skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I colocate my little cluster of servers with Opus:Interactive in Portland, OR. It's neat to look at the homebrew artists with their motley crew of machines all colocated together in racks in the corner followed by many homogenous racks filled with boxes from big name companies.

I don't prefer building powerful hardware. I prefer reliable and cheap to build and maxing out the 4U of my rack. I like to think of my servers as "life support for an internet connected harddrive". My CPU's are fanless Intel Atom's with 2GB of ram and I get Mini-ITX motherboards that can be powered by a brick DC power supply. Ultimately, I'll move to Flash hard drives so I'll have no moving parts in my server, but I'm waiting for the price to come down and for reliability to match spinning media.
You can see the code here : http://codepen.io/devstate/pen/rtiqk?editors=001

I made it for a graphical coding workshop concept called http://www.devstate.net . What do you guys think? Smart / Dumb way to go about promoting such workshops? I did the same with Flappy Bird https://vimeo.com/94395716 and managed a few sales in Belgium.

I need to clean up the code, but posted it already as it takes some time for potential clients to fit a workshop into their schedule and register. It's very Version 1, so while it fits and works on newer smart phones (iPhone 5, Galaxy etc.) the icons/text is puny. I'm busy improving this and the game in general for V2 ;)
Interesting to me on a personal level. I have a recently born son who underwent surgery at 2 months. The procedure itself is incredibly simple and safe; the anesthesia was the part that actually concerned us the most, (and my father is a trained anesthesiologist to boot).

There was a non-surgical alternative to what we did, but it was recommended against. It has a much lower success rate and is the difference between a day in the hospital and several months of carefully measured feeding.

Even equipped with this knowledge, I suspect that I would make the same decision. It is more important to me that my son be physically healthy and thriving than anything. I am curious if others would make the decision differently.
According to the announcement in OP, the 5% commission is paid by the driver, the rider still pays the exact same regulated fare right. At least that's how I read it, I think that's what "commission" usually means.
I guess the demise of XP is still a long ways off. If there were no XP users remaining, could there still be enough hackable computers to create a large enough botnet?
I would argue that dedicated servers are MORE resilient then any cloud provider. And it really isn't that hard, 2 enterprise class servers + VMWare or similar and you have a HA cluster. The hardware support is largely done by the hardware vendor under their support contract (4 hour mission critical) and having redundancy means a single hardware failure isn't critical.

I have had 4x 1 minute dropouts in the past 18 months from our hosting vendor upgrading their routers always at midnight localtime. They provide diverse data paths and we have not lost connectivity despite major outages. If I thought I needed to I could get a separate connection from one of about 20 providers in the local DC I am located in.

I really believe many people put too much weight on the complexity of managing physical hardware, when your already doing 90% of the administration anyway on a cloud server. Yes it is capital intensive, but you will likely make the money back in your first 12-18 months.
Wow mindblow! Thanks!
If you have a college degree and work in certain professions then there is a separate visa process for Mexican citizens. You will need to get a job offer from a US company like an H1-B but if I recall unlike the H1B there is no limit to the number of visas issued.

http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/employment/naf...
These sticks definitely do not have the cooling capacity to run at full rated heat output 24/7. As you note, they're passively cooled. They don't produce any less heat than a Chromebook on the same SoC, they just throttle and downclock faster.
Also "lightweight" gets too much play in Linux UI circles. What people actually mean, I think, is "not janky and broken".

Heck, why is Linux Mint exciting? Because it's explicitely not trying to revolutionize anything, they're just trying to make the basic idea work as well as possible.
Feedly and Evernote hit by DDOS
Also don't forget to check out the rented dedicated server market too. It provides a good middle ground in cost/power/performance to the extremes of cloud providers and colocation.
Agreed on all counts.

There have been some very shady dealings between Europe and the US, in areas as sensitive as financial and travel information, where it seems the US has demanded data and Europe has conveniently overlooked and/or hacked its own privacy and data protection laws so they can provide it.

