skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You sure about that? I'm almost positive they've had a $10 plan before. When I signed up a few years ago I needed 1GB of RAM and the cheapest plan only had 512MB. I ended up paying $20 (well, $19.95 or whatever it was) and still do. Up until just recently my plan has always been the "one step up" plan from entry level. It was only with the "we doubled everything" announcement that they got rid of the plan below mine.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6268610
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/16/microsoft_catapult_f...
"If you're a true introvert, your biggest enemy is yourself. It's your desire to be alone"

Yes and Yes.

In a way, it's not too different than, say, weight loss.

Thinking rationally, you know that, on the medium/long term, it would be better for you to exercise and eat healthily (go out, meet people and be social), but it's easy to give in to short term satisfaction and eat that bag of chips and tub of ice-cream (stay at home and watch a movie/play videogames).

But the OP seems to be shy rather than introvert, to be fair.
If the problem is caused by a culture of consumerism and economic efficiency, do you expect to fix it with a focus on efficiency or cultural change?

Educational and stimulative efforts (through fines or rewards) have been successful in the sense that most people generally agree that being less wasteful and trying to recycle is a good idea, and know/feel that they could do more. This culture seeps into meetings, boardrooms, and annual reports, as well as laws, courts, and policing.
Penn Jillette is a vocal Libertarian (leaning anarcho-capitalist), and fellow at the Cato Institute. So yes, I'd say it is a political thing for them.

That said, their approach to these topics tends to be one of the more tolerable I've seen, as they actually have a sense of humour, unlike most ideologues.
An easy introduction to load balancing
Struggle to reach potential customers. Are you really advocating for a return to the Yellow Pages and direct mail postcards?
Thanks for the tip, never thought about r/london
Everything in context. It is huge for Microsoft specifically because it's previously been so entangled. Progress is good on all fronts. For the very large portion of the world that uses IE by default and will in the future get faster/better upgrades to be more secure and more full-featured, this is great.
The blog mentions that these $10 plans are on the "new" hardware, which, AFAICT, doesn't allow access to shared [unused] cores on the host anymore, so you really do have only 1 core max. FWIW. They're said to be nice speedy cores, though I've never tried one myself.

Anyway, it's nice to see linode finally come down in their price point, thank goodness for competition, they're obviously responding to DO with this move. Unfortunately the $5 DO is good enough for me [SSD makes is so that swap time is less painful if I temporarily max out the RAM] so, alas, will be sticking with DO for now :|
It feels shockingly low because it's so much less than we've been seeing for companies that seem less valuable.
Have a look at playing the Asteroids game with a card, it's quite intuitive. I'm not saying we should play all games this way (I like d-pads too), just showing we can, and it's worth exploring.
With Paprika, it's really simple to bind properties like position/rotation of a card and have it trigger an event when you flip it or stack it.
I wonder how much of this is due to people realizing that interacting with the types of people who are "engaged" by these big brands on facebook doesn't lead to interesting conversations?

The small amount of such brand engagement I've witnessed has reminded me of the rule of thumb: "just pretend comment systems on large websites don't exist."
Fun Jekyll Tricks
Anybody knows whats is the IN/OUT transfer rate of DO?
Create the ultimate world clock with a quantum link
Or really, any of the about 50 galaxies in our local group.

If we could travel at light speed that is, which we can't and likely never will.
Practice relationships, not pitches
I think it's something that can only be learned by oneself, and cannot be told by anyone else.
People get to make up their own minds, never mind who created the attitude. It's patronizing to decide what someone else should choose for a career. So the solution doesn't lie in that direction.

And societal pressure comes largely from individual actions. If its wrong to overrule individual choices, then we're left with influencing folks early, perhaps with better role models.

I happen to know male nurses and female programmers. Sometimes I find myself thinking it a little odd, and take pains to show no surprise and make no remark that would reinforce my internal stereotypes.
"Twitter drastically reduces the complexity of its signup process, which brings double-digit growth..Wall Street is happy, but engagement suffers, and revenue/user drops. What metric really matters now?"

