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Re:C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers
on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @06:35AM (#11252299)
A real x86/64 bare metal server for ~ us$3.30/mo inclusive, wow, it seems like only yesterday people were drooling at $99/mo 300mhz Cobalt RAQs at ev1servers (it was more like 15yrs ago). I was able to spin one up in <1min however I was previously registered at scaleway due to their last offering.
Re:Corel Linux review (2000)
on Monday March 07, 2016 @07:09AM (#11238422)
Wow this takes me back, we poor UK modem users used to order linux cds from sktechy Micromart adverts, or fork out 40 quid to suppliers like software warehouse (now defunct) when Red Hat Linux was just RHL and came in a box too (no enterprise, fedora not yet born). Never used this particular distro though, $80 for the deluxe edition, one can buy a whole computer pre-loaded with Linux/Android even Win10 (in some scenarios) for less than that price nowadays. Makes me feel lucky
Re:How Duolingo got 110M users without spending on marketing
on Monday March 07, 2016 @06:30AM (#11238310)
Would be awesome to see Thai available too..
Re:Ask HN: Shouldn't the team behind parse-server just make a bid for ...
on Sunday March 06, 2016 @11:37PM (#11237131)
Developers will find parse-server should they desire it without acquiring a premium domain name (parse.com is alone very valuable - in terms of single word purity and in terms of SERPs / links backs). Any kickstarter cash would be better going to develop community momentum and support contributors imho.
Re:Iran billionaire Babak Zanjani sentenced to death
on Sunday March 06, 2016 @09:56PM (#11236826)
In this case it is obvious high rank Iranian officials both government and private (in banking network) were complicit for a long time with Babak, perhaps the brown envelopes got a little too small..
Re:Ask HN: What features would you like to see in the next generation ...
on Sunday March 06, 2016 @09:54PM (#11236815)
Automatic restful APIs endpoints, ideally with watch (long poll and WS) paths too.
Re:Netflix is causing us to watch less TV
on Sunday March 06, 2016 @09:52PM (#11236808)
It is unclear if they are blocking paid/public VPNs only, which to be fair are no more secure than without, can you really trust some anonymous guy/gal who purchases a few random dedicated servers and VPSs at different global budget providers with providing a secure exit node?
I can't see Netflix would have a legal problem with one running their own VPN on a cloud server within the same country, but I'm yet to find example of particular bannings.
Re:Netflix attacks VPNs
on Saturday March 05, 2016 @11:05PM (#11232435)
How is Netflix detecting VPNs, just by IP whois details of popular VPN providers and non-residential ISPs? or special client-side latency detection from the origin to the browser?
Re:Bitcoin transaction processing takes up to 10 hours
on Saturday March 05, 2016 @11:01PM (#11232425)
Does Ethereum have the same scaling issue if a group setup a direct currency on it?
Re:Eating chocolate is associated with improved brain function
on Saturday March 05, 2016 @11:00PM (#11232418)
This old chestnut has been published in mainstream media for decades, the Daily Mail in the UK much feature it at least once a year (on the odd day a cancer scare doesn't exist). I remember every exam been given chocolate to take with me, and we're going back to early/mid 90s here.
Re:Making voice calls in Slack
on Thursday March 03, 2016 @11:15PM (#11222011)
Let's hope co-working center remain quiet, coworking centres its the obligatory 50% procrastinating on facebook (top blue bar), then 25% on slack (purple left side) and the rest possibly doing some work. At least with phone (and skype on phone) people take their calls outside or to a booth
Re:The SaaS Startup Founder’s Guide
on Thursday March 03, 2016 @09:42AM (#11217033)
Yikes, hopefully it doesn't contain a chapter on building a training course, with something as sad as #trailhead where contestants, sorry certified solution experts, dress up in Halloween outfits and post selfies to twitter for extra badges...
Re:Ola and Uber Launch Bike Taxi Services in Bengaluru India
on Thursday March 03, 2016 @03:24AM (#11215646)
Do they cover ambulance and hospital fees if motorbike taxi is involved in an accident?
Re:LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Gives $14M in Stock to Employees
on Thursday March 03, 2016 @02:46AM (#11215548)
Does it come with the catch that I have to join his professional network? Do people working at LinkedIn have to use LinkedIn? I always wondered the same about Facebook, some awesome engineering challenges but many techies I know, including myself, have zero desire to have a facebook profile
Re:Do we need Control Groups (cgroups) for the Web?
on Thursday March 03, 2016 @01:23AM (#11215343)
Interesting but it is another technology increasing the complexity of building web sites, also to consider what happens with chains of dependencies and scripts loaded by things like require.js. I don't think it's required, browsers should just have an arbitrary limit of resources a single tab can use, useless the user promotes it somehow (like unity webapps) or apps running in an electron wrapper.
