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I am totally expericing geek envy here, with the one proviso that I would want to be able to take my work along with me, if/when I have to go visit clients.
I created that price plan because I want most people to avoid rushing me to install it for them.

I'm very busy so the peace of mind that most people won't choose that plan is why it's so expensive.

Thank you.
Mu first though was: How can Coursera afford 80 engineers!??? What's their business model?
> To master a first native language takes at least about 16 years for most people

What's your definition of master? That doesn't sound like the kids I'm thinking of when I think 'learnt English' and mastering a second language to the same level of mastery as the first I am unsure can be done in a shorter timespan (though conversational fluency to the point where one can understand and be understood is on a significantly shorter time-scale.)
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But I think that a dose of reality he's trying to inject both into the conversation and to Snowden himself. Because Snowden is living this, I'm sure he thinks he's made a bigger impact then he has. Because people like us care about these things, I'm sure we think he's made a bigger impact then he has.

I grew up in a lower to middle class town in New England,
and virtually none of my peers I grew up with would know who
Edward is either.

While thats not how I'd personally conduct the interview, I do think the first half of it was trying to deconstruct this idea that everyone is engaged and understand the debate, setting up the second half of the interview where he tries to get Snowden to explain things as simply and as direct as possible.

While I'd assume most of us on this board are tired of "It's like Uber for X", there's a reason that we use it, and it's because the "general public" "gets" it.
Interesting.

Most of the time I work with 3 windows. Editor, browser and a terminal.

Between the editor and the browser, which are both maximized, I switch with alt+tab and the terminal is a Guake on f1.
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> how is the latency issue going to be addressed?

Musk's plan is to not deploy in geosynchronous orbit. Instead, an orbit near LEO (but far enough to not be too crowded already) is being used. That means that the satellites will have quite an angular velocity to the base stations. The actual innovation comes in form of networking technology that can do very fast handovers and is capable of communicating in a stable way with such a network. Latency could actually be reduced when compared to our current networks for long distances since line-of-sight can be more closely approximated as soon as you get the initial hop to LEO (which is not a large one in terms of latency).
I don't really get the idea of "sustainable living"

as in, I'm not supposed to eat beef or fly on a plane, because there are not enough of those things to support everyone on the planet doing at US rates

Like, I get that if everyone started eating beef that would take an oversized share of arriable land, but wouldn't that then be reflected in the price for beef?

I like hamburger, but if I had to pay fois gras prices for it because everyone in China liked it too, driving up the price for beef, I'd probably switch to eating something different

if we're still at cheap beef prices, seems like a pretty strong signal to me, that current beef consumption is in fact sustainable
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If you think about it, it's not a software glitch, it's actually software working perfectly well. It'd be a glitch if the certificate ran out and the operation continued normally.

I wonder if this problem has been abused to launch MitM attacks. I bet many people just clicked away the warnings and proceeded.
Of course not. Meteor is not a frontend framework that will fit yor X backend. Meteor is an Isomorphic Environment that, by the way, rocks if you have the freedom to choose it. Completely different things.

Regarding to MongoDB, the Postgres option is in the pipeline.
Hu, you capitalized High Maintenance like it is a Bad Thing. The only context I have ever heard it used in is in dating. In your case the ability to use a computer at a much higher effectiveness is, if anything, a proof that he is a better programmer.
I've effectively used hiking boots for city-life for years. Yes, they are heavier, and the first week you get tired of walking faster than everyone else, but then it becomes natural.
The other thing that should be noted is that ansible feels like (shell scripting)++. Other competitors I've used needed a much heavier cognitive load to get started.
I wouldn't say people are inherently stupid. Rather they have become such by design or as the outcome of a system. There are many faces to this 'design' or 'system'- like capitalism, 'american dream' and such.
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I launched at 8AM (without sleeping all night) and I forgot to make the Git-Repo public (oops).

Its public now and the link now works thank you.

BTW, the actual download link on my website takes you to Dropbox and that link works.
Such companies are uniformly not worth working for.
neat idea, but the website looks awful...like really bad. Even with an established professional service i'd have some uneasiness with just giving my keys to some random person, but there's no doubt that i wouldn't trust this based on the first glance.
I'll fix it now thanks. That's what happens when you launch at 8am without sleeping HAHA.

Edit: Fixed
1) JRE's security issues are not recent. They've been common and severe for many years, and I don't see any reason to believe that will change.

2) Most companies are willing to use Java, but that doesn't mean it's part of their provisioning process right now. I'd say it's an uphill battle to target JRE.

