skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With HTTPS you get a handshake Client Hello packet sent in the clear, which has a TLS version identifier and a plaintext session ID among other things. With SSH2, you get a literal "SSH-2.0" as part of the protocol identifier which appears before the key exchange.
Behavior of young children in a situation simulating entrapment in refrigerators
HR acquisitions have such an insignificant effect on returns that they're indistinguishable from failures.
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I would like to write some company that does this and say "control V doesn't work but I can paste the password in using the following methods.... this is a problem because it keeps me from using proper security for passwords on my clipboard. Can you please fix? PS Can I follow up with your PCI auditor directly?"
And MySQL? ;-)
Remembrance of probes past
Well it would seem that the logical next step is going to be giving it a way to provide permanence to the data. That generally means online storage, but there might be other ways that are more in keeping with your offline approach... or maybe you could give the user an easy to remember token that they can use to fetch their todo list from another computer. I like the shopping list aspect of it. I would focus my energy completely on the usability side. Keep optimizing for convenience.

I've just launched a todo list sort of an app too, but it borrows heavily from open source components, much hairier, different audience to yours I suspect (alouy.com).
that's certainly interesting. as there will be migration from s3 to glacier, it would be nice if tarsnap had an option to store only the (say) last week in s3 (with .3$/gb/month) and the rest in glacier (with, say, .03$/gb/month).

that would certainly be very nice. cperciva, what do you think?
Norwegian here. This article is missing some major context. The Norwegian Data Protection Bureau merely stated that it believes the Norwegian Revenue Service and Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund are using Google Analytics illegally. These are high security Internet services used by almost every citizen in Norway.

The reason that Norway is implementing the directive is not because it simply feels like it, but because this EU directive has been implemented in the European Economic Area and not only the EU. The EEA is basically a semi-EU membership where a country has to implement EU directives in return for some EU trade benefits. We're in it because, although Norway voted no to an EU membership in 1992, the government was a big fan of the idea, so it sort of snuck us in through the back door anyway.

My angle on the Analytics issue is that I think it's sad that major Norwegian government agencies are apparently not capable of or willing to develop or install their own statistics tools. I think it says a lot about the state of the Norwegian technology sector that it can't seem to develop its own solutions for its small 5 million population. The government contracted the development of the online tax form system (Altinn) to Accenture, and it still crashed spectacularly under load.

I imagine that large American cities have these types of systems deployed routinely and uneventfully.

(On that note... I really want to work in Silicon Valley. There is no place like it anywhere in Europe. A major Valley company has been doing phone interviews with me, but they're dragging their feet, as they'd have to deploy me somewhere in Europe for a year before they could transfer me, as I don't have a college degree, and it looks like their legal team isn't willing to consider that option, even if the management is.

I speak fluent English. I'm from a country that's not unlike Canada. I understand American values more than most. I can go to the US on a business/vacation trip for 3 months without applying for a visa. I can contribute actual value. If I wanted to mooch off the state, Norway is actually much better for that. But nope. I can't live and work in the United States. Go figure!)
Yes, I know. That's what the "easily avoidable" was for. I couldn't think of a better example in a few minutes, but if something can go wrong, I am sure it will eventually go wrong.
Excellent work, Bootstrap is awesome! Thanks!

BTW, I found almost all Bootstrap-powered websites I visited uses sticky top navigation, which wastes considerable amount of my precious vertical screen estate.

Another wide-screen wasting example is the new Gmail and Google Groups - and what's even worse is that they force you to use the new UI.

I find sticky top navigation is annoying and nothing else, I just don't get it, aren't many people using width screens nowadays? Or is it just me?

Maybe Bootstrap's nav should be non-sticky by default?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NetworkExtensibleWindowSystem

I developed against NeWS (mostly using HyperNeWS) for a research project in the early 90s - was a huge amount of fun.
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I really want that service.
time at which you post influence the ability to reach front page.

* You can find an explanation from pg here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38704

* There was a post discussing rankings in reddit/delicious/HN here : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=234749

* There are other posts discussing specifically the HN algorithm with answers from PG : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013

* And you can use the tool HNPickup to tell you if it's a good time to post or not : http://hnpickup.appspot.com/
This is called "maintenance".
Could be for example some tape robot where you can have huge amounts of tapes in the storage but only have few devices for reading/writing them. With tape you can't really stream the data to the web. Instead you would probably first copy it somewhere. If there is lots of data, say few terabytes, even this process takes some time.

Or in case they are using regular hard drives, you might want to have this kind of time limits in order to pool requests going to a specific set of drives. This would enable them to power down the drives for longer periods of time.

The 3-4 hour estimate may also be artificial. Even if you can in most cases retrieve the data faster, it would be good to give an estimate you can always meet. They might also want to differentiate this more clearly from standard S3.