I'm all for Google and Bing analyzing client side performance and penalizing in ranking those that are considered abusive but pushing the responsibility to all eyeballs doesn't seem like a good idea to me. This is Ilya Grigorik though so somewhat desired to retract my opinion.. wait.. click add comment
Re:Containerizing Monolith Apps Using Docker
on Thursday March 03, 2016 @01:16AM (#11215326)
Did you take a look at how small the image would be if using Alpine (Docker's new best friend)?
Re:Implanted RFID tracker found in sex trafficking victim
on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @11:46PM (#11215073)
Criminals are never far behind, this is terrible, but technology isn't the problem here, tougher penalties and more resources to catch those at the top of the ladder in trafficking networks.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you ...
on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @11:25PM (#11215028)
Neat idea... Why does it prompt to join mailing list when clicking 'Order one now' and if I close that annoying pop-up nothing happens (still on main page)... Clicking the button again does work though. Latest Chromium if it helps
Re:Ask HN: What Router Do You Use?
on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @11:23PM (#11215021)
The free one provided by my ISP some months ago, I suspect/hope that such recent models have better firmware to handle buffer-bloat etc.. but I haven't had enough reason to investigate. I would definitely upgrade anything older than 3 years though given the buffer-bloat lessons during that period.
Re:Ask HN: What's the Different Between a Senior and a Regular Developer?
on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @11:20PM (#11215013)
You can have junior developers with 10 years experience, you can also have senior developers with only 18 months experience. I wouldn't lend too much to a title, it is particularly annoying when one hears people pigeon hole themselves with these titles. That's not to underrate years of experience and mistakes a long the way, but call a spade a spade 'developer with several years of experience'
Re:Rider EAP Available (crossplatform C# IDE by Jetbrains)
on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @08:52AM (#11209872)
Awesome, I stopped participating in .Net scene ~2010, all this great news out of Microsoft (CoreCLR, Ximarin buy, F#, gold sponsor OpenBSD, VS code, first class Git support, Typescript) has been enticing me back for a long time, now JetBrains essentially bring Resharper like IDE to Linux, things are looking great..
Re:Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @05:01AM (#11209034)
Getting a head start on their own pre-mined crypto-currency?
In reality probably just something mundane, Apple does secrecy well, and this would just be amateur
Re:Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand
on Thursday April 09, 2015 @08:49PM (#9351982)
To clarify TIT = This is Thailand
Re:Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand
on Thursday April 09, 2015 @10:39AM (#9347832)
Agreed, but TIT. Google it..
Re:VPS Compare – compare worldwide VPS servers
on Friday March 20, 2015 @10:08PM (#9241631)
Be careful X core means nothing reliable, for 99.9% of VPS providers, they are not dedicated nor rated and could be divisible by up to 2000 guests (particularly with OpenVZ provider), at least on Rackspace, AWS, Azure the CPU performance is generally within a specific range (variability due to minor hardware config differences, and noisy neighbours, but appropriately restrained). In addition 99.5% of these providers don't have the sufficient knowledge to run a VPS operation, they purchase a few dedicated servers and copy of SolusVM and WHMCS and hope and pray for the best.
Re:BBC gives children mini-computers in Make it Digital scheme
on Thursday March 12, 2015 @08:20AM (#9190251)
Got to do something to win public appeal I guess (as for those reading outside the UK the BBC is publicly funded and it is a criminal not civil offence not to pay TV license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Uni...), this isn't an area the BBC should be spending.
How about we skip the BBC, let schools purchase Raspberry Pi's as they desire and claim directly from a government fund (this I would certainly support)
If its anything like their contract IT spending they probably paid more than market rate too...
Re:Google.com source code (not simple anymore)
on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @10:25AM (#9144740)
Hopefully never, and certainly not with http 2.0 around the corner (this adoption wont be so slow, things are already starting to fall neatly into place). It's a micro-optimization Google can afford to do, others will just rely on optimize images size and a CDN instead (possibly an extra hostname) and vast majority wont/don't even bother..
Re:Ask HN: Any Lenovo engineers here part of Superfish fame?
on Thursday February 26, 2015 @03:46AM (#9111637)
Following the chain, "Any superfish engineers here? Do you think you could of mitigated a large amount of this PR hell (not that it makes it okay) by generating a random root-cert per install, and refusing to accept it on the WAN side of the proxy?" (I guess like AV software does). What was the motive for 1 static cert?
Re:Dell XPS 13 Review
on Friday February 20, 2015 @04:14AM (#9079633)
For a three year old, out of warranty, used, old laptop thats pretty impressive
Re:Ask HN: Has my education made me unhireable?
on Monday February 16, 2015 @01:59AM (#9055693)
Github, contribute to projects or find something interesting and launch a project. De-emphasis the education if you feel it's a disadvantage, stick it near the bottom of your CV, if you dont want to look like a post-academia liability (as you put it) then center your CV around experience so you fit the experience hire category rather than intern. You are not fucked..