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AT&T DNS under DDOS attack
My client has reported that AT&T's DNS servers are currently under attach resulting in DNS outages.

I have no link or additional information.
There were probably typewriters used there in the past. It's good way to make the law seem silly and a waste of money, because the government ran fine in the past with something much noisier. Buying a certain kind of keyboard to adhere to a stupid law would make disobeying pointless, since it is also a waste of money.
Are there any thoughts for including bike routes or that ilk?

I live in the east bay (Berkeley, CA), and when I go to San Francisco, I often want to see what it might be to take BART + finish on a bike. This is opposed to finding a place to park. Just knowing what "bike routes" or bike lanes near to my stations is usually helpful.

This is also because BART + bike is usually a nice time vesus BART + Muni.
Go's GC has a long way to go before it is anywhere near the maturity level of the JVM's. One of the biggest advantages of building a language on the JVM is that you get about the best GC implementation out there completely for free.
The regions debt is 27 billion euros, spending or saving 100.000 euros on tablets doesnt make any real difference.

Incredible that I'm getting downvoted for this. So if you have 100,000 $ student debt, you should stop sending holiday cards and use email instead, to save 40 cents?

In large organizations some costs are just to minuscule to warrant any mindspace. In this case the spending doesn't even seem evidently frivolous, why shouldn't every parliamentarian have a tablet? In the Netherlands they replaced paper with tablets and even managed to achieve cost savings.
Agreed on all points. I haven't allowed Skype to update itself in years. You can download an older version of their desktop app for yourself here. if that helps: http://www.oldversion.com/Skype.html
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately we do not have the GTFS data we need in Barcelona to create a great transit app. If you're local, we'd appreciate any help we can get in obtaining that data from the local govt. If you have a second, please drop me a line!
Apparently, they approached Google, but they failed to provide the same incentives and special treatment to tide over the tough times that Microsoft did(Nokia gets at least a billion a year from MS for platform support).

Many more details here: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_24/b42320567...
Shocking, right? I demand compensation! :)
Hello Xcode 4.5 - Goodbye ARMv6
On This Day in 1983, Analytics Might Have Been a Fail
How to design a mobile app. A Designer's guide to the process.
Server issues. Let me guess: node.js?
Yes, but regardless of how Otellini feels, he never said what they said he had said. So it's very deceptive.
4 Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Software
Ask HN: What is the web app the world needs right now?
I have come into a situation where I know how to program and have a lot of 'free time' to create an income stream.

I would like to make the world something useful and awesome. Is there something you wish existed or was different/easier than what is currently available?
So what is the business model here? Just introduce ads at some later point? I see they have plenty of investors and it looks like a great service. I just hate not knowing how people plan to make money off of me.
My experience is that people who are aware of opportunities to use math find them. And people who are not aware conclude that they weren't really there.

For example are you a web developer? Have you started using A/B testing yet? If yes, that's math. If no, then you are in a position to make your employer a substantial amount of money.

For another example my very first project in my first programming job required me to build a set of canned reports. There was one user request which turned into, "We want to do this, but don't know if it is possible." I wound up using inclusion-exclusion techniques that I'd learned in grad school to solve that problem! (The problem was how to ship a local database without detailed information they shouldn't have about the rest of the company, and yet still be able to present reports comparing themselves to the rest of the company. And those reports had to drill down. So if you were responsible for 5 sites you'd be able to generate those reports for everyone that you could see, or for each site individually.)
hi tristan,

This is definitely something we're investigating. We haven't seen a ton of requests for it frankly, but we have an office full of bikers... So we get it and we will be looking in to it.
Give us a couple days. We're undergoing some back-end changes and it's causing the pages to have a jerky scroll for some. Apologies for the inconvenience in the meantime.
The CEOs who get $1/yr have huge equity positions that mean they will receive a serious payout if they and the company succeeds.

I'm pretty sure none of them would work at a job that the total compensation was $1/yr.
If government officials don't care about parliament sessions and are playing games during them, the noise of their keyboards is the least of your problems. I think typewriter is a great way to express that. You can't play games on it, unlike iPad.
super minimal.
like how it was inspired by the garfield minus garfield thing.
I imagine they have a release process to get something on research.google.com, though. So the company is endorsing it.
Google Play Apps and Downloads Compared to App Store Apps and Downloads
Things add up, you know.
After so much on MFC,OLE,COM/DCOM=>ATL, ADO, DAO, c#,.net,silverlight and now html5, I am not MS fan any more and has zero interest in any MS stuff.
Inspiration? http://3dhomemade.blogspot.ca/

