skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kimsufi only uses second hand/refurbished desktop hardware, built "in the garage" and installed in low cost datacenters. Imagine a desktop motherboard just sitting on a metal sheet in a rack : that's it.

Online.net only uses branded hardware and server hardware (except the 'SC' product range) : Xeon, ECC, Hardware RAID, ...

I'd say the price/quality ratio is better at Online.net but you just might not need that higher quality if you are running a personnal blog.

Speaking about the support, OVH has been internationnaly selling for much longer than Online.net, it's still quite 'fresh' at Online.net.

About the network, OVH's one is wider and it has a datacenter in Canada, Online.net only has datacenters in France and their network has gone international last summer with many peerings/transits (they used to rely on a French ISP before).
Online.net servers are all gigabit connected. Both network are DDoS protected. OVH has a mandatory SMTP filter which has its pros and cons.
I understand where this perspective is coming from - I could have thought the same thing when I first heard about it - but in this case it's definitely not vapourware.

I have designed, cut, and built foldscopes, and I can confirm that they work incredibly well and are cheap and quick to make.
(I knew the professor involved from my time at MIT, and worked with the group on alternate designs, as I had some previous background in folding of various sorts.)
The Secret Bubble
Seriously. I like the focus on practical productivity but was surprised by the conclusion. "Let's all change from saying agile to saying agility" feels like quibbling over semantics. (Fixed spelling, thanks)
I think most of the educational value is gained from having access to a microscope, not having each child able to build one. A teacher who builds one in class with the kids watching and then selects a useful slide and projects it on a wall will likely get you 95% of the benefit. "Look at this unboiled water vs this boiled water".

I didn't have to build my microscope at school but it was still educational to have access to one. This is primarily for kids that don't have what we had. (At least from an educational perspective - the medical perspective is arguably more important.)
>they're just as detached as this metaphor is.

Except it isn't. You are delusional if you think it is.
I have created accounts to respond to particular comments. It works (worked?) fine.
I prefer to keep things simple.

https://gist.github.com/rahulkmr/9482010

It makes working with teams easier.
Why can't I pay to have legally something like this? I want it!

I'm a Linux only user. What do I have right now? Well, Flash player + outdated DRM technology (HAL is been dead for a while, Adobe don't care) or play with Wine to run software that the vendor won't support in Linux.

And after tackling the outdated DRM issue with flash and paying for a movie stream in Google Play, the best I can get is 480p. Really?

Seriously. Make it happen. Take my money.
Learn CSS layout
PR == pull request?
Scrapy is made for this.
Iron Man Like Robotic Suit Developed In The Laboratory
Somehow this seems much more creepy than Google doing the same with emails.
I see that thread when it has already 1000+ points. So I think that must be fun, and I add my little 1 point.
I don't get why this was written. Linus said something obviously hyperbolic about a language with many generally accepted pitfalls. This author clarifies that it isn't impossible to work with, has some applications and that using it well is better than using it poorly.

What I'm trying to say is: is this just making a general and well-worn case for XML or is there a point relevant to Subsurface? I'm sure I could find a shallow remark made by this author and write 1000 words of qualification around that too. Right now, all I see is someone responding to a statement from a big name for attention.

Is there a argument hidden in there about XML's relative ease to work with compared to other formats, either programatically or as a user? Any points on if XML is the right or wrong choice of tool for subsurface?

The closest thing I see is a throwaway comment about an instance where CSV files also benefit from editors with features supporting more than plain text. And a point about unit type specification irrelevant to the file format.
adam air flight 574 (2007)

Took 9 days to find any wreckage. No distress call, because the crew did not believe they were in an emergency situation.

No great conspiracy, just spatial disorientation, coupled with being in a remote area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Air_Flight_574
> I refuse to ever purchase a used mac

Macs are quite variable in terms of good models and bad models. This seems to apply to both laptops and desktops. Unfortunately. I also haven't heard of a website or service that has the reliability statistics you want.

You didn't mention Applecare. It is transferable and is for 3 years. So if you buy a 1 y/o machine from a hipster who wants to upgrade, you would be covered for the remaining time.
When I was in the military, we had decades of compiled data to reflect this (from internal and external sources). I will look around the web (much like you can). I do not have access to this data anymore, but I saw the same type of data during my 15 years as a HR specialist. There have been several prominent women who have come out after finishing their terms as CEO, Governor ETC. who said things to the same effect. This is just my personal experience, but when we had new HR staff (new to HR and new to our company) they thought much the same as you. They were surprised to see the data and real world difference. The educational system, govt, and media have been conditioning us to ignore the differences between men and women for so long, many people can no longer see the obvious.

This is not popular, but I believe people should know when they are being brainwashed.
Because it's cool.

One day someone will turn lead into gold. There will never be a "good" reason to do that, but the history behind it is sufficient. There's nothing wrong with taking some pride in accomplishing something you've always wanted to do.

