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Ask HN: Review my PR Stunt - Crowdivore
Thank you for the feedback on my landing page. I reduced the text and simplified the page.

I am now considering a PR stunt and wanted your opinion. I hope to launch SettleIt.org soon and the first topic I want to try to settle with crowdsourced information is something similar to "should most people be a vegetarian?" To add some fun and interest, each day I would eat vegetarian if the vegetarians were winning or I would eat meat if the carnivors were winning. I would blog the current scores and what I ate.

Do you think this would increase interest and spread the word about SettleIt.org?

Thanks for you feedback,
Bentley
Lorenzo’s Oil
Superman? Please stop messing with us poor geeks. ;)
So like a P2P CDN. Big deal. A CDN like Amazon's is cheap and efficient. For web applications, e.g. dynamic content, a CDN isn't helpful, and neither will this system be. I don't see this as revolutionary.
The Great Jeff Dean, who is he?
Am the only one who puts animated GIFs in the same category as the blink and marquee tags? Absolutely hate when there is more than one of these attention-seeking horrors on the page.

I've had to stop reading github's blog since they started putting thousands of these abhorrences there and started making it looks like a Buzzfeed page.
Except wages are high right now for technical workers due to the low supply of them, as the market gets flooded with technical workers in the coming years wages in this industry will probably drop.
I would hardly call "other countries" reactions just an excuse... If the internet becomes more balkanized, it is on the NSA and American government's head, nobody else's.
Unlocked phones are the way to go
I'm 46. I came up with my idea at 28 but it was complex and ambitious -- and it just kept growing and changing. It was chaos in my mind. But I would work on it, and then come up a level, see things from a higher perspective and everything would shrink and consolidate, gain order and orthogonality. This happened over and over, till I got it down to nothing. This took a huge amount of time and there is no way I could have come directly to it at 28.

I'm as creative and as smart as I was then, I don't think that has changed. But I'm wiser now -- about Computer Science, about systems -- and I have that perspective, which has made all the difference.
Homepage seems to work: http://stackoverflow.com/
Not down: http://stackoverflow.com/

PS: Don't submit the link to the error page... or it will appear to still be down for everyone that clicks. Just submit the home page. Or better yet... don't submit it at all. Sites go down from time to time for a minute or two. This is not news. A major outage is news.
Trepidation and Restrictions Leave Crowdfunding Rules Weak
Half-way to 30 is 15.
Cool iOS Opportunity in Berlin
If you like it feel free to tell your friends!
Is Your Product Too Engaging?
So they have invented P2P? (just kidding :))

Im saying this because im working hard to create a P2P equivalent platform, and boy, the devils are in the details..

Its very sophisticated right now, and i also focus on information; im doing it using the chrome engine, so developers will create isolated applications that will just inherit the mechanics of the system (pretty much like a browser does)

I didnt publish anything, no paper or idea, because im pragmatic (and not backed by any university) and want to publish the real software so devs can create the applications and uses can just use..

I wonder how many of my own conclusions will share with the conclusions of this work of theirs..

If anyone knows more details about this and how this is different from P2P and MQTT(based on pub/sub) it would be cool to know about... what are the innovative parts.. etc..

PS: if anyone want to know more details about what im doing just let me know
None of this involves any new technology, but certainly a new way of using it.

Like my Italian grandmother learning how to cook Thai food in her late 80s: so uncomfortable that the same flour and oil was making this weird foreign deliciousness. But she had to be coaxed into trying it before she realized the new flavors were a good thing!

We'll feel the same way - data is data is data, but getting it from some cache from a few hops upstream? ISPs and content providers are not going to like losing this control. Very much its own topic and nowhere near as much fun to talk about!
As is typical, the day someone posts simplewebrtc to hackernews is the day our demo app (talky.io) goes down!

We're on it and should have it back up really soon.

