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>>But the USSR falled, and this tech will never be recovered.

Ugly fallout of politics. By the way what happened to all the technology and intellectual power?

I mean shouldn't Russia still have it?
Seems interesting, and I may have some items to post. Not sure that I like that if my bounty gets no answers my money goes straight to charity. Would tend to make me post lower bounties to reduce my risk, which may attract less attention, which may increase my risk, etc.

PS - The link to the MSF charity is wrong.
Ideal for school programming assignments?
Well, DNS is still a single point of failure. You gotta hope The Internet Infrastructure Foundation is supporting them.
Well, these are nice experiments. Remind me of the good old Nokia...

In the meantime, the mainstream Android tablets (Fire, Nexus, Galaxy Tabs) are actually "me too" devices, lagging visibly behind the iPad.

Disclosure: I'm a happy Android user, both phone and tablet.
α Cen B: http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/es...
The description on torrentfreak says their archictecture is basically:

1. Border router handling inbound traffic, connecting via encrypted VPN to their load balancer in a different country.

2. Load balancer which is a disk-less server with all configuration in RAM that connects via encrypted VPN to two separate sets of VMs at two separate cloud providers in two different countries.

3. Said VMs using encrypted disk images, and set up to automatically shut down if they are out of contact with the load balancer for more than 8 hours, at which point a keyphrase would need to be entered to unlock the disk images.

I would assume they probably has more routers and load balancers in other locations ready in case they need to switch over.

They can keep this shell game up forever as long as the people operating it are able to get online - adding more layers if necessary.
Tobacco has anti-psychotic properties which can help to alleviate the effects of schizophrenia, which is one reason almost all schizo patients smoke. Alcohol on the other hand can make the condition worse because it has psychotic properties. Marijuana is both psychotic and anti-psychotic so how that will affect the patient is more unclear.
First you would need to find the load balancer, which means you would first need to go after their router, then get the cooperation of a second country. Then you would need the cooperation of two more countries to get at the cloud providers...

... only for The Pirate Bay to spin up more instances elsewhere and point a domain or two at it.
"IQ is not lower because nation is more religious. IQ is lower because the nation is poorer."

I am mystified as to why people assume that education provides a higher IQ.

IQ is ability to learn; the brains ability to solve problems in an independent way and has nothing to do with education. If a person who rarely thinks deeply begins some form of education then they will receive a spike in IQ but it is not lasting.

A good way to think of it is the ability to think outside the box. There is no increase of IQ from education although a person with a high IQ may score better in an academic environment (or not if they are easily bored). Education is about memorizing facts whilst IQ is the ability to think.

Wealthy people don't feel a need for a God but poor people do.
The point is your still not taking anything of value, the site could be up on different servers and load balancers in a couple of hours, if not minutes. For the record, torrent sites have been doing this for years.
Just some in-memory caching on the load balancer could make timing attacks pretty useless.
wouldn't a service where people can watch what you do on screen be as useful?
Forever is a long time.

Alpha Centauri feels far away because our lifetimes are so ridiculously short, and we're so unfathomably economically poor, compared to the age of and resources available in the universe. These limitations don't have to apply to whatever our descendants will be a few centuries or millenia from now.

To them, a trip to Alpha Centauri might be a weekend lark.
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@impostervt, I'm the creator of Bountify- thanks for pointing out the broken link, I'll fix it asap.

Yes, I think the money-to-charity policy will dissuade some users from posting higher bounty amounts at first. My goal is to show that certain kinds of tasks can consistently get quality solutions on Bountify. So far I've been pleased with the speed and quality of solutions and the tone that's been set by the first users.

Feel free to share what types of tasks you'd consider posting. Thanks again for the feedback!
Malnutrition can lead to low IQ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_and_intelligence#Bi...
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Hey HN!

While working on a separate project, my cofounder and I found maintaining and adding "product tour tooltips" to be a bit of a pain. I figured we could always put together an interface to manage them, but the time to build it never seemed like a worthwhile trade off. As our product grew, we realized having a tool from the beginning could have saved us some time.

So, we'd like to present Taurus (approaching closed beta), billed as a way to set up a product tour for your web application in 15 minutes.

Link: http://taurus.io/
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Do it at the router level and then reset the password to gibberish.
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The thing that most impressed me about R when I was dabbling with it was the quality of the graphing tools. It was very easy to create all kinds of very polished looking and expressive graphs. It was a lot more work to get comparable results in Octave and NumPy.
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It's a recurring phenomenon. I believe it demonstrates that software engineering is a much more varied field than is commonly accepted.
Isn't it enough to take down the DNS servers to make TPB unusable for sharing (at least to add new torrents) ?

