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Something to sincerely rethink is the idea of shutting the system down in the first place. Call the network provider & have them unplug the ethernet.

Turning the system off could potentially reduce your ability to audit where they originally got in. Anywhom.

SSH keys :)
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It's becoming more and more clear that we are Google's product and not their customer. Google is bending over backwards to ensure we are a saleable commodity.

I feel like at this point the "don't be evil" motto is not useful. The real question is "who wins when the interests of us, web searcher/service users, comes into conflict with their customers, advertisers?"
If I had that much glass to clean I'd certainly have robots doing it.
You can get an external one for the rare cases where it's necessary and you can't work around it.
Necessary and meaningful, and wrong in this case.

- "VCs Got It Wrong" means: many (plural) VCs got something wrong

- "VC's Got It Wrong" means: a "Got It Wrong" that belongs to a VC
Meaningless copypasta, I was asking for a simple description of what it provides that would enable this.
I said they were people, and people who had dedicated their lives to the idea of the law. I did not say they were superhuman. They can be wrong and have faulty judgement. In fact, I feel like I went out of my way not to ascribe moral judgement on their worldview; I simply wanted to point out that their worldview exists and shouldn't be ignored if you plan on operating at the frontier of the law.

It's good of you to point out the limitations of that worldview. I don't mean to criticize you. I'm just saying, be careful if you think that a charge of "hypocrisy" is going to help here. The real world is not an Internet message board argument. Lots of prosecutors, all of them riven with human frailties, nonetheless believe passionately in the law. You're not going to talk them out of it.

I am for the most part happy about this. Unlike a lot of HN people, I think that the law by and large serves the common good, and protects the weak far more than the powerful.

(My uncle was/is? an ADA. I didn't hear any stories like this, but didn't ask. Totally believe it though.)
Back in my days, the future involved wireless keyboard and file access... But why do it with Bluetooth when you can do it shinier with Thunderbolt?
From Enviro's Web site:
"A single 200MW Solar Tower power station will provide enough electricity to power around 100,000 households, similar to the number of homes in a city the size of Burbank (California, USA) or Palm Bay (Florida, USA)."

They're saying, 100k, not the 150 from the article. That seems more realistic.

From the Phoenix Business Journal:
" . . . air is funneled up the tower at 35 mph past 32 wind turbines at its base . . . "
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/print-edition/2010/10/29/...
That's a pretty impressive air velocity.
Breaking the connection would release the locks.
What happened in that case where the kid updated his Google Profile to show his age (under 13), and he ended up losing access to his Gmail account?

There's obviously some interaction between Google Profile/Google+ and Gmail.
Ask HN: How much should be my equity?
I am joining a startup as a co-founder.

The founder has raised a small amount of funds. He is willing to pay me salary (which is less than the market-rate) plus is willing to give me 6% equity.

Is 6% equity enough (when I am being paid) ? or paid founders even given any equity?
I love that mini display port is now considered "chubby".
I like Larry Niven's response to this: maybe [they] have different theories.

To be fair, OP was talking about the future.
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The first thing the grandparent says is that Dave is a curmudgeon. It's absolutely an ad-hominem, more specifically it is the poisoning the well[1] variety. Everything read after the opening sentence is tainted with the idea that Dave's actions are that of a curmudgeon. Most ad-hominem's are accidental; they're so prevalent in internet discussions that it's difficult not to engage in it, so I'm sure the grandparent meant no harm. He had a genuinely good point, but I agree that it's somewhat ruined by the well poisoning.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
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That's a lot of gmail accounts.
Very nice! I made a similar script a couple of weeks ago. https://github.com/gcollazo/fabulous
Ultimately this turned out to be a false alarm. Although the machine was under attack (on many levels: there was activity hitting the packet filter, trying all sorts of injection at the Apache level and having a go at SSH) the actual alert (based on looking in auth.log) was a false alarm based on a bad regexp.

Any particular reason you didn't want to use Snort or Bro?
While it's easy to quickly speculate that the only purpose of 100,000 "unregistered" SIM cards is to "do bad things", I have to wonder: Why does a SIM card need to be registered to begin with?
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I'm not really sure where the idea that JSON APIs are hard to test came from?

They're actually really simple to test because the returned data is in a machine-readable format - JSON. Simply parse the JSON into a data structure that your language understands (hash, array?), and make assertions about the content. The end.
>>Logically speaking, someone who just wants a SIM for his personal use, he won’t be bothered about providing his authentic documents to the network, however when someone has dirty business to do, providing authentic documents is definitely on his not-to-do list.

