skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SoftLayer runs good gear, at one point when I worked at a shop where we had almost pure SSD colocated infrastructure, I ran into one of their reps at the bar at a conference and he said that he and I were competing for the same equipment buys from both SuperMicro and in the way of intel SSDs.
From a gross accumulation of points, yes. From a 'most likely to go viral' standpoint, we've noticed quite the opposite.

In the several communities my team and I manage, those most likely to go viral / frontpage / call it what you will, are members of one of two camps: Great curators or trolls.

Trolls will generally go viral almost immediately based on the sheer volume of interaction with their posts (think, nude selfies posted as 'fashion').

Being pretty proactive with the banhammer will enforce the norm reasonably well, as people will pretty rapidly figure out that in order to make it to the leaderboard, you need to not be banned. It's more Hunger Games than Cocktail Party.

Also as a bit of a tangent - those who spend the most time on site are overwhelmingly not top commentors, contributors, or voters. They're consumers. We have several thousand users who spend an average of 4 hours on site /per day/ who've interacted with a post less than ten times.
Maybe because Linux people aren't interested in Microsoft infra?

Also, they will have only HVM Linux VMs, and last I checked paravirt Xen (what most AWS runs, probably also Linode, maybe DO) tends to be faster than HVM.
Yes, that was it! Thank you.
Not exactly deployed yet, but it's going to be Linode for sure, perhaps with PiCloud for computation-intensive parts. I looked at AWS for a while, but seems overkill at the moment, besides, the AWS management panel and the pricing pages/simple calculator are not exactly user-friendly – and that might've influenced my decision a tad, having a simpler UI.

For personal and test projects, I use DigitalOcean – the lower price being the main reason.

Linode resizing seems a bit better, too – so for a big project which (hopefully) will need scaling, that's a plus. But I ran a Linode for two months before switching to DO, and tried to resize the disk image, and the whole thing went unresponsive, had to start from scratch (thankfully, no data was lost, I was just playing at that moment).
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Clients drive design 99.9% of the time.

Clients like it because they think the cool kids are doing it.

Clients also like gimmicky scroll effects and parallax.
Interesting article. Although to say this is for 'Tech Companies' is a bit off. A lot of the schools on that list are likely only on there due to geographic location (Bay Area or greater California area). There are plenty of Midwest and East Coast schools that feed plenty of Tech Companies, just not necessarily the few big ones out in California used for this infographic. If this were better accounted for I'd imagine there would be more big name Midwest schools and Ivy's alike.
> I'm reading this and thinking about the history of the iPhone. Starting with no copy/paste (something even available in elementary school) thru to maps. How is Apple's track record different to Microsoft/Surface?

The difference is that Microsoft is late to the game. Surface isn't trying to compete with the 2006 iPhone that has no copy/paste. It's trying to compete with 2014 Apple and Android devices whose historical flaws have already had time to be polished out.
I don't know how widespread these are, but you could try looking for something like a Nicklecade. Old school arcades, all or most games for a nickel.
I bought dg.gs ages ago. (dg is my initials.) It's handy for super-short email addresses when you have to type one into a touch screen credit card terminal like square.
That changes things a bit. If you believe strongly in the startup's strategic goals, then perhaps you can convince yourself that your current goal is purely tactical, and can indeed force yourself through it with willpower alone. Sometimes -- rarely, IMHO -- flogging yourself to get through some necessary shit work does make sense.

If you were actually working at the startup, on its principal mission, then your problem would be more complex. Not only would you have to think about the appropriateness/advisability of the particular feature you're implementing, but you'd have to constantly evaluate it in light of your relationship with your SO and your prospects in the new company. It would be very difficult to separate these questions in your mind, so IMHO it's a good thing you don't have to.
We're running a Rails app on Heroku but we're not happy with its performance/price, although we like the convenience. Is there any of service that rivals Heroku in terms of the convenience of running and maintaining a Rails app?
Well, we have a lot of satellites around earth, but we still have a lot of uses for drones, right? So I guess the answer is no, they don't count for this particular question... :)
Build an interest graph. People spend lots of their income on their most passionate hobbies. If you can help them do their hobbies, you have a chance to sell them the stuff they need for their hobbies.
AWS is good but cause we are using sensitive data that can't be hosted anywhere else than a server owned by us , we have to rent a server and make sure we are the only ones that have access to it!
Dedicated is a nice step in between a
VPS and collocation of your own servers. Plus I had servers near US East that had 10ms or so ping time to MongoHQ which is AWS. So use dedicated for your web/app servers (which are easier to manage) and AWS solutions for your database, search, analytics and monitoring.
Does anyone know of any hosting services that have GPU instances, other than Amazon?
Sucks on iPad. There's a weird too fast scroll acceleration.
Something similar happened in Cryptonomicon, certainly; in the section of the story where Detachment 2702 is 'widening the bell curve', there's the segment where they take the cook who died of a heart attack in the cold freezer (blond hair, mushroom, tattoo on his arm with a heart and the name "Griselda"), put him in the wet suit with the watch, and dump him in the ocean; they also pack a coffin full of meat from same freezer, nail it shut, and plaster it with biohazard stickers to ensure that it won't be opened.

