skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(In the far future) if Google Glass could automatically upload video of what you're seeing to your cloud storage, you could have a searchable log of your entire life.

Reminds me of these projects:

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

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

Maybe a V1 of this could have Google Glass take a photo every minute. You could upload it automatically to Evernote or your private G+ photo feed. Then, you could occasionally review and "star" the important moments of your life (and maybe even delete/summarize chunks that are less important).
WHO Report Says That Fukushima Nuclear Accident Posed Minimal Risk to Health
Whole Cloudflare network is down, including DNS
And thousands of sites are down, on Sunday morning (CET). Is there a worse feeling than that?
Imgur.com is down
all imgur servers are down
imgur seems to be down for me as well.
Cloudfare may be there when your sites go down, but who is there for Cloudfare when they go down? Nobody it would seem, ha.
In that case, it should be http://status.cloudflare.com
I also hate when unsubscribe from spam is on a different domain than the business, using a 3rd party email/marketing company. And I hate how "enter your email to confirm unsubscribing" is pretty common.
including their status page
Dragon docking to ISS [live]
Really bad.
Well, clearly not!

But I don't think his objection is using solar power for space-based infrastructure. Quite the contrary! (Dragon is solar-powered, but could fairly easily do everything except maybe long-duration Dragonlab missions on batteries if Elon really didn't like solar). I think the objection is to the complexities and transmission losses of beaming orbital solar power back to Earth.

Of course, if you start moving your energy-intensive industries out of the gravity well...
Cloudflare user here. Can I ask why you turned CloudFlare services off?
Yeah mine is also down.
Seriously ? All the arguments about Apple products "just working" and being "premium products", now change to "only people who need the feature have to pay for it" ?
down here too and I can't change the dns of my site cause my registrar is down too, oh boy.
Several times in my career I have found myself learning and reading and suddenly finding that what I want to do next has no blog posts, or third party frameworks - I have reached the state of the art in one (tiny) direction.

That is where the productive hobbies take you - to the point where to play some more you need to invent. At this point skills, available time all come to bear - but I now recognise this time - and refuse to waste the opportunities.

Not easy to spot for oneself - spotting it as investment - no idea :-)
all of my sites are down as well. Should I change name server or this issue should be resolved quick (enough)?
A self-plug:

I write http://tinyletter.com/iosdev which contains a single actionable nugget every week based on things that I have learnt doing iOS development for the past few years.

Always love some feedback, email me.
This article presents a nuanced point, and I agree with it.

My response to this quote by Steve Burgess (not the author):
"Why are programmers granted such high status and wealth in our society for living in a self-created self-indulgant intellectual world of constant escapism- and yet farmers are regarded with such distain when they operate on the most important boundary between society and the biosphere?"

... would have been: I disagree with your premise. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpZ0TGjbWE (God Made a Farmer) and see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGJX6t3IAlk (GoDaddy Bar Refaeli Super Bowl Commercial).
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I don't care about Mooc completion rate at all. If for example only a few hundred people completed the course, this means that the course had brought educational value to thousands.

For some professors the kickback value might play a bigger role. Some courses on coursera are just not taught as widely as the professors would like to have it. For example Hinton's Neural Network course, or the one about Quantum Computation. In these cases, a few hundred completers would be plenty to justify the effort of the authors (in my opinion at least).
down as well
Except that I think they are hosting their own DNS... I'm not able to retrieve their SOA information even at the moment.
The CISPA Government Access Loophole
btw - sites are back. I hope they will not go down.

Why I have switched off services? Because once i enabled them sites got slower, not faster. Sure - I doubt that most users noticed that, but for example, if i checked Pingdom or Google Crawl Stats - 'Time spent downloading a page' situation was very clear. With Cloudflare it took Google 2x more time to download page than without. I had no time to investigate why thats so, but after switching Clouflare off i was again back to 500ms.

