skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have mentioned, hosting is not a profitable business in itself. There are plenty of web/vps/dedicated hosting services who have been in the business for years and who can easily outcompete you on price, features, stability, and pretty much every other metric that you can come up with.

Except one thing.

DreamHost staff are generalists. They're probably good at fixing hacked WordPress blogs, but they will never be able to compete with you when it comes to in-depth troubleshooting of the exact application that you built for your client. At best, all they can do is direct your client back to you. At worst, they'll misdiagnose the problem and damage your client's website.

You, on the other hand, are a specialist. You know the website inside and out. You can take one look at an error message and figure out exactly which line of which file is causing the issue. You know when the software stack will need to be upgraded, and you know which parts are the most likely to cause trouble after an upgrade. You know when the client is expecting traffic spikes, and you know that when that happens, DreamHost is likely to suspend your client's website.

Your hosting package, should you choose to offer one, must take advantage of these differences. It should be part of a long-term support contract, not a standalone product, and it should be massively overpriced, like, at least an order of magnitude more expensive than the off-the-shelf equivalent. In exchange, the client gets a server stack that is perfectly tailored to their app (nginx, node.js, redis, you name it), a guarantee that they will never receive a canned answer in response to an urgent support request, and a guarantee that their website will not be suspended in the middle of the biggest marketing campaign of the year.

And of course you should be ready to fulfill such expectations. Don't use cheap servers to host your clients, get some Linodes or Droplets instead. There will be no in-house email hosting, it should be outsourced to Google Apps or some other company that specializes in email. Don't mess with cPanel, your clients can call you if they need to make any changes. Everything should be premium-grade, because there's no money to be made in the low-end market. Make your customer feel like your offer is actually worth the combined cost of hosting and support that you're charging them for.
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They have an uphill battle, SEO-wise.

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Following the same logic, the Portuguese would now own half of the World and the Spanish another half.

Like any large country that tastes power and prosperity for a couple decades, China got rich with money from exports and drunk with power, and like any other country including the U.S. it will not end well. Too bad i makes life miserable for their neighbors too.
Specialized previously investigated the effect of shaving off a beard, and found that it had a negligible effect: http://www.bikeradar.com/us/road/news/article/specialized-te...
You're probably making less money than you think you are because you're ignoring most of the time costs in acquisition and client relationship maintenance. For example, the time taken for a 100 euro launch page is not 'max. 15 minutes' - it's 15 minutes development time + whatever time it takes you to persuade the client that it's necessary, time to write the necessary copy, time to source artwork, time to agree it with the client, time to put it online, time to update the client on it's performance, time to export the list of gathered email addresses, and so on.

In total I could imagine that 100 euros covers up to about 10 hours work if the client wants to change a few things along the way. I don't imagine your time is only worth 10 euros an hour.

This is a fundamental problem with scaling a consulting business - it might feel like you've earned a lot of money for a tiny amount of work, but the reality is that all the time you spent getting and managing that work means it's not very valuable.
Tldr: sell book, comment doesnt actually say anything else.
This is analogous to the Nigerian scams that are engineered on purpose to be very crude in order to single out the most gullible persons.
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We're a funded London-based start-up, launched in late 2013. Our team includes people from a range of backgrounds (from start-ups to non-profits to corporates), all with a solid track record of developing and delivering innovative and successful products to consumer audiences.

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As usual, always looking for good people. The team is broadly split into development, product, marketing/growth and creative (and creative actually means creative, incl. animation, characters, voice acting etc.!).

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If those were bought with credit cards then they should be bracing themselves for a barrage of charge-backs. Offering to refund back to 1st of Aug only takes care of about half the chargeback window. It also seems to be strange that they would be selling the product that close to a shut-down.
Sounds like a fun project.
Berg is shutting down
Unikernels (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7053638, https://galois.com/project/halvm/) are working on related research issues, from the bottom up.

We need a cross-distro dependency manager that can generate app-liance images for baremetal, lxc, kvm, aws/xen, vmware, azure/hyperv, illumos/bsd/zones, etc. Such a dependency manager could encode management-related policy (e.g. networking) into an image manifest that could be parsed by deployment tools. As an image format, OVF was ratified by DMTF and may have useful concepts, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtualization_Format
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Where MH17 came down visualized
There are a few other mistakes (okay, at least one; I'm not enough of a grammar nazi to have counted them).
You nailed the point.
The continuous expansion of the Japan-US ADIZ(Air Defense Identification Zone) in east China sea in past decades could reflect a lot of things never will be mentioned in English media.
The history of the web is very much a series of mad hacks and patchups cobbled together to keep the whole thing progressing and evolving - the ultimate "legacy application" if you will; the endearing zaniness of asm.js is just another milepost in this well-trodden road.
If operations/systems is a second class citizen in your company, then you just live with that fact, minimize the headaches and maximize your other incomes.