I've read the book a few times.
Contribute to one you already use. Why do you think you need to look for anything else?
How does it follow that it is elitist?

What if the culture of whatever forum really liked fart jokes and then the majority stormed in and started talking about the weather? Are the jokers being elitist when they say they don't like the changes that have happened?
I worked at a place where 50% of our time was supposed to be refactoring/boy scouting/cleanup work. The codebase was so bad and delivery so painful that management endorsed it. But the pressure to deliver never let up and so that policy is now a running joke.
Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6929705
> the whole thing went unresponsive

Do you mean after it came back up? Resizing a Linode requires shutting down the instance, then you have to boot it again.
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I'm going to keep saying it but nobody should be using Linode for production use. They have a history of hiding critical issues (in particular security) from their customers. It really is unacceptable and inexcusable conduct.
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> Or is there actually a solid way to establish prior art just by publishing your method?

There is a service [1] that does this, and is registered as a "mandatory to search" resource with the WIPO. It costs $120/page, which is steep, but surely cheaper than patent prosecution. There are other "mandatory search" archives [2] under the Patent Cooperation Treaty "Minimum Documentation" rules, many of which are academic journals. These are not the only means of "public disclosure" but my (very limited) understanding is that the patent office is guaranteed to look at the sources on that list.

[1] http://www.researchdisclosure.com/publishing-disclosures

[2] http://www.wipo.int/standards/en/part_04.html
This uses Esper, right?

Esper is awesome all by itself.
Surface Pro 3 review: Is the third time the charm?
Haha, to a certain degree you're right. There is more to it that is different from meditation. But I've been a semi-regular practitioner of meditation for a couple of years now. In fact, the big attack I had earlier this year was while I was at a meditation class!

Had I followed what is taught in meditation I'm sure I would have eventually had the same result. But as a very technical, science-oriented person its nice to know that there is research behind what our ancestors realized a few thousand years ago.
No, as far as I know, AWS is the only service that has GPU instances. Probably current demand is not yet high enough to justify the purchase and maintenance of such instances for other cloud providers.
Even PiCloud (which runs on the AWS infrastructure) has no GPU instances.
Sounds like the definition of colocation to me. I'd take "in-house" to mean you have dedicated Internet and UPS on premises.
RailsMachine. Very pleased with the service, too.
Has anyone else had trouble with external thunderbolt<->dual dvi adapters in the 10.9.x series? I have a Mac at home that crashes the windowserver every time my external Monoprice IPS monitor is plugged in. It doesn't happen on a newer Retina mac at all.
If you are in the U.S., Psychiatrists will often ask who your therapist is. If you are in the U.S. keep in mind that they may be expecting you to work through traditional therapy while they work on your drug regimen. They certainly know how to offer non-drug therapy but many have become medicine coaches due to the way the system works / patient expectations work.
Not all companies have as much power as Newegg to fight back. I'm guessing it does often make financial sense to just pay it, otherwise companies would have turned the tables already. I don't think it's a lack of long term thinking as much as it is a tragedy of the commons related situation.
VMFarms. I'm a solo-founder, 4 years in business, and just can't do everything anymore. I moved there from Rackspace almost a year ago and absolutely couldn't be happier, they are my devops team now. I have a dev environment on DO for mobile work on the Chromebook too which is working out fine.
Bar graph visualization of the poll: http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=7791612
No, having a tablet was the reason to buy a MS tablet

Office was their main differentiator in your eyes, other people might have different priorities to which the designers must also cater. Keep in your mind they had to get right on the first try everything their concurrents developed throughout years (including copy/paste), the sole fact they did this to some degree is an example of competency.

The pen/x86 processor were, to me, the main selling points of surface pro. I did not see any reason to own a RT. Later I bought a Samsung Note that, although wasn't everything I wanted, was at the right price range for what it offered.
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I've been hosting on Webfaction for some years now and it has been great.
> "you'd like to think your community-of-choice is unique"

All communities are unique. This is the only community I know of that obsesses over a guy who makes bingo cards for a living. That doesn't mean we're necessarily better than other communities, just that we have our own specific approach to downvotes that people coming from other communities might be surprised by. (In particular, we usually downvote tangential/uninteresting comments, memes, and humor -- edw519 is an exception because his humor is typically both topical and side-splittingly entertaining.)