Sorry!
Goo Create is a browser-based 3D editor (WebGL)
Dude, please don't do that in prison.
List every possible way a browser Javascript application might end up rebinding a function.
Simple CSS tricks allow you to change the color of icon fonts easily http://css-tricks.com/examples/IconFont/
And we're back, demos should work again at http://talky.io

Thanks everyone.
Google Cloud SQL is now accessible from just about any application, anywhere
The point is why do you want to write things from scratch each time you start a new project? That is a huge waste of time and also a huge waste of resources ( money ? ) for whoever is paying for the project.
Real Stories

->Chinese politics hampered innovation

->If you plan to change the world in Academia expect to do it in your 50s
Did you word the work agreement yourself?
Add me to the list of people who sometimes feels this way. This is the most inspirational commentary I've read on HN.
I see the dependency injection as the solution to a massive problem I couldn't see an obvious solution to with Backbone.
Read excerpts from Packard Plant bidder's statement
"Never trust anyone over 30" is a bit of a rallying cry among musicians. It's often attributed Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jerry Rubin and a few others during the 1960's, but I'm not sure anyone really knows who said it first. I would guess that people are actually referencing that whole movement when they put it in the Craigslist ads rather than setting a hard and fast restriction.

Or maybe it's a bunch of 22-year-olds who just want to hang out with people their own age.
One scenario: If you have a build server, say running jenkins, that consumes PRs from your private github repo and automatically runs them, someone from your team has to store an API key on it. Now imagine an attacker has gotten access to the network and is able to perform DNS cache poisoning.
>zero labor cost means I can buy the most ridiculous . . .

Amen! I spend $50 an oil change. Not because I take it to a shop, but because my cars only get the best of the best.

You bet I've tried running royal purple in my Mustang for shits and giggles!

Both my camry and mustang are little eco-tuned 4 cylinders, but they purr like kittens!

>until you crack an impact socket

I'm sure you know this, but for the benefit of others: that's actually what an impact socket is _designed to do._
They are made out of a different type of metal that cracks instead of shatters.

At the speed & torque these impact guns are capable of: using the right socket is the difference between being slightly bummed that you have to buy a new socket, and becoming legally blind in one eye.

>some specialized stuff is pretty expensive

At least around here: many autoparts stores will rent out such equipment for fairly reasonable prices.

(Of course they usually have a "you break it you bought it" policy if they don't offer some kind of insurance; and then you're paying full price for a broken machine.)

(You also may need _other_ equipment to drive it; for instance I don't really have a compressor suitable for pneumatic tooling at home.)

> I'm at 1.75 hrs and we're both losing money in 15 minutes so slap it together and hope for the best

My recent timing belt job is actually the first time either of my cars has been at a shop.

I dropped it off right before close in the middle of the week and the guy says: "and let me guess, you need it in a hurry?"

And I'm like: "of course not, take all the time you need!" (Writing this out: it may sound a little sarcastic. In context however it wasn't, this guy's shop is literally halfway between my home and my job, and both are in walking/biking distance. So I was in no rush for him to finish.)

At my last computer repair job we had a similar motto: the only way we lose money is if the customer comes back. Obviously expedience is something of a virtue when doing repairs [or any sort of billable work]: but I hope that many shops value doing a good job above beating the book time.
> The most obvious "single" would be the iPhone 5C which, by all accounts, is underselling expectations significantly.

Hrm? Apple's first-week iPhone sales significantly beat analyst estimates and their own records. It doesn't seem plausible that those were all 5Ses.

> Why are HTC and Samsung doing so well in the phone market? Because they offer what clearly millions of people want: a 5" screen.

HTC are not doing well in the phone market. As for Samsung, the Note 3 managed 5 million channel sales in one month, with total sales of the series over a couple of years of only 40 million. 40 million sales over two years is a drop in the bucket for Samsung's sales; the bulk of their sales are of low-end devices (with small screens).

> If Apple had introduced a 5" screen iPhone this cycle, how many would they have sold?