When you offer "hosting"... do you offer intelligent systems? advanced low level networking? CDN? anycast DNS? disaster recovery plan? peak resistance? awesome monitoring system with 24/7/365 support of the solution? 0day level security solutions? nanosecond performance? 99.999% SLA? penetration testing as proactive maintenance? multidevice testing of every change or patch? development, staging, validation and production environments? storage engineers? database tuning? project road-map with weekly (or daily) reports and meetings of a team of engineers analyzing infrastructure usage, logs, new threats, proposals and evolutions? an awesome web interface for ALL customer facing controls? a problem free experience?

Or are we talking about cheapo domain+cert+shared resources "online presence"? If yes, than maybe just stick to one provider and seek for a "reseller plan", to minimize costs, and as said in other comments, start offering a "maintenance package" as part of the products/solutions to get some recurring revenue.

When you get a great team of operations and support engineers with outstanding knowledge and passion for "systems", they stay motivated, and they are not mismanaged, you will be able to monetize them (and their "toys") with "hosting", "cloud", "online presence", "services" or whatever name, in team with the rest of the solutions you sell.

Infrastructure is a complex and expensive topic. If you do it properly, you can move money. You just need more customers wanting your system solutions/team, than the cost of it.

Otherwise, there is many competence and "third party" services, and the average position is to re-sell that, and focus on the ego of "i'm a designer/coder, systems is a second class stuff I cannot convince you to payme more for that".
It'd be interesting to see hard data on that, from speaking with various YC founders in recent batches it seems a lot of them had recommendations from YC alumni.

Back in the early days pg mentioned around 10-15% of the accepted class were referred but I wouldn't be surprised if that figure had crept up over time.
You're not helping the Scottish cause with junk info like this. (I'm French and pro-independence)

"EU is a business", "north pays for south", "zero chance that the EU..." - all parts of a thought process that'd lead you to disaster .

The EU is a complex, unique international organization designed to bring peace through unprecedented one-of-a-kind economic development.

I get from Brussels insiders that a best-case scenario is an independent Scotland joining the eurozone, while rUK votes to stay in the EU with a "ad hoc" status.

Now most member states have very different feelings about this. This forces the EU Commission to keep a low profile and stick to conservative answers on any independence question.

You have to realize that there _is_ a risk that some member states can block a fast track accession to EU for iScotland. For instance iScotland could have to go through a 3-5 years roadmap and audit until the standard 12 points for accession are cleared (vs a best case, unprecedented 12-months fast track to the EU).

As I see it, this is the biggest risk for iScotland. Even with EU Parliament on your side, member states have influence and power that could slow down the process, and expose the new country to a tough start. I hope the Yes wins, but I hope the win doesn't get ruined with unrealistic expectations.

Wikipedia has a nice sum up of the complexity of this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_enlargement_of_the_Euro...
Mass-producing graphene a step closer to reality
It wasn't that clear cut the last time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War
And how do they "get your username" before you entered it?
Yes Alpine is a nice distro that also uses Musl. Good way to try out Musl libc if you haven't yet.
If a cyclist invested the weekly time he spent shaving his legs in extra training instead, would he be better off?
"It's Satoshi all the way down"
John Carmack on Twitter: “My android quote is spreading out of context”
uLinux or picoLinux (I don't remember very well the name) -> Runs on one or two 3.5 floppies. There is a version with 3 or 4 floppies with an X-Windows included.
How to create a tech event where everyone feels welcome
Not sure why you're downvoted, that's spot on.
PlotDevice: A Python-based graphics language (OS X)
I love the idea that we can make web apps just as successful as native apps, but the reality seems to be the opposite.

Mobile web usage went from 20% to 14% according to flurry from 2013 to 2014.

That trend could be reversed with a new movement towards the web, but it seems like it would take quite a trend reversal.

We're stuck with apple- and google- based rent seeking platforms.

http://www.flurry.com/bid/109749/Apps-Solidify-Leadership-Si...
ZNC isn't any harder to set up than installing these web clients. In fact ZNC has it's own web interface for configuring it (and does so with a self contained webserver so you don't need node.js / mojo / etc frameworks).