The idea that someone somewhere should pick a goal and then all the resources anyone could conceivably spare must be devoted to it, on pain of a designation of "immoral", is a little more disturbing to me.
There is so much private liquidity that "IPO" is nearly irrelevant to the conversation, tho. Public liquidity pools were considered the touchstone before the advent of hedgefunds. Alot has changed since 1999 in this regards.
or iPad. In that situation, a DNS-based proxy or VPN-connected router are your only options.

There's a third option if you're using an iPad: the built-in PPTP/L2TP/IPSec client or the official OpenVPN client. Your point still stands for the Apple TV.
> Reading the abstract, it is interesting that the gender of the manager do not effect the bias.

I don't think it was that interesting. There often seems to be an implicit assumption when these things come up that people can't or are less likely to be sexist against their own gender, but these kinds of assumptions are seldom given any good arguments. Maybe it has to do with viewing gender issues as a men-against-women, as if these two groups are united teams that uniformly benefit from either team "winning", without regard for their background (social class, race, culture etc.). I don't think that's the case. Nonetheless, in this case, it seems to be a subconscious bias that doesn't serve the employer.

Maybe some decades ago, male managers were likely to be sexist to women. But maybe that had more to do with the fact that most managers were men, rather than that women wouldn't also be sexist against other women in the same scenario.
When Steam is just easier.

Even Origin is easier.

Netflix is easier.
TradeGecko, Singapore (http://tradegecko.com/)

TradeGecko is a venture-backed growth-stage startup in Singapore. We are an international team of 20 people working on a global market. Our product is an inventory management solution for e-commerce players and wholesalers, and our business model is a subscription-based SaaS.

We are eager to skyrocket our growth, therefore we are looking for an experienced marketeer that is a geek at heart, someone that can perfectly combine creativity with love for data.

While the current Marketing, Sales and Support teams focus on getting us to a stable growth of xx% from month to month, your role would be to multiply the growth rate through tweaks and twists that can make a huge difference.

Your primary focus will be customer acquisition, with secondary focus on retention and referral.

You should:

- research, develop and execute customer acquisition techniques beyond our Content Marketing
- constantly improve our search engine optimization for the front site and help the Content Marketeers have better SEO on their work
- find techniques to improve the CTR on our email campaigns
run experiments and improve our conversion rate on the front site
- update the landing pages on our front site
- collaborate with the Product team to trigger network effects
- explore in-depth our analytics tools for finding growth hacking potential and fixing underperformance

We require this position to be based at our HQ in Singapore. We will provide support with visa and moving arrangements, if necessary.

REQUIREMENTS

The ideal candidate is ambitious, data-driven and creative. A person who is T-shaped (main expertise in marketing and all its fields, with additional knowledge in psychology and web development).

A results-oriented person “whose true north is growth” and can help us boost our user acquisition and conversion rate, and keep our churn as low as possible through scalable, repeatable and low-cost methods.

You should have:

- interest in learning about customers behavior through both numbers and qualitative data
- advanced knowledge and experience in search engine optimization
- expertise in handling analytics tools to drive useful insights
- passion for A/B testing and conversion rate optimization
good web development knowledge to fully customize a Wordpress website and its landing pages
- creativity to achieve better CTR through email campaigns
- curiosity to know the product in-depth
- knowledge of virality in b2b
- portfolio of 20 favorite growth hacking documented techniques used by other b2b saas startups
- experience working in tech startups
- portfolio of innovative digital marketing techniques that led to a minimum 3x growth with low-costs for other startups or projects

BENEFITS

- competitive compensation
- great work environment with a young multi-cultural team
- working with a product current customers love
- working in a post product-market fit startup

Apply here: http://tradegecko.workable.com/jobs/6186
Well in any case, check my account age before accusing me of creating an account to post on a thread weeks in the future.
The War is Performance Not Results
This article was posted by a HN account which is three hours old and seems only to have been created for this sole purpose. Fishy.

Further, the author claims to have contacted a specific person at NTSB by e-mail, and this person even dared to reply.

Aside: Guys, it's 2014, 13 years after 9/11. An unidentified aircraft passing over Chinese airspace for hours - withouth being intercepted? I'd consider Chinese Air Force a joke if this really happened.
These tests are amusing, but I wouldn't put too much weight onto them.

I randomly picked one about attitudes towards homosexuality. Then it showed I associated some negative things with that (like "homosexuals are more often depressed" or whatever). It was not clear to me that this indicates negative attitudes on my part. Rather, I have read a lot about homosexuals having problems, so when the test presented me with such issues, of course I thought about them. That doesn't imply I think every homosexual is depressed (or whatever).