Achieving fault tolerance using a few cloud providers is nice (and expensive) but they're still far from raid proof (all it takes is some coordination from police in multiple countries).
Unless they raid the cloud...?
Though the difference between PhD and earlier degrees seems to be more one of diligence and sustained hard work than necessarily smarts.
Looks like the answer is yes.
A note to those using Tor, though. Getting your .torrent files and magnet links over Tor is fine, but please don't route your P2P traffic over Tor. Bittorrent wasn't designed for anonymity, so you'll be sending all sorts of data that makes it possible to identify you anyway, but, more importantly, it makes the Tor network slow as hell.
Big respect for realizing the bigger issue is that not enough people know of either site.

When startups in this massive space need to start competing with each other they have already won. Recruiters have the market at the moment, but I don't think that will last.
You are definitely correct. Sorry for my being unclear. We are already in the process of changing the name in something more professional, the same goes with the terms of use. The page is still being tested and there are several issues which need to be discussed. My question would then be: what would convince you to join such a service, do you like the overall design and our service concept?
I find it scary it's only 4.3 light years away. If they can manage 1/10 the speed of of light, they can reach us in just 43 years.
OK, but he's worded it wrong, it gives the impression of a snarkiness. Maybe he's saying that matlab users can't program well but are still intelligent/well paid (but that doesn't really make sense since numpy is equally easy and an intelligent/educated person wouldn't find programming hard). Anyway, maybe I misread it and you're right.

edit: great, I was getting points before, and then you come along with your italics.
Why not see what the market thinks of your idea by trying the 'lean publishing' route? Check out http://leanpub.com as one [good] way to do it. It's working out pretty well for me so far. It would mean moving from OpenOffice to Markdown formatting, but the whole Dropbox + Markdown approach that Leanpub uses is pretty good and there is decent support for code blocks etc
I will not try any new web app which uses default bootstrap themes.

I think that today, it communicates that you don't have too much appreciation for the final user experience, just want to test a concept.
Sorry, it's so long ago that I can't recall the drugs, only that as techs we had to report what was on the referral. We'd do our tech reports and the official report done by the neurologist would refer to the flat, beta-filled EEG as being 'normal for -foo-'. Part of me wants to say benzos, but I'm not sure if that's confabulation on my part.

I understand the limitation of the data - it's particularly hard to get access to inpatients as subjects for new studies. Thanks again for sharing your thesis - sorry I can't converse a bit more intelligently about it at the moment.

EDIT: looks like it is benzos: Some agents, particularly benzodiazepines and barbiturates, induce fast or beta (β) rhythms, and the EEG may be a useful pointer to drug intoxication when this is clinically unsuspected. from http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/76/suppl_2/ii8.full
The irony is that the religious tend to be extremely educated and in history served as teachers of many things.

The Catholic Church believes in evolution (although its not exactly dogma). Pope John Paul II:

In his encyclical Humani Generis (1950), my predecessor Pius XII has already affirmed that there is no conflict between evolution and the doctrine of the faith regarding man and his vocation, provided that we do not lose sight of certain fixed points.... Today, more than a half-century after the appearance of that encyclical, some new findings lead us toward the recognition of evolution as more than a hypothesis. In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different scholarly disciplines. The convergence in the results of these independent studies—which was neither planned nor sought—constitutes in itself a significant argument in favor of the theory.

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

Dual Masters, Higher than avg IQ, & Catholic.
I use a similar program that is called ManicTime:

http://www.manictime.com/

I can't recall what I didn't like about RescueTime, but the free version of ManicTime gives me a very good breakdown for my purposes.

FWIW, I spend on average close to 2 hours a day (of 10 hours in my office) browsing the web, and only 2/3 hours of real productivity (I hate my job).
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I'm sorry, am I the only one that isn't impressed by this? I'm actually quite stunned that they are treating this like some new discovery. Pop onto HN any day and see thousands of people talking about cloud. Hell, some local IT staffing agency in my area has a billboard about cloud servers.

Cloud is mainstream now, why did it take TPB so long to catch up?

//Sorry if it sounds like trolling
I live in Belgium, where the Pirate Bay has been banned, and ISPs have to redirect request for TPB to a government notice page through DNS.

Nobody uses the old domains, but there are many mirrors, and people still use TPB, maybe even more than before. A lot of people just know the IP by heart, too.
Hmm, it seems to me that for any task small enough to be appropriate for this site, it will be more work to describe the task and verify the result than to just perform the task.

