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The price comparison seems somewhat dependent on use-case and which part of the pricing tier you're at.

RAM: DO gives 2x as much RAM at each price point

CPU: Unclear. Linode gives you 8 cores across the board, but fewer "priority" ones. Probably needs benchmarking to be a sensible comparison.

Disk: Linode gives between 1.2x and 2.4x as much storage at each price point

Transfer: DO gives more transfer at the low end, but Linode ramps it up faster. DO gives more transfer at $20, they tie at $40, and Linode gives more at $80+.

I agree with the author that Digital Ocean is generally cheaper for my use-cases as well, but there are some where it isn't. For example, if you want 8GB RAM + 16TB transfer (to pick a configuration favorable to Linode), that's $160/mo at Linode but $300/mo at DO. On the other hand, if you need more transfer only occasionally, DO can be cheaper because it somewhat makes up for less included bandwidth with much cheaper overage rates ($20/TB vs. $100/TB at Linode).
Right, so the relevant point is what "seeking a license" actually entails. RCN works in neighboring Somerville and FIOS is all over greater Boston. Cambridge is a bit less dense than Somerville but generally more affluent, so there's no good reason that RCN wouldn't expand into it. It simply doesn't make sense to say that all these companies aren't interested; otherwise why would they have approached the council in the first place? What would it even mean for them to have sought a license and then decide it's "not currently part of their business plan"? There's nothing particularly special about Cambridge, but for a city its size and with its access to the backbone, there's a very odd lack of choice.

I think a key to the issue is:

> City officials stand ready to negotiate with any willing operator

What are we negotiating over, and what does the CCC require these operators to do to get a license? What does "willing" actually mean? It's not clear, because if they want to set up a network and Cambridge wants them to set up a network, there's nothing to negotiate over. Yes, there are some costs involved in digging up the street, but if they work in other cities, they should work in Cambridge. AFAIK, the details of the Comcast plan are shamefully non-public (at least, I've never seen them), but I think the obvious conclusion is that the council is making unreasonable demands on the ISPs, counter to their citizen's best interests.

This they're-just-not-interested line the CCC is selling simply makes no sense. And until the council is willing to share what their actual demands are and the details of their deal with Comcast, I'll continue to assume the worst.
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Is it though? If I made changes that broke something surely I would want to know everything that broke rather than just the first test in an arbitrarily ordered set of tests!

Though I like your style, very simple, and simple is good. The state is binary, tests are passing or they are not. Unfortunately in this particular reality the added complexity of knowing all broken tests can prove very useful.
I didn't go to college but several decades of paying utility bills tells me that flat rate is preferable.
That's a fair reason, actually. I had a Newark Linode and now have a handful of NYC droplets and I'm not running any gaming servers so location didn't really matter at all to me.
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Looking at another 4K monitor in the Apple Store (http://store.apple.com/us/product/HD971LL/A/sharp-32-pn-k321...), doesn't look like it:

"Note that 4K DisplayPort operation is only compatible with the new Mac Pro (Late 2013).
4K HDMI operation is compatible with MacBook Pro (Late 2013) and the new Mac Pro (Late 2013). HDMI input is not available in the European-market Sharp PN-K321."
Note: according to the article the monitor is actually UHDTV (3840x2160), not 4K (4096x2160). Content encoded at 4K will need to be either cropped or scaled down, similar to 1080p content shown on a 1240x1024 monitor.
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Digital Ocean bills hourly assuming 28-day months (so, [price per month / 672] per hour) and caps at the monthly rate. There's no circumstance under which you're paying more than the advertised monthly rate. You just get 2-3 "free" days in most months.
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Out of curiosity, could tech screenings via phone/skype have helped in avoiding that situation? (Or perhaps they have already not helped?)
Ahh, name calling. I seem to remember calling my brother names a lot when I was a child...
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> The argument for this law is not grounded in any religious objection, as I understand it

Wow. This is monumentally dishonest, especially given how the law came to be and how it's been applied.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/when-did-islamop...

> but rather in the fact that face coverings make identification difficult

A poor reason to assault someone's culture and religion. Rather Big Brotherish, in fact.

> and do not fit in with the expected norms for social interaction in that country.

Back in the day, allowing blacks and whites into the same schools didn't fit in with the expected norms for social interaction in the USA. We got over it.

> France also has a ban on the display of religious symbols in public schools.

This I don't have a huge problem with, even though it seems a bit over-broad. Does it also prohibit people from wearing cross necklaces, for example? How about if someone had put ashes on their face for Ash Wednesday?
Knowing that a change broke a specific set of tests tells you a lot more than knowing it broke the first one of them that happened to run.