Not saying the tests are not interesting, but I think they are biased in their interpretation. They don't necessarily show what the test designers think they show.
Small typo:

The link to Clojure points to "http://cjohansen.no/clojure.org" instead of "http://clojure.org".
I am from India and I gladly pay for Amazon ebooks, Audible audiobooks, iTunes music, movies and apps. I am not even rich - there are many of us from less affluent countries that understand that content creators should get their compensation. More than anything else, I want to reward these companies for making content accessible to me (no physical bookstore will come to a small city and open a branch).

I lead a fairly contented life in my small corner of the world and there are probably two things that angers me equally. One is the way affluent countries treat me when I want a visa to visit or transit through them and second is the message on Amazon that a particular ebook is not available to me because of my geographical region. I only resort to searching online for a pirated ebook or converting youtube music to mp3 after I have exhausted all options of finding the content on a legit online store.
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Sure, all other things being equal free is better than expensive. But it's not a big factor. I don't pirate books any more because the kindle experience is better by enough to be worth paying for.
:) thanks for clarifying..

And assuming one wants to express the problem in terms of objects, then the slight overhead might be worth being able to pass bound functions around, "without thinking about it"
You're right that good ideas like eco and also agile follow that growth curve. After a while the original idea and intention is partly lost on the way to economy and marketing. I observed that in the organic movement around 2000 as well. It is never totally lost, the impulse improved reality, but we need new ideas, new movements to hold spirit, values and ideas high. I don't know what you think about our impulse wholeheartedmanifesto.org which we started this February. Let's focus on the doing and on being authentic.. that's what counts. Thanks for your blog. Christine
You are right, I forgot this infamy as well !
@cardmagic, let us know how much viewcount you had end the end of the day to crash the DB.
How much do you think you can make from someone who has no money to spend on such content?
Fuck them, right?
In which the author gets really excited about idioms in Clojure that don't seem that exciting.
Wrote a script which plays using a simple greedy approach. Chooses the current best option. Doesn't seem to get past 512 so far. It does however consistently get till 256. Just copy the code in the console and restart the game (space bar) to run.

Does anybody have a better approach? Other than randomize and trying your luck? Or maybe that is the best algorithm for this case..

https://gist.github.com/AeonAxan/9482114
With those speeds you might want to try forcing bandwidth, if you haven't already.

ctrl-alt-shift-S brings up a bandwidth selection in the Netflix player.
Shouldn't somebody at time.com be charged with crime for posting a link to an infringing site? ;)
What's the difference between a Ninja Programmer, Rockstar Developer and a Code Monkey?
"And any decent IDE should show the deduced type for an auto variable on demand."

Eh... That can only be done by compiling the code in the background, while you're typing. Which is possible, of course, but it sets a very high barrier for tools. It will mean that only the top-3 of IDE's will provide this functionality, and even then, it will take them years to get it working well.
That is piracy. You're not following the conditions of the licence of the copyrighted material, nor your contract with netflix. That's just as much piracy as torrenting everything.

Worse: if the purpose of the VPN is explicitly to lie about fulfilling your end of the contract (and you state here that you do use it for that), it could in the worst case be considered fraud. If you enable the VPN outside of the country because you can't watch netflix otherwise, that's definitely fraud (whether or not you actually read the contract with netflix).

Also note that neither of these facts need to be proven beyond reasonable doubt, as this is not criminal law, the judge merely needs to believe it to be true.
Some astonishing truths about “job hopping”, and why the stigma is evil.
Sure, but by the time I've walked to the store the torrent would already be done. And I'd still have to break the law to rip the DVD.
Communication. People think that software is a coding problem, but for anything non-trivial, communication is a far bigger bottleneck. The amount of code on a project is O(n) with number of developers, but the amount of communication required is O(n^2). Anything that makes coding cheaper at the expense of making communication less efficient becomes a net loss at scale.

This is why engineers who can communicate effectively make several times more money than engineers who can't.
Isn't this just a flavour of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spintronics ?
Well said. A friend of mine is another company are supposedly moving to "Agile". Their approach is to have whole day meetings to discuss how it will work! Three months later they're still planning how their Agile, Scrum based thing will work. The conferences, the consultancies, the big companies, etc. really have destroyed the essence of the Agile manifesto in many ways.
Advice for dealing with "tab Hell" in your browser. 
So, I've got like 50 tabs open in 4 windows in Chrome. It's become a standard thing for me. How do I manage this better? I'm going down the path to the dark side here. Kinda sucks. First world problems at their pinnacle!
I'm guessing they're not really going to complain too much.
It would be relative. The ideal is to work somewhere that pays top whack, save, then move to somewhere with lower average incomes. Tricky to do though.
New Booklet – Human Rights and Privatised Law Enforcement
I've thought about learning Clojure but already knowing Haskell I feel that in comparison I wouldn't gain much and then loose some.
With the exception of pregnancy, most of the points you raise are symptoms of inequality rather than causes:

- Women are "less ambitious" because they perceive, often rightly, that their path up the ladder is blocked.

