skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously (I hope, based on my original comment), I don't disagree with your estimate, but I'm curious as to what it's based on.

I think YC has demonstrated that a $10-$20k initial seed round is enough for a software-only prototype in a few months, assuming technical founders. Presumably there's a comparable cost to your "rebuild," though please correct me if I'm wrong.
I did read the article. Based on what you wrote, they offered to help investigate the issue in October, November, December if you would give them root access. For some reason you had an issue with this (it's actually extremely common on any shared box that you do not own).

After the server that you lease from them (I omit calling it "your" server on purpose) continued to have issues that impacted customers outside of yourself, they logged into the box and (based on your article again) seemed to resolve the root (pun intended) issue rather quickly. This seems to have occurred 2-3 months after the initial root access request.

The response of shutting off Apache was a bit extreme, but given the history, not terribly surprising either.
Think of it this way -- the difference between your salary and your market value is effectively money you're donating to the nonprofit. If you don't want to donate that much, either ask for a raise, or quit, get a new job, and write a check to the nonprofit.
I'm with Rimuhosting since forever.

Their support is unbeatable. Many times they helped me(I'm a dev. not a sys. admin.) for free where other companies would have charged me.

I agree that adding their key on the VPS without talking to you sucks but having a 100% utilisation of your CPU is a bit egoist. That means that nobody on the host machine can burst their share for a quick high-cpu job.

If you want total control over your machine, get a dedicated box. Even then, some hosters demand root access on your box.
I'm having a hard time thinking this is not a joke myself
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You're obviously not serious. I'm done wasting my time on this.
Porn is that important to that many??? Just use the google search to go to such websites! The people they are trying to hide it from obviously are not tech savvy and won't know what cache is or where to find it.
This is what I am going to try and attempt. If I can get what I've been working on after work up and running by the end of the year, I can hopefully split things 50/50 until I can go 100% on my own.
You may be able to bait him into learning how to program by showing him what the effect of a successful exploit is (i.e., remote shell). However, I think it takes too long to learn how to program alone to attempt to teach someone to program for the first time and teach security at the same time. Nonetheless, the reading list for my advisor's graduate-level security course is on its website at http://www.eecs.umich.edu/courses/eecs588/, and there's a new undergraduate security course being taught this semester at http://www.eecs.umich.edu/courses/eecs398/ . Porting Aleph One's Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit to AMD64 is a useful exercise.

DSPython is a Python port to the Nintendo DS. If he's into that, you might be able to get him to learn to program with the goal of making DS games. I tried this with my younger cousin, but he's too young (under 10) to have the required attention span. My patches to get DSPython working with newer devKitPro are at http://github.com/swolchok/dspython/tree/master .
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nobody on the host machine can burst their share for a quick high-cpu job

That only makes sense if there is only one other VM on the machine. Which is basically never the case.

EDIT: Or they use a pedestrian virtualization layer.
My guess is these numbers are for July'09 when 3GS launched and they have extrapolated to an year which is being statistically ignorant.
but having a 100% utilisation of your CPU is a bit egoist

I thought selling access to a shared resource without the ability to moderate consumption was the ridiculous bit.
The death of the Dell mini 9 is greatly exaggerated, as I just ordered a Vostro A90.

I finally gave in to the temptation, since it's so highly rated (in the just-works) sense as a hackintosh and since the iphone is a total non-starter for me (expensive, no keyboard, no cdma).
Oh, irony.
I'm at work, right now.
Reading this instead of actually working.

Think I can successfully rationalize this as a focus-enhancing short term break instead of a lack of self-discipline?
I've been through the CMS selection process five times now, and it's always turned out bad, until the most recent selection. I've heavily used (as in, built and launched a site used by thousands of people every day) Zope, Plone, OpenACS, Joomla, and now Drupal, and experimented with (as in, installed and tinkered with for a few days just to get a feel for) a half dozen others. I think Drupal is actually going to work for us for years to come; while every other CMS I've ever launched a site on has immediately shown itself to be really problematic once it was being used by a lot of people. It is the least frustrating, the best supported by its community, the most actively developed by competent developers (Joomla seems to have a lot more third party developers, but they seem to predominantly be web designers turned developer, and their inexperience shows in the extremely poor quality of most modules for Joomla). We've had it in service for a couple of months now, and I spent a lot more time evaluating and developing for it before choosing it than any other CMS I've deployed, and its flaws are the least offensive and the easiest to fix or workaround of any of the ones I've used, so far.

Ubercart is the nicest to customize and extend of any of the CMS shopping carts I've used, and also seems to be developed and maintained by competent, friendly people.

