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Very touching. It must take courage to resist treatment, even if you know you're going to die anyway. I hope I never have to decide, but I ever am in her shoes, I hope I'm brave enough to spend any time left with my family and saying goodbyes.

On a related note, NYT wrote a story on "How Doctors Die" http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/your-money/how-doctors-die...

" What Dr. McKinley wanted was time with her husband, a radiologist, and their two college-age children, and another summer to soak her feet in the Atlantic Ocean. But most of all, she wanted “a little more time being me and not being somebody else.” So, she turned down more treatment and began hospice care, the point at which the medical fight to extend life gives way to creating the best quality of life for the time that is left.

Dr. Robert Gilkeson, Dr. McKinley’s husband, remembers his mother-in-law, Alice McKinley, being unable to comprehend her daughter’s decision. “ ‘Isn’t there some treatment we could do here?’ she pleaded with me,” he recalled. “I almost had to bite my tongue, so I didn’t say, ‘Do you have any idea how much disease your daughter has?’ ” Dr. McKinley and her husband were looking at her disease as doctors, who know the limits of medicine; her mother was looking at her daughter’s cancer as a mother, clinging to the promise of medicine as "
Thanks!

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This was really sweet. A somewhat inconsequential hack but incredibly touching writing about it. I love this kind of video game writing.
There is a special bound--Share--that is required on thread-safe data structures and forbids Cell/RefCell. The thread-safe equivalents of Cell and RefCell are Atomic and Mutex, respectively.
Salariés résistance et énergie, voici les promesses de votre tasse de café 
Et si le café redonnait de l’énergie, et permettait également de faire de la résistance face à un patron trop exigeant ? Salariés, tous à la machine, la caféine n’en finit pas de démontrer ses atouts.
Perhaps he had noble intentions, but any idiot can see that his methods were beyond stupid. Posting a SSN publicly is sure to get you noticed.

The other thing I noticed is that either the FBI has gotten really good dealing with proxies/VPNs or the guy really didn't know what he was doing.
What I'm worried about, is that "Small Business Growth" has been the switch over into independent contractors.

IE: A company fires 10,000 employees ("losing" large business employees), and then "hires" 10,000 independent contractors. Given how the statistics work... this counts as "+10,000 small business jobs".

As long as the tax code benefits "small businesses", we can expect a degree of corruption and fraud.
It is odd just how black the feed is, but here is a shot of the ISS crossing from daylight to shadow to illustrate that it is the real feed and not artificial.

http://i.imgur.com/tgAqmQU.png
I agree that your comment had value and didn't deserve to be downvoted. That being said, I think you're jumping to too big of a conclusion based on a single (assuming it was only one) downvote - that HN has become a place where contrary opinions are squashed. Chances are good that someone simply isn't aware of the community standards as to when they are and when they are not supposed to downvote - that downvotes are meant to be reserved for when a comment adds no value to the conversation, not when one simply disagrees with the opinion being shared. In that case, the person needs to be educated to the community's expectations. But we should also not rule out the possibility that someone meant to upvote you and instead pressed the downvote button, which are entirely too close to one another, and of which there is no ability to reverse.
My mom has cancer. She loves to keep in touch on social media.
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Is there a flight search engine that combines flights from diff airlines?
SystemC is the C++ equivalent that's been around for a long time. For a project I was working on, I used SystemC just for system-level modelling, it didn't bother me that I couldn't synthesize. To achieve decent clock-rates it would have been a good idea to reimplement the whole thing in "native" Verilog anyway (though my project didn't get that far). What SystemC provided me with is a way to sanity-check my model at the "transaction" level.

Pretty cool to see this, and going forward as a roadmap there is much they could borrow from SystemC.
No, reference counting is just a form of GC. Rust really is unique here among industry languages.
The jmespath library from boto is quite similar to this, and possibly has way more traction. Some differences:

- jmespath uses `body.translations[0].language` instead of `body.translations.0.language`, and it can also do `body.translations[].language`.

- jmespath doesn't support the "missing" use case
Someone tell me how posting someones social security number online is considered whitehat? Also the manner in which he communicated was very harsh.

It seemed as though he was taking his frustrations on his employer out on his employers client.

Or perhaps all of this was his goal: hoping to get arrested, make a name for himself as a "brilliant young hacker" to build up his own security consulting firm.
If such a system was incorruptible, constructed such that it would be impossible for a small group of individuals to hoard the majority of the global wealth, and guaranteed a pleasant and equitable standard of living for all - then it might work.

