skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Survey of who? Do you have a tech-biased or liberal-biased or youth-biased audience?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/most-americans-suppor... ("Overall, 56 percent of Americans consider the NSA’s accessing of telephone call records of millions of Americans through secret court orders 'acceptable,' while 41 percent call the practice 'unacceptable.'")
Apple Portal Attack Not Malicious, But Developers Still a Target
A simple Lexis search of Monsanto Co. v. [wildcard] would still find them. Even if the case was sealed you'd at least know that and where to start looking.
5 years ago the web was a viable option. (Just look at Google & Facebook)

pg's "Microsoft is dead": http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
I have both Linode and DO instances but I have lots of reliability issues with my DO instance. I usually have 5-7 minutes per day where it is unreachable by my offsite Nagios host which also monitors my Linode instance. My Linode instance has had 3 minutes of unreachability in the past 30 days.
And within 3 years traffic will start to rapidly, and so will the stock.
My short experience was very good.

A few VPSs for low traffic sites and a big dedicated for a drupal.

Everything was fine, no surprises, and they have a soap API which allows you to automate everything from billing, to dns, machine creation/resize/destroy, etc.

Nice.

My only caveat was about their custom kernels, but that is something usual in lot of providers.
Not necessarily. It's not so much that a 10-second delay will be introduced at every repeater, but that a practical system/implementation requires that a delay of up to ten seconds may be introduced when required by traffic, etc. A straight-pipe, latency-free, synchronous-only system would require a lot more infrastructure to support (analogous to the earliest direct-connection telephone systems).
Really good post
Another formulation of that rule of thumb is double the per-hour salary (equivalent since there are roughly 40 * 50 = 2000 working hours in a year). $130K/yr salary -> $65/hr salary, so you should charge 2 * $65/hr = $130/hr
Developer from Croatia here :)
Yes we do charge less because of our geographic location, but I wouldn't say significantly less, or maybe not at rates you are talking about ($100/hr really isn't that much).

That said, I spent 2 months in San Francisco this summer and was able to find a job for higher rate just because I was there. I guess it comes with territory. :)
Are you sure they are located in the newly opened GRA data center? If so, my bad.
Yes, definitely, people use it unironically.
Many thanks for those links.
There is no mention of jail time in any of those cases. The ones I saw all say "paid more than $x to settle the charges".
Crop engineer here (the humanitarian kind, not the for-profit kind). Dammit Nina Federoff, that's one poorly written article. All the facts she states are true, but her thesis (that the myths are disproven by GM crops' increasing market share) is stupid.

If anyone wants to ask any GM crop technical questions, or wants any references, I'll do my best.
Awesome news guys -- cheering this on!

EDIT: Cheering => Donating -- https://watsi.org/fund-treatments
They used to shoot up pot, but they had to stop because the seeds kept clogging up the needles.
Facebook's Scrooge Tactics Are Working
Mac + Retina.
From the preface of the 2013 edition of the book: http://www.jnd.org/books/design-of-everyday-things-revised.h...

"When I started, I assumed that the basic principles were still true, so all I needed to do was update the examples. But in the end, I rewrote everything."

"When I wrote the original book I was an academic researcher. Today, I have been an industry executive (Apple, HP, and some startups), a consultant to numerous companies, and a board member of companies. I had to include my learnings from these experiences."

"Finally, one important component of the original edition was its brevity. The book could be read quickly as a basic, general introduction. I kept that feature unchanged. I tried to delete as much as I added to keep the total size about the same. The book is meant to be an introduction: advanced discussions of the topics, as well as a large number of important, but more advanced, topics have been left out to maintain the compactness."

Although these portions were taken from the new book I expect to gain even more insight from this course.
Another great quote from the book:

The same technology that simplifies life by providing more functions in each device also complicates life by making the device harder to learn, harder to use. This is the paradox of technology.

The paradox of technology should never be used as an excuse for poor design.