- Women miss more work due to illness and depression because they aren't treated fairly and are put under more pressure to get the rewards their male counterparts get easily.

- Women are less amenable to overtime because men are less amenable to doing housework.

- Women can, and do, cope with "hormone fluctuation" very well. They're quite used to it.

- Attractive women in the workplace are only a distraction to unprofessional, easily distracted men.

Your two final points are plain wrong:

- Men talking dirty in the workplace just shouldn't. Regardless of the (imaginary) sensibilities of women, what about the men who don't like that?

- Men haven't been in charge since the beginning of time. History has had plenty of matriarchal societies.

The simple fact is, any business that doesn't select the best possible candidate regardless of gender, is failing their duty to their shareholders/investors/employees to build a secure, stable, profitable and growing company. If I knew that a company I owned part of was recruiting men over women even when the woman is the better candidate I would call for the CEO to be fired.
Looks good! Are your models procedurally generated or did you create them in an external program?
semantics*

technically that was a syntax quibble though, so the joke doesn't work as well
If the drive has files that you haven't "needed" in over 2 years, do you really want to spend $1500 or more to access them? Must be personal photos or videos?

I'd hate to lose my personal photos. I'm glad that Apple came out with Time Machine, because I now have backup religion; not only time machine backups but offsite CCC backups.
I couldn't find this anywhere: does the client support BitTorrent protocol encryption and does it allow you to specify to download from encrypted peers only?
Nothing's been back-ported to Python 2 in nearly 4 years now. 2.7 came out in July 2010.
Relaunching Both Sides of the Table
That may be true in the USA, in many other countries there are no such things.

The PC industry is in a way better shape. Steam, GOG, ps3 and xbox store. There are way less restrictions based on countries and delays, and almost all games have multilanguage pre-installed so you can play in any language you like.

Downloading/Streaming movies in other countries other than the USA have huge delays, very limited choice, high prices, and most of the time you can't even choose in what language you can see them.
I never really understood this whole rage about agile and some people preaching it like a religion. You can't fit everyone in one frame, people are different. As the matter of fact the better the engineer the more quirks he will have. Some people like to jog, some like to sprint and rest, but if they cover the same distance and reach the finish in the same time, who cares what methodology they use? Even though I probably use quite a few agile ideas I don't call it agile or anything else, I call it development.
Pff. I could care less.
I think they worded it correctly. Notice it doesn't say, "Responding to Change over Making a Plan." Your version is horribly ugly. Theirs is succinct and poetic.
Heck, at the next opportunity (Canadian citizenship) I am going to adopt a legal name so my initials will spell my nick. Retronym at its best :D
The agile principles are fairly solid, as far as principles go. They're people-first and they downplay process and planning. You can't blindly follow a plan, process, or ideal. Think. Communicate. The right thing to do changes in every situation. You can't follow dogma.

But the idea that we should switch to a new word because the old one has been abused makes no sense. Why rally behind a word? Brands and labels only serve to stop people from thinking. They go against the whole idea.

Words become dogma. Hell, even principles become dogma. Trying to distill it down to something that's easy to digest robs it of its value.

The solution isn't a better dogma. It's people who can think. If you don't have the right people, no principle will save you.
Raspberry Pi gets its own sound card
It's scraper (single p).
That's an important point, and one that I suspect is lost on many IP law advocates even around here.
> 'The quality is also higher than pirated content because they have a fantastic encoding off of source material.'

This couldn't be further from the truth. x264 .mkv encodes look significantly better than the iTunes versions.

For example, from Pacific Rim;

x264 - http://imgbox.com/abwySllC
iTunes - http://imgbox.com/adgle3KK

x264 - http://imgbox.com/abm2Jr9l
iTunes - http://imgbox.com/acpmeiCt

The difference is night and day, in my opinion. The homebrew encodes usually come with higher quality audio, too.

Funnily enough, I have a Netflix account, an Amazon Prime account, and a Lovefilm account (UK based DVD/Blu-Ray rental service). Despite having all these services, I still prefer to pirate movies because it's simply more convenient and the quality is better.
I'm really excited that this is now public! Congrats to Manu, Jim, et al.

FYI, a paper with technical details is available here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.1211.pdf
Very nice article. Though, syntax highlighting would really add to readability of the snippets. Good job though.
The aircraft had fuel to fly to destination, divert to an alternate airfield and hold there for 30 minutes as mandated by regulations. If the crew were incapacitated, it would have flown at least to destination on autopilot and maybe to alternate if that had been programmed.

GPS merely updates the inertial (laser ring gyro) solution. Losing GPS would not prevent the autopilot navigating its route and eventually showing up on land based radar.

This article is poorly informed.