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Make sure your upstream or colo provider comes with DDoS mitigation.

Nothing within your power can protect you from a multi-gigabit DDoS attack except bandwidth or a black hole route.

If you're getting smaller attacks you can try Fail2ban, some Nginx rules, or an edge cache.
I believe it's talking about his 'marrying up' and not making as much money as the wife being an issue, since this article is suggesting that women should 'marry down' (as in marrying someone who makes less money, or is less educated than you).
Well, they keep on reverting everything...
I think they are simply trying to get an under-represented group interested in coding, with people they will likely be more comfortable around. This isn't an elite group of hackers excluding other sexes and races, it's meant to be a springboard into coding for a demographic which generally doesn't.
After Google , Samsung prepares electronic eye-wear , files patents.
Feel exactly same way. There is always a project. Some of the recent I have used: SignalR, Farseer Physics (one of the best Box2D ports ever), MVVM Light.
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should be:

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Begging your pardon, I grew up in South Africa during apartheid and feel very much the same as the OP. I recognize that these groups have value for victims of racism and are done with good intentions. However, I also feel that if they are over-done or are started with more of a pride about one's (traditionally persecuted) race than the humble intention to serve others, they are only breeding animosity between races and keeping race as a "big deal" in our minds.
Now I got the social piece. Thanks for the explanation.
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Did you even read the comment?

It's not about helping black people or women or Chinese people or men, it's about helping everyone.
Are you using Node.js?
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What you just wrote didn't include black or hispanics. So now you have Black Girls Code.
Seems pretty telling to me, with the patent and coffee shop cashier testimonial.

I wonder how the hardware will hold up to the environmental harshnesses of the open water? Or even just sea spray...
Doesn't really address the point at all. Maybe racism is best solved by treating all as equals instead of creating further insular groups? It does seem logically absurd on its face.

The first step is to stop snarking at people who dare to ask.
Yes that is really slow
"moved over to a Python-based solution"

My condolences...
I wish there would be a dark/black edition somewhere.
Was Ian Fleming completely wrong? "When you shake a martini, you aren’t integrating the elements in a way to create a smooth texture – you are doing the opposite. A shaken martini gets diluted too fast and gets too much air mixed into it. The result is a slightly frothy and watered down drink."

I assumed he didn't want to get inebriated in order to have a non-fuzzy head for all the goings-ons but the bartender would have noticed..

http://www.drinkspirits.com/gin/james-bond-wrong-shake-marti...
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If one would consider all the traffic noise, then I can see it being trivially easy (since the traffic would look so much different from everything else), but what if it contained some that weren't really noise? Like if someone piped the output to a database anyone could access?

What about for the emails?
Oh my god this turned to shit before I even hit post on my comment. Amazing.
> One needs only to look at how expensive small liberal arts colleges are. If their teachers spent more time in the classroom and less doing arcane research, the costs would come down.

But small liberal arts colleges are the places that already do primarily prioritize teaching, and expect professors to do relatively little research. Professors typically teach more courses per semester than at research universities, and are hired and promoted primarily based on teaching ability rather than research portfolio. This was the case at the Claremont Colleges, at least, where I went for undergrad; most professors just did a little research on the side, maybe one paper a year, and spent nearly full-time teaching. They're expensive mainly because they have very small class sizes (big emphasis on small discussion seminars), and typically much smaller endowments and fewer donations than the famous research universities do. Plus, since none of the salaries or lab facilities are paid for by research-grant money, those have to come out of tuition, too. And, since there are no grad students, professors typically do most of the teaching work themselves, rather than offloading a significant proportion to a TA, as is done at research universities: sections, tutorials, grading, office hours, etc. are all the professor's responsibility.

Big research universities, like MIT or Stanford or University of Texas or UCLA, are the ones that primarily emphasize research track record.
I personally like the HN-Special chrome extension : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-special-an-addi...
Or, it indicates acknowledgement that people will rabidly attack anything even remotely resembling a challenge of the status quo when it comes to sociological issues. You just did it, too. Why on earth do you play off "think before you down vote" as a negative?!
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Something similar is being outfitted in Portland, ME.

http://www.pressherald.com/news/Clues_emerging_about_mystery...

The OP is a much better article (The Press Herald is garbage).

My original guess for the barge-building in Portland was a ocean-based prison facility for the government to use for interrogations. But it's seeming like the floating data center idea is much more likely.
Very interesting...

Any chance that this will mean the Govt can't subpoena data from this data center if it is floating far enough from the US coast? Or does it not matter because clearly the US will be the closest harbor?
Yes, for instance Appcelerator's Titanium compiles to Tizen. HTML can be awkward but the web stack can be compiled to from a number of established frameworks.
Seems to me that it's about complaining when someone else starts groups to help people.

