skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix does use failover. Failover is to multiple availability zones - which is the mechanism that AWS provides. This particular outage was due to a major failure with Amazon's ELB service.
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Thanks, yummyfajitas - exactly what I would have said. If you can't do a pushup, then can you do a pushup against a wall? When you can do that with good form, then you lower the angle so you're pushing more of your bodyweight.

The logic works the other way, too, for increasing difficulty. Can you do 3 sets of a hundred one-armed pushups? Well, start climbing your feet up the wall!

If you can do free-standing one-hand vertical pushups without strain, I've got nothing for ya. Go ahead and start vert pressing 600 pounds. Also, try out for the Olympic weightlifting team--the gold medal should be easy!
Ask HN: Can anyone distribute GPLv3 app without attribution under project name?
A friend created CutePress [1], a GPLv3 mobile app that is a client to WordPress. Some guy ported that app to BlackBerry [2] as part of some competition but the person did not give attribution to my friend's project, though at least a link to the ported source code was provided.

My question is, if an app is GPLv3, can anyone get away without pointing to the source code, providing patches or link to their fork, the original project's website, author info. Further can anyone distribute under the same name and use icons/images which may not be necessarily under GPLv3?

[1] http://code.google.com/p/cutepress

[2] https://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/20079187/?lang=en
Business favours the open mind
Semi-conscious, if I recall correctly, covers a wide range of responsiveness. She was unable to stand and slow to respond to questions but was well-oriented w.r.t. person, place and time. Drinking water wasn't a problem. The possible danger is that they'll vomit it up after passing out, or that they have some issue that requires emergency surgery. Now you've put something in their stomach that they might vomit during surgery, which is somewhat dangerous. But she had signs of dehydration so I did it.

In retrospect I should have given her honey or the like just in case she was having her first ever diabetic shock.
I foresee a flop.
If I could only program in HTML/CCS/JS I think I'd change careers.
This was a Pittsburgh jury that decided in favor of a Pittsburgh institution against a Silicon Valley company. I'd imagine the results would be a bit different if the trial took place in San Francisco.
Neat idea, but:

mv .bash_profile ~/.bash_profile

No thanks, I have my own things in there.
Guess that makes him a 'growth hacker' :-)

More seriously though, I think it was targeted at folks who are currently not in a startup and are wondering about them, as told from the perspective of someone made the leap. When I left Sun for a startup I got a lot of the same sorts of questions from my friends who were still at Sun and had there been a blogging infrastructure then I might have written a similar piece as a sort of FAQ for them.
>There are tons of studies showing that IP law hampers innovation and not a single one showing it aids it.

I hope you're not implying that a lack of studies proves that patents don't encourage innovation. The explanation is simply the difference in motivation for parties on either side.

I would like to see some of these studies that show IP laws hamper innovation in general. All the ones I've seen do no such thing. It's easy to cherry pick certain fields and then try to extrapolate to patents as a whole.

The pharmaceutical industry is still the prime case for patents. When a drug takes a billion dollars to reach market, a government granted monopoly can be the only thing that makes it profitable to even bother. Please explain how a system without patents can produce the same drugs while still being possible.
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Ability to learn (to extract and apply knowledge on the go).
I'm surprised. I expected to read -- or read between the lines -- about assembly. They are at least talking about more than just assembly.
Indeed the UK had a couple of Hanseatic ports, in London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelyard and King's Lynn.

I don't understand people who think a trading nation can survive outside a free trade area either.
This may have been a lucky break. Google keyword tool suggests that "how a car works" is 1) low competition 2) 135,000 global 3) 60,500 local. This is an amazing and rare find, most keywords like this are already well picked over by niche site creators - also from the looks of it you were the first registrant in 2011.
Doesn't seem too likely to me, or at least it would be a fairly significant reversal of Apple's approach to things. It's such a niche market. That's not the kind of space Apple cares to play in it. Where's the opportunity for the kind of mass-market world changing that Apple likes to focus on?
Thanks for that - I thought long and hard and missed Finland. That was a fascinating little bit of politics that went on there - and now I'm off to read more on it.
I'm probably a special case, but I am not a fan of gmail, it just doesn't work for me. Too many false spam positives, not enough tuning available to work around brokenness. I run my own email, it works great, less experienced dataloss and much less data leakage as well. I find email on mobile tedious, it doesn't work for me and especially on touchscreens. Fix that problem and you might have something.
I've heard this quote a lot. Carrying a loaded weapon is a MASSIVE responsibility. It's really scary at first, but you can learn to do it effectively and safely with enough training. The training is critical.
This is my feeling exactly. People seem to over analyze various approaches to fitness and diet to the point that it becomes un-productive. There is not a magic bullet workout or diet - in fact lots of different workouts and diets will have a positive effect if you stick with them. We are so obsessed with micro-optimizing that we miss the big picture.

