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Ugh, I hate situations where multiple screwups turn into massive data loss. I'm glad this one worked out.

I remember the time when a sysadmin gave two weeks notice and left just before the Christmas holidays, before getting new backup system fully working.

During the holidays, when almost everybody was out of town, one of the disks in our main server's RAID array failed. Then when the RAID controller tried to rebuild the array using the hot spare, a second disk failed. Then, just because the situation wasn't already horrible enough, the ancient proprietary controller (the one which knew how all the data was actually spread across all the disks) decided that this would be a great time to give up for good.

We ended up paying about $7K to DriveSavers, who managed to salvage nearly all the data from the remnants of the RAID array. And while we were interviewing sysadmins, we replaced the hardware and set up a real backup system. Then we built an offsite mirror of the backup system, and we configured paranoid monitoring for all our RAID controllers.

It's easy to get 100% uptime and no data loss for several years, if you're lucky. But if you build sloppy systems, sooner or later everything will go wrong, and when it does, the chaos can be impressive.
Amazing indeed. I'd add to that list OpenJK for the Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast games [1]. This is actually based on the released original source code, but continues to improve it and fix bugs while maintaining backwards compatibility. Great work. (As with most of these, assets from original CD are needed to play.)

[1] https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK
Just a reminder that modern wars are done off the books without "pay fors" that congress insists on for everything else or your taxes would be absolutely insane. Like the $2 Trillion Iraq War.
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This was an old trick to use at places with slow wifi. Exhaust the DHCP database with a short perl script. Everyone comes in asking why the wifi isn't working while you're still plugging away. Of course, the staff can 'fix it' by rebooting the router but eventually they'd quit because it only solves it for a few minutes.

At this point you can start your own rogue AP and people will join that.

These days it seems like most shops converted over to AP's that use wireless network segregation and are smart enough to not let one of those networks gobble up > 1 address.
Another opinion piece about social consciousness and privilege. Of course, there's no suggested resolution.

Nobody celebrates income inequality in and of itself. I agree that we shouldn't write puff pieces about founders that speak solely about their determination when there are other factors at play. But even then, that's not really a celebration of income inequality. (it's also a really small issue, compared to income inequality itself)

It reads like a critique of capitalism, but with several acknowledgements as to the fact that getting rid of capitalism wouldn't help anyway.

And I abhor the acknowledgement of privilege (which I understand is not a popular opinion) because it reads like an acknowledgement of some kind of insoluble Original Sin. Why do you feel the need to mention that you were never physically abused? How does that make you privileged? It seems to be completely unrelated to the rest of your piece.

Some people are dealt a really crappy hand by life. We don't live in a just world. And I agree that we should give people an equal opportunity to succeed. But without a resolution, this piece is probably no more meaningful than the latest startup puff piece. It's fairly obvious that the poor have a disadvantage. So how are we going to fix it?
Ah, you're right: "A tsunami with a record run-up height of 1720 feet..."

I guess I should read harder.
Unless, of course, you read wget documentation and realize most of that stuff is available as flags, you can log errors, you can use GNU parallel and a bunch of other specialized tools.

It still complexity in the end, but you just have to factor it all in - I bet you that 90% of those "big data" problems can fit in a small server's RAM. Most of the time is just people making shit up, so they'll have a job.
Countdown to when these provisions are used by the Russian state to "disappear" people and completely remove them from the last place where their mark on the world previously couldn't be easily expunged?
For those doubting whether Bill actually writes the reviews you should take a look at: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books.

Of the many books Bill has read, 81/195 have reviews (approximate). Given that he's reading on the order of 50 books a year, let's assume he's been at this for 4 years. That would be about 20 book reviews a year, and each book review on average probably takes him an hour or two to write, get feedback, and revise. (They are not really that involved: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/XKCD)

Seems like it is totally doable, and would not even really take up that much time.
Take notes.

I am always amazed how little people write during lectures, meeting and when reviewing documents.

Even easy concepts noted help create a chronological memory jog.
Plenty of paragraphs that are utter nonsense. Example:

"First of all, over 95% of startups fail. Every venture capitalist knows this. Those pesky things, for the most part, just eat money and more often than not actually destroy wealth.
But the second reason why you should not allow yourself to think that startups create wealth is because of how they are funded."