Edit: Sites are not back. I guess that work the ones for which i have DNS cached. Lets wait...
Whatever happened to primary and backup DNS servers?
And who exactly didn't expect this?
Still down. When they get back up, I will cancel my subscription and gladly DDOS them. :D
Though the music was nice, I felt like it was too loud.
Well, you could just by them on the street with paper money [1]. Or you could use one of the shuffling services around [2].

[1] https://localbitcoins.com/
[2] https://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=bitcoin+laundry
This one has a highly link-baity title, and i clicked on with suspicion, since techcrunch.com does have a reputation of exaggeration, but data was interesting, the points/hypothesis he makes sound weak, but i am not surprised. it's probably impossible by the very nature of uncertainty involved in building a 1Bn company* to get any more rigourous hypothesis backed by data.

-(excuse the antifragile bias, am currently reading the book)

*-- just a personal opinion
As someone who hosts hundreds of PAID sites with CloudFlare this is pretty unacceptable. I'm giving them thousands of dollars so that this doesn't happen. Will probably be moving off unless they have some very good reasoning behind a world-wide shutdown of a geo-redundant service...
Seems like half of the internet is broken just because of this...
+1 I commented from my blackberry (fat fingers). Guess I got lucky and landed it the 3rd time: "debellatio".
Our fault, we should have back NS ...
Both requiring you to trust a third party.
I'm so happy we didn't go on that wave. Redirecting your DNS to someone else seems like a bad idea in any case. In any case, what do they do, that I could not have done with Varnish?
You say majority like its fact. Its not.

Here is a list the top 100 seo blogs, find the BS in there. www.branded3.com/seo-blogs/
A content delivery network?
ouch. been awhile since i've seen that failure mode.
we all expected cloudflare to be more stable than our server ...
https://twitter.com/cloudflaresys
Similarly pro office crowd come across as bunch of draconian overlords with little regards to the nature of the work and circumstances of other people. Such is the joy of the internet. Both crowds are likely to be much more middle ground in real life conversation.

Perhaps that highlights your points even more.

That aside, in my experience working at a good office is much more fun and a lot of the time nearly as productive as remote working. However I currently work remotely as the two hour daily commute is way too much, though I find that visiting my own office or other, nearer offices tends to help brighten up the work week. It certainly seems to me that communicating mainly via text makes it harder to restrain negative comments as you don't get the facial and body language cues. It takes much more effort to be polite and consider other peoples feelings. I wish it wasn't so.
It's not just a case of DNS being down, I can't see any BGP either. Pretty major failure.
Have you called the enterprise support number? What was their response?

We are in the same boat, but guess where I have the phone number for enterprise support? Webmail on our domain. Lesson learned.
We're in the process of implementing just that. I'll blog about as much as I can and hopefully publish most of not all of the code.
Computerized eyewear like Google Glass will kill the jobs of Rally Co-Drivers!
At first glance I thought that this was an article for moving to 4 day work week.
What a let down... Very disappoint.
Whistle blower are per se mentally ill, you claim? Or how come, you dismiss him as a fragile person?
He had good intentions and good reasons, the cables are an eye opener. Sweeping and leaving those actions under the rug would be the right thing to do?

It was the lowest clearance, btw.
The response is "sorry we are looking into it, we'll call you back when we know what's wrong"... pretty generic.
Olps, major fuck up
> You suffer exactly what you criticize.

Oh absolutely. No contest.
> If you use Bitcoins as a method of transporting money you can cash them out as soon as you get them (which is within a few minutes) and getting Bitcoins isn't as hard as people make it out to be.

I'm surprised nobody has made a service that transparently uses bitcoins to send someone not-bitcoins:

[For the purposes of the example, let's call the sender of the money Alice, the receiver Bob, and the two instances of this Exchanger service Eddie and Edna. Eddie is local to Alice's legal/financial jurisdiction, and Edna to Bob's.]

