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The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores
Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
Cables (WebGL visual authoring tool) now in public beta
MongoDB forks new open-source license restricting SaaS providers
HP to Keep PC Division
Re:First employee of startup? You are probably getting screwed
on Thursday September 01, 2011 @08:49AM (#2949758)
This covers the equity issue pretty well:
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/04/is-it-time-for...
Re:More screen is better for productivity, studies show
on Sunday April 03, 2011 @07:23PM (#2404518)
This somehow reminds of a productivity study done with factory workers (sorry couldn't find a source of sime kind, so this if from memory). They had to carry out relativly simple manual labor taks, the goal of the study was to analyze if there is a link between productivity and brightness of the workplace. After increasing the brightness in the factory productivtiy was rising. So the brightness was increased again and again to find the optimal lighting. Some day workers were showing up wearing sunglasses. The actual reason why productivity rose wasn't the brightness but the attention those blue collar workers were getting from the scientist carrying out the study.
My guess is that when you are beeing monitored (no pun intended) productivity will always rise. Especially if you get a fancy curved surface display like in the microsoft study.
Re:Inside Rockst*r Games
on Monday December 20, 2010 @07:08AM (#2024049)
Google cache version: http://bit.ly/eLyCoN
Inside Rockst*r Games
Re:Ask HN: How would you deal with DDoS?
on Thursday December 09, 2010 @07:06AM (#1987094)
Since we are regularly the target of DDoS attacks on rather small scale (below 10GB/s) we have compared a number of machines:
http://dev.esl.eu/blog/2010/09/10/in-search-of-the-anti-ddos...
Just having one of these machines won't solve all of your problems, but it can certainly help.
Re:Ask HN: What non-financial ways can I/we help Wikileaks?
on Saturday December 04, 2010 @11:49AM (#1969576)
The problem at the moment is that wikileaks can't handle the growth both in terms of submitted documents and volunteers lining up to help.
Daniel Domscheit-Berg said in a german interview a few months ago that they have a full inbox for programmers willing to extend the plattform, but they don't have any resources to review the applications nor the "middle management" to coordinate them.
Also Assange has put no effort into changing this in favour of releasing these "big" scoops. So: at the moment there probably isn't much you can do in terms of direct involvement.
Re:Ask HN: Cost of living across the world (Ramen PPP Index for hackers)
on Monday October 11, 2010 @05:32PM (#1781369)
Almost what i expected. I got a 34k offer (same industry) with good benefits but am unsure if its worth the move. Main problem seems to be the rent which is ridiculous if you want to minimze commute time to the centre.
Re:Ask HN: Cost of living across the world (Ramen PPP Index for hackers)
on Monday October 11, 2010 @12:20PM (#1780160)
May I ask which industy?
Re:Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2010 edition
on Friday October 08, 2010 @04:57AM (#1771047)
http://circonus.com/ - SaaS Nagios and Ganglia replacement
The biggest games company you may never have heard of
In search of the anti-ddos device
Re:Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?
on Monday August 02, 2010 @06:46AM (#1567329)
Exactly :)
Re:Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?
on Sunday August 01, 2010 @07:50AM (#1565158)
The competition in this market is quite strong in germany, there are 5 major companys offering basically the identical dedicated server service. The servers are not virtualized, therefor you usually have to commit to longer running contracts or higher setup fees.
Re:When did mouse inversion die?
on Monday June 21, 2010 @09:36AM (#1448737)
The site is using you registration date as birthday if you don't change it.
When did mouse inversion die?
Scribd: HTML5 revamp led to users spending twice as long on the site
Re:I just launched my bootstrapped startup. Pray for me.
on Monday May 10, 2010 @10:03PM (#1336574)
Not having read all the other comments, so this has probably been mentioned: the subscription page has too much text. Apart from the size difference I don't immediately see what distinguishes products.
Good luck!
Re:Nowmov (YC W10): Sit Back, Relax, And Watch An Endless Stream of Vi...
on Friday May 07, 2010 @08:14PM (#1329179)
I watched it for 10 minutes, which consisted of about 30 clips. 70% of them were bad quality music videos, the rest uninteresting other content, partly in spanish. The "best" one that came across was the recent Chrome Ad. Even voting down every music video just caused more of them to come up. Sometimes the videos had no sound for some reason.
Re:Court: RapidShare doesn't need to filter user uploads
on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @05:24PM (#1319381)
The greatest part is that the court thinks distributing illegal content isn't the main part of thier operation therefor they are allowed to continue the service in general. I seriously doubt that more than even 1% of the traffic is legit.
Re:Clustrix (YC W06) Builds the Webscale Holy Grail: A Database That S...
on Monday May 03, 2010 @11:50PM (#1316989)
Each CLX 4010 appliance contains:
Two Quad-Core processors (8 CPU cores) 32GB memory Seven 160GB solid-state drives (SSD)
Re:Clustrix (YC W06) Builds the Webscale Holy Grail: A Database That S...
on Monday May 03, 2010 @11:48PM (#1316984)
Partitioning also happens when a node fails. But shouldn't be that much of a problem since they probably use a N=3/W=2 setup.