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Actually, 25% is the right way to judge this improvement. For example, let's say performance was currently at 99.9% and you improve it to 99.99%. That's not a 0.09% improvement (99.99 - 99.9), but rather a ten-fold improvement (.01% errors vs 0.1% errors).

This has to do with the fact that accuracy/errors are not linear.
Yes, the JCR spec is not easy to implement. But with a mature implementation, you can create your CMS convention driven. Those conventions can be as narrow as you need for a simple CMS. And when you want offer more, you are not limited by the content repository but only by your conventions, which you can widen at any time. I hope, more people will look to JCR as an option, because it solves the content repository problem very well.
“Virtually no evidence” for claim of remote backdoor in Samsung phones
In many countries bank accounts are insured by the government anyway. Usually it's up to a certain max limit like $100k or $250k.
1TB for $10/mo is a big deal for me and I imagine that the 100GB for $2/mo plan is a big deal for the average user.
Yes, keep the trains where you have them. But to reduce car ridership, work on making buses good enough that professionals want to take them to get to work.
I think he means that the statistics do not include IPV6 space other providers use.
The worst is when you're promised "guaranteed 2-day delivery" while ordering, but it is actually shipped via...

FedEx SmartPost

What is FedEx SmartPost, you may ask? FedEx gets it close to you, then the USPS dicks around with it and there's no tracking info. You might actually get it in 2 days, or it might be a week.

It's like fiber optic broadband -- except the last mile is your package is carried by a turtle riding a sociopathic sloth whose sense of direction is impaired by a cocktail of psychoactive substances.
I feel like DO has no competitive advantage. They sell servers but then anyone with a reasonable infrastructure and programmers on payroll can scale the way they have. So while it's an impressive rise, it can't be taken for granted. Because all could falter over night. That's just the nature of the business and industry.
I guess I was assuming it went from 30-Death instead of 30-50. Do the rates start to rise once you reach 50? Or do you have to buy a new plan, because you only buy them in 20 year increments?
Yes! Gblame is fantastic. Xcode also has some pretty good git blame, git log, and version comparison support directly in the editor. I find that kind of thing fantastically useful for understanding why a section of code is the way it is.
Why am I not getting this kind of storage with Google Apps for Business?
How about adding the same numbers but with a negative sign? :-)
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https://github.com/niwibe/djorm-ext-pgjson

There are similar libraries for hstore, arrays etc, They tend to follow the djorm-ext-* pattern.

https://github.com/niwibe/djorm-ext-core

https://github.com/niwibe/djorm-ext-pgarray

https://github.com/niwibe/djorm-ext-pgbytea

https://github.com/niwibe/djorm-ext-expressions
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I've been using smptd for a few years now. I'm glad it's finally deemed good to replace sendmail as the default mailer.
Why can't I use a csv file?

The thing that is most valuable for exploring data for us is pivot tables. Both Excel and LibreOffice are single threaded and take forever once you have a few hundred thousand rows.
It may be related to Intel's drivers, as I am playing Team Fortress 2 on Linux, which is I believe native OpenGL, and it is significantly slower than on Windows with an intel GPU.
Way ahead of you.

http://www.fogbeam.com/contact.html
Interesting 3 way tie for last place between Somalia, North Korea, and Afghanistan.
Let's see if we can get you there. :-)

I gave my one. :-)
Google slashes prices for consumer cloud storage
To all those with $150k+.. what are you thinking?? Having that much liquid seems foolish!
My experience has been that maximizing merges works best. If you're constantly merging, hardly any of your merges have any friction. The longer you're separate from the master branch, the more likely you are to get painful merges with conflicts and subtle bugs.
If the ridership isn't high enough at a period of time, send out a private car for the person requesting a ride.

On non-rush-hours, buses in America often operate almost or completely empty. It would be cheaper to just give taxis to people who need it at that point.
> The above sentence shows that the author -- and most readers -- miss the single most important thing about cohort studies -- which is that they can't distinguish causes from effects.

Even that sentence needs work: They can't distinguish between correlations and causes. And having spent too much time with the medical community lately, I'm not sure they're completely straight on the concepts either.
http://datazenit.com/ is a web based database tool which has data grid, similar to the one found in Excel. You can check screenshots on the homepage.