Getting commercial support for the code from competent core developers has also proven much easier than for any of the other CMS I've used (with the possible exception of Zope/Plone; the Zope people are top-notch and fantastic to work with, though not cheap, and I found I needed help a lot more than I liked because the docs were out of date and inaccurate and they've reinvented every wheel so existing knowledge, like of relational databases, doesn't map to Zope/Plone).

Anyway, our new site is also the hardest working of any CMS-based site I've ever built. It is expected to do more: forums, ticket tracker, ecommerce with quite a lot of customization for license management, documentation, extensive and heavily used email notifications (we send thousands of notification emails every single day, and while it's not perfect, Drupal is the most flexible and generic of all of the notification systems I've used).

It's probably worth mentioning that I don't like PHP as a language (I would choose Perl, Python, Ruby, or pretty much anything else, over PHP, if I were only selecting based on the implementation language). Despite that, Drupal is what I selected. I guess that's a pretty ringing endorsement.

I'm not even going to try to tell you what to do on question 2.
They showed their lack of technical proficiency. CPU caps should be enforced without having to edit partitions, adding ssh keys to users accounts, asking for root passwords, or manually killing Apache.

So to put it bluntly they are very nice and helpful, but stupid. I wouldn't trust them with my data. But I can see how some customers might prefer them, as there is always a nice person on the other end of the line...
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Great article.

Re:

>All Prices are Arbitrary

I note that this varies by sector. If you're selling books, then your price is bounded by the wholesale price (on the bottom end) and the MSRP (on the high end).

Note to self: for my next startup, make sure to pick something where the upper bound isn't so clear!
Yet another reason to stay in shape.
I think it isn't. Even if they have physical access to the machine, breaking into it is ethically questionnable and highly unprofessional. Unless they detect some sort of illegal activity or there is a real emergency, this is just simply unacceptable.
The problem recorder seem cool, I will have to use it when making tutorials here at work.
How does this factor in for the large number of people I run into who don't seem to have a brain whatsoever?
How dating my ex was like playing DOOM II on nightmare mode
If I was you I would take it just for the experience. I would use Drupal for the CMS. From what you describing should take you two-three weeks to learn Drupal and redesign the site.
Not officially supported, but someone is working on a C# driver: http://github.com/samus/mongodb-csharp/tree/master
> registering a car at the Connecticut DMV vs. registering in Pennsylvania where the process is privatized.

Protip: Privated AAA does everything the DMV does.
Mirror: http://go.cleverinnovative.com/hacker-survey.htm
CSV: http://go.cleverinnovative.com/data.csv
Even if the cable companies can't encrypt the local stations, the stations themselves are free to set the 5C encryption flag on a program, which prohibits you from recording it.
I'm not sure I understand.

If there are 8 VPS on a machine and I'm always using 1/8 of CPU time, nobody else can't have access to this 1/8 share. I know that 1/8 of the CPU share "belongs" to me but it's a shared box and it's just being a good neighbour. I appreciate it when I need to run a quick high-cpu on my VPS and I can use more than my 1/8 share of CPU.
Maybe I have fortunate circumstances, but I have never had this problem. Why? I have customers. And they have desires. Lots of them.

It's true, they may not articulate their desires real well and they may never envision "the next big thing", but when you start hearing the same things over and over again, it's a pretty good bet you're solving a real problem.
This should have never been posted here, since every hacker worth his salt knows that he should never date his ex and hence this article is of no interest to this community!
The quickest path to $50m in revenue? Build fun.
The issue is that respondents may start addressing their comments to nerf such a change. Instead of:

"You're forgetting something", you may get:

"tdavis, you're forgetting something."
Persistence of Design - Antique Transistor Radios Compared to iPods
It's not my fault your business model sucks.
I don't think that the upside (creating a marginally fairer karma system) would outweigh the downside (making the whole site a whole lot less readable).
Good catch! I don't think they controlled for location.
hmm it says 2007 so i'm gonna say that it's not rails 2, which means it could be not very pertinent.
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Doubt it. The N97's screen "feels" capacitive. No mention to tech here: http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/specifications/
I've never seen the danger of no jokes come to life. The other danger, that we end up as mostly one liners, is reality for both slashdot and reddit.
Who said it was your fault that their business model sucks?
I've only ever been exposed to this a few times, so this is pretty cool. I've always been interested in compiler design.

