skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite generally rock-solid performance and uptime, I had a bad experience with DO recently. After experiencing repeated hardware failures on a node (with lots of downtime), I followed the advise of their support and did a snapshot and destroy of the failing droplet and immediately attempted to create a new one from the snapshot. It failed to build. I then tried to build again from the automated backup they create when a droplet is destroyed, this also failed. Support just did not seem to understand the issue I was having, I kept getting canned responses about doing a snapshot then building a new droplet from the image, so I gave up.

The entire site had to be created again from backups on a different VPS provider. Surely their system should be able to migrate any droplets off failing nodes automatically, I mean hardware failures happen right?
I'm European, you insensitive clod.

(Wait, this is not Slashdot. Are these lame jokes allowed here when they are relevant? I know the site is moderated, but I don't know its netiquette rules. )
Cerberus to buy Safeway for $9B
> in the end you own the things you do in your free time

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I am working on a marketplace project right now and I was wondering if anyone can suggest an international payment processor other than PayPal. Braintree Marketplace would have been perfect but it is currently only for the US. The same goes for Balanced Payments and several other options.

(My project involves freelancing and finding small projects - Sign up page at http://www.ladr.io/ if anyone interested)
Any good guides for hardening Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
As a lover of Erlang, I don't see why this pattern wouldn't be useful in Erlang. (Though, to some degree it's already there, as (IIRC) a node unresponsive to heartbeats will eventually be brought down, and messages will fail to send immediately.) It's perfectly possible for gen_servers to get wedged and exhibit exactly this behavior…
I agree, looks like a very cool product, but really? Only alphanumeric, dashes, period, underscore, and @ symbol in password and no spaces? Why? And why not put that information on the form instead of in another link and not say why the password was rejected?

Why is there a time limit of a few minutes on the confirmation code? I feel like I have to race the clock in order to register.

I wish they had made a separate registration that matched the actual product's less-corporate style.
Many jurisdictions will pay officers to appear and many don't factor appearing into their budgets/schedules, so the officers are paid at overtime rates (time and a half). Many officer's don't mind having to appear... they make bank and many pensions are based on the three years of highest revenue (this is a method officers abuse in Wisconsin... they will work as much OT as they can for three years especially near retirement, since the legislature hasn't bothered fixing/forcing pensions to be based on 40 hours / week.)
A few years ago there was an exposé on valets in LA intentionally breaking meters to control parking. I wouldn't be surprised if it still happens. A few months ago tighter regulations on valets went into effect (not sure how well those have been enforced, though).

http://consumerist.com/2009/10/01/hidden-cameras-catch-la-va...
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You are technically right but you're missing one thing: The parking authority here has an easy time to prove that you've ostensibly parked against the rules. Say, if the curb paint was faded, all they have to show is a map showing where you parked and how that's a special area. Done.

Suddenly it's up to you as the defendant to prove that that wasn't the case.

Outside of completely bogus tickets, proving that they were technically allowed to write the ticket is a trivial affair for the authorities.
I'm with you because I had the same experience with a judge while lawyerless. I showed him a manufacturer tech spec on my car to make the point that based on its 0-60 acceleration, it was physically impossible that I was going 67 mph by the time I reached the intersection where I was clocked from where I started accelerating. His response upon seeing the specs was, "What are you, trying to sell me on a car?! This officer (witness) has been with the department 15 years. Guilty."
Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto chased by reporters, denies founding Bitcoin
I agree with another comment that mentioned you should consider adding videogames. I play dota2 occasionally and wouldn't mind playing with locals.
given one completely ripped the other off - probably similar?
Still thinking through the review process. I guess it's tough because, unlike Uber, you're not around. Thinking of my own experience (my non-adult kids are 5, 7, and 9). At that age, you can get some feedback from the kids after. Also, my wife cares about whether or not our sitter cleans up after dinner, etc.

As for the webcam, we ordered a dropcam and I'll figure out a way to iframe a feed video feed or something along those lines. I figure the sitter would bring the camera, connect to your wifi and we'd text you the link.

Also, DropCam offers recording as a monthly service. So, it might be possible to keep the recordings for parents to review.
Have you ever had to change gateways? They charge 2 cents on top of gateway fees - would it be substantial for you if you went direct to the gateway? I imagine less sales at higher prices it's worth it. Many lower price sales it would be worth it to gateway hop manually cost wise.
Taxes don't really work that way, but I generally agree with you. Vote at the ballot box.
Not since Game of Thrones has there been that much male nerd interest in weddings.
Ask HN: Why does Evernote sell socks?
So I like Phil Libin. I think he is a brilliant entrepreneur and what he has done with Evernote is awesome. I love the service.

But I don't get the marketplace idea.

They are selling items that seem to be non-related to their service.