It's pretty awsome.
We have been discussing this price reduction in the office for the past 15/20min and it seems that we are going to ditch Box (paid business accounts) for Google, not because Google's price reduction is significantly cheaper, but because we have been encountering considerably sync issues with Box. Now both services are, price-wise, the same, Google has won our trust on the sync/availability side of things.
You also have HipChat web public rooms which are awesome. But it can't replace the direct feedback you have with phone.
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A lot of services(slack,hipchat) are nowadays allowing guest-joins; basically it's like IRC, but with only channels(public , private) for your team/customers.
Atom is indeed based off of Chromium.
If by bank account you mean front-pocket, I'd guesstimate like $22 and a button.
I agree with you philosophically but wonder about the practical side of things. Having nearly all my money available through my Visa debit card means that I can make purchases widely and easily. If I didn't keep the money there then I'd have to make transfers/deposits before making purchases. I won't use PayPal as they are also in my "evil" category. So how do you negotiate day to day purchases without hassle?
Article is from November 2013.
compared to
Dropbox: 9.99 per month for 100GB
Box: 5 per month for 100GB (15 per month for 1TB)
and now Google Drive: 1.99 per month for 100GB (9.99 for 1TB)
I'll take FDIC insurance over stupid paranoia any day of the week.

Have fun retiring without 401K/IRA.
For everyone that voted over $150,000, please invite me over to your house so I can stomp on your couch with my muddy boots.

You can always buy another one you rich motherfucker.
You mean something like www.silk.co? Full disclosure - I work there. It turns CSVs into a web-based CSV/DB hybrid. Row = page. Column header = key. Column content = value. Collection = Worksheet. You can link worksheets and pivot the views. Also has basic visualizations - pie, line, bar, table, grid maps.
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What do you mean by no competitive advantage? When they launched, they were selling Linode's offerings with SSD for 1/4 the price.
Is this really meant for just bank accounts (ie. checking+savings)? If so, I don't understand how anyone is answering more than $10,000. Nearly all your assets should be invested, with just enough cash to handle immediate expenses.
I think it is very naive (bordering on denial) to think the the NSA doesn't record the contents of every phone call it can get its hands on, not just meta-data.
http://examine.com/about/ this is why
Dropbox charges 5x for 100GB/month. Assuming Google Drive works, why would people pick Dropbox?
Has any startup with black founders been accepted into Y Combinator?
They might be including their money in the stock market / mutual bonds / etc?
I hate articles that start out with lies. The average tech CEO does not work 11.5 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. There might be a few tech CEOs who work that long, but I am guessing for most of them it isn't a sustainable workload.

I actually think the tips here are fine, but the premise that all successful people in silicon valley work ungodly amounts per week are inaccurate. I know many very successful people who work 40-50 very efficient hours a week.

Also, one last comment...

> Demonstrate the 80/20 rule in everything you do. This means spending 80% of your time on the work that moves the needle, and only 20% on the smaller stuff.

Generally in this context, the 80/20 rule is used to mean that you get 80% of the benefit with 20% of the effort, it isn't a rule about how to divide up your time. IE in the time management context, it would mean you get 80% of the progress you create in 20% of your time spent working. The key is figuring out what you are doing in that 20%.
Depends on how much the data is going to be altered. Changing columns is not a free operation in data stores. They require you to rewrite all the rows in many cases.

This can be more dynamic short term.
Same reason you pay more than the senior price at a movie theater: price discrimination.
I still find that Dropbox apps both in Windows and Android to be better.

Primarily I don't like how google drive won't automatically upload your photos from a mobile device the way Dropbox does rather than insisting on uploading google plus.
The github package [1] does both of these, although the blame is done on GitHub instead of locally.

1: https://atom.io/packages/open-on-github
Best of wishes to you. I hope you find peace and can really get the most out of what time you have left... And even more so, I hope your treatment is effective beyond belief and you beat this altogether.
I'm wondering the same. They mention TradeSports, which is Intrade's prediction market for sports, but it hasn't launched yet afaik (I've been on their e-mail list since before Intrade shut down in March 2013, and I haven't received anything).

EDIT: nm. the reference to TradeSports was to 2007 (before it shut down in 2008). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TradeSports
Well that's a recipe for disaster. Emergency funds should be able to hand 3-6 months of expenses, sometimes more.
You can get unlimited storage for less with backblaze.
To people wondering if this is a temporary thing, or what Digital Ocean's competitive advantage is (since someone else can come along with the same price point):

It's that the web interface, and process for starting a "droplet", is dead-simple and super-elegant, their support docs are comprehensive and easy to use, and they even do things like let you manage your own DNS records. And it all just works.

Digital Ocean is 100x easier and quicker to use than AWS, without exaggeration. It's easy to start a hosting provider -- it's really hard to make one that is also really high quality, intuitive and easy to use, and then cheap on top of it.

I've used Digital Ocean for a couple of years for small personal things, I'm actually currently in the process of moving a bigger site from AWS to Digital Ocean, at this point it's turning into a no-brainer.
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There are many immediate expenses that significantly exceed $10k if you're wealthy. Also, "should" is a personal preference / strategy and certainly does not apply to everyone.
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Still no delta sync. Only Dropbox just works with <1Mbps upload.
We've actually been working on something like this for San Francisco (and we plan to expand onwards after operating here): http://www.takehitch.com

The municipality tends to work a little slower here (chatted a bit with SFMTA in the past), so we're starting with a model that just focuses on private cars. But the fundamental point--dynamic re-routing to create custom routes where people can ride in the same vehicle--is very much in the spirit of what we're doing.

