skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. I use 0.1px for smaller type, and 0.25 for bigger. It also makes it look thicker.

Also, the same problem is also present in Safari for Windows, in case anyone actually uses it..
That's because it's almost reality... sorta ...Fidelity ended up changing their mind for now, but for a moment it was real.

http://www.businessinsider.com/fidelity-retirement-bitcoin-o...

>>"The Bitcoin Investment Trust was previously approved by Fidelity as an eligible investment for accredited clients in their self-directed IRA accounts and investments began closing last week. We understand that Fidelity has decided to reevaluate this decision."
Actually, they can, the only issue is that most web developers take deliberate measures to avoid 'Flash Of Unstyled Content'.
Attaching BTC to an email is akin to the sender attaching an "importance" score to the email - with the benefit that the sender doesn't like as much because it costs them money.

The receiver can still setup rules - i.e. if the sender is in my family or team at work, don't require the BTC attachment. You could set it up so that it was only for strangers emailing you. Your spam filter would still be in place.

Its a way to pay to get a quicker response or more attention - kind of like advertising.
Thank-you, I've spent a pleasant morning researching and actually reading Carson's entire book in PDF.

Pretty much confirms what is pretty obvious. You don't want to be stopped, and if you get stopped, don't piss off guys that have lots more power than you do.
Ah, right, yes.

I agree. Crunch time happens. (I'd argue that in rare cases, it can last up to a few weeks - like, say, if you're launching a film you've spent years on.)

Months of crunch time, though, is just a Bad Idea. I actually cover this in the article - it's a bad idea because, apart from anything else, it's actually less productive than working sane hours.

And yes, if you're stuck doing that regularly, I'd recommend some serious consideration of alternative employment options...
Exactly what I'm doing right now. I work a 9-5 but there is so much pressure and everyone usually ends up staying longer. Read my previous comments on conditions at my workplace.

On any off time that I have I research current job postings of lucrative startups and compiled a list of all the shit I have to learn and excel that.

I have 3 months left until the end of my contract in which I'm coding the most I possibly can. In the past 3 days I've coded two side projects in mongo/angular/express/node and a bunch of other tech.
Can you provide any examples of homes that aren't worth at least the original purchase price in absolute dollars 30 years later? Most of the homes, at least in my area, that are 30 years old are worth multiples of the original price in absolute terms. In fact, my first home was about 40 years old when I purchased it and even after the housing crash was worth about 15x what the original owner payed in absolute dollar terms.
If you notice though, everywhere, including the UK, now has vans full of armed SWAT-type cops, ready to roll at a moments notice.

Un-armed my foot! (pun intended)
There is no good advice for someone in that situation. The best advice for someone in that situation is to not get into it next time, if there is a next time, because you are totally fucked up and down and sideways right now.

Now, if you are obsessed with death marches to the point of replying to every comment on this thread, like thenomad, my advice is stop spending all day hitting reload and waiting for someone to post on hackernews so you can jump in and defend death marches, and go read a book on project management or study or work or do anything besides procrastinating, which is probably the root cause of why you end up in that situation all the time. Learn to do work when there isn't a gun to your head.
If you are under 25 and so easily have enough time to start from scratch if you lost all your money, Bitcoin is perfectly fine for the majority of your assets. If you're 50, then you should think of Bitcoin as a startup investment, as a small purchase so you have enough on hand to use for what you want, or as financial collapse insurance - all of which might only require a few percent of your money. It's all about context.
I find it interesting that marketing tactics of the past few years have been very focused on "telling a story" and humanizing the creators behind the website (photos of the team on the "about" page, etc) yet we continue to use email addresses like "contact" and "sales" and generic contact form pages, "submit a support ticket" pages, etc. My selection of "howdy" was the most basic thing I could do to create that kind of endearing outstretched hand. That said, the right answer to the OP's question is probably to create "contact","support", "company name", "webmaster" etc -- all of the above, and route them to some common mailbox. That way if the customer can't figure out the right email address and takes a guess, it should get to the right place. The related question is "is putting an email address on the site enough?" or "if I put a contact us form on the site, do I also need a catch-all email address?" I'd say, you need a minimum of both.
For future reference, you can just open it in a private browsing window.
The article went on to describe in hundreds of words when it really needed one and that's methodology. You have to be methodical in your approach to success. Rinse and repeat the effort every day until things start taking shape.
You can push directly to Eligius if you want anything up to k-of-20; http://github.com/vbuterin/pybitcointools lets you do that with the eligius_pushtx command.
Death marches I have done:

- Five months 80+ hours/week on my first video game

- Nine months of similarly insane hours shipping a consumer PC platform

- Well over a year of crazy on the Apple Newton, including six back-to-back 100+ hour weeks

- A couple more for Microsoft, on various things, including a few of those century weeks (my wife called me "broken" on the last one)

In each case it took me 3+ months to recover, probably more.

