skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The selling point is that it's a service not at the mercy of your network or hosting infrastructure. It's hosted by someone else and across multiple AWS zones, so in theory your customers should always be able to hit your status page, regardless of whether your entire AS has taken a hit.

Also it's aimed at startups who may not necessarily have all their automatic status page bits in play on their own infra.

Finally, I'd rather have human control over what I consider to be the the operational status of my various platform services rather than letting nagios or some other automated. There's a very thin lines between "Degraded Performance" and more critical situations, humans are better at deciding that.
If the German site is different because Germans have laws to protect consumers, it kinda give the scam away. All that regional sites could easily be the same, but there there are less or no laws, the scamming continues.
I wasn't able to tell right away from the screenshot, even while knowing ahead of time. I must tip my hat to say that this is a brilliantly executed dark pattern. It is a myopic move on their part because even though they will make some money now, these types of tricks never last in the long run. Plus no one likes to be tricked so these people won't simply roll over, they will be out for the trickster's head.
Dude, could you make it any harder to follow your project? Give us a Twitter profile or RSS feed.

I had almost already forgotten about the existence of your service.
I don't use Godaddy any more, but I remember Godaddy had something very similar on their checkout process, and you had to individually check off each item to make sure you are not being charged on all these add-on you didn't ask for in the first place.
"Idea guys" who ask you to write their app for free, but not before signing their NDA, of course.
Grandparent post from your previous comment.

I though you were the Fez variant of Cookie monster minus the eating of Fezzes?
Hell, how do they compare to a $35 RaspberryPi? Not very favorably, in my opinion.

They both have the same amount of RAM, and pretty similar CPUs, but at least the Pi can output video at 1080p. The APC maxes out at 720p.

Also, for a computer supposedly built with "awareness that the purpose of a computer is to connect to the Internet", I find the lack of built-in WiFi surprising.
> gerrit works pretty much the same way (but also forces you to squash changes into a single commit)

That may explain why one of the committers I work with on an open source project heavily suggests squashing changes into a single commit when merging topic branches into master. He works with gerrit at his day job!

Personally, I think it's better to only squash experimental commits or minor stuff like removing a newline, and to keep development of a feature spread out over several commits if it makes sense. Makes it easier to revert back to a specific commit.
From the source you linked to:

"Cook et al. (2013) stated that abstracts of nearly all papers expressing an opinion on climate change endorsed consensus,which, however, traditionally has no scientific role; used three imprecise definitions of consensus interchangeably; analyzed abstracts only;excluded 67% expressing no opinion; omitted some key results; misstated others; and thus concluded that 97.1% endorsed the hypothesis as defined in their introduction,namely that the “scientific consensus that human activity is very likely causing most of the current GW (anthropogenic global warming, or AGW)”. The authors’ own data file categorized 64 abstracts, or only 0.5% of the sample, as endorsing the consensus hypothesis as thus defined. Inspection shows only 41 of the 64, or 0.3% of the entire sample, actually endorsed their hypothesis. Criteria for peer review of papers quantifying scientific consensus are discussed."

They sampled the data. Just because they didn't review every paper doesn't mean that the papers they didn't review disagree with their assessment. Furthermore, the fact that 67% didn't express an opinion simply shows that they were scientists. One goal of scientific publications is to not editorialize, to not express opinions. However, the results of their research still point to anthropogenic climate change.
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With some luck this will result in regulation with some serious teeth in it in the case of transgressions.
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+1 for the link, but...

>> In my opinion, that is simply factually wrong

oh the irony in that sentence...
A firm doing currency speculation with bitcoin is treated differently though and then bitcoins are taxed like current assets.
It seems to me that calling scam behavior a "dark design pattern" just serves to legitimize it.
Doesn't matter how famous the designers are. It's still just a typeface. And the people in the movie are getting worked up over it.
And you constantly see posts on reddit where the Vine video was turned into a gif, uploaded to ingur, and shared.
I don't see why you need realtime "decoding" of the vibrations. You record the motion, then later analyze it. I'm sure different kinds of work involve different patterns of typing (e.g. writing code uses different typing patterns than transcribing legal documents) and those patterns can be recognized after the fact to reconstruct most of the typing.

That said, there are much easier methods to go about obtaining keystrokes from a victim ...
Basho Riak database is now ported to FreeBSD
Hey Mr. "Idea guy learning how to code", do you honestly believe your pathetic company and apps are worth spending more than 40 hours/week? Get over yourself.
Google changed the Internet and the way I read blogs (irony) for worse.
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Now thats paranoid ;)
The Kushan Mothership is in the bottom right actually... 610m

EDIT: that's 610m long, 2138m high
Your branches are private. Only public branches should be a considered for check-out.