This is nonsense that displays utter lack of understanding of startups, venture capital, economics, finance. To refute it, I would have to start with an Econ 101 lecture, followed by a lecture on basic statistics and probability distributions. In short, it's just incoherent nonsense
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This is exactly what he was saying. I just put it this way to show how absurd his idea is if we follow through with it till the end.
It was OpenSUSE flavored, if memory serves. :)
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I remember when xerpi started getting into the modding world (back then when the psp scene was almost dead), and seeing how much he has achieved, its just so inspiring.
i also think it's also possible to disagree on some points.

moreover, i think a lot of the people that disagree do not have the time to fully research the issue that some people do or the platform to be heard that pg has.

finally, i would point out that pg's argument is not entirely based on logic. using phrases like "shooting at poverty" and "pie in the sky thinking" mark the original text as what it is: an opinion piece, not a research paper.

EDIT: there are citations. to make a (probably) logically true statement given assumptions that a large percentage of people can agree with, it's not a peer-reviewed research paper, except whatever measure of peer-review posts on medium, here, and elsewhere provide.

for all i know, some economists proof-read the thing, and if so, i'd like to know which ones.
What for? What benefits does the use of Python confer in this case?
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>About 80% of his essay about economic inequality is a thinly veiled condemnation of poors who Paul Graham thinks are too stupid to understand why the rich are wealthy. They are stupid, he says, because they demand wealth redistribution as a means of addressing poverty rather than attacking poverty itself.

Wrong. It's a condemnation of rich people, like top 10% rich who are stupid because they demand wealth redistribution as a means of addressing poverty, because it makes them feel better about themselves without having to do anything about it. Just tax the folks richer than me, and the problem will presto chango disappear.
Holy cow man, I never even realized! But that's definitely a real thing. I know the tax code will never get amended this way, but it seems like you should only have to pay capital gains on profits in real terms, not notional. It'd really just push the fight of "what is the real inflation rate" into something that has substantial reasons every year for everyone to want to get right, not just those with a lot of capital. And it'd give the government even more incentive to understate it.
Who -does- have the overhead of filling 24 hours a day with new content, exactly? Because broadcast TV is what gave us 'reruns' in the first place. All -they- have to do is fill evening TV viewing (and even then only a couple time slots on a couple days; the rest they can, and do, leave to reruns). The need for content production is no different. The benefit to Netflix is that it's on demand, so they aren't -limited- to that 24 hour block. Other TV studios, to air something, have to free up their schedule; Netflix just adds it to their catalog.
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God Damm, 90% tax rate!!
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That's crazy! My business is heavily involved in CC processing and I've yet to encounter this.

Do you mind if I ask who the processor was?
> Nothing whatsoever about libertarianism implies you should not be helping those less fortunate than you - only that you shouldn't be forced to.

Think of it as an ROI. The state invested heavily in you - schools, roads, doctors, police, fire brigades, clean air, etc. etc.

We expect repayment from all members of society in order to continue providing those benefits to them and those around them.

If, when you reach the age of maturity, you don't feel that you want to be part of the social contract, you have a few choices available.

1. Leave. Go off to Somalia or some other place where the state won't force you to contribute taxes.

2. Lobby your elected officials (or become elected) to explain why we should stop supporting society. Remember, all those libraries were erected because people in your society saw the value in collectivising to enhance public education.

3. Opt out of society as far as possible. Generate your own electricity and grow your own crops. Just don't impinge on our rights to live in a safe(r) environment.

But, by and large, the Libertarians I've encountered don't think like that. They have the misguided idea that all their successes are down to personal endeavour and that they shouldn't be responsible for contributing at all. They see tax as theft of their hard work, not as a investor extracting their fair share.

Of course, you're right that Libertarianism itself doesn't imply having no social conscience - but many of its adherents simply don't.
The comment had -1 points (two downvotes). Usually those situations self-correct after a while, since other users see there is nothing wrong with the comment and bring it back to par.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10830311 and marked it off-topic.
> pictures justifies shitting all over a country's chances of building out proper infrastructure

If you rely on government to build free internet access infrastructure for poor people, it could take long time. While on the other hand, fb has managed to build something and convinced telcos to give it for free to poor and promised that they will soon see those people converting into a full-internet user and will pay you the normal rate.

So, actually the grand plan is to get them to use full internet, which is not bad for either parties I think.
My experience was similar. An even bigger push in my case was the async stuff in 3.5.

It's going to be a little while before pypy supports 3.5, but once that happens, Python will be very well placed. Something like Tornado + pypy + py3.5 looks a lot like the app server stack of the future IMHO.

