skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Then your solution doesn't work.

It's a measurement artifact, based on our presumption that there is more than one electron.

That is, measurement itself is simply a way to quantify what we perceive and understand. So, our perception that we are measuring more than one particle is the same lens through which that measurement is produced.

Or, garbage in, garbage out.

Instead, let's assume that there is one electron. Then, we would have to derive different metrics for explaining what we observe (spin, locale, charge, etc.). How does that electron appear to be in multiple places simultaneously? Why does it appear to possess multiple properties?

What mechanism do we have to explain that? And what is missing in our understanding or ability to perceive that makes us believe it's impossible? Is there another dimension? Or is it truly a function of time that we don't understand?
Sorry but I must be blunt... What do people expect for < $8/mo service? Should DO spend a few man hours to fix the issue at hand (abuse or not) and very much burn the 7 months worth of service income from this account? This is an unreasonable expectation.

Something has to give. Yes we've all built and sold products and believe in providing an impeccable service worth far greater than the sum of its parts. Because we're in it to please everyone and build a reputation. But hosting is different. There are real costs for not taking action (upstream null routing, blacklisting, chargeback fees, fraud, abuse, etc).

I'm definitely playing devil's advocate and yes I go above and beyond for my clients. Never have I kicked a client to the curb for abuse they haven't originated. But DO is unmanaged and acquires clients by the shovel. Something has to give.

For the record, I did publicly state here in HN that DO's business plan doesn't add up and this is one of the side effects.
Isn't the point of WebRTC to avoid dependence upon a company like OpenTok?
Most online services that are under $5 a month rarely come with support. I feel bad for startups that charge so little per month because usually the less you charge, the more demanding the customer is. Virtualized servers tend to require more support than say, online accounting or email products.

People who go to Digital Ocean are going for cheap VPS solutions. If they had money to blow, they'd probably be with amazon or rackspace.
When it's harder to get SSL working than to install debian stable on a machine, I'd say SSL is too hard.
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Ya, I contacted them to get them to apply the promo since I didn't have alot of faith in their automation/tooling.

Honestly, for the price, some level of issue/limitation. If you are charging 50% [or more, depending on whom you compare to] of the price when compared to a major competitor, you have to cut somewhere. It seems DO has uneven support quality [like any low end provider] and smaller features set [combination of time and $$].

Then again, people think I'm too generous with Linode and the issues they've had [they cost twice as much for similar specs to DO] so maybe it isn't just the price point.
I know about . and it makes sense to me because of hamza in Arabic. It's the same. It's not a letter, it only serves to reduce ambiguity, but they wouldn't say it's punctuation either. Thanks for breaking it down for me!
Stateless password management
Right, I thought one of the big benefits about pull requests was that it let other devs easily view the diffs before merging a change in, not to mention making it easier for people to discuss the changes. I guess if you don't want to do that then it's easier to just pass around patches and merge.
About a week ago I got to experience Digital Oceans very tight suspension policy first hand. What happened was that one of the accounts I manage was suspended. I had to go through a very long and detailed validation process before they understood that they had done wrong (they admitted to doing an error and apologized). But when my account was activated again my droplet had been destroyed..

After some more time they managed to resolve this and I'm again a happy DO user but I wish that they take a look at their policies. Just the fear of knowing that they can shut you down by mistake for a day or two is bad enough to not use them. They should have a policy where they at least call you and talk to you before they do anything.
Keep going, and you'll most likely end up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosophy
Pakistan, I'd say, by virtue of being a short boat ride from the Pakistani coast.
For another point of view...free is what you get http://danconnor.com/post/50f65364a0fd5fd1f7000001/avoid_sta...
I keep a lot of personal/private data in git repos. I'd rather have this data on my own hardware or servers I admin, can audit, can apply unusual SSH security policy to, etc. gitolite and gitlab are great Github replacements for this purpose.

That said, I still use github (or bitbucket, etc.) when I want to share code - it's still the best place to do that.

I just don't need their private service, which appears to be the same case as the author.
Android 2.x also doesn't support SNI.
What a nonsense. Your facts don't even pass the smell test: around 25 % of people in age of working work as a public servant.