We're still in a pre-launch phase, but check out our iOS app: http://www.takehitch.com/download
I don't know if it's what you're looking for, but lobste.rs is "the other HN" for me. Admittedly it's not quite as large and active, but then HN is currently hard to beat in that area.
i use your lib all the time, works great! just wanted to say thanks
Terrible. I hope this wasn't exarcerbated by a high-speed pursuit.
I dunno... it seems like the likely winner in a commoditized market would be the one with the greatest economies of scale, since that would drive down their costs and allow them to underprice their competitors. (If a product is truly commoditized, then price is the only thing vendors have to compete on.) And few companies have economies of scale to the degree that Amazon does.

This also provides a classic "moat" -- the more sophisticated AWS' offerings become, the more it would cost potential competitors to even attempt to compete with them.
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I'm working on it — https://github.com/j6k4m8/squirt-academic

But I won't really be able to dig in until after this weekend. Feel free to contribute, PR, list requests, etc.
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Dropbox is $9.99 for 100GB for comparison.

Drive still doesn't have a Linux Client.
It seems the analogy has surpassed it's usefulness...
Really, it's going to come down to how litigious your former employer is. I've heard of cases where a person was sued simply because the idea for the work came the previous job with the concept that you would have never even thought to do this code if the previous employer hadn't tasked you with the challenge.

As has already been said though. If you have any doubts, talk with a lawyer who specializes in Intellectual Property cases.
"unlimited"

Can you upload it at usefully-high bandwidth?

Can you get that data back out when you want it?
Access is the frontend
Serious question: is it really worth it for a company like DO to support Windows? It seems like they maintain their edge by avoiding the kind of complexity that Windows would entail.
Mine is liquid at the moment because I will be buying a house this year. I'd rather not lock it in to anything that makes it difficult to retrieve. This includes an RRSP mind you. That's liquid for house buying in Canada.
Completely agree. This is one of those "it isn't important until you need it" things.
I tried them out a few months ago looking to move my infrastructure from AWS to DO. I was experiencing terrible IO performance on a fairly expensive instance. Submitted a support ticket about it. Their response was 'this is normal'. Killed all my droplets and canceled my account the next day.

To me they are running a pretty transparent pump and dump scheme. Promise a great service, sell it at a loss, get a ton of users, do a shit job of supporting it, take on investment money, cash out early, profit.
Define "easily accessible". Does a few days later count? If so, the stock market isn't a bad place for money
Unfortunately, my chair would remain in that position the majority of the time.

And yes, I'm looking for a new job.
Your emergency funds don't need to be cash in low interest savings/checking.

For example, home-equity line of credit is great for just sitting there most of the time unless you really need it. That frees up capital that you'd otherwise tie up in liquid cash that doesn't do anything.
What would it have cost to get a comparable plan for your brother and his family before ACA? $400/month for a family of 5 is about 1/3 of what we have where I work through our employer-sponsored group plan.

What I've seen is that for single people (or rather, people who only need to insure one person) who make enough to not qualify for any subsidy, the ACA plans where I am (Washington) that are close to our group plan cost about the same but provide less coverage (no dental and no vision).

For those whose income is low enough for a substantial subsidy, or who have family members that would be on the plan, it looks like the ACA plans beat the employer group plan (except for the dental and vision coverage--although I believe some do offer that for children at least).
Tell me more about those reflector/diffuser flaps around the lights...
We built a multitail functionality back in the day, but we built it on top of a general purpose shell script to do things across multiple machines that we called multido:
https://github.com/mochi/miscscripts/blob/master/cmultido
They handle real-time events exactly as your latter example stated: an external (licensed) company provides live data, and orders that were placed during a dangerous situation (e.g. one-on-one) are subsequently voided if a goal is scored.
The hardware cost is the same. 128 * $5 == $640, they charge a fixed $10/GB RAM.

They do have higher support costs, credit card transaction fees, and ip address costs. They would probably lose money if the primary users of the $5/month plans were doing punishing things like video encoding, but my guess is the vast majority are no load users.

I once read someone that was doing hosting, said the larger plans were actually more challenging. 4 high volume forum sites on the same host would cause IO contention. Digital Ocean has SSDs and they mix and match sizes on the physical host, so it should be less of a problem for them.
I asked because I just started supplementing with vitamin D and forcing myself to get 15 minutes of direct sun exposure every morning since I started working/exercising indoors at home and rarely venturing outside during the work week.

That is something I would like to look into and appreciate a link if not a hassle. That hypothesis could change how I go about my daily exposure. How much exposure do you get if you don't mind me asking?
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Office files/docs on the cloud != Backup
Surely there are better ways to fix the problem by means other than boycotting financial services.