And we should not forget that it does take time to transfer for example one terabyte of data over network.
Discussion of the official announcement here: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4411536
Another good site for this sort of thing is Science Toy Maker: http://sciencetoymaker.org. I made his "Ponyo Boat" and it works well: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/06/making-ponyo-or-putt-putt-boat.h...
Per Werner's blog post [1] "in the coming months, Amazon S3 will introduce an option that will allow customers to seamlessly move data between Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier based on data lifecycle policies."

1. http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/08/amazon-glacier.h...
Interrupts are the slowest part of VFIO, but everything else is comparable. The interrupt performance can and will be fixed in the future. Polling is an option for some network uses, but interrupts are obviously technically superior for most workloads.

The I/O MMU can be slightly slower than "true" DMA if done poorly, but the simple use case is actually performs the best (in my teeny experience).
I can comprehend this sentiment, but, on the other hand, I rarely find "thank you" emails add anything to the conversation. It's just sitting there, wasting few seconds of my time to read it, distracts me when searching for information in old conversations with zero information added.

What's worse, "thank you" emails also socially force me to add mere "be nice boilerplate" to mu future emails to that person, instead being short and to the point. It's funny how technical, business, or fact based conversation can become unnecessary long and loose the focus with all that boilerplate.

On the other hand, being nice and polite is good in real life, on the face to face (or voice to voice) conversation, but, IMHO, just waste everyone time in email.
Fun Fact: You can get the API secret key out of twitter's official client. Which will allow you to use their xauth system (no browser oauth required - only enter username/password).

Also great for spambots: Twitter can't ban the app because then they had to ban their official Twitter clients.

/edit: have fun

'key': 'Fpl5UUVwvaczUzzpVJ8Rlw'
'secret': 'z73HF21zCz5CaxzDM6M0OPeaCBYGfHUG3FYBgcMB2Y'

'key': '3rJOl1ODzm9yZy63FACdg'
'secret': '5jPoQ5kQvMJFDYRNE8bQ4rHuds4xJqhvgNJM4awaE8'

One is for tweetie 1.0 and the other is for the official twitter client.
Typically they are tiered.

There'll be a near-line HDD array. This is for the recent content and content they profile as being common-access.

Then there'll be a robotic tape library. Any restore request will go in a queue annd when an arm-tapedrive becomes free they'll seek to the data and read it into the HDD array.

Waiting for a slot with the robot arm - tape drive is what will take 4 hours.

EMC(kinda), Fujitsu etc make these.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_library

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/26/emc_tape_sucks_no_mo...
Any kinds of loans/financial aid for people who can't afford it? I came to SF with the goal of becoming a good programmer, but have a net worth of about 3.5k, one of which is this computer.
I'm curious about data security. It says it is encrypted with AES. But is it encrypted locally and the encrypted files are transferred? I.e. does Amazon ever see the encryption keys?

Or is the only way to encrypt it yourself, and then transfer it?
a higher rate of success being associated with fewer years of education attained by mother and father combined.

Tell me more - is that statistically significant? Causes? Related to Reading age?

The bit that worries me is the percentage of children who locked in the fridge just waited and cried.
Is it so certain that banks will give students loans for it? As it is the price just slams the door on me.
Thanks heaps for the helpful links. I had googled for solutions before writing that rant but couldn't find anything.

I ended up using Change Resolution (http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-view_blog_post.php?pos...) to do what I needed.
The Dutch Chamber of Commerce closes down its trade register between midnight and 9am or so. Because, of course, you should be sleeping then instead of doing business!
I'm a long time user of backblaze, and I'm a big fan of the product - it does a great job of always making sure my working documents are backed up, particularly when I'm traveling overseas, and my laptop is more vulnerable to theft or damage.

With that said - Backblaze is optimized for working documents - and the default "exclusion" list makes it clear they don't want to be backing up your "wab~,vmc,vhd,vo1,vo2,vsv,vud,vmdk,vmsn,vmsd,hdd,vdi,vmwarevm,nvram,vmx,vmem,iso,dmg,sparseimage,sys,cab,exe,msi,dll,dl_,wim,ost,o,log,m4v" files. They also don't want to backup your /applications, /library, /etc, and so on locations. They also make it clear that backing up a NAS is not the target case for their service.

I can live with that - because, honestly, it's $4/month, and my goal is to keep my working files backed up. System Image backups, I've been using Super Duper to a $50 external hard drive.

Glacier + a product like http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ means I get the benefit of both worlds - Amazon will be fine with me dropping my entire 256 Gigabyte Drive onto Glacier (total cost - $2.56/month) and I get the benefit of off site backup.