Here is a question, is the 'slowness' of ruby because of its compiler/interpreter or is it because of its language design?
In Deep Blue vs Kasparov, in between matches IBM modified Deep Blue to shore up any weaknesses it displayed against Kasparov's style. A fair competition would have seen Deep Blue "learn" only through AI techniques.
I had toxoplasmosis when I was 12. It made my vision cloudy for a day or so until I was pumped full of prednisone to fight it. I still have a tiny blind spot in my eye from it, but (to my knowledge) no other long-term effects. Sidenote: I had an eye exam the other day and the doctor could no longer recognize it as toxo - he thought it was histo, which is apparently something you get from chickens.
It would have been even cooler to have made it out of tungsten.

Specific gravity for titanium: 4.506.
For tungsten, 19.3.
In Manhattan, decent 1 bedroom apartments go for $1000 per square foot. My grocery bill increased 150% (somewhere between 2x and 3x) as compared to the midwest. My utilities ran $200/mo to air condition a 570 square foot apartment. $100k isn't an adult income in Manhattan. And lets not forget the what, 3.5% city income tax that starts at $60K?
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With the highest earners, 451M. With the top 5 earners (The 5 people over 5M, lulz or not) excluded: 145M.
When you observe any system, according to Maccone, you enter into a "quantum entanglement" with it.

That's a nice theoretical claim, but in practice it is just plain false. Two macroscopic objects, like a human and a cup of coffee, at room temperature, entangled? Give me a break. We have to go trough a hell of a lot of trouble to create entangled pairs of photons to do experiments with. Interactions with the environment break the entanglement, which is exactly what we are doing all the time.

Maccone's solution is to suggest that in fact entropy-decreasing events occur all the time

Of course they do. The point is those fluctuation in the 'wrong' direction last an extremely short period of time. We have no trouble observing temporary decreases in entropy: the 2nd law of thermodynamics holds over macroscopic periods of time and that has been verified experimentally. Laplace's daemon doesn't exist, but he can deceive you for a nanosecond.

The problem with these damned brilliant mathematician-physicists is that they really loose touch with the boundary conditions imposed by physical reality.
Holy %*&% -- I didn't know kuro5hin was still around...

Seems like semantic web stuff today is Prolog on the network. I still need to learn it at some point.
'Research has shown that women who are infected with the parasite tend to be warm, outgoing and attentive to others, while infected men tend to be less intelligent and probably a bit boring. But both men and women who are infected are more prone to feeling guilty and insecure.'

Although I do not doubt the infection rates I am sceptical about the conclusions. Any woman that does not LOVE cats is obviously not warm and attentive of others and I would like to see more details on the men samples; for example were they married to the above ladies or not. Do guilty and insecure people tend to have cats as pets?

Anyway I love cats since I was a kid and I am male! Worth the infection if I have it and perhaps the reason that so far I have not catch AIDS!
Science Agencies Lag in Stimulus Spending
I marked self-employed and $0 because I'm working full-time on my own stuff and have no income. I'm living off of savings. (I actually considered putting -$6000, but decided that would be too weird :)
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Once you get to six figures, I recommend using percentages ;-)
> Think about that famous painting of the scarily-dressed, hook-nosed man and the pregnant woman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnolfini_Portrait ?
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There were a few people who put a negative number, but the only one I saw when glancing through only put -1 (I would assume that was another joke number).
So, to turn this around... Google hires primarily for self-discipline, not intelligence?

I can certainly see why discipline would be important for the majority of your team-- but I've always wonder how many geniuses Google passes on because they don't fit this mold.
From their point of view, he'd repeatedly ignored three separate requests to clean up his CPU usage. After he refused to do anything about it, they took care of the problem. Would it have been better if they disabled his account entirely?
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Indeed, here in California, the reality of what public school teachers make is, on the surface, shocking.

Considering that they're unionized, it's no surprised. I've never understood how it's legal, or, especially, ethical, that public employees may form a union.
Convert is listed as #2 in the overall chart; that link is talking about an app in the top 30 in the social networking chart. Two different charts (with the overall chart being quite a bit more competitive) explains the differences.
It maxed out at 18 sentences for me, but I didn't notice it was just overwriting the last one until after I had typed another 25 or so. D'oh.

Was using it to map out and notate the people I'm following on twitter: http://diagrammr.com/edit?key=dXUsqPIKKKP
That sounds great. I want it.

But I can't get it. So it's worthless until I can. I'm Canadian.
Seems very unlikely to me that parallels can be drawn from the past to the present in that way. Markets go through different phases.
It is worth noting that the performance of Ruby varies even between the various implementations available for production use.

