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No, he didn't check if this one bug was fixed. I mean, he could have done that without downloading pen test software - just by checking what he previously checked to discover the bug in the first place.

What he did do was download pen test software to automatically check the website for flaws AFTER BEING TOLD NOT TO. He went to every bus and checked every seat, door, window, engine, tire, seat belt for dozens of different flaws without permission.

And yes, pen test software can be destructive. It can put bad data in a database, crash a server, overrun log files, and corrupt things. Penetration testing is not a passive process.
for $108 / month you could have a very nice setup on any number of VPSs, RS, ec2, etc... you could have at least a 2GB setup either split between 2 hosts or all on one depending on how you plan on scaling... but really IMO if you plan on running anything for any matter of time beyond a (hey checkout my neat idea app) get off heroku and figure out how to setup your own systems, nginx/haproxy, etc... sure it's nice to focus only on the app side with heroku so learn stuff there but eventually unless you're getting funded - you'll need to know how to manage your own servers... just my thoughts.. and i do put lots of little projects on heroku but they're mostly none critical services... or ideas
Addons have no effect on dyno idling behavior.
Yea, there was one a little more than a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2502759

The guy organizing it doesn't seem to be around anymore, but could shoot him an email to check.
Adding insult to injury.
Wow... nice, Department of _Justice_.
Do that apply to justice to the dead to respect their memory?
Heroku don't hide this, it's in their documentation https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos#dyno-idling.

Imagine how many free apps are created that are never used again. Should Heroku really devote resources to these apps? I think it's perfectly reasonable to idle them after a period of inactivity. If they didn't, they would need more resources and ultimately the customers would be paying for that. They aren't a charity, they are a business.

It's pretty simple, if you don't want your app to idle out after 1 hour of inactivity, buy a dyno for $35 p/month.
Unfortunate color choices.

http://www.imgur.com/x8wCC8U.png

The same day as a post about about contrast.
No offense, but iStock Art isn't gonna' net you a solid brand if that's what you're looking for.

I'm not going to go through with this either way - this seems like a good deal for those that really don't have their feet wet with games or creating their own art. I graduated with a BA in art (graphic design), so I don't really trust a whole lot of people when it comes to them creating the graphics for my own products. They'd have to be damn good. No offense to Make Games With Us, but I could handle my own on this one for sure. Hopefully you get some good contestants and creative ideas though. Can't wait to see how it all turns out.
In my humble opinion, there must be some other process going on in the internals of heroku to keep my app idled. Please explain it to me if I'm wrong.
To anyone who is really interested in the subject, I recommend a book called "Night Falls Fast." It's available as an e-book.
Apparently you did need more than one, because that's what stops your app idling.

I see no problem with their support response, it was accurate.
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Thanks for pointing out these issues. This is a new blog for me.
Ask HN: How can I help my severely depressed significant other?
Tonight I was reading this HN thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5094277) in response to the Scientific American article on suicide. Both the article and the comments helped me to understand the depression that my fiance lives with every day. But I'm still lost. She continues to suffer the effects of depression and I don't have the knowledge to help her. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to do. And I don't know who to turn to. If you are depressed and someone helped you, please tell me how they did that. And if you have helped another person through depression, please tell me how. It hurts to watch a loved one suffer and to be so utterly incapable of helping.
The article mentions this, tangentially - human beings are the only species (we know of) capable of empathy and theory of mind, the ability to put yourself in another's shoes. And one side effect of that is the ability to feel shame, to feel like you're a worthless individual because of your effect on the group, which in pathological situations can result in eliminating yourself from the gene pool. It's not that there's a gene for suicide, it's that there're genetically-based traits like empathy, ambition, and pain-tolerance that when combined with a hostile environment can result in suicide. (One of Aaron Swartz's traits commonly referenced in his eulogies was how unusually empathetic he was.)

It's very well-documented that there are some genes that can be adaptive in some situations and fatal in others. For example, sickle-cell anemia is highly adaptive in sub-Saharan Africa where it confers immunity to malaria, yet results in debilitating blood clots when expressed in some individuals. Suicide is the mental version of this: not a genetic trait in itself, but a side-effect of a collection of genetic traits that are usually beneficial in isolation.
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Hi, i'm new to elearning. I want to create a platform for quiz with audio (like an English listenning exam TOEFL, TOEIC,...) on the web. I've heard about HTML 5 audio, could i use it to implement for all browsers ?
Thank you very much.
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So why not make ijkl the new standard? It has all the benefits of the "traditional" arrow key layout without losing the speed of staying on the home row.
Regardless of his slight misunderstanding of the technical side of things, he is correct when he says that you can be paying over $100 a month for a service and still be subject to dyno idling, which does seem pretty ridiculous, especially since Heroku takes a 30% cut of all add-on revenue (https://addons.heroku.com/provider/resources/HerokuAddonsLic...)
For me, reason has been a wonderful tool in continually circling me back to suicidal ideations. The worst part is when people who are not as strong as I am in logic and philosophy try to reason with me; usually they end up reluctantly agreeing, or worse, refusing to concede but obstinately arguing because they can't own up to it.

