skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what you mean by "distributed". There are many servers behind Cloudflare's DNS servers, but they are all controlled by one organization.

Best practice is to have your DNS servers in different AS. This is not only to have many servers all over the world, which Cloudflare solves for you, but to have them accessible over different routes, not controlled by the same people. That way a configuration error somewhere (or a bad BGP route, which happens) can not put your DNS out of service.

DNS service is cheap and plentiful, and you might even have it included in your ISP deal. You might as well use it.

Also note that if you secure your records with DNSSEC, none of your DNS secondaries can tamper with your data. This is by design. You do not need to place trust in the organizations running them, so that part can be left out of your SLA.

It is also best practice to have all your public DNS servers mirror your primary master, which is not public. This is to make sure all your public servers are kept running even when you have operations issues with your primary.
I'm thrilled that we can offer this raw cloud storage for just $0.005/GB/month. Would love to hear from the Hacker News community what you do with storage today & what you might do with B2.

Here are my thoughts on our announcement today: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/b2-cloud-storage-provider/

Gleb
We use mailinglists ourselves with https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gitlabhq (hosted outside of GitLab) but we think the best thing for newcomers is a Slack/Gitter like forum. We've added Mattermost to the GitLab Omnibus packages and we're working with Rocket Chat. When that is done it will be easy to give each project its own room or something like that. What do you think?
I wondered about this too, especially since their marketing makes a huge deal about how "We never charge for bandwidth" [1]. It turns out that enterprise plans don't exactly charge per-gigabyte like other CDNs, but the cost does increase based on your bandwidth usage.

There aren't a ton of explicitly called out features that require an enterprise deal, but I expect a customer of any significant size will be under one (or encouraged to do so). It's the only way to get an SLA and to modify the terms of your contract with them, among other things that businesses care about.

As a result of the difference in price between the plan types, I would speculate that the service is subsidized by the enterprise customers. However, the free or lower cost customers were probably essential to building their peering relationships before they had significant enterprise users, and that has a very direct relationship with their cost to serve traffic.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/plans
And, if that two step dance could be used

It can; as noted in the article, it's been used in the '90s and '00s, as well as long ago, and for things much more fundamental than a right conjured by the Supremes from the "penumbras" and "emanations" ofother parts of the Constitution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut).

Note that ultimately the Supremes are just a group of 9 men and women (who e.g. all went to the Harvard or Yale Law Schools...). The President, Executive and the Congress can simply ignore them, impeach them, etc., they just can't cut their salaries ("The Judges ... shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.").

then, sure, it's curious why a Republican Congress would not start to take those two steps. For me, I don't know.

Curious indeed; I assume at 0th approximation that the majority of them, if not the vast majority, don't give a damn about what they were ostensibly elected to do.

Or perhaps prefer not being called bad names by the rest of the establishment for doing that, in which case we're a lot closer to understanding Trump's appeal.

In other words, the Supremes and lower Federal courts provide an important political function by allowing politicians in the other two branches of government to claim their hands are tied on a whole bunch of issues where they'd otherwise have to take a real stand and maybe afterwards have to spend more time with their families.

Typo correction: my 9th grade civics class was in 1975, not a few years before the death of William the Conqueror ^_^.
I wonder how Apple could even tell that the apps in question were built with a counterfeit version of Xcode.
Unethical behavior by Manning, the publisher of our book “Big Data”
Does Silicon Valley’s reign herald the end of social democracy?
The actual verilog code is only 1450 lines. I didn't realize that you could be so productive (I've never done any chip design before, but have watched longingly for some time).
To download for the Raspberry Pi 2 just go to the download page and select that option https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/
cmd+f redundancy, availability, durability, 99:
0 results.

Only on https://www.backblaze.com/b2/why-b2.html it is that I can cite the following: "the B2 Cloud Storage service has layers of redundancy to ensure data is durable and available". What that exactly is or what it translates to is nowhere to be found. If you want corporations or developers to use your storage services for their precious data, I'd be a bit more specific.
Slack is great at pulling in notifications + conversation. But it's not great for pushing out action based on those inputs. If I want to react immediately, I have to use another tool.

This tool allows teams to create, delete, and manage GitHub Issues from Slack.

Our team's been using it for over a month. Being able to use /slash commands to manage our backlog's been really helpful.
What's the cost of this? And who pays it (e.g. each individual student, the school/department/grader, etc)?

