skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NRAO has telescopes that have been used to communicate with spacecraft. But the are out of money, too.

http://NRAO.edu
The beauty of Bitcoin P2P network | Pyevolve
Satoshi Client Node Discovery
I too would like to see SF go the way of other world class cities like Vancouver and build up. The challenge is the city is insanely proud of it's "small" city character and anything that makes it feel more like New York would be out of character. Even when developing in downtown, you run into issues with people protesting the loss of sunlight and the shadows cast by skyscrapers.
If you're looking for an L2TP setup (iOS, etc), check out this script for EC2:

http://www.sarfata.org/posts/setting-up-an-amazon-vpn-server...

I'm still trying to find a VPN solution that can stream 1080p video across the Pacific Ocean, but I still haven't been able to get something working with enough bandwidth.
> woman in her early 40s said that it wasn’t until she came across some porn scenes her husband had viewed online that she felt comfortable telling him about her fantasies, which happened to be very similar to what she found. She thought he’d be thrilled, but although he enacted the scenes with her, she was surprised by his lack of enthusiasm.

I'm sorry. There is most likely a much simpler explanation for this, and it has nothing to do with manly chores. The fact that the esteemed author fails to even mention it undermines everything else.
> And who pays this increased revenue, the tax payer

But not out of funds that they would have had without the expenditure. So they have literally given up nothing.
It can mean different things to different people. I will try to explain how I came to understand how etcd could be valuable for me, which may not be indicative of anyone else's use.

We have lots of configuration automation tools: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, etc. These tools make it easier to orchestrate the modification of configuration files on a node. That is well and good.

However, what is my "source of truth" for how things should be configured? Does the fact that node593958.my.co is my primary database server for app foo belong inside Chef, or another tool, or is it more suited for a "directory" of sorts?

No one can answer that but you. But, if you decide that it shouldn't be embedded in your configuration orchestration tool, you may decide to put it in a key value store like etcd. etcd could expose (via REST), something like:

.../apps/foo/primary_db = node593958.my.co

Configuration management could then key off of that source of truth to configure the application appropriately.

etcd exposes an easy to use REST interface to arbitrary storage of hierarchical keys and values.

Nothing is new under the sun. During the first five minutes I was playing around with etcd, I realized I was effectively reinventing LDAP. This is neither wrong nor right, it's simply a different tool for the job. If you like REST and simple interfaces, it's probably a good tool.
100 Buzzfeed style headlines that make you want to drill a hole in your skull!
It's curious - in biology here we see similar problems solved in 3D, but it's not always clear how it's solved. Take the first few divisions during gastrulation [1] and notice that every cell divides synchronously for the first few divisions even though no single signal should be able to propagate from end to end that fast. And in other 3D environments like the sphere of cells in breast tissue you have similar synchronies that must be achieved in an environment that does not allow for rapid signal exchange (such an environment [2]).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4La78WtK4n8
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W10ywd_s6w
Experiment.com Is Crowdfunding Science Projects
Introducing Mozilla Firefox Accounts
That's awesome. We used OpenVPN because that's what we were familiar with, but your L2TP script looks great. Would you mind if we tried to integrated that at some point?
If you thought they handled a crisis really well, that could be exceptional.
I worry with a system like this that you could find yourself removed not because you provided bad service but because people think about the scale in different ways.

On amazon for example 4,5 is considered positive and 1,2,3 negative. You really want to keep 90%+ positive. So when someone comes along and decides to give a 3 because they thought the transaction was good but nothing out of the ordinary it hurts you.

The lack of nuance doesn't feel great either. For instance when you look though the bad reviews on trip advisor for a good hotel they are often people that have enlarged expectations of what the hotel could reasonably do for them. In some cases the hotel even going above and beyond couldn't please them.
the problem is with no clocks, and is possible.

you also can't count the soldiers because you don't have unlimited memory (states), so you might run out of memory (states) to count in.
Most of the stuff in The Mismeasure of Man regarding Morton's skull research was wrong. http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjour...
They just get a hookup to the Feed, of course.
he gets paid $400/hr doing consulting for YC Companies and other startups and companies, he is from Russia, and now lives in Bangkok, when he becomes rich he wants to live in Hong Kong, pretty nice for a 20 year old, I don't see any glaring reasons to work for Github http://egorhomakov.com/
Chromecast UK Release
you seem to understand the scenario fine, there's just a solution you missed. it's not obvious.
Ham on Nye: The high cost of “winning” an evolution/creation debate
From what I've anecdotally heard, SLS parts are actually stronger than a cast part of the same shape.
PGP: Core Concepts Behind Trusted Communication
This is cool. Thanks.