If I'm using fuzzing to run thousands of tests, and all the ones whose seed led to the same specific bit pattern are failing, that's particularly useful information. I found a particularly subtle bug in heatshrink (https://github.com/atomicobject/heatshrink) that way, but a single failing test would have looked like noise.
Honest question but what are some examples of what you're looking for. I get the question but I'm not sure I can be certain what qualifies as a good answer.

FWIW, I'm not hiring, I'm just curious.
Try and take a sequence of ~20 photos (you can see how many photos were taken by counting the dots after you hit `m`), and stitch those into a smooth video to simulate this effect.

The smooth transitioning between the stills is the tech here.
Context: I've known of RSS and Atom for over a decade, but come to find its utility relatively recently. With a few specific tools, I'm finding it amazingly useful, particularly as I've found that my limited use of several social sites was largely as glorified RSS readers -- a job they were not, in fact, particularly good at, due to the poor content discrimination they offered. Better to go straight to the source.

In particular:

⚫ SlickRSS is an in-browser RSS/Atom reader for Chrome. If you prefer not having your list in the Cloud, it's a good way to manage and access feeds: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/slick-rss/ealjoljn...

⚫ newsbeuter is a console-mode interactive RSS/Atom reader. This is actually my preferred tool for general use as its keyboard navigation makes cutting through feeds lightning fast: http://newsbeuter.org/

⚫ rsstail and multitail are two utilities by Folkert van Heusden which allow you to tail one or more RSS/Atom feeds (or other processes and/or files in the case of multitail) from the commandline. It's effectively a stream in your shell.

So with multitail and rsstail, you can easily create an impromptu and transitory feed monitor of something of interest -- say, the StackExchange question you just asked, even if you're not logged in to SE to monitor it (you can similarly monitor reddit users, subreddits, or posts, and numerous other sites, though major "social" sites seem to be sadly lacking in RSS export support).

A further extension is to use multitail to watch all of your newsbeuter (or other) feeds. I detail more on this here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1udv6i/further_...
I doubt. I would like to go through the release notes.
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I thought BSG's treatment of insurgency and torture—especially given that it was contemporaneous with the second Iraq War—was very well done.
Let's take that rooftop box example. Would this operate better if it weren't on any 802.11 frequency, but another with less noise... a point-to-multipoint box which can communicate with a proprietary gateway in each domicile (or open source device design for enthusiasts), which could also provide routing?
That's very true. All of my sites/apps are relatively low-traffic so I was only really thinking about the bottom couple of tiers. Also, I write primarily in Rails and Node with Passenger so RAM is more important to me than other specs.
Even a brand-new Macbook would be unable to power this display. All currently sold Macbooks can only power displays up to 2560 by 1600; the Macbook Air can power one external display at this resolution, and the Macbook Pro can power two. (Edit: The iMac can also only power one additional display at the same resolution.)

If you want to use a Mac with a 4K display, consider getting a Mac Pro, which can power up to three of them.
Linode may give more storage capacity, but DO's disks are all SSDs - so you get a much higher throughput, which can be as/more important.
While I agree the term is being used wrong and UHD would be better, I don't think enough people would be confused as the term 4k is being used almost exclusively for UHD at the minute.

So I think your comment would be better phrased as a complaint against misuse of the term rather than as a note of explanation is what I'm trying to say.

Apologies if there are a large number of people who would be confused and this is a useful note though.
No, TV makers, 4K and UHD are not the same thing
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Congratulations on the 2nd place finish! Robotics is an area that's growing quickly with a lot of hard software engineering problems to tackle. It's also home to some great open source projects (OpenCV, PCL, ROS, to name a few). I think we're going to see more robotics firms looking to industry rather than academia for hiring, technology, and process (as you mention) as the field matures. I know that's the case at Bot & Dolly, where I work; at the moment we're looking for engineers with significant C++ and 3D/UI experience more than robotics expertise (www.botndolly.com/jobs). I can't emphasize enough how far these jobs are from cranking out web application features -- we're really at the cusp of something big at the physical/digital divide, and there's a ton of room for talented developers to contribute. Please get in touch with any questions.
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The marketing droids won, you'll just have to get over it. Even the $3,600 Sharp monitor Apple sells that's labeled "4K" has the same resolution:

With its 32-inch class (31.5-inch diagonal) screen size, 3840 by 2160 Ultra-HD resolution...

http://store.apple.com/us/product/HD971LL/A/sharp-32-pn-k321...

You and I can be bitter about it all we want, but there's no point.
I don't think you are thinking this through all the way. You are optimizing the transaction (hiring / taking a new job) rather than the process (a long, mutually beneficial relationship).

