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by lsb 15y ago
Currently, I've got a 60GB database of indexed n-grams, for an art project / data vis. I've also got ~20GB of relational data running a Latin website. I like manipulating and visualizing lots of data, so it'd be better not to denormalize it
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by lsb 15y ago
The traveler network looks awesome, but tough to use. What cities does Boston attract vastly more than it draws Bostonians there? What cities do San Franciscans go to significantly more than any other urbanites? I tried a similar thing at T
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by lsb 15y ago
No no, they're turning off their old datacenter (afaict) and they're fully integrating with Rackspace who bought them a few years ago. They've been superstable.
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by lsb 15y ago
Ah, thanks. I'd never self-host. I have a mid-size Sinatra.rb app that's getting subjected to the Slicehost reboot which is causing the desire to consolidate, but I've written in PHP and Haskell. I can be pretty flexible language-wise, as l
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by lsb 15y ago
Hm, Linode's disk space looks too small for me. What VPS or Dedicated Server do you recommend? Google searches are mostly spam for me.
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Ask HN: How do you host your own side-projects?
15 points by lsb 15y ago|18 comments
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by lsb 15y ago
It also dates it, in the same way that "Bill and Steve won't respect you in the morning" would make it uniquely a thing of ten years prior. Whereas making it generic makes it more timeless, and timelessness is good design in general.
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by lsb 15y ago
This seems like the perfect time to relaunch "Larry and Sergey won't respect you in the morning." http://ycombinator.com/ad.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/martindavidsson/96160482
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by lsb 15y ago
Seventeen years ago is 1995.
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by lsb 15y ago
Very cool! I'm trying to visualize entropy based on Google Books' n-gram models of text.
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by lsb 15y ago
No cellphones are allowed in top secret military locations in the US, because all can be remotely signalled to start recording audio. We know they'll turn a phone into a bug if they need to, so it's foolish to assume they wouldn't be able t
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by lsb 15y ago
Yup, but it became stable enough to host itself Aug 2001, whereas I think it was January or February 2001 that the few articles started trickling in.
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by lsb 15y ago
Because Wikipedia started in January 2001, well before even Subversion was around. Levitation looks really cool, I wonder if using gitwiki will be easier and more sustainable than mediawiki. And hey, Dan Lucraft who wrote git.js is still at
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by lsb 15y ago
That argument is theoretically sound, and I've upvoted you for bringing up such a helpful contribution, but it's practically nonsense. We are all running computers that are finite-state machines: if you have roughly a trillion bits of stora
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by lsb 15y ago
It seems like a very useful extension. Why do you think that just because you've never seen a civilian implementation of this extension that it doesn't exist? Perhaps privacy is more dead than you think.
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by lsb 15y ago
The interview starts "How's it going? / It's too early to tell.", which is superficially referring to how late of a partier he was, but deeply referring to how (that afternoon) he'd checked himself out of the hospital that diagnosed him wit
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by lsb 15y ago
As did Knuth's; see below the discussion about that. If you wanted to change it, to split "words" by blanks and punctuation characters, you would have tr -s [:blank:][:punct:] "\n" and then that piece would fit into the pipeline, the
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by lsb 15y ago
McIlroy's code lends itself very well to literate coding! Here's a try: # First, tr anslate multiple s queezed occurrences of the c omplement of A-Za-z (non-word-characters) into a line separator tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' | # and then
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by lsb 15y ago
There is, called a PR firm, if you don't want to write up your own blog post and submit it everywhere. Perhaps a consumerized PR firm that takes contract copy editors, submission bots, and some sentiment analysis to gauge the response of a
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by lsb 15y ago
That drilling down within the US doesn't stem to metro area! SFBay: 12% (8.6% SF + 2% MV + 1.4% PA) NYC: 8.8% Chicago: 4.6% BOS: 2.8% (1.5% Bos + 1.3% Camb) Seattle: 2.5% Austin: 2% LA: 2% Portland: 1.3%
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by lsb 15y ago
This was written 20 years ago! (Byte 7/91) And even truer now than then. We run ad hoc queries against transactional relational databases on our cellphones.
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by lsb 15y ago
Both those poems make me excited at the quality of your Kindle book. Can't wait to read it!
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by lsb 15y ago
Do they enjoy having 8x more interactions with advertisements? Or it is inescapable?
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by lsb 15y ago
That's why you need to do a CPS transform to transform every call into a tail call, and wrap the continuation up on the heap, so you don't blow out the stack.
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by lsb 15y ago
Modern slavery is alive and well, but it isn't lusting after the newest thing. It's child trafficking, illegal immigration to another country (and then the company (or the pimp) holds your passport), and things of that nature. Reminds me of
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by lsb 15y ago
That's a lovely form factor. Kern the numbers more evenly, the distance between the "1" and "9" is far more than the distance between the "9" and "5", and the "2" in "2011" is far closer to the "0" than the "1".
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by lsb 15y ago
This is ill-argued. Between 1980 and 2000 * Exercise rates stayed the same * Sitting time increased 8% * Obesity doubled. And that's it, obesity is just a factor of exercise rates and sitting time? Nothing else in the entire wo
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by lsb 15y ago
No, that's the disappointing thing. It doesn't intentionally confuse, it just is far better for a square box versus Bostock's masterful creation. Sadly, Reuters sells images to people who only have little squares to put them in, and they d
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by lsb 15y ago
1) Cranberry juice is an acceptable drink at a bar. 2) You must have some activity that people do in groups. Do you bike? Do you write code? Do you like to discuss books you've read? 3) If you can teach yourself to write tail-recursive cod
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by lsb 15y ago
Bill Atkinson: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin...

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