1. Alice, living in America, visits Eddie and tells him that she wants to send Bob, in Canada, $50 USD. Bob is only identified to Alice (and thereby to Eddie) by his bitcoin deposit address.[1]

2. Alice pays Eddie $50 USD (cash, Paypal, ACH, pre-deposited funds, an IOU, whatever);

3. Eddie buys bitcoins with those dollars, and transfers the bitcoins to Bob's address.

Then, separately, Bob set up his bitcoin bank with an "on deposit" webhook that calls Edna. When triggered,

4. Edna, acting under an access token Bob granted her through the webhook, withdraws the deposit into her own bitcoin bank account;

5. Edna immediately sells the bitcoins for CAD, thus preventing any currency volatility;

4. Edna sends Bob an email saying "you've got $51.42 CAD[2]", with a URL;

5. Bob visits the URL, and enters his [real, physical] bank account routing information;

6. Edna does a wire-transfer from her account to Bob's bank account.

In this example, Bob and Alice never meet. Eddie and Edna never meet, nor have to trust one-another. The money is exchanged anonymously and securely. And yet, neither Alice nor Bob ever touch a bitcoin, or deal with the volatility of the currency.

Why doesn't this exist yet?

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[1] This could be encapsulated further if Eddie and Edna both subscribe to Ronald the name-Registrar; then Edna could transparently register Bob as "bob@ronald", and Bob could tell Alice to send her money to that alias.

[2] Assuming neither Eddie nor Edna take a cut of this transaction.
Bringing content closer to the user; throttling and protecting against certain attacks; providing a response when your site is down (yes, ironic).

Also, randomly useful filters like adding the user's country to the request header, tweaking outbound images, and auto-injecting google Analytics.
HFCS is not banned in the EU, but its production is limited to 5% of total sugar production.

"Which foods and beverages contain GFS?

Because of the limited availability in Europe, the products in which GFS is used, are those where the sweetening power and other qualities are needed simultaneously. Examples of this can be found in baked goods, cereal products, confectionery, jams and preserves, yogurts and other dairy products, condiments (e.g. mustard and ketchup), canned and packed goods. The use of GFS in soft drinks has been limited as this application needs a fructose content of 42% or higher to give the desired sweetness and GFS is not available in sufficient quantities to be widely used in soft drinks. In the EU, soft drinks continue to be sweetened mostly with sucrose, when in the US, they are sweetened with HFCS."

http://www.eufic.org/page/en/page/FAQ/faqid/glucose-fructose...
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Scientific Linux 6.3 (LAMP)
The 5% equity is very much negotiable and it depends on the experience.
While we may not have many tangible assets, we have a UI/UX developed, the application does not require a very senior experienced developer and our intangible assets such as our contacts in the industry money cannot buy.
We would still like to hear from you if you have any further feedback.
Remembrance Agent http://www.remem.org/ was created by Bradley Rhodes, one of the group of "cyborgs" doing wearable computing research at MIT at that time.

... and after a quick search, it looks like he works at the Google, most likely on Glass.
While this may be true the use of user supplied data directly in SQL queries is a far bigger concern
Their DDOS mitigation is what sold us.
"Why are [...] farmers are regarded with such distain [...]?"

They are? I haven't seen people feel that way, so I'm kind of surprised to read this. Some references to evidence that supports this claim might be useful.
CloudFlare offers CNAME option for paid customers. So you can use an enterprise DNS service and only point to CloudFlare via a CNAME record.

When disasters like this happen, a quick DNS change can be a life-saver.
Better still cloudflare-status.com or similar: separate domain, separate registrar, separate DNS, separate hosting.
I use a pretty major forum that has a huge amount of traffic. The owner migrated it to CloudFlare. For the past 5-6 weeks the site has 50% of its request go to a 'Sorry xyz is not available right now'
Only it's not about "your definition of glamour", it's about the general definition of glamour. TFA talks about the glamorous presentation of programmers in some movies and media specifically (in which they mostly represent the top dog entrepreneur programmers -- think Justin Timberlake on the Social Network et al).

I mean, which part of TFA's "depicts a tale of the less than 1% of programmers who become extremely rich, famous and successful, practically overnight" is difficult to understand?