First, As an individual evaluating opportunities, how much more likely are you to learn if there is a not a good fit and therefore avoid months in a sub optimal job?

Second, the concept of a company still being at 99% or 100% productivity doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If you leave a job, the company is at 0% productivity for that specific job you were filling.

Third, based on the comments, this will push certain people away from Automattic (e.g. "I don't do anything for free") and into the hands of the competitors. Automattic gets a double win: lower probability of hiring people who aren't willing to put in effort to find a good long term fit and they raise the probability that their competitor does. Awesome for Automattic and for the entire team, who gets to work with higher caliber people.

Finally, from a behavioral psych perspective this has some similarities the Zappos "pay you to leave us" approach. When someone goes through the effort to get the job, they are more likely to stick around AND feel happy about it. It's just human nature. Google "The Ikea Effect" for another example.
Thanks for sharing. Even i believed they were the same. Now i know where to put my money.
One can distrust without being so overt about it. If I get that vibe from a potential employer, I walk out. It shows that not only do they not trust me but they either a) also don't trust their own natural vetting ability/competency and/or b) are just assholes.

Why not at least give the appearance of trusting while still making internal judgements and while holding some sort of casual conversation about technical topics with the candidate?
Damn. At least it's 1920 times 2.
It's sort of like how only software engineers care about GB vs GiB. The average consumer will not care about some cropping here and there, but someone working with graphics or video will. And I suspect that anyone looking to drop nearly a thousand dollars on a monitor is going to care deeply about its actual specs (ie "can this monitor render my project at native resolution?").
Compliance, a million times yes.
Oof, I know that song and dance. I was swapping to a new VPS twice a year after chasing deals on WHT.

I ended up at DO on a recommendation and have been happy since. The Linode stuff was recommended as well, but if I'm being honest it intimidated me (not as much as Rackspace/AWS). I learned a lot from those experiences and would feel better on a lot of other servers now...but the biggest thing I learned is at the very least find a company that a lot of people are talking about, as that means you won't be a lone voice trying to get support 3 days later.
I'm not sure you disagree with me. I'm not saying the abuses are new. I'm saying that those abuses happened in the context of trying to, for instance, suppress large-scale domestic insurgency in the context of a cold war against a state-level foe that specialized in generating domestic insurgencies.

Compared to that, you have a "group" so paltry that every couple years the FBI has to convince a mentally unstable guy to "join al qaeda" so he can be busted. Yet, the level of pants-wetting insecurity seems to be much higher.
We're logging into 700+ banks and bill providers already (right now its just two of us and I am the only engineer) and we've only been working at it for four months.

We're building the most advance financial data API on the market and we've got ideas that go well beyond traditional scraping.

Though we're starting with a kind of "Twilio for finance" our long term goal is actually much different and I'm happy to share that with you if you want to drop me an email(its in my profile).

But lets suffice it to say you won't be building basic CRUD apps. We believe in automating tasks to our core and if our plans go as expected we'll be competing against companies that have hundreds or even thousands of engineers but building a company that I think can scale to the same revenue levels with less than 100.

We're a startup and we're very early stage (Pre-seed) but we've already turned down a $4MM acquisition offer and we're in this for the long haul.

To be clear the question we set out to answer when we started this was "If Google built intuit today, where would they start?"

I think we're off to a pretty good start and would love to chat further if that interests you at all
Yeah, phone screens help a lot. But people can still sound convincing enough on the phone for half an hour without being a good programmer, so that's just another filter layer before an on-site interview.
This is not really an American problem. In nearly all developed countries the delivered broadband "moore's law" has been abysmal compared to what technology allows.

In an apartment building the cost of per apartment gigabit ethernet with a couple of trunked 10 gig ports for last mile would be very very low.

(And we'd have much faster tech for same money, but development stalled due to lack of deployment - 10 gig ethernet is what 12 years old now?)
This is incorrect. There's no reason to assume that the stranger will say, "at least one of them is a girl" only in the case of GG.

In the case of BB, the stranger will always say, "At least one is a boy." Given GB or BG, they have even odds of saying "at least one is a boy" vs "at least one is a girl." Given GG, the stranger will always say, "At least one is a girl." The correct diagram would be this: http://abughrai.be/pics/boy_probability.png

For the probabilities in that post to apply, the stranger would say, "I have two children." Then you ask, "Is at least one of them a boy?" and they answer, "Yes."

