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OP here. About two months ago I asked HN to tear apart my consulting page. I wanted to hear unfiltered and merciless feedback, so that I may improve it. Several people did just that, and it's helped tremendously. I made some edits since then, but there's always more room for improvement. I hope to get some more honest feedback. For example:

What strikes you about it?

Which parts did your read, and which did you skip? Why?

Are there any major questions left unanswered, that aren't worth emailing me about?

Do things make sense? (I'm trying to avoid buzzwords as much as possible, without over-simplifying things.)
The other day when Carousel was announced, loom was mentioned in a hn thread as a competing service. It's offering was certainly compelling in many ways, and had me weighing switching. If I didn't have such a giant library, I probably would have on the spot. Now, in a way, I'm thankful I don't have to, and I hope they integrate the positives that loom had over Dropbox/Carousel. This is the first acquisition I've read about in a while that has me excited as a user.
You don't need a build system during development. I work on a 500.000 line web app, and it has no dev time build step. You check out the source into your web root, and run the app. Edit + f5 is fast enough, no need for smart build systems. Build steps are ofcourse inevitable for the jump into production.
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I am actually in the middle of an implementation of a grid view myself; I'm giving Handsontable[1] a whirl and going to look at using pourover for filtering my dataset. Definitely meets your Excel-like interaction though not certain that it doesn't try to do everything for you since I haven't made it that far yet. (Looks promising at least.)

1. http://handsontable.com
Complex meshes and photographic tiles are often used in flight sims, but the difference here is super accurate placement of buildings I guess (being a map). Here's a nice example of aerofly FS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13tQZczBbHw
Parallelizability isnt always possible, but you should normalize the speed you get per dollar.

287 MB/sec / $5 ~ 57 MB/sec/dollar
816 MB/sec / $20 ~ 40 MB/sec/dollar
Now that Putin has clearly said "no", if evidence comes out that they have dragnet surveillance like the NSA, then he is shown to be lying.

This is like how they were able to prove that the NSA was lying in its responses, over and over again after each leak. So when mandarins attempt to say we're having a "great debate" or whatever it is transparent that they are fucking with you.
It is weird to see the total difference between privacy today (you have none and you have no expectation of any and anyone who has your data will do what they like with it) and what was happening in the early 2000s.

I get that companies feel the need to extract usable data to help fix problems (a sensible data dump is much more useful than a customer filling in a form with wierd information); or to sell anonymosed information.

But customers are right to be untrusting. Some companies have shown that they are not competant to keep data secure. Some companies have shown that they do not care about privacy.
Honestly, what else are you going to write?
Generally I support giving kids who do stupid stuff with technology (like fiddling with their school's network) chances to use their talents or interests for something good -- internships, for example.

But it sort of makes me uneasy when someone's first choice is the CRA. There was (and probably still is) plenty of other servers that don't have sensitive information like SINs. It makes me feel as if his motives weren't just to play around with Heartbleed, but to actually do something malicious.

Let's hope this kid was just being a kid without this harming him in some form or another for the rest of his life.
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The original submission [1] was both blogspammy and linkbaity. Apart from the content being poorer, this leads to lower-quality threads, as you can see from the first few comments here. Since threads are sensitive to initial conditions, this can have quite an effect.

We're looking for the highest quality, most original source for any story. When posting, please search around a bit to see if you can find a better source. When reading, if you know of a better source, please alert us to it.

1. http://windowsitpro.com/paul-thurrotts-wininfo/microsoft-bli...
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Nope. It will proxy everything you ask for.
Coolies =).

Would you ever add some of the Crossfilter functionality, to make it easy for people to plug in their own data to PourOver?
Unless you'd plan to develop with it, wait.
Isn't it easier to just use Charles Proxy (http://www.charlesproxy.com/) or mitmproxy (http://mitmproxy.org/) for those stunts? I can see the value for anyone not familiar with those tools, but for me as a developer, this is clearly something that can be solved without depending on a third party server.
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I don't know how much hyperbole there is in that statement, really - it's a humungous pile of material, and even if the licensing terms aren't totally clear, it's still available for anyone to watch - and moreover, on Youtube, it's available to your grandparents, your children, your technophobe cousin - anyone who owns a smartphone and has successfully watched videos of cats falling over.

Tucking it away on archive.org might have been more palatable to the likes of us, but none of the above would ever be likely to stumble across it there.

[edit: my point is, yes, it would ideally have been put in both places - but if they're only going to put it in one place, I'm happier that it's Youtube than I would have been were it archive.org]
I do. It's pretty fun.