It has been a massive PITA, and probably could have been better handled, but hindsight is easy. The future looks bright.
Not bad at all. However, I see some problems with the demo.
1. The search doesn't seem to work. At all.
2. The note edit box is way too small by default compared to the available space on the page.
3. Why is there a "Notes" icon on the left? Where else can a user be on the page, as navigating to the home page while logged in also redirects me to the dashboard?
(author). This is the first release of Pymux. It should be stable and usable for daily work. However, don't hesitate to create a GitHub issue in case you feel that it lacks some features/responsitivity or when you'd like to see something different. Expect to see more progress in the coming months. Jonathan
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indeed. Although, I prefer opinions I value to be based on logic :)
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You might want to get checked out at a memory clinic.

They have tests and coping strategies regardless of age.
We already have permanent identifiers for the web...they're called URLs. This seems like a super-unnecessary level of indirection.
Relatedly, does anyone know of a UPS which accepts some sort of commodity battery and which has a USB/serial port to communicate to a computer when the main power is off? Everything I've seen has a proprietary battery design resulting in a battery that gets more and more expensive as the hardware gets older and fewer and fewer people have it. The batteries don't have to hold much energy after all. Just enough to flush to disk and power off safely.
Marginal tax rate. That's an extremely important distinction.

A lot of people think moving up in to a higher tax bracket means their entire income is taxed at that rate, but it's entirely untrue. The top US tax bracket for 2015 starts at $413,201, but if you make $413,202 only the last $1 is taxed at that top rate.
> I think that Hulu Prime, the version without commercials

The last time I looked, the commercial free version of Hulu still had commercials for some shows. Has that changed?
We already have the DOI system. Why is a new system needed?
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As I pointed out with a link to this in a comment a while back: remember these are marginal rates, and remember there's inflation.

In order to pay the top 91% marginal rate in 1950, for example, you had to be making over 40 times the median income in the US, and that rate only applied to income past $200,000 (in 1950 dollars -- adjusted for today that's close to $2m). And just to end up paying a higher marginal rate than today's maximum of 39.6% you needed to be making roughly 3x the median income.
> How about we get to the root of things in Russia, Putin NEEDS and BREEDS fear of (West, Ukranians, Muslims, Gays <INSERT_SCAPEGOAT_OFTHE_MONTH> ) in order to control the population and distract them from corruption and mismanagement of the state.

> He also of course needs fear from everyone else in order to ensure his own survival while him and his buddies continue to rape Russia of its resources.

I really hope your comment is some type of sarcasm/joke.

Because it kind of looks like a kaleidoscope mix of Neocon propaganda (that no sane person would belief).
The only outrage I'm seeing here is yours.

Regardless of the ancient linguistic evidence you want to trot out, "pussy" is a gendered term in this day and age. It just is. And using gendered terms as insults is going to make people uncomfortable, "social justice warriors" notwithstanding.
This is a cool idea, but making links via pull requests through Github isn't very enticing. A more efficient/faster API for automation and complete anonymity are minimum required features in my opinion.
DHCP snooping can do different things dependening on how it's configured. It can prevent ARP spoofing attacks, or DHCP server exhaustion, by limiting the amount of source IPs that can ingress a given port on a switch.

To prevent this program from doing its evil, DHCP snooping could be configured to only allow one source IP address on a port. In fact, to prevent this kind of attack you don't even need DHCP snooping. Since it requires MAC spoofing you can configure the switch to only learn one MAC on that port, or only allow frames with a limited number of MACs to ingress the switch.

Hope this helps.

A while back I wrote opensourced some code I wrote for work that emulated IGMPv2 behavior of triple-play set top boxes. It's meant to stress IGMPv2 implementations, but it also emultates multiple DHCP clients.
https://github.com/smutt/mcastClients/blob/master/mcastClien...
Yardley was active during World War I (aka ”The Great War” before we had to number them), not World War II — a minor typo I'm sure but relevant for the comprehension of the comments by a cursory reader.
Remember: the C64 and the Apple II were sold in very large numbers as was the BBC Micro and the Acorn Atom. 6502 Assembly language was the only way to get those computers to do much of anything at appreciable speed. Almost all those programmers went through the same path: first the Basic that came with the system, then frustration and enlightenment as they discovered the layer underneath the Basic interpreter that gave them both better control of the system and much higher execution speeds. The number of people capable of programming the 6502 at a very high level must have numbered in the 10's of thousands. And quite a large number of those were just as good at piecing things together again from binary data as they were producing that stuff in the first place. The reason for that is that the correspondence between assembly and machine code is 1:1, in other words the output of a dis-assembler looks very closely like the input to an assembler for the same processor.