Not even telecommuting and having a good salary and "bonsai trees" is not the same at all as the kind of glamorous the media (and TFA) describes, it's also not representative of the 95% of programmers.

Most of the 1-5 points you note apply to a lot of professions. In fact you see all those benefits far more often in other fields than you do in programming. And it sure is not in the typical percentiles for programming jobs.

Plus point 5 is bogus. Either you have money to do anything you wont (including not working), or you don't have freedom. This has nothing to do with programming. It's not even orthogonal, as the vast majority of programmers are not rich and the vast majority of rich people are not programmers. If you mean you have "inner freedom", then that you can have also bumming in the streets.

>And that to me is glamour, hardly a "trailer-park idea of glamour".

It sure is not the general middle class idea of glamour. Which is what TFA is about (Ferraris, partying all night, red carpet events, etc).
amazon Germany just recently got under heavy fire for bad working conditions, bullying and low pay after making higher inital offers. only affects there warehouse people but it got pretty bad in the press.
My mom was like "i am not buying from amazon anymore for the time being"

Just wanted to post this as it was in the news just days ago to give a counter perspective. Obv. amazon germany is a different company but its their second largest market.

[1] http://www.dw.de/amazon-scrambles-after-damning-german-docum...
its sunday! seems like they pushed another faulty update (like last time)! yep confirmed, all is down including their own site, thats pretty fucked up, when they dont even have offsite status! good thing i dont use cloudflare in all my sites...
There's no such thing as a quick DNS change.
An inverse moving goalpost of sorts.
I may have misunderstood the question. A UUID is a (very long) integer.
Thanks for your feedback. We understand we may not be able to get a very experienced CTO. The 5% equity is very much negotiable and it depends on the experience. The application is fairly simple and does not require a very senior experienced developer.
What level of salary would you consider as a minimum along with equity?
We would still like to hear from you if you have any further feedback.
Also, work on that sort of stuff while you're still in school. High school is probably the best time to really invest in a hobby.
Yep, this is definitely something I'll do in the future and I guess it was my fault for trusting a single service... even one that is designed around keep your site up/redundant.
Presumably they are.

I have no idea what is wrong, or how long they will take to fix it, but I'd imagine that CloudFlare has significantly better network engineers than the average company, and so they will fix it in far less time than the average company would fix the same problem.
Seems like the main website is back up
Same with "Why are programmers granted such high status...". I was not aware that programmers had a particularly high social status.
There are also 5 million people in the USA with the same level of sensitive access as Bradley Manning, 1.4 million with "top secret" clearance.

That's a ridiculous mockery of anything they think should be a "secret" from US citizens.
The data sheet claims that the ATtiny1634-UUR is 2.38x2.02mm, which to me does not seem all that much larger than the chips under discussion.
London, England. CTO

Contact Ben@barpass.co.uk

Who are we

Bar Pass Ltd, founded by two finance professionals with experience in providing technology within the hospitality industry, growing and advising young companies through from concept to profit.
What we are doing Developing a mobile application that provides customers in a bar the ability to browse the menu, order and pay for food and drinks through their mobile device.

Where we are as a company

We are fully funded up to release of V1 and have a number of people looking to back us after this point. We have had a several positive meetings with target chains of bars, that are keen on our solution and see it as a higher quality vision than our competition. We are well connected within our target market and have some very senior industry players keen to take active board positions.

Who you are

You will be working full time as CTO, working at our offices in London.
You will be responsible for defining and implementing our web and mobile strategy. You will eventually have the opportunity to form and lead a larger team.
During early stages you may be required to manage contractors to help build out some parts of our solution.
Core requirements:
> Comfortable being the sole internal developer working on a new product from the ground up > Experience with both back-end API development and front-end mobile application development > Back-end architecture and RESTful API design & development to support consumer iOS, Android and Web apps. > Work on integration with payment processors and social networks > Experience building solutions which are fast, reliable, flexible and scalable > Experience building for iOS in Objective-C > Familiarity with Agile/SCRUM and TDD practices > Continuous Integration, cloud based deployment and other DevOps/SysOps understanding

What we offer

Dependant on experience we offer a competitive salary and equity. The chance to get involved with a great business from the beginning and decide what we offer to our next employees.