Well, I know I wouldn't have bought one, whereas I did buy a 5S. Not everyone wants giant phones.
It will be the mother of all disruptions, dare I say ;)
I'm 41. I'm a "hotshot web dev" (backend). Trust me, if you simply try to stay healthy/take care of yourself, there's PLENTY of runway left to start new things.
Focus in relationships. All the rest is not important.
Technically, that should be 405 Method Not Allowed O:-)
This is basically why I bought an Apple TV for my parents. There's a good chance if a video loads on an apple device that it can be streamed to an Apple TV. They were watching videos all the time on iPads and the TV in the living room wasn't being used anymore.
Taken for granted: Pure science research funding
Shave your head. That's one problem solved.
Perhaps not the worse thing but being sued for trademark infringement is pretty bad.
Do you have any sort of web version of this? Or is it only on iOS?
Classical only for me
focusatwill.com/music/#player
That 1000 ton was a very arbitrary spewed metric. The smallest of four wheelers is capable of much damage, which is what I was getting at.
I think this is a mature, well engineered approach to collisions - one that engineers can learn from.

Rather than throwing a hissy fit when it encounters an exception, a mature system should try to gracefully recover... Because we're never going to have total control over the inputs / environment. Especially when we're just a small bug in a big world.
This works better for me:

# Productivity
127.0.0.1 mail.google.com
127.0.0.1 gmail.com
127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com
127.0.0.1 www.bbc.co.uk
127.0.0.1 netflix.com
127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com
127.0.0.1 arstechnica.com
127.0.0.1 theverge.com
127.0.0.1 www.google.com
127.0.0.1 xkcd.com
127.0.0.1 duckduckgo.com
127.0.0.1 www.theguardian.com
127.0.0.1 www.apple.com
127.0.0.1 store.apple.com
127.0.0.1 www.microsoft.com
I felt that way until I actually used it.
Same here. I didn't feel their offering from Experian was great either. I just canceled my card instead.
So what you're saying is that in your personal experience Android devices with 1GB of RAM suffer in multi-tasking. And yet you also say there's no evidence Android devices need more RAM?

BTW, there's another class of software Android devices run that consume more RAM. UI widgets. Now that's perfectly legitimate. If you like widgets, Android or WP are the way to go. It's just that they have a cost in RAM utilization, and therefore device memory specs and power consumption. If Apple supported UI widgets, they'd have to also increase memory capacity to maintain system performance and stability, so they don't. This is an area where reasonable people can have a difference of opinion. Apple prioritize battery life and lean system design, Android emphasizes features and customization.
Standards are a bit lower for a civil infraction. Which isn't to say that this isn't a consideration, but is certainly to say that the situation is not the same as with a misdemeanor or felony the way our system currently works (and that is quite possibly appropriate).
That is not an enforceable contract in the US.
> natural state of man

why on earth would you assume a static natural state given what we know about evolution?
I wonder how long until the Ara hardware DRM keys and gamification of Ara modules begin.

And how long until some virus engages the hardware locks on the modules and forces you to pay a fine to upgrade your phone ("Vendor" lock in).

Or, on the contrary, when Ara modules start sliding out of their positions, crashing the phone, corrupting pictures, etc.; causing Motorola (or whoever) to build in locks.

Or software that doesn't rely on hardware, but refuses to run when you don't have modules x, y, and z; or refuses to run when you DO have modules a, b, and c.
This isn't strictly true if multiple employees are paid exactly the market median.

Median(1,2,3,3,3,4,5) = 3
1) If you are always tired and a little overweight (or more), get checked for sleep apnea issues at a sleep study center. If you have it, it is sapping your energy.

2) If you are like me and don't like exercise much (nor the time investment) but can no longer deny its benefits, do what I'm doing and do HIIT spin cycle 3 times a week for 25 minutes. It totally works. Feel free to google it, there's a lot of interesting research at this point.
I assume they're all comparable in the relevant attribute which is: if you make labor more expensive, employers will tend to consume less labor. Do you have some reason to think they're not comparable in that way? Do we need to find evidence of a general economic principle in EVERY locality for you to accept that it is, in fact, a general economic principle? Or is it sufficient that we have a strong intuitive argument and hundreds of studies showing it in action in various places and times? (And if you think the difference is "monopsony" as per Card/Kruger, how do you answer Boudreaux's questions I linked above?)