I like GitHub a lot, but I will say they can be rather pricey. $7/month for their smallest private plan, you can literally run your own VM in the cloud (e.g. on AWS/Azure) for that amount (and run Gitlab), get a terabyte of cloud storage (which you can store hundreds of Git repositories in), or go to one of their competitors.

And, yes, this absolutely does require a private repository if you want to avoid cheating.
Early Warning Project
This looks great, as I would expect.

However, a major hurdle at US universities is FERPA [1]. FERPA (but really the fear of litigation under FERPA) is one reason why universities host their own software.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Educational_Rights_and_...
I was using CloudFlare on a site that has a wide overseas following with a lot of visitors from different continents. I was getting a lot of complaints that the site was terribly slow. When I went back to just serving the site directly from it's server in Atlanta, the complaints ceased.

Since then I have been hesitant to use it again.
Remember that the manager/owner who decides to sign up for groupon isn't always the worker on the floor who gets to deal with the people offer brings in. They get to work harder for less tips. How likely is it the restaurant manager told all the servers that they'd be getting a bonus for each groupon table they serve?
The page I linked above: https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/install

Click the "Manual" tab, last paragraph of the 'deb' section.
When I say "most people suggest Apache", I mean that for as long as I have been contributing to and developing with various open-source projects most people that I have talked with about licensing open-source or free software projects have suggested using the Apache license. I have also had someone tell me that he wouldn't use my project since it was MIT licensed, and suggest I start writing code under the Apache license if I didn't want to use GPL. Personally I have frequently not chosen to use the Apache license, but that is changing and actually I've been using GPL v3 in some recent work.

I suggested not using Blackduck's stats because they are incomplete. I know this because I used Ohloh for a few years and found that there were many projects that weren't listed there, and I did not have time to list all of mine there, and I have quite a few.

I do not have enough information to say for certain that GPL or any other license is the most well used license. If I had to guess, I'd say that there would be quite a large amount of code that is available online that has no stated license, so I'd think that would be the most common. After that, it could be "any version of GPL"- I don't know. Maybe Google with all of their resources and analytics would be best suited for determining a good estimate.
In tech it is well known to be the opposite of that. Low end products move upward. It's very hard for high end focused companies to move downward.
They are the big player in China market, probably only behind IBM MSFT.
People do vilify ranchers. There are tons of organizations that are fighting against animal farming, and it's a movement that is gaining a lot of traction. Like others have said, people just aren't talking about here since this article is about poaching.
Building an Enterprise CSS Framework
https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/2huw34/what_its_...
I don't keep up with meteor, but I have a question for those who do keep up to date on changes.

Can meteor apps be isomorphic -- in the sense that they render plain HTML on the server during first load, and then do the javascript loading thereafter?

I work on several client websites, and passable SEO is a requirement.

I know there's some hackery you can do to get single page apps to be indexed, but I prefer when it "just works" out of the box.

I have some react apps that use this model, and they index perfectly.
Photos of various signs in the article are in uSv/hour.
I'm getting "a sealed resource is missing or invalid", with a copy of Xcode I know was installed from the App Store. Any ideas?
Nice to see this update, it's growing.
I remember the first intro video.
Serious question: what aspects of student privacy can't be covered by "Access Control" mentioned above?
Hi Bryant!

I agree, this is something that the node ecosystem really needed. Strongloop was working on something similar; we'll see how that goes with IBM.

I'm really excited to see something that looks viable actually shipping.
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I'm fascinated that there are people on HN who have not disabled GateKeeper. I'm not sure i've used a machine since it was added where i haven't disabled it within an hour of setting up a machine.
Now we know why the sub-$200 6TB drives keep going out of stock.
Yes! It's exciting to see how animal rights is becoming the next big social justice movement.
I'm sure you are just about to produce a list of these pages.
yes! from the api docs:

onResourceRequested

Introduced: PhantomJS 1.2

This callback is invoked when the page requests a resource. The first argument to the callback is the requestData metadata object. The second argument is the networkRequest object itself.

