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New Type of Prion May Cause And/Or Transmit Rare but Fatal Brain Disorder
The irony is that many people here that want to create a startup and earn any kind of living will have a diminishing chance over time because of the increased usage of ad blockers..many of whom support ad blocking with a passion.
FAQ: https://www.scaleway.com/faq/server/

"How does the SSD storage perform?

SSD drives provide excellent performances with a really low latency. They perform especially well with random access patterns. Our SSD storage provide an average latency of 550 μs (550 microseconds) when a traditional rotating drive has a latency of several miliseconds.

We provide 2000 IOPS (an IO is a 4K random read or write access) per 50GB chunk you buy. It means that if you buy a 150GB volume (3 chunks), you will get about 6000 IOPS (3x2000).

To enjoy the performance of your volume, your application needs to use parallel IO. The total bandwidth of your volumes is limited to 120MB/s by the network link."
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I don’t think there is any truth at all to what you are saying.
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Building Globally Distributed, Mission Critical Applications, Part 2
I'm confused, how is that different from

https://play.golang.org/p/rup5cqapEU

where calling on the nil value of T seems to work.
No, I went with 4:
a) it's even
b) 2+2
c) 2*2
d) 2^2
I think the economists you are talking about become experts at some manageable and very small sub-segment of economic activity. I am speaking more about those who are quick to analyze such things as the global stock markets and, years later, they are still "CNBC contributors" and not independently wealthy.

I always go back to when I read "The Big Short" and realized that ALL of these economists missed a herd of elephants in the room. If I remember correctly, the two or three people who called it (and were yelling and screaming about the impending doom) and ultimately shorted the market and made truck-loads of money were not economists but rather intense observers and practitioners. I think one of them had Aspergers (It's been a few years since I read the book).
I'm talking about "privacy" in the 4th amendment sense.

The Griswold "privacy" line of cases is pretty much totally inapplicable outside the reproduction/sexual activity/family planning context, largely because they conjure up a "right to privacy" that doesn't really exist in the Constitution.
Vim does by default, which he seems to use judging by the .swp files present in git..
Am I reading this wrong, or could this potentially be used to censorship information on the web?
25 years is a long time!
New Moto 360
speaking of online.net, they currently have a banner ad front and center on their homepage for scaleway which says:
"Run up to 10 bare metal SSD cloud server for free" [1]

Clicking through just lands me on the scaleway homepage. Can anybody shed some light on this? Clicking around their site and couldn't see any mention of it.

[1] http://www.online.net/img/carousel/cloud.jpg
screengrab: http://imgur.com/cuvZlgb
Having struggled with through the web content editing for over a decade, I am excited that this project is moving forward and will be open source. Glad that I was able to contribute to see it happen, and thanks to everyone else who added their funds.
You're losing a lot (if not all) of the efficiencies of growing outside urban centers. The efficient distribution and consumption of irrigation water and fertilizer is more of a cost ($ & CO2) than the final transportation of food to consumers. This is likely feel-good solution that produces great food, but not net savings to consumers or society.
It really is as simple as that iff you never use your personal device for any business purpose.

[update] This was unclear: I'm saying this relationship is simple if and only if you have not used your devices for business purposes. If you have, you need only hope that none of the clauses in your agreements (you did have a lawyer review these?) cover it.
I absolutely agree with your reasoning, but personally I chose even numbers both times ;-) They "feel nicer".
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Those examples are trying to change the directory on the shell's child process, not on the shell itself.

That being said, aside from a kernel patch there is definitely no official way of doing it. This is the hacky way:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2375003/how-do-i-set-the-...
The network's the thing
Do you mean like Ashley Madison hack?

Nothing in the ad-backed company model prevent someone sending a fake advertisement to the demographic who are likely involved in adultery. After that you publish a "people who subscribe to this service are ..." list based on who clicked on it.

The only question if someone could do this with Facebook/Google is if they provides targeted advertisement to that demographic or if you have to provide your own algorithm and combine different targeted advertisements with the available demographics.
right - thanks for the link, I haven't been on the xkcd site in a while (really need to catch up ;-) )

I do think the downvoting is uncalled for though, after all, it's not like the questions weren't pointless, and you could reasonably call Randall Munroe a statistician of sorts..
"Eyebrows on fleek" is definitely most popular, but "uptime on fleek" is now one of my favorite phrases and will be used liberally.
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Some people use "play the market" to mean, "I make investment decisions, and purchase stocks". That's the conventional meaning.

In this case, though, he's contrasting the "play" as in "fun" aspect. He doesn't do it for fun, and instead treats it as work: minimizing risk, etc.