Private branches can be rebased at will but the public branches are off limits. A public shared repository may help in this case.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455391
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It is difficult to sell an app that doesn't have reviews. I recommend setting it to free until you get some review.
Wells fargo will refuse to cancel for you, saying it is between you and the vendor. Further to that, you can't even cancel your credit card, as Wells Fargo will transfer the recurring charge to a new card.

That's not been my experience with AmEx. Some scammy company began billing me for monthly charges, and I couldn't get anywhere through the telephone number listed on the bill. I called AmEx, disputed the charges, and got all the money back—but the company kept charging me every month anyway! AmEx said they'd put a block on the company, and since then I've been fine.
There are plenty of businesses making things that, if they stopped making them, would not stop the world from turning. The point is, it's a business, who is likely competing against many other businesses that would be all-to-happy to scoop up their market share. I don't agree that employees should be expected to consistently work more than 40 hours week after week. I do agree that when situations arise in business that requires full and focused effort of entire departments or the whole company, the managers/owners first better come to the employees, with hat-in-hand, and discuss why this is important for the company and the team before issuing their mandatory overtime decree.
This sort of thing is infuriating. Nowhere on this page does it say "we will charge you every month." http://i.imgur.com/ctMDiCJ.png

I just went through the whole checkout process to see how bad it really is. There were upsell interstitials at least four times, they did the 20-minute countdown clock thing to add a little pressure, and the checkout page looked like I was getting boots for $19.95. If you look on the right side in pretty small grey text it says that you're activating your VIP membership. You have to read down several paragraphs to figure out what they're trying to get away with, and nowhere does it actually say in clear terms "we will charge you every month." Entering in your shipping and payment information and it again completely fails to indicate there's a monthly fee — just a little checkbox "I accept the terms..."

All the state attorney generals should join together to sue them and get their victims' money back. At least we know they have the cash to pay the settlement now thanks to RHO, Matrix, and TCV.
Good deity that's a pricey service for what could be achieved on a free web blog (tumblr, wordpress, etc)
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In one of the anthologies for Larry Niven (either N-Space or Playground of the Mind), he describes a Ringworld that induces magnetic effects on its star to shoot out a jet of plasma, using that to propel the whole system.

While trying to find an online reference for this, apparently in the last Ringworld novel they hook a hyperdrive up to this, making it the largest "ship" I know. (I use "I know" advisedly... I'm sure somebody somewhere has turned a multiverse into some sort of ship for some reason or other.)

In the Cities in Flight series by James Blish, the planet "He" gets about quite well, though that is dwarfed in every measurement by the Ringworld.
It is nothing to do with doing the same thing or offering the same service, its about how its is sold to unsuspecting customers.
1:1 would be good. Now, where could I find a model like that..
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http://slbkbs.org/jsgif/‎ ?
This keeps the AES keys in some x86 debug registers so they never appear in RAM and can't be accessed after a reboot.
Shouldn't this also be a really fast implementation since there isn't even the delay required to move items into/out of ram?

Also what happens if the scheduler moves the application out of running state?
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It's fine to force push to a remote branch if it's a personal branch, that is, no one else is working on it but you.

(Or it's fine if you've previously discussed with your team the implications of force pushing to shared branches, and they're okay with that because you all know what you're doing.)
The lack of imagination from some HN readers is always disappointing when climate change is discussed.

Imagine for a moment that climate change is a scam, and isn't happening, and that we're all wrong about it.

Why are increasing efficiency, reducing waste, investigating new energy generation methods, etc, bad things?

Bob has a car that can do 25 MPG. Does he want more cup holders, or does he want better fuel efficiency? (actually, he probably wanted more cupholders, which is one of the reasons the US car industry is so broken now. I know you need comfy cars when you drive so far, but I don't understand why you don't need better fuel efficiency even if fuel is cheap.)

PS: Googlers: It'd be interesting to see how popular a (https://www.google.com/lowercarbon) site would be. That site would use Google's best tech to aggressively reduce the CO2 cost of searching.

(http://www.slate.com/articles/business_and_tech/design/2004/...)

> In a recent New Yorker article on sport-utility vehicles and safety, Malcolm Gladwell quotes the French cultural anthropologist G. Clotaire Rapaille expressing amazement that the first thing educated car-buyers look at in a car is how many cup holders it has. My experience is that people shopping for a new car or truck are more discriminating. It is not so much the number of cup holders as their design that can tip the balance between choosing one vehicle over another. (I have repeatedly heard articulate people say that their family's latest automobile purchase hinged on which cup holders worked best for them.)
If you work on a feature branch originating from master, what you do is "git rebase -i master" to squash your commits.
Or, scam type start up founders know where to get investment from.
" More than half of the people who subscribe to the service are still subscribers after two years, which is unusually high for a subscription service."