Yet another claim of "You don't need privacy if you have nothing to hide." Does anyone know if the US requires all SIM cards to be "registered"?
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I think a social community should either be completely anonymous or completely named. Both Google+ and 4chan are great in their own ways. It's when there's a mixture of anonymity and not (twitter) where things can get frustrating.
Good post but for the ending. Apple could completely disappear tomorrow and the only result would be we'd all have slightly less shiny tech gewgaws.
glad you didn't like it.

Vertica was not free, HBase was really heavyweight, & I knew i didn't want RDBMS. The sensor data itself is plain csvs ;)

Cassandra still does look interesting, although it looked like it would take me much longer to get it going; perhaps it will get rewritten. (The mongo solution only took a week to get something usable.)
Ask HN: Best movie about/featuring incompetence?
What is the best example of a movie or T.V show/series featuring incompetence that could be used to exemplify work/praocess/life antipatterns? (does not have to be tech or startup-related)
There's always the option of using an external optical drive. With the TB display you could simply plug it into one of the USB ports and have it docked on your desk ready to go. The slim/portable optical drives out there are no huge burden to stash away in your backpack. I think we're past the point where it makes much sense to build the optical drive into a device. To me it feels like carrying around my toaster all day because I might want to have some toast later. (I make toast more often than I use my optical drive actually)
Can’t you just buy some cheapo external USB drive† and stow it away for disc-related emergencies? For me just knowing that drives like that exist is enough, I know I can order them from Amazon and have them the next day. (Nowadays I only really use my optical drive to rip music I can’t get any other way. That happens maybe once a year or so.)

If you like watching DVDs while you are mobile I would definitely not recommend getting a PC without optical drive anytime soon – for obvious reasons. If you don’t, I really see no reason not to ditch the optical drive. All other use cases seem to be handled well enough by emergency external drives.

—

† Like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-External-Optical-SE-S084D-TSBS...
I agree. Fun to imagine the software bugfixing future versions of itself.
Overtaking a BMS has huge problems (I know, I am in that space). On one end you're talking about certified hardware for a variety of needs (hardware, especially certified to various ASHRAE/ANSI/etc specs is expensive for a small company, no two ways about it). Second is the "no one got fired for buying IBM" mentality - if you hook up with Siemens, JCI and the like, you have paid that huge maintenance contract to make the vendor fix their problem and you won't end up with an insolvent small vendor's VAV controllers which don't work.
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That blows.
Rate my startup: GPU.NET - GPU computing on .NET, from TidePowerd
Hi HN! We've just announced v2.0 of our MVP ("GPU.NET"), which aims to make GPU computing as simple and easy as possible by allowing you to write GPU-accelerated code in C#. Think of us as the managed equivalent of CUDA or OpenCL.

Our target market consists of two major segments: industries/companies who write a lot of numerical or computationally-intensive code in C#, as well as those currently writing GPU-based code in CUDA or OpenCL who may want a better way to integrate with .NET.

Any constructive feedback you'd like to offer (related to either GPU.NET or our business model) will be much appreciated.

We're also looking for interesting new example projects; if you put together a cool project, submit a pull request to us on GitHub (or alternately, email us at info@tidepowerd.com).

Check out our existing example projects at http://github.com/tidepowerd/GPU.NET-Example-Projects

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TCP doesn't "break" connections like that. Cleanly closing sockets breaks connections, but machines that crash or drop off the network won't be noticed until the connection times out, which is typically on the order of many minutes.
Having been forced to live with an ipad (and only an ipad) for the last month due to an unfortunate accident with my macbook, I can promise there are very few benefits and a plethora of drawbacks. It takes me about twice as long to do anything other than read blog posts...even posting to Tumblr is a major effort. It's a great toy, or even computing platform for someone like my mom (she loves hers), but it leaves a lot to be desired for me.
The one exception to this, which may really not even be an exception, is if you are your target customer. If you really need the product you're building that is a good starting point. I think for turning a website/app into a business the most important first customer is you.
I agree there is a surplus. I tried to write a book that had not been written before. Or more so, a book that was written in a systematic fashion breaking down the nature of the JavaScript object. I've not seen this done before. Most JS books ignore the object nature because they don't believe most people will follow along.

I actually want/plan to follow this book up with a modern day DOM JavaScript book without mention of a library. However, I first believe the masses need to understand objects.
That was a bit different.

In the US, you basically can't provide online services like Gmail to anyone < 13 years old. When the kid created his Gmail account he must have lied about his birthday (or they wouldn't have let him signup). Then when he did his Google+ profile, he gave his real age. Google, now knowing his real age, didn't have much choice.