Helping people is never wrong.
Kind of like a paid /r/gonewild. Hmmm there are probably a number of porn stars/models that would buy into this.

$5.00 a month to buy into this snapchat feed. We can use the reverse Apple method give 30% to the model. If you could get 100k users to follow the models that would be 350K a month/4.2 million a year. We might be on to something.
For my own references, I have a git repo in my home directory, ~/references/, which has everything I consider important stored as PDFs that I "printed" via Firefox. It is the only way to make sure it is still around.
”[The] USSR as bad as it was took responsibility for the Chernobyl catastrophe. There was Army and Government involvement on all levels to clear it up from day 0.”

Just so HN readers know… this ^ quote is total bullshit.

--[TL;DR Response]--
The USSR did not take responsibility or implement good clean up from day 0; at all. They lied/covered up as much as they could, for as long as they could, endangering their own land, people, and economy. Chernobyl is historically regarded as a propaganda clusterfuck and a major economic, civic, and political failure of modern history.

--[Full Response]--
I could argue a number of this guy’s points, but the specific claim that the USSR excelled at “taking responsibility” and implementing an institutional clean up/response “from day 0”, is the polar opposite of all existing historical and scientific fact.

The historical fact here is that the USSR’s response to Chernobyl was horribly botched, heavily manipulated by propaganda, and that the public was extremely uninformed of the context, causes, and consequences (both immediate and future), of the disaster.

The response was swift, yes, but dangerous, uninformed, and unorganized. Even the military/emergency crews and government employees/engineers first sent in to respond to the disaster, were lied to about the specifics and risks of the incident. For civilians in the USSR, there was a total information black out for the first 2 days. Most citizens gleaned only limited facts/information, days and weeks later, largely via rumor or from international media. Effective institutional response (from inside the USSR) and more accurate reporting only arrived after much international pressure and media attention. The major civilian backlash at the falsehoods and failures of Chernobyl, and the extreme financial expense of the disaster, was one of the final blows in exposing and crippling the Gorbachev regime.

[Source: I'm an environmental historian and science teacher]
I see a lot of this in the Netherlands as well; a lot of girlfriends in their 30s 'cannot find a man'. All of them are managers, judges and/or PhDs; they have a hard time finding a match. We often discuss the bar too high thing and they know this is the case but they first want to try it that way. When they get near 40 (and after that 'unable' to have kids) they lose this and marry and/or move in with someone they wouldn't have given the light of day before to make babies with. Seen it many times. Some of them are really happy they did it because they really didn't think they could live with someone that didn't meet all their standards; now they realise those standards were nuts and anyone meeting them would be a freak.

I must say that I haven't seen anything as weird as I read here with people I know; guys getting their own back as some kind of revenge for their missed 20s? Maybe it happens; luckily I don't know these guys.

Another thing:

I'm 38 like Greg the writer from the article; unlike Greg the writer I had some idea how basic things work. You know; supply and demand. In (and a bit before) my 20s I was a big guy with glasses, a beard and long hair. I listened to metal music. So I must go to rock concerts and rock bars to meet girls? Of course not; that would be stupid; I went to parties with clean shaven, nice smelling, well dressed, upper class talking students. People studying law, business etc. In those days (still? no idea) math/physics/cs were real geeks and they didn't go to those things. Now all girls there wanted these guys and there were ONLY these guys; they all looked the same. There would be always about 1-3 girls who went with friends or just because bored, but who hated the kind of guy there. Either because of look or attitude. They went for me, automatically, every time. I would talk about physics and they would sleep with me; I had/have great relations with some of them. It still works now (I'm happily married now, but it still is flattering).

I ran a successful dating site for a while and often explained to people that if you all fish in the same pond, nothing will happen. That's just useless disappointment if you're not Don Juan.
It might be a NON-HULKING floating data center.
Amazon ported chromium browser to kindle fire and allowing developers to submit webapps. It will act like native app. User can download webapps from app store just like native apps. Webapps will use chromium instead of android browser. http://developer.amazon.com/webapps

New chrome beta on Android allows webapps to be added to your home screen like iOS, but on android it is more usable and functional than iOS.

Try my app on chrome beta on Android: http://hn.premii.com/

I don't think HTML5 and webapps are going away.
very good point - I imagine though that it's MAINLY to get attention from groups that would donate to such a cause... The more niche the demographic the easier it is to raise money from institutes who aim to help those demos. So short answer, money probably...