In other words, nearly half of the people who get tricked into subscribing cancel?

Let's also not forget that this will typically be on a credit card - many consumers do not examine their statements closely and will just continue forking over minimum payment. (Of course we won't forget it - it's part of the business model, after all.)
How U.S. car design came to include cup holders.
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Didn't you just learn how to code recently? Thought I saw it in your profile. Are you "thinking" all day while you spend so much time on HN? Maybe thats where most of those 8-10 hours are really going.
guess it's time for HN to wise up to the fact that investors aren't just benevolent gods handing out opportunities from above
I'd love to see this for Scotland. I'd be tempted to buy my favourite Hebrides.
Sure, it probably has not much real world impact. But you have to remember this is academic research, not industry security research. The point of academic research is to come up with non-standard ideas that are sort-of feasible, caveats are okay - but might become important in the future.
Now we're getting somewhere! If an opinion is not equal to scientific consensus, then it's simply not an opinion. Great stuff. We still need a better expression to derogatorily generalize these people though. "Climate-kook" maybe? That's catchy and dismissive, still not entirely sure it's hateful enough though.
If you use rebase interactive like this:

git rebase -i HEAD~n

Where n is number of commits from HEAD, you can do ANYTHING to your branch. You can stop mid rebase to add some files that didn't exist before, squash, fix, execute commands, etc.

You can even change order of commits and delete commits from history. BE VERY, VERY CAREFUL!

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rebase.... (See interactive mode and splitting commits).
In particular, rebasing is very hazard-prone if someone else may have checked out your branch.

That's why you never rebase a published branch. This is easier to manage if your team uses a central repository as the 'official' repository and everybody pushes and pulls to that one. Then you know that your branches in your local repository are not public, not published, and safe for history-altering workflows like rebase. It's only the branches that you push that you're not allowed to rebase, at least not prior to the last push.

If your team doesn't use a central repository, and you're pushing and pulling between all of your local repositories, then I'd suggest using a naming convention for branches to distinguish public ones from private ones. Eg: start your private branch names with "DEV_". If someone else pulls a DEV_* branch, then they should expect that its history might change and they'll have to deal with that when it occurs.
I'm assuming a GitHub / Stash / similar workflow. Branches are not private; they are not kept just locally.

(By private, I mean unpublished, in such a way that someone may have merged or branched off my branch.)
Josh, this is a bunch of malarky. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Had to delete my comment :(. Thanks for clarifying that.
come on, it's a scam, pure and simple
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That is the time window for chargebacks, but not for small claims court.
> The feature branch's commit history is preserved in the repository (thought not in the master branch)

This would require you not to get rid of the branches (remotely and locally), right? GitHub does allow you to undo the deletion of a branch, but is that only for a certain time period?

I like to delete my branches as soon as they've been merged in.
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I don't understand why people think rebasing destroys history. It doesn't "destroy" anything.

Have you ever had an argument that was just mediocre? But later you think of a witty retort that would have been just perfect. Thats what rebasing is. Its re-structuring the conversation the way you would have liked it to go.
Thanks for the heads up ck2. I've updated the config to add ocsp stapling. The certificate really has a extra(unnecessary) root certificate, I will solve this later today.

The RC4 part is based on this article https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2013/08/05/c.... But I will do some more research and update the post.
It depends on the complexity of the app as well, and how much vertical integration there is, and what kind of development pressures there are (in a startup, the deadlines can be very short).
It's nice to see the fallacy of options is finally sinking in, and people are refusing to take a pay cut for the mystical unicorn of a fast exit.
OT: I spent a good minute looking through my comment for that mistake. >_<
"It is a scam, plain and simple, and their recurring income is from the privilege of sending poor unwary consumers a new pair of shoes every single month without their full understanding."

Actually they don't send poor unwary consumers any shoes, they give poor unwary consumers "credits" which most likely got unnoticed and unused.
It seems like the music app received some half-baked changes across the board. For example, you can no longer shuffle all music in a particular genre through the app. They added (or maybe always had) an option to shuffle through Siri ("Play some blues"), but there are some frustrating edge cases:

"Play some video game music."
"I'm sorry, I can't help you with videos."

I've had to resort to creating smart playlists for most of my genres, which is highly inefficient.

I find the new interface for shuffling to be confusing as well. It's now the word "Shuffle" with a white background, which changes to "Shuffle All" with a slight pink tinge when you tap it. If tapping "Shuffle" turns shuffle on, then why would tapping "Shuffle All" turn it off? It just seems like a confusing experience.