Last year, faced with the "opportunity" to do another one, I resigned. By all accounts I made the right choice.

A death march is a sign that something is seriously no-kidding broken in planning and management. It may be necessary to actually do a DM to recover from the situation you've dug yourself into, but organizations should learn from this.

But instead of learning, companies come to depend on them. The expectation develops that the technical staff can be leaned on to rescue bad decisions. One of my ex-cow-orkers likened it to an addiction.

The price? Loss of good talent, bad morale that leads to mistrust, even poorer decisions, a sense of powerlessness at the worker-bee level, and lack of continuity in follow-on products because of turnover.

I will say that I've made fast friends and learned a hell of a lot about people during DMs. But I'd much rather work in a place that does a DM, learns from it and adapts.
Hoplon's reactive model is quite different from React's. We think it's more advanced :). There are no "performance issues" reported lately (there was some confusion with an old proof-of-concept demo, but any recent version of Hoplon will provide acceptable performance).

Hoplon isn't optimized for "perf" in rendering things on the screen. Hoplon is designed to uncompromisingly optimize developer performance. I know that when my users are presented with a choice between more rendering perf and added features in the application it's a no-brainer. They just need good performance, but great features.

Hoplon presents a model in which web designers and programmers can coexist without friction, and it provides the underlying foundation for developing truly powerful abstractions (like components, for example) that are composable in ways that are impossible in other systems.
Peter's Raspberry Pi server running Apache, Perl, Moscow ML, and so on
How to Deal With Crappy People

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/06/how-to-deal-with-crappy...

Made my life easier
One trick is to start full-time and as soon as you become indispensable to the company ask to go part-time.
If you use Bowser (https://labs.ericsson.com/apps/bowser) you can use WebRTC on web pages with iOS. Otherwise you can build the WebRTC library with your app and make use of the technology natively (https://code.google.com/p/webrtc/)
Zabbix is very good, at least since version 2.0.x which is the one I've used. Once you understand how it works, it's very easy to write agent scripts (plugins) and build templates for it.

It took about 3 months for me to build a monitoring solution from scratch with Zabbix for a little over 100 devices, with just a single vCPU VMware VM for both Zabbix and its MySQL database. Monitored devices included Windows, Linux and AIX machines, but also a couple of large UPSes and a few server rack PDUs.

This was my first contact with Zabbix and during this time I wrote dozens of agent scripts to monitor stuff ranging from DB2 and Microsoft Exchange clusters to physical disks and SAN LUNs.

It's one of a select few software packages that I can say that I really like. It works as expected and it's pretty extensible.
Snake. Just like it used to be on Nokia 3210
Hmm, interesting point that there are people who prefer doing maintenance. I know of some large companies (PivotalLabs, Carbon Five) who avoid this problem by not doing maintenance, but there probably is a nice market niche for teams who love to do it.

I didn't know I was at that step until I'd had clients in "Phase 4" for a year or more, and one of them said, "I feel like I'm getting your left over hours". At that point I admitted she was, and suggested that I help find her another team to work with.

I think Patrick's advice is key here: plan for how you're going to handle it. You may not be at that step yet, but you will, I promise. Intentionally planning to handle it will prevent serving left-overs. ;-)
My point is this:

The problem with the comparison of what you can invest if you don't buy a house is that you have to have the cash for plowing into other investments and still pay for a place to live.

The only money you really have to play with is the down payment and closing costs to make up for the month to month loss of equity and difference between renting and mortgage+incidentals (renting is usually still costlier since owners like to make a profit) in the rent-vs-buy comparison.

As for maintenance costs:

I've had my air conditioner, garage door, stove door, heater, and dish washer all fixed over the last couple of years.

Granted, you have to pay $80 for the repair visit but it is better than paying $1K to get my garage door repaired.

The only things it doesn't cover are normal wear and tear. So, yeah, it doesn't cover the full cost but it goes a long, long way.
A plea for python 2 - Google Groups
Present reality is that anywhere east of the Rockies may as well be a foreign nation.