A pen, that allows Evernote to capture data more quickly is understandble...but a backpack [1] and socks [2]...I don't get.

Can someone explain this to me please?

P.S. I have faith that Phil knows more about his business than I do, and I am pretty sure there is a completely rational explanation...but I am just curious.

[1] - https://www.evernote.com/market/feature/rucksack?sku=BAGS00103

[2] - https://www.evernote.com/market/feature/socks?sku=SOCK00106
NBC reportedly holds celebs hostage to Jimmy Fallon's show
Not that I doubt this story, but human memory is not very reliable. There's many studies that have been done on this. The fact that your wife would remember someone from three years ago who she met for 20 minutes is a little far fetched even if it was a significant meeting.

It also matters how you showed the picture. Depending on how you did it can influence people to remember incorrectly.
This iPhone app wakes you to the sound and smell of bacon
Mirroring what jrs235 said, I've also heard officers schedule court appearances all together so it's more convenient for them to show up.
amazing idea but I see a flaw in the 1 or 2 strike policy. Kids are individuals, and what may piss one kid off may not piss another kid off. Is the baby sitter a strict disciplinarian? What if the parents don't want their kids disciplined? What if some parents want their kids to sit in front of the TV, while others would be outraged at the thought?

The 'On demand' aspect of this might be a little too difficult, but I could see a huge market even if your app helped schedule future sittings between '3 or 4 favorited sitters' that a particular family met through your service. Good luck!
In the video he says "I'm not involved in Bitcoin" (present tense) which is not inconsistent with what was reported in the Newsweek article:

>"I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it," he says, dismissing all further queries with a swat of his left hand. "It's been turned over to other people. They are in charge of it now. I no longer have any connection."

I say this because the headline is trying to imply that Newsweek identified the wrong man, and as a result people are on twitter gloating about Newsweek being "wrong." Even if they do end up being wrong, this article and the corresponding video aren't evidence one way or the other.
Yeah, we're still at a point in adoption where everybody building a production system in Go is still notable because they did it in Go in the first place.

Systems built in Dart are practically unheard of.
I've always liked this one: https://workaround.org/ispmail/wheezy

And it's not for Debian only, I'm running it on Arch by following this tutorial.
Awesome, as long as we don't breach the Prime Directive.
TL;DR; SSL would be used for all traffic but non-SNI browsers would be served from the origin server or a caching server. URLs would be rewritten in JS in the browser on first hit.

Thanks for replying. Below are the details:

I work on an e-commerce project where 50% of bandwidth, a few hundred GB per month, is thumbnails and CSS. We currently serve this over HTTP on CloudFront - primarily for faster page rendering.

CloudFront and on-server caching are also helpful in handling traffic spikes from Reddit etc.

Total hosting cost is under $500/month so $600/month for CloudFront custom SSL hosting is steep in comparison.

My question was considering a scenario where we might switch to SSL all the time.

CloudFront would serve static content from https://sni.domain.com via SNI.

The main server would be at https://ssl.domain.com. This serve dynamic content to all visitors, static content to non-SNI browsers and is the CloudFront origin.

If non-SNI traffic was too much for the origin server we would set up a caching server (e.g. Nginx/Varnish on https://sslcache.domain.com) and rewrite non-SNI traffic there instead of the origin.

In the browser a javascript snippet would try to connect to https://sni.domain.com by loading a 1 pixel image then write the URLs in the DOM if a short timeout delay was exceeded and set a cookie for further requests by this browser. The cookie would then determine if the server delivered pages (usually from the cache) with SNI or non-SNI URLs for static content.

I think this would work and would see at least 90% of static resources served over SNI.

It would be nice if there was a more elegant way detect non-SNI browsers - such as a JS test for the existence of a particular browser property - rather than trying to load from CloudFront (seems a bit web 1.0ish).

Any suggestions?
I doubt there are many people in the latter category. It is simply too expensive to live like that, unless you're very, very wealthy, which is a very small number of people, and probably only a very small number of those who are assholes at all times.

Even at 50% probability of successfully contesting a ticket, it's still much cheaper to find a parking meter and pay for parking. Or pay for two taxi rides. Or, if you're one of the above mentioned wealthy people, hire a full time driver.

On the other hand, there are plenty of instances where people are unfairly penalized for badly signposted regulations, faded paint (especially red in the dark lit by low-pressure sodium), regulations only a local would reasonably know about, or even broken meters. There is a high cost in personal time to contesting these. I think this is a problem which may be solved quite well by this app.
They're pretty much just taking the data you enter in the app, printing it on the SF MTA protest form, giving it a quick read, and mailing it in.
I'd love to see something this like for helping combat bullshit moving violations. You're right, in a perfect world it would be something I could care take of myself, but I often don't have the time- so I just pay the ticket and move on (legit or not).