Also, if your sentiments were generalised across the population it wouldn't just be the banks suffering. We'd have a massive credit crunch. Regular, honest people wouldn't be unable to get mortgages or business loans.
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As someone who's struggled with back + shoulder pain and having gone through a few expensive chairs, now I feel that a correct posture is more important than chair. I have a cheap cookie cutter chair + a thin pillow and I can work much better.
Not advertising anything, just go to Amazon and search "back pain" in books. Probably the first entry is the one. It teaches you how to correct your posture naturally. Or just watch a video from the book author on youtube. I think that technique alone will fix a lot of the problems.
Thanks for the tip, I will check it out
Ah yes, Code: It's Trivial[1]

Jeff Atwood quoting Benjamin Pollack

"
Developers think cloning a site like StackOverflow is easy for the same reason that open-source software remains such a horrible pain in the ass to use. When you put a developer in front of StackOverflow, they don't really see StackOverflow. What they actually see is this:

create table QUESTION (ID identity primary key,
TITLE varchar(255),
BODY text,
UPVOTES integer not null default 0,
DOWNVOTES integer not null default 0,
USER integer references USER(ID));
create table RESPONSE (ID identity primary key,
BODY text,
UPVOTES integer not null default 0,
DOWNVOTES integer not null default 0,
QUESTION integer references QUESTION(ID))

"

[1] http://blog.codinghorror.com/code-its-trivial/
Appropriately enough the blog is complaining about the attitude being displayed on Hacker News
Here you go, one without a limit: http://alxndr.github.io/2-n/
Can we do "selective sync" with Google Drive? I only want to sync "Projects" folder inside my Google Driver folder, for example.

Most of my devices don't have 1TB disk space so syncing everything is out of the question.
Nah, the service is not private but public transport project, and it isn't viable business. The trips are covered by the tax money paid by you (and me). There is no way a taxi trip could cost $5 using that kind of vehicle. You also have to factor in the operational costs and note that the cars are Mercedez Benz vans with wifi etc.
The GUI - it looks like and works like souped up excel. If this is something you're working on, buy a copy of Access and play with it for a few hours.
just as vague. managing transactional email? What's wrong with doing that? Maybe I don't have the problem...I don't get it.
what features am I losing by switching from Dropbox?
The bolding of search terms sure seems like it would be a good idea, but it is very distracting to me.
Whose data is it anyways
you should add yourself to the list at www.datapad.io and then get in touch on twitter using @luckymethod
Yes, you can do that. Open the preferences and select "Only sync some folders to this computer."
Where do your arms rest/float? Looks like gorilla-arm.
Obviously it various depending on our paycheck cycles and when the larger monthly bills get paid. But I have to keep a little bit extra in reserve because the mortgage on my rental house is due before I get that month's rent from the tenant.
I forked the repo and removed the "win" at getting tile 2048, so the game continues: http://alxndr.github.io/2-n/
There are 4 avenues I think you can take in this market -

1) Price

2) Scalability/API (As in AWS style of instant spinup/spindown)

3) User experience for the dashboard and creation process

4) Configurability of your instances

DO is currently fighting on 1 and 3 with a dash of two, which I think is very smart. They're not fighting with lowendbox providers for the lowest possible price, but they're competing with linode and AWS for relatively low cost, but with good stability and ease of use. You can't spin up/down quite as easily as amazon, but they're not targeting that exact use case anyway.

I've moved a few things over to DO from linode and will continue to, because although performance is a bit less, the price points are far cheaper. I think there are a lot of people who use Linode/AWS for boxes that just hum along doing some simple server task(s) that would gladly move to DO for 1/4 of the price, as long as the stability/customer service is there.

I read a rumor on a previous post that they were working on a way to customize an instances storage & RAM but at the current low price points, which I think would be huge.
Supposing one does not want a second citizenship and is willing to renounce their US citizenship entirely, which country would you recommend switching to? How difficult is it and what are the consequences?
Interesting, thank you. I wonder what is causing that decline?

A more libertarian type might say that the increasing power of government is driving small business out through various types of intervention. Evidence would include the ever-increasing share of GDP made up by government spending. This would be countered by the fact that you can still start most kinds of businesses with remarkably little federal involvement aside from taxation.

Someone more inclined toward central planning might say that the information age is making central planning more effective. Evidence would include companies like amazon that have amazing reach. That would be countered by the observation that there are still a lot of small businesses that sell through amazon and set their own prices; and amazon has many robust competitors for each product they sell.
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I just downloaded it a little while ago (since first release) and I still find the Windows client pretty useless.

I'll have to stick with Dropbox so I can sync across Windows/OSX/Linux, my phone, etc. Besides I get faster upload speed on Dropbox, so I can sync all my holiday photos.