If I were "playing" this, I could do it with Fake Money and compare strategies over time, or invest pretend money to do all the same work. I don't think I'd be able to do it if gambling with real money.
> We believe that cloud computing is an amazing technology and that everybody should be able to benefit from its advantages. That's why we decided to reduce the price of the C1

Am I the only person who is turned off by that kind of marketing copy? You lowered prices because you thought you could sell more nodes, gain economy of scale, serve as a loss-leader, your costs went down, something. You didn't lower the prices because you wanted to do something nice for everybody.
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It's absolutely true that a native application can be more functional than a mobile friendly website.

When it comes to websites that try to force their app upon you when visiting their mobile website, my experience has almost always bee
n the application is as bad as, if not worse than, the website's functionality. This gets to my point that if your developers are not
capable of building a decent mobile friendly website then they are probably not any better at building an app.

Also I hinted at the fact that in many cases these apps appear to be designed to track users and invade users privacy. Why else do so
many need access to contact lists and more when their functionality doesn't remotely require it.
Ask HN: How should I get more development experience?
My current situation is I have been doing hobby programming off and on for the last 14 years (the last 3 being more consistently on). I have a bachelors degree but it is not in any way related to computer science. I've done a few small projects (https://github.com/flounders), but have had no users besides myself. I would like to get a job doing programming, but I don't feel that I have enough experience for that. I am thinking about going back to school for a second bachelors in computer science, but some people I have talked with or things that I have read say that is not necessary while others say a degree is necessary. What is your advice?
Frackers change methods in 'imploding' oil market
One of the reasons I hate these kinds of discussions is that they are so boring and simplistic. The notion that "it's all the US' fault!" seems to always rear its head.

I'm not a fan of a lot of US foreign policy, but people like Assad and Putin are 'not very nice people' to put it mildly, and have done more than their fair share to cause problems in Syria.

Russia has a direct interest in Syria, BTW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_naval_facility_in_Tart...
Unix Administration Horror Stories (1993)
>The vendor abandoned their technology

Don't forget the other half of this statement: I've always been concerned with basing a product on a locked-in technology from an unproven vendor.

And vendors do shut down. I've seen it happen many times. Sometimes they get eaten up by a "bigger fish" that wants to use their technology internally, and they then shut down the external service you were so fond of.
We used StrongSwan (looked into it recently). Worked well, easy to setup.

It's a myriad of forks (LibreSwan, FreeSwan, OpenSwan) -- but it seemed like StrongSwan had most frequent updates and good backing.
HTTP is federated more than distributed.
The most important innovation of the 21st century
Transportation has a large impact on the varieties and quality of food available.

Excessive handling creates waste and even drives your shopping habits; damaged fruits and vegetables don't last as long on the shelf so you have to pursue 'fresh' food regularly. Growers choose varieties based on transportation before taste or health.

It's not uncommon for someone harvesting their own root vegetables or apples to store one season's harvest for most of the year (my grandfather advocates a wooden barrel filled with sand). Almonds, and other nuts, are only harvested once a year and stored for distribution to meet demand.

In the US, modern perceived limits of 'fresh' food and expiration are greatly exaggerated, driven by the abundance of inferior product.
Whitepaper: Government Enforces Automakers to Make Connected Cars More Secure
Podcast: Car Hacking with Craig Smith, Author of the Car Hacker's Handbook
Only 18 years left.
Groupon's Deal on FreeBSD [pdf]
A lot of people trusted Apple with their photos, and Apple did not release any photos, but that doesn't really matter because they were stolen.

A lot of people trusted Ashley Madison, and Ashley Madison did not release any data, but that doesn't really matter because it was also stolen.

Given that nobody has invented perfect security, it is reasonable to assume that any data anywhere can be stolen, and therefore you have no control over who accesses it.
Nodejitsu announces migration to Modulus
Probably because of the relative evangelism levels. I don't see many threads on hacker news talking up the virtues of C++.
The world isn't black and white, you can want to help and make money at the same time.
"However, the search of personal devices after you've conducted business seems legitimate to me"

So, the founder calls your personal cellphone on the weekend and asks a couple of business questions. You come in on Monday and they lawyer points to the clause in your contract. I'm pretty sure reasonable goes out the window.

Intent and the words you signed need to match or you can get seriously hosed.
How Giving Up Refined Sugar Changed My Brain
The Unix Programming Environment (1984) [pdf]
Why should there be a law about this? If you don't like Facebook's rules, you don't have to use it. Nobody is forcing you to get an account.
> You can share information with your doctor that you specifically do not want the government to have.

