jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It happened to ServInt back in 2004 - the VA Department of Transportation cut the MCI OC-48 and OC-12 fiber
strands running to the ServInt datacenter. ServInt handled it amazingly well and learned from their lessons moving forward and if I recall correctly gave a comp'd month to it's customers. They followed up by adding additional backbones in addition to the MCI one and have always been solid since.
For whatever reason I stopped using Facebook about three months ago. Rarely login anymore. Don't use bother to start twitter for weeks at a time. Travelling internationally, I've found Skype (IM and Voice) to be invaluable to keep in touch with colleagues all over the world.

In order of priority, here are the resources that I would find the most difficulty giving up:

o Email
o IM (skype/AIM)
o HN
o Daring Fireball
o NYT

Interestingly enough, NYT has been doing an amazingly good job weaning me off of being addicted to them by limiting me to 20 articles a month (Forcing me to clear cookies whenever I hit that max/log into incognito mode in chrome). Slowly, but surely, I find myself not using them as frequently as I used to.
This is an online printing app that lets you order professional prints of your own images in whatever size and quantity you'd like. I would love to hear some feedback on what we have so far.
I actually really like that they did a point by point response to their critics. To me this is an important step for today's companies. The internet gives a voice to customers to raise concerns, companies are able to see these concerns immediately, and companies have a great way to respond quickly. I feel like it this type of dialog creates a win-win situation for everybody involved.
Yes, users can set up Duo by themselves. If 10 users use their own Duo accounts on the same host, they're replicating the work to manage their own Duo configurations, is all (and there's no centralized management of those users' credentials by the system administrator).

Currently, duo_unix does not have a non-service option to use manually-configured local secrets. It's something that could be added easily, but at the expense of centralized management, logging, audit, enrollment, etc.

Folks who only want to use one-time credentials they need to manually provision for each account are probably better off using OPIE or Google Authenticator for now.
Look at how slow Python 3 adoption has been. I don't think completely breaking backwards compatibility is a quick thing. The Python folks expected 5 years for Python 3 to become the default version because of the dramatic changes.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/63859/why-do-...
Hello HN! We're SilviaTerra, one of the inaugural companies in the USV Climate Fund.

If this is exciting to you - we're hiring!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25641668
Not sure why you're down voted. People that steal credit cards find ways to fund money from those cards to themselves. Fake apps are one way this can happen. When a company sets up a model where anyone could easily become a receiver of money and anyone could easily pay, they get into the AML world.
There are millions of people in the world who own the gear and know how climb, rappel, jumar, and generally rig up rope systems. Not necessarily for glacier rescue, but the techniques for glacier resue can be learned from a book or a weekend course.
Involuntary in-patient psych care is different than prison because it is focused on improving someone's life, managing a potentially dangerous condition, etc. They (should be) a hopeful place, a place of healing. They don't always live up to that, of course, but at least the objectives are correct.

Prisons are not places of rehabilitation in the US, and a person who is suffering from a severe mental illness is likely to suffer profound abuse in prison.
man, i can see this being really useful.

you need to expand on this... I'd buy a series of .sh domains just to use this.
I think it's entirely reasonable for someone to believe that the net result of a union in a particular place would be a negative for employees. They may be wrong, but holding that view doesn't automatically make them a bad person.

Maybe that does mean "you're with us or against us", but I'm pretty sure that kind of rhetoric only works to persuade people on the middle school playground, not in real life. At best, it will serve to convince weak-minded people who make decisions based on fear of being called names.

If you're going to try to convince me of something by telling me I'm an asshole if I don't agree with you, that's only going to push me away. That's just a fact, and if you want to convince me your opinion is the correct one, you need to focus on finding the argument that will give you the outcome you want, not the argument that lets you vent your frustration, even if "you're either with us or against us" is technically true. Because I don't care; if you're going to present your argument in that way, I'm very much fine being against you, even if I'd otherwise be sympathetic to your cause.

For the record, I'm fairly pro-union, though I do believe they can cause more problems than they solve in some situations. I'm commenting here because I'm really tired of people snatching defeat from the jaws of victory through self-destructive argumentation.
Both the Mayo Clinic and WebMD are wrong. To put 2,000 IU into perspective, when you go out and expose most of your body to the sun for 30 minutes your skin produces anywhere from 10,000 IU to 50,000 IU. The body evolved this process for a reason, and anything less than 4,000 IU per day is probably not enough.

The average man uses 5,000 IU every day and this increases when fighting illness or chronic disease.[1] There are zero reported cases of vitamin D toxicity on doses less than 40,000 IU per day [2]. I'm not saying go out and take 40,000 IU every day, but 5,000 - 10,000 IU per day is right in the range (you should be on the high end of this if your at high-risk for deficiency i.e. if you are black, obese, work indoors everyday and don't see the noon-sun much, always wear sunscreen when going outside, or live far from the equator)

Here's a good look at the latest research on vitamin D toxicity, for anybody who's interested.
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/vitaminDToxicity.shtml

[1] Vitamin D binds to T-cells to activate immune response
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=another-r...