As for the working less than possible and the comment regarding Germany: French workers work more than German on average, thought that's likely skewed because 'forced' part time is more prevalent in Germany (http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=ANHRS). The whole idea of # hours as a meaningful metric is not a good one anyway: some of the countries from OECD that work the most ? Mexico, Turkey, Greece, etc...
Works perfectly in HTC Desire S. Thanks.
I have one of these that I've used forever, a Logitech Precision USB. If you just need a digital d-pad and don't care about analog sticks or triggers, it's great.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logitech-gamepad.JPG

Although I've started seeing compatibility problems recently: the Xbox 360 controller has become such a standard that some newer indie games support ONLY them and not native PC gamepads.
If browsers got fixed to not freak out on self-signed certificates, this wouldn't even be an issue, HTTPS could be a default.
SSL Labs does a great job of SSL testing domains and making recommendations: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=konklone.com

I developed my nginx config based on their recommendations:
https://gist.github.com/konklone/6532544
I want to like Unity, and I use and love my Mac, but for some reason it just doesn't seem to stick for me either.
So every document, email, and memo should have a redacted version generated at the same time as it is generated? Every time omeone creates a spreadsheet or DB table, they have to review which parts of it are revealable under FOIA? That is... an insane burden.
I didn't think this would require pointing out, but amazingly it does.

So, without further ado: Each person / family is different. We could probably sit down and have a conversation and find out some topic where some random solution works amazingly well for me, but - surprise! - it does not seem to be working so well for you. At which point, it would be my turn to observe how you could just man up and do it; after all, it's so easy. For me. In my particular case. Which is different from yours. People and families being different from each other.

Have I belabored the issue enough now?
They're lucky it wasn't near India or both sides might have had another pretext to go to war--again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_wars_and_conflic... Islands are huge prizes, if they're inhabited they also get some 200 miles of sea around it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone
Summary: obtain a certificate from StartSSL. They provide free certificates as long as it is for an individual, not a company's website. Their process to get a cert is a little more difficult that the competition, but konklone.com provides a nice step-by-step guide.
The same thing you do when GitHub goes down...

PANIC and flock to HN to comment on a minor outage!!! - wait, no. git is a distributed system. You continue as you were and nothing changes.
Watch out with the sending email directly from an EC2 instance. You don't really have a fixed IP so rDNS isn't going to work very well, and that's still a front-line filter for a lot of big email providers.
Gnome 2 + Xmonad was a pretty good combination for me, but I haven't used it in a while since I have a Mac at home and need to run Netbeans at work. (The Xinerama support in XMonad is highly unpleasant, too.)
Interesting; would you share these scripts?
But how do you distinguish a self-signed certificate from a MITM NSA-signed one?
Exactly, the benefit of Github is exactly what it says on the tin:

"Build software better, together."

Or, like it says on my Github mug:

"Github: social coding."

Seriously, if it's just you the self hosting your git repos is much easier, cheaper, and you'll have a better handle on how git actually works. However, if you're on a team or dealing with other people, the collaborative features of Github are awesome.

Once again, the correct answer is "use the right tool for the job."
Viewing changes in a pull request is no easier than viewing the changes in a patchset (or rather, if it is you're using the wrong tools). For an established team, a PR-based workflow and a mailing list based workflow (where you mail patchsets to the mailing list and discuss them there) are not very different, but PRs are a lot friendlier to outside contributors.
It's "easy" to get a good ranking so it looks good in your cover letter :P
If you are an Amazon EC2 user, you can get started with Amazon SES for free. You can send 2,000 messages for free each day when you call Amazon SES from an Amazon EC2 instance directly or through AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Many applications are able to operate entirely within this free tier limit.

http://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/

You could also use Mailgun, mandrillapp.com, etc. I believe they all provide at least 10-12K emails/month for free, by calling a RESTful web api.
I am from Pakistan, and this damn island is all everyone is talking about. My facebook feed is flooded with people planning to go visit the island :P. Personally, i dont see what all the fuss is about. Might just be the rise of planet of the apes people :P
The US is falling behind in terms of network bandwidth to the home. This is attributed to many factors. Personally, I'm most empathetic to the duopoloy argument. Where I live - in a small city in Sweden - we can get 300-500 Mbit/s download and 30-50 Mbit/s upload for under US$150 per month (says https://www.comhem.se/bredband/bredbandspaket ).

On that scale, AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet, with a 'Max Turbo' download speed of 24 Mbit/s at $66/mo (says http://www.att.com/u-verse/explore/internet-landing.jsp?fbid... ), is rather slow.

For the same price we can get 30-50 Mbit/s download. Which is what I have, since 500 Mbit/s is a lot more than we need. This is the first time in my life I've ever not gotten the highest bandwidth option.

Unfortunately, it looks like the best choices for you are either to look for alternative and/or get involved with politics. At the very least, complain to your city and state representatives, since that has the most impact on your local service providers.

Can you quantify how much time is wasted, and how much that is worth to you? This would help strengthen your complaint, and perhaps help you understand which alternatives might be more worthwhile.