I suspect given the increasingly anti-EU sentiments in many European countries and the outright hostile behaviour of the US toward foreign citizens in recent years, this situation isn't going to last much longer. Someone in politics is just waiting to make their career by telling a weakened EU administration and/or the US where to go, presenting themselves as the people's advocate and defender of basic human rights. This issue provides a convenient and potentially very effective vehicle for anyone with such ambitions.

Put another way, the asymmetric legal, economic and diplomatic relationships that have favoured the US for some time are essentially a bet that the US is worth more as a partner than any cost that asking "how high" will incur. Sooner or later, someone is going to call them, and at this point I'm not sure whether they're just bluffing.
It's not silly, it's a description of reality. Epistemology is concerned with what can be known, not with what assumptions are practical for decision-making. Just because something has happened the same way a hundred billion times in the past, that's no iron guarantee it will in future, it just means its incredibly probable. Understanding this means understanding reality more clearly.
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I can now give my data away for free instead of paying. Woo hoo. :)
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Rate conversion in the time domain is fine, but the "proper" way would smooth the lower pitch tones with a low pass filter, not simply zero-order hold.

Furthermore, the "proper" way would pass the sound through an anti-alaising filter before creating a higher pitch tone. However, at 48kHz (as in the post), this isn't really an issue for audio.
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Check "Bringing SIMD to the Web via Dart" by John McCutchan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKh7UOELpPo

He's also the guy wrote the proposal for ECMAScript:

https://github.com/johnmccutchan/ecmascript_simd

Also, using SIMD is way easier than using shaders. You just write something like this:

double average (Float32x4List list) {
var n = list.length;
var sum = new Float32x4.zero();
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
sum += list[i];
}
var total = sum.x + sum.y + sum.z + sum.w;
return total / (n * 4);
}

Instead of:

double average (Float32List list) {
var n = list.length;
var sum = 0.0;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
sum += list[i];
}
return sum / n;
}
NASA’s design for a warp drive spaceship
Excellent online JSON editor (CDN version)
A fan seems a much simpler solution.

Then again, I am playing with Odroids now and don't like to hear that they will fail if I max them out for days on end.
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Rebalancing your portfolio is active management of the portfolio. Aside from that...

With bonds at this time you can either get a return on capital below the real inflation rate (aka you're better off with metals which track inflation better than bonds or just spending it now to get more than you'll be able to get later) or you get to worry about return of capital with super risky investments. From a harm minimization standpoint you'll fall behind slower with bonds than just putting it in a savings account, so from that point of view its a valid strategy.

Right now we're near a peak, nobodys buying equities but the retail guys who you can always count on to buy high and sell low, so I'm not talking about today but over a longer term. It probably wouldn't be wise to buy in near a market peak.

An interesting observational definition of the start of a recession is there's no really good place to park your money. That's now.
I'll second support for Feedbin. The interface is clean and uncomplicated, it's so cheap that it really isn't worth my time to self-host, and it works with my RSS apps of choice.
The blue bar above the wireless symbol (guessing) indicates that the menu is open. Agree with your other points though.
Meanwhile, I do use my own domain for my primary email account. But the Yahoo mail has nostalgic value for me, because I have it for 15 years now.
I thought you could only get an IP delegation if you were multi-homing and could justify a /24. Is that still the case?
It's a trick! All three images show the same browser... "Google" :)
Jailtime for extorting a casino sounds like a good deal.
Most ATMs won't let you deposit anyway.
Same for me. Especially because I could never find a competing keyboard that handles multiple languages so well. Only minuum (http://minuum.com/) could be an alternative for me since it is great to have more screen space.
Complete oversight on my part – thanks for the link.
That is way too expensive and I can't just ask my company to pay it.

Rather go to EMF camp[1] it's cheaper and it's a 3 day camp/talk everything you ever wanted.