This might be a bit embarrassing ... but a couple of years ago, Dan Sinker came by and asked a few of the developers in the newsroom to talk about exactly that question.

Here's me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3HanxEFFlk

Here's David Nolen (although he won't be around for much longer ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOdoCqoqXlU

Here's Tiff Fehr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GOWLNWifxc
Sure, and if that one single CPU is emulating 8 vCPU's you haven't gained anything...
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the clarity.
I remember google latitude had this feature years ago and I thought it was really cool, but they killed it because people complained about it.

I thought it was neat to be out at some family event or the mall etc. and get notices that your friends were nearby.
Here's my quick write-up on why encryption won't get us anywhere without a proper revocation mechanism (yes, it's 100% broken in the mobile). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7604641
Yep, thanks. Makes sense.
wow EC2 instance free plan :

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1024+0 records in

1024+0 records out

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 35.8268 s, 30.0 MB/s
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I don't use the web mail but I have stuck with the web mail through the bad years. It has improved quite a bit but sometimes their Android app is an exercise in frustration. They do seem to update it frequently so most of the really annoying things have been dealt with.

For example, they just recently implemented the idea of an email not automatically downloading images and having a button to load them on demand. Seems odd to ignore such an important feature for so long.
How did they ship this? It's clearly an unfinished release.
> I doubt that's true. More likely it's because lower tier users are almost always disproportionally more demanding of help than higher tier ones.

it's called "skin in the game", and those with very little skin in the game do not truly give a shit about their own problems, so they expect others to give a shit for them.

every business learns this lesson at some point. basically all these cheap hosting providers are trying to make money by automating the problem away - we'll see how it works in the long run for hosting. the jury is still out if you ask me.
Might want to wait until the first 'delta' (14.04.1) round June if you are happy with 12.04 for a few more months and your machines are used in production. Rough edges smoothed &c

If it is just a personal machine, have at it, I was using the Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 beta for some weeks with no major issues.
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There should be claw-back provisions if an employee don't perform.
Sometimes you need to do it from a device that can't connect to your local network.
Thanks for pointing it out. I should have known better considering that I am in the space :(
My initial guess would be that Patriarchy historically oppressed women off of the battlefield, kept them out of the coal mines, prevented them from enjoying asbestos work, excluded them from steelworking and construction, and barred their empowering path to firefighting and heavy industry.
Hackpad is pretty awesome. Glad it will still be running after the acquisition. Congrats Alex & Igor
There's also South Korea, where the local giant (Naver) has ~70% search market share. (The company is actually making a lot of money in the Asian market from games and the Line messenger, so I think their "local market first" strategy is paying off.)

Incidentally, South Korea also has probably the craziest map data regulations: no map data can leave South Korea. So, if you want to serve map data, your server must be physically in South Korea.
Announcement here:

http://www.hashicorp.com/blog/consul.html
Xenix ran on the 8086, FWIW. As I recall, the intent of the statement was the thought on M$ part that users would want a more capable system when the new processors were mainstream and DOS would be retired and replaced with Xenix. Obviously, this didn't pan out.
I'm pointing out that they're choices, not needs. They are things you can live without, and if you see a problem, and you feel strongly about changing the world, then you can sacrifice these luxuries.

And it is absurd to claim that I am advocating running away from a problem. I absolutely want you to tackle the problem head-on. But by voluntarily enriching the aristocracy, you are part of the problem. So I find it painfully hypocritical to complain about your bosses earning too much, while at the same time choosing to be their employee.
Do you find Dropbox works for you with a giant library?
I have ~1.5Tb of photos at this point, which seems too big for any of their accounts.
How do you have it set up?
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Find yourself a copy of this. Not only did it play a crucial role in the history of the UNIX/Linux world, it is a gold mine for understanding operating systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6th...
Has anyone used or know about SoftEther VPN?

I was looking them up the other day they seem very nice.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftEther_VPN
I'm from the US, but "an explainer" is a UKism from what I know. I've seen it used elsewhere.
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Thanks for the link. Looks like the OpenBSD devs enjoy their work.
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"We are sooooo filthy rich now. So long suckers!"

I'd be more honest =)
Best LAMP administration introduction?
I'm going to be launching a new self-hosted analytics service in a couple of months, and I'm currently training our tech support guy.

He's got a lot of experience as support, but not so much with the self-hosting / headless Linux / LAMP end of things.

