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Finding freelancer peers to sub-contract and refer work to. When you're overflowing with work, it's more difficult than ever to find people through events / traditional slow networking, and there's no good online alternative.

I wish there were a site that wasn't transaction-focused, that provided a way to find people with specific skill sets, and that provided search / profile data that was specific to freelancers vs job seekers (e.g. what's your hourly rate? what's your availability? are you looking for sub-contracting / referrals / collaborations?). And most importantly, that connected to the social graph and provided a good reputation system. If the people I've worked with before aren't available, the next best is people they've worked with before, and rated positively.
For many many years we ran our own DNS servers using PowerDNS with MySQL backends. That's all fine and well and it's a very powerful architecture and relatively reliable and strong to even high amounts of traffic... that was until we started regularly seeing 10Gbps+ DDoS attacks, so we put a DDoS protection service in front of the sites, but there wasn't really anything at the time capable of protecting the DNS servers as well.

So a few months go by, everything has been fine and then another DDoS hits. Looking through the web-servers, not hitting there, all is fine. Study firewall traffic through the network and note that the majority of incoming traffic (that was making it through to the network that is), was headed to the DNS servers. The attackers were sending the DDoS to the DNS servers, requesting some of our root domains and given that it appeared as valid traffic there was not much to be done to filter any of it. The easy solution in this case happened to be blocking all Chinese and Russian IP's for a couple days which mitigated enough of it to solve. After that, we stopped hosting our own DNS.

Moral of the story: DNS services are a great learning tool to use and PowerDNS is probably where you want to start, but at scale you may or may not want to actually run your own.
Sure, but if you don't screw up the force rebuild, the data is still there.

I mean, if I've got a RAID5 with one bad drive, and I pull one of the good drives, the thing is going to immediately hang hard. You can boot the thing into single user mode and force-reassemble it, and you get the data back (well, mostly. you certainly would get all the data loss you'd get when yanking the power)

That said, all my arrays are lit all the time, meaning that even without the red 'bad drive' lights (which I haven't gotten working yet with md) if you just avoid pulling drives with active activity lights, you are good.

Another trick I've tried is labeling the face of the hot swap caddy with the last 4 digits of the serial number of the hard drive. When I put in the ticket to pull the drive, I mention the last 4 of the serial.

(but that hasn't really gotten off the ground, mostly due to a lack of level 1 lackies.)

Right now I do most of the hard drive swaps myself, so it isn't a huge deal, but it is something I devote quite a lot of thought too; if I could use remote hands, I'd be ahead of the game, but most datacenter remote hands folks... well, lets just say that they seem to see 'foolproof' as a challenge.
> "The rules," as you so aptly scare-quote, are not there solely to govern the actions of a single human being. They are there so that the system, as a whole, functions. A word exists for this: society.

That's an interesting equation there. Society = rules? I don't agree with you. Society = agreements. Generally agreements are two-sided. The kind of society where rules are decided by some nebulous organisation that does not respond to argument or criticism and expects everyone to follow them blindly is certainly not a society I wish to partake in.

Being free does not give you license to discard that which you, in your own self, deem insensible when you are existing in a space where anyone but yourself exists. You operate in a world with billions of other humans, each with competing goals and diverging motivations.

None of my actions are impinging on the freedom of others. Of course, my freedom to move my fist stops where the next person's nose begins - but I have not, in my original post, made any suggestions that I would do something that would hurt someone else.

The least you can do is play by the rules that we, as a group, have decided are the compromise.

I think a simple invocation of Godwin's law will demonstrate how retarded this point is. HELLO! YOU ARE A HUMAN BEING! YOU HAVE A BRAIN! YOU DO NOT, EVER, HAVE THE EXCUSE OF SAYING "WELL, THAT WAS AGREED BY OTHERS".

Either that, or you're not a free human being. Your choice, in either case.

As a bit of site commentary, I notice your post getting more and more grey as people remove points because they disagree. In this instance, I added a point because, though I disagree, I think that your post is a useful addition to the commentary.

Thank you. That is sensible behaviour that, incidentally, contradicts your point about rule. Clearly the majority of people who voted on this issue also felt that I deserved to be downvoted. Why you decided to go against the obvious rule of the crowd is beyond me, but I am nevertheless grateful!
In a representative democracy, we look to our leaders to evaluate conditions and legislate (or not legislate) based on what we hope is the same or better information than we have at the time. The Internet was new to most, but being explored commercially, in 1993. At the time, security was a major consideration that people were still trying to figure out, but encryption was a part of that conversation.