[1]https://www.emfcamp.org/
cost! Cost!! COST!!!

I collocate 5x 4u servers with 24 and 36 drive bays, 128GB ram, SSD drives squished in for OS, for a total (multiple raid 5 volumes for each 6 disks) usable space for my project of 375 TB

Power and 2-3gbit of bandwidth is included,
as well as remote hands to check up on server (for example IPMI sometimes does not work) or replace drives (pay extra for enterprise grade drives would save you alot of hassle in long term!)

for .... €1500 / month

now go and calculate the cost of that on AWS
Not everyone wants to download a dataset and use a statistical software suite just to see the results of a survey. I found the site extremely helpful.
Still no keyring/OS password storage support? I'm all for storing all passwords in the password manager (including those with autocomplete="off") but anything that can read signons.sqlite has access to all passwords in cleartext (no average user uses the master password)
No "cloud-enabled" app without snarky comments about data sharing. Sigh. I personally like the dictionary sync across devices. Especially because I use SwiftKey for German which always suffers from terrible dictionary coverage. But what stops you from disabling all online features?
Is that really a correlation? Have we seen a decrease in zombie counts as XP machines attrition out?
First chess website accessible to blind players
lichess.org, the open source chess server, implements accessibility for visually impaired people.
Considering a lot of intrusions happen via the web browser / plugins installed in the web browser (flash/java come to mind right off the bat), I don't think XP being retired has anything to do with future botnet sizes.
I recommend starting with something small, perhaps even a simple game to get your feet wet. The build environment and the first time through the app approval process can be a little daunting, so starting with something simple might help. You can always remove an approved app if you don't like it hurting your image.
Most likely the same, unless they are using some chip specific instructions/anomalies instead of just the published instruction set (which I think is unlikely).

There may be performance differences of course where AMDs chips process the same instructions differently internally, but I would expect similar optimisation differences between different families of Intel's chips too.

They wouldn't bother if it didn't work well enough on AMD CPUs because if it worked significantly badly or not at all then people other than Intel simply wouldn't use it. Of course they'll make no specific efforts to optimise it specifically for chip designs that aren't their own, but that is not the same thing.
How often can you actually implement new features in an entrenched filesystem and not have to worry about backwards compatibility. This is the case for ext2/3/4, NTFS, and I'm sure many others.
That's like saying bodyguards are a protection racket because muggers and assassins exist. Yes, it sucks to have to pay for defense, but that doesn't mean the problem is your defense vendor's fault, or that said vendor has done anything wrong at all.
Woman assaulting a guy for using a drone on the beach
Probably because of Intel's history of breaking code on AMD. Like this: http://www.swallowtail.org/naughty-intel.shtml
Because that would open them up to further trouble and because there is no gain from it.

I write quite extensively about stuff that happened in the past and I'm always very careful to write it in such a way that the various people involved (even if they've done terrible things) can not be identified easily. People change.
DDG is great! They've come a long way in the last year, and I've switched to using DDG as my primary search resource on iOS, Linux & OS X. The amount of times I can't find what I need on DDG and have to revert to Google Search these days is less than 10% I'd say.
Their icons are not good. Too glassy and cartoony and too many gradients. They don't look modern, they look like icons for a kids app from 10 years ago.
It’d never occurred to me that you’d get a note for a tooth in the US. Would be an expensive habit in the UK to give notes away.
Is She Human? Making A.I. Real
In that case, how will it work with gists that have multiple files? Should it just assume that each "snippet"-gist only contains one file, where the name of the file is the name of the snippet, and ignore gists that contain multiple files? This seems the most intuitive way to go.

EDIT: lets move discussion to the project's issues page: https://github.com/sdegutis/osx-snip/issues
Well you can purchase in-app themes now, so I guess that's what they're banking on.