Call me old-fashioned, but revenue is revenue. Slicing it up as 'revenue/user' is artificial, because unless you also marry 'revenue/user' with 'cost of user acquisition', 'revenue/user' is (almost) meaningless. Example: If Twitter suddenly got another, say, 30 million users overnight for essentially $0 in acquisition costs (perhaps just the incremental network and server costs), 'revenue/user' would indeed decline overnight. Why should they care?

Revenue and cost of generating that revenue are what really matter.
How humans tend to think about the world.
Nice Height Converter
Anandtech suggests that fabless ssd companies are having a harder time competing[1]. In such a light, the strategic long term upside would be more important than the premium paid by SanDisk.

[1]: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8177/sandisk-to-acquire-fusion...
guns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVzOV1EeeHw

recycling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rExEVZlQia4
That was my reaction too. I guess the stock valuation seems low too then.

Hardware is expensive, especially high performance hardware. R&D is a minimum 3 years and 10 million dollars per product. 1.1B is roughly a 10x on a dozen products and that doesn't include all the other operating costs.

I'm oversimplifying things, but this was the thought process that concluded with 1.1B seeming low.
I guess many people have different perspectives.
FB uses Fusion-IO for text and metadata, not content. Most of their footprint is HDD.
I can't tell you how many times my wife has said "pull over, and stop driving so i can input the address". It's really annoying.
A black hole with the same mass as the sun wouldn't be a black hole at all, would it?
If a Domino's moped is the worst thing in the cycle lane I think I'm doing well.

It's usually taxis and broken glass around here.
I thought the same, with the 21% above closing price.

> Fusion-io's shares were trading at $11.61 before the bell on Monday, suggesting that some investors were expecting a higher offer for the company.

Seems like investors were looking for a higher price as well. My thought on why people think it is a low offer: the general tech world has had (shockingly) high valuations lately for companies. So when people see a "low" valuation, but still reasonable by long term trends, it is a shock. But Fusion is also hardware versus the AirBnB, WhatsApp, etc. valuations for software. Margins could be a big factor.
"Aspirational" brands are the absolute best fit for Facebook because a major differentiating factor between them is social signalling.

For any practical use, the cars will do an equally good job. So am I a "BMW guy" or a "Mercedes guy"? Facebook is a great place to create and exhibit that sort of public identity.
and that brings us to the crux of the issue...... there was no one chatting in there.

we've built a great app, with gamification elements (eg check out the badges on my user profile http://www.LiveWorldCupChat.com/Dean.Collins ), we have the ability to email friends, send out facebook and twitter links etc.....and no one is using it......

We've had over 5,000 people sign up for the various http://www.LiveFanChat.com sites but just unsure how to get it to progress.
310 Microsoft patents used in Android revealed by Chinese gov
The flash business is rough. Controller technology (which used to be a big differentiating feature) is rapidly commoditizing and the NAND itself has long been a commodity. We are heading into a big price war with low margins. It hit consumer drives first but now it's coming to the enterprise. Expect more consolidation.
I didn't downvote you, but I'm gonna guess it's due to the tone of your post :

> Way to roll over

> I didn't bother delving

> you should [do this]

etc.
Love the idea and execution :)
Linode recently converted to SSD as well.
I'm with you, and possibly for reasons beyond just the financials. If you look at the packaging, marketing and other variables (such as the likely customer of $22k/3TB of Flash) one gets the feeling that this is a very "premium" product and as such the company itself would also sell at such a premium.
If I understand correctly, Einstein's cosmological constant was intended to produce a steady-state universe, not an accelerating one.

20th century cosmology could be seen as a long argument over the sign of Einstein's constant.
Consultants/Freelancers: What tools do you use to estimate project costs?
What tools do you use to estimate project costs? i.e. pre-sales.