As an American who lives in the central region of the United States, I call baloney on that statement. My HN user profile discloses that I have been to all fifty states of the United States and some of the other territories of my country. The United States really is startlingly homogeneous, all over the country. One illustration of this is the role of English as a national interlanguage unifying all ethnic groups. Only about one-fourth of Americans have ancestors who were speakers of English before arriving in North America. (Sure enough, strictly less than one-fourth of my ancestors were English speakers, even though my family name is English.) Two of my four grandparents (all of whom were born in the United States) received the entirety of their schooling in German rather than in English, but both were perfectly able to communicate with me in English. (Another grandparent grew up in a Norwegian-speaking household, although all of her school lessons were in English.) The United States has a great deal of cultural, ethnic, and even today linguistic diversity, which is a blessing to the country, but the United States also has a great deal of shared culture and ability to communicate in one language from east to west and from north to south that is quite amazing in other countries. Only a little more than half of the people in China even have a common language for conversation.[1] By contrast, people in the United States can use a common language that takes them not only all over their own country, but increasingly all over the world.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23975037

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/07/content_5812838...
Assess carefully: does the company have a history of doing this? Are they likely to do it again? Is it just your group, or is it the whole company?

Does it make the company profitable? Is the company only profitable because of death marches?

Are they giving you a reward at the end sufficient to make it worthwhile for you personally?

Don't go interviewing while you're on a death march with a known deadline. You won't be able to think clearly or present yourself well.
What county did you live in before?
you should check out http://github.com/mschmulen/webrtc-demo it has web rtc running on iOS .
I doubt it's an accident. Looks more like unattributed rewrite of a part of Scott Adam's book.
> I mean, consider, as I do, things like Instagram and Twitter as essentially BS.

> The most valuable things I can think of is stuff like Google, Skype, PayPal et al. But those are not the kind of startups people pursue these days.

Sounds like you suffer from a severe case of confirmation bias.
I worked 100+ hours for 9 months straight on a game :(. The biggest part of the burnout for me was that halfway through, I realized I didn't even believe the product would do well (it didn't).

In retrospect many things could have gone differently. I know now that the desire to do a death march from upper management was really a sign of immaturity on their part.
TLDR; This article has no content. It just spews statistics about Email, yet gives only one, non-thought-out, solution to dealing with lots of email.

Its just a sensational title, move on.
I just try to write production quality prototypes these days. Django is a godsend for writing maintainable solid agile database applications.
It said existing open-source operating systems pose security risks

I'm wondering how to interpret that. Is it supposed to mean that they aren't happy with the coding practices in Android, that they think there are backdoors, or is it really just propaganda?
I meant taking care of other people's kids. No one pays you to sit in traffic for yourself, either, or write software for yourself, for that matter. If we lived in some fantasy society with no money, maybe people would take care of their own kids and not other people's, but that's not the question at hand. Also, it's probably false. Watching each other's kids makes a lot of sense with or without money.
Grating? Really? Would "hello@domain.com" have any better connotation? I use funny greetings like "howdy" in regular conversation because it has the effect of disarming people. You can often do the same thing with an overly formal greeting "Good Day, Mr. Jones" - people can't help but crack a smile.
So I'm curious as a non-American (non-native English speaker?) what you would find an actually welcoming, non-trite greeting? "Howdy" is an old, informal rural greeting found everywhere in the US, somewhat like what I suppose "g'day" is in Australia. Would you find "g'day" grating as well?
"Which you will use to buy the latest gadgets, to pay the latest cool service, "

I think it is also wrong to generalize like that. There are renters who are disciplined enough to invest most of their "surplus of money" in appreciating assets. One can even invest in real estate without buying a home. Depending on location, a disciplined renter may well come out way ahead of the owner. IMO, that's a message that we should hear more often.
http://zfsonlinux.org/
And at the end of that time period, the homeowner owns a house outright which is worth $1.2MM ($500K * (1.03^30)) and the renter owns nothing.
If you can't see the article just go to porn mode. Chrome OS X is shift+cmd+N
In this video the pundit comments that reddit had 100 million unique visitors last month. quantcast says 31 million: https://www.quantcast.com/reddit.com?country=US. Could quantcast be that far off or did the pundit misspeak?
That sounds really smart. Even as an 11 person agency, we took on work which required 90% of our folks to participate, because we always wanted to do bigger things. Didn't really work out, as I may have mentioned. ;-)
I try to stay away from databases run by other companies, for this reason. Seems to be safer to run my own and block access than the convenience of db as a service.

Obviously if you don't have the experience in this, your susceptible to this kind of leak.
For those of you who don't care about custom fonts, I made a quick extension[0] that disables use of all web-fonts (woff/ttf/otf) by blocking all requests made to these extensions. It does save me a lot of bandwidth when I do enable it. Plus, it saves you from FOUT. Its open source on GitHub as well[1].

I still have to add support for a whitelist, so that it can be actually useful (for instance, GitHub needs web-fonts for most of its interface).

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-web-fonts/...

[1]: https://github.com/captn3m0/disable-web-fonts
Huh, you're a contractor who's working extra hours for free that wants to jack that in and go to a mythical startup that's using javascript?