The requestData metadata object contains these properties:

id : the number of the requested resource
method : http method
url : the URL of the requested resource
time : Date object containing the date of the request
headers : list of http headers
The networkRequest object contains these functions:

abort() : aborts the current network request. Aborting the current network request will invoke onResourceError callback.
changeUrl(newUrl) : changes the current URL of the network request. By calling networkRequest.changeUrl(newUrl), we can change the request url to the new url. This is an excellent and only way to provide alternative implementation of a remote resource. (see Example-2)
setHeader(key, value)
Show HN: Drive-up access to rsync.net cloud storage
According to this, it's only about 1 order of magnitude safer

http://election.princeton.edu/2015/05/13/train-travel-is-inc...
This looks beautifully designed, and I would love to test out how it profiles an existing app or two. Beyond the landing page, are there any types of docs that are accessible for leveraging your software? Hopefully it should be pretty self explanatory, but I'd love to see a set of docs as well.
Smaller is the new bigger!
This is stupid, I know, but I recommend playing one of those boring looking simulator games.

Focus for one hour doing nothing but driving a train from point A to point B. Fly a plane around. Plough a field. Very zen.
The website went down for a bit but it is back up now.
This is crazy. Duct taping cables to the couch? Too funny.

What about tablets/iPads for wife and kids?

I don't know why you were getting so many dropouts but it's not because "wifi is bad". I live in a house with lots of noise from neighbours wifi, but no problems here. Wifi will be solid for months at a time.

I must have a good wifi router (Billion 7800NL). Not all routers are created equal, I've gone through a couple of duds before the Billion. Some deal with interference better than others. Let the router choose the channel automatically too, very important.

My house is old, quite large, thick walls and so on. But everyone uses wi-fi here from different rooms without any issues. A lot of simultaneous connections going on too.
what. his mom is a certifiable US citizen and all doubts are clearly entrenched inside racism.
Brian from Backblaze here: We're really transparent about our redundancy. We use 17+3 Reed Solomon across 20 computers in 20 different locations in our datacenter. You can read about it here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...
https://docs.nodesource.com/nsolid/1.0/docs/getting-started
Yev at Backblaze here -> WHERE ARE YOU FINDING THEM? We want...a couple...
Just a note based on questions curious folks have asked ... we use Ubiquiti UAP-LR access points for this service.[1]

As always, email and ask for the HN-readers discount, which is substantial.

[1] http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/321...
How often do you install new software that's unsigned? I've only done it a couple of times, and once you override Gatekeeper for a specific app it never asks you for that one again.
If you want this maybe you can ask the applicant to take a screen-dump/print-to-pdf of the information you want.
Does "Restaurant Week" count?
I know nothing about Verilog, FPGAs or chip design.

How hard is it to go from something like this to an actual hardware chip you could put into hobby electronic projects?
Thanks - wow - there's a link "documentation" right at the top of the page that I completely missed... long morning.
Soviet Space Era–Illustrated history of Soviet space programs
Brian from Backblaze here. We can't find them either. We buy either 4 TB or 8 TB right now, and we're experimenting with 10 TB drives. We don't know why the 6 TB drives appeared and then disappeared...
2 of the top 3 comments:

"Those lines are nearly impossible to trace, especially since they are all gray."

"This is interesting data, but the visualization is not beautiful. It's incredibly hard to read."
In addition to the good point raised by @jcreedon regarding their single datacenter (which I think is a bit of a bigger deal than he does, primarily because I don't think it scales linearly per-GB for the first few datacenters, though it might thereafter), I'm more concerned about the bandwidth.

There's no talk about their backbone or their network capacity. I get that they have terabytes of upload coming in, but as anyone who's used their software can tell you, it's throttled. I don't know how many users they have to tell you how much bandwidth they're actually handling, but can they handle people using B2 as a distribution point for large files for customers? For example, I have a huge S3/CF monthly bill from customers downloading ~400MiB ISO images tens thousands of times a month. Amazon CloudFront is ~$0.085/GB for the first TB, while BackBlaze B2 is an incredible $0.05/GB - but at what performance? Will my technical support representatives be getting angry phone calls about halting download speeds or do they have the capacity for something like this?

Hosting the world's data is no tiny task, I hope they're ready for it and I do, truly, wish them all the luck. I've been a BackBlaze customer for a few years now (at least 5 or 6, I imagine) as a tertiary or quaternary backup (haven't had to restore... yet), and B2 looks and sounds promising, but as far as technical details go, this post is nothing.

EDIT: In response to the reply below, I believe it's throttled by default in the client, though that can be turned off in the application settings. Also, you've replied to my claims of throttling but have ignored my question regarding backbone capacity and network readiness...
I keep gatekeeper disabled because I don't want app developers to have to sign up with (and I believe pay money to) Apple to setup a Developer ID.