~ The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
Right now it seems there's a great interest in building mobile apps, even if they are just web based. Ideally, I'd like to use the time commuting to learn on a mobile device or tablet. This is exactly where existing systems like Khan Academy & Codeacademy are falling short, but they are still really excellent systems. Thanks for teaching those classes, I went to a few of them and learned lots.
dnautics is talking about how they separate donations given via their site from their overhead costs: 100% of what you give on the site goes to fund treatment, and overhead is paid for by "donations" (funding) such as the one mentioned here, and by people who give via the site but elect to target some of their donation to cover overhead (that option is presented when you give on their site).
I don't have a formal list right now but I do have a folder full of random bookmarks which I'll do something with at some point. I always keep a window open with tabs to Stack Overflow, jQuery docs, Underscore docs, and Ruby on Rails Guides (if I am using Rails that day). I usually keep another window open with tabs to styling tools like http://www.colorhexa.com/.
I'm a linode user and not impressed. They are just keeping up with the competition. ram/cpu/storage prices are always falling, so their prices have to fall or resources increased to compete. They won't cut their prices as that will cut into revenue, so they increase resources.
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Isn't abuse of power the most terrifying when it is used not for the extraordinary, but for the mundane? The very idea that police abuse of power is "mundane" in some way is disturbing.
Maybe you should consider open sourcing your backend, then people could help.
Bad press doesn't mean everything. Microsoft still reaps profits from undisclosed Linux patents from suits against Android handset makers (although they promised not to sue Linux developers in a previous deal with Novell). Monster Cable still sues small companies for using the word Monster, even though they get a ton of bad press for it.

If the financial hit from the bad press is outweighed by the financial gain from whatever is causing that bad press, which do you think a company would pick?
I don't think it's there. Kimsufi is a low cost alternative to normal OVH services. I have few kimsufi servers for over year now and I never had to use remote console there.
In what way...

When they regurgitate the content of a government press release or briefing without challenging both its basic premises and noteworthy claims, which they all do every single day, many times a day, the popular news media perfectly inhabits the role of "government mouthpiece". This includes the many instances of on-the-one-hand-on-the-other press-release ping-pong between the two allegedly opposed narratives provided by our two allegedly opposed political parties.
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Absolutely - I just wanted to point out that "common sense" is not a magic bullet and rigid rules are often installed for good reasons.
Keep in mind these descriptions are just interpretations of observations. Another intelligent civilization could explain the observations in a wholly different way. The observations show that light is affected by gravity (more precisely, by centers of gravitational attraction) the same as material objects are. We have alternate generally accepted ways of looking at this, such as the river model of space [1], where space is moving inward toward a center of gravitational attraction, carrying along in its "current" everything including light rays.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0419
> Until the day where all food becomes standardized, commoditized, and we can treat our restaurants like we treat our nuts-and-bolts supplier, it will remain like this.

And after this, the minute someone opens a restaurant where food is not standardized, commoditized and that can't be treated like a nuts-and-bolts supplier... a market is (re)born.
So what you're saying is that the Earth may fart soon?
If I understood the experiment correctly, it doesn't look anything exceptional. The crystal would just turn opaque after the first laser is shut off, and when they shot the laser at it to turn it transparent again, the photons from the second laser would be re-emitted in the same trajectory. It's not really "light frozen mid-air", but rather a crystal emitting light after being hit by a laser.
WebViewChromium – still MIA
I switched to DO a few months ago, ... and just recently switched back to Linode.

I'll pay the extra few bucks for reliability and decent uptime.

I had very frequent downtimes and the support was often unhelpful. I heard from others that it was just the datacenter that my VPS was on and other DC weren't as bad, but I guess it gave me enough of a bad impression that I went back to Linode anyway.
> a world population that continues to grow by leaps and bounds

not so much:
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#growthrate
The Wikipedia article in general and the case you've cited with its links don't support the claim that "Monsanto lied". It sounds like a debatable point, depending on the French definitions of whatever Monsanto actually said in French. If my Cajun mom had taught me French I might look into this further, I think someone who knows it would be required.
Honestly, I'm not a fan of the name.
Lol. You made a good comment, I dunno why you got downvoted.

One thing to note: key stretching is a good idea nonetheless. hashing ASICs will be millions of times slower _regardless_. They may be hundreds of times faster than a computer, and hundreds of times cheaper... but the effect doesn't get you what a good Bcrypt-difficulty 12 gets you (ie: key-stretching with ~4million hashes)
Interesting. How did they handle debugging?
Do you have any tips on finding freelance work doing documentation?
I would say that government attempts to force data to be handed over reinforce the strength of public key encryption. Since Public Key made its debut, we've known that the only real actual threat to the system was an incredible advance in the realm of factoring. That has not happened.

This article talks about the many ways public key can be circumvented, but offers no insight into a mathematical breakthrough. Thus, there will remain a way to encrypt your data, you just need to make sure your keys will always be safe.
That is a great idea! Or the user could select to be reminded via email?
Is there the slightest evidence he was, other than 'some other guy in Russia was murdered with polonium once'?

You already know that the person who claims an extremely rare event occurred is the person who has to show up with the evidence. Without any evidence, why go around making this sort of inflammatory comment about a very sad event?
For reference, here's the text of the amendment: http://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/AMASH_018_xml27...