The site talks about deleting or pausing servers, then going back to the TinFoil page to start over in the future. However, it looks like DigitalOcean charges a flat $5 per month for the lowest tier. Is there any harm in leaving it running 24/7 and connecting when I'm in public? The most I'd be charged is $5/month, right?
Look, I don't think the parent was attacking you directly, just explaining what may have happen from their perspective.

Personally, unless you lied on the interview and were able to bullshit me into the job or you didn't shower, cursed every two minutes or made racists jokes/whatever, I would never fire anyone in the first 2 weeks. Having said that, no one here knows what happened except you and the company and Sam was providing some info of what may have happen from the employers perspective.

The best thing for you to do is to take some time and think hard to see if there was something that you could have done for this not to happen. If so, learn and next time act on it, if you truly think that there wasn't much you could have done to change how this went, and the company is at fault, then don't stress about it. Go out, have a beer and you will find another job soon.
A Week With Google Glass
Can you go into more detail? I often wonder what issues people have with GIMP's UI.
Why do you need so much JavaScript in HTML5?
I've tried using Krita before, and it sure didn't seem like a "Photoshop killer" to me.
There's no harm in that at all, and you're correct. But keep in mind it's $5/mo/server at the lowest tier, so if you have multiple running simultaneously you'll get charged more.

If you don't mind paying the $5, by all means leave it up 24/7. :)
The problem (for fiber ISPs) is that people can't tell the difference between 50 Mbps and gigabit (and by extension the difference between cable and fiber).
This is a little myopic but understandable in the context of a discussion on HN. Infosec is hard,
but it is just one example of a bigger truth:

Defense is hard.

This comes up time and time again in any defensive discipline:

Over two decades the CIA had learned again and again that it could not hope to
defend against terrorists by relying solely on its ability to detect specific
attacks in advance. No matter how many warnings they picked up, no matter how
many terrorist cells they disrupted, at least some attackers were going to
get through. Officers in the CTC privately compared themselves to soccer
goalies: They wanted to be the best in their league, they wanted to record as
many shutouts as possible, but they knew they were going to give up scores to
their opponents. Ultimately, many of them believed, the only way to defeat
terrorists was to get out of the net and try to take the enemy off the field.[1]

The final sentence above highlights the one pecularity of InfoSec; you do not have any
offensive capabilities.

[1]: "Ghost Wars" (Steve Coll) pg 505
Overhead.
What do Opswork, Chef, and the Heroku platform have to do with response time?

Did the author investigate why the response time were that slow to begin with?
Do anyone has a link to the original images (without the lines) to compare?
Apple Approves Dogecoin App After Rejecting Bitcoin Apps
The problem is, how do you intend to introduce collaboration in this? It may be worth the shot, but it'd expect there's a big chance you won't be able to achieve that -- the "control space" of valid commands is likely very large and unstructured. You can't risk brute forcing it and seeing what happens because of the low rate and risk of failure from a bad command. There's also the responsibility of issuing a bad command. For such a scientific reverse-engineering you also need proper tools to observer the aircraft behavior which I imagine can be quite difficult -- what if a command sets the rotation rate of the aircraft to +1 arcsec/hr and that causes an antenna misalignment?

Unless, of course, you get full specification from relevant agencies and check with them before issuing any command. But that implies they're willing to apply resources on this project, which is another though barrier.

Anyway, sounds like quite an adventure. My sincere good luck.
But the question is mass market comfy zones, not niche "extreme off-roading" ones.
Ha - you are pretty off - it was for my company - www.grovara.com - trying to sell products internationally. We have a distributor in Russia who is looking to buy our products. They paid... this happened. It sucks.
I'm a lawyer... those TOS don't hold up in court always... furthermore, no one actually reads those.
I've seen truthteller's comments before. He should probably be hellbanned but he's flown under the radar for some reason. He's been around for 119 days, has tons of comments and only a comment karma of 37.

Look at this gem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6678987
No doubt - I am just venting - looking for common experiences.
You mean like virtually every subscription web app out there? (eg: Basecamp, etc)
I know. Lots of folks feel the same. The description itself is more or less how you learn to let fear arise and pass when practicing Vipassana.

Just reciting the Litany has never worked for me, but that has more to do with obscurations from my own mind.
My business is ABSOLUTELY 'High Risk' I would assume dealing in exports - but I provided a lot of documentation showing and proving my legitimacy. This just really sucks - at least give me someone to speak with.
How Crowdworkers Became The Ghosts In The Digital Machine
Yes, but no.

Yes, there's a ton of raw resource extraction, processing, and transport.

But no, because a Nissan Altima or Apple Macbook (or Moto X!) are not commodities in the same way that gold or lumber or silicon are.