I would add some general principles with regards to diet that could benefit most people. Reducing or eliminating processed foods and sugar, for example, can benefit anybody. Maintaining a reasonable proportion of fats, protein and carbohydrates is another.
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There is no secret to getting fit!

You can't be "sold" fitness. It doesn't come in a barbell or a bosu ball or on the track or in the pool. It's not in your food and it's not in the mind of a trainer. It's definitely not a recipe, WOD, set, game, trail, or pitch.

Want to get fit? Get off your goddamn ass three times a week, eat healthy, proportional meals, and get your doctor to evaluate you. That's it. I have nothing else to say because that is fitness.

--

That being said, this whole article is fucking ridiculous as it purports to tell you that lifting a ton makes you "fit". For me personally, I know i'm "fit" when I can do real-world exercise without getting exhausted. Running a mile in 7 minutes, hiking a medium-to-hard trail, pulling myself up over a ledge/fence, climbing a tree, or sparring for three minutes without falling over. Those are my fitness tests.

Those are my fitness tests, though, not yours. Make fitness personal and work towards your own goals - not something Men's Journal tells you is right for you.
What I mean is the people at the DMV, IRS, and county assessors are total strangers and have no connection to me. Giving them access to my information, publicly available or not, is no different than handing it out to any arbitrary members of the public.

I have no reason to trust them any more than I trust anybody else. Saying, "They won't misuse the data because it's their job not to," is as comforting as "Nobody will misuse the data because it would be illegal."
which in turn lets them know not to trust the receiver.

Which is why I find this stuff sort of funny.
Uh, what's the problem with Turkey?
I'd wager that they also can't name the fastest growing economy in the United States. What of it?
Move over Marsha: Top Ten for 2012
If I'm planning to burglarize a home, and I know that a given house has armed inhabitants, I'll probably rob the neighbors.

(Of course, if my goal is to steal an untraceable gun for later use in a crime, this map would come in very handy...)
There is no other registrar with terms like that. None, at least among the well-known ones. A code of ethics against deviant use of the internet is not a standard contract term. Only Gandi has it.

Here are several hundred examples for you: http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/products-and-services/regis...
The evidence in that article seems quite weak to me. It reads like an opinion piece - it nicely fits some statistics into a narrative, but it hardly seems like a conclusive demonstration that "medical patents have caused regressions in innovation".
The phrase "absolutist position on the Fourth Amendment" is oxymoronic. The 4th amendment does not say: "you can't search Americans without a warrant and probable cause." It says "searches can't be unreasonable and also warrants require probable cause."

Interpretation of the 4th amendment has to give due weight to the wiggle word "unreasonable" as well as the historical understanding of what kind of searches required a warrant and what kind of searches do not.
There appears to be a lot of disgruntlement about rails lately. I like Rails but switched to Sinatra about 5 years ago b/c I didn't like Rails 2 and realized that the Rails APIs were a lot less stable than I'd expected.

DHH is right, there is no reason to complain.
It is not FUD. If someone wants to steal a gun they now have a list of soft targets from which to choose.

It reminds me of the furor that erupted when someone used 4square and twitter APIs to create a map of homes for which the owner was traveling. Wasn't it calked rob me or something?

In that case API access was terminated because the use violated the terms of service. Creating a map to promote breakins isn't something twitter or 4square does. I can see researchers or auditors having a valid use case for obtaining a list of weapons permits but a journalist/activist who just wants to disrupt the peace? Pretty dumb decision by the local authority or more probably one motivated by the politics of some local bureaucrat wanting to "make a difference" and abusing their authority.
One of my EMS instructors: "On scene, any person claiming to be a physician should be assumed to be a dermatologist or proctologist until proven otherwise."
Dump Gmail for Outlook.com? Four reasons you might
The potential impact of the fiscal cliff on your paycheck
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...
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Opioids are rarely in RSI.

RSI uses a sedative and a paralytic. The sedative is almost always a benzodiazapine, and occasionally a dissociative or hypnotic sedative like ketamine or etomidate.

Morphine would be a _very_ poor choice for a sedative in an RSI protocol.
It's amazing how many from the USA insist that the inner diversity in the USA is comparable to the one in Europe. I've heard this many times, namely here in HN. It is not comparable. PERIOD.

Even if the poster goes a bit to the extreme of bringing Russia in to the conversation, even inside the EU, there is still no comparison on how how diverse Europe is (e.g. Portugal to Norway, Greece to France, Spain to Germany) compared to the USA. Some countries, like Austria and Germany do have some similarities, but - to the untrained eye - Canada and the USA will seem relatively similar also, when compared to Mexico!
> Only some of the LARGEST countries, for a total of 332 million people. Not to mention that he did say "most".