That said, the haziness around what will get your Google account banned is keeping me off Google+. Even if the terms are nuanced, I don't have any faith that my account would be restored if it were suspended in error.
Why thunderbolt interconnect, and not wireless thunderbolt interconnect? We already have Wireless HDMI.
It's not a side track to point out that he should be charged with one set of crimes by the state government, but that he is instead being charged with a different set of crimes (Wire Fraud, Computer Fraud, Unlawfully Obtaining Information from a Protected Computer, Recklessly Damaging a Protected Computer) by the federal government.
Hm, sorry if I gave that impression. Anyway, I'm more curious about why the feds are continuing with the case after everyone involved seems to have dropped it. Should be an interesting case to watch.
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>>if there was some need for thousands of people to be sent into space per year then NASA could design and operate a fairly low cost per launch system.

For the second time to you (4th time overall) -- uh... no. That account is less than two weeks old. I am probably being trolled.
You think MA doesn't have computer crime statutes? The subtext to this thread seems to be "if they charged him locally they'd only be able to get him on trespassing". Uh, no.
After the optical drive on my MBP broke, I came to the same conclusion. I never bothered to get it fixed, and since I have a spare external drive, it was never a problem.
Yeah, you have a point. I'm willing to put up with the spam for getting to read anonymous viewpoints, but others my not be, so ideally it should be an option.
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I would be interested to know if the flat spot between 12 and 15 persists with larger sample sizes. That seems the most surprising thing here.
I don't think that this poster should have so many downvotes, as of 12:59 EST. Even if he is wrong, or you do not agree with him, he is adding to the discussion in a reasonable matter, inviting conversation and debate.
With the benefit of time and reflection, I now think that the term web scale is fine in this context and I was just being a curmudgeon. For what it's worth, which admittedly isn't much!
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Are you kidding? How many members of Congress routinely use prostitutes? Should they be kicked out of office? Are they ever?

I think that Spitzer's mess-up should have stayed between him and his wife - she is the appropriate authority to dish out punishment in this case :-)

If Spitzer had not been getting close to blowing the cover of dubious dealings on Wall Street (that affected the values of our stock portfolios during the crash a year later) I personally don't believe that the episodes with a prostitute being made public would have happened.
That would be a great argument, if not for the fact that Google doesn't need to get that information from Plus. They most likely already have it.
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“Anyone that needs to type out a paper for school, for example, might need something more than a smartphone.”

This might sound awkward, but it's actually doable on an iPad with the bluetooth keyboard connected for typing. Maybe not for complex math papers, but for English essays the setup is definitely very usable. I've tried.
To some, self improving software is a frightening.
criminal possession of more than an ounce of Schedule 2 dr.... err... integrated circuits.

Interesting that they emphasize the "possession", not that his business itself is, very likely, unlicensed wrt. some law.
it's funny, this is exactly how lots of lower-division undergrads at my school approach writing code! i've heard professors refer to it as "debugging via brownian motion"
who writes computationally intensive code in c#? on what market research is this based on?
also does it run on linux? i'm asking because in hpc some prototyping is done on win pcs, production code is almost always on linux nodes.
so, why .net?
Linkfied versions of the above: http://github.com/tidepowerd/GPU.NET-Example-Projects
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I pretty sure this has been tried (generalised to getting a write lock on more than N/2 of the servers) but I can't find a citation right now.
One of the problems with machine generated code is that it's rarely readable by human beings so you'd still have to take a lot of time to see what the algorithm changed. The other huge problem is false positives (although OpenBSD made lint work for them so maybe it's not that bad)
I'm trying to explain the concept of cultural context.

At my old martial arts school in NJ, you don't trash talk. You don't even need to call me a cunt to show disrespect, you simply need to fail to bow out. Should I assume you are a juvenile, immature dick if you fail to bow out after a soccer match? Of course not.

In much the same way, there are sporting events where witty banter about "yo momma" is considered acceptable behavior. No disrespect is intended, and none should be taken. It's just the culture of the game.

If you want to declare your particular set of conventions superior to all the others, be my guest.
I've often thought about evolutionary engineering like this, comparing it to biological systems. The human body (and really all biological life) is a remarkable machine -- it runs for decades, much longer than just about anything people build, and under most circumstances can repair itself quite impressively. But if it needs repair beyond what it can do itself, you run into a harrowing mess, with difficulty swapping in new parts, some parts doing double duty, difficulty separating various systems, etc.