I am saying that in this case Biden either failed to collect information about what was going on at the time, or did collect that information and purposely wanted to stifle the innovation that was occurring. Either way, regardless of politics, these are not displays of the intelligence I expect from an elected leader.
Hold your fucking horses. I'll get to replying to these points as I work my way down the thread. Geesh. Have some patience.
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What you're describing is a world with major leagues only. The farm leagues are what drops away, and over time, the whole thing weakens.

People at the top right now got their starts in the 1990's Indy boom. What you're seeing now is like the light from a distant galaxy. My point is that the commensurate runway for the here and now is caving in on itself.

"But Merchandising" is the worst argument ever, since the range of material that can work in this paradigm is astonishingly narrow.

Also, you're not getting reliable information from TorrentFreak. I'm sorry, but these people just aren't going to give you straight story. If they had any integrity, they'd account for inflation (adjusting for that, and the peak Box Office year was actually 2002). Also, they wouldn't cherry-pick by limiting their analysis to box office revenues while ignoring the declines from every other sales channel.

Here's a much more realistic look at what life is really like: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/28/business/la-fi-ct-fi.... Again, this is the future you're looking at. The starvation that's setting in at this level is what people who care about the future of these mediums should be focused on.

What's really awful about this is that vector for piracy isn't people swapping stuff among themselves. Personally, I don't have a problem with that. That's like playing music at parties. It's part of human life. The issue is sites that aggregate pirated content to make money selling advertising. Those are the people I want to see thrown in jail. And I want to fine the living shit out of the advertisers who appear there. Not that they chose the outlets - that's the work of their ad buyers who are invariably third parties. The point is to drive those fuckers out of business too by making sure advertisers suffer enough pain to ensure that their ads aren't being served on illegitimate sites. Once they start having to pay serious fines, they'll stop doing business with people who can't guarantee that their ads won't show up in shitty places.

Again, this isn't some guy sharing a DVD with his father-in-law. This is people building building layers of commercial enterprise around the amazing "free" resource that is pirated IP.

I'm sorry, but no fucking way. And this doesn't require an Orwellian police state to deal with. People making money in this scenario all have corporate offices and return addresses (e.g. Grooveshark). All that's needed is an arrest warrant and a hearing.
Does any functional example of this architecture exists?
Let us not forget the little considered other cause which usually takes out your tape infrastructure as well: fire.

One outfit I worked decided to stick a brand new APC UPS in the bottom of the rack as it was in their office. It promptly caught fire and burned the entire rack out. The fire protection system did fuck all as well other than scare the shit out of the staff. Scraping molten cat5 cables off with a paint scraper was not fun.

Fortunately it was all covered by the DR procedure. Tip: write one and test it. That's more important than anything.
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Unfortunately I have to deal with both, but you're 100% right, those are definitely different categories.
Ask HN: Equivalent of "Learn X the Hard Way" for Javascript?
I've enjoyed working through Zed Shaw's "Learn C the Hard Way" as a way of refreshing my C skills; while I can't vouch for this method's effectiveness for beginning programmers, it's been great for me to re-familiarize myself with a language I haven't touched in a while. I'm looking forward to trying the same thing with Ruby (as I only have a "working knowledge with Chef" of that language).

Is anyone aware of a similar set of decent-quality building-up lessons for Javascript?
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I bought bulk-size toilet paper at a Target in St. Louis and the cashier taped a plastic handle to it as she rang it up. Fear not - the US is still advancing the state of the art in toilet paper delivery.
Philanthropy and charity aren't the same thing.

I think they're more alike than different. They have in common the act of giving for the benefit of others. From the Oxford English Dictionary:

Charity. a) Beneficence; liberality to or provision for those in need or distress; alms-giving. b) Money, a gift, or other assistance to relieve need or distress. c) A trust, foundation, organization, etc., for the benefit of those in need or distress; such trusts, etc. viewed collectively.

Philanthropy. Love of human kind; the disposition or effort to promote the happiness and well-being of one's fellow people; practical benevolence.

The difference between the Gates Foundation and other charities is not that it does "philanthropy" rather than "charity"; it's that it operates on a much larger scale and with a greater emphasis on measurement and accountability than do most other charities.
Thanks for the response. I'm aware nobody can answer this for me, but like all problems, the more I talk through it, the clearer the answer appears. This is just another way to help myself get there.