3) Web apps can also work offline, but your best bet is to try to end up with a cross-platform, standalone executable. There have always been lots of options for this, but I myself haven't tried to write a desktop app in 10 years and am not the person to tell you what to use. A lot of recent apps (like PopcornTime) seem to web apps running on WebKit.

Edit: Appcelerator's Titanium product is an incredibly easy way to write simple, native mobile apps. If your users could carry tablets or Chromebooks, this might be something to consider.
Well the issue focused on one key point (integer overflow).

As for your speculation that it is $900 per bug, that is wrong, too. The minimum payout per bug is $1500.

I don't really care about the semantics, so you'll have to deal with the title.
No, you can add text as well. In fact for now, video is an after thought.
Not sure your comment is a sarcasm. Oliver is not fundamentally insulting his work. He is trying to (or appearing to) insult his work while revealing how stupid average Americans are.
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Well he was actually trying to be funny. He is a comedian. This interview is for a "satire" show.
Hmmm... maybe I came across as someone who doesn't believe in human induced climate change.

That's not it at all. I'm pretty sure human induced climate change is happening. Not a denialist. Unlike those for instance who refuse to acknowledge so many climate change models have completely failed to mirror reality.
Mostly "locals".
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> You don't need advertising to make money if what you're doing is valuable.

Not necessarily. There is a threshold of value that must be met to make people pay directly for it. For example I run a niche site that gets 5K uniques each month - clearly I'm providing some value - but I doubt that what I provide is enough to make people pay me directly. Ads are the most effective way of solve that problem: reward content producers that can't meet that threshold but still add some value.
"Hi there, I'm very open to constructive criticism on my project but I feel that your comment is more of a strawman than particularly useful in any way. I had a look back through your comments on other posts on HN and they seemed to have a similar tone."

So you don't attempt to prejudice only in your blog posts, it appears. This is one of the most sadly defensive responses by a blog author I've yet seen on here.

Where, exactly, is the strawman? Please point it out rather than desperately trying to immunize against my completely valid comment in the most frantic of manners.

You posit an idealized notion about building it yourself based upon accomplishing, to this point, apparently very little. It's one thing to cast a theory and pursue it (e.g. "my attempt at building competitive storage on the cheap"), but you're presenting completely unsupported dogma around it, and then bolstering your own decisions by conclusions you actually don't even remotely have. It's the guy who decided to start working at a standing desk and on day one has a laundry list of comments about why anyone who doesn't is wrong and lesser.

This is a fairly typical, of course, and you see it by people who build their own anything ("don't give all your money to big TP -- six quick tips for making your own!"), and we generally only see it in the before stage, as the after stage is more often than not a littered debris field of failures.

I find it rather incredible that you attempt to incite HN guidelines, as if raw gullibility and boosterism was the direction of the critique. You are making broad claims in the linked article that you have absolutely no basis for making, so criticism is well deserved, and a service for anyone who might buy into this notion, making a fool of themselves in their own organization.
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We're in a similar boat with www.giftgaming.com

Have clients, users, etc. Need to find the right partner / bizdev person.

I think the comments I've read here are good advice -- people who jump straight into compensation and remuneration are probs in it just for the cash. As you're not guaranteed to always have cash, ask yourself if you see that person sticking around when things look gloomy...
The actual notion that a lot of people don't understand this debate is a valid concern. I personally disagree with every method that Oliver took to try and convey this.
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Atmospheric CO2 ppm a prediction?

Ok. You don't know what you are talking about do you?
Bangkok’s lavish malls consume as much power as entire provinces
I think it depends a bit on what you want to build with it. It's turned 1.0 and seems stable and you can make stuff like http://illustreets.co.uk/ with it. (see https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/illustreets-mapping-the-...)

It doesn't seem designed for large complex things though. Postgres support is on the way. I've been playing with it and trying to implement uploading profile pictures and that's quite hard. The standard thing in Meteor seems to be to offload the job to someone else's server probably running PHP. It's fun to use, I recommend playing about and trying to build something.

Josh Owen's talk is quite good on the business case for it. His company has built 40 apps using it, he says they tend to take about 6 weeks vs 10 for Rails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOpPG6kiud4
Are you familiar with his podcast The Bugle? It's a (mostly) weekly, 30-minute satirical news podcast that he does with another English comedian, Andy Zaltzman. They cover European issues in most episodes.

http://soundcloud.com/the-bugle

Archive of older episodes: http://gamesplusone.com/thebugle
I think this is going to get important economically.