The world is about to get a whole lot simpler (and inexpensive) for backups.
I reckon that is nowhere near enterpricey enough. I would be very surprised to find anything less than the biggest Oracle db running that crap.
AFAIK the keys are managed by Amazon, just like S3. It's more for compliance reasons rather than real security. Encryption still has to be done yourself to protect the data.
Why not just do port forwarding from port 80 to the ssh port (forget the number) on your home router/Linux gateway?
… because we are not all doing the same kind of hacking. The variety of news here is proof for that.

Back to the topic: I my own router to create a tunnel similar to the one described by the OP. It is not as fast as an Amazon instance but free wi-fi is neither.
> Science is 'robust observation and reporting'.

No, that is stamp collecting. Science is not merely observing, and it is not merely theory-creation. It is both. Observations (descriptions) lead to theories (proposed explanations). The explanations must be testable and falsifiable.

> This includes, but is not exclusive to, empirical, falsifiable tests.

No, that's not optional. Without falsifiable tests, astronomy and astrology are indistinguishable. Therefore empirical testability and falsifiability are essential to any definition of science.

> From what you're saying, exploratory experiments are not scientific, and neither are entire fields like Taxonomy.

That's correct. Let's say I claim that stars are actually tiny dots pained on a huge glass bowl in the night sky. Shall we stop there, or shall we test my claim?

Let's say I claim that life was created by a supreme being, and natural origins are a myth. Shall we stop there, or shall we test my claim?

Let's say I claim that women are inferior to men on the ground that they have fewer teeth than men do (Aristotle actually made this claim, and it stood unchallenged for centuries). Shall we stop there, or shall we test my claim?

Ideas must be compared to reality, and if reality disagrees, they must be discarded. When reality-testing proves a theory false, a scientist abandons the theory, but a pseudoscientist abandons reality. Take your pick.
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Slashdot too.
What I find fascinating with Amazon's infrastructure push is the the successful 'homonymization' of their brand name Amazon.

Amazon simultaneously stands for ecommerce and web infrastructure depending on the context. e.g "Hey I want to host my server".. "Why don't you try Amazon". "Do you know where I can get a fair priced laptop?" "Check Amazon".

Is there any other brand that has done this successfully?

Edit: I should have specified internet brand.
"Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure."

Should be on the wall of every startup.
Indeed. Makes me wonder what France or Brazil are worth.
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Looks like the perfect solution to backup all my photos. Considering 100 GB of photos, that's still just 100 * 0.01 * 12 = $12 a year! I'm sold on this!
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Wow, the cadence of releases from aws recently has been amazing. Can't wait to see what else they have in store.
If they cry loud enough, it may not be the worst strategy.
I've already started a 2.04 site. As a web design newbie, how hard is it to update to the latest version? Just copy over the js and css? (I realise I'd need to re-write my html to use the new features).
This is a really good offering for media that you typically will keep locally for instant access, yet you want to have an off-site backup in a way that lives for a very long time.

Dropbox should work here, but it's simply too expensive. My photo library is 175GB. That isn't excessive when considering I store the digital negatives and this represents over a decade.

I don't mind not being able to access it for a few hours, I'm thinking disaster recovery of highly sentimental digital memories here.

If my flat burns down destroying my local copy, and my personal off-site backup (HDD at an old friends' house) is also destroyed... then nothing would be lost if Amazon have a copy.

In fact I very much doubt anyone I know that isn't a tech actually keeps all of their data backed-up even in that manner.

I find myself already wondering: My 12TB NAS, how much is used (4TB)... could I backup all of it remotely? It's crazy that this approaches being feasible. It's under 30GBP per month for Ireland storage for my all of the data on my NAS.

To be able to say, "All of my photos are safe for years and it's easy to append to the backup.". That would be something.

A service offering a simple consumer interface for this could really do well.
It's a bit strange how S3 has a 'US Standard' region option, while Glacier has the usual set of regions (US East, US West, etc). I wonder if this means that unlike S3, Glacier isn't replicated across regions?
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Yes this is true for every profession... but in programming it seems to be a more crucial thing as the programming world is changing and evolving faster than any other industry.. just think about what programmers used to do 10 years ago .. and what we do now... think how computers change in 10 years... (my mobile phone is smarter/faster than my state of the art PC from 10 years ago)

The progression rate is astonishing and we must not forget that we still have to learn the basics in order to be good at what we do...
Monads in pictures
There's some clever wordplay/marketing here... "designed to provide 99.99..99%" means that the theoretical model of the system tells you that you lose 1 in X files per year when everything is working as modeled (e.g. "disks fail at expected rate as independent random variables"). If something not in the model goes wrong (e.g. power goes out, a bug in S3 code), data can be lost above and beyond this "designed" percentage. The actual probability of data loss is therefore much, much higher than this theoretical percentage.