There's a reason that the Nissan Altima was the sixth best-selling car last year. I don't purport to know what that reason is, but it's not because it's comprised of raw materials any different from any other car.
On a semi-related note, what makes fetal distress cost a million dollars to recover from? I would have thought by now this should have been part of every pediatricians runbook. I am not any where savvy with medicine and also apologize in advance if this sounds insensitive. That is not my intention. I am curious as to what would make these costs be so high.
Having met several of them and spent a day in their offices (they gave Kiva engineering a tour day a couple years back), I can say they have an awesome company culture and space and great leadership and great brand recognition. Plus, people generally like them. I'd put it near the top of my list if I had one.
We just saw that big tech firms collude to hold down employee pay! See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1699529

That means, in effect, there's only one employer in the tech industry. So the labor market in tech is not an example of a perfectly competitive market. It actually follows a monopsony model.

In a monopsonistic labor market, raising wages/benefits doesn't reduce employment, it actually increases employment, increases output and lowers prices...all good things! See my comments here for a fuller explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7185717

Therefore, Obamacare did not hurt the tech labor market. Tim Armstrong is full of $hit. They should take away his degree in economics if he really believes his own bullcrap. He was just covering his own a$$. Maybe what's hurting his employees, stockholders and customers is his own overblown $3,216,534 salary in 2011. Source: http://www.forbes.com/profile/tim-armstrong/
300% Increase in Outlook.com Import Conversions
You must have missed how those stimulus packages actually worked or have some view of economics that isn't a reality. Debt has an upper limit and revenue increases mean taxpayers pay it. Stimulus doesn't create any wealth and hasn't worked. There is not one concrete case of what you describe working in history.
What's preventing all of those electronics from becoming dumb terminals and abstracting everything away to the central processing unit?
Or the time he spent learning to get to the level of expertise he has.
Maybe that is why his hourly rate is somewhat more than mine.
Then get innovative with engineering. Build down. Silly that for an area that's supposed to be the centre of high tech, the options are overpriced city, or essentially suburbia.
Blooming against all odds
Perhaps they can also consider a cap on the price of cell phones sold in California. If no one's carrying around a phone that cost over $50, that would also reduce the incentive to steal them.

This bill would be a great accompaniment to the next minimum wage increase.
so wow.
nice
I for one would like to thank the NSA for making this service available. /s
The way I look at it is nature is way more complex than we humans understand. Facts are facts but science is the interpretation of facts. Sometimes scientific theories are wrong. Obviously some of religion is wrong, since multiple religions conflict on ideas. So, where does that leave us hopeless and confused. or you can have hope and believe there is more to life and the world than atoms and protons.
In this case, "HTML5" describes the use of the canvas element, and JavaScript is used to render things to it directly.
I believe it's a historical reference on the part of the judge. It certainly used to be enough to be placed on a watch-list in the US.

On a related note, I see the question about communism is now gone from the form for applying for a visitors visa to the US -- I can't find any documentation as to if it was ever there, or if I just remember it being there:

http://forms.cbp.gov/pdf/visa_waiver.pdf

I'm pretty sure that line about terrorist organization has to be from after the first time I was in the US (the early 90s) -- but I could be wrong.

There's still this:

(a) Classes of aliens ineligible for visas or admission
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, aliens who are inadmissible under the following paragraphs are ineligible to receive visas and ineligible to be admitted to the United States:

(D) Immigrant membership in totalitarian party
(i) In general Any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with the Communist or any other totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182
If only they'd reached out to the ham radio community two years ago. There has to be some retiree out there someplace who could provide enough info to get volunteers started. But you can't begin to pull something together like this on the current timeline.
Chromium allows you to specify the proxy on the command line:

chromium-browser --proxy-server="socks5://localhost:<port>"

FoxyProxy is good too; but... yet-another-third-party.
for me it's like "dead is dead" is so boring.
On a site claiming to be about security, the FAQ should explain how and why it works even if the user doesn't trust the server. That's the whole point.
Surprising that the article doesn't talk about the modern day equivalent of Ask Jeeves:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=How+old+is+President+Cl...
I played Max Payne the whole way through a few years ago on Mandriva. Worked a treat. I ended up buying a Crossover license as well.
That's like a message with a cryptographic signatures carved into the fabric of our planet. Awesome.
Fiber has one redeeming feature: if you have a 100BaseT-speed LAN setup, you can share an account with your neighbors instead of both paying for cable. Or more generally just being as good as cable can create price competition.
Very different experience with AWS/OpenStack/running our own here. We indeed had a largish AWS bill ~50k/month. Decided to move dev/test in house into an OpenStack cluster I built with the help of Mirantis/FuelWeb. Decent experience standing up the cluster but spurts of trouble thereafter. No real win with anything API-like at all with OpenStack. Feels half-baked. Getting help is damn near impossible.

Meanwhile in AWS-land, things are humming along. Using more and more of the AWS infrastructure and removing pieces we had previously built in-house. Getting lots of mileage out of boto/Java/awscli and starting to see a real paradigm shift in how to run ephemeral servers instead of the 700 instances 24x7 approach you refer to above.