Wicked! I just learned about 3G/4G cellular bonding. "The LiveU solution bonds up to 14 cellular (3G/4G – LTE/WiMAX) modems over multiple carriers, as well as multiple LAN and even BGAN satellite connections. This creates a reliable, broadband video uplink pipe over multiple narrow-band pipes." So if you have the money, there are solutions for getting higher bandwidth.
And me - ekpyrotic <@> gmail <.> com.
StartSSL has some complains in the past. See this (paid user, but why would they provide a free SSL ...?)
http://danconnor.com/post/50f65364a0fd5fd1f7000001/avoid_sta...
And I think it's better that way. If you care enough to congratulate the team, do it somewhere it's more personal than a HN thread.
Most likely, you have a full copy of the repo on the local disk, and can just push it to another remote.

In this way, DVCS's are resilient to individual server failure.
In my opinion, and for almost any other remotely similar service, it's not about paying for privacy, it's about paying for convenience. You don't go home to get a beer, when you are going out, you pay extra money for the convenience of not having to carry around beer, an instead be able to buy it on the spot, in any wanted quanitity.
Something doesn't add up. From the specs in automobile mode, fuel consumption is 7.5 l per 100 km, and the range is 500 km.

From that, we can deduce that it has a 37.5 l fuel capacity.

Now let's look at the specs for plane mode. It says that it has a range of 700 km, and consumes 15 l per hour. At 15 l per hour, it would take 2.5 hours to go through 37.5 l, but to go 700 km in 2.5 hours takes an average speed of 280 km/hour. The specs say that the top speed is 200 km/hour, so what is going on? (They do say "and more" for the top speed, but I would not expect the listed speed to that far under the real top speed).
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"One such improvement would be to publish all this information publicly in the first place."

As a tax payer I'd prefer they not do this. The cost of having every document redacted would be enormous.

I'm sure many documents contain PII of citizens and agents so redaction is definitely required.
This.

It was the same thing the budget dedicated providers did before 'cloud' and 'vps' became popular/viable technologies. I do think DO's business plan does make sense tho, many of those budget providers are large, profitable business today.
But then I'd need to support SSL for all domains hosted on the server, and this would mean getting 5 certificates instead of one.
Thanks. We also have a step-by-step configuration guide called SSL/TLS Deployment Best Practices. I've just submitted it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6447518

In the nutshell, it's a continuously updated "everything you need to know" about SSL/TLS.
yet another article that values our time at $0. come on, we all make something like $80-130/hr.

Are you really going to spend less than 1 hour maintain this sort-of-github instance you have?
Oh, whoops. Can you recommend how I should change the text? Anything you can link to to show me what you mean?
Probably. But at the time I thought it was a problem I could've taken care of in less than a minute, basically de-activate my account then create another one and add the code. In this case I chose not to contact them, because as fast as their support can be it mostly likely won't be faster than I can de-activate and make a new account. But I was wrong as my account was locked :(

Another thing is their ToS. I admit I didn't read their ToS prior to registration (most people don't I assume, but I won't use that as an excuse), but I did go back and read it afterwards, and it said:

"Users are restricted from registering multiple accounts with the same billing details without first notifying DigitalOcean of that intent to ensure that accounts aren't automatically flagged as possibly fraudulent and without notification accounts may be treated as abuse and/or fraudulent which would lead to suspension of service."

And I thought, even if I did read this I would've reasonably assumed that since my other account has been de-activated, I'm free to make a new one with the same billing information. Unfortunately I was wrong.
Regular banks.
A captcha of 8 characters has a space of ~26^8 (~208 billions) possible combinations in a brute force attack. To divide a set of 12 images between dogs and cats has a space of 2^12 (4096) possible combinations in a brute force attack.
Isn't that a major violation of their SLA? Have you consulted with a lawyer?
> "Just bought a laptop"

That's not really true, when I started looking I had no idea I could configure the hardware in a laptop like this. For some reason I imagined touch and 10 hour battery life being the most important thing and when I couldn't get that I decided to let go of the touch requirement - that is when I got the MacBook Air. It was suppose to be really good as it had the newer Haswell i7, sure it runs Windows OK but the drivers are crap. I was unhappy with the purchase and decided that I wanted to look outside the scope of ultrabooks but still not get a 4KG beast as that had been my previous device and it was just a hassle to take anywhere at all.

I did consider other laptops, like AlienWare but when I went to try one out I felt it was too heavy and bulky.

> "runs Windows well"

All laptops should. Why even bother having that in the requirements?
I want to give some input from the other side here.

I was born in Pakistan. I got out of there at age 12. It took my family about 8 years to get all the paperwork in order to leave the place.