Sure, you can—and your doctor will reveal that information to the government if required to do so by mandatory-reporting laws.
What if I were 1% charged? (2013)
Having re-read it, I still can't see it as a "celebration." I would say he's acknowledging a bad habit that he can't kick. It's an admission of continuing weakness in the face of cheap pleasure, like a good critic that can't stop binge eating Spicy Cheetos.
Patriotism is there, but the main problem here is that India is pretty much already very Balkanized in geography and class if not national boundaries. It also has a strong central government. Any revolutionary/indepedence movements therefore tend to be fringe (someone in Maharashtra does not really care for farmer movement in Bengal) and easily controlled (due to the strong center). The patriotism means that any overtly violent army action is not frowned upon but rather encouraged by most who have a voice. The extreme poverty means the poor are so wretched they do not have a voice. We have met people on a two hour drive (which means only about 30 km) outside Mumbai who have never been to a big city and know nothing beyond how to get to the next day. If by some magic, most Indians become a bit educated tomorrow, and have some life other than mere existence, then we can talk about actual Balkanization. Until then, India will exist as it always has. There is also the Partition which has affected the national psyche: talk of dividing the country is like so far out there, you'd be considered a traitor a few levels before that.
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Ask HN: Which US Visa is needed for this?
I'm a french consultant (self-employed). I'm receiving requests from American companies for Ruby ETL work (especially after launching http://www.kiba-etl.org).

Althought I almost exclusively work remote, I wonder: what is the recommended Visa to allow me to work on-site for an american client?

Some friends have recommended the Visa Waiver program [1], but this case does not appear in the allowed travel purposes.

Thanks for your guidance :-)

[1] http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/visit/visa-waiver-program.html
Most apps are ok, or at least no worse than the browser. Some are way worse. In no case does the interstitial take into account your momentary cost/benefit for downloading/installing or if the app is any good.
Reminds me of techniques used to detect CRT radiation to rebuild what is being displayed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
What this is about is trying to extract apparent facts from a network of documents and using those facts to evaluate the reliability of the documents.

So I guess it depends on what you mean by "to censorship". Do you mean "not generally send people to a document reasonably expected to be untrustworthy"?
Maybe work on high tech ways to grow high value foods like sweet potatoes, soybeans and wheat indoors. Aeroponics with additional support structures maybe.
I'm curious to see what your tcl code looks like. Did you keep it around for future disasters or was it just a quick and dirty one-off?
I think you may be over-attributing actions to malice instead of incompetence.
Amazon is really a terrible company that should have died a horrible death along with all of the other un-profitable companies during the late 90s.

On top of this, I don't know how they aren't getting fined by the government for anti-competitive practices. They actively use the data from marketplace sellers to compete by undercutting.

In many of the categories you are now required to give them all of your supplier information. Within a short period of time after you do this, Amazon sells the exact same product at a much lower cost. This is not a coincidence.

Policing of the marketplace is also done by bots and once you are banned, there is really no way to talk to anyone to get your situation resolved. They also keep all of your money for as much as 180 days. It's a slap in the face for large sellers that are making Amazon lots of money (16%+ of every transaction).

You also aren't allowed to have any contact information (unlike Ebay, for instance). This means you aren't building a business at all. You are merely selling products on behalf of Amazon. As a buyer, I find this frustrating because in many cases, Amazon won't help the buyer and say that the transaction is between the customer and the buyer, not Amazon itself.
One of the old security scanners (SATAN/SAINT or COPS maybe?) would test and report if your chroot was vulnerable to `cd ..`.
Why Just Being Innovative Isn’t Good Enough
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Hundreds of black hat English Wikipedia accounts blocked following investigation
Hacking a Phone's GPS May Have Just Got Easier
Amazing anecdote/post there.

To me, the biggest take-away is: confirm the market before you build. So instead of just coming up with a legitimately good idea and then going to work, set up the marketing material first to measure hits, or talk to people in industry and see if they would pay $x/month if such a thing existed.

This is even pre-minimum viable product level, this is putting feelers out to see if the MVP is worthwhile.
Friend, I think you'll find that a proposal to deeply restructure whole economies and societies will not be well-received by people reluctant to accept smaller changes.

Have you considered appealing to what your audience is likely to care about, rather than the goals you find appealing?
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Greenlane.io: A Toronto-centric scenic route mapper
I will vouch for Linode. Also if you've never heard of Ramnode, they are my go-to VPS provider. I build actively monitored infrastructure with downtime notifications on the order of 5 minutes or less, so my story isn't just anecdote. I have bought hundreds of VPS over the years from a huge number of providers, and Ramnode is hands down absolutely the best provider. Excellent uptime and the VPS always feel snappy and responsive. It never feels oversubscribed like every other provider out there. Linode is also very good, too, IME.
You're talking about secrecy, privacy is not secrecy and I don't think you understand what privacy is.

Are you a homosexual or a transgender? Did you ever have an extramarital affair? Do you have HIV, or diabetes? Do you have a criminal record? Are you a muslim or a jew? Have you been abused as a child? Do you have a history of drug usage? Are you in a lower caste? Are you a war veteran? Have you ever spoken against your government to your peers? Have you ever gotten drunk at parties? If you have kids, have you ever taken pictures of them naked?