Contact Ben@barpass.co.uk
My feels go out to the ops folk at Cloudflare. Mistakes happen no matter how many years of experience people bring in, or how much they're paid. We're all humans after all. It must be a pressurizing task to be responsible for potentially millions of dollars of losses during this downtime.

I hope the issue is resolved soon and if a person caused it, they're not in too much trouble.
This isn't fluff. It's saying that what you love doing (if you're not getting paid) might be the future. If the activity has enough value on its own to be worthwhile without immediate monetary reward, then it's a good bet there's something valuable about your activity that will ultimately be recognized by the market.

It's not much different from investing. If we see company X investing in space mining even though it's not even paying off right now, there's good chance they Know it's worth the investment (or are at least confident enough to gamble on it).
My startup NameTerrific can support instantaneous DNS updates in a geo-redundant Anycast infrastructure. As long as your TTL is sufficiently low (<300), the impact is quite limited as propagation time is negligible at NameTerrific.

EDIT: Sorry guys. We got some issues with a gem after installing the recently updated ruby2.0.0p0. The unicorn workers were timing out. TerrificDNS is completely unaffected and the site is already running again.
The big point is actually that currently we (as in, the whole world) have far more farmers than we need (especially in the developing countries) and less coders than we need. And in the future, automation and coders will ensure that we will need even less farmers.

How much population do we really need to tend all global arable land using modern methods machinery? Currently in developed countries it's somewhere near 2%, depending on the local crops used; in time it may be 1% as more and more things can now be done by machines. Countries such as India and China currently have hundreds of millions of farmers; but the same result can be produced by half or less people with farming methods currently used in USA/EU. Right now a lot of modern grain farm work consists of driving equipment around all your fields - and self-driving tractors will eliminate even that remainder "manual" work.
Looks like they just confirmed the capture with the robotic arm.
Ah thanks for the insights, true I am not a native speaker. Will run it tomorrow with couple of people here.
I'm getting alternating 504 and 502 errors for the main website. The server signature is "cloudflare-nginx", so it's definitely getting through, though.
Yes, farming is hard, very hard

Most here don't appreciate how hard it is (especially if you're inexperienced)

Do people still grow beans using a cotton in a cup? Do they still teach that at schools? That's basically the 'hello world' of farming

Of course, depends on what you are doing, type of plants, inside a greenhouse or in an open field, the scale of it etc. Not to mention raising animals. That's very hard as well

It's unsurprising that it's getting ever more 'industry like'. You take a lot of people and specialize in only a few crops, so you can have profits that work out. Machines are expensive, fertilizer, soil analysis, etc, etc

And then there's a climate issue, too much rain, too cold, too warm and you miss the mark.
If I can't opt-out of a mailing campaign by just clicking a link, I'll invariably mark it as spam.
"The fact that we as a society depend on the Bradley Mannings of this world to keep us on the straight and narrow is what is really frightening."

Based on the contents of what Manning's leaks, shouldn't we be a lot more worried about depending on a military and state department rife with corruption and immorality? If members of military and diplomatic corps took their oaths to the country and constitution seriously, there should be many more whistleblowers than Manning, given the apparent levels of routine misconduct in those organizations.
"This thing #{X} that I am inexperienced at is much harder than this thing #{Y} I spent years doing because I am experienced at #{Y} and have some idea how to do it and thus it feels comfortable.

Why, I am going to go so far as to talk down everybody who still does #{Y}, partly because I'm somewhat burnt out on it, and partly because my comparative experience makes me feel like it's easy compared to #{X}."

Where:-

* X, Y are very broad fields in which there is a whole range of tasks which span from the very simple to the insanely difficult,

* X, Y both revolutionised the world at different points in human history, X before Y.