332 million is less than half of Europe's population. That's not "most of Europe" by any stretch.

> It's not like someone will go to invest blindly to the _geographic region_ that is Europe. He will most likely go to what is called Western Europe, or the EU.

Even Western Europe has huge differences in buying power (contrast Germany with Spain, e.g.). You mention the EU... The EU includes Eastern European countries such as Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, etc.

Point is, facts matter - especially if you're building a business.
Sure, but this device won't help in those situations either. But point taken.
No, the possible danger is that they'll aspirate the water and you'll compromise their airway. Sounds like she wasn't semi-concious though, just tired, and maybe a little lethargic.
I think it depends on what the intended use is. A watch would be a waste of time. But I suspect this device will primarily be used for easily composing and viewing text messages without taking one's phone from one's pocket/purse. I expect texting will soon be the dominant form of communication.
And you can make the exact same comments about any country in Europe.
Thanks Rand, makes sense!
Nathan, if you see this, have you thought about using AdWords to promote your books instead of using an affiliate network? I think it might be interesting to see if the CPA with AdWords or other online ads can be optimized to the point where it is cheaper than the CPA with affiliates.
peepcode and nettuts+ videos on backbone are great too. This book is definetly interesting and worth buying for beginner that want non trivial exemples and advices on how to work with client apps in general.
The ability to abstract, and play with those abstractions without having to materialize them
It won't, but there are several shockable rhythms that present as "pulseless" that can indeed be converted. AEDs will shock VF and VT, and manual defib can help with others.
I too am confused as to why the author has chosen to include their entire Bash configuration in this repository. As far as I can tell, this is the only interesting file:

https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/bashfinder/blob/master/.ba...

So you'd just want to rename this to something obvious like "osx-finder.bash" and source that file.
The End of the Public Phone Network
As someone who has been working for the better part of 2 years on a browser-based game, I hope your predictions come true. In particular I've found the blending of what's expected in typical web-apps and how games function to bo some of the more interesting benefits of approaching development from this angle.

The ability to seamlessly persist game state across devices is a powerful construct that really enables you to play everywhere. While being a simply useful mechanism, it also really helps users stay mentally engaged in the game experience if they can access it at any time. This fact builds upon itself if they can do so in small bite-sized chunks.

Additionally, the ease of acquisition of such games (we're using a DOM based approach, however, Canvas also applies here) is also a big win. We've seen our game gain tremendous traction in various offices where people wouldn't normally play games as you a) don't need to install anything and b) can play in 30 second intervals.

These two unique factors combined gives you a devious means to provide compelling game experiences regardless of where you and what type of computer you have access to.
"37Signals hasn't been the forefront of web-app design for a few years now."

Exactly.

This shift isn't just "single page web apps" either. It is a generational shift. When people say "apps" now, it isn't a "web app". For all the thousands of hours of experience DHH says he has, it is stuck in a very narrow view while the rest of the world has moved on.

That's ok though. The neat thing about open source is that developers and users do not have to suffer dinosaurs for long.

It does mean that I can no longer depend on my Rails skill to put food on the table. Recruiters, desperate for Rails developers, will no longer be knocking on my door. It's a good thing I've been laying in the groundwork for the inevitable irrelevancy of Rails.
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You cant set up a contract for the worktimes he is really working. It is illegal.
> Rails should be baking in support for creating API only apps, make it easy to shed template-driven code and write UX-agnostic backends. Mobile is driving a need for creating API-only apps, and something like Asset Pipeline is an evolutionary dead-end.

This has never been Rails' focus. Let Rails keep doing what it kicks ass at. Sinatra works great for API endpoints. There's probably an opportunity for an API-focused extension to Sinatra. Of course, Grape works too (https://github.com/intridea/grape).

The nice thing is that all of these are built on Rack now. GitHub.com runs as a Unicorn rack app that mounts over 30 Sinatra apps and a massive Rails app together. I'm not saying this is an optimal solution, it's just where the app is at in its current evolution. But it is very possible :)
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This was a very interesting article, given that I just experienced something similar.

Flight from SFO -> IAD last week. As soon as we took off, they asked for a doctor. He spent 2 hours treating the patient before they started drink service, and continued until we landed. We were all quite worried about the person, but found out at the end of the flight that they had overdosed on NyQuil. That made the whole ordeal fairly frustrating.
Depends where you are - In the area around the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, or in the Puget Sound, return of spontaneous circulation rates can approach 40+% for witnessed treatable arrythmias.
My most valuable classes were my electives.
Philosophy, Anthropology, & English Lit. especially.

My major was architecture, and the design classes gave me a sense of organization and elegant problem solving that are useful even as I build web apps for a living.