Open hardware kit for similar:

http://b9creator.com/
9 things to consider while migrating from Windows to Linux 
Windows and Linux are paradoxical since long time. Many people still think Linux is a obscure operating system while windows can be though as docile kind of operating system. Linux users receive accolade from the majority of the people.
Canvas Deep Dive
still nothing http://dpaste.com/806347/ you can drop me an email if you need more feedback, so we don't pollute this thread
Generally we are just hoping to give people an idea of what you'll like and not limit them to anything really. We found from our initial market test that 72% of people would rather know what to buy for a friend than not know
Really not agreeing with the sentiment that would lead to a person using such a service. That type of person probably shouldn't be receiving a gift from anyone really.
Because the phone is not ready yet.
btw it's a test controlled by Nokia. I think we should wait until it's finally released before giving the final judgement.
So maybe The Verge's whole freakout over it was completely unwarranted? Maybe Nokia knew what the effect of OIS would be when they made the ad -- after having done the R&D to develop the camera in the first place?
nobadgift is completely different and they focus on group gifting. Not really a market we are exploring.
It may also be called "work to rule", I think.
Regardless of zoom levels or other disadvantages, this is a honest comparison of true results you would get from each phone. It's a moot point to argue technicals you have no control over.

Overall, the 920 just seems way clearer, and objects have much sharper edges.
There's no reason you can't innovate within representational art, and your "freed itself from almost every constraint imaginable" is someone else's "descended into idiotic gibberish".
I'm on an HTC One S. I'll admit that it's rooted and has CyanogenMod running on it, though- if no-one else sees the issues I do then it might just be my weird setup.
I actually read this paper last year... it's pretty impressive but still is not ready for mainstream. The speaker said that his friend was "lucky", but he was the lucky one to find a perfect example to show this off.
I always pay for my phone up front because the time I've spent dealing with trying to get my phone unlocked when I travel between US/UK/Europe/Brazil is worth far far more than any potential savings.
Amazon adding lockers for customers at 7-Elevens and drug stores (video)
How Social Security numbers became our insecure national ID
It does, but due to broken mentality people try as hard as possible not to use them. That is, public perception is that mass transit is for losers who can't afford cars (while in fact standing in traffic wastes a lot of expensive time of middle class, but they still rather suffer it then admit that taking the metro is better).

I can imagine this is a common problem of emerging economies, where most of middle class come from families of destitute peasants - and try to underscore their rise (real or imaginary) on the social ladder as hard as possible. In rich countries, where everyone had a car for at least a couple generations now, nobody thinks taking a tube is a shame, especially when it's faster.
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/79793/phrase-for-...
That's exactly the attitude that got them to 27 billion euros deficit in the first place!
If "heat" is from a low-energy source, like an infrared lamp, then no it won't work. You need the individual photons to have enough energy.
And both MySQL and PostgreSQL have put in work to make ALTER less painful by reducing the situations where a full table rewrite is necessary. In PostgreSQL you can both add and remove columns without the table being rewritten as long as you do not set a default value. You can also increase the lengths of varchars without any rewrite.
Off topic, but I bought that book, and I think it gets a little too much credit for being scientific. A lot of stuff in there is not tested theory, but rather conjecture. Conjecture can be scientific in spirit, yes, but conjecture is many times not tested and scientific in practice. I felt it had too much untested conjecture, and so doesn't deserve the hype.
Ask HN: Statsd from etsy (or) Ostrich from Twitter?
Looking for a framework to track counters, gauges, metrics. Currently boiled the choices down to Statsd and Ostrich. Any feedback on which one to choose and why would be a great help.
So because this guy can't manage high-end talent, his answer is to fire any high-end talent that somehow makes it through the door. Great advice :/

I've mentioned it previously here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4503224) but this is a classic example of management ineptitude and ego passing up opportunities because it's "hard" to be challenged by someone more intelligent than yourself.
Everyone doesn't agree that GIMP is "inferior" to Photoshop. They serve different markets. GIMP doesn't have as much manpower to put into the super high-end features, like tightly integrated RAW editing, but then people aren't paying 700 bucks per copy of GIMP either. GIMP does have features that Photoshop doesn't have (like a Python scripting interface) that makes it better for some use cases. For generic bitmap editing, either one works just fine, though GIMP is better for the casual user in most cases as it allows you to save your 700 bucks and put it toward something important.

LibreOffice is much the same, but I think the gap is actually much smaller. Microsoft Office does have some niche features that are not replicated by LibreOffice, and Microsoft has made their formats for annotations and other features that should be simple sufficiently complex to make import/export difficult, but LibreOffice in my experience is faster and has more of the features that I like and use (at least more accessible; apparently someone has said Office now includes direct PDF export, so that's nice). I use LibreOffice even if I'm using a computer with Microsoft Office installed. As with GIMP, in some specific cases, Word may be required, but in most cases LibreOffice works just fine and saves you hundreds of dollars.