We can look at a silver lining and hope they expand into other demos, we will see i guess.
So "NoSQLite"? :)
I appreciate the sentiment, but I was looking forward to using this until I saw that part. I (like I assume many others) cannot use a GPL3 library (and I'm in academia). If you want any sort of traction for a library, GPL3 is not the way to go.

This is why the LGPL was created, so that you can have modifications done on your library be free-as-in-speech, but still make the library as a whole useable for a wide variety of other projects, including closed-source versions.

Having a separate requirement to email you for a free-as-in-beer license is just overly complicated for this. The more hurdles you put up for people, the fewer that will adapt the library. I think that licensing is one of those cases where is doesn't pay to be clever. Plus, what happens when you decide to stop maintaining the code? Do you want to keep getting emails for licenses years from now?

Edit: in last paragraph, I said free-as-in-speech, but meant beer (see comment below).
Are you upset about discrimination against whites? Is that what the important issue is here?
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Looks like your bitSet is a HashSet. Not good.
I was Googling to find what a boat-based wave-powered generator would look like, and I found this interesting diagram:

http://www.greenpatentblog.com/2011/12/08/fraunhofers-mobile...
Also, Pripyat Hospital #1 was entirely oblivious to the fact that injured firemen brought to them were highly radioactive - to the point that even a shred of their uniforms is very dangerous even today.

Our guide pointed out a piece that some idiot had brought up from the highly irradiated basement.
Of course there are "WGTOW"s. It's called seperatist feminism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separatist_feminism
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A well done article. These are the same reasons why I never joined facebook.

Another reading: http://www.waitbutwhy.com/2013/07/7-ways-to-be-insufferable-...
Many people in the London riots were using BBM to coordinate rioting or looting.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/aug/08/london-riots-fa...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/blackberry/8688651/Lon...

Blackberry claims to help police.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/aug/09/london-rio...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2011/08/09/blackberry...
Hopefully they will make tons of money and make coding cool so that girls in general might want to code too.
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Something something good intentions. "Helping" doesn't automatically mean you're doing it right or are free from criticism or comment.
Well I mean, I don't think many people are bothered by Girl Scouts focusing on girls. Perhaps that is because Boy Scouts also exists, but back in this domain there is always the developing Hacker Scouts, which is inclusive.
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It's not "further insular". It's a group that already exists. Treating people as all equal is fine. Pretending that all people are treated as equal in society is not helpful.
The problem is that it's a lot harder to execute -- if you have a "Kids Code" event, you are guaranteed to get a disproportionately larger number of white males.

This isn't just about helping a disadvantaged group, but also signalling to them at a young age that "people like you are also programmers!"

Growing up as a minority is something that is difficult to grasp unless you are part of that group -- something as simple as having fewer role models who look like you can impact your choices and decisions to pursue specific careers.

And no, they are not refusing to help males. I'm almost 100% sure that if a male asked if he could have some help learning to code, someone would either help him out or point him in a direction where he could get help. The group is just designed in a way to signal to young girls that they should join and learn how to program when pop culture ordinarily defaults to making scientists males (e.g. Big Bang Theory).

EDIT:
Here's another question: is it wrong for a church to provide support groups for its members? Is that discriminating against other religions? Or is it just an effort to improve a specific community?
The dynamic was different a couple generations ago - I believe that in 1950ies you could make such an observation only about a number of unlucky outliers and joke about spinsters or such; but this article and discussion is about a mass trend happening on a much larger scale.
On international waters you follow the laws of the country where the ship is registered.
Precisely. It's also struck me that the vast majority of the female engineers seem to work at a tiny handful of companies.

For example, Google is quite diverse, the attendees at I/O were not.
Google uses Treasure Island for holiday parties, perhaps that's what explains the presence of employees?
The Internet history is full of forum entries justifying the actions from Cupertino, regardless whatever they make sense or not.

As for being an anti-Apple crusader, I spent part of my day coding on Mac Book Air.

As the village women used to say "Those that get offended recognised themselves".
Why didn't he apply for a job at a teaching college?
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Didn't work on chromium or firefox on Linux.

Chromium: Arrow keys did not move snake.
Firefox: Nothing showed up at all.

No, I'm not running tinfoil hat plugins like noscript. These were vanilla browsers.
I don't think you can pass a technical inspection with a 500€ car. At least not in Germany.
Here the only cars you get for that price are obviously broken cars (accident, missing major parts, etc.) or cars that did not pass the inspection.
Good on you for going GPLv3 as your free software license. I think it's really funny to see people here going "b-but you should use my favourite license" instead of "that's a cool thing you've built there".
If the room is glitching for you, try going direct to: http://piwh1000.github.io/GoSnake/
I'd argue that perpetuating the problem of people being treated different in society is even worse.
>Helping people is never wrong.