[2] Vitamin D supplementation, 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations, and safety.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10232622
Fair point. In retrospect, invoking net neutrality wasn't really called for.
That doesn't seem to work for me:

RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory

Apparently I need to patch my kernel?
While this was an interesting read,
and pretty well written.
I - as a long time Linux user, wasn't really able to figure out the advantages BSD has over Linux.

I agree that the author put a nice disclaimer warning us he will not be telling us why BSD is better - but he definitely mentioned that it is .

It is rather obvious the author is biased towards BSD - For example - "Chaos VS Order" and "Right VS Wrong" as titles when comparing BSD and Linux from a philosophical POV.
Reading this reminded me of how I was as a young Linux user 15 years ago (Slackware 3.4...) and was proud of using a barely usable OS - blinded by my own pride arguing in favor of Linux without any true understanding of the internals - and unable to hold a single argument of what makes it any better.

If i wanted to sum everything i would basically be saying - Linux is different.
But thats why Linux has many different flavors - It depends on what you like - and your level of expertise. If you like compiling everything - you could use Gentoo.
If you want it to "Just work" - you could try out Ubuntu.
If you need something Robust and supported - use RHEL.
While it is true that Linux development might be more "chaotic" than BSD, there is order in the chaos. What seems to be unordered and unorganized in fact has its own way of making things play in harmony.

PS. I would really love if anyone has a more technical comparison of BSD VS Linux (FS, Scheduling Etc..)
Interesting info about XCode and the FB app. I wonder if Apple is collaborating with FB on this or if it's mostly deaf ears...

"So they built their own IDE. Set of plugins on top of ATOM. Not a fork. They like hackable and web-y nature of ATOM.

The demo showing iOS development looks very nice! "

Seems that they have the right idea about "optimizing for Developers"
The word you are looking for is CONVENTION. There are conventions we all know on the web - where your navigation goes etc. - there are also conventions in the real world. The thing about conventions is that you haven't got to re-learn the interface, this also applies with a physical poster. But, yes, same as you, it is familiarity with the format that makes the left one 'better'.
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction:
http://amzn.com/0395316685

Pyramid: http://amzn.com/0395321212
A query like "one-way streets and stop-lights within my area" is perfect for the Overpass API: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API

The best UI for Overpass is http://overpass-turbo.eu/
THAT would be in interesting...
Good point. One of these days, I'd love to decouple the DSL in neo4django from the query building, and allow eg a Rexter backend.
I've been a developer for over a decade, where I'm currently employed they have adopted low-partitions (lets be honest, no partitions). I can hear people twitch, breathe, randomly talk with others 3 isles down. Every developer has on headphones trying to ignore all the movement/talking around them, it's just a horrible setup. I find myself being less confident in my work, because I can't concentrate due to a all the distractions around, wearing headphones/earbuds is a nice work-around, but not a solution, I would like to not have my earbuds on 6+ hours a day.

While I see the advantages to open offices, not everyone works the same way, companies who want to maximize employee effectiveness should cater to both types of needs.
> WP7 isn't destroying the cards. It's locking them to the handset.

Oh... It renders them unusable on any other device but the one you inserted them into...

> Microsoft/AT&T have done a poor job of messaging this to the users.

I think the OEM (was it HTC?) should have placed the SD slot under a metal cover you would have to unscrew before you even saw the card.
I really detest eclipse. I haven't found that it helps with android development at all. VIM is fine at it.
The EM spectrum is a big thing; presumably they thought it was infrared or something harmless like that since there aren't radiation hazard symbols everywhere.
Is this all native? Parts of it feels like javascript.
Use both.

At Poll Ev we use erb for content and haml for "application" pages.
I have updated the post to have the base url for all the resources. My apologizes to the creators of those resources. My intentions were never to take away from your PageRanks.

Also, I will be adding resources recommended by people in the comments on the post, HN, and Reddit shortly. So if you have any you want added let me know soon.
There are concurrent talks going on (most in English and few in German). Right URL is this http://streaming.media.ccc.de/

Here is schedule https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/schedule.html
Android is only ahead if you don't count ipod touches. I think Apple has a great chance of being the or at least a major player in this market.
Library management is a little messy, but on the other hand it’s great that the master version of it is just a GitHub repository. That makes it really easy to pull down the latest, add new parts as you work on a project, and submit pull requests to share them back.
Java is still enormously popular on the back-end.
Not really. Using Java doesn't come with having to have a relationship with a company (beyond the the JDK EULA nobody reads or cares about anyway).
Yep, but if he had an online shop, I would understand that, I simply (maybe it is just me) cannot see how/why anyone (being in Fukuoka) would choose that hotel over the competitors (paying the "full" rate I mean) so - maybe - he is increasing the number of people willing to stay there (watched) for 1 $ per night, i.e. something on which the hotel will loose money.
I have always found this quite amusing that every company I have ever applied to for a job has SQL in required skills and yet not a single one of them has ever interviewed me on it.
There are few competitors that have strong, static typing, great test tooling and broad library support.
Is there anything inherently wrong with that? They know where the butter for their bread comes from and make it work for them and reap from it.