If you use spreadsheets and don't mind sharing, please share in your comments or send it to me at: [a n u p s h i n d e (a t) g m a i l ]
Fun fact: When Fusion-io first released their hardware, the NSA purchased every production run for six months. Regular customers could get evaluation cards, but they had to wait a long time for production purchases due to the complete high speed data storage buy up.
Ah, look at all the straw men. But since you made 'em, you can tidy 'em up. I'm too busy today.

Go watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ6mhRZ8LjM

Now we can see the police and FBI behavior toward the civil rights movement for what it was: the police helping people in power stay in power.

One of the defaults on Hacker News is a general skepticism toward increasing police power. It's amazing to me how quickly that can switch to justification when it's the "wrong" people getting policed. The reason Aaron Swartz got pursued so vigorously is exactly the reason that Occupy did: they were both (correctly) perceived as a political threat to people with power and wealth.
Pretty harsh standard, especially as "can not take care of" is left undefined and presumed pretty high in this rather affluent culture. There's a vast difference between "incapable of caring for children" vs "earns above the US poverty line, which itself is above some 87% of everyone on the planet" (or even "above my own arbitrary standard which is well into the 90th percentile of world population").

Sure, if you can't care for kids don't make 'em. But if you're going to demonize what sounds like a broad swath of the population, you'd best define the crux of your proposition, to wit "care for".
> Once it has been on the internet, it is forever.

If that were truly the case, we wouldn't be so worried about NSA retention of data.
High time to switch to Postgresql, for its maturity, free price,simple and the newly-added JSON feature.
Last week's interview coding practice - Hash Tables (2012)
Cet MicroWPF – WPF for Netduino (Plus) 2 and the FTDI FT800 Eve
It's simply formal recognition from the state that you have done something of value. The exact name of the reward is a historical hang-over which make it a little more quaint.
Inception anyway I read a lil more in your doc and just wanted to share my "stack". Or how I approach people.

Generally it's a comment on what they have.

But I usually go up to a girl and:

Me: "You have really nice hair."

Girl: Thanks!

Me: How's your day going?

So eventually opening isn't really bad it's the middle part. I started out with interview question. How's your day? What are you up to?

Yeah I know very boring but doing this enough time you'll eventually figure out how to make it not boring.

The thing is you're trying to find subjects that they want to talk about or that you guys "connect".

One approach is cold read.

Which is you're not from around here? Or you're... Chinese. Guessing their ethnicity. It's fun. With this in mind you can go into subject of here they're from and what's good to eat there. Learning how to thread a conversation is important.

Learning how give an interesting answer is equally important btw. If they ask you a question most of the time they want you to ask them the same question.

An example would be how's life? If they ask you that and after you answer it you should ask them that too! Cause you have to contribute to the conversation.

Also if they ask you interview questions. You just learn how to answer in interesting way.

What do you do?

Have you watched office space? Where the guy go stuck working in a cubicle and got 7 bosses that he have to report and work under? Eventually he got sick of it?

"Yeah!"

Well, I'm the opposite, I actually work in a cubicle and rather enjoy it. Thankfully I dont' have 7 bosses.

edit:

You practice all these different aspect/tricks of conversation separately. Figure out where in your conversation skill is lacking and practice.

Keep on practicing until it become natural. It'll seem contrive at first but eventually it gets easier.

edit2:

If I ever in SF we should hang out and grab a beer. I'm always down to have new friends anyway.

Unfortunately for the forseeable future I'll be in LA.
Apples to oranges. AWS's main appeal isn't VMs (EC2), it's the huge portfolio of other services you can make use of.

Linode is more of a VM host with a few also-ran services that they are experimenting with (Load Balancing).