It short, it defunds the NSA's ability to conduct surveillance on people who are not being investigated.
Well, Michigan isn't exactly "east coast".
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Which is why I focused on the sweeping claim of "completely", which is similar to the word "everything".
Thanks for your perspective. I wonder which hot-button you pushed that caused the downvotes? My suspicion would be vaccination, but I'm not ruling out the gun-illustration (the word "drawing" is ambiguous in this case) or Bengazi...
Yes, you're right. There's also Google's Pixel Chromebook thing.

But it just boggles my mind that that's about it in terms of laptops with decent screens.

I use Linux, and don't want to pay the extra cash for the Apple logo, so that's not really a good option. The Google thing looks interesting, but the local disk is really limited.
I actually do exactly this for a site I'm building. I use Firebase and Angular together and I host the site for next to nothing using Amazon's S3 static hosting option (costs me like $2 a month). I wrote a more robust angular firebase module than angular-fire, the one the Firebase guys wrote, and I also created a tiny framework/script-runner similar to Yeoman that automates a bunch of stuff including deploying to S3.

I'll message you when I make it all publicly available.
I'm not sure I follow, you say "Genetic material is code being used in a production environment!" as far as I understand it we have been researching for decades and haven't found real problems, at least not more then with older alternatives like radiation and chemicals to speed up the production of genetic changes.

It confuses me that people are ok with, like the article calls it, the shotgun approach (radiation, chemicals) but not with the surgeon approach (using a scalpel and replacing only the genes we want to), I honestly don't understand why.
This is a good point, but far from complete. It is not like they are rolling in the proceeds.

Word on the street is that the IV funds are not profitable yet. Also, inventors, who they purchase patents from, are in fact getting checks in the mail. So at least one of the following are true:

- They are paying inventors (patent holders) too much
- Nobody should pay inventors at all
- They should be more aggressive in acquiring settlements / awards in court.
- They should shut down completely.
- They should cut overhead.

Of the above, cutting overhead seems most reasonable. But there are significant activities in their invention lab. They have the world's most advanced malaria modeling system. They are developing a cold chain for vaccines with an incredibly clever thermo-mechanically activated cold finger for control. They are pushing metamaterials. They have an incredibly cool mosquito calming project. They run invention dinners where amazingly brilliant, cool people attack novel problems in novel ways. And TerraPower could, if they are successful, crack the energy problem.

Cutting overhead would hurt most of the incredibly commendable activities that they are doing. It takes big bucks to run an invention lab. This isn't the only way, of course.

But I'm calling it when I see it: IV is making honest efforts to invent and commercialize a series of amazing inventions, including those in the physical world. Almost nobody else is doing this today. They are funding inventors -- their own and outside inventors, through what many believe are questionable methods exploiting legal loopholes, but are in fact often direclty in keeping with the intent of an admittedly archaic and outdated system. And they're being scapegoated not because they might be a patent troll, but because they are a publicly identifiable organization with public inventions and activities, and public advocacy.

And it's a damned shame that we are so clannish that the are ready to, without thinking, without the requisite knowledge, damn one of the only truly ambitious efforts in physical invention, and great hacker, simply because we do not understand, do not approve of, or are uncomfortable with, the systems that are being used to support invention.
As a data point from another SaaS company owner, we thought this would be temporary too, but we found out it was so valuable in increasing customer retention and engagement that we are now planning to make it permanent (see my post above--we're hiring a FT person for this now.) The cost-effectiveness of this is off the charts. Patrick found out about this from me when I spoke about it at Microconf and I already have people from there telling me it's made them $500/hr+ (I believe it, as I've seen similar numbers in my own SaaS company.)

Oh, I should add: If you want people to rave about your company, there's nothing better than this onboarding process to do so. People become sort of religious about your business after a first-touch customer experience like this one. Probably preaching to the choir if you are Jason Fried, but this goes double for everyone else reading this who's building a software company.
Just to add, I have found that really only options that are available are:
* hardware reboot
* os reinstalation

But there is a option called "netboot" which looks like it might be what you are looking for, but unfortunately I can't try it now on any of my servers.
What is the state of the relationship between OpenOffice and LibreOffice? I remember that there were some licensing issues that caused the fork in the first place. Are they at feature parity? Any chance the two projects will merge ?
Hackers stole 160 million credit/debit card numbers in U.S. hacking scheme
Mutt: a lightweight sidebar patch for heavy folders
All of the concerns you raise are with the agricultural system in general, not with GM crops. There are some valid points in the OP, but poorly articulated and unsupported. Not a helpful contribution to the discourse.
Right now we're going to launch a creative agency. Anything from web apps, web design, mobile web apps, iOS apps, Android apps, I'm able to do all this. I really don't think he should be getting 50% of profits either, ridiculous.