As far as individual career choices go, seems like a winning move.
Cohen performed his bits without the audience knowing they were part of it - and he only shows the bits that had the outcomes he wanted (or were at least funny). There are more then a few security cam clips of the bits that didn't go so well - and I recommend finding them.

Cohen isn't a surrealist who is using a medium to convey the depth of life, he's just a comedian with an editing team.
> which frankly sounds about as realistic as raising a generation of people who will challenge their rival to a pistol duel because they slept with their girlfriend.

I don't see any obstacle to this in terms of the attitudes of the people involved. It'd be really, really easy to raise a generation of men who thought this was a reasonable thing to do.

It's not happening now because of external controls, not because so many people are shocked at the very idea.
Well, one reason that S.V. companies can pay more is that they earn more thanks to being in S.V. Once I've been visiting the mothership and took a bike to drive up/down the road. There have been offices of all kinds of companies I would've never heard about... Except I've seen so many of the logos on various things in the office a quarter world away. I imagine there's quite some value in having your engineers mingle with potential customer's engineers after work.
That article says Lowercase was founded in 2007, however Wikipedia[1] and Sacca's response [2] claim Lowercase wasn't founded till 2010. But we can't let that get in the way of the VC super predator narrative.

> At the time, we had known each other for years, were in a private party setting in Vegas, not a work event, with no investor-investee relationship, we were not in business together, we didn’t work together in any capacity, and I also wasn’t even a venture capitalist yet as I didn’t close my first fund until May of 2010. There was no imbalance of power between us.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowercase_Capital
2. https://medium.com/@sacca/i-have-more-work-to-do-c775c5d56ca...
if khan academy sold their courses on DVD I would probably buy about 35% of their collection
I sure hope it uses tons of custom swing widgets.

That's something the Java team never got right: the cross-platform look&feels looked just awful.
I was asked what other interpretations could be and provided one. I wasn’t suggesting this was your intention, in fact I explained how it probably wasn’t in my comment directly prior.
We accidentally succeeded in growing lacinato kale but not red russian kale last summer - our aphids greatly prefer the red russian kale, so in a mixed garden bed the lacinato kale was mostly untouched. We're in the PNW, so your experience (and aphids) may vary.

Lacinato kale is tough, but I like it in a salad after massaging it with a bit of sea salt and olive oil to start breaking it down some.
You're right. I think so much of this discussion is missing the forest for the trees though. The bigger picture question is whether dense, expensive metropolitan areas, or other locales with expensive cost-of-living are the right fit for many jobs. I think there will be major changes in the next five-to-ten years.
Imagine if they had just fu--ing kept gmail lean and slick as it was in the first days.
Is metal and electricity Google's core competency though?

I don't think anyone is arguing one should maintain their own silica, atoms, independent universe, etc .
In a different world everyone wound up using Java Net Launching Protocol ...
He is using the term "concentration camp" in the original sense of the term to mean "prison camp". What we call "Nazi Concentration Camps" were often "death camps" and/or "labor camps", but those are not what he means by "concentration camp".

"Internment Camp" is a euphemism for "concentration camp", which is itself a euphemism for "prison camp". "Concentration camp" has also come to be a euphemism for "extermination camp".

So:

Is a: | Can be called a [...] Camp
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Prison camp | Internment, Concentration
Prison camp with labor | Internment, Concentration, Labor
Extermination camp | Concentration, Extermination, Death

He is talking about the first line, you are talking about the third. In modern English, the term "concentration camp" is most strongly associated with the third.

(Actually, IIRC some Japanese prison camps were in fact labor camps, though I think the work they did was almost entirely agricultural. No bomb-assembly to my knowledge.)

@dragonwriter suggests avoiding the terms "concentration" and "internment" entirely and only using "prison" and "extermination" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6260756). I think this is a reasonable suggestion.
interesting issues, but 3 hops is too much no matter...
What terminal do you fly into? T4 is quite bad since it seems to handle all the flights from Asia. It really was 4 hours, but this was also before the Olympics while they were also busy doing renovations. If you are European, the experience is obviously faster (different lines), though being American doesn't seem to help.