Sorry but I have to throw a [citation needed] on your comment to stop the spread of FUD.
I don't understand these. What are people using it for? Is it just for novelty purposes, and as a promotional tool for gold as an investment?
CloudFlare offers a free tier as well that provides protection.
Pen That Lets You Draw Any Color In The World
Thanks! A fan, and since he tracks things in space it seemed like enough of a connection. :)
Yes, there could.

It's not "silly", it's the basis of what separates science from religion. There's no final answer. Everything can be questioned.

It's funny how purported skeptics are so quick to look for eternal truths.
I kind of like it because I hide the app from my app drawer and it's an easy way to get to the settings. To each their own though.
We did this with APNIC (being based in Australia), and we were able to justify a /24 on a single server without multi-homing. I don't think they allocate less then a /24 so if you have cause for 1 you get the whole /24.

That said ARIN and others might be different. For example APNIC will only allow up to a final /22 allocation at the moment, where as ARIN just allocated a much larger block despite being on final allocation rationing.
In the security industry I've seen people watch exploits and DDoS attacks and all sorts of chaos with unfettered glee. It's good for business, it's good for my consulting, and (IMHO the key thing) it's good for increasing the social status of security people. "This is why you listen to me!" Plus we or our friends get to be interviewed by NPR. Hi, Mom!

Still, saying they are a racket is a step too far. There were lots of accusations of the antivirus vendors purposefully releasing viruses in the 80s and 90s[1], which would certainly be a racket if it were true.

[1] Not counting the products themselves as viruses.
Thanks for the links. Even if I'm a vim guy, I know it isn't realistic to expect everything to work with it. I'll check out the links later today.

Also, is there a reason you jumped to Clojure? Do you have any specific reasons as to why you would recommend it? I'm open to picking up just about any functional language as long as I can use it for more than implementing Fibonacci numbers.
So is uber a taxi company or not? This can't help their stance in other countries where they are fighting off regulation?
No, Mitstörerhaftung is a purely civil concept that does not -- and could never -- extend to criminal law.
A bike helmet that reads your brainwaves
A bit of background: Hume was an empiricist, he thought that knowledge of the world comes from our experience of the world (i.e. experimentation) along with logical reasoning. But he was also concerned about the relationship between experience and knowledge, that is, why is it that we think some experiences produce knowledge and others do not.

This is where the problem of induction comes from: using the tools that produce knowledge (experience and reason), is it possible to prove-out the required connection between experience and knowledge and if it isn't what do we do?
I expect that the commission they charge is fairly hefty too. They'd also need solid physical security.
> Why not just post the actual, albeit fake, domain?

Privacy. The owner of that domain has my real name now. I dont want it linked to my HN account.

> an smtp server is actually listening at the domain

How would you test that?

> is configured to receive any address at the domain

I sent an email from gmail to that domain. I did not get a bounce. So I guess it is.
I'd like to know more about how you do that. I just looked at Opus' site and the 4U they advertise in Hillsboro is pretty good when compared to what I pay for 1U of hobbyist colo in Seattle. Do you put multiple machines inside the 4U with a switch in the same space? Can I be so bold as to ask for pictures? What kind of physical access do you get? I have a 1U server-grade machine but moving to a more flexible space would be nice, even if it does mean a train trip to go see my boxen.
My company is plumping for a few tickets woot!
I blogged about my own experience with this here: http://blog.preinheimer.com/index.php?/archives/413-Buying-a...
These machines likely contain very small inventories, the value of their contents is almost certainly exceeded by a typical ATM.
The article talks about 1U being a good form factor, but one thing to bear in mind is that cooling fans tend to work harder in a 1U chassis than a 2U, hence drawing more power.
Actually IEEE 802.11u implements something like EAP-UNAUTH-TLS where the client auths the server but the server does not auths the client.