The person in question posted one of those types of comments, and then asked why it was being poorly received. He has now been educated as to what "we", in aggregate, are looking for.
Yeah, I know, I did everything as needed. The console showed that it was online, but I couldn't SSH into it or use the LISH web console to access it.
I wrote to their support team, but at that point, I had already redone everything from scratch.
Twitter is a terrible place for conversation to take place. There is no capacity for nuance or well-reasoned thought. It's a site for announcements, not nuanced musing, as expected from a place where every comment has to be a soundbite. Occasionally there might be a two-way conversation that works well, but that's not the norm.
I would not call that unrealistic. A few comments:

(1) Only on HN would anyone dream of referring to your list as "everything". You are actually targeting a very narrow, focused skill set: those required for a small(-ish) software or software-intensive business. Like it or not, you're proposing becoming a specialist (albeit with a somewhat broader specialty than a typical job description would call for).

(2) In the real world, "everything" includes many, many other things. To get good at all that stuff on your list, you'll need to leave other skills by the wayside. The comment by taprun mentions chess, running, and cooking. You won't be getting better at any of those.

(3) The I-do-everything approach sets a hard limit on the size of a business. An important reason for hiring & delegating is so that a business can grow.
Rackspace dedicated servers
I've never managed devops so that is surprising to me. I thought that given the economies of scale, AWS would be cheaper than collocated just because of staffing. How many people do you have employed for devops?
I remember in high school searching for info on the W80 nuclear warhead and seeing a similar ad for "New and used W80 warheads". Not sure what the shipping's like on craters.
The BizSpark program should be a major draw as well. I just don't think everyone knows about it and the fact that Microsoft will give your startup or even "startup" $150 in Azure credits per month for three years, as well as an ultimate MSDN subscription, both of which can be expanded to multiple accounts for your company or friends so each additional account also gets $150 a month and their own msdn subscription, etc.

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0064p/

http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/default.aspx
They should have tested on a right handed designer at least. Panos looks left handed, is he the only guy that has played with it?
I would guess that the sounds are both enqueued, and then playback of both actually starts slightly later, perhaps when the audio hardware indicates that it's ready to start accepting data.
Not quite as convenient as heroic but still quite nice in the deployment and configuration sense is engineyard.
It would allow to distribute and package the library simply, rather than having to checkout the library in the other projects dir and have weird require(../../lib/module/other)
This is cool, I haven't seen this on a HN poll before. Thanks
I was just thinking I should write a daily blog for the three different Macs I interact with daily and the problems they don't have. I even do remote updates to a collocated Mac Mini that is just singing along. Having lived through the fear of the remote reboot on nearly every platform for a while now, I'd say that it's pretty telling that I can let Software Update go on my remote machine nearly carefree.
I believe Virgin partners with other airlines for all their international flights. Like, "Air Tahiti Nui operated by Virgin".
Perfect use case for IPv6 anyway.
This is why patents like this are annoying. The idea of automated bed leveling wasn't novel by the time this patent had been filed, and doing it with force measurement is an obvious method to someone interested in automated bed leveling. There's nothing novel about doing bed leveling with force measurement.
This was the show stopper comment for me. I was somewhat considering this for my back-and-forth home and office computer. But the thought of ANY stutter for the price I'd be paying keeps me in line to get a regular laptop. It's heavier, but once it's plopped down on a desk and I need it to WORK, the weight factor is gone.

For those looking for more of a working "Tablet", well, maybe it's a different story.
Amazon’s Tactics Confirm Its Critics’ Worst Suspicions
There are links to all of the purported data problems here: http://wcgortel.com/pikettys-problem

It is not clear that this data would be enough to change the conclusions made in the book.
Have a look at AWS OpsWorks.
Very nice. I suggest adding a link back to the poll, perhaps make the title in the gray box clickable.
DO runs KVM in case anyone reading this is wondering.
How do you know the ops team for the place where you co-locate does not have access to it?

If your data is that sensitive you don't want to rent the thing, you want to own it and you want it to be in a cage that is just yours (or a rack with a lock on it that only you have the key to).
Where's Joyent? We've been using them for 2+ years and couldn't be happier.
We moved from Rackspace to SoftLayer (and running Postgres on bare metal with SSD now), you can hardly get better performance for your money. Generally we're incredibly happy with SL (happy to give you more details if you want, just email me).
I think flying drone explorers would make more sense on Venus instead of Mars. They could spend most of the time connected to solar-cell-covered balloons 50km above the surface and occasionally dip down into the oven for a brief look.
Nice write up. I too have evaluated almost every MV* framework. I started with knockout a few years back and extended it to fit the mvc pattern. Eventually I went all in with angular and have found it ideal for a few reasons, one which you mentioned; it's decoupling from a full stack. I currently have built rails application templates to generate an ideal angular full stack, and also rake tasks to compile the code base into Cordova mobile builds. I can say that without a doubt there is no going back. Complete decoupling of the client and server is the Golden goose. As far as being more meteor like it's pretty easy to spin up a websocket layer for the client and server. I personally think a Swiss army knife is a good representation of angular due to its flexibility to integrate with existing stacks. One could in theory slowly replace the entire front-end of any stack.
I've been considering migrating a bunch of things to Linode. I have read a lot of reviews and have not seen too many negative things. Do you have any more information or advice on where I can look to find out about what you are referring to?