This leads us to those who don't have the capabilities to do the task: They will risk asking for the impossible (the syllable counting task[1]) or accepting the unacceptable (the ZIP-code form solution includes a PHP script with a gaping security hole).

1: So this task has been requested by 'bevan' who appears to be the founder of the site, and in a comment dumbed down to only having to work for the given set of tests - the given solution will be little better than just manually counting the syllables.
Ben is pretty much 100% consistent in his essays when using the feminine as his default gender for a CEO. Like his love of hip hop, it's just one of the elements of his style.
My favor part of the article is where he talks about landing Pepsi as a client - granted he hustled a bit, but a major reason for the success was that his neighbor was friends with the CMO on Linkedin. So, his hustle helps, but without the network, he likely wouldn't have gotten anywhere. Nothing wrong with that - that's the way life tends to work, but that's not exactly something that anyone can replicate in trying to land a major brand.
Can you quantify what is wrong with the final user experience? Hating on default bootstrap themes seems to be little more than snobbery.
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Hi! Thanks for your reply. Yes, we're targeting a global audience but it will take time to get there. We're also in the process of changing the name and specifying the serevice description just to make it clearer. We're a team of six but only two of them are in charge of marketing and further development. Thank you again. What about the overall idea of the service - do you find in interesting?
Bootstrap. Please don't make its usage so obvious.

Also, is there a way to see only unsolved bounties? Seems like a main feature to me for programmers.
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Thanks for the feedback. There isn't a way to see only the unsolved bounties (adding that soon), but there is only one and it's on the front page. There were a couple unanswered ones a long time ago but they have expired.
I think the issue with the UI can be traced down to his/her choice of using the default hero-unit on top, and the colors of the buttons. Change the color of the hero-unit so that the grey is not so obvious. Also, change the colors of the buttons from the default bootstrap blue to the lighter blue used in the nav bar on top or some other color that matches. The color of the primary button is just ugly.
Step 1 - What if their domain is shut down through registry?

This will cut short most of the users who do not remeber IP by heart.

Step 2 - go after static IP and shut it down through ISP.

This will cut the remaining users who remeber old IP by heart.

If executed simultaneously...
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It is probably because of one of the following reasons:

- The team is primarily technical with no design experience

- Followers of "Release Early and Iterate"

- Minimalism in design to focus on content

It is unfair to judge a book by its cover. Twitter bootstrap is godsend for many to create a website or webapp.
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According to the article the main vulnerability would be the load-balancer, which is hosted separately. Traffic between it and the cloud instances is encrypted, so that the cloud providers don't actually know they're hosting The Pirate Bay.
It's an increasingly technical digital game of whack-a-mole, and the mole has completed another burrow.

There are still technical measures that could be taken with-in one country. Eg. automated null-routing of A records for thepiratebase.se (and then do it N-times a second).
This - and if I'm the competitor who paid for the event, I'm asking for money back or a credit on a future event. I've actually seen this done with success. So for them it is definitely a money losing situation caused by Virool.

Can't say I've ever seen someone banned for doing something like this - and events seem to always have someone doing something controversial - so I don't see it happening. More likely a "stern talking to" as my Dad would say. Imagine if Virool got huge and came back the next year wanting to by a 20x20 booth - I doubt anyone is going to stop them.

Ultimately, that's why people do controversial tactics - little downside to doing them.
That's a much better answer.
I am confused. The site headlines "Set up a product tour" - but then it looks like a set of fancy tool tips and jQuery UI covers a lot of that ground.
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All it takes is for some political body to lean heavily enough on the TLD registry. .se and .org are no more invulnerable to this than .com
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The poll doesn't tell us much (breakdown by location and project size would be helpful). But I'm still surprised at the number of sub $1000 dollar websites that are being built. These developers must be cranking out a site a week.
Do you believe that most people know what Bootstrap is? Enough to recognize it on sight? And that they care enough to not use a site that was built with it?

And of those people, are they the kind of people who would find a site like this one useful? That is, are you saying that in your opinion, this site will suffer noticeable financial consequences of having used Bootstrap and not sufficiently disguised it? And that that lost revenue would offset the costs of changing the design?

I'm not sure that I can agree with you if that's the point you're trying to make.
We see lots of stories about people running on EC2 and similar services, but the big players are all pretty straight-laced; witness the speed with which Amazon kicked off Wikileaks [1] - within about three days.

I don't know how many cloud hosing providers there are - to judge from the way people talk here there's only EC2 and maybe Linode. You'd need a lot of providers if you need a new one every 3 days!