Overall, I'm fairly happy with iOS 7. But outside of radio, the music app feels like a regression.
Yes I am very relived they published this. I assumed this was possible acoustically many years ago, but never told anyone ahahha. When I saw this headline, I feared seismic (accelerometers) might do an even better job at it, but fortunately, it looks like they don't.
That's Bug Reporting To My Liking.
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> Internal Server Error

There is a good amount of irony here. The most secure system is a system that you can't access at all.
> Under "How VIP Membership Works", it explains: " If you do not take action between the 1st and the 5th of the month, you will be charged $39.95 for a member credit on the 6th. Each credit can be redeemed for 1 JustFab item, so use it to shop later!"

How much does the service cost that takes action automatically for you between the 1st and the 5th? Isn't this what computers are for to do things automatically for you?
Ah but one can hope :) There's always those people who don't listen to their lawyers.
The title is misleading. This is an appendto.com product sitting on top of Sauce Labs tooling. It just so happens that the IE team did some collaboration along the way.
This seems abjectly broken? jQuery and co. comes up as not working in a single browser (well looks there's a chance it might work in IE6-8 but I wouldn't take their word on it;)
'Google in 1998' easter egg takes you to Google.com as it looked 15 years ago
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> I just went to the site -- you can do this -- picked a random pair of boots and put them in my shopping cart. I then clicked checkout, and here is what that page looked like:

> (http://imagesup.net/?di=15138026329215)

> "I wonder how much of this $100 million are from people like my girlfriend who simply didn't read their entire 2,500 words Terms of Service and were unaware that they were charged $39.95 a month for nothing" -- Seriously, please look at the link above to the checkout flow and tell me that's how you see it, that you have to read the 2,500 word TOS to figure out that this is the case.

That screenshot looks pretty bad to me. I'd expect recurring charges to appear in the same bright pink colour, and in the same "sub total, total continue checkout" box, as the other charges.
Very aptly put, although I don't think any kind of polemic and gripping journalism that inspires debate should be expected from the MSM, at least not on a regular basis. The purpose is to sedate, not inform. Which is why yellow journalism sells so well.
Unlike distance, I don't think there's a comparable metric that can be used.

Star Trek, just to take one tiny example, always talks about "quads", where one might expect bits. What's a quad? You might think "maybe it's a four-state bit", but in that case the numbers talked about on the show are absurdly low [1]. One "gigaquad" would be 2 gigabits, or about 256 megabytes (depending on whether we're using 1000 or 1024 as our base). Indeed, the entire point of the measurement is to be mysterious. This does not play well to comparisons.

By contrast, "kilometer" means the same thing... well... more or less... across a wide variety of fictional universes.

By "more or less", I mean that it's pretty easy to just splat a number down without thinking about it. Here, let me write my own story:

One day, astronomers spotted a perfectly spherical,
shiny spaceship approaching Earth from outside of the
orbit of Pluto. It was a trillion kilometers in
diameter! They sent it radio greetings, but before
the message got there, the ship blew up. Truly, Man
was humbled by his place in the capricious cosmos.
The End.

There's all kinds of things wrong with that. I mean, jeez, could the moral have been any more trite? Umm... wait... that's not what I was trying to say... I mean, those numbers are silly. Ah, yes, that was the point. If I were serious, it's likely that my understanding of "kilometer" is a bit off.

And to be honest, I rather think the Independence Day ship fits that description. It's absurdly large for what it actually did; if taken seriously, our little fusion bomb should probably not so much have "exploded" it as "caused a bit of a flash, if you were looking". (Secondary explosions may have finished the job but it would have looked quite different.)

[1]: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Quad
Why enter a subscription to buy clothes? There's thousands of websites to buy clothes from. Without a subscription. Amazing.
How can WellsFargo transfer a recurring charge to a new credit card? That makes no sense. How can they associate old card with new card? That means if there was fraud going on WellsFargo would have no way of stopping it ever.

It also sounds like you are talking about a debit card, and not a credit card, and it sounds like you gave a scammer your bank account number, not debit card number. Those are just guesses.
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It is unfortunate the state of "tech" writers these days.
Apparently, Dreamhost isn't holding the traffic peak :(
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When some thing is not technically illegal, but still fools consumers, it is a scam. Other wise, it would be illegal. The borderline, is exactly where scammers try to dance.
Yes, you could say that if you wanted to set up a straw man that is shockingly close to "we don't need to use version control because our code never has problems".
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How is this any different than the Nigerian scam emails? It seems pretty clear that Nigerian scam emails are in fact a scam, so anyone "falling" for them are just agreeing to be scammed, just like JustFab.
Hm. Maybe Linux should fold this into the kernel.