My drafting classes were useless - thank god I taught my self to use a pirated copy of AutoCAD at the time.

My classes in concrete and steel used large books of tables to look things up, which I am pretty sure can be easily handled by computers nowadays.

Data Structures and Algorithms would be the only thing from a traditional comp sci program I would have benefited from, I think, but I've done quite a bit of self directed learning in those areas, and am not worse off for it.

If I had it to do over again, I would've skipped school and tried to apprentice myself to people working on cool things instead. But I love to educate myself, and learn wherever I am. Some people are better off being guided, and those at upper-tier schools will benefit 90% from the connection they make, and 10% from the classes.
Wow, there is so much euro-hurt over that Varsavsky post that people are resorting to random nit-picking on the definition of Europe.
Yeah, I was looking to clarify if there was some sort of medical control available.

I know for a fact that some airlines do have an on-call physician (the medical director for my paramedic program was one years ago, in addition to providing state-wide medical control for all flight based EMS services), I was just curious if the OP's airline did.
Not only am I not a lawyer, but I'm especially not a constitutional lawyer.

It seems that you're right that the general concern is about Americans who communicate with targets abroad, not purely domestic communications. However, I recall discussion in the office about chilling effects re: international communications that would harm US academics' abilities to collaborate abroad, which is the only example I remember at this distance.

The original article: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?pa...

My interpretation of the EFF is that while intent matters, and the intent of existing programs is to primarily target internationally, without oversight, there's no distinction between international and domestic wiretapping. We have little sense of what wiretapping does go on because it's all overseen by secret FISA courts.

Here's the '09 report on domestic overcollection: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/us/16nsa.html?pagewanted=a...

I think the EFF's point is: what protections does a US citizen have against being caught up in these wiretaps, considering the known flaws of the program and its operators? That's where the Fourth Amendment comes into play and questions over probably cause and warrants.
That's roughly for the same reason that if you say Obama, you're not referring to one of his kids.
Hmm, perhaps there could be another approach. Like lying to the certain applications about the resolution of the 'screen', to return the dimensions of the primary monitor, and then map coordinate 0,0 to the location we want the app to start at.
It's not like the Apple watch will ever compete with a Rolex, Patek Phillipe, Parmigiani, Frank Muller or Cartier for example.

Unless Apple manages to build a Bluetooth complication. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complication_(horology)
But for agency type developers, where you are working on many different crud websites at once, you have different needs from a framework.

If you are starting your own startup then clearly you want to pick the individual libraries that best suit your problem. You have to deal with them for a long time and the payoff from a small improvement gets large. You write a little glue code and you are good to go.

If you are working on a large number of CRUD sites all the time then you want a stable set of libraries that cover most of the problems you will encounter and having scaffolding and other glue code replacing mechanisms is preferrable, even if they aren't as flexible or efficient or elegant as could have been done manually. When you write the same glue code over and over again you end up automating it, and generalizations have tradeoffs.

There is really no comparison between the framework needs of single site developers and developers working for a web agency or who are working on many sites or spinning up a few new sites a month.
It's also way easier to find people with experience using Cisco equipment in "moderately complex" environments than HP/Dell/Arista/Juniper/Force10/Foundry/Extreme/etc.
Wow, shocking that the plane did not have glucose tablets. I carry the gel in my luggage just in case since it's particularly common and so simple. I guess sugar is sugar, but manipulating gooey honey sounds a lot harder that squirting gel pack.

(Don't want to rant too much, but it irks me that TSA has, once or twice, confronted me on the things.)
Rails culture has always been about change. There is focus on backwards compatibility but its not job #1. If you can't change along with Rails, then you should not use it. DHH can do as he pleases because thats his framework. It powers his business. If he needs to change anything to fit his needs, then he will do so. Thats the culture of Rails.

I use Rails, and its a nice framework. But I'm not a fanboy. Its just another tool for the job. Just like Django, Symfony, Flask, Sinatra, Laravel, Slim, etc.

Now, I'm not getting into a pissing match with you. We are arguiing the same point, just from two different perspectives. I do agree that Rails 4 is mature enough. But the culture is not. And that's what keeps Rails from replacing shitty Enterprise frameworks. A shame because Ruby is fun to write and very powerful.
Think of it as a philosophy towards consumer computing hardware.
Thanks for sharing - I love reading these end of the year reviews.
Is anyone else suddenly craving some unagi?
It's all about scale. That is the point that almost everyone else is missing! The differences between New York and rural Idaho, in all, are smaller than the differences between Greece and Norway. They are however comparable to the differences between North and Southern Italy.

Scale
> It's as if someone talked about investing in the US, and someone felt obliged to blog about the differences between Illinois and New York and rural Idaho, Mississippi, Alabama and South Dakota.

Someone should do this. Like... actually write this post.