If all you need is somewhere to host a cheap VM, go Linode. If you want to make use of a larger collection of services (that you don't have to maintain) to build applications on, AWS may be worth a look.
You're right, the NYT isn't perfect; far from it. They don't know many things they should, and they sometimes fall prey to their own biases. But they're still a lot better than MSNBC or Yahoo (I'm not sure how they can be compared to Fox News, which "reports" more fiction than fact, so it can't really be considered news at all). You can't really go to Yahoo and see what's going on. At best you'll get anecdotes collected by the news agencies, but they don't have the people to put it in context.
Apparently the free education thing applies sometimes:

http://iso.uni.lodz.pl/study-in-english/terms-of-studying-in...
/r/programmerhumor
I have seen this "what is that we don't know" argument used over and over again. The primary claim being the other side has more data and can thus make more intelligent decisions.

A big problem here is that more data somehow translated to better decisions. The second being that the twitter folks are intelligent than me (they could very well be but cannot derive at that decision. which is to say, you simply have to think that you are smarter than them).
Does this mean that Internet Explorer can, in fact, be run completely independently of the core operating system?
The government is not under "our" control. That's a naive and stupid fantasy.
It's still deterministic, strictly speaking. Maybe we need more subtle terminology here, like "fog of war" or "situational awareness" – as in "even with reference counting, the programmer may lose situational awareness of deallocation when calling into libraries beyond the fog of war."
Friendships don't just click into place on the first interaction between two or more people. They depend on proximity and frequency. They take time to develop

I think this is what most people mean when they say "I need to meet people". Yes, you meet people every day, but often the circumstances are very poor for establishing friendships. No matter how good you are at friendship maintenance, circumstances are important for beginning a friendship unless you are just incredibly good at starting friendships.
Are you aware of Japanese Arcade Games with Cards? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJeN3QrdXlI ; I'd like to see such a concept on PCs as well.
Exactly, IE has come a long ways in the past few versions, but it's still behind other modern browsers. It makes me wonder why MS is still pushing it. Why not just bundle another browser with Windows and save themselves some effort?
Cancer pill fights disease and gives lifelong protection
On a sidenote, why use JPEGs for screenshots? It makes text look awful, use PNG already.

http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communit...

I see this problem in almost all MSDN blogs, must be part of a convoluted CMS workflow or something.
> one could argue that it's supporting the aristocratic system

One could. But most people would disagree.
Give yourself courage , i started mine left me broke and i closed it stayed without work for an year but did some mear jobs here computer hardware repair and enhanced my knowledge nowadays when people ask me i feel good telling them i got broke and closed it but am better now knowledge wise and am planning to start it again and this time it will pick up ... be proud you started it and remember the way and the ideas you had are still there and you can even start and enhance it more ..... i read the guy who started Github left to stsrt another you can also do so ... think of an idea you will succeed again.
Thinking as a Service
Hopefully they do what Firefox tried (and failed) to do: ship a stable, enterprise version and an advanced version. No locking to arbitrary versions, but able to say, support "IE11 and IE Latest" in your product. Hopefully they allow developers to opt into a 30-60 day preview window such that they can remain a bit ahead of their customers.
"Given that small actions within an organization can have broad implications for organizational culture (Fleming & Zyglidopoulos, 2008), we postulate that aggressive goal setting within an organization will foster an organizational climate ripe for unethical behavior. That is, not only does goal setting
directly motivate unethical behavior, but its introduction may also motivate unethical behavior indirectly by subtly altering an organization’s culture. In sum, although many factors contribute to unethical behavior, the point cannot be overstated: goal setting motivates unethical behavior."
My understanding is that it was Facebook who had dibs on their production, not NSA.
Timesify: Disguise embarrassing content as NYT articles
See also LispyScript (http://lispyscript.com/), “a JavaScript with Lispy syntax and macros”.

Like Ki, it requires inclusion of a standard library. Unlike Ki, it does not provide alternative data structures in addition to native JS values; it only uses native JS values. LispyScript also does not support embedded JavaScript or being embedded within JavaScript. But LispyScript currently has better docs, including a page to try it in the browser (http://lispyscript.com/tryit/).
I understood that. Yet you're here and you're familiar with IE6 situation. You know that while it might have looked like developers only ones who got hurt by that situation, actually everyone, including regular web users were hurt. As many hours were spent just to provide support for IE rather than creating something more useful. In other cases support for IE was dropped, which hurt users IE right away.
I provided developers view, so that you could see how regular web user choice makes an impact to the whole industry.
Post-Money Evaluations
It varies by feature, but due to IE's long release cycle, it's generally about a year behind Firefox and Chrome on most things.