The exception here is probably Calc v. Excel, because it seems true in my experience that Excel has many more features for power users than Calc.
A founder of a startup may be _losing_ money at huge pace during the first few years. People working for charity might do it without being paid.

But you're right, they can afford it because their material needs are already addressed.
Sometimes a person needs to go to college in order to understand why it might not be relevant for them. By simply touting that college is useless as a fact seems too far-fetched for me. No one is born with an ability to assess going to college as it is today. It's all social conditioning. To that end, college is useful. If it can teach you something about yourself then the 2 or 3 semesters were not wasted time or money.
I count this as a Go feature.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
Yes, but consider how doomed you are if you need to treat your parliamentarians like irresponsible children to keep them on task.

But I think there's probably a more charitable explanation that everyone is too polite to say: large chunks of the business being conducted may in fact be bullshit, and deep down they know it.
Yes, Python will probably retain niches as a beginner language and a language for scientific data processing (but not in web development). This is because it's fairly easy to learn and the language enforces certain minimal coding practices better than most other languages. But it should be clear by now that Python certainly won't be taking over the broader programming world.

There was group of guys at a previous job of mine who loved programming in Python so much that they started advocating for its use at work for serious projects. They eventually got their wish, but six months later they realized that using Python for heavy-duty corporate stuff is far removed from using it for personal hobby programming.

The main problem is that Python has been oversold. This will be corrected in due course, and things will go on with Python being used only where appropriate.
Spot on. Passion is great, and a necessary ingredient to get a start-up off the ground, but even if someone produces double the value of anyone else at the company, it's still a net loss if he's demoralizing the team.
Oh, in that case he's off the hook I guess, there's nothing to see here, move along.
If you hire a Go programmer, it probably will be somebody that deeply cares about their work, somebody who has a certain sense for aesthetic and technical simplicity, and other qualities that not common that among Java programmers.
Great article. Note that if you achieve everything in this article with respect to your work, you may actually become the person the author sets up a contrast with at the beginning:

So, here is the thing right at the start: I’ve always been uncomfortable with the traditional ideal of the professional — cool, collected, and capable, checking off tasks left and right, all numbers and results and making it happen, please, with not a hair out of place. An effective employee, no fuss, no muss, a manager’s dream.

Real heartfelt drive and professionalism, like real grief or real love, is subtle and not theatrical. Sometimes it looks like a lack of emotion because being unhappy with your work stirs up a lot more drama by comparison.
Wow, I have been meaning to look what rel means for years and I always forget.

Am i glad I saw this.
The Marketplace in Your Brain
The real reason why they are banned: Because the majority of the parliament wanted it that way and voted for the rule. I don't get the outrage at all, why shouldn't the parliament get to decide how they run their own sessions?
You know, this view is probably the minority here but I think that the way we conduct meetings has changed.

Whenever I hold a workshop or longer meetings, I always try to give 5-10 minutes on every hour so people can "reconnect" with their email, news, social network, or whatever it is that is trying to occupy their mindshare with me.

I've noticed a marked increase in engagement whenever I allow this. I know that the people there should be paying attention, but in practice they are incapable of it.
Seeing PageRank discussed reminds me of a piece of fun trivia. The idea for PageRank came out of the success of the Science Citation Index, which ranks papers according to how often they have been cited. The idea of trying to study the structure of citations in academia came out of people who were inspired by a 1948 essay, As We May Think.

But that essay's main topic was an imagined technology called memex, to be implemented with an automated indexing system and microfilm. This technology is the first description of hypertext, which inspired multiple technologies. The second successful consumer application that I'm aware of that used hypertext was the web. (The first was HyperCard from Apple.)

Thus Google started as the application of one set of techniques inspired by As We May Think to a technology that was also inspired by As We May Think.

See http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma... for the essay itself. Do keep in mind that it was written one year after the transistor was invented, but the author already had 2 decades of experience with computing.
Isn't that up to the voters to decide?

Snap of photo of the representative checking Facebook while legislation is being debated, and make it into a campaign ad when the next election rolls around.

But honestly, I'm sure this is nothing new. Legislators have been daydreaming, doodling, passing notes, and reading books during debates since time immemorial. It's not like attendance is even mandatory in the first place.
Google Play 25-cent app sale already started
On one hand - the image stabilization on the Lumia appears to be great. However, the image quality on both the iPhone 5 & Galaxy S3 were much worse than I've experienced in day to day use. I've used both phones personally - and the video quality on the iPhone and GS3 is much better than what was shown (even if it's not "stable"). Any idea on why the quality on those was much lower than in real life?
This is great. I much prefer this experience for viewing than the zooming ones that people posted right after it came out. This seems much more immersive. Great work!!
Apparently yes: https://github.com/n01se/1110
You've been telling people to hold off buying a 3D printer from other manufacturers until this one was unveiled. But I don't get the impression this is in the product phase yet. There are some slick pictures and a nice presentation but nothing at all that indicates the thing actually exists in an about to ship state.

