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> Rackspace Cloud was the only alternative to AWS and had one significant differentiator back then...

One other big differentiator compared to AWS, and the reason I went to Rackspace in the first place: straightforward pricing. Figuring out how much an AWS machine was going to cost was, back then at least, like trying to figure out how much it'd cost to buy a hundred Yen next Monday, for someone who has no experience with currency markets. Amazon's pricing was very complex, but with Rackspace, it was easy for me to tell how much a month would cost for what I needed.

> if a customer asks for help resolving problems with Sendgrid (a competing email sending service), Rackspace support people will gladly assist... I was blown away by that, customer gets help with whatever they feel like getting it.

While the uptime and performance of the machines I have on Rackspace has been great, the "fanatical support" claim is empty marketing B.S. in my personal experience. A year ago, I had a machine's performance tank while my startup's traffic started to simultaneously ramp up. It turned out there was another host on the same machine slurping too much disk resources, they moved it away. That improved things some, but I ended up needing an expert to take a look at my Apache configuration. I begged Rackspace to help. My startup's life was hanging in the balance: traffic was going up, and performance was going down. I desperately needed help from an expert, and asked Rackspace for help, and offered to pay. They did nothing for me.

I started researching it for myself, and basically trained myself to be much more of an Apache configuration expert over the next 48 hours. I needed help, I had money, I was super desperate, and they did nothing for me.

I guess the real problem was that I didn't need help with SendGrid, or perhaps I couldn't figure out the right people to ask.
>Also, the whole samurai/bushido thing essentially doesn't exist for anyone under fifty over there.

I've been led to believe, (though I may be wrong, probably am) that it didn't really exist for the samurai either. In real life, they were elitist thugs and enforcers, and the mythology of bushido was added by old and bored samurai after Japanese society had more or less outlawed their violent ways.
Yes, all native Excel functions are re-implemented.
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We at HashPlex (https://hashplex.com) are very happy that we get to open availability in our all-custom-built mining facility. This is the first custom-built facility in the world that is open to the public. We hope that it might open the doors of industrial-scale mining to all miners and help foster the decentralization of mining power. We're continually trying to ensure that we build a service that people want. We'd love to hear what you think.
Kipp from FullContact here. Interestingly, we've had several customers put us head-to-head against Ark in match tests using the same source data sets, and all have wound up going with us due to much higher match rates & better data returned.

We always encourage potential customers to try other services. With over 500 paying customers of the FullContact API from some of the internet's largest SaaS providers, we're pretty confident in the quality and quantity of our data.

Bottom line is, none of us will have the same amount of data as Rapportive, because Rapportive had direct access to LinkedIn's data warehouse. (And as we all know, LinkedIn has never been shy about hoovering up data from anywhere it can get it.)
Linux-friendly Sitara COM adds MIMO WiFi, BLE 4.0
For better or worse, the fact that there has never been an HTML flag day is what made the Web this successful.
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So it would seem. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi

That kind of environment can spin out cases like hikikomori. You can see similar trends in the U.S. with respect to startups and overworking, to a smaller scale, usually in the form of "going off the grid."
Are you implying he can make up for his mistake by killing himself?
I'm also a Somervillian. And I will add that Somerville actually has a significantly higher population density than Boston. We are undeniably a part of the urban core, deeply integrated into the city. In a discussion about suburbs vs cities, we fall squarely into the city side, which is one reason I like it here.
I feel like there's a ton of untapped potential in online store affiliates, beyond the usual "blogs and reviews". Maybe something that imports the wishlist for one particular "big box online retailer / cloud services provider" and notifies the user if any product on the list goes down in price at one of many different vendors?

I have a few other ideas in that vein, but I am curious of any traps that may be encountered.
Please stop posting the same thing over and over.
Twitter Acquires Password Security Startup Mitro, Open-Sources Its Product
The title I first saw was:

Josh Bloch Fights a LIDAR Speeding Ticket (with Science)

Which is much better than the currently edited version.
Alternative titles I believe are briefly A/B tested for click through rates when published - it's a standard procedure at NYT and other news sites these days. Plus title 'correction' could have been made by the editors already after it was out.
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Tried signing up but after a minute of waiting I was told my username was already taken. Then, I received an email saying I successfully signed up (with that same username), with a broken link to "forums.stellar.org". Managed to visit "forum.stellar.org" without an issue. I think you may have launched a little soon...

EDIT: now unable to log in with my username and password combination.
But was theirs on Air... ?

#boom #mindblown
Right, and then it's free.