Unfortunately, the current implementations of this ideal fall far short.
From the first link:

Finally, the relative numeric success
of Gopher over WWW was discussed (there are orders of magnitude more
Gopher servers than WWW servers out there): Gopher seems to have won
out primarily because of the ease of entry (it's much harder to put up
a WWW server than a Gopher server), although another factor may be that
a hierarchical presentation is more appropriate than hypertext for the
broad-based audience of a CWIS.

:)
It is a commonly made point that the crowd here work on "trivial" things. I think the OP injects some perspective.
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thank you for this. I always thought it was 100. When I was 12 I never bothered to count the symbols "crown + moon = 88" for instance :)
'Why' questions are always the hardest.

Peace be with you on your journey!
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I can understand that, I've spent many hours of my life getting that unread count down, or on the positive side seeing a new item for a favorite feed. Twitter liberated the guilt part, but has not filled the hole of knowing when something important is new.
Perhaps a minor point, but nevertheless: [1] explicitly points out that the 40% number is misleading and that alcohol-involved accidents should not be construed as alcohol-caused accidents.
Fascinating! Two questions:

Wouldn't it have been better if the attacker had removed only the last few lines recording his commands from the log files instead of the entire files? Wouldn't the lack of continuity in the log files be very noticeable?

Also, is this a script running this sequence of commands or an actual person?

And, is there a log somewhere on the system of 'make' activity?
I found this story immensely enriching and thought-provoking, which is (in theory) why I read most of the things I read. Win.
As well as the Apollo program, in the form of the Saturn V instrument unit.

I suppose it never ceases being necessary to reiterate that no technology is either good or evil, and it's not applied science which carries moral weight, but the uses to which people put it.
Zugzwang: When every move will make you worse off
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I propose that someone create a proof-of-work system that creates a distributed auction of the computing power of the miners. This has the twin benefits of not wasting electricity on doing useless hashes, and of providing a backing for the value of the created currency (because the currency can be used to purchase computing power from miners). A standardized NP-complete problem formulation could be used.

I haven't worked out exactly how to do this (specifically: if the problems posed to the miners are not random, what is to prevent a miner from posing a problem to which they already know the answer?), it's just an idea.

more rumination at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Intrinsic_worth_brainstorming#pse...
Thanks for posting this, it's new to me! I was just thinking about trying to find a new double-entry accounting system (no joke). The last time I did a proper budget it was with Apple Numbers, which was not very satisfying.
Relevant content to Hacker News is "Anything that satisfies a person's intellectual curiosity." It's not just about technology, it's about interesting things. Which, I think, is what makes HN as valuable as it is.

On an unrelated note, your username means "is whining/complaining" in my native language (Slovenian) and I found that interesting given the context.
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I'm sorry, but that is an absurd thought process. What on earth is he missing out on if he doesn't want to profit? What is this once in a lifetime opportunity being wasted? The chance to work for a month with no return? That's an absolute joke.

I have absolutely nothing against him putting ads and IAP in the game to try to make money, as money is in fact the main reason for doing work. What I don't understand is this BS post. Sure he cloned a game style, but who really cares about that. It's not even a little unreasonable to clone a game mechanic. Does anybody think candy crush is a worse game because it is a cloned mechanic? no, it is a highly polished and well done version, and it's fine. Same goes for 2048 IMO.

The real question is what is the point of this post? Oh noes I didn't want to profit off it and I felt bad, but I was missing a once in a lifetime opportunity to waste a month of my life, oh what the hell let's put ads in it anyway.
Remember... Go slow, be well & take it easy.
The most interesting definition I've seen is roughly: "one who fetishizes the authentic", but it seems the term has come to be a cheap way to heap scorn on certain categories of fashion.

The word is so overplayed and unuseful it ought to be retired (it's not hip any more).
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why mentioning whites and blacks
I suppose it depends on the personality of the AI, and how it was programmed or evolved. Maybe it, and its robots, would be highly motivated by such work?
Apple's EULA prohibits the use of Apple products to run nuclear equipment. This is often cited by proponents of free software as an example of the Big Brother-ish restrictions they are trying to eliminate from the world.
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Well, this really depends on what you mean by 'see' (and I suppose what you mean by 'space' as well, but let's just assume the ISS is the benchmark). Pictures like that, afaik, are taken with camera lenses that look roughly like [1]. You definitely can't make out city blocks with just your eyes from the ISS.

[1] http://media.the-digital-picture.com/Images/Other/Canon-EF-8...
Providing support has an opportunity cost as does developing features requested by users. If your early users are "harbingers of doom" and you listen to them for feature requests, you're going to have a rough time.

Recently I signed up to test a new SaaS app that I thought would be useful. The marketing language on the site was a bit different from what I found inside the app once I got going. I asked the support team for help and instead of leading me on with promises of adding things in the future, they just told me the app was a bad fit and refunded my money. I appreciated that. I was not going to be a productive user for them. Focus is key.