As of now, the most effective preventative measure for me has been focus. If I apply myself to thinking about something else, the problem goes away.
Don't overthink it. Scratch your own itch and create something. Since you have some perl background, create a useful utility and get it up on github. Do it again tomorrow, and keep going.

No utility is too small. You want to get into the ecosystem of reusable code and just getting out there. At some point (soon), your learning will go exponential.
He could be running long term processes in the background. You don't know :3
In the Swedish version, they just make up the commands.
This is the key imo, they are able to lower the cost to launch these into orbit because they are so small allowing them to be secondary or tertiary payloads on a rocket going up already.
How often are the pings? Do the pings wait for startup or timeout? A lot of filtering methods on the traffic data could ignore isolated pings as well. They don't have to be using on/off. They could be using a higher threshold. E.g. one ping every 10 minutes, just startup and handle it then shutdown. 10 page loads every 10 minutes? Startup and stay up for 10 minutes. It's weird to even call page loads pings rather than the actual traditional ping as well, but whatever.
I find some serious issues with the design, not in terms of aesthetics, but in terms of usability. I am a programmer, a web designer, a marketeer and a business guy.

don't ever let a programmer to tell you how a proper design should look like...

Don't ever let anyone tell you to ignore genuine feedback from anyone especially when he can be a potential user of your site. Focus on what the feedback is and if it is good for your project and not on the "profession" of the person who gave you feedback. Also, I have all the reasons to believe the person who you are giving this advice, who created this site, is also a programmer.
He's living a small dream of mine.
>Can you claim that the demographics here are even remotely close to the demographics among tech workers?

For voluntary attendance of a 2-year old's birthday? Yes, I'm claiming that the demographics are close, in the opposite.

I'd also like the add that the demographic of thinking people is equally balanced in terms of gender, and only culture tends to swing males and females different ways. I applaud the actions of Courtney to positively encourage women to present and thereby improve attendance levels by women.
With the amount of personalized sites there are on the internet, and the number a hacker like Aaron was on, one could write a digital biography with that data.
Having said this, 30% of $108 is only $32.40, which still doesn't reach the price of another dyno.
From the documentation they "...will have that web dyno idled out after one hour of inactivity."

The issue is that there is no hour of inactivity because there is web monitoring/querying supposedly going on automatically. So there should be no idling.
I feel the same way about Datomic too. I really want to be excited about datomic, but I just can't. Rich Hickey is a smart dude, no doubt, but I just don't see anything amazing here with datomic. Every time I try to learn about what kinds of problems it solves, all I can find are descriptions of how different it works under the hood, how different it works from the perspective of the programmer.
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Why do you need to know how to setup and manage your own services. If it's not your expertise, spend your time where you can add the most value. I think Heroku is a perfectly fine option until you reach the point where you could hire a full time dev ops.

It's a pretty cheap way to have servers set up with 24/7 monitoring and technical support.
Because you use eBay, because they're the 1000lb gorilla that everybody knows.

And, because they're the biggest host out there, because their prices are actually really good, because they're the 1000lb gorilla that everybody knows.
She's toast and she knows it. She's trying to save her political career.

It doesn't even matter anymore whether she's right or wrong.
Personally I feel that she mishandled this case (and that the whole system is pretty messed up), but the truth is somewhere between the two positions we keep hearing.
I've replied to this in responses to you elsewhere.
He is paying over $100 per month though (due to addons). The issue is single web dyno idling so simply paying $35 a month won't do any good.
It'd worth noting that the average registered user is quite a different thing from the average commenter.

It's also worth noting that in many cases, age is a variable with high deviation.
You seem to be looking for evidence that this is actually true.

Wasn't speeder explaining why people wouldn't want a united Korea, probably based on faulty assumptions and stupid theories?

Not that I found his comment very convincing anyway but things like this do not have to be true to be the reason for policies.
The pingdom ping is every minute (http check type with a string match optional setting). The heroku scheduler is running once every ten minutes. I'm not sure how often new relic runs.
You want to cure Facebook addiction?