Edit: Of course, the answer to, "Given there are two siblings and one is a boy, what are the chances both are boys?" is 1/3. But the phrasing of the puzzle does not reflect that question.
None of those quotes are derogatory toward Feynman, and I don't see how Wolfram being pleased by Feynman liking his idea says anything about Wolframs ego. In fact, this was very modest for Wolfram standards, and a much more interesting and cultured homage to a friend, than the ones by Susskind or Gell-Mann:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpjwotips7E

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

I must say I in general don't understand the hate a lot of people have for Wolfram, he clearly is a bit narcissistic, but what he writes and says is always otherwise genuinely interesting, even if not as earth shattering as he would like. Certainly his work is not cargo cult science, he did genuinely advance the research in cellular automata, and he even did some lasting minor contribution to physics in his early days:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram#Particle_physic...
This article claims the hardware in the latest macbooks can support it, but the current osx drivers max out at 30hz: http://9to5mac.com/2013/12/23/new-retina-macbook-pros-can-dr...
I've hosted about 5 wordpress sites with DO -- I found that their own support is great for more technical issues regarding their part of the back-end. The IRC channel is filled with great people who are willing to help out. Without that channel, I'd say that their support is lacking.
Oh wow. I was doing a transfer of some sites and at the same time looking for a good + affordable DNS service and went with http://freedns.afraid.org/. Seeing that I can get even better service for under $2/month at DNSMadeEasy makes for a compelling proposition.
Does this monitor have a built-in scaler, or do you get a small picture if you run at less than the full native resolution? I saw some earlier articles complaining about the lack of a scaler on some of the new "4k" monitors, but I couldn't find anything right now about this one.
In short, Stephen Wolfram is basically the Kanye West of science.
Why barista? Just work a programming job: more pay at less effort. And you can still do open source in your own free time.
"The capitalization seems like a really minor issue, easily fixed, and ultimately not that big a deal, but that's Hacker News for you."

If you're going to ask a bunch of people edit your work for free, then they have the right to criticize however they please. I'd love to read it but putting up with the capitalization is more of an annoyance than reading it is worth.
It's really, really interesting to hear someone doing from Pensacola working on robotics. I spent several years there in my youth. Wish you all the luck.

For anyone looking to move there though, there isn't much to offer. The schools aren't very good. The local university is UWF, University of West Florida. It's a very conservative Christian area. Just want to emphasize VERY. Not a place to raise kids if you want them to have any early advantages in life.

That being said, the city is very family oriented. I was in Boy Scouts for many years there (Troop 610 ftw). Despite the overbearing religious pressure everywhere, I found a livable situation.

The beaches are gorgeous. There's nothing bad to be said about that. Go, visit, just for that experience.

Maybe things have changed since I lived there. Investigate. But my experiences say no, look elsewhere.
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The DO API kind of feels like a hackathon project that never got finished. That said, it's a terrific start and perfectly functional... just not polished.

DO is young but they come from the same team that built other hosting services -- which is why I find it odd that they've made a few of the same mistakes a lot of hosting providers make (re: security). I think we can give them a pass on that too since they're so relatively new.

Linode is great but I definitely see DO winning out over the next few years.

As for the people who work there? I'm sure they're reading this, and I don't mean to offend, but I think a lot of them need to take a look at the way they've handled a few of their recent security issues and the tone their responses have had. It didn't come across as 100% professional to me.

Happy to cite claims on request.
With the way that Linode recently handled the hack which exposed customer CC's and data[1], I would find it hard to have any peace of mind with them.

I don't know if DO would fare any better, and they have issues[2] of their own though.

Evaluating the two, DO makes me less uncomfortable and costs less.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552756
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6983097
Just for reference in Los Angeles, I get a ping of 22ms to my Fremont, CA Linode and 83ms to a New York, NY droplet. That's enough to be a substantial difference for interactive use. Their SF datacenter doesn't seem to be available for new droplet creation as of right now at least...
Hoover's overreaches were one thing, and certainly created their own set of harms.

The level of overreach possible people's entire existence is logged in minute detail via online and electronic services -- your location, contacts, calls, and texts via your phone, your reading via your browser and ISP, emails, purchases, etc., is simply beyond compare in all of history.

The map circulating a few months back comparing the size of the surveillance archives of East Germany's Stasi vs. the NSA, if both were represented as paper files, is hugely telling:

http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/05/stasi-vs-the-u-s-nsa-back-to...
Not sure a lot of the comments here are getting it: nobody (I hope) is really interested if you're using Haskell or Angular to "crank out web application features". That's specifically what he's not asking for. Just because you're cranking out boring stuff in some strange language doesn't make it "solving hard problems". Besides for the problems you're making for yourself on purpose, I guess...
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