After that, the best would be to push the whole traffic throug tor (Or even to run a tor exit node, if nobody can say from which side of the network the requezst comes from ...).
Dominic Giampaolo who did a lot of the work on the BeOS File system has been working for Apple since around 2002:

http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/
Yeah, it's a media problem. There are some missing and interesting pieces of information, was this a laptop? Does it get transferred while off or asleep? What did disk utility tell you about the drive?
That does not sound very high density compared to what you can get from a company like Baserock - http://www.baserock.com/servers
And if the people in the EU complied, they should similarly be held accountable under EU privacy and data protection rules. Either way, Microsoft and/or their employees personally wind up in serious legal trouble.

This is why Microsoft are in a Catch-22 situation, and why the correct solution for Europe is probably to just stand their ground until the US realises it has gone too far in expecting its laws to apply to the whole world and is now asking the impossible at the expense of its own business community.
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The website doesn't look like it's been updated in a dozen or so years, but it's still up. It's a good style marker for how the web used to look. I guess they still make enough in ad sales and Pi t-shirts to stay running.
Interesting case. I also live in the Philippines and I have been looking into starting a company here.

I have been looking into info on "PEZA" - the Philippines Economic Zone Authority. It appears that for corporations which have 100% income coming in from abroad (which I assume you qualify for) you can get around many of the painful things that other corporations have to do.

For example, your corporation could be 100% foreign owned. Could you have just started a new corporation and simply started all business as part of that new corporation without "Karen's" involvement?

I don't think this is a PEZA item, I believe this is the case for any business in this situation.

ETA:

You probably can't answer this, but I noticed that if you are in a free economic zone with the same situation as above, you can get a tax holiday for X years. To get this, your business has to be physically located in one of these zones though. I'm wondering about the possibility of setting up a mail drop with a virtual office company which is located in a "PEZA" building.

ETA ETA: I can definitely identify with the feeling you get when you believe someone is trying to rip you off. I think that's unfortunate and may hold people back. In some cases, I see foreigners lose their professionalism and take things way too personally. Good job on getting through this.
Pretty dumb argument.

Beats' increasing dominance of the premium headphone market and Apple's worldwide retail footprint is likely to see much of the $3 billion cost being negated over the years.

Which then leaves you asking if getting a popular streaming service overnight with a reported hundred plus curators and the unquestionable value of Iovine and Dre is worth it. Given that control over media is vital to Apple's strategy (across all their devices) I would argue yes.
Well that left a bad impression on me.

I'm not sure i like this service anymore if this is their response to high traffic loads.
A responsibility to use the open source products we work on
I would think it's less traceable though, no? This is not coming from any industry knowledge, but I would think that an ATM would know the bill #s, so if you stole it, the bills would be tagged. You can always melt the gold. But this isn't based on any practical knowledge.
I would also add that in most DCs your never going to have the power capacity to have racks filled with 1RU servers, so 2RU servers are typically not much more expensive to Rack then their slimmer brethren.
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Opera Now Imports Browser’s Passwords and Other Data Without Your Permission
That strategy doesn't appear to work: see Lavabit.
Bamboo, we need to start using bamboo.
I am surprised how few people know about this.

It isn't just a "good middle ground". It is an amazing middle ground that allows you to benefit from AWS services (simply choose providers close to AWS data centres) whilst getting substantial performance/cost benefits.

I would imagine at minimum you are getting 10x the performance compared to a typical VPS.
The most interesting thing I saw on this was that based on HN I expected to see "Full Stack" developers way off the top of the charts, but it was comparable to most other jobs, and maybe paid a little less than enterprise or mobile developers.
I meant "passively cooled" as their advantage. You can always place some Noctua on top of them if needed, you just don't have to. I have one of RK3188-based sticks which is enclosed in a passive case. I also run the latest Bay Trail NUC in passive mode 24/7 and its temperature is higher on heavy load than of that Android stick. Performance wise BT is about 2x as fast, though it depends on a task. 9W vs 14W at full load including OpenGL, 1W vs 4W at idle.
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