Unless I'm missing something there's no business model here beyond the potential exit via acquisition.
You had to register to a service to use the app? Really?
Josh Bloch is always entertaining, watch some of his video talks or read some of his books. He has a couple really good talks on GoogleTechTalks youtube channel.
Thank you. I'll actually send this directly to product management. All of this is valid feedback. As an aside, the MySQL offering just revamped quite a bit recently:

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/cloud-databases-introduces-enh...

So yes: we're acting on the limitations.
In order to introduce the video as evidence, they have to put somebody on the stand who will explain how the camera works and so on. And right there is your opportunity to confront them. You can ask all sorts of questions, like when was the last time they cleaned the lenses.
What's a date you're free? :)
I'd never thought about this before in the context of Java. IIRC, Java can not have type-parameterized enums (i.e. generic enums), so a Maybe<T> isn't possible. I hope I'm wrong — it's been a while since I did much Java.
We got the speed increase primarily by dropping to low-level code (numpy, and sometimes C) in functions that cause bottlenecks. Multi-threading helps too.

The largest gains are in the scenario you mentioned - big spreadsheets with a lot of computation. Excel tends to choke on these.
Even if it's not the primary cause, accidents are much more dangerous at higher speeds. It also makes reaction times shorter for avoiding other things.
how can a video possibly show where a laser is pointed at from > 1,000ft away? that seems unreasonable.
We will continue to keep improving our core functionality, for sure (there are one or two things coming out very soon). With the raise we're hoping to have to make fewer tradeoffs between building X and building Y.
Something weird seems to be going on: at first I didn't get any compensation for making my first transaction, then I got 1000 STR from StellarFoundation 34 times. Now my account has 39000 STR in it...
It's as if the culture, history, and thought of Japan is as complex, multifaceted, and contradictory as that of any other place. Anyway, expats are often opinionated with respect to controversial aspects of their home countries.
In particular, lots of legacy JS bugs that we can't get rid of since people "rely" on them. Also, the biggest one that spurred me to launch this today is all the proprietary -webkit- CSS prefix stuff, especially the non-standard stuff everyone is relying upon in mobile!
This makes me think of microservice architecture, though of cause on a different level. It's my experience that keeping things small is a huge benefit, that being commits, pull requests, deploys or actual projects :)
I'd really like to see more transparency when it comes to title changes. The most recent case where one of my submissions had a title change mirrors what kudu is describing here: a meaningful (and I think accurate) title changed to a generic and vague one -- followed by a rapid decline in the rate of upvotes. I think there are legitimate reasons for title changes, and I think that the Hacker News mods generally do good work. But sometimes they seem to be fixing stuff that isn't broken. I realize titles in particular can be really subjective, but that's one reason I'd like to see a comment with the old and new titles whenever a title change happens. That will allow the community to chime in when maybe the title change wasn't an improvement after all.
kai :)
Ask HN: Mesos vs. OpenStack
This is a question of who will win the private cloud war? mesos+docker or openstack? love to hear more thoughts.
You should not have had that apache problem and not gotten help. Period. That's unacceptable, and I'm sorry. We're working on it
There's also a huge amount of very very badly excel based 'applications' that could benefit from even a modest 2x speed increase.
The momentum those photons are carrying implies a change in momentum to the emitter that is equal and opposite. Conservation of momentum applies even though the emitted substance is electromagnetic radiation, not matter particles.

What's weird about this device is that the radiation chamber is completely closed---the microwaves emitted are then re-absorbed by the chamber, but the claim is that the net momentum of the chamber has changed... Somehow. If it is true, it'd be a violation of conservation of momentum (unless the microwaves are somehow passing momentum to something else, which is why people are talking about quantum mechanics possibly coming into play).
Why are USB controllers reprogrammable?

Is it in the standard? (Why?)

Or is it cheaper somehow?
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A browser plugin that replaces disrupt with bullshit
"Invalid Recovery Code" when I attempt to use the code sent via email.
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He doesn't have to prove his innocence, he just has to convince a judge that there is reason to doubt that the LIDAR accurately reported his speed.
FUD, eh? So that's Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. I don't really see any fear, and I hope that any legal defense is going to push pretty heavily on uncertainty and doubt. Don't quite see the problem.
Well to be fair it is quite likely that the CIA was doing this legally which just goes to show the uselessness of the laws and the oversight provided by this particular committee. I think the CIA used to be prevented from operating domestically but that this has changed at least for terrorism.