(but I also don't download Xcode from random places)
Basically true, but if you don't mind the occasional hiccup, you can run it as your daily system. (I do — but I also keep another laptop handy with the latest stable release.)

The most likely problems are simply dependencies getting out of sync, which results in a) updates not applying and b) an uninstallable nightly state — not actually a broken system.

We're working (slowly — we've got a decade of inertia) on an automated system to move updates which break this consistency to a "side tag", so they can be worked on without breaking the main tree. And possibly in the future we can actually have a similar thing with automated functional testing (but... don't hold your breath). (Also, shout-out to openSUSE, where they're already doing a lot of this.)

Of course, as with any "rolling release", you have "oh look, the UI of my software is different today".
Thank you for suggesting the image search -- I had been imagining a castle-like wall, and seeing the stacked tetrapods [0] was really eye-opening. (Apparently it helps dissipate the wave energy.)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapod_(structure)
Syngrafii
We agree. We've focused heavily on the User Experience from day zero. We see no reason that consumer software should be a more pleasant experience than enterprise/business software. It should just be "software" and it should be well designed!
Same experience here as well.

I don't think either that Meteor is going to become de facto platform for all web development, but it's definitely going to be one of the main ones along with Angular, React and Rails.
brianwski below shares a good link...but you make a good point jrnkntl that we should talk more about it on the site. We'll plan to add more content around that on the Why B2 page. Thanks!
I would like that, but the thing with calendar, todos, etc, is that syncing with my iGizmo is what makes them most useful for me. That iGizmo is on my person at all times. At the doctor's office and need to make an appointment or talking to a contractor about getting away during the day to meet them at home? Calendar is right there so I won't schedule over a meeting or other engagement. Grocery shopping? My shopping list is there, no way I'd forget it at home. The syncing is precisely what I need it to do to be useful.

Before my iGizmo I carried around a notebook, but that was larger, more cumbersome and had less flexibility (I can add a grocery list item from my PC in the kitchen or even input it by voice if I realize I need something).

That means that for some of us, a better solution rather than a simpler one is what we desperately hope for.
I don't know much about the banking industry but savings accounts and CDs have always felt scammy to me. They're marketed to the rubes that have no idea what they're doing so they can get away with not being competitive with other financial instruments.
The organization that runs the Middle Eastern seed bank moved the location from Aleppo, Syria to Beirut, Lebanon in 2012.

The article doesn't explain it very well but this transfer is meant to restock an active agricultural seed bank, that distributes seeds to the region's farmers, from last resort cold storage. Once the seeds are planted and bred, more seeds will probably be sent back to cold storage to replenish what they took.

Edit: ICARDA [1], the requesting organization, is also decentralized by default with operations in almost a dozen countries so the seeds will be safe.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Center_for_Agr...
I think the engineering and construction is not a solved problem (+nuclear waste). All new plants have construction delays and cost overruns.

Of course, one could argue that overly strict regulations (which may only exist because of public concerns) are the reason for these problems. But the reason for the safety of the existing reactors are these strict regulations, so I think loosening these rules is not a good idea.
I don't get why people complain about that. Keep the code but add a disclaimer if it's so much of an issue for some..?
If you've had it disabled for a while, you should give it another go. Just about every app is signed now. I think the only one on my machine that isn't at this point is PopcornTime (for obvious reasons).
Quirky Just Filed for Bankruptcy
Imgur Vulnerability Patched
> It is a well established practice, and note the contemporary uses in the '90s and '00s.

The only use listed in the '00s in the linked article was an attempted use which was (as identified in the article) unsuccessful, as it was itself struck down as a violation of habeas corpus.
The main radiation hazard is not in the actual exposure to radiation, but in ingestion (in the broad sense, including inhalation) of radioactive isotopes. Such contaminants are able to remain inside the body for long times and have various long time effects that are more severe than acute radiation exposure. That is one reason why radiation (even measured in sieverts) is not really meaningful measure.
There are some options that give you server side rendering, for example https://github.com/kadirahq/meteor-react-layout/

You need to use React though, but that's a win in my book since React makes developing Meteor apps so much easier.
TCP in 30 instructions (1993)
> as anyone who's used their software can tell you, it's throttled

Brian from Backblaze here: no it is not throttled (by us). If you only have a 10 Mbit/sec upload capacity you are throttled by your ISP. Also make sure you visit our "Performance" tab in the online backup client and tweak a few settings, like increase the number of threads.