While basic sites work, some things just aren't possible to do in IE yet. For example, http://www.wavesurfer.fm/ works in every recent browser other than IE 11.
>As long as there is no auto update, IE is always a threat for web developers as IE6 can happen again..

They have auto update for more than a couple of years now.

http://www.geek.com/news/microsoft-decides-to-automatically-...
Grocery Delivery Service Instacart (YC S12) Raises $44M
And who cares except for the brands?
Verizon's Pronoun Game
If you go to meetup.com there are groups that you could join with other people in your situation. There are groups there for people that would like to practice speaking English for example. This would allow you to talk to other people without worrying that your English skills may not be perfect.

Another way to meet people is at art gallery openings. They usually serve wine and cheese and people are free to come in and walk around. I recommend small local galleries that show local artists. There is nothing much to do other than look at art and talk to other people that are there and artists types are usually open-minded and friendly.
Part of the problem here is the problem of aggregation.

We measure things in the aggregate, but we influence them in the minuscule.

So I might measure the fact that a certain fast food restaurant makes french fries slower than another one, but there could be a thousand reasons why this is so. Simply setting a goal of increasing the number of french fries delivered doesn't actually make it happen. Instead, it ends up perversely impacting all the other areas of the restaurant.

We look at things in big, fuzzy ways, so we naturally think we can influence them in the same way. We measure in the aggregate, then find some correlations in the aggregate, declare causality, then set goals. Doesn't work like that. This is the way things are commonly done, and there are multiple logical errors here. [Add in long discussion about the implications of this on public policy-making]
I can only give you anecdotal evidence on two Linodes we use:

root@web1:~# uname -a
Linux web1.netstock.co 3.9.3-x86-linode52 #1 SMP Mon May 20 09:32:28 EDT 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
root@web1:~# uptime
15:29:46 up 328 days, 13:16, 4 users, load average: 0.30, 0.15, 0.12

and

root@li346-160:~# uname -a
Linux li346-160 3.7.5-linode48 #1 SMP Thu Jan 31 14:40:54 EST 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
root@li346-160:~# uptime
15:31:11 up 487 days, 11:10, 6 users, load average: 0.17, 0.09, 0.07
I'd say Aoyagi was really just expressing disdain for not including religion on the list. Saying he/she was 'preaching the truth' seems a bit far-fetched. He/she asked a question about something not being included: "not religion?", and expressed vague dislike (in an obviously subjective way): "awww"

He/she didn't really make any statements of what truth is. Only what his/her opinion of a missing element of the article was.

He/she did set off a heap of reactions though, which is interesting to me. I've noticed how much more religion-friendly, or at least religion-neutral HN has become over the past year. That is a positive thing, in my opinion.
For development costs:

If you are building an app, make a list of number of

1. Views. A complex UI can have multiple views. E.g. the menu at the top, the menu on the side, the search box, the list of items shown are all different views which are integrated together.

2. Make a list of all data models. Each type of user, each type of item stored in its own table or collection is a different data model.

3. Multiply number of unique views by 3 and number of models by 10 and then add these numbers, to get total number of hours of development effort.

4. For each mobile OS and the web the views will be counted separately.

5. Multiple total number of hours by your hourly billing rate.
It will still be unacceptable for development purposes because of the poor quality of their utilities. Does this affect non-dev users? I would argue yes, because web apps will have the fewest bugs and run the best in the browser they are developed in. All work done to make the app "cross-browser" will be blamed as compatibility issues with other browsers. This is why IE, no matter what version, will always be seen to have compatibility issues (unfairly in my opinion - IE is a fine browser and all browsers have some differences) until it has development tools on par with Firebug or Chrome.