For example- this summer I was living in Brooklyn. I filled up my motorcycle and pulled out of a gas station. Within maybe 500-600 feet I got pulled over. I had no idea at all why, as I certainly wasn't speeding or doing anything even moderately questionable.

I got a $100 'equipment violation' ticket for having the visor on my helmet opened by 2 inches so I could get some air flow in slow traffic. I wasn't wearing my glasses that day, and had contacts in instead. I've quite literally never had a moving violation before, and I'm a relatively careful driver especially in city traffic.

I was told that this ticket was for my safety. Keep in mind I was wearing armored boot, pants, jacket, gloves that covered me past my wrists and an excellent helmet.

I comparison, the NYPD often wear almost no protection (see this photo: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/NYPD-Moto...). As you can see, they don't have full-face helmets, those jackets and pants certainly aren't armored and their gloves don't go very far down. Oh, and no eye protection.

I simply paid the ticket, as the ticket had stiff language on it saying that if I contested it that they could increase the fines/fees significantly, and frankly I didn't have the time to go through NYC bureaucracy.

The cop admitted to me that he wouldn't have normally pulled me over, but they were doing 'motorcycle enforcement' (aka. quota) and they had to pull over anyone for anything.
Well, if there's life in that ocean, they're probably not tool builders (otherwise we'd have detected something). But microbes and maybe multicellular life isn't out of the question. It's also interesting to think about if we should count, say, a global population of whale-equivalents as a civilization or not.
Driving is bullshit. Just everything about it: expensive, inconvenient, and a backdoor to reduced rights (search * seizure, etc) and run-ins with the legal system.

Think about it: if you're a typical middle class person, when is the only time you ever have a run in with the law? I lived three years without driving in Chicago. I don't think I ever even talked to a cop in that time, and if I did it must've been pleasant and forgettable (I think beat cops with patrols of nice neighborhoods tend to be chill). I move to PA/DE and have to commute to work, and boom: in the space of a few months I've got three parking tickets, and stress to update my {registration, insurance, license plate} to avoid further run ins with the law.

I can't wait to move back to somewhere I can commute by train and leave this bullshit behind me.
This is a pretty predatory article.
"Seems a bit unnecessary to take the spot completely out of action because the meter is broken."

Yes it seems a bit stupid but governments often don't operate with efficiency or common sense as a primary goal or concern.
Harvard team probes Chinese censorship of social media | Harvard Magazine
I have updated the original article to make this clearer: If you are facing discrimination or bullying, leave immediately! And perhaps consult a lawyer as well.

The article was directed mainly at people who hate their jobs, but not enough to quit (because of fear, because they don't think they are good enough to get another one etc). So they keep showing up, in the misplaced opinion that it will get better.

But it doesn't, and one day all their fears are realised, when they wake up to find they are no longer employable, because they spent all their time just coasting through life, doing the bare minimum.

If a person is in this situation, they need to accept responsibility, and start making plans to move on. This process is hard and time consuming, which is why I say: First improve your skills, then move to a better job. Don't move from one Dilbert company to another. Rather, move to some place that will recognise and reward your skills.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/tech/mobile/fixed-app-parking-...

"If the motorist thinks they have a case, the app will prompt them to capture any additional photographic evidence with their phone and then digitally sign a letter.
Fixed has contracted with a team of legal researchers fluent in local traffic laws who will review each case before printing out the letter and submitting it via snail mail to the city."

Here's the form, now you don't need the app: http://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/2013%20AR%20PR...

The legal researchers job is probably just to sanity check that people aren't submitting complete junk, like penis photos.
Sounds like this guy suffers from just-world syndrome.

I've been in a bad situation, my only regret is not getting out sooner.
I've been holding my breath for one of these dashboard services to offer native chromecast support. None of this tab casting stuff but actual chromecast support. Then it would be super cheap to put a bunch of these dashboards around the office.
I would argue that having laws against things that are easily deterred simply by money is evil. Anything that is worth outlawing should carry a significant penalty with it. Otherwise, we encourage legislation outlawing things for revenue instead of because they are actually wrong.
So I'm wondering, if you're in a place where they expect you to work overtime without paying you, They take away salary for "equity" that never comes, they constantly call and email you outside of normal business hours, and they come in on a Friday at 4 pm and tell you that they need you to work all weekend, also, they arbitrarily move deadlines forward, what do you do then?

This may or may not be something that happened to a friend of a friend of mine.
I got approved for the Beta ~5 minutes after applying, so it seems like it's a pretty quick turnaround.
Here's a good roundup on Reddit about how Dorian Sakamoto likely isn't Satoshi Nakamoto: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zpuer/the_newsweek...