What exactly is the state of development of the formlabs product?
You say that like node is known for being flaky at scale, which is completely unfounded.
Resins which harden under UV aren't that hard to make. There was a bit of a push a year or so ago when people started looking at DLP printers.
Good point. I should probably put vanilla FTP to the wayside and move onto sftp.
Typesafe Shared Mutable State in Rust
He's stated that he has investors lined up [1].

[1] http://mashable.com/2012/09/24/kim-dotcom-megaupload-almost-...
Google Play store hits 25 billion app downloads, to offer discounts as well
One of the small but nagging issues which will need to be resolved is how to deal with "items left behind".

When more people begin to use public cars for personal use/hire people will begin leaving phones, strollers, jackets, wallets in these vehicles. Unless the cars are to have omnidirectional cameras or electronic trackers to monitor everything, people are going to lose things. This is going to be a pain point. It might be just becoming aware -as people do in taxicabs but at least honest cabbies will return items as its in their interest to maintain good reputation --a stranger is only bound by altruism.
I like to consider my mom very normal and I'm very sure everything she uses is just a compile away from running on ARM. Ubuntu, Firefox and LibreOffice are usually sufficient for 99.9% of what PC users do.

Even those who are doomed to use Exchange can rely on OWA, which runs just fine on any decent browser (and at least one very crappy browser)
I need the bike rack every other day. Others have dirt bikes, surfboards, skis. This is pretty normal.
I actually think it could be more extreme. The printer industry is the way it is because most people don't really need one, so customers skimp instead of optimizing for long-term usage. I predict even fewer people will need devoted 3D printers in their homes - especially if there are local versions at a place like staples/kinkos.
Were you walking while filming? He wouldn't be able to showcase the differences in image stabilization for each phone if he tried to stay as still as possible.
... and MongoDB.
I used to think that but I switched to WP7, found the two apps I needed the most (Campfire client and a decent bus timetable app) weren't available (or rather there were a couple of each, but they were awful) - and so switched back to iPhone.

How many other people want a Campfire client on WP? Maybe a few thousand. For how many people is the lack of a decent one a deal-breaker? Maybe in the tens. But for me, it's a deal-breaker. Now swap Campfire for some other app ...

And that's why the breadth of the App Store is important.
Isn't it strange that the last 30 days download graph of all apps in sale is downwards ;)
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I just think it is a slippery slope where the ratio of false leads to legitimate tips weighs too heavily on the former for this to be practical and not threatening to real families when someone wants to play the hero. I'd be interested in seeing statistics about the percentage of abductees that are allowed to be seen in public without any sort of cosmetic alterations or other such obscurations, particularly in the first few months/years. Perhaps their captors are more lazy about that than I'd assume.
DreamIt alum SnipSnap is hiring iOS and Ruby developers
No San Francisco MUNI, huh? What are iOS 6ers using for this?
Here's some GTFS feeds:
King County Metro - http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/agency/king-county-metro-t...
the above feed includes King County Metro buses, Seattle Streetcar (the SLUT cwe mentioned), Sound Transit Link light rail, and some Sound Transit express regional buses.

Sound Transit (buses and Link Light Rail) - http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/agency/sound-transit/

Community Transit (Snohomish County, lots of bus routes from up there down into downtown Seattle) - http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/agency/community-transit/
There is no way the region ever pays that back, better spend now, when the system crashs they at least got some things.
There are still some of us who remember HP :)
Can you elaborate more about why do you think becoming a pickup artist is a bad thing?
It depends. Depending on the field of study, university may be a pass time or where you cut yourself out for greater challenges. If you are into a deeply technical subject, college is pretty much the only option. If you want to get by studying humanities and few easy courses, you can as well help yourself without spending all that money for college.
Ask HN: What apps are always running on your phone?
Just interested in what apps you are always using. For me in no particular order (iPhone) - RunKeeper, Safari, Mail, Twitter, Audible, TuneIn, Instagram...
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As far as I can tell, you guys don't have a multi-modal app that works for the Bay Area. I need to take Muni, Bart, Golden Gate, VTA, and Caltrain on a regular basis. Is this planned?
The tyranny of the majority is a major detractor of democracy.
Complacently brakes the back button, it creates a new back state for each key press when typing. It realy shouldn't do that.
Goll-lee! That's an awfully large antenna tower in North Dakota.
Thanks. Not surprised.