He has marketing and business/sales experience.

What would you make the "finders fee"? I was thinking 80/20.
I suspect DigitalOcean have more virtual servers per physical machine than Linode do, which is probably why they can offer cheaper prices. This means you probably won't be able to use as much CPU power and I/O (more people contending for the same resources.)
If I read it correctly someone from UK should sue them, under "The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003" because this practice is illegal in UK.
Plus, that guy wasn't even in Russia.
If you web application could run ok (for the number of visitors) in a netbook with mechanical disk, then an Atom is ok.

Note that I've seen people running gnome on a netbook.

Still, I see this, and I think more about: "backups", "configuration management", "shell access", "VPN to other more powerful dedicated servers in OVH", "personal storage", "scheduled tasks", "monitoring systems", "status pages", etc...

The price is nothing, I still ask myself if it's rentable because "it's an Atom" and changes the power bill, or this is more a unprofitable product to attract you to other products.

Lets say 3€ * 12m = 36€ year, It takes some years to recover the hardware costs (without count electricity bills, company salaries, connectivity, taxes, etc).
Vivtek's point was that most people don't care about this, and consider the Paula Deen incident far more noteworthy.
Sounds like a fun event. Thanks for sharing.
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The point is those laws are the implementation of the intent behind the Fourth Amendment, and it's strange that we don't have other laws which implement the full intent of the Fourth Amendment with respect to private communication.
I'm using it non-production things, and have had a similar experience. I'm in the SFO data center, and I've lost connectivity to the machine at least 5 times in the past month.
>Humans began genetically modifying plants to provide food more than 10,000 years ago.

There's a difference between selecting and breeding specific plants in your corn crop, or crossing corn with a slightly different variety of corn, and crossing corn with a fish, ginkgo tree, or bacteria.
I thought LISP was a functional language and I'm wondering how redefining a function at runtime is not a state change, but no matter, I'm reading Steve Yegge at the moment and his old take down of LISP which confirms my suspicions (don't you love it when you read something that does that ;-)

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptab...
You can assume that all food has GMOs unless it's labeled as organic. Is that not sufficient?
The people behind DigitalOcean have been around for a while with ServerStack, the parent company. The main engineers also used to work at another major cloud hosting company.
I'm just trying to get random people to respond. I would refer to gknoy's comment about how easy surveys are to manipulate, and question whether the survey you mention was created with a purpose.

I've been working with some research companies lately and one thing which surprised me was the fact that surveys are often constructed with the sequence of questions carefully set up to test various messages. Unless you can see the survey itself, I would question the results.

For example, the question prior to 'How do you feel about the NSA’s accessing of telephone call records of millions of Americans through secret court orders' might have been 'Is it important that the NSA’s accessing of telephone call records of millions of Americans has stopped terrorist attacks?' This type of question can mightily swing the outcome, so if you don't have access to the survey you need to ask yourself if the organization putting out the survey has an agenda...
Well, signing the clients is actually the most important part.
Too much capital is toxic: a cautionary tale
Recent and past research has linked sweeteners to obesity, diabetes, and even heart disease. Some studies show it results in larger weight gain than consuming sugar.

In addition to those, substances like sodium cyclamate and aspartame have been linked to cancer after being considered 'safe' for decades. Who knows when they'll declare the same for neotame and other new sweeteners? If only xilitol made from bark was cheaper...

I think the conclusion is that there is no magic formula for eating sweets without the consequences, avoiding refined sugar, high-fructose and similar stuff is the way to keep healthy and out of trouble.

ps: stevia is probably safe, but I find it has too much of a bitter aftertaste.
There are some places in D.C. that require a credit card to make a reservation and charge for no-shows and people are FURIOUS about it.
Do you commonly store all TLS traffic somewhere? I may have misunderstood the article, but I had thought this was about TLS secret keys, not keys used internally for secure storage.
Can you provide more information about what doesn't work in Opera? I just tested it in the current version on OS X and could not find any issues.
I was inspired by his post and wrote one of my own (http://raymondduke.com/blog/improving-your-copywriter-pricin...).

His (free) eBook is sitting on my Google Drive. I should get to reading it soon.
>There is one notable example where a farmer intentionally and willfully planted seeds that he knew were Monsantos

The seeds weren't Monsanto's seed. They were harvested crops. It would be more fair to say that Bowman probably knew or had reason to suspect that a large portion of those "junk" seeds were likely descendant of Monsanto's patented herbicide resistant seed, and that he had probably signed a contract previously in which he agreed not to save seeds from his harvest for further planting.