I currently use Rackspace for anything critical. My experiences have been extremely positive with them. In a few years of using them I've only had one issue where I wasn't happy with them, but in the hosting world that's pretty good.
The only reason i'm looking to migrate things is because Rackspace is far more expensive.

If not Linode, which service do you prefer?
Someone else posted this: http://hnlike.com/hncharts/chart/?id=7791612 which is a useful comparison. Looks like AWS still has the top spot, but what's impressive is how quickly digital ocean has risen to prominence. At the time of writing it's number 2. I use it myself and couldn't be happier with it. Easily one of the easiest to use hosting providers I've used and the technical articles on their site are great as well.
not just 10.9.3,
entire 10.9.x is the crappiest OSX of all times !
So many stability issues.
Its not really odd, its a natural way to convert a quantity stated in three units that have no obvious relation even to each other to someone unfamiliar with the pre-decimal system into a quantity stated in a single unit.
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Terence is doing something vitally important. 3D printing is likely to be a "next big thing" and we have a duty to ensure the technology stays as open as possible.

As a community, we're lucky that ideas like 'open source' and 'freedom to tinker' are highly valued. Each of us has benefited tremendously from that commitment. But it wasn't an accident. Hackers, scientists and engineers have been fighting mini-battles over those ideas since the days of the 60s counter-culture.

When I stop and think about it, I feel a lot of gratitude and respect for our colleagues who set the precedent for an open Internet so early on. We have an obligation to pay that precedent forward so that technologies like 3D printing and DIY Bio can develop into vibrant ecosystems like the Internet.
> Watch every Disney movie ever made...

Really now?

Even mostly forgotten features like Saludos Amigos and Make Mine Music?

Even Song of the South, which Disney jealously guards from prying eyes?

Alas, I'll probably never know, as I don't do that "Facebook Login" thing. But I'm curious.
Ask HN: meetups in SoCal and LA?
Hi there,

I'm a founder and a developer working on a mobile travel startup, currently in LA area.

Could you guys recommend me some worthwhile local networking events or meetup groups?
There are a few others... Nvidia has a list at http://www.nvidia.com/object/gpu-cloud-computing-services.ht...
It seems strange that my school (University of Waterloo) shows no people going to Google. Especially since there is a large Google office less than 5km from campus.
I'm curious about your choices here, I would not really trust MongoDB with my data for a few reasons, but at the same time, building on Google's services seems even more risky - if they shut down those services (which is not inconceivable), you'd be facing a pretty nasty rewrite + migration to a new platform.
Five Things Holding-Up The ‘Apple-Beats Deal’
I guess every provider has its "horror story".
Rackspace suffering outages, DigitalOcean closing a personal site (if I recall correctly) for some dubious reasons, AWS having problems with EBS-EC2 interaction (again, not entirely sure of the details).

I'm still considering Rackspace as an alternative.
Well, it is a phone... It's going to have access to geo data from the local cell phone towers, no timezone hacks necessary. In fact I believe the iPhone adjusts your active timezone automatically according to the geo data collected from the local cell tower, hence why your phone time changes when you touch down after a long flight.
What's the best European equivalent of Heroku?
Yes, I remember that well. Seeing the animated graphics linked within that article really was an 'ah ha!' moment for me; I'd definitely recommend it as an introductory intuitive motivation.
Azure is on the menu now.
Working in traditional document-driven software with a good autosave implementation is like using v2.5 of a really bad source control system.

In v1, before autosave, the system only kept one commit, but you could choose when to do it.

V2 let you commit when you want but also committed for you automatically, which is nice, but hopefully you don't want to revert changes.

V2.5 is like v2 except that it keeps a few of the older commits. The usefulness of this feature is almost completely eliminated by the fact that the software decides which commits to keep, not the user.

When you think about it that way, it's insane to think that it's the normal mode of operation. The technology and concepts to fix it already exist; the only reason we don't have anything better is because no one has figured out the right user experience.
> It becomes a witch-hunt when he encourages people to submit prior art to invalidate the patent

It's curious that you did not justify this statement. The author did not (to my reading) encourage people to spam the USPTO with the same prior art submission that he/she did. I might agree with you that such a move would be counter-productive. The reality, though is that submitting prior art to a patent application is how the system works, so how can encouraging people to work with the system be considered a witch-hunt?

Sure, the author is encouraging people to do so as a way to 'spite' Makerbot, but the end result is that the USPTO has crowd-sourced prior art with which to make an informed decision (and this is not a bad thing).