I came from running my own servers, floundered for a bit on AWS, built an OpenStack cluster and strongly prefer AWS for simplicity and sheer flexibility of the API. I'm a year in running on AWS and haven't had a single issue requiring any support.

The largest benefit has come from the concepts and projects put out by Netflix. If I didn't see companies like them leading the way, I'd likely be a bigger OpenStack fanboy.

See generally:
http://www.cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/openstack-a...
Maybe once a week does a website design make me smile. Thank you.
I'm not sure what you're responding to.

You can't print big things in a street shop because big things require big raw materials, and complex fabrications.

This has nothing to do with commodities, Nissan, Apple or Motorola, this is pointing out that the GP forgot to consider the serious amount of inventory required to have 'on-demand' production available INSIDE a consumer shop.
An example of an exceptional driver:

I once took a longer Uber Black ride to pick up my wife a few towns away, who was quite sick. Once I mentioned this to the driver, he drove noticeably more 'efficiently', offered me his phone to call to check on her once mine had died, and waited outside the building briefly to make sure everything was ok.

Also, I've got a bit of prior race driving experience, and this guy clearly grokked car control. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd spent a good bit of time on a track. He also, without drawing any attention to it in any way, adjusted the suspension settings from 'firm' when we were going around on- and off-ramps to comfort on the highway, to keep the ride comfortable and level.

I gave him a five-star rating and sent Uber customer support an email raving about him. Wish I could have done more.
Ask HN: What makes Berkeley (UC) great?
I am having a heated debate with my friend, and we are a little young to recall where Berkeley fits in the history of Engineering, relative to schools like Stanford and MIT (among others). For those who have lived through 60+ years of this evolution, why does Berkeley matter, and why is this school significant in the grand scheme of it all.
I think he is referring to many people failing to secure their networks and having code stolen. It can be just as insecure, if not worse than a cloud provider if done wrong.
Try making that your mainstay. Develop a project from start to finish that centers around your passion. Fixing bugs is probably your slump.
Well is there a "Putin good" argument?
In the last American hotel room I went to, doorknob from off.
Ok, so now that it's 10x power/performance I buy 10 of these things and it still only delivers 5% more webpages.

This kind of mealymouthed microbenchmark crap is exactly what the industry doesn't need, if I have a bunch of code that is pure in order mul/div/add/sub then I put it on a GPU that I already have and it goes gangbusters. The problem is most code chases pointers.

Like I said, great idea, would love to see something that can actually serve webpages 10x as fast or 1/10th the power (and cost similar to today's systems)
The $4.38B reason it’s hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online
I missed your question about build instructions, sorry. I'll add them to the readme, but it's just "go get github.com/rlmcpherson/s3gof3r/gof3r" for the CLI once you have installed go. Usage instructions are in the readme already.
If you build things the market is not demanding, however dumb, eventually someone will use these things. Low demand means low prices, even if these prices are too low to justify the investment.

Everything has a clearing price, a price that will draw buyers and get it sold.

Of course, if prices are held artificially high, it will take forever.
Wow, the IQ thing really got under peoples skin, but I think his point is that the hard part of being a really good programmer is dealing with all the bullshit that managers invent to keep the mediocre programmers on the straight and narrow.

Problem being, those efforts essentially make one programmer indistinguishable from another by putting shackles on everyone. I admit there's a certain logic to it, building a business that's dependent on one person's talent can be dangerous. Better to make people interchangable.

All the same: Can you imagine John Carmack writing Doom back in the 90s having to deal with what most coders have to deal with nowadays (With all the "agile")? "No sorry John, you can't commit your highly inventive code without a proper story. We're going to need to have a planning meeting on this and size up story points. Please take a defect off the list. We don't need any heroes or cowboy coders."
A "ghost city" is not a ghost city because there is no one to live in it, but there is no one that can afford to live in it. A lot of property is also bought for speculation given that China lacks a property tax.

As for highways, truckers avoid the ones that are heavily tolled, leading to heavily congested non-tolled roads (so called 7 day traffic jams...). And have you ever seen a road as empty as Beijing's 6th ring road?
If people using the wrong terms for electronic office equipment is stressing you out to that extent, it's not healthy, and I would suggest re-considering some of your choices that lead you to this point in life or, if that's not possible, maybe think about getting some help.

That's in all seriousness, btw, it's not worth getting upset about stuff like that.
Distributed intelligence is more robust. And the electronics need to be fast for your airbag and ABS.
Makerbot parts can be considerably weaker than injection molded parts because of issues with delamination between layers.
GoPro to Go Public
Of course, that's what they were counting on. There's no such thing as too many customers or too much publicity.
First, create the kill switch. Second, create the ability to use it.
A culture that oppresses people because of their genetic makeup is literally never better.