Schiphol was still 30+ minutes (was in line behind a flight from...Iran), but not incredibly annoying like London was.
Yeah, foobar2000 has worked well under Wine for me in the past. It doesn't work as well when playing music from my NAS via NFS, though..
Ansible seems to be better at declaring a particular configuration at build time, which should be repeatable and tested, and then perhaps running limited updates in a more controlled fashion later. The destination hosts should be disposable and recreated for any significant changes. If you write playbooks to change existing state frequently you have to be very careful to write in tasks that check the previous state. If you can version the roles and playbooks carefully then you can have some idea of the systems' state. For simple idempotency, like changing an app's config template and restarting a daemon, the modules have you covered, but for more complex dependencies between services it can get hairy. Some unpredictable things can happen. Example story: systemd-tmpfiles on CentOS 7 has a poorly documented behavior of skipping files in /tmp or /var/tmp that are both root-owned and read-only. It's not something in the options or config, just a default behavior (that was removed in later versions). We had a playbook that would clone a git repo into /var/tmp and then copy the required files into their appropriate place. The git module worked fine to update the repo each run, until several weeks passed and systemd-tmpfiles blew away most, but not all, of the repo files. Some files with just read permission remained. The module could handle either all the repo files existing or having the repo disappear just fine, but not a partially deleted repo. It would error out on that task. So now there's a new dependency on a changed systemd-tmpfiles config to skip that directory, and the partially deleted mess must be deleted for a run to work on existing hosts with the old config. There's lots of stuff like that that can accrue.
The Wuhan lockdown clearly worked insofar as it stopped the exponential spread of the epidemic in the short term, saving millions of lives throughout China and by now allowing temporary hospitals to empty, overworked imported medical staff to return home, transportation networks to restart, etc.

Over the coming months economic activity should slowly ramp up (already has in most of the country), hopefully without restarting widespread community spread of the virus.

Yes this is an extremely economically painful kind of response, more or less pausing all economic activity for months. But if the alternative is the death of >1% of the population, all drowning alone at home while the overwhelmed medical system collapses, it’s hard to counterfactually guess at the relative effects on the economy.
>,and also exercise more....The difficult part is, of course, forcing yourself to stick with it.

Is that really difficult? Not really, for me it is trivially easy. Do you find difficult to shower each day or clean your teeth? No, because it is a routine.

If you establish routines, the work needed for eating well and exercising tends to zero. And if you eat well you don't need to eat less, your body will be satisfied with much less.

If you eat badly, for example cheese puffs, the more you eat the less satisfied you are. Your body is not receiving the nutrients he needs, even while you fill your stomach.

The fact is that techniques that actually work do not need to require so much effort or discipline.

For example, reading HN. I read HN once I complete part of the work I need to do for a day, so it is a price, not something to be ashamed of.

BTW, reading HN is extremely useful for me. I do not expend much time on it, 20 minutes per day or so(I measure it), nor distracts me. I found something interesting, I save it to Zotero.

I read HN in batch mode, not in "notifications mode". For example I write this so someone could benefit from it. If someone replies I won't read it because I won't spend time outside my time window.

HN is extremely useful because when I am interested in a topic, say Lisp or Artificial inteligenece, I could check my Zotero and study for a week or so the material HN has preselected for me.
It took a bizzare turn with the sentence beginning "Focus on the foot and ankle muscles..."
Leather Goddesses of Phobos had a Scratch n Sniff version.

And although not exactly copy protection, Leisure Suit Larry had a great "Age Check"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leather_Goddesses_of_Phobos

http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.htm...
If you don't limit the discussion to "Macintosh", Apple had a 4th architecture (and a 3rd 'transition'): 6502. There were third-party software emulators for 6502-on-68K, but Apple only provided a hardware one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe_Card
The big complication was 7 pixels per byte. Artifact colors work on even "bit boundaries" aligned with the colorburst.

On pretty much every other computer, the same bit patterns resulted in the dame artifact colors, but the Apple had even and odd byte patterns, because the repeat took two bytes, not one like other machines.

On the other hand, having that high bit shift the pixel clock a little meant 6 colors, plus black and white.

Because of how artifacting works, that is actually enough to do anything. Until the PC and some machines like the color computer 3, artifact colors were limited. Red blue, kinds of things.

The secondary complication was the screen addressing, which cost a table lookup. Had it been linear, overall draw speed would have been a bit faster.
I work in the DPI field and have maintained a few DPI firewalls.

Most DPI that I know of will defeat this bypass technique, I'm not sure the author has even tested if it works.

DPI firewalls already have to support aggregating packets. It's pretty common to need more information beyond the initial packet. It's not really any more memory intensive either, you're just reading byte by byte and keeping what you need.

Heck most DPI firewalls support checking something in the outbound packets is in the inbound packets. ie - checking if a connection is performing IKE.