So, what would your recommendations be for the best resources - paid or free - to get him up to speed fast for supporting a self-hosted product? I'm guessing he'll need to know enough to be able to debug at least basic problems with Apache, MySQL and PHP setups.

I realise this is slightly vague - if you'd need more clarification, please do ask.
I would've fixed it, but the moderators are very keen to use the title exactly as on the page. The page title says "Patent."
Hackpad and Loom? Dropbox is on a bit of a feeding frenzy.
I'd just finished getting set up on Everpix & syncing everything I have when they announced it was going to close down. It's a shame - it was the most impressive option I'd seen so far.

It's definitely makes me think twice about which service I use next.
How old is your CSS compiler?

After gaining a fair amount of experience with various technologies over the years (by which I mean, getting burned (especially by things that seem wonderful and then cease to exist for a variety of reasons)), that has become the single most important question I ask about a new technology. If it's been around for ten years, it'll probably still be around in ten years. If it hasn't then it may not, especially in a form recognizable as related to today's.

C and Java are, well, not horrible, but bad. However, C has been C for my entire career. And I'm fairly sure that if I write something in simple, plain Java, in five or ten years when it needs some significant work then that work won't start with a complete rewrite.
The company I started out at wrote the (infamous) C2 subsystem for SCO Unix. Every once in a great while, some elderly neckbeard will give me shit about that. Memories...
"And in latest versions option to disable was removed"

Nope, wrong way round. After the - er - strong reaction to the original appearance of the Amazon feature, later versions had a kill switch under Privacy. It was always possible simply to uninstall the appropriate package.
Haha, there goes your privacy to Facebook's advertisers.
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Never used any of these services... because I had never heard of them until now. Honest truth.
I suppose it's not a huge difference, other than Loom having a 50 GB plan and Dropbox not having one.
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I was considering signing up for Loom a while ago. It was great value prop for a problem that pretty much everyone runs into eventually. However, there were a few red flags that made me think they were going to go the way of Everpix. Good to see they didn't completely shut down, but I'm also glad I didn't bother spending time with them.
This is great! I will definitely be using this in my own projects.
I can see both sides of this coin. On the one hand, the positive use case is actually pretty helpful -- I _would_ like to know if I'm at a bar and, for example, some friends are in the back that I might have otherwise missed.

But on the flipside, this has the potential to turn a lot of social situations slightly sticky -- I immediately think back to a friend's "worst date ever" story where she was asked out by a guy who later cancelled because "work stuff came up". And then she ran into him, drunk, with his buddies, at the same bar.

At least before FB he could have hidden under a table! ;)
Interesting - thanks! Are any of those plans more reasonably priced than Amazon's?
I'm confused. if project loon is going bring internet to the 2/3 rds of the world that can't afford to access the internet. how are they going to afford to pay for stuff on ads they click?
It's still there in Google+, under locations.
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I have mixed feelings about this. We're in the process of moving from Linode to Rackspace but haven't flicked the switch just yet - was planning to this weekend.

Our Linode server (16 GB plan) has been performing terrible lately wrt I/O (compared to, say, a Macbook Pro running the same computations), and we decided we've had enough. I guess we'll have to compare the two after the upgrade and decide.
I would love to hear why as well! Our quality and stability have significantly improved over the last year and as a co-founder of DO, I would like to understand what specific issues you faced. Feel free to shoot me an email directly (mitch@digitalocean.com) to take this conversation offline.
You could be much more efficient by separating next actions from date-triggered actions.
I can confirm this!
An invasion on privacy for those people whom FB can trick into activating the feature.
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"it constrains programmers so much, that the damage a bad programmer can inflict is greatly reduced"

I have no idea what you mean by this.
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I've got a pretty big Aperture library, so it will take a long time to sync everything. Loom offered a Aperture import feature, so I was toying with trying them out.

Now I don't know what to do.
For more information on how Debian, Fedora, and others are dealing with ensurepip see "Distributions wrestle with pip" at https://lwn.net/Articles/591421/
Anybody know when Xubuntu and Lubuntu will be updated to 14.04?

Is it usually the same day or a few days later?
Wow, if you done all that, I want to see your code :) Particularly the distributed systems in Arc. Mind sharing a link to any code you have online (even if it's not that)?

I took SICP a long time ago... all the pure functional stuff was great and elegant. I never really got how you can program "real world" / stateful stuff like distributed systems in Lisp dialects. When I look at Lisp code with hash tables and so forth it just looks horrible to me.
I think these new nodes are still pretty lightly used, give it a few months and then do a comparison. Benchmarking VPS/cloud instances can be tricky since you might be on a quite node or a heavily utilized node. You really need to provision many machines and run the checks at random times over a period and then average the scores out.