And this was clearly a case of terrorism because that report makes the US look bad and it could be used within terrorist propaganda.[0]

[0] I wish I was being sarcastic but I think this is actually reality now [1]

[1] See David Miranda detention at Heathrow.
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The Mean Value Theorem strikes again!
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If France would never enforce the transaction, then why would Google pay $70m (and why would France say they would enforce the transaction in the first place)? Obviously it was technically voluntary, but if someone does something voluntarily under threat of bogus legal action, I'm really not seeing the difference from a protection racket.
thedangler is on board.
Oops, that's what I meant. I tend to mix those up.
How did you do the change? I'm at the same age and want to make a change. Not to programming but some sort of IT, IT management, etc., not working a helpdesk, not programming. I'm currently a professional in an unrelated field (but one that the corporate world would appreciate in an IT professional), but as I've been on computers since the early 90s at age 8, I feel I made a mistake not pursuing my childhood obsession, in what was then a niche hobby, as a career. Is it possible to make this change and go into something like IT project management, architecture etc?

Any advice?
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I really love the testimonials :)
http://autowale.in/
Well, the one thing Stellar has going for it is that Stripe is on board. Though afaict Stripe is not yet integrated as a Stellar gateway.

The only thing keeping Ripple alive is the fact that Bitstamp is a Ripple gateway.
... the net flow of which reversed several decades ago. For the past 30 years, many American cities (the nice ones with living economies, think NYC, SF, Boston, Portland, Austin, etc) have been experiencing a steady influx of affluent white people, replacing the ones who fled a generation before.

Hence all the hand-wringing over "gentrification".

Really, this is just a return to the long-term normal of cities. Cities are centers of power and wealth. It was a weird American aberration that, for a time, "inner city" was associated with poverty and decay.
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Short overview of what he does:

He has a wildly popular blog, and he is an affiliate for a few products, most notably, hosting. He makes 30K or more per month, from this one affiliate program.

He sells an ebook, something related to green architecture.

He also builds info sites, with Adsense on them and makes a few thousand from those.

He has a couple of iOS apps I believe, built with outsourcing.

As far as I can see, none of the above is passive or even close to passive (except may be the ebook). He worked hard to get where he is, and still does. He shares much of his numbers - good inspiration if you need some.
Good to hear, I'm looking forward to the other claim methods now after reading your mandate
When I was a teenager I tried to fight a speeding ticket, and prepared a presentation like this with several good points (I think).

Come court day, I got all dressed up, stood up when called and started my arguments ... and the judge simply cut me off after two sentences and said "guilty".

I'm surprised this guy was allowed to present his whole argument and it actually convinced a judge.
It happens to be the same self-importance that I see driving almost every entrepreneur in the tech sector. Everyone speaks of "changing the world" and the importance of individual innovation. Very rarely do people in Silicon Valley take the time to think about the effects of their creations. Getting rich is also the process of extracting wealth from others and people seem to forget that. The blind faith that a "rising tide lifts all boats" is an ideology that deserves heavy scrutiny.

My question for you is, would it have been a better talking point if I made it very clear that I'm somehow different and "better" than the tech culture I see around me? Or would the finger-pointing be less successful than a message that inculpates myself in to the tragedy?
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Edit: Spoke too soon. My wife can't sign up. Button just says "Sending" indefinitely.

Edit 2: She just got an email confirmation code, despite the signup eventually failing outright. But she can't log in, says the username is invalid. So what is the confirmation code associated with?

Edit 3: It finally worked. Yay!
Seems to be responding better but the recovery code process is a little off. Says that the email address I'm trying to use is taken (it's the one I used at registration after the nag message) and that my recovery code is invalid.
True. I may pick it up again. I'll just need to figure out how to make it robust as I'd want without it becoming too clunky.
His article on Diatomaceous earth is mind boggling, advocating cooking with it
http://www.richsoil.com/diatomaceous-earth.jsp

wikipedia: "In order to be effective as an insecticide, diatomaceous earth must be uncalcinated (i.e., it must not be heat-treated prior to application)[13] and have a mean particle size below about 12 µm (i.e., food-grade – see below)"

Its used occasionally for deworming people and considered a low risk insecticide. Just because you can eat it and it has some benefits in use cases doesn't mean you should consume as much as you can. Its the classic vitamin snake-oils sales pitch, "X is good for you thus more of X must be better for you"
Um. Ever heard of paper-wallets[0]?

[0]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Paper_wallet
This is a dark, dark statement that paints a desperate individual killing himself out of fear as a good thing. It's not. Justifying suicide like that only makes it look like a good option for people who could get better.
I always had the same questions about Ripple, though.
Weird. I'm one of the Stellar devs -- could you email your stellar username to jed@stellar.org? Thanks!
We took "Show HN" out of the title because "Show HN" is for things that people can try out now: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
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Senator Feinstein isn't the best person to have speak out against this. She is rabidly hated by nearly half of the country, so any complaints she makes are ignored by them.