I think this is one of the reasons apps like Stripe take so long to go international. The user needs are very different and there's a real cost to taking on the responsibility of grappling with them.
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I always wanted to do a consumer-app startup -- I am doing that now. I'm really inspired by this story to actually do something more powerful.
I want to take issue with "Every dollar earned is a good dollar" at essay length. It's widely believed to be true by devs starting SaaS companies and sometimes dooms good people/products by e.g. makin them scramble to find 50 $20 a month accounts when they'd sleepwalk to 3 $10k a month ones.
My guess is that the "harbingers of failure" are just anti-popular-item folk. They like an item because other people (read: the huge market a company actually wants) don't like it, or because it's "different." Not because it has actual inherent new value, or actually tastes good. Perfect setup for failure -- tons of people dislike your product, and the only ones who like it are the ones who like it because others don't. Cases in point my guess are Crystal Pepsi (as the article uses), another is Zima[1], a third is Orbitz[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zima

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbitz_(soft_drink)
The door-to-door sales jobs I've seen are right on the edge. They may expect you to come in at certain times for "unpaied team meetings", there is an expectation to arrive at "nonmandatory training", etc. etc. Words that are used to prove to the IRS that they are running "independent contractors" while barely skidding the line.

Does this look like an Independent Contracting gig to you? http://vectormarketing.com/

Anyway, the important bit is that "small businesses" are poorly classified in the USA. A lot of one-man shops are basically poorly-treated employees, skirting the law so that they can ignore certain taxes.

Yes, there has been growth in "small businesses", but unless we get more data, there is no way to tell if small businesses are actually growing, or if companies are simply shedding employees for independent contractors to avoid payroll taxes.
Well-said. I've heard that one of the main reasons Sequoia invested in Airbnb was because they looked at what they were doing at the time, helping people rent out air mattresses in their apartments, and felt it could be generalized out to renting houses, apartments, and all kinds of spaces.
Such a well written story.

This is one of those stories where I implicitly want to find the words to help comfort the writer and those who have experienced pain similar to this.

To them, I will simply listen and hope that peace is with them.

Thank you for sharing.
You are reading it backwards, you must start in (a).
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100% agree, I even tweeted(https://twitter.com/ppiplewar/status/460199400610856961) this thing few days ago.

On this days, I only answer questions which are worthful and most of the time it falls under `featured` category.
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I don't think that they needed to trace it back through the VPN. They started asking questions at his workplace (for whatever reason), and a co-worker turned over a chat log in which he was describing what he was doing. They could have just been questioning The Canton Group through 'good old fashioned police work.' It's not like The Canton Group was unconnected to the University.
Some of the stuff he did would be considered 'grey hat,' but stuff like posting to Reddit is just plain stupid if he was trying to mitigate the trouble that he could get into.
> - Having Emacs suspend the shell I'm working in sucks

Does emacsclient -n not work?
Race gender class. It never stops on hacker news.
Do they also object to the clearly stated restrictions, which TI places on its general-purpose microcontroller lines, against their use in life-critical equipment?

TI's reasoning is that they don't want to be sued because someone designed, say, a fly-by-wire control system which uses COTS MSP430 parts, and then accidentally built one with a bogus MSP that went toes-up on final and brought a jetliner down short of the runway. It's not that they are averse to their parts being used in life-critical applications; it's that they have specific lines for that purpose, consisting of parts which have undergone much heavier and more stringent testing as compared to the general-purpose lines, and if a designer of life-critical hardware can't be bothered to get in touch with TI and arrange to source parts from one of those lines, then TI's not going to be held responsible for a bad result -- nor should they.

I dare say Apple's reasoning is similar. It's not that they actually expect (e.g.) iTunes to comprise a critical component of a nuclear weapon's operating software, inasmuch as such a device has any; rather, it's that if someone does for some lunatic reason actually build an iTunes module which happens to set off a 1Kt IND when you play the same Lady Gaga track ten times in a row, Apple's not going to be held responsible. Granted, it's a particularly stupid and pointless example of gratuitous lawyerese, but the underlying reasoning is probably very similar to TI's. (Although I do rather doubt that Apple makes a special version of iTunes which is certified for nuclear-weapons use.)
Also noting hledger has a cooler web interface, whereas others built projects with a ledger backend. Ledger is CLI only.

http://hledger.org/manual#web
To answer your questions:

1) Yes, it would have been better but I honestly think this attack was completely botnet-driven and the attacker didn't really mean to cover his footprints too much: in the timespan of 10 minutes, he sent over 800 MB of UDP traffic. That would have been caught even by the most oblivious sysadmin pretty quickly, so these guys are just playing a number game, trying to break in as many hosts as they can knowing that the lifespan of the hacked hosts will be very short, maximizing the short-term profit then.