Then delete your Facebook! I did it a year ago and I've never looked back.
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They are trying to "cheat" the system by setting up automated pings to keep it alive. Do you really think that's in the spirit of the offering from Heroku? I don't know why it isn't working but I hope Heroku just "handles" that scenario.

Like I said, if Heroku did provide the resources for all these free apps (and there must be so many that aren't used) then that would be reflected in their pricing. I pay for Heroku and don't want to be paying more to compensate resources for their free apps.
He is paying $100 for a bunch of add-ons, which have no idling. He is not paying anything for his dyno. The only current way to avoid this behavior is to pay for a dyno.

If you don't like this behavior, that's something to complain about. I'm just stating facts to help explain why his assumptions are incorrect.
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They have an "addon" called a dyno for $35 p/month that stops the idling. He didn't choose that one.

He has purchased other addons and is complaining he isn't getting the benefit from this one. Of course not.
hacker news - this really bums me out. Last week HN was rightly all over Atlantic for shilling for Scientology.

This article is written by the unification church - right up in the same bat shit crazy neighborhood as LR Hubbard and his pals...

And the discussion - Korea is crazy and belligerent?

The country known as the hermit kingdom. Did not open to the west until ~ 1870s. The last time it was involved in trying to invade another country was as a vassal state of Kublai Khan. And yet such assertions go unchecked.

Korea is not belligerent and has much riding upon regional stability. We are talking about an economy that is roughly the scale of Italy's and a standard of living that is in many ways better than the US.

The biggest impediment to North South reunification is the immense disparity. The difference between East and West Germany was minute in comparison.

I am not Korean but love Korea. Have had the chance to work there (3 yrs) and know a slight bit of the history, language and culture.

There are many better sources of information on North Korea - don't give the Unification Church any more publicity. The Netflix documentary mentioned is a good one.

And stop with the misinformed ideas of Korea. It is not like China and Japan even though it is stuck in the middle. Korean language and culture compared to Chinese is roughly analogous to English with Latin. The base is completely different but Koreans borrowed Chinese philosophy and science.

Linguistically Korean has more in common with Mongolian and Hungarian than it does to Mandarin.
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could they be trying to relief some of the pressure over Bradley Manning? maybe pinning the cable leaks on Swartz would give Manning freedom...
this could even have been suggested by Swartz sometime before (or after... deadman switch) his death...
I'm mildly interested in this. I might have a go at making a game, but do you know what date the winner would be flown out to Palo Alto?
MPW 9? Is he referring to the Macintosh Programmers Workshop?
Orion Blaster!

I don't want to reveal my K5 nick but I'm happy you're still around. :)
Hmm, I've noticed that most meetups, even without a singles theme, lean heavily towards singles, so maybe the ones that are less blatant are better targets. In my experience the turnout is majority-female (assuming it's not a heavily biased topic like programming or stock trading) here in Silicon Valley where millionaires outnumber single women by 10 to 1 (I exaggerate, a little) so I'm surprised to hear it isn't so everywhere.
Perhaps it isn't the place (and I fully anticipate the knee-jerk flagging and the subsequent IP ban. Bravery Level:10), but is the idolization of Aaron Swartz perhaps a bit much?

He seems like he was a smart guy. He did several interesting things.

But did he do great things? Is his greatest accomplishment, bizarrely and destructively, that he killed himself?

I've been pondering this lately given the various posts asking why the "greatest minds" are focused on improving ad clicks, etc. Yet they aren't: I'm in awe of so much in our society, so many products we use, so many profoundly society-changing technologies and innovations of enormous complexity that we enjoy each day. Most created by nameless, faceless people just doing their part.

Which again makes me wonder why the tech world has been a week of adulation of Aaron Swartz, whose two greatest accomplishments (if you follow the lede of every story about him) were that he was pushed on the Reddit founders by PG after his own project failed (then exiting before them), and that he was one of a dozen plus people who authored a revision to a brutishly simplistic RSS 1.0 spec, his single celebrated attribute being his age.

I hesitate hitting add comment because I know the above is effectively sacrilegious, but I don't buy it. I will not celebrate someone because they committed suicide.
As an aside, that's a nice site you've built, dsowers.
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I don't need another dyno. I'm already running way more than this app requires. (with addons, etc..) I think the service would be more fair if the time threshold for being set to idle was governed by the amount you are paying.
There was a Slashdot story about it.

I remember reading the course syllabus online and being jealous despite already having worked in professional vulnerability research for a few years. You're lucky to have been at the class! Was he a good lecturer?
> I don't know what the answer is, but I think hindsight will lead future generations to condemn perceived inaction on our part.

If only.

The Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rowanda, North Korea... History is replete with examples were the current generation know the consequences of inaction of the prior generation, yet did nothing to stop genocide in their generation.