How could you type that with a straight face?
How does the data get to/from the platform? Microwaves? Can that work from a slightly moving platform?

My wacky guess would have been off-shore offices for employees that can't get H1Bs.
Good job, Tavish
The fires kept burning for days and days in the melted-down reactor - most who died had no idea how dangerous the whole situation was.

The cleanup operation wasn't much better - men cleaning nearby reactor roofs in 45 second shifts and heavy lead aprons because the radiation was too bad for a fleet of robots to function.
>That has little to no effect on me. But private companies do - they lose the data; they're open to blackmail or corruption; they're insecure; they inaccurate; etc.

How do those issues not apply to NSA / GCHQ?
This is great. Congratulations for the work!

Kids will really enjoy something like this.
"hire non-Blub programmers, it's a lot easier to find it in F/OSS-land" - I am not sure that's the case, everyone seems to be crazy about Python, Ruby and JS.
Which is why there is an absurd single women:single men ratio in this city.
Well...

for you it is...

but not for the people behind this group.

I mean they are free to do what THEY feel is important to them.

I, personally, believe they have the wrong approach... but it's how they want to spend their time and money.

If you are looking to donate... obviously there are far better organizations to support that would accomplish just what you are alluding to...

Helping the disadvantaged.

Just not this one.
Things are flooded atm. Trying to resolve.
In international waters, it matters more which flag your ship is sailing under than which port is closest.
I feel a need to go even further with that statement. Self-control implies that you're bottling up a fundamental harmful impulse. Dear God, are we back in the age of the Puritans, or is it allowed for normal, committed couples to get some mutual enjoyment out of "male" and "female" things?

And yes, I do mean sex. But not just sex. I'm a man who likes to cook and bake, for instance, and I'm good enough at it that my friends and family routinely enjoy the results. What kind of stupidly over-gendered society expects that I should throw away a good hobby because it's "women's work"?!

Relationships are not trades. The husband does not trade "his" household chores for "her" sex. The wife does not trade "her" cooking for "his" income. What the hell is wrong with people who think this way?!
This is cool.. kinda like lego mindstorms
This is an organization started by a black woman who has learned to code for helping black girls learn to code. Can we just give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she knows more about reaching people with similar experiences than we do?
If Black Girls Code is not actually helping the black girls, then it's not helping.

"You didn't help everybody" is not a valid criticism of an initiative to help some people.

If you have some other people you want helped, then help them yourself rather than shooting down other people's altruism.
> an outsider looking at the tech industry probably is

Is that something to be encouraged or discouraged?

> By gathering people with the same upbringing together to work toward a common goal,

People of the same race have the same upbringing? What am I even reading?

> I'm sure you feel the same way as well when you are in an 'ethnic' neighborhood or gathering.

Are we as a society supposed to indulge that feeling? Pampering that feeling creates more racial fracturing than it fixes.
If you take time out to have kids, then getting back into work, assuming you're not suited to be an entrepreneur, seems likely to be difficult to impossible. You don't have references or a continual work history, your skills are liable to be a decade out of date, and there's certainly a bias against hiring older people for lower-level positions.
Yes, somewhat.

It's also different from Redis because Redis is intended to be ran as a server (it stands for Remote Dictionary Server). This is ran entirely as a process and communicates via IPC; other machines can't reach the database, only the local machine. This is a big reason for why it's very fast. However, it also means you can't distribute the database across multiple servers.

You could think of it like a very fast NoSQL Sqlite, I guess.
The default GPL is free-as-in-speech. You do not have to email for GPL. You have to email for free-as-in-beer. I assume that in case free-as-in-speech is not OK, it is also not a major hurdle to email for the free-as-in-beer version. In case emailing is a major hurdle, maybe you do not really need the free beer part.

Should we stop maintaining the code or get bored mailing free beer licences, we'll very likely change the licence to LGPL or MIT. Until then beer comes via email.
If black girls don't feel comfortable learning with people who aren't, how are they going to cope with a job in the currently white-male dominated industry anyway? Sheltering people doesn't seem like good preparation for reality.
There seems to be a formula to hatchet-job articles about Wikipedia these days. Point to pokemon and porn stars instead of the history and science, say it's not quality (despite beating Britannica for accuracy), say there's a dearth of new articles (despite the natural slow-down due to low-hanging fruit being exhausted), and suggest that having to back up the things you say is stifling bureaucracy, and that the community should just somehow psychically know who is an expert and who isn't.
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The license page is quite clear why. The authors want that applications that are distributed and marketed as database systems to be used by other developers to be under GPLv3.

You might ask why they want that, and that could be an interesting read. My best guess: They are themselves developers.