There's only limited amount of resources a person can consume for consuming sake.

The rest is conspicuous consumption (buying a Ferrari to improve your social status) or its watered down versions brought to the ordinary folks via media brainwashing.

However, once over-consumption becomes a sign of low status (consider that being fat was once a sign of being well-off) it will become hard to keep consumption at current levels, not even mentioning growing it further.

Which in turn means that economies will start to shrink. Which, from a current economic viewpoint, sounds pretty scary.
The term you're looking for is "Seneca Cliff", after the Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist.

It's the observation that large and complex systems tend to fail suddenly and catastrophically.

http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2014/12/fossil-fuels-are...

We see this in business as well: the falls of MCI-Worldcom, Enron, and the collapses of multiple financial bubbles follow this dynamic.
was aware of simplejson but had not seen ultra json. This is awesome to see. Thanks for the writeup.
I'm always interested in the outcomes of these types of experiments.

One thing that I find interesting is no mention of what network card you are using? or switch setup, or ip config. I seem to remember in the dim and distant past that letting the storage layer handle the paths instead of LACP (which on some switches are active-passive) was better/faster/easier. (that could be bollocks though.)

I used to work in VFX where performance and cost must be balanced. For the storage lumps we had a 1u dell with the fastest 10 core v3 processor in it, 384 gigs of ram (ram is a cheap and fast cache) tied to a dell 3060 (60 4tb disks in a 4u case, with up to 4 SAS connections out(well many other options it does iscsi too))

These topped out at about 2gigabytes/second (or about 1.3gigabytes with 100 concurrent fios from NFS clients). but there are 30+ of them so the aggregate was enough to dowse half the render farm in iops.

A couple of things that stuck out for me:
o 24/7 support contracts are amazing.
o auto phone home disk replacements are also life savers
o multipath iscsi can be painful unless you have decent switching (with ospf) and OS support
o in short distances, SAS > FC >> iscsi for block storage. pretty much plug and play (multipath is easy too).
o Replication needs a different path separate from the client
o melenox or intel nics are the only 10gig cards worth paying for. (the only thing going for broadcom is that they are supported out of the box by vmware)
o File systems always fail
o for random IO; RAM > SSD by a massive factor. especially if your active dataset is less than ram cache.
o drdb will be as slow as your slowest link in the network.
o ethernet packet size really matters. (and depends on your workload)
o synthetic benchmarks are the chocolate teapots of the storage world.
o paying for decent support saved the (me and by extension the company(s)) at least twice.

Yes, the dell/HP/whitebox route is more expensive in capital outlay. However you can if you so wish go the white box route. The dell raid enclosure is a rebadged netapp/lsi/enginio box. dothill do a similar one.

The important thing to note though is the opex & RnD is far, far cheaper with prebuilt systems. With a click of a button you get replication. If you are using VMware (I'm sure KVM has a similar system) it can do it as well. The performance is predicatble, and the configuration and tuning has been done more or less for you (excluding the raid layout, FS tuning and network setup. but then you're a sysadmin who knows how to do all that right?)

There is nothing worse than having to debug a storage system so unusual or highly configured that googling won't help. You feel terribly alone. Even more if you don't have decent backups.

If you don't have those expertise, it'll cost you either time, or budget for a storage guy. (so just do some testing and buy the fastest prebuilt system for your budget.) For a previous place, I tested 7 different systems to get the best fit. (that included home rolled) A lot of the time was modelling the sotrage workload, and devising tests that would proxy that kind of load on the test systems.

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An easy fix would be to rename "bug" to "bugs", then everyone should be happy.
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This would be very useful device to carry with you if you were to visit the planet Bethselamin.
Thanks for your feedback.

We used Moodle at my last University (UON) (transitioned from blackboard) but this is a very lightweight product for a very different purpose (Online courses).

Granted It didn't take too long to build (about 13 weeks in my spare time) but It's actually a lot more work than you might think.

The challenge is not in the "coding" but getting the user experience right.

Beginners cant install this. Someone has to do it for them :).
Or maybe minimize skype.
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My big question is how fast can this put Comcast out of business? Because that would be awesome.
I found I was visiting a few sites regularly to see what was getting launched, so I created this simple aggregator to save me some time!
Any feedback on the down votes?

My assertion is still that full sized keyboards and mice aren't necessarily better than laptops with track pads I guess YMMV.
It seems that the author did file a bug report and it almost immediately got marked WONTFIX:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9326370
I suppose it depends when those micropayments had become a thing. I don't think, for example, that the various "pay a sliver of money when you hit a page" services out there have any chance, nor would they have had a chance five years ago. Content on the internet is Free, and when it's not Free, it's time to get boiling and resentful.