It's also not extensible at all, which is a big problem for software engineering. An evolutionarily derived codebase might do really well at the problem that provided the parameters for its initial evolution, but trying to get it to do something else might be difficult or impossible. I suppose you could use more evolutionary iterations to get it to do something else, but maybe it'd be easier to start from scratch at that point?
Fascinating concept. What if humans wrote the tests, and a genetic system like this used a specialized language (machine code or JVM bytecode, for example) to write a solution? What level of sophistication could a system like this attain?
1. The search space is all possible abstract syntax trees. That is a large search space.

2. The correct solution must also satisfy all test unit tests. Basically the bug fixing is driven by the fitness function that determines if the bug is fixed and the program still satisfies the specification, i.e. the unit tests.

If you have a complex program the challenge will be coming up with a complete specification of the program's behavior.
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Read the site. Why cherry-pick and post something to make the entire premises look foolish? This is not what I expected in this place.

I would not post this here if there were not absolute scientific work backing much of the work. Mocking the phraseology of the opening paragraphs makes you out as someone that can't be bothered to look at the evidence presented, weigh it with reason, and reply in kind.
Again, the state would only have bothered to get involved if MIT had bothered to press charges, which apparently they didn't. And all the stuff you mentioned happened across state lines, so if the case for those things is to be made at all, it should be made in federal court.
He claims that: all modern physicists are intellectually dishonest; Einstein only conducted thought experiments and GR is therefore unsubstantiated; the author is being persecuted for harboring unpopular ideas. I am not a physicist but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, which seems lacking here.
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As long as it all the data for all metrics fits in RAM, it will work great in MongoDB. Of course, as soon as it doesn't, you're totally hosed.

To expand on the parent, a column store like HBase or Cassandra is perfect as each row can represent a timeslice and then each column can represent a single event or record within that timeslice. As the row gets evicted from it's initial storage in memory, it will be written to disk contiguously, in sorted order, and batch reads of this data is sequential.

It is possible to use MongoDB to store a timeslice as a document, but it is not designed to scale out to store very large numbers of columns within a single document.
6% equity + salary isn't a co-founder. You're an employee.
Point is even if your a criminal why do you need 100k sims? The only business which involves so many sims is VoIP
Personally, I like that it doesn't because there are actually better options than Apple is willing to sell. I like the OWC Mercury Pro (blu-ray, dvd, cd). It is a nicer option and can sit on the edge of the desk. On the new display, hooking it up to to the firewire 800 is a good option.
Curious to hear why you thought it would take longer to get going with Cassandra. A single-node Cassandra cluster can be up with a 1-line command. Was it the availability of clients or interface abstractions? I understand that tutorial & documentation is not as readily available, so that's understandable.
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It's an attempt to understand how you would solve problems of the class that the question is of, not an attempt to get a solution to a specific problem.

Not using a library when you should have is a problem solved by a 20 second code review.
Apple Accepts Borders-Branded Kobo App, Rejects Kobo's Identical App
i think it looks rather generic, like a web designer just used a pre-made "web 2.0" template. in particular, that light blue color is really overused and doesn't match the dark blue in their old logo (or are they going for a whole rebranding thing and losing the traditional dark-blue and red?) the old site at least had a unique look, even if it did look somewhat dated (http://web.archive.org/web/20101222000039/http://www.usps.co...).

it's also a bit strange that it doesn't say "postal service" anywhere except the <title>. i think more people know of them as the "post office" than "usps".
Makes getting any sort of security clearance a no-go. No buying weapons, etc.
Well, he probably wouldn't be charged with the state crime in most states, if MIT's claim that they aren't supporting the prosecution is accurate--- it's very rare for these kinds of state-law charges involving property (trespassing, breaking&entering, etc.) to get prosecuted if the victim isn't interested in pressing charges. Federal prosecutors seem to take a more freelance approach to charging.
It'd be best to talk about the rationale behind this script.

Since I'm currently diving into Fabric I have to say the very script isn't really pretty (rather hacky). Still, it's useful.

On the other hand one can invest a lot of work initially by using Chef (or Puppet) and never again be bothered with setting up deployment scripts.
This part in particular jumped out at me:

> I should note, however, that the Borders app for the US was subject to almost NONE of these restrictions. This is all the more amusing since the Borders US app is built from the exact same source code, with a different colour scheme and titles.
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From the perspective of the MySQL developers this may be the only way to handle feedback. If a lot of people use your software you're probably going to get a significant amount of bug reports.

If I'm in the shoes of the MySQL bug triage team you have many things to do: research important bugs, relay them to the development team or internal stakeholder, and to consolidate bugs. I don't know the details but user bug reports might be like drinking out of a fire hose and the current process of asking for more specifics and timing-out bug reports may be their personal way of handling them.