I'm not trying to take anything away from these excellent projects though. Just saying IRC bouncers aren't any harder to install than these projects
I don't think someone enters a co-op program to become an academic. If you come to it from that angle, then yeah there are a lot of things that you can be skeptical about.

My experience with UoW grads is relatively limited, but I have to say they are among the most battle-tested engineers to come out of university that I've worked with. A few I've known personally are much savvier than engineers many years their senior. Whatever you say have to say about the co-op program, it really gears the students to become strong software engineers in the industry.
I would use Merrill Edge with a Bank of America Account.

It's super easy and fast to transfer money between BOA account and the Merrill Edge. This is the killer feature. There are limits but its faster than other brokerage accounts to get money in and out of your brokerage accounts.

Depending on how much money you have in your combined BOA account + Merril Edge accounts. They will give X number of free trades a month. The highest is 100 free trades a month.

If you have over 100k combined (brokerage + checking + savings), they upgrade you to preferred rewards platinum. Biggest benefit you can use any non-BOA atm in the US with no fees.
Functional testing for Rijksmuseum
It is an issue. It's even worse for big VCs because they have the funds to do the follow-on for any seed company they think is doing well. So it's not just a signal of being "top 3" it's a signal of being good.

[There are other reasons why VCs chose not to do follow-on, such a conflicts-of-interest, disagreements on valuation, etc. but any other VC you speak to will ask you why your seed investor isn't following-on]

Founders will often take money from seed-only funds or will take money from several multi-stage funds in order to mitigate the signalling risk.
"- web apps don't need all the code-signing and certification hoopla that native mobile apps need to go through"

You mean that's a good thing? I'd prefer a clear signing process for software to a web service running its backend on some random server where it's impossible for me to establish trust.
Personally, I find tv and radio ads extremely annoying. But everyone who's experienced it finds my habit of muting the tv during ad breaks to be very strange.

So I can easily believe that I am in a small minority on this.

On the other hand, I generally don't object to adverts in newspapers and magazines.
I found it extremely frustrating myself.
Like many others have said in this thread, it's hard to make any meaningful dent in your profit from being a middle-man between your clients and who's hosting their sites.

I'm a fan of bundling — which sounds a bit like what luckyisgood was getting at.

Every consultant wants diversified and/or recurring revenue. This is why just about all of us inevitably create (or try to create) products of our own. Eventually, many consultants get wind of the idea of retainers, which can have the predictability of SaaS but without needing to build and market software first.

The issue arises with how most consultants put together retainers. It's usually something like "I'll sell you in advance 20 hours a month of my time for $2000."

Here's the problem:

Any first grader can figure out that you're effective hourly rate is $100, which is probably less than your real rate — but hey, it's a retainer and it'll relieve your need to always be selling, so that's OK for most.

Since you'll be making $100 an hour on this retainer, your income potential becomes constrained (you're now on the hook for 20 hours a month @ $100/hr) and the client knows what your hourly rate is. "Brennan, I need more this month. I'll pay you $2500 for 25 hours" or "Can I just pay you $100 an hour when I need you?"

And this is where the retainers of a lot of the consultants I've talked with go south, and the relationships sour.

A better approach (which is something patio11 and I talked about during an event we hosted last year) is to instead sell bundles — which could include your time, and hosting — and make these bundles really tricky to divide.

I could sell a client on:

- Hosting

- Backup management

- Framework / security updates

- A/B test experiments and management

- Up to 20 hours of upgrades and modifications

Now it's not so easy to divide the invoices I'm sending my clients monthly by X.

And I could charge... $5000 a month for that. Or whatever would make it so that my client gets both the peace of mind they're looking for (smart guy managing hosting, backups, security issues, etc), a product that's becoming more valuable (running a/b tests, analyzing their funnels, etc), AND a pool of time for me to do whatever random updates they need.
Switzerland ‘unlikely to extradite Snowden’, if he appears for NSA testimony
Faking Dependent Types in C++ [2012]
4) UoW has really bad reputation in the academical world and ppl doing basic research

Not being related to Waterloo in any way I have no skin in the game, but their combinatorial optimization department (which is part of mathematics) is very strong.