I vividly remember, when I was about 8, a lady coming to our house to sell some pomegranates. It's what a lot of poor people do there to get by, kind of like this: http://transworldexpedition.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/D.... They'd knock the door of each house and try to make a sale. My mom often bought their stuff, and would sometime offer them some work for a small pay (wash the dishes, 20 rupees; mop the floor, 10 rupees). One of the ladies that my mom used to do business with frequently came to our house one day, just begging and begging to borrow (I think) some 12,000 rupees (about $100 USD). Why did she need that money? Her husband had found an opportunity to get out of the country... she spoke very happily about this as if it was finally a blessing she'd been praying for. She said her husband would go there to make money, and send it back so she could more comfortably take care of her 5 kids. This was while my family was in the process of getting the papers in order to flee Pakistan for America, we'd been working with 2 lawyers, we knew how to play the game and we had the money to play it. I remember thinking then in my naivete, wow, so poor people also have the opportunity to leave that hellhole for a better life.

Of course now I'm here in America, and I never heard of her again. But I can make a good guess what happened. Her husband probably saved up to go to Qatar (or some other middle-eastern region where this happens), paid for the ticket himself, had his passport confiscated when he got there and was basically trapped. It sends a chill down my spine to think how the lady fared in her life, without a husband, without the small income stream that she once had, with no word back from him -- only uncertainty. I knew where she lived, her place of residence, it kind of like this: http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article391293.ece/ALTERNATES..., with basically nothing inside besides a wooden frame for sleeping and little possessions beside stuff picked up from trash.

What separated her or her children from me, was that I was born a good kilometer north of where she lived, where the slums were. I was born to a father with a masters in chemical engineering, who had the means, resources, and the knowledge to know he had to get out of there if he wanted a better life for himself or his children.

I'm left now with the depressing, heavy, and intimate knowledge that there are still so many people there -- and elsewhere in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal etc. that are recipients of this cruel fate. Their sons and daughters are sold off as slaves and/or prostitutes, and they can't even do anything about it. The misery those people suffer is simply unimaginable to us.
Is it irony that Safari considers his $0 certificate unsafe, or did he simply get what he paid for?
Unfortunately. it's not always just the cost - too many providers (e.g. DigitalOcean) obnoxiously don't support multiple IP addresses on a server/VM.
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Sort of. You actually do need to know when a certificate is self-signed because it means the connection isn't authenticated even if it's encrypted.

But what they ought to do is to accept the self-signed certificate, show something other than the usual lock icon but do the encryption anyway, and then freak out if the certificate changes before it expires.
is this... a joke?
Great an' all, but what happens when a request fails? There's no (specified) retry mechanism — and POSTs aren't meant to be idempotent. I guess many applications don't need strong reliability and so this is cool, but I can't help but feel HTTP's design is really being stretched with ideas like this. I totally get that it's really easy to get stuff going if everything just speaks HTTP, but is it really for the best?
> Nonsense.

> may be damn near impossible for most of us

Huh?

> but it's quite possible to recognize growing risk that a market isn't pricing in

I'm genuinely curious if you know anyone who has the ability to do this? If you know someone, I'm putting all of my stock in their company.
Not all VPS service providers are treated alike. Linode is probably a mid-tier VPS. Their cheapest plan is $20, which is 4x more expensive than Digital Ocean's cheapest plan of $5 a month. I would guess that most of the ultra cheap VPS plans probably won't come with a network engineer to help you.
I don't know the first question's answer and that's what i am trying to learn. Second it's my first time participating in a HN topic that much i didn't know the etiquette here sorry for that.
Sure impossible to hack. What can I steal from him?
There may be all kinds of valid reasons to validate acounts, check documents and ownership of cards, etc.

None of those reasons excuse putting services offline while this validation is happening - first try validation, give it some reasonable timeframe, and only then cut or don't cut the service depending on results. Is it really so complicated?
Partly. On a modern system with SNI the hostname is sent in the clear. This removes the requirement for a dedicated IP per domain with SSL for those users, but until SNI everywhere you still need one.
I pay because github is a fantastically useful tool. I am willing to pay for quality software. If I wasn't and other people like me weren't willing to pay for software, a lot of us wouldn't have jobs.
I hate that! I switched tabs while the 30s commercial was playing and then realized I just missed the actual video!

When I tried to replay the video, I only got commercials...
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Also the glass explorers / motorcycle riders I know are worried about the glass prism impacting their eye or face during an accident.

The helmet keeps your head inside and the rest of the world out during a crash, so putting more "stuff" (especially sharp glass/electronics) in it could be dangerous.
Yup, I love fireplace. After a bit of fiddling my Clojure setup was better than my Python setup ever was. But for rainbow parentheses, you need also https://github.com/kien/rainbow_parentheses.vim
That is the question. All of the materials are expensive themselves (gallium, indium) or expensive to process ( silicon) - which means these cells will never scale and replace oil.

Which is why dye-sensitized solar cells are such a promising alternative, despite their lower single module efficiencies of ~15% (20-30% for the expensive semiconductors discussed in OP). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye-sensitized_solar_cell