So, if I had to attribute 'slowness', I'd say it's because of the implementation (compiler/interpreter) instead of the language design

"Slowness" is subjective, but I think this answers your question.
Their cost of living is significantly less in most of China than the Western costs of living. However Beijing is getting fairly pricey rents now, approximately $400 per month and it isn't uncommon to see them in the 1000's. I'd hardly say the chinese workers are paid slave wages when apartments near me are listed at $600.
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That's a nice theoretical claim, but in practice it is just plain false. Two macroscopic objects, like a human and a cup of coffee, at room temperature, entangled? Give me a break.

That idea is pretty common in (so-called) many-worlds interpretations. In such interpretations, the wavefunction never collapses: the "collapse" of the wavefunction is just the observer becoming entangled with the system. This, of course, has all sorts of disturbing implications, but arguably still makes a lot more sense than any other interpretation.
That might seem simpler to you, but you have the kind of mind I was talking about:)

To the average person, to make a toy car, it's straightforward to take a box, put on two axles, then put on two wheels. You could do all that with just toothpicks, but it's not really simpler in practice.
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It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if your Age, Salary and hours are unique in the table. In fact, I'm relative certain that any two of the numerical fields (family excluded, since so many people had 0) would uniquely identify you, or at least limit it to on a handful of individuals. The concept of "Anonymous data" is largely non-existant; if you know who you're looking for in a table of anonymous data, you can usually find them.
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I signed up through some shady anonymous proxy. I had to lie about my postal code.

I tried to buy premium, but was rejected. I suspect it has to do with the post code I signed up with or that my card has a New York address.
That's why pregnant women are told to stay away from cats during term
Depending on what you want it for, I've had good experiences with django-authopenid ( bitbucket.org/benoitc/django-authopenid ).

It doesn't have the facebook or twitter, but it does work well with most openid providers (google, yahoo, etc). Plus, it lets users go ahead and just create a normal login if they don't want to use openid.

There's an example at openid-example.e-engura.org if you're interested.
Yep, and did he just draw a general rule from just one example (Activision)?
> The footnotes assured us that all kinds of funny jokes and puns were being made,

The worst part about those high school Shakespeare texts was that for the humour that was blatantly sexual, they tried to find some contrived explanation to present instead.

For example take a passage: "She that’s a maid now, and laughs at my departure, / shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter."

This is a reference to the "maids" being played by male actors. The text had some contrived explanation about if the play were shorter in length, when really the line is clearly a joke about CUTTING OFF A PENIS.

When you miss the fact that Shakespeare is just full of eighth grade schoolboy humour, then you actually miss a lot of the point.
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Reading that makes me want to play Doom II again, which was probably not the intended outcome.
Apple approves Spotify's iPhone App
I thought the leading cause of Startup Death was lack of persistance or innovation
Dot itself is also a command line tool, so it's easy to make documents and presentations with TeX that have text-format diagrams in the dot language. You can also do things like generate call graphs for programs, or parse log files into sequence diagrams by parsing input somehow and generating dot files.
I thought that was part of the point of living in high density, that one gives up living space and some conveniences in exchange for economies of scale and other conveniences.

In suburbs and rural areas, there are transportation costs which must be paid separately for groceries and commuting. How much do those cost you, compared to people who commute from, say, Huntington?
It's a real shame though that the iPhone/iPod Touch doesn't allow better integration with third party music apps so they can play in the background or be controlled by remote. (though fortunately both of these can be enabled for jailbroken phones )
No:

At least three social gaming companies I know of will be, or already have, hit $50m in revenue in their first three years of business.
Excanvas already implements the canvas tag using Silverlight: http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/
It's a combination of both, actually. From what I understand, Matz is more of a dreams guy than an implementations guy. He made MRI work, but never really intended it to be fast or efficient. This is why 1.9 is a totally different compiler; Matz can go back to designing, and others can worry about implementations

There's also quite a bit of Ruby that's non-trivial to compile. For instance, think about method_missing. If a message gets sent to an object, a naive implementation would have to check every parent class up the inheretance chain, and then do it all over again to see if a method_missing is defined, too. That's quite a bit of time. Also, things like open classes make things like caching hard, as well.

None of these problems are insurmountable, but they take some work and some effort. Luckily, Ruby has those people now.
I always wonder about the "reports" that smaller companies produce. At Y! the research group (as in customer insights) are proper statisticians and know how to do sampling, and discard outliers, etc.

I'd be much happier if some of these companies published raw anonymised data with their methodology to accompany the report.
You'd need seven "bad" neighbors for this to be the case.
Seriously, that dude has his hands in so much cool stuff.

I'd like to posit that Avi Bryant is actually twins posing as one person. Neither of whom ever sleeps.