These complaints need to come from a McCain/Lieberman-type coalition of Senators in order to gain any traction.
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You would be right, but my visual cortex actually has an elisp hook that trims marketing text and imagery. So, in this case, my comment was borne out of purely personal, first-hand experience. Furthermore, my original comment's 'wish' was not an attempt to apply opinion-constraints upon others. My aim was to garner karma from individuals who might share the same sentiment as I.
FWIW: For MongoDB replicas and scale out - I would recommend taking a look at ObjectRocket. I'm not kidding when I say they're the only way I'm using mongo in an application.

On the pricing: You are right; we are not attempting to be price competitive with VPS providers. We can discuss the difference between Cloud servers (in general) and VPSes as a whole, but they really are meant for different things and will always be priced differently.

Also, as of the 15th, that 8gb box costs $186.88 /mo for a full 730 hour month now. Of course, that doesn't compare to the Linode offering. But then with cloud block storage, autoscale and other features rolled into the application it's a bit different
I hope the transition to open source works. I definitely like this service.
No, your second sentence is factually incorrect (except for the first clause, of course). Don't let the fact that you're not interested in building a business fool you into thinking that building a business is more difficult than it is.

You're not interested in building a business. That became clear when I read your sentence: "At the end of the day we aren't that driven by money, and we aren't really running a business." I didn't even need to glance at your "anti-sales page", though that page certainly hammers the point home, then jumps up and down on it for good measure.

It's not a radical act of rebellion to do good work at your day job, get paid, go home after work, and have fun building things in your spare time without any thought of profit. This is how most of my favorite people live their lives. This is all fine. What is not fine is trying to define this happy life as a "failed business" and trying to calculate the "ROI" of your fun, then lapsing into despair because the spreadsheet has a zero in it. That hasn't been doing your happiness any favors, it isn't doing your audience any favors, and it isn't leading you to draw sensible conclusions.

Stop being an uninspired businessperson and become an inspired maker of stuff. You're almost there.
From the beginning, it sounds like he's presenting this to a group of people invited by his lawyer, and the lawyer took care of the actual ticket resolution.
It's a slick app. Looks a lot like the windows phone interface though.
I submitted the link with the title you note for the following three reasons:

1. Josh Bloch is an author of particular interest to this community.

2. When I searched to see if the page had already been submitted, I noted that recent HN posts on LIDAR were on technical laser ranging (e.g. in mapping applications), not on speed enforcement.

3. I thought it was an article that would be of interest to HN readers, so I thought they would be well-served by an appealing link title which conveyed the content and tone of the presentation and invited a click.
I think you're underestimating the scope of MvcConf. It was bigger than what you're marketing.
Google Keep is not a new product. Why is this link notable?
I actually fixed the number of rounds on purpose--I figure the Nash equilibrium in the classical iterated PD isn't very relevant in this wildly different version of the game, and I want to see what kinds of strategies emerge with fixed-size rounds.

I didn't explicitly forbid collusion, since it's tough to prevent it in practice; I would appreciate it if teams simply submitted one bot or several bots with different strategies.
Same problem here. My account seems to be in an inconsistent state. I can't log in, but my username and email are "already in use".
No. enraged_camel is clearly asking if sometimes there is no proper apology, and no amount of work that one can do to make up for one's mistake.
The barrier to creating an unlimited number of facebook accounts is a half step above creating an unlimited number of gmail or hotmail accounts.

No, the whole point of connecting with facebook is to focus on the UX of making electronic payments. Who's going to remember their coffee date's wallet is 1BeX1pVAjD94hNs6C5d2dB3TRnLx53dXg3? QR codes are cute, but haven't quite hit the mainstream. It's a lot easier to say "Ben Bitdiddle" and have Ben's facebook picture pop up.

The network effects of scanning your entire social graph (and the data contained within) doesn't hurt either. Works fantastically for Venmo.
Yes, you could go into the startup program! See the last item in the FAQ https://developer.rackspace.com/developer-plus/faq/
But you didn't say "largest ever", you said "first ever"...
Samurai?
I'm on T-Mobile and have no idea who Iliad are. Should I be excited or scared?
Hate to be that guy but not much of News: http://googleblog.blogspot.com.br/2013/03/google-keepsave-wh...

By the way, anyone knows if Google provides any API on Keep?
Cool. Limited exit strategy though - you either sell to Microsoft or else what? I guess if the price is reasonable it makes sense.
> The more gambles you take, the better you become at reading the tea leaves and figuring out if your next gamble is going to work.

This reeks of survivorship bias.
David Mazières wrote one of my favorite papers ever, "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List"
http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/ July 2005
There are other ways to find meaning. For those who fail to do so in a job, BIG makes it less painful to step back and look for it elsewhere.

Of course there are, but you have to have a certain subset of competencies to find and use them. My point is that JG and similar models are directed at those people how lack these competencies.
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