I guess this just goes to show that you cannot reliably evaluate a university as a whole.
The source code on github seems to have been updated in the meantime, I also found it easier to understand than the inline snippets: https://github.com/sanjoy/Snippets/blob/master/DependentType...
There is at least an original copy.
Ops, when counting exponents make sure there in the same base.
South China Sea Has oil , and china will do anything to take over the area. China has been making claims of Arunachal Pradesh India for years, since it has high concentration of gas and shale oil deposits.
Twitter updates privacy policy and terms of use
Well, the launch page part is actually quite easy to sell. I propose it if the client is a new business.

It takes about 10 minutes to persuade (in experience), i choose the layout and ask for a picture and a small title + subtext. There isn't a lot to change on the launch page (the layout is almost solely the picture in full)

The changes by the client are usually for the website, but that's a different package. There i create max. 3 first page designs, then i create the whole website. (included according our talk). Then for reasonable changes, i check wether it's part of the package or is it stuff that we didn't talk about that requires >20 minutes of work (eg. new features)... I'm quite clear on that upfront.

The launch page is just an extra income that takes max 40 minutes (talk + create + publish + text email to subscribers).

Then again, i'm also waiting to raise prices untill i get (more) busy with projects to create.
> I'm surprised that there is so much controversy about
> this article

You must be new to the debate about Scottish independence on the internet.
GoboLinux for the win!

http://gobolinux.org/

Oh .. wait. Its dead. What a shame. Well, maybe its time to revive it - or at least, its concept of packages - so that we can solve this problem.
How does friendface show your cartoon elephant before you enter your username? (hint: it won't)

The way this works looking at banking websites is that the user enters a username. Then they get some secret image + description that they previously wrote and can enter their password.
Well yeah, I knew that, but seriously.

If you gonna go that road, then use netcat echo and loops for a web server too.
Ruby – the bad parts
Do this Coursera course, targeted towards beginners and its taught by Andrew Ng (Co-founder of Coursera) - https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
Fun with (Extended Kalman) Filters
What was his quote?
I somehow doubt it. Sure, there's a lot less stuff running, so there are fewer wakeups. But on the other hand, it's missing some essential power-saving software like `acpid` that tells bits of hardware to take a rest in the first place.
Why doesn't he state what CSP is upfront, requiring the reader to visit Wikipedia to know what it is?

Buzz words and acronyms are getting out of hand on the web.
Mentioning one of these things you can't even think of would be useful. For example: I've used Ted for years; it's great.
Do they plan to add a JavaScript engine?
The car is really amazing. This blog has posted 5-6 posts about the driverless car.
here is the link to the tag - http://greybmusings.wordpress.com/tag/driverless-car/

Google is utilizing multiple techs in this invention.
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Ask HN: How does saved submisisons work?
I don't understand how this feature works. I searched and found that all the threads upvoted by me goes into saved submissions, but I tried, it does not seem to work that way.

I upvoted from front page or the submission page, but no difference

Can anyone tell me how does this work and how do I save submissions?
> With a bit of levels adjustment

Care to explain?
I think the problem is more that there is a large segment of the British populace who actually want this policing to occur, and thats why its happening. To some segments of British society, there is nothing more abhorrent than someone trying to 'take down the state' or 'step out of their position in line' .. if it were not the case, it wouldn't be happening. The British people get the government they want ..
Joon Yun's $1M Palo Alto Longevity Prize
Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent
That looks very good. There are a lot of uses for SLAM and I hope the technology gets out of the labs soon. (My uses would be man portable indoor mapping of very complex structures with relatively good accuracy.)
They'll end up bought by a big name company if Bitcoin continues to grow, I'm sure.
> "I disagree that mechanical engineering should be put in the same ranks as electricians/auto-mechanics."

I'm a Waterloo MechE (of sorts, long story) and pretty sure you're misreading jarek's comment.

Ties to industry is the bread and butter of mechanical engineering (not electricians, not auto-mechanics, not technicians) - it's intensely application-focused (as all engineering disciplines are) and R&D traditionally has much higher capital costs than software, so you're practically forced to partner with industry.

When I was in school most research programs were funded by a combination of government funding and industry collaboration. On the MechE side, particularly in Waterloo (due to proximity to Canada's manufacturing belt) this seemed to be primarily automotive and manufacturing.
The HTTP standard actually allows 90 distinct octets in cookie values, but I suppose you're not going to quibble over <2% coding efficiency given Z85s other advantages.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265#section-4.1.1
"Brace yourself: Android setup and development really does suck. It’s no fun at all." [1]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/224894/QA_Carmack_reveals...
CST-100 Spaceship, the New Space Taxi?