In the US, here's a plot of the correspondence between the teenage unemployment rate and recent large minimum wage rate hikes:

http://www.coyoteblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/minwage...

Quote: "Each 10% increase in the minimum wage [since 2007] was accompanied by a decrease in employment of 1.2% for Hispanic males, 2.5% for white males and 6.5% for black males. When looking at hours worked, we saw a similar effect: Each 10% increase in the minimum wage reduced hours worked by 1.7% for Hispanic males, 3% for white males and 6.6% for black males.

The data clearly show a disproportionate loss of hours and employment for black young adults. Let's put these lost opportunities into context. Between 2007 and 2010, employment for 16- to 24-year-old black males fell by approximately 34,300 as a result of the recession; over the same time period, approximately 26,400 lost their jobs as a result of increases in the minimum wage across the 50 states and at the federal level." (source: http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/07/second-recession-from-mi... )
What examples can you think of outside of gaming or dating that face this challenge?
It's also just a software implementation AFAICT. This does nothing for people wanting to ship open source drivers for all the various hardware codecs (some of which have open source implementations already) on device SoCs. It doesn't even allow shipping the identical codec on platforms that Cisco didn't build for (e.g. no OpenBSD or uclibc for you!).

Basically this sucks. Opposition to H.264 was being driven more or less exclusively by open source browsers, and Cisco crafted a compromise that was (just barely) acceptable to the people leading the fight, and did nothing for anyone else.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640694

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640895

Two people who have tried.

Unrelated: Looks like another topic nuked: http://hnrankings.info/6640532/
It depends on the material. High carbon steel is usually quenched in oil or air. Water quenching may cause it to shatter. Medium carbon steel can be quenched in oil , water, or impure water(typically brine). What you quench with will determine the hardness(and brittleness) of the steel, oil being the softest and brine being the hardest.
> "Headlines catch my attention"

But apparently the Hacker News crowd don't deserve a direct link to the article in question, so we get what is effectively an interstitial with a different headline.
Experience can trap you or not be relevant.

If you want to make money money money you probably shouldn't be spending your time deriving Maxwell's equations for nonlinear media. If you want to do algorithm design but spend all your time doing HPC you are not heading in the right direction. If keep justifying your continued sojourn into a `temporary` field due to the emotion baggage established by time investment (`experience`) it might prevent you from making risky but rewarding choices.

There is something to be said about he dangers of staying in your comfort zone - which is certainly the case for 8 years of university education.

If what we value is not in the direction established by our experience then we may find that experience is a shackle for our dreams and a guide down a path of misery.
If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you can't, you can't.
things like nginx and apache are quite secure out of the box.

There are three or four main things you need to do for your architecture though.

1) Change default passwords. You might be surprised how often I am able to get in with root toor or root no password. Mysql? Remember to change the root password (because there is none by default)

2) Learn OWASP top 10 and write good code. They have code RIGHT ON THE SITE for how to write a better more secure web-app. There aren't a whole lot of sites out there that make it hard to break their web-app

3)Keep your stuff updated. There was a apache php 0day today. You better believe everyone needs to update their services.

4) Disable extra services you don't need. Telnet, FTP, 53, 445, the list is long depending on what you're running. IF you don't need it, disable it. Don't set a firewall in front of it and call it secure, disable it.

To top it off.
5) 2 factor your ssh (and make sure you're using ssh2 always.) if you don't have a VPN set up. Make it so an attacker needs the key and your password.

If you do this minimal stuff you should be fairly secure.

edit: Securing particular services takes a lot of experience and knowledge about the service. nginx, apache, etc. To do special things to it you need expertise. This is why out of the box, nginx and apache run with low privileges and are fairly secure.
Some of the examples (the cloth and the tree) seem to be based off Sub Protocol's verlet-js demonstration [1], which were on Hacker News a while back (HN discussion [2]). There was a similar issue with angular momentum not being conserved on those examples too.

