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HN users are often passionate about correctness, which is a fine thing, but it's best if they share their knowledge with the rest of us.
back in the early 90s, they used to teach this stuff in schools here in california (earthquake prep). it wasn't crazy at all, it was widely accepted that you should have supplies for up to a week at home. i remember homework assignments in elementary school related to this.

SF and LA were hit hard in 80s/90s by big earthquakes - that actually happened. i grew up less than 20 miles from northridge - i remember eating granola bars and boiling water after the northridge quake. this shit actually happened to me; i ate actual fucking granola bars that we kept in actual ziploc bags because our electricity actually didn't work and the stores were actually closed. we surely wouldn't have starved, but they sure did come in handy when you're hungry right after a huge earthquake. do you want to beg your neighbors for a snack?

since that era we've had 2 genuine city-level SHTF situations (LA riots and Katrina, more if you count 9/11 and lesser storm systems) and for some reason preparedness has become less of a concern. 20 years pass and people just forget. memories are short. not mine.

i know multiple people who had to defend their lives and livelihoods with guns. real, normal people who now work in tech like you and me, who had to stand on roof tops with guns, in the middle of LA. right next to downtown. imagine this happening in midtown manhattan, or market street in sf. it's sheer madness, and it actually happened. and i'm sure anyone in the other LA (louisiana) can tell the same kinds of stories. and where were the cops? that's right - nowhere to be found when the shit hits the fan.

it can, and will, happen again. i think as you get older you start to realize just how tenuous civilized society really is and how quickly it can revert to an animalistic shitstorm. i keep several jerry cans of water and canned/dried food in my place, and am capable of defending myself. people think i'm crazy when i tell them i have this stuff. i think you're crazy if you don't. i know exactly what it's like to be woken up violently in the middle of the night and find that everything around you has gone straight to hell.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Timeline-The-Northri...

6:50 a.m.: Hundreds of gas main and water main breaks reported. Parts of LA and Ventura counties are without running water or gas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCiC6qTtjs
Creator here.

Slofile works like a combination of Chit Chats and Slackin - you can list and introduce your slack group and invite new users at one place, without hosting your own Slackin.
Sure, it was a loan--that no other financial institution could have dared to make, thereby making the expected interest rate on the open market for such a loan much higher than whatever accounting tricks are used today to determine that the government turned a "profit." Furthermore, the loans involved the government purchasing financial instruments that were basically impossible to value fairly [1], because much of it was junk at the time, and so the Treasury probably overpaid for them [2]. Finally, as far as using the money for long-lasting economic change, the loans were given with basically no strings attached, so banks that "qualified" for TARP (does anybody seriously believe that the Treasury selected participants in a neutral, transparent manner?) could use the money to swallow up smaller institutions for a bargain [3], basically subsidizing more of the bad behavior that led to the collapse in the first place.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20090110184334/http://www.uiowa.e...

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20090207100935/http://cop.senate....

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/business/18bank.html
No mention of prevention
We would love for Travis CI to offer support for GitLab, they can use our new commit status API.

But you'll find that GitLab CI is a pretty complete replacement. If you don't want to use a shared runner you indeed have to use a shared runner.

Running on your local machine can indeed include your notebook.
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@kelseyhightower TLDR "no actual downside for Docker users, but it makes it hard to for us to embrace-extend-extinguish"
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It should be noted that the Federal government has been investing in autonomous research for decades.
Honest question, why do you need another separate dongle just for 3G/4G/LTE when you can simply use your phone's hotspot option and use the network there?
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All those functions can be performed without the manager needing to be higher up in the organisational hierarchy.
Interesting, thanks. Will check out those topics. Agree on the general point of the security benefits.
At GitLab we would welcome contributions. More than 1000 people already contributed and everyone is welcome. Also see my other answer in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905756
> Heroku is expensive when considering you can use similar tools on a vps

Do you know what Heroku offers over a VPS? They're not the same thing.
So an economy requires money in unlimited supply? That seems like dubious sophistry.
GitLab.com indeed is dog slow, we're sorry and we're working on improving that Q1 2016 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues
What's realistic timing for getting a feature you contribute (and receive approval) deployed and available for use?
Prepping is a hobby and its supposed to be fun. Fantasizing about fighting zombies, or dropping everything(mundane life/boring job), grabbing your SHTF bag and adventuring into the mountains is fun. It is a modern version of D&D/Larp.
"...If a hundred years of cancer research has taught us anything, it is that if you must get cancer, you want to be a mouse, because we can cure cancer in mice."

Maybe it is cheaper to keep trying and there is less oversight so more BS gets through...
This answer feels 100% correct. If I consider a 3rd party perspective, I'd say it's completely ridiculous. Companies should be busy being companies, not suing over something so obviously non-damaging.

So let's add a little context.

I have back-salary that's overdue. I asked for a timeline. I got no timeline. I said I would sue in a month. I got a bunch of nasty stuff back.

I told one of the board members that I had resigned. They had no idea that I had resigned (almost three months ago), and I'm guessing that they were also the primary source of new leads for the company to raise. This is where "damages" and "best interests of the company" arguments seemingly deserve analysis.

My desire to distance myself from the company cannot be decoupled from my potential motive to derail the company by breaking the news. While I would consider it 100% right to enforce the ethics of disclosure on the company, I would prefer 100% legal if it goes to court, which it would do so as a big waste of time, but one that might require my attention.

I desire to spend zero time on this, and the other party has contacted me with the desire to also have no further interaction.

That's all fine, but what about the back-salary? A 3rd party would be right to say that I'm only after it because I don't want to be intimidated away from getting what's mine. A healthy course seems to wait for them to boil down and for me to get more stable in my new roll before asking for the payment.

The board member will probably want answers, so I won't totally be done for now yet.

And just three weeks ago, the CEO wanted to meet me in SF to catch up...
I thought they would have had this in the works years ago. No surprise.
Maybe you're interested in this feature request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013 to implement cross-server (federated) merge requests.
Tell anybody who has a computer problem to just press ctrl+shift+f13.
For those interested in reading this book: Your mileage may vary.

I wanted to like it, but I couldn't get over the writing. It had so many flourishes and unnecessary descriptions that I stopped reading halfway through.
Isn't that assuming that all the others in the space haven't spent years and millions of dollars optimizing these things already? Amazon brings a good entry point for products to the US market from overseas, but I don't think there is any shortage of that capability already.

I'm sure I'm missing the greater significance.
That's actually how it works in regular corporate hierarchies too. Those who are good at politicking, making friends with higher-ups and know how to cover their asses usually outperform (success-wise) those who just do a good job. A good well-cited read on this is Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't.
>whatever accounting tricks are used today to determine that the government turned a "profit."

The government got back more money than it loaned out? Does that qualify as an accounting trick now?
Same. If you want a guaranteed seat in business class, it's quite simple: book a seat in business class.
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Why is f.lux struggling so hard to get on iOS, a platform that clearly doesn't want them, when they still haven't released a version for Android, which is significantly more friendly and, IIRC, has a larger user base?

My understanding is that an Android version would have to require a rooted phone to really do everything properly, which is a significant limitation, but rooting your phone is completely Google-approved and there are plenty of apps in the Android app store that openly require it. If (not unreasonably) f.lux is really concerned about reaching users who aren't savvy or interested enough to root their phones, then a root-only version would be an ideal test case to encourage Google to open up the API.
Iirc Walmart was found NOT to be a monopoly because after they depressed prices, they stayed low. Ianal, ymmv on these statements.
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Well that's disappointing.

I just bought a QNap TS-251+ to replace my Microserver FreeNAS since I was tired of all the sysadmin work, needed something lower profile and wanted features like automatic Google cloud storage sync. It seemed like QNap has a boatload of excellent features, and I was really hoping it works without glitches. But now that I'm stuck with it.. we'll see...
Wow didn't realize they'd deprecated lxc. Thx for pointing that out.. that seems to leave all the projects relying on libvirt for container support in an odd spot? I thought that Openstack for example used libvirt-lxc for their container (non-docker) support?

"Future development on the Linux containers framework is now based on the docker command-line interface. libvirt-lxc tooling may be removed in a future release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) and should not be relied upon for developing custom container management applications."
I wonder though, do we really have a "prepper culture", or is that phrase merely a rebranding, of traditional (pre WWII) American farm/household values ?

For example when I talk to my 80 year old grandmother about what it was like growing up 20 miles outside of a major American metro, she speaks about canning, maintaining a very large pantry, community agriculture, raising animals, making their own clothing, hunting deer and preserving the meat long term, making their own bullets, etc.

My suspicion is that what you're observing in rural america is merely a continuation of the ordinary way of life that has always existed here. What I suspect is that over decades PR firms and major brands have executed a rebranding of the old ways, attempting to recast it as 'paranoia culture' or some form of political radicalism. Their campaign likely involves emphasizing the small paranoid faction of this much larger culture on their TV shows and pop media.

I hope that doesn't sound like a conspiracy theory, because that's not at all what I mean, it's just an effective marketing technique. After all families who are oriented towards saving for a rainy day don't come into the grocery stores to buy the expensive pre-packaged foodstuffs which drive all the margins. Therefor in order to increase shareholder value you have to find ways to break down the traditional values (and way of life) so that it can be replaced with predictable consumer behaviors and 'brand loyalty'.

My point is that the reason why you don't see this in europe isn't because the behaviors are different but merely because the advertising techniques are different in America so the lexicon is different.

All of this is starting to change though. A new culture is forming thanks the Internet, and people are starting to care again, about issues like community agriculture. You can start to see it being recognized (in satire) even on the major TV networks. Their airwaves are starting to be jammed by our Internet meme culture, and as a consequence people are beginning to care, again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIWQE4ZpMWI

YES IT'S LOCAL GODDAMNIT
Maybe spending $121M of VC money whipping up hype about distributed mining...
More finance than econ, to my ear. Not that this is a bad thing.
>'"Cancer" isn't a single disease or problem domain, but what could be categorized as a syndrome that shares some basic commonalities.'

Cancer is characterized by having cells with an abnormal number of chromosomes and genetic instability. It is one disease. I don't know the origins of it, but this "many disease" claim sounds like an excuse for lack of progress in targeting aneuploid cells.

"In contrast to normal cells, aneuploidy--alterations in the number of chromosomes--is consistently observed in virtually all cancers."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15549096
RAID has redundant information so they use that.
What is the lesson here for the next flux type product creator?
Which hosting provider?
A brief introduction to C++'s model for type- and resource-safety [pdf]
True, all groups of humans form informal hierarchies, even in the presence of formal power structures.

What formal hierarchies have that flat organizations don't is the ability of the formal hierarchy to use normative actions to drive the optimization function to favor the organization and not the people at the top of the informal hierarchy.

e.g. a loud mouthed developer can't force the CEO to do something they don't want, while a CEO can fire a disruptive employee
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> I'm confused, why do they want this?

You quoted it yourself: "to support our goal of furthering research in sleep and chronobiology." F.lux isn't just trying to sell an app. Also, Apple has a history of releasing user-friendly but very bare-bones, feature-light tools; f.lux presumably wants the option of releasing a richer app that does things Night Shift doesn't.
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What is a "flux type product" in this context?
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Is the fair market value for the interest rate on a loan really that abstract? This must be why with the simplest rhetorical flourishes, the financial industry can convince people that their hundreds of millions in lobbying dollars are well spent on regulation that protects average Americans. An interest rate has to incorporate size of the loan, expected term of the loan, and risk of default (recall these were distressed banks), among other things.

Here's an accounting trick for you. Why don't you give me a $1000 loan for twenty years, and since you don't know me, the risk of default is, let's say, pretty high. I'll repay you $1001 in 2036—heck, just to be generous, I'll do it in inflation-adjusted dollars. When I do that, I will be happy to have you tell me about the "profit" that you made off of your investment.
China is certainly not the place where the marginal cost of mining is the lowest.

I moved my GPU mining farm in 2011 to Douglas County, Washington state where my electricity cost was 2 cents per kWh. China does not beat that. In fact to this day none of the large professional mining farms beat this cost. At best they match it: in 2013 the first professional miners—MegaBigPower—came into Douglas County... http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/apr/26/northwests-chea...
Thanks for the laughs for the day. Even as a Rails Dev I've been wary of those calling themselves as Agile Consultants.
It is rather naive assumption that valuable assets (and bitcoin is a digital asset, not digital currency) would not be seized by elites, because very essence of elitism is the ability to sieze and control distribution of valuable assets, be it Chinese govt or too big to fail US financial institutions.
This didn't sound right to me. If it's true, and Amazon is tolerating it (i.e., believing the narrative), then Amazon may have peaked (something that I wouldn't have otherwise believed -- huge Amazon fan here).
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This is both clever and disappointing at the same time.
I made a similar issue here: https://src.sourcegraph.com/issues-playground/.tracker/26
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10904397

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interesting article. a few more points which may be of interest

- in addition to raid it's worth having automated off-site backup. the best solution i could find is duplicity as its encrypted and supports a bunch of backends.

- freebsd supports full disk encryption using geli. with some work its possible to make it boot (only) from a usb key, so some protection if the server is stolen. I believe newer versions of Intel Atom support hardware AES acceleration, so this isn't a large overhead.

- if the memory requirements of ZFS are too large (which to be honest for a soho application they are!), then you can use UFS together with freebsd software raid1 (gmirror)
Brotli is a text/markup compression codec with a big dictionary of English words and chunks of html. Why would you use it for binary data?
Same here and shooting picture of kids in raw format needs space :-)
Please stop writing 'saying' when some writes things you think they shouldn't.
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I agree; as an outsider looking into the space it would seem to me that international freight would be far less to optimize than building a network to ship items out to individual homes. Granted still lots of optimization to be had but I'm not sure Amazon would automatically provide a better way to do it.