I don't know what would change things, but I have little hope for future generations being motivated by condemning our inaction.
We did this at one previous company I worked at. At my current company, I've introduced the same thing. The person also doubles as the "maintenance person", who will pick up minor production-level failures.
I don't think it's in the spirit of the offering, but that's up to individual interpretation. What is very clear is that it doesn't seem to be behaving as documented. That's a problem.

Also, bgentry stated "We idle single-dyno apps that have not recently received requests. We do no caching." This also seems to contradict what is happening and adds to the confusion.

Why not just clarify what exactly is going on? It's completely reasonable to be handling this kind of situation however they are doing it, but it's not reasonable (IMHO) to repeat and support misleading/incorrect documentation.
This one is also worth reading. In fact, it's hard to forget.

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/11/wretched-woman.html
Thanks! It's not getting much traffic so every word of encouragement helps.
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The problem is that the imbalance is what's discouraging women from entering STEM careers; addressing it just means doing things like this conference is doing to increase female participation.

But to say an entire sex should do something is nonsensical. It's entirely possible they don't want to study stem.

You realize these two sentences contradict each other, I hope. You say that it's non-sensical to discuss what the entire sex should do, then try to talk about what the entire gender may or may not want as a reason for (or against) acting.

To say that they're under-represented is to belittle what individuals choose to do with their lives.

No, it doesn't, because it doesn't require any individual to do anything, or to give an individual responsibility for what the entire gender does.

When I talk about "under" represented, I mean that absent the historical injustice of sexism, you would see a different gender balance. And as this conference and GoGaRuCo demonstrate, when you control for the historical imbalance, women and men are selected equally to speak in a blind process, thus showing equal ability, if not interest; it's reasonable to assume that after correcting the historical artifact, gendered participation ratios would be much closer.

I've already agreed that affirmative action isn't the answer, but this--community outreach, basically--isn't affirmative action in any sense.
Not all browsers support html5 audio, but there should be a shim or wrapper with a fallback to flash out there on the internet,
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> "... rate of install will be shit, but if they were really interested in doing the right thing ..."

That's just it -- they aren't.

The sole purpose is to generate revenue. They don't make money when users don't install the software.
This is interesting, but these sorts of "reproducibility initiatives" also kind of naive: there's a natural meta-review process in science, wherein research generally isn't accepted until it has been reproduced and published in different ways by multiple labs. In other words, peer-review of individual papers is not the only sanity check (or even the most important sanity check).

That's not to say that these sorts of things aren't useful exercises, just that it's pretty wishful thinking to argue that this sort of peer-replication is going to make any sort of dent in the system. Scientists are a naturally skeptical and conservative group of people, and one of the first lessons that gets drilled into you in graduate school is that you have to take individual papers with huge grains of salt.
It's interesting. I created a simple app (using the free dyno), use the free new relic monitoring and that keeps the app fresh (no idling). And I have no traffic coming to the site. All i'm paying for is SSL. I would think he would have no idling with multiple services pinging it for uptime.
The second one is a pet peeve of mine. For anybody who's familiar with the traditional meaning, the newer meaning is actively confusing, since both mean destruction, but only differ by degree.

Are there really not enough words for destroy/crush/obliterate/etc, that another one needs to be created?
And water is wet, and the sky is blue.
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Sorry, I'm trying to wrap my head around the workflow. Do you use vagrant or something for tests? Othrewise, wouldn't you need the DB installed locally to run your site locally?
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I think the article is trying too hard to justify Apple-hate to some sort of intellectual reasoning.

Really, people are all upset mostly because of the low barrier of entry to have an opinion on the subject. That is just open to any kid over 12. It is just like discussing politic at the pub after the second round: people are angry at Apple like they are angry at Fox News, or the Republican, or whatever - because it is mainstream right now and there are plenty of easy, pre-made one line argument you can parrot.

The result is that it is almost impossible to find actual interesting/constructive comment in any discussion related to Apple.

disclaimer: YMMV, my fav newsites seems completely devoid of Apple fanboys (i.e. no bashing on Android news, and very little fan comment on Apple news - except in reaction to Apple bashing, generally offtopic anyway so useless)
Chad, while it's true that having your direction keys where you can easily reach them is faster than having them somewhere else, using the mouse is faster than moving one cell at a time with direction keys, and Jef Raskin's "LEAP" research in the 1980s showed that incremental search is faster than using the mouse. Try it in vim:

:set incsearch
:set hlsearch

(ObFlameRetardant: I prefer Emacs myself for programming, but vim is a perfectly excellent editor.)