My wife actually wants to move there, but I'm not convinced that's not just a grass-is-always-greener reaction. Either way, that is an important factor as well.

It's good to get grounded about the excitement of potential success; thanks for making that point.
The countdown is usually for new releases, but I wasn't expecting one until 13.04 in April. So what's this about?
Assuming it is iQ for example,i would guess that +4 sigma would mean 4*15=60 above the mean,which if you take as 100 gives 160.I would welcome a better clarification of this.
Really? From the first scene, is it so hard to predict "One of the diners has a gun, but will let the robbers go?"

But seriously, I see what you're saying: Pulp Fiction has a multilayered narrative that is complex and consistently surprising. And I think it's a good one to highlight my point that it's the journey, not the destination, and that "can you predict the ending" is a silly classifier.
I have plenty of respect for flight attendants, actually. I actually do wear my seatbelt through the whole flight, and will of course do whatever they directly order me to. I am polite to a fault, and would never get angry at a flight attendant even if they walk past and ask me to "turn off my kindle".

So, yes, I do respect flight attendants, as people.

With that out of the way, I don't respect their authority to decide whether a kindle can interfere with aircraft electronics. So I disregard their suggestion to that effect, I have no respect for their authority to make that suggestion. Of course, I still put my kindle away when asked to, but I know I'm being asked to do something nonsensical and every fiber of me, as a free human being, is annoyed by the stupidity of it, and although I respect the request from another human out of politeness, I do not respect the authority behind that rule.
I'm really, really left-wing, but Common Dreams does not belong on Hacker News.

EDIT: Before anyone asks, I already flagged it before commenting.
I don't know about painful, but I realized that I should focus on creating an internet company rather than a start-up. The stuff reported on techcrunch may get pageviews, but i realized it in no way relates to me or what I'm trying to achieve.
As bad as this solution is, I'd choose this form of user identification (id photographed and uploaded) over the last 5-10 captchas I have done. They have been killers for me lately, and one took a day of on and off trying to get past.
I'm from Russia and I tell you he's serious. I've been asked that a few times.
If you're bored, you're not paying attention
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Facing a similar problem, there is an art exhibit somewhere that shows the complete contents of a hard drive (1TB as I recall), every single 1 and 0 (yes, at bit level, written as 1s and 0s). Details escape me, but I did see it in the last year. It was surprisingly readable, printed on the walls.
> I'd personally love it if society had more people like swombat, rather than fewer.

You might feel differently if you lived next to a rule breaker who had no concept of noise nuisance.

"The Collector Collector" (Tibor Fischer) is a fun read; relevant here because he describes quite nicely the sense of entitlement that some criminals feel.
Yep. Feels like a quick cash-grab on a piece of work that's beta, at best.
Why VC is killing innovation - and what to do about it
Maybe the bottom half of the screen is reserved for a menu/dashboard. At my house, we have two TV's that have computers attached, and it would be nice to browse media files while still watching full screen without resorting to plugging in a separate VGA monitor (which I haven't done yet).
Agreed. This belongs on reddit/r/politics.
I was shocked to find out that the node package for CentOS is not actively maintained anymore...
Given that poor posture seems, at least in my case, to be a lack of good habit, how did you address this part? The exercises are intentional and engage the mind actively. But bad posture is what I do when I'm not paying attention... this seems particularly important if the OP is correct in stating that exercise will improve already good posture and further degrade bad.
Funnily enough, those are all things I don't do. I keep my seatbelt on during the flight, and I don't actually pick up my bag during taxying because it's pointless (there's a long wait after the plane stops anyway). And, as pointed out elsewhere, when asked something directly by an attendant, I do it, out of politeness if nothing else.

How many flight attendants have observed a plane crashing because of an iPhone? Zero.

I have no respect for those kinds orders, for which they have no authority except that handed down by an organisation that has proven relatively stupid when it comes to that topic.
The only other alternative recommended by payment gateway, would be to ask you to fax your passport. The point is, to prove that you really do process the card, not getting it through some shady sites.

Try registering an hosting account on many "managed hosting" company, you are required to fax your passport to them. I will be offended if somebody asks me to do so.