Ten years ago, fifteen? Maybe. At this point I feel like the entitlement of free ridership has won pretty hard.
"the messy contradictions surrounding such an issue"

Consider another, its OK to keep hobby stuff per the article. I'm sure they were thinking of a (singular) fishing pole or a pair of hiking boots. Anyone into ham radio, electronics, carpentry, computers, metalworking knows you can easily fill a basement over the course of a lifetime while remaining "minimal" as per the strict definition.

I could get rid of my artwork, books, and fridge door clutter, but it wouldn't improve my life very much.
UPSs all the way. With high random writes you'll get alot of buffering so even if you have a BBU for the raid, the data might still be in RAM.

the order of shutdown is important too, should really be
1) consumers of storage (within the first minute or so)
2) storage (about 15 minutes after)

if your network wobbles or the storage turns off too fast, everything hangs, and your in poostain pants town.

Ideally your DNS/AD shouldn't ever willingly shutdown. or if it does it should be well after the last bit of your production system has turned off.
I wouldn't call marking the bug as WONTFIX a "lack of reply".
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1) NSA can access your communication. 2) Your dick pic communication is communication. Hence, NSA can access your dick pic communication. This is perfect syllogism.

Sure, the conclusion is laughably dumber than proposition 1). But I won't call it "dumbing down" unless some intentional oversimplification is involved to the point of making the argument flawed.
Good, because space would get boring without being able to check my emails or see my Facebook feed.

You wouldn't even be able to send selfies.
Is there any specific reason why it's on the front page today?

P.S.: Just checked xkcd, I guess it's because it have been mentioned in today's comic...
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Yet another series of tapes maybe?
If I have to define failing we are just playing silly games. You have google. You can find no shortage of climate change models that failed to mirror reality.

For instance, many models have over-forcast surface warming and it hasn't happened. Probably because the deep oceans have acted as heat sinks. Not because the basic principal of the earth heating in response to CO2 is incorrect. That's what happens when you try to models complex systems with incomplete understanding... which was my original point.
Latency is a big deal for some things. Although it's from 1996, the principle given here are still applicable:

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html[0]

Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826768[1]

And while it's true that slow internet is better than no internet, people still don't grasp that latency is a big deal - it really is.

I see that in this case the latency issue is being dealt with by using LEO satellites and doing clever things with hand-overs, and that's good. The question is whether it's enough, although given that it's Musk at the helm, it probably is.

Edited to add real links:

[0] http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826768
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Where, exactly, is the strawman?

The strawman is that he builds a solution for his exact needs and you attack it for not having features (multipathing, replication, automatic tiering, thin provisioning, disk-deduplication, streaming hardware compression) that neither he nor most people need.

All that stuff becomes interesting when and if you need more than two bricks. In a time where you can fit >250T of spindles or ~42T of SSDs into a single server the audience for such shrinks rapidly.
My problem with minimalist living is that, quite often, adopters reduce any possession.

Although my physical items would fit in a small suitcase, I have several investments and properties to increase my personal wealth. It's not as superfluous as 50 pairs of shoes, as money itself can be used for valuable social change.
>"NSA can see your dick pics. Stop them now"

Which they can then blackmail you with should you ever decide to run for office or oppose them in any way. Much like how J. Edgar Hoover built secret files about politicians and celebrities which he allegedly used to influence them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover
The primary resource limitation for food isn't mere land (we have plenty) or water (plenty as long as you don't live in a temporarily reclaimed desert) but petrochemicals. Your food comes out of an oil well. When the well empties, you stop getting food. Pretty much that simple.
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The Bugle Podcast is all you need to know. You may have to put up with poor-quality phone lines in some episodes, but John and Andy take apart plenty of UK issues in their Friday issue of "an audio newspaper for a visual world".
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EMC are expensive and nimble are ok for light VM performance.

However they provide a service. As the OP says its a bit broad to claim that they are a pointless cost. Having dealt with both, I can tell you that its very rare that own brand storage is cheaper in the long term. Unless:
o you run at significant scale
o have enough data to warrant a team of skill storage admins

bear in mind that decent storage admins cost the same as a medium sized array, per year, per person. Opex can quickly over take capex.
I see, I wasn't clear.

I talked about the lack of reply to the comment where this was pointed out.

Just asking why he didn't it and then leaving the conversation possibly means he either didn't wait for the answer or was bothered with it?