[1] http://subprotocol.com/verlet-js/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5580596
Does MathJax play well with screen readers and other accessibility solutions?
If you live in a country which doesn't allow patents for software, this is great news. I wonder why no one cares about it in this thread. Foreign laws is how we got DeCSS, VLC and Handbrake to name a few.

Mozilla could simply ship different packages for different countries, based on their patent laws. For example, US version could use binaries distributed by Cisco, while EU binaries could be built from source code maintained by Mozilla. IANAL but I think it would be completely legal as long as the company which distributes the EU version is a subsidiary or a separate legal entity located in EU.

You are free to use whichever package you wish. Of course it would be illegal if you live in a country that has software patent laws. But legality never stopped us from using VLC or Handbrake. Why should it now?
Thanks for sharing your experiences. I feel this definition of what it means to be successful is something I need to address properly in a future post. Much of my anxiety in the matter stemmed from setting similar ambitions to your own. I don't think it was wrong of me to set these benchmarks, but today I find myself questioning the "why" more and more.

Increasingly I try to look at success as a more fluid notion. I feel it has many dimensions that constantly evolve with my changing world view and life. It can be valuable to set goals but I think it's just as important not to be myopic to the rest of the world at their expense.

I feel a lot of it comes down to attitude. My grandpa would still have been a happy man had he not had the opportunity to pioneer medical science. Prior to his 60s, his curiosity and willingness explore meant he had a fulfilling life. He wasn't expecting and waiting for a big success. He was focused on what he was able to do and made sure he did it to the best of his abilities.

These are some quick thoughts on a bus and I apologise if it seem like I'm being preachy. I'm only 29 and very much still figuring it all out. I dare say I will be doing that until I die. Please share your thoughts, especially if they run counter to what I've written.
This could be huge. I note however that Peer to Peer is not mainstream. It either never was, or it ceased to be. Bittorent is popular, but it's not mainstream. If it was, YouTube would distribute torrents of it's videos (it could be done right now by writing a torrent client in JavaScript). The sad reality is, there is a long lasting, major roadblock:

Asymmetric bandwidth.
He probably means commits done directly through the bitbucket web interface. You can edit files directly on the website to create commits.
I agree that an assumption of some kind of context-free "natural state" is silly, but I don't think it's what we know about evolution that motivates this. Evolution "says" there probably aren't purely genetic complex differences between people, and that's probably true over long time scales in terms of human history.
IBM gives up the ghost on CIA cloud battle with Amazon
I'll let you know if/when I make that patch to rubygems.org (or if it's not possible, when sourcegraph.com could provide you with that info).
Please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640210 they mentioned that they saw a DDoS attack over night, and part of what CloudFlare offers is DDoS protection.
From the title I expected a wishy-washy, pseudo-inspirational blog post and instead my entire concept of success was shaken up and realigned. Great post.
Scratch? Use Yeoman.
Might worth checking out this:

https://github.com/devmatters/backbone.rocks
This article has long scrolled off the front page, so just a quick reply: modern crypto is fast. Look up the speed on AES-GCM with AES-NI, PCLMULQDQ; on a modern multicore server, your 100GB can be encrypted in a couple of seconds. (Or rather, the crypto isn't remotely the bottleneck.)
Rome did create 400 years of peace, but it did so by outright conquering a vast swath of the known world and creating vassal states. And it's not like it didn't protect that peace through war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana ("The Legions patrolled the borders with success, and though there were still many foreign wars, the internal empire was free from major invasion, piracy, or social disorder on any grand scale.").

> However, believing that US is completely fair to the rest of the world is too naive

Sure, but asserting that the U.S. is the most benevolent hegemony in history does not require believing that the U.S. is "completely fair to the rest of the world."
I think they have, but it is subtle. It could be argued that Instagram was a shot over Adobe's bow.
Why not just cancel your credit card?

Or did you give Adobe your SSN as well?
Add "old school" web reference in VS 2013