A more comical way to look at it: The percentage is actually AWS saying "to keep costs low, we plan to lose this many files per year"; when we screw up and things don't go quite to plan, we lose a _lot_ more.
> The sentence you're quoting is a triple negative, not a double negative, perhaps that's the problem.

I see a double negative: "The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states."

The above relies on the negation of a negative state -- the absence of a neocortex.

In any case, to refute the claim would require some heavy lifting -- an objective definition of consciousness, an objective measure of consciousness that somehow evades issues like the Turing test, and a handful of other obstacles. And consensus -- general agreement on the meaning of these terms.

That's why it's philosophy.
URL? Can't find this on the website, blog or twitter account.
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True:

CORRECTION: Let me rap myself on the knuckles here for the above update, which was flat incorrect. As commenter JD points out, IBM’s 1967 market cap was not $1.3 trillion in real dollars, it was $192.3 billion. The NYT’s data was already adjusted for inflation.

http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/misleading_and_incomplete_cove....

Or, $28 billion nominal.
Thanks! Sent you an email
You're basically describing the very nature of distributed systems :) We see many more of them nowadays because of the scale of some modern web apps / sites whereas in the 1990s the internet just wasn't that big or that complicated. Whether every app that ends up being that complicated actually needs to be like that is a different question.

It also comes back to "don't reinvent the wheel" and "not invented here syndrome". You _could_ implement many of these things in your homogenous codebase or you could just reuse something that already works. I'm just saying there are serious and good counterarguments to the "large amount of quite homogenous source code written in a single language" approach.

I agree with some of the details (like AMIs, EC2, different types and versions of linux, different package managers in the same system), but I think in general the things you think of as hacks aren't hacks at all and just the signs of progress. Or at least the nature of large, complex modern distributed systems. You basically described the term "agile development" and you're remembering a time many developers would rather forget with rather rose-tinted glasses.

(I don't really know enough about objective-c to comment.)
Thanks for the heads up - could you email us some more details (contact@dreamforge.me)? It seems to work fine in Firefox for us so we'd really like to get to the bottom of this for you.
Somebody here must be able to get us the pdf...

Or at least have a look at it and give us the lowdown.
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On a different but related note, I found that sentence to be pretty ... strange. They go into lots of technical detail about servers, indices, users and tables and things, but that wording sounds as if they're explaining the world to a (small) child.

The idea that there are "normal" (=US ASCII, I presume?) and "special" (=the rest) characters used in human languages is a bit 1980:s, or thereabouts, to me.
I just started a project where I'm keeping a raspberry pi in my backpack and am archiving a constant stream of jpgs to the cloud. I've been looking at all the available cloud archival options over the last few days and have been horrified at the pricing models. This is a blessing!
You could both be right. Login with Facebook, buy with 1 click. And let the merchant know all kinds of information about you to show you the right products.
DNS is an application protocol, TCP is a transport protocol. You can't be tunneling TCP over DNS, DNS (when not using UDP) actually uses TCP port 53. Are you sure that you are just getting SSH to listen on port 53?
I recently heard about a startup (spacemonkey) that will be offering 1TB with redundancy and no access delay for $10/month. The way they do it is really clever as well. Cloud storage has always seemed way too expensive to me, but these lower prices have me re-evaluating that.
Wouldn't there also need to be a lot of logic to prevent fragmentation? You'd probably want data from one user near other data from that user, i.e. on the same tape.
Nice catch, that's an important piece of fine print.
> Paying $12 to store a gigabyte of data for 100 years seems like a pretty intriguing deal as we emerge from an era of bit rot.

As long as that data is decode-able and more importantly, find-able (out of all the GBs frozen for 100 years, why would you want to look at any particular one of them?).
This is the best thing ever! I've been dreaming about such a service for a very long time -- posted about how I needed this here 6 months ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3560952

Rotating hard drives on the NAS in my attic is going to get a LOT simpler...
Although a low Res image fallback is OK there.
Amazon launches Glacier - low-cost cloud backup service.
>>Later, he emphasizes that they didn't even look at each others' code:

I remembering reading somewhere (Dennis Ritchie's C History article?) that once they both programmed a solution without consulting each other, and later when they read it, the solution was exactly the same, even down to the variables' name.

Power of C? Two people who thought alike?

>>KT: [Shaking head] We were all pretty good coders.

Which the modern world doesn't have enough of. Demand is so high that quality of supply doesn't matter, just enough to satiate the demand; which is in stark contrast to the early days, when computer science was a research field only privy to scientists and later to hackers and crackers. When it went mainstream, and grew to an industry, its no wonder that it acquired all that which comes with it.
This actually confused me when I saw the headline. I saw 'Amazon' and, despite having been working with AWS all night, thought ecommerce first and couldn't figure out what they could name 'Glacier'. I was kind-of-not-really hoping it was going to be a new shipping option guaranteed to take a long time. That said, the actual service looks solid.