neither of which fit here.
Mostly missless memory in the Mill CPU (talk 3)
And you can find the talk over here:
http://ee380.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/videologger.php?target=131...
Ah, that's very true. Good point!