In my little circle of programming friends at the time all of us would have been able to do this (and more), and were definitely weren't gods by programming standards, merely average and with too much time on our hands. Persistence is a good substitute for talent if you have a lot of time.
It must be the holidays, where the experienced netops spend time away from HN and trivial poc's for old well-known attacks get upvotes.
How does mobile penetration relate to the type of devices the people are using? India has almost 80% mobile penetration, but less than half of that is using smart/multimedia enabled phones. I'd estimate that Egypt's condition won't be vastly different considering the similarities between the economies.
There is also the clone for Caesar III. Found here: https://bitbucket.org/dalerank/caesaria/wiki/Home

One of my favorite games and Caesaria, last I checked had some bugs, but pretty playable.
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Most pretentious URL shortener ever? :)
Maybe someone figured out how to do TCP-over-newsfeed and broke their whole model?
I wouldn't be surprised if you were a markov chain.
Just a reminder: due to the exceptional circumstances following World War II, the top marginal individual tax rate was around 90%. (The effective rate was really about 70% for the highest incomes since so few paid actually the top rate.)

This was largely to prevent war profiteering, though it lasted until 1964 when the top marginal tax rate was lowered to 70%. It's not really relevant to our times unless you're forecasting another global war, in which case all bets are off.
For some titles, this was definitely the case. Nothing nefarious about it.

We weren't connected back then. People got bored, no new software, so... why not hack on the stuff we've got?
Another perspective, this accounts for 0.17 % of US total GHG emissions (for all sources excluding land use change and forestry; source: World Resources Institute, for 2010). One might argue that means it's "small" or insignificant, but I'm going to argue that the lesson should be how staggeringly large our emissions are. Change needed, and soon!
Yeah, but it's command-line.
First of all, thanks for your feedback - really appreciate you trying it out and taking the time to offer your thoughts. Regarding your points:

1. I'll check the search tonight and add some tests to cover it, thanks for letting me know.

2. Agreed regarding the design - could do with some improvements. I'll tweak it.

3. The reason there's a notes icon is because I'm planning to have other icons there too (I'm considering a few options but perhaps bookmarks, contacts, files, etc - that kind of thing). Doesn't really need to be there now, admittedly, but it shouldn't be too long until there are other sections.
Louis CK has a hilarious bit about a very similar word that a lot of people think is homophobic and offensive but which he argues isn't.
Read a paragraph. Close the book. Write down what you remember. Re-read the paragraph and check.

Once you've got the hang of this expand it to pages and then chapters.

Get someone else to test you a short time (a few minutes) after you've read the chapter. Get them to test you a couple of hours later. Get them to test you a day later.

Teach the concepts to someone else.

Implement them - learn by doing.
An issue rarely mentioned with capital gains taxes is that the higher they are, the less investments are allocated to high productive investments. This is counterintuitive, but consider calculating whether it is worth selling a low performing investment and reinvesting the proceeds in a better performing investment. The capital gains taxes will reduce the proceeds reinvested, and due to compounding can mean the net returns are less with the reinvested than if they remain with the lower performing investment.

To belabor the obvious, encouraging people to stick with lower performing investments is not good for the economy. One of the good things about Reagan's tax deal, where he got rid of tax shelters in exchange for lower tax rates, is the tax shelters tended to be low productive investments, and the deal incentivized investors to switch to more productive investments.

I've never seen any discussion of this.
I suppose it's a good project with good intentions, but it's still only as useful as the content it points to. Take, for instance, Geocities - the amazing free platform where everyone was experimenting with websites at the same time.

It's all gone.

A permanent URL helps not-at-all. True, the Web Archive has a lot of old Geocities pages cached, but most of the time I find something missing, the content is gone. It has nothing to do with the wrong URL.

That said, it's a nice way to claim a "permanent" URL for say, yourself. It lets you change domain names and whatnot in the future.

Still, I don't mean to downplay the good intentions. I just wonder what the half-life of the database is - that is, before half of all claimed perm URLs point to nothing.
I see this kind of comment an awful lot, and I have two immediate reactions:

The first is a sort of dumb and dumber "we landed on the moon!" feeling where I actually can't believe that someone didn't know that there used to be a 90% marginal tax rate. Perhaps you live outside of the United States?

The second is that the 90% tax rate is completely misleading, as there were so many deductions and loopholes that hardly anybody ever paid it.

Every time somebody brings up the 90% rate, it's always someone on the left attempting a "We could raise tax rates a whole lot more; just look at how high they used to be". It's one of the most disingenuous arguments in politics.
There is no facade, they have said the aim is to get more full-internet users to telcos while getting more people on facebook.

So, they have convinced telcos to give free-basics for free for the poor and soon they will see them switching to full internet. And in the process people will get addicted to fb too.

Poor - Win

FB - Win

Telcos - Win

I don't understand, why people are only seeing non net-neutrality way of making money from this. There are ways for them to make money in the above way too.
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