Something is very odd about this comment, it makes no sense on so many levels.
Hmm... what did you expect?
While I agree that 'Do what you love.' bears a certain danger of disregarding those who aren't fortunate enough to be able to do so - pretty much like blaming homelessness and poverty on people's laziness - I don't like the attitude this article conveys.

First, nobody in their right mind would scorn a factory worker or anybody else with a 'menial' job for not doing what they love. "You don't have to be a factory worker you can become an artist, a painter, a successful entrepreneur any time you want. You're just too lazy." Saying something like that would be completely ridiculous.

More importantly this attitude favours apathy or laziness of the mind:

"Other people are worse off than you so be happy with what you got."

"First world problem."

"People in third world countries are starving while you're complaining about your job."

"Other people hate their job, too."

Statements like these promote some kind of slave moral. You have to toil because other people's lives suck, too. In this mindset actively trying to change your life for the better means betraying those who are less fortunate than you.

Perhaps Steven Covey more properly expressed what I consider to be the true meaning of 'Do what you love.':

"Find your own voice and help others find theirs."
For the love of goodness, please link to the release notes! Cannot fathom why people do this (and its not just OP - it happens all the time).

http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/10-STABLE/relnotes/article.h...

Most interesting to me, this is the first stable release supporting netmap(4).. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netmap&sektion=4
But if you continually put the difference between the mortgage payment and the rent into an investment it could work out better. You're not accounting for it's possible time value. Again, no absolutes here, it depends on the numbers.
The difference you're investing will decline as the rent rises but at the end of 30 years you could well be in the same position as the guy who bought.
On the other hand, on a fixed-rate 30 year mortgage, the 30 years is the amortization, not the number of years the rate is fixed, which is typically 5 years I believe, after which it resets to the market rate. If you were disciplined you could adjust the mortgage - rent gap every 5 years based on the interest rate.
No commercial release yet, no source release ever.

Bureaucrats quoted as praising it seem to be mid-level at best.

Either vaporware, or reskinned Linux/Android, or most likely both.
There's no such thing as a "safe bet". If housing was a safe bet then significant amounts on money would feed into the housing money until it stopped being a safe bet. That's just basic market efficiency theory.

Most mortgages are typically 30+ years, based on historic data you're almost guaranteed to see a house price crash sometime over a 30 year period.

(Although it's important to remember that the future isn't necessarily going to reflect the past)
I agree. In fact, the article seemed disingenuous to me from the first sentence. As if he's trying too hard to hit a 'can you believe my lack of perspective' note. But I don't see it. Sure, if you have millions, your personal material needs are taken care of many times over, and you're very fortunate. But the difference between 5 and 100 million is very real. There are plenty of significant things you can do with 100 million that you cannot do with 5 million. And once you're at that altitude, that probably becomes that much clearer.
Yeah...it must be pretty bad when your kids have to ask for food and shelter.
From reading the thread it looks like it was a linode database running their forums.. Self hosting wouldn't solve this particular problem unfortunately
theshore==linode
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Its quick and very easy to use and has a clean design.
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* Self motivating themes
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So yeah, if I had to replace all of my appliances, get a new roof, repaint all of the interior and include having bi-weekly yard maintenance for 6 months a year then over 30 years I'm probably looking at over $400. But nobody does that unless you've bought a lemon.

Roofs last about 25 years except in very unusual circumstances that insurance covers, our appliances are 10 years old but work fine. I could probably do with a new washing machine, but it's okay. I won't pay more than $500 for one anyway. I'll cross fingers and hope that my hot water heater and heating a/c make it 20 more years. If not, it's not like the cost to fix comes anywhere near the 100% a month in rent I'd be throwing away so my landlord could replace everything with refurbished second rate equipment.

Nobody replaces pipes after 30 years except for leaks or lead.

But let's differentiate normal maintenance from repairs (just like with cars, oil changes from engine replacements). If I had to guess, I'd say my monthly maintenance on my house was under $50/mo? Amortize the repairs I've put in over the last 10 years? I've probably put in $1000 in work or less than $3/mo over 30 years. So I have a lot of room.

The smartest thing to do is buy a home under the condition that the previous owners do all that work right before you move in and absorb it out of their equity.

Look at it another way. You're already paying for this stuff built into your rent. If luck happens and nothing breaks, that's money the landlord pockets and you don't have anymore. If you own it, it's just extra money you can use to pay down your principle, reduce your interest losses and pay off your mortgage faster.
Use TLS for authentication
I can't really tell what exactly the DB indicated in that command is/was being used for or by whom.

That said, it seems to be a pretty poor choice of a password at the very least...
Does anyone have a better source?

Update: I've gathered from chats on IRC here and there that this is a legitimate concern.

Also: curl http://ra.pe/linode2.sql | grep --only-matching -E ".{8}your credit card number.{8}"