Depending on context, like the community you leave in, or the mood of your government, there is plenty of criteria for discrimination. In the right context, some of these can get you fired, some can get you killed.

And privacy is not secrecy, but rather the right to not be monitored. By not being monitored, even though you cannot hide your identity, you can control what facets of yourself people see. Privacy is about having control. On the other hand by being monitored, you're on file and likely to get fucked in the future by traits that today may be innocuous, as history shows. And you can also be blackmailed. And skipping the doomsday scenarios, most government institutions are filled with incompetents and do you really, really trust those incompetents to handle that data? I could tell you stories.
Ask HN: I can travel to Europe for a few days. Where should I go?
Hi! I have a surprise opportunity to spend a few days in Europe this autumn. I've never had plans to travel there, so I'm not really sure where to go and what to do there.

I'm curious about London, but that's about it.

Do you guys have any advice? Where would you go? What would you do?
Yup, all those things are useful, but they don't solve everything. I've worked on projects where a single change to a header file would lead to a 20-minute rebuild adventure and where individual .cc files would take 10 minutes to compile. Caching and distcc build farms help somewhat but there's still, fundamentally, the critical path of a single file's (re)compilation, and only a faster CPU will help with that.

(And if you say "thin client, distcc, big build farm", then you just need the latest CPUs in the build farm instead.)

Of course this is as much an argument for a real module system in C/C++ as anything else...

(And, I completely agree that TSX and other architectural stuff is totally awesome, too. Perhaps that'll drive adoption more than incremental perf, but I'm just arguing perf is still often really important.)
For people not in Toronto,

try:

Start: Union Station, Toronto

End: 212 Adelaide St. West
You don't. A correct `chroot()` implementation shouldn't let you access paths that aren't below the new `/`.
AA still has its place. A lot of people like its philosophy. Plus, some people just don't respond to anything else other than its "tough love" philosophy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10157750
In particular, it was only an issue when identifiers were mangled (i.e. made as short as possible).
DO has really gone downhill. For some time they were top-of-the-heap for me with Ramnode and Linode, but lately (the last two years or so), they have really gone downhill with respect to overall quality.
B2 Business visa [1] might be your ticket. You might have to tweak your payments to go via international borders. :-)

Better consult an attorney.

[1]http://immigration.laws.com/visa/b2-business-visa
Seals aren't alone; most hunting for fur has been cut back dramatically (mink, fox, coon, bear, beaver, otter, sea otter...) Seals may have been the champion for the anti-fur movements because they are cute, but to my knowledge fur in general declined because the goal (fashion) was seen as shallow, the rest of the animal was not used, and the consumers were mostly the very wealthy.

We still use leather, but in the case of cows the entire animal is used and while leather is sometimes a luxury good (BMW's, couches) it is also highly functional (gloves, saddles). Which is similar to the Inuit use of seals, and as the article discussed that use has been mostly OK'd.
It was as quick and dirty as could be. It was pretty simple, really, as it just accepted a connection and wrote a file with no encoding. No security or concurrency or any other niceties.
Digital Glarus now in the press (in German)
Not that I agree with them, but this analogy doesn't hold. What if the bank in question is in a nation where criminals vastly outnumber and over-power public and private security?

The matter really is quite a bit different when dealing with information than with tangibles (or mutable information representing scarce quantities) because of how easily information can be copied and how you can't recover privacy. (e.g. how silly it is to say that "Our legal counsel is working to ensure that all copies of these photos are deleted from the internet.")

If you start with the reasonable premises of "Information can be copied" "I cannot trust the information security of a third party to be perfect" you only need to add a dash of absolutism ("imperfect security may as well be no security") to get to "Information I cannot risk certain third parties having is information I cannot risk any third parties having". I don't think you're advocating for swapping that with "imperfect security is all that can possibly exist so is by definition good enough" but in the case you are, that's equally absolute and incorrect.

Absolutism with information-theoretical assessment of security risk is pretty common (for good reason) in corners of industry so it should be expected as guaranteed that in discussions people will express that kind of position (on top of the human tendency for absolutism in general).

The difference is simply that when making practical choices about behavior, you must employ cost benefit analysis with expected values.

Will I avoid using services that track my usage? No. Would I while I'm doing something illegal? Probably, if its not very inconvenient. Will I encrypt a private key before I upload it to my backup host? Yes. Will I revoke that key if I find out my backup hosting is breached? Probably. I'd have to do the math on how likely I think it is attackers have the key, will expend effort to brute force it, will succeed vs the pain it'll be to rotate that key.
IBM engineer sheds some light on hack that stole IRS refunds