2) The attacker directly ran these commands on the login shell (no script was copied over scp or something else), so there was no script executed on the host itself, but the whole thing lasted roughly 2 minutes and a lot of commands were "typed", so I am almost sure this was just an automated script ran from another probably compromised host.

3) I didn't check if the build left logs, but by showing every executed process with "evt.type=execve" (which goes deeper than the spy_users chisel) you can see all the processes executed by the build: 99% are just uninteresting sed/gcc/autoconf.
I've been a StackOverflow user since it started, I've been a member for over 3 years, and I can't comment on an answer because I only have 46 rep. I'm sure I hit the site everyday finding value in it, when I started at my last job they gave me a tour of their Android work and joked it was made by StackOverflow. The site is difficult to use, everywhere I click it says I need n more rep to use a piece of functionality.
All the racial dimension aside, because I don't really feel qualified to comment on it, “So how do you spend your time?” is a much more interesting question than "What do you do for a living?". I particularly notice that in the States people really tend to identify with their jobs, something that as an outsider is often strange. I lived in Spain for a long time, and it wasn't uncommon to spend a lot of time with someone before having any more than the vaguest idea of what they do for a living, something that would be unthinkable in the US (at least in NYC and CA where I've spent most of my time there). As the OP notes, the answers that come from asking people about their time are likely to be more interesting because they're more likely to tell you about things they're passionate about, which is generally much more interesting than their job.
White people, especially well-off, career-minded ones seem to need to re-learn the art of small talk. It really isn't that hard. You talk about anything but that which is important.

Try the weather. Yes, the weather. Three sentences on that, and you're ready to get more ambitious. Sports is the next rung on the ladder. Even if you don't follow sports, you can still talk about sports. Your kids might play. You might have had that one season of baseball you quit after three weeks. You can't live in this country without having had some experience concerning sports.

You'd be absolutely amazed at what you can learn about a person with nothing more than small talk.
> Ken: lary and sergey came by tonight...

> Ken: p.s. one of larrys comments was "why isnt function spelled func?

> Rob: fine with me. seems compatible with 'var'

> Rob: anyway we can always say, "larry said to call it 'func'"
I compared O! GC with few other HTML5 games, it seems that GC frequency is normal with high number of game objects.
If you like this kind of stuff, http://www.honeyd.org/ is pretty full featured as well and provides a lot more emulated services (http, ftp, network file shares, smtp). It is also built so it is (relatively) easy to add your own emulated services.

Not to say that kippo isn't good, I didn't look too closely but it seems to be mainly focused on ssh and terminal capture.
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China gonna crash anytime now!!! For real tis time?
I wonder if there might not be some currency buy-in model that would work. Instead of your in-site "cred" getting bumped, maybe that cred is worth something tangible. Maybe in order to buy into the site you have deposit $5 worth of cryptocurrency X and to ask a question you have to "pay" a dollar worth of that currency and those dollars are "credited" based on how the answer/upvote pool decides.

I can think of at least 10 problems with this approach, but I think it might be feasible.
That's very interesting on how close you have to time the releases. Regarding Phonegap: I tried Cirulli's original app on the train this morning having read the article above. I found that there's a highly noticeable delay in reacting to swipes on my (brand new) Samsung S5, and that this was rather detrimental to my experience. As such, I can only conclude that Phonegap is best avoided if performance matters at all.

The native version I'd already installed by merit of it being amongst the highest ranked in Play store when searching for 2048 is fully responsive and fluid; unfortunately this clone does not pay any respect to Cirulli's work.

I'm happy to see a donation button on Cirulli's github page and will utilise it shortly.
If you've been "active" for 3 years then it should have been trivial to build up enough points to do anything you want to do. You have to contribute, not just consume.
I use Salt (used to use Puppet) to build out my Vagrant box(es) in development.

When I'm good to go, I use Packer with the same Salt configuration to build an image and push it to AWS/DO/RackSpace as needed. Makes it super easy to develop and deploy on exactly the same machine, and the Vagrant/Packer configurations are typically fairly minimal so there's very little set-up time once you've written out your Salt/Puppet/etc configurations.
Is it really that the volume of poor questions is increasing, or that the volume of good questions is decreasing? I know I gave up on asking questions there a while ago, and I'd like to believe that the questions I did ask were fairly high-quality.
Another comment linked to some comments from dang:

"It's on our list. There are a lot of things on the list; we don't know yet when we'll get to it."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7651770

So I imagine that if you submitted a pull request, they would at least look at it when trying to fix it.
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