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Ask HN: Which of these non-computer hacks is better?
I have a couple stories for non-computer systems I've hacked to my advantage. My cofounder and I haven't agreed on which is better for the YC app, so I would really appreciate your opinions.

1) In middle school, I devised a simple cipher and gave a key to a couple friends to memorize. Using the cipher, we'd pass encrypted messages on a calculator which we were allowed to share in math and science classes. While our classmates were punished for passing notes, we continued to use our system safely throughout high school.

2) When I was still in college, newly married, and very poor, our apartment had some furniture but very few electronics. McDonalds had a Monopoly promotion where some menu items would include game pieces and at least $1 in store credit for Best Buy. The rules had no restrictions against using multiple 'Best Buy Bucks' in a single transaction.

I was able to work out a deal with some McDonalds managers that if I purchased a certain amount, they would give a few extra containers for free. Large fries were the lowest cost per game piece, so I would order 10-20 at a time and receive a few empty cases for free. We'd give what we couldn't eat to the homeless around Santa Monica, but kept the containers.

I kept all of the Best Buy Bucks and sold the unpeeled game pieces on Ebay. With the free cases, I would break even on the initial investment and repeat the cycle. When the promotion ended we had gained lots of free (albeit unhealthy) food and about $800 worth of credit at Best Buy that we used to buy some electronics we needed.
>People often start businesses because they have needs or responsibilities that are above their earning power at a regular job.

while it may make sense for established types of businesses - open a restaurant, your own consulting, etc... it doesn't make sense for innovation domain which is more close to gambling (1/36 roulette, 1/10 hi-tech startups). MS, Apple, Google, FB - were started by people in the "no-pressure" situation.
Thats the plan :P
The amount of remote worker angst in these comments is pretty ridiculous. Yishan has seemed reasonable enough and has come to terms with the fact that some parts of Reddit's operations aren't being run how they should be.

Saying 'fuck reddit' for a reasonable business maneuver is pretty out of line. Reddit had remote people other than just developers, managing those relationships remotely may have been part of the issue.
Sounds like my experience in the United States as well.
> How much would you pay for that hot new subscription service, to fund the level of baseline quality you get from the NYