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I used Hetzner like 10 years ago and didn't had good experience. I doubt anything changed over time. They offer home grade hardware and low priority support in return of cheap prices. They only deal with hardware and network issues (which is quite normal for Dedi service with normal support option)

- Hardware they offer is more prone to fail because of using home grade hardware for long time (especially HDD).

- It's almost impossible to convince them HDD is failing even with showing SMART logs. Hardware needs to fail so they will replace it.

- Hardware replacement times are quite fast (thanks to SLA). They replace it with another used HDD, if you want something newer, than they ask some money for replacing with less used HDD.

- They scan their network regularly for hosted malware, trojan etc. so if one of your sites get hijacked and has iframe viruses etc. Hetzner will null route your server.

- If your IP gets DDOS, null route.

- If you get DMCA warning, null route without waiting 24 hours.

- If your NAT leaks your internal traffic to WLAN, null route.

- It takes almost few day to lift null route ban on your server when you get in contact with support. It's okay for support tickets to wait in queue for long time because of service level but I believe null route tickets needs priority no matter what.

We decided to move over to another provider after having problems.

Hetzner also owns few other brands like Serverloft.
It's not just you. The whole article is full of some really janky and broken English. No offense to the original author intended, but I would really expect the Telegraph to have better editing than this.
The only thing in my mind everyday is to get out of my 9 to 5 job. This keeps motivating me. I have started a blog which teaches a programming language. I had a target of 2 blog posts per week. I have given up watching television totally and I work for 12 to 14 hours daily even on weekends. My urge to resign my job and start on my own keeps motivating me. Although I am not able to achieve my target of 2 blog posts a week, I am able to post 1 per week and I guess I will be able to post 2 per week with a little more dedication. One more thing that helped me is the pomodoro technique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique. I would encourage you to start first. Whether its a youtube video video or a blog post stop making it perfect and publish it right now. Once its out in the hands of the public you will learn a lot from their feedback.
The ones that try that tend to quickly have users take the piss of ask mock question about ramapart etc. after Woody Harrelson went too far that way.
comparing this glorified set of aliases to Maven and gcc shows a fundamental misunderstanding of said tools
If you haven't read Jarod Laniers book, "Who Owns the future", you might find it an interesting. He refers to this problem as "Siren Servers" and thinks the problem is structural to web technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Owns_the_Future%3F
Authors can negotiate how much they get paid per word, Uber drivers can't.
ARX constructions are also easier to tune for high software performance, and generally don't require special hardware support, because all CPUs already have fast ARX operations built in.
I worked in/on Openstack for 3.5 years. It's next to impossible to run it without patches, so it's questionable if they can do auto-updates on releases of the LTS channel. Someone needs to sit down and migrate patches and remove any breakages.
Which is why the replacement is doomed to suffer the same fate. Reddit is not a suistainable business model.
While I agree that building an alternative is better than complaining, I think the author is right to publish a story like this. The idea being that folks that are able to build a viable alternative might happen to read the MIT Tech Review article and build it. Complaining about how people that complain aren't productive is counterproductive in this case. Additionally, more articles like these are needed to remind people to snap out of it and do something else.
Fiat Chrysler to Modify 100,000 Vehicles After Accusations of Emissions Cheating
> I think it's not just an alternative to Facebook we need, it's a distributed paradigm, with a distributed network, with distributed services.

> The tension/problem as I see it is this: we need distributed networks, where people run their own services, and are servers as well as clients, but at the same time a large proportion of people do not or cannot run their own services. Solving that problem seems key to me--have people act as servers without realizing it (maybe something like with torrents).

I think this is spot on. In case you haven't come across it already, IPFS is trying to do this, and already works today for many applications.

https://ipfs.io/

This talk is quite good if you have an hour to spare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jONZtXMu03w
This is why we need scientists. To make people's lives better.
Tangential, but worth sharing for HN crowd, I think. Psychologist Jung and physicist Pauli worked very closely together to explore the unity of mind and matter. Some of their theories are, frankly, difficult to grasp and so intuitively unfathomable they're easy (for me) to just dismiss. But when you consider that Pauli could conceive the idea of the neutrino, impress Einstein with a critique of general relativity, etc., then maybe he's just onto something. The collection of letters referenced below is really wonderful.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/03/09/atom-and-archetype-...
For me blogging worked best when blogging on a subject I just turned novice in. I'd write as if writing for myself 1 year ago. This worked out really well. Positive feedback made me write more. Now I've become more expert on that subject and I don't want to write simple tutorials anymore (it feels too much like work). I also gained a fear of being wrong, as I realized how deep and nuanced the subject really is.

As for Youtube: seems like you fell into the trap of planning too far ahead. Most channels never work out. Even if you stick to a weekly schedule, viewership will only steadily rise. Why not release your current videos, try a (bi-)monthly schedule and see where it goes?

Fear of commitment is a rationalized excuse your brain makes to avoid burning calories :). Or it's to avoid a setback: you put in all this effort and it did not work out. People avoid relationships for fear of commitment too, without ever giving it a shot, or asking if the other person also wants commitment.

For open source or research I give myself very small timeframes. You can think about it the rest of the week, and have a very productive hour or two coding or writing.

As for procrastination, check out "productive procrastination". It helped me get stuff done, when even more important stuff needed to be done :).

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/10-ways-for-pr...
So you're saying that when the OP talks about 'app can utilize all cpu cores', he's specifically referring to individual requests spawning multiple concurrent threads and therefore utilizing all CPU cores in isolation, as opposed to the web server utilizing all CPU cores across multiple concurrent requests by serving them on separate processes/threads? I would be interested if the former was the case (and would be interested in practical examples), but I highly doubt it.
This is something I'm torn about. On one hand, I agree with this sentiment and wish I would've just gone to a trade school instead of a traditional college. That would've been much more useful than a non-STEM degree.

On the other hand, going to college and getting the chance to explore electives really helped me grow as an individual. Was philosophy and learning to analyze & interpret works of art practical? Not monetarily, no. As far as software jobs are concerned, at least I have a degree, it's better than nothing.

And yet my father started a business with only a highschool education, that makes way more than I would even as a mid level software engineer.

Thankfully my loans were only $20k and I was able to pay them off through the family business. I would not be able to justify this attitude for $50k/year.
I get what you're saying. With the emergence of the New Left, the Democratic Party captured the lion's share of the white collar class. Many folks who think of themselves as liberal today are actually pretty status quo. I think the liberalism you speak to prizes being #woke, but without necessarily believing that the neoliberal system we have today is deeply broken for most Americans.

This divide between modern liberals and leftists was laid bare in the Bernie insurgency during the campaign for the nomination. And the lack of resonance this has with most of "real America" was laid bare in the defeat of Hillary Clinton by Donald Trump. Although HRC handily won the popular vote, the fact that status quo liberalism wasn't strong enough to defeat right-wing nationalism by our bizarre and archaic electoral rules is still quite remarkable. Even more so given that the avatar of said nationalism is a buffoon.

Now that I understand your semantics, I think I largely agree with you.
>Somebody's gotta do the experiencing, sift through the chaff, find the gold.

And if you're good at that, you can put the gold you found together, and become a content producer too...
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>However, even if someone correctly claimed that they were forced to upgrade and didn't, along the way, accept the Windows 10 terms and conditions, it was dead easy to roll back to the previous OS. Far easier, in fact, than coping with a ransomware attack.

From who's perspective? Microsoft? This was already fixed, just that people didn't update, because like I said, people just disabled updates. That trust was broken by Microsoft. Even if you are doubtful of 'forced upgrades', you can research for all the evidence yourself. I've had it happen to plenty of machines, and the free utilities, like I said, were negated multiple times as Microsoft kept changing how their win10 update service could be blocked. Sure, there were months where it would be perfectly stable, but if you needed to be sure, you turned off windows update.
So is this what a PR submarine [1] looks like? I remembered that I had read such a story before and found that Emma could also write again in March 2017 [2], December 2016 [3], November 2016 [4] and probably other months between now and then.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
[2] https://theassistiveblog.areavoices.com/2017/03/30/emma-a-we...
[3] https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-researcher-creates-wearabl...
[4] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3979182/Engineer-c...
This can't be seen as anything else than a research filesystem that tries several new things at once. Doomed from the start.

A good design would look at the state of the art and use the best techniques available. If the aim was research, then try one new thing, not a thousand.

For actual promising new filesystem efforts I'd be looking at HAMMER2, Tux3 and F2FS.
The W3C Social Web Working Group [1] is working on this. Relevant standards through that lens include Micropub [2] and Activity Streams [3].

[1] https://www.w3.org/Social/WG

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/micropub/

[3] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/
To my knowledge, it still doesn't.
Some pics:

http://www.newequipment.com/sites/newequipment.com/files/ge9...

https://www.aviationcv.com/aviation-blog/2016/worlds-biggest...
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If you use Emacs, magit is phenomenal. If you use vim, spacemacs and magit are phenomenal. Watch a quick video on it. The command that is run is shown if you press `$`.

I believe source tree shows you the command too if you set it up. Magit is much better than source tree though.
Because it's a great (quick and easy) way of making sure JavaScript and the browser's internal rendering functions don't run at the same time and cause data races. Asynchronous callbacks share the same queue as gui tasks, and those tasks can run whilst JS is waiting on an action or an I/O task to finish.

As the UI uses the same thread as JS, if JS blocks, this would lock up the whole window (clicking on things would do nothing), so it's important functions don't take too long or suspend the thread.

There was an experiment within servo to see if rendering and JS could run in separate threads entirely, but I'm not sure how that went? https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Design
I think it's more of a replacement for twitter. And I am genuinely excited about Mastodon, with ~600k users and 1400 instances, I think something special is happening there.

I guess diaspora* is supposed to be the decentralized facebook replacement, but I don't think it's any good. I dare say that it's too late for even a good replacement to compete with facebook. Google tried while there was still time (and failed). But now? I don't think you can.
Pension loan would cover up wealth transfers to California employees
This reminds me of Google's Liftware, which does something similar but for cutlery.

https://www.liftware.com/
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I used my ~9 years experience in ruby/rails and invested 100% in elixiR/phoenix. I've found elixir way more simpler and elegant for my tasks, to the point that I start my new projects in phoenix (and ported some rails app to it too).

I still respect and use ruby/rails, but it's not my first choice anymore.
No, we don't need More Alternatives to Facebook. We need Less Alternatives to Facebook. That is, Zero Alternatives to Facebook AND Zero Facebook.

Stop wasting your time!
"The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner. Life is plentiful. Life is cheap in the Orient."

Where does he say that he does no values the life of the "Orientals"?

From his experiences in the war between north and south vietnam or the chinese invovement in Korea it certainly seems that local actors valued the life of their soldiers or civilians less than most western countries would have.

I do not think that this would have been disputed by Ho, Kim or Mao.
Depends on the metric. As a business it has yet to monetize 250m users
I'd argue that students shouldn't need to be controlled. They need guidance, nurturing, and engagement. And social services, in some cases. This concept of out-of-control students is a symptom of extremely concentrated, poorly treated social dysfunction.
You could. I work with Firefox and that code base is huge so it's not a good idea to download 15+ gigs every time you don't know how to do something. Learning the tools is a more sustainable way to go.
Ants do something similar:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28077-ant-knows-how-t...

Survival instinct is pretty strong.
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Is it really that much faster? I mean, Rails is a separate problem, but I would have put Erlang in the same perf bracket as Ruby/Perl/Python.
> As part of her work, Zhang researched the root cause of tremors. She spent six months, off and on, building prototypes. She sometimes worked in her London home, soldering wires to PC boards and tinkering with coin cell motors to create vibrations. She tested early versions with four other people with Parkinson’s, producing promising results for three, spurring the idea forward, she says.

This paragraph reads like the solution is not as simple as strapping a vibrator to a wristband. So where are those results documented? Does anyone have an idea where the source code and schematics are for the singular Emma device prototype?

Edit: I have not been able to find source code yet. A reddit thread about the device [1] from December 2016 links to a screenshot [2] of a BBC documentary from which one can infer that Zhang used six motors for the Emma device and timed them in a specific way.

Edit 2: I noticed that my other HN comment [3] asking if this article is a PR submarine was first upvoted until it was shown at the top of the thread. It was then downvoted until it moved to the bottom of the thread. If a HN mod is reading this: Does that voting pattern seem normal?

Edit 3: Now this comment is also receiving downvotes?

Edit 4: The BBC has a GitHub repository containing other code related to the documentary. There has been an issue opened in January 2017 [4] from a person who wants to help his father who has Parkinson's. No source code seems to have been released since then.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Parkinsons/comments/5hh2fx/emmas_wa...

[2] http://i.imgur.com/0q0QHsj.png

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14388178

[4] https://github.com/bbc/MiD/issues/3
It's embarrassing that Boeing is still making 737 variants. The first flight of a 737 was over 50 years ago. Yes, most of the systems have been upgraded, but it still has the same small fuselage diameter. Patrick Smith, who's flown both and writes "Ask the Pilot", complains that Boeing discontinued the 757 and continued the 737 instead of developing something better. [1] From his perspective, the 737 is underpowered, has too-high takeoff and landing speeds, and doesn't fly as well as the more modern aircraft. Boeing says they need to make at least 1500 aircraft of a new model to break even, and don't think they can sell that many of something in 737 size.

[1] http://www.askthepilot.com/757-v-737/
I think that Facebook is going to be like drinking, some people refrain and claim to be the better for it, most people enjoy drinking in moderation and then there are the 10% who get hooked.

I don't use Facebook as it allegedly does not make people happy if they spend forever on it. I believe it is as bad for your brain as a high sugar diet, no good for concentration spans.
In what way is this submarining?
I'm partly waking up for various reasons. And right now I just go to meetups, events etc to see what would stick. Fun fact, I expected that event related to my deepest hobbies would make me feel at home but not really (if at all). All in all, it's a human feel thing and a subject.

Also, I realize that existing as an adult outside of a field or shielded by a big company is quite a surprising experience. You have to integrate with people, communities, society and is mostly an altruism thing. It makes you see other working people differently and also adult life altogether.
http://scuttlebot.io/ is a distributed log file meant to be an application platform. It has some nice design choices and is worth looking at in the context of making a new social network.
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Twitter should be a public utility like water. It shouldn't rely on surveillance capitalism to make money. There's another social network called Ello and it's essentially a registered charity. Twitter should be like that.
Being aware and trying things is one thing, I meant more a seemingly cavalier attitude of taking all your eggs out of an old technology basket and putting them in a new one, with slim justification.

And then there is survivorship bias. What if by some strange turn of events, ColdFusion had continued to evolve and eaten its respective niche? While I wouldn't condone an attitude of not being open to new things, the ColdFusion stalwarts would look like sages, while people who invested in an upstart technology could well have wasted a lot of time.

The move "backwards" to older, more mature technologies happens often enough, too. Startup uses latest NoSQL thing, and then realizes an old timey SQL database would have saved them a lot of trouble, etc. It cuts both ways.
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Let's assume the exchanges provide honest information. Does a trade mean that money has flown into Bitcoin? No. A day trader for example sells and buys his Bitcoins several time a day. We cannot conclude from these trades that a multiple of his Bitcoins has flown into Bitcoin as fiat money.
It's really neat that you can visibly see the bits of the PLA sequencer ROM across the top thirdish just like you can in 6502 die shots.
Your comment presupposes market failures aren't a thing -- they are, ergo, your reasoning doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

Further, even if that wasn't the case, advertising what's wrong with Facebook is a valid way to try and make competitors more viable: by writing critical articles, people without the technical skills to make a new Facebook change the market conditions, making it easier for a Facebook competitor to become viable. So they're doing exactly what you suggest -- using their labor to increase the chances of success for an alternative. Free markets at work!

tl;dr: Your suggestion is wrong if you either do or don't believe free markets are the solution.
Email is insecure and was overwhelmed by spam, driving people to use systems (such as Gmail) that are good at filtering spam.

Any distributed system will need to figure out how to deal with spam and abuse. That's hard to do without there being a dedicated team to deal with flagged messages.
This is just plain wrong.

- AES-256-CTR is about ~25 % faster with AES-NI than ChaCha20. The gap widens when we consider their respective AEAD constructions.

- AES construction has had simply different design goals than ChaCha20. Software implementations took the back seat, Hardware impls were important and AES is unproblematic for those.

- AES is arguably a rather conservative design. To some extent even twenty years later.
> The problem is building a viable alternative community wise. That's what Voat.co tried to do and look where they are now.

Voat had a very specific adverse selection problem. Whenever a community is formed in reaction to viewpoint discrimination[1] move towards a stance of active moderation against certain viewpoints, your community is going to (initially) consist of a few principled, marketplace-of-ideas true believes and then a whole ton of the worst elements of the viewpoints being discriminated against. Or as I heard it put recently: "If you establish a witch-hunt-free zone, you'll attract tons of actual witches".

The suggestion upthread here has no such downside. If anything, the better comparison would be Reddit vs Digg, back in the day. Digg had a far better network (and corresponding network effects) back in the day, but Reddit kept plugging away being quietly competent while Digg kept making changes that frustrated the userbase and over time pushed the people who cared the most about quality of conversation to another network. This is the exact _opposite_ problem that Voat had: the sample that was on the smaller site was higher-quality which allowed Reddit to hum along and continually gain users until Digg collapsed and Reddit got a flood of users.

[1] I mean this in the descriptive sense, not the sense with a negative connotation
Didn't know about that. Thank you – it looks like a well-put together project
Perfect justice stands firm.

Men and women are different. I don't know how actions transfer. Women don't seem to go to Chipendales and masturbate to playboys the same way men do.

If you cheat, you will be cheated on.

God says...
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