Given all this, it's incredible Newsweek ran the original story in the first place.
Yes, the 'reveal' towards the end of the article is a nice surprise and worth reading the whole article for.
So...office space?
I can't speak for anyone else, but I've just checked and I can confirm that I am not Bitcoin.
Yep, that is the best description!
Him, or any member of his immediate family, which the journalist of the original piece made sure could easily be tracked down.
For San Francisco (the city in the screenshot and the only city that ever seems to matter when getting app-based startups), the rule is that parking at a broken meter is still very much valid. Same goes for where I live and everywhere I've lived and tried to park in multiple places in the U.S. I suspect this is half an enforcement problem (doesn't look good in the papers, "City Tows People Parked at Busted Meters") and part not denying use of a parking spot just because the one pay box is busted. Broken meters are one reason why cities in the U.S. are going to parking time window stickers and fewer pay boxes.

As for things like faded curb paint and missing signs and so on, that's not an excuse the operator of the vehicle can use. Even if there's no red curb paint here, you're still not allowed to park within 30 feet of an intersection (on the direction-of-travel side) or 10 feet of a fireplug or 5 feet of a driveway. Those are all things you're expected to know by virtue of having a driver license. Now, being ticketed for being over-time on a free parking stretch that's limited to 2 hours when the sign has gone missing might be one thing, but the folks around here put up so many signs in so many places, I think a person would have a hard time making that stand up.

Ultimately: if someone isn't sure and wants to not risk incurring the fine, he or she shouldn't leave a hunk of metal and plastic sitting on the public right-of-way.
Advertisement ? It's borderline a space horror movie, no irony here...

The mockups of mission branding and press conferences were rather well made though, so I can imagine why you'd get that impression.
Well, according to LA Times reporter Andrea Chang he denied both present and past involvement, so that's something. https://twitter.com/byandreachang/status/441687863222996992
Sounds great, "Video Games" added to the suggestion list.
which copied which?
My favorite: in Wilmington, DE, parking meters are not enforced on holidays. The punchline is that it's state holidays, and they celebrate Veteran's Day in late October, instead of mid-November.
Regarding being potentially wide-open to exploits due to kernels being out of date, I would recommend installing ksplice uptrack (https://www.ksplice.com/). It allows you to apply kernel security updates without rebooting your machine. It's excellent, and I wouldn't consider running Ubuntu without it.
They can also lean towards rejecting almost any challenge entered by a system like this one. Conveniently, where I live, if you enter your argument by mail you are waiving your right to a trial, and they won't even reply to you unless you win (in which case you get some money back and it's obvious you won).
"Not involved with Bitcoin" leaves the door open to having been involved with Bitcoin in the past. I wonder if he was trying to deny past involvement with Bitcoin but worded it poorly, or if he was merely being clever in his wording, like a politician. Perhaps we'll find out.
subject to the terms of your employment agreement and applicable state and federal law.

If any employer tries to assert ownership of a non-work-related side project...

1. It would not be hard to challenge that in court. For example, the employer does
not own personal communications. They cannot read your private email, much less
assert copyright over it.
2. The very fact should be outed here, on Slashdot, on Lobsters, and on Valleywag.
It will ruin that company's reputation, and that ruin will be deserved.
> This includes legal/judicial enforcement of contracts and a court with the authority to mediate disputes and punish criminals. Also this includes a police force to help enforce these rights.

Not necessarily. Libertarian anarchists propose that those services can be provided by private enterprise.
HipHop compiles the script natively, while KittenDB seems to converts to C++ and then compiles it. KittenDB seems to have fewer dependencies, meaning it's likely to be less feature rich. This could be down to the fact that HipHop is actually a full stack, while this is just the interpretation layer.

I'm finding it difficult to find any more details because the documentation is in Russian.

I'm interested in the fact that both Facebook and the Russian equivalent independently started work on the same basic idea. It's almost like convergent evolution.
Unfortunately, this doesn't really tell us much. Of course with the initial info, the rest of the media would track this poor guy down eventually and hassle him until he gave them something. All that's really clear is that he's a bit of a shut-in with no interest in media attention. The only thing he could do that would really be conclusive is to somehow produce enough evidence that he really is the Bitcoin creator Satoshi.

He can deny all he wants, but it'll be impossible to prove that he isn't that guy unless a "real Satoshi" pops up somewhere. Conspiracy theorists on all sides will continue to spin plenty of plausible scenarios both ways. And of course, if he did confirm it, people would still doubt it until there was really solid proof.
I doubt it makes financial sense for them to do anything at all past an initial letter contesting the ticket. If they get it dismissed, they make 25%. Otherwise they walk away and say "sorry, we tried."
Of all this code, storage should probably be most interesting to outsiders given how fast, reliable and synchronous vk.com is. I've heard they do crazy things with data storage.

I wonder if someone would step up, figure it out and tell the world.
Bitcoin community doubts satoshi nakamoto identity
I was very scared when i saw that headline. Thank god this is not about military missions in Europe.