Most likely this is just more of them trying to own more of the vertical which probably translates into cost savings.
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If I'm not mistaken Ramanujan received a PhD at the age of 29. Sure, he came from a non-traditional background, and did some amazing math before his PhD. However, it was only after he studied at University that his writing was clear enough to be published. That of course makes the parent post's point fairly well.
Did Flexport just preemptively reveal Amazon’s entry into the ocean freight market and then convince every major newspaper in the world to label the service unfit for American companies?
Amazon is like Apple in the selling stuff business.
When Amazon decide go in, they have a full-fldged solution that can seldom be matched...
>it switches when 75% of the last 1000 blocks indicate support, which can quite easily happen with less than 75% support just by random chance.

I was astonished when I read this 'consensus' code in the Bitcoin repository. I recommend removing it or deploying an old version of the Bitcoin server. It is a reckless and deceitful (how many users actually understand the tacit consent they are granting by running this code?)

> conflicting versions of the transaction history for a substantial length of time.

Indeed if a new block size is 'forced' with a fork, it essentially creates a new currency. I doubt the new big-block Bitcoin will stand on its own.
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Again... No thought of how all this gets paid for?
This calculation doesn't address the arbitrary nature of the threshold.
Note that Intel signs [1] software which runs in SGX enclaves. Windows 10 uses [2][3] SGX.

Intel got a pretty long patent on SGX a few years ago.
In it, they say that the launch enclave will only issue
launch tokens after ensuring that the enclave's author has
a business agreement with Intel. The patent also states
that they expect enclaves to be useful for DRM, so I'm
guessing they want to insert themselves into the
entertainment content distribution systems and collect
some royalties.

[1] https://jbeekman.nl/blog/2015/10/intel-has-full-control-over...

[2] http://www.alex-ionescu.com/Enclave%20Support%20In%20Windows...

[3] https://software.intel.com/en-us/sgx-sdk/documentation
>The firm said it will pay a civil monetary penalty of $2.385 billion, a cash payment of $875 million and $1.8 billion in consumer relief

Where is that $3.26 billion of cash going? I know you're going to say the SEC, the DOJ, or some other [combinations of] government entity. I get that. But then where does it go? It seems that people often forget that when this happens, there's still a human that sees a $3.26 billion uptick in the amount of money he controls (though it's possibly divided between branches/depts).

What does that guy do with it? Build a (few dozen) new office building(s)? Hire 10k more employees for the agency that employs him (only 50 of which are his family and friends collecting 250% of their market rate)? Does he keep it in a bank account and collect interest on it? Send it into a black hole somewhere in the Treasury so that it can help pay off "the national debt"? Spend it on contractors? Bonuses for himself and the other people who helped "take the bad guys down"? Motorboats? Yachts?

People act like it's just an inherent truth that fined money is better off on a bureaucrat's desk than a banker's. Is that really real life?
All the big players definitely have spend years and millions (hundreds of millions) optimizing these things. But they are optimizing DOS-based systems built in the 80s. The tech stack that the old guard is working with is unbelievable.
"Increasingly, companies are demanding cult-like devotion. Do whatever it takes; sacrifice whatever you’ve got."

Companies can only demand that as long as there's a supply of employees who are willing to give it to them.

Maybe it's those same companies who are complaining about how hard it is to find good people these days?

I think that in a healthy relationship, the employee is no more devoted to the company than the company is devoted the employee. Just how devoted are companies to their employees? Under the U.S. system of "at will" employment, your employer can fire you without cause and without warning. And it happens all the time.
Fantastic read, and a great idea. Very inspiring, thank you for posting it.
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Michael here (author of the post). We didn't find any rate limits when receiving SMS, but found sending to be quite slow. Fine for our needs, but if you need to send a lot you may be better off paying for access to a gateway.
If not to be a hosted software lifecycle tool, what the hell is Github even for?
Disagreed. In a free-for-all environment like FOSS, collective lack of details means more time wasted to gather/request for relevant information. Maintainers have the rights to request for such things before sifting through a potential mess of mostly incomplete issues/PRs. Their time is better spent anywhere but gathering correct versions to chase down a bug. People should have the common sense to provide those beforehand but alas, many do not.
Yep. We couldn't use an API anyway because we were projecting out of the back of a van, in rural South Australia. We were lucky to have any phone reception at all!
The Obama administration is pledging $4B to put self-driving cars on US streets