I upgraded some of my VMs and they all failed to boot on their own and I had to manually boot each one after the migration.
Large-scale traffic analysis (dragnet surveillance) + hacking into exit nodes already made compromising TOR users technically feasible before the heartbleed exploit.

The whole cypherpunk/online anonymity movement which spawned TOR was largely predicated on nation states acting legally. But when they can secretly hack into every router, fiber cable, and gateway endpoint without any question of legality then anonymity and privacy online is no longer an option for anyone, even the most technically-proficient.
But as gatehouse says, it comes back to bite them if it turns out that they were lying and he has proof.
I have my doubts M$ was really that keen on that path; after all, there's a lot of stuff in Xenix that M$ wouldn't own and that's always been a problem for Gates and the boys. So OS/2 for a while was the heir apparent, which would have also changed things quite a bit (for good, I think, but many disagree). What we got was stepchild of VMS, which also could have been great, but has wandered off in it's own direction.
I think you are being downvoted because of tone rather than fact.

Facts: Ubuntu desktop releases are available in a variety of 'flavours' including Lubuntu, Xubuntu and Gnome Ubuntu. The Kubuntu release has external sponsorship from Blue Systems. There is also UbuntuStudio that packages a lot of music/sound/graphics/video applications with a slightly remodelled XFCE4 UI. LTS status is limited to 3 years for the 'flavours' as opposed to 5 years for the Unity based Ubuntu, still one year overlap with the next LTS.

You can, as go8z says, install a range of desktop sessions on stock Ubuntu, but you do end up with a certain amount of duplication e.g. power manager, mousepad/Abiword and gedit/LibreOffice &c.

Plenty of choice so we can get our work done. It is all here...

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/
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I dont think heartbleed was necessary to crack Silk Road server - after all its just another php server, those arent really known for being air-tight.

Especially the programmer who basically copypasted stuff from stackoverflow.
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First Kendo impression: Unnecessarily verbose docs, completely bloated @ 1.4MB of js minified, super-monolithic, probably a royal pain to use with angular or ember.

No way in hell I'm using this.
Sad too see a great product go, but happy to see it make its way into a product I also use :-)
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Here is an example of a press page done with pressroom.io : http://press.ecomarket.com/
Can't read: it crashes Safari. Its interesting because it is the only repeatable why I have found to crash Safari on my Mac.
Registered services and nodes can be queried using both a DNS interface as well as an HTTP interface.

This is very cool. Integrating with a name resolution protocol that every existing programmer and stack knows how to use (often without even thinking about it) should lead to some magical "just works" moments.
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I guess my "line" would have to be where you've built a software product professionally. Whether it be your company or an outside company. My argument is coming from the bootcamp grads that don't call themselves JR or Entry level.
I second this.

With most large and modular systems in C (think Linux kernel), you're completely lost and the internal architecture is opaque.

PostgreSQL's source code is a marvel of clarity.
I feel for the guy. No idea what he thought was going to come of doing this, but I bet it wasn't this. I have a hard time believing he meant to steal 900 identities without using at least a couple layers of protection.

But then again I have no idea what else he was expecting to get.
David Ruelle elegantly discusses similar ideas in a great nontechnical book called Chance and Chaos (1995). Worth reading.
I think I will shoot the EFF an email asking for an update on that now that GPL3 is trying to accomplish the same thing as the Affero license (anti-Tivoization). That '#UnreleasedMods' section appears to have been written for GPL2.
What does classically correlated mean? Is it different than quantum correlated? (Is this analogous to the difference between pure and mixed states?)
Yes, you still have to apt-get install python3-pip, just like older releases. This doesn't sound like the worst thing in the world though.
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Will this be smart enough to not tell me every time my friends who live next door to me are nearby?
How will it bite them? (you should read that question as "If it turns out Putin is exposed as a liar about monitoring his own people what could the populace do that would make Putin give a shit?")
How does this differ from http://www.serfdom.io/, another HashiCorp product?
Except they're probably not... Not all the acquisitions of this sort are "you're filthy rich now", especially after dilution, taxes, and plain old time.
And he won't give a shit because he's already getting away with other things. We have to start treating the world as a global community. What if Russia was doing this to Canada? Would other countries just stand by to see how badly it escalates or immediately jump in as peace keepers?

Edit: I should clarify and that it isn't "Russia" doing it to anyone, it is Putin and the people in control there.
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