[1] http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/12/amazon-drops-wikil...
"If you don’t want to be great, then you never should have started a company"

My goal behind starting company is not to be great, but to do something i like most.

Am i missing something ?
"Programmers compete to provide solutions within 1 week."

Sounds like logo contests: spend your time on work that you might not get paid for. And given mseebach's[1] "accepting the unacceptable" - people without the capability to write these small code tasks themselves are not qualified to evaluate proper solutions.

1 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4663884
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> Isn't the pivot point in standard quicksort randomized?

Quicksort isn't standardized. Randomization is a common approach, both then so are median of 5, middle and first datums.
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It would be matter of hours, maybe minutes, before a new domain and IP were up and running and thousands of blogs and news sites all over the internet would report on TBP's new location.
I love this idea. I'm going to bookmark it and give it a shot when I get stuck on something that I need done in a hurry.

My thoughts:
1. The bootstrap theme is fine imo, unlike what others are saying. I'm assuming this is an MVP to see if you can get traction, and in this case the functionality is more important than the aesthetics. You'll obviously want to change this later on though.

2. Let me filter open bounties, or at least move those to the top of the list.

3. Your tag filters don't look like they are working properly. If I click 'javascript' for instance, I only get one record.

4. Can we set custom time limits? For small coding tasks, I don't want to wait a week to have them done.
Maybe IBM is just a shitty company, but finance doesn't work this way. All the H1-B holders I know make a lot of money and have freely switched jobs multiple times.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree that not all coding tasks are appropriate for Bountify, and that there'll always be potential pitfalls whenever you outsource bits of work. But I'm hopeful coders will recognize those pitfalls and learn to use the tool effectively. Let me know if you have any ideas on how to mitigate those risks you mentioned.

By the way, if there's a security hole in the accepted solution to https://bountify.co/B, you should post a better one or even just mention it- I might tip you for it! :)
How many launches per year?

I don't see the economics here. Not with expendable, not with reusable.

Plus, if you have fewer big engines, you can't land on them as their thrust is too high.
The lack of a guarantee of payment may dissuade some potential solution providers. However, I think most users provide solutions for fun. At least one repeat user can't even accept Paypal payments in his country. BTW, you can also send your winnings to charity if you wish.
It doesn't have to be completely new to be interesting.

TPB's case is slightly different from most cloud setups, in that their primary need is mobility not scalability. So, where most cloud backends will try to be as tight as availability and pricing allows, TPB wants and needs to spread across (or be ready to move to) as many different providers, datacenters and countries as possible.
All valid and I'm enjoying the discussion but I would address the points as:

1) Sure at the moment, and it will be difficult to match economies of scale with the oil industry, but the amount of research money going into hydrogen production at scale is enormous. It's only getting cheaper, and while 'The Hydrogen Economy' has been promised since the 70s and hasn't yet arrived, it's definitely coming. I'm sort of thinking about this debate in a 10+ years out sense rather than right now, I admit.

2&3. Sure, but that only becomes a smaller problem as rockets get bigger (i.e. very heavy launchers such as this one being proposed) and the cube/square law works in your favour (i.e. tank volume increases faster than frontal area to which the drag is proportional). T/W is often limited anyway by payload constraints rather than rocket engineering constraints, especially in manned systems. Doesn't matter if the vehicle can do 5G off the tower, the people inside it can't.

4) 'Embrittels' I would guess? Anyway, it occurs in most metals but certainly not all metals and very certainly not "everything it touches". This is the clue for the way out of this problem. I obviously couldn't show you a hydrogen engine with the same track record as no operational hydrogen oxygen engines have been built with a clean sheet using what we know today. That said, a few are being designed precisely as we speak for very long life operation in reusable vehicles. I don't think the chickens have come in to roost yet.
This case is not 'the wrong thing'. The wrong thing is selling this data to criminals, or not publishing it at all because odds are someone else is going to find it eventually.

What you're calling "the right thing" isn't zero cost. It takes a fair bit of time (spaced out over a period of months, by the way, so it's not a fire and forget it report) to report a vulnerability to microsoft and follow up with their security team. More so if your vuln is at all interesting or complex. You may have to write PoCs. Your vulnerability will be patched in 4-6 months (not exaggerating, although this will obviously be quicker if it's made the news somehow), and you'll get a minute credit in their patch tuesday notes.

So no, the morality of this is not obvious. Where is my moral obligation to effectively do charity work for a megacorp that can't be bothered to keep up with industry standards in security?
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