Uploading credit card image is definitely less evil than faxing your passport.
I also had a RAID-5 array fail due to 3/4 drives failing near-simultaneously. All of the drives were from the same batch. Some months later, a friend came to me with a computer problem. Her drive had failed. I was able to take a look at the drive and, to my amazement, the drive was from the same batch! Based off of a wild hunch, I swapped the controller board from my one remaining good drive into my friend's drive. The drive worked fine and I was able to recover all her data! It is interesting that the drive failures were likely due to the fact that the drives were from from the same batch but also that fact probably allowed me to seamlessly swap the controller boards!
Clients changing schemas or replacing knowledgeable employees at critical stages of projects. Microsoft security issues, licensing and lack of vision with new products. Network and SAS provider outages. Technical debt at current PoE.
The ultimate goals section lists mainly things I've done in 2012. I've benefited hugely from every single one and can only recommend those things to anyone (especially becoming a better C programmer).
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Well, first of all I mistakenly assumed our VPS backups would be sufficient, but the first step is actually dumping the database every interval you'd like. If you don't dump it, you might end up with a corrupt database should you be relying on the VPS backups.

Then, we set up a process to zip the database dump and send it off to tarsnap. We delete the backup done 30 days ago each time we run.

It works fine for us, but I much prefer using Heroku and not having to worry about it :)
The bandwidth will cost less than twenty cents extra, probably far less (based on a rough estimate of S3 bandwidth costs, starting $0.12/GB down to $0.05 and under at scale). Because of peering agreements, it could actually be free. Yes, I realize there's more to it than that, but the cost difference is tiny at Apple's scale.

It also feels... scammy. "For just 25% more, you can have the version that doesn't suck!" That kind of attitude does not make me want to do business with them. Of course, this is just as much the fault of the last five years of TV marketing talking about how awful anything SD is, when in practicality it's more than adequate unless you have an absurdly large screen.
> You might feel differently if you lived next to a rule breaker who had no concept of noise nuisance.

I'm sure he would. As it happens, I am not typically a noise creator - but you are, today, downvoting my post and then replying to it within a minute of me posting it. I've kindly returned the favour.
Charities in general have almost no effect on the ground.

That's an extremely bold statement. Do you have any evidence to back it up?

Counterexamples are numerous: Carnegie libraries [1], needle exchanges[2], the Gates Foundation [3].... the list is long.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library

[2]: http://www.avert.org/needle-exchange.htm

[3]: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx
This is an amazing exegesis of how venture capital works, how deeply broken it has become and why an entrepreneur needs to be educated before taking VC money.

I wish I had seen this before I took institutional money, as it would have saved me so much angst. It's slow, but the insights just blew me away.
The (paper) manual to Netscape Navigator. Ran through some basic HTML and from there I went on to more (paper) books and started a Geocities site.
who doesn't love a good heatmap?
Good point. Updated title accordingly!
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True, but in an emergency, the FAA probably wouldn't make a fuss :)
So far moment.js seems to be the best solution for me.
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> and would never get angry at a flight attendant even if they walk past and ask me to "turn off my kindle".

Kindles can be turned off; they also have an airplane mode. Kindles can send and receive WIFI and sometimes 3G traffic. Kindles are electronic devices.

Perhaps the rules are dumb but at least they're consistently dumb.

> So, yes, I do respect flight attendants, as people.

Okay, that's something you should probably have mentioned earlier.

> I don't respect their authority to decide whether a kindle can interfere with aircraft electronics.

They don't have the authority - that's the point. They merely enforce the (potentially dumb) rules given to them. The consequences to them and their employers for not enforcing the rules are severe. They might lose their job. Their company might be fined.

In general you don't want people to need to make assessments. Otherwise you get Ann saying it's fine for your kindle to be in sleep mode and Bob telling you you're going to be taken off the plane unless you turn it off. And if you do give these people that power you also need to give them the training, and the wage rise for the increased responsibility. That cost goes directly to you when you buy a ticket.
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That would be what the article points out as "funded by a restaurant and beverage industry lobbyist". That industry has an interest in keeping the minimum wage lower.
What gets made is what people want.

We didn't get flying cars at $250,000/car. We got 140 characters for free because that's what people wanted. We didn't get hoverboards, not for lack of technology, but it just turned out that we wanted to search the world's knowledge with Google.

We're frogs in boiling water, not knowing just how innovative we're becoming as a people. And sci-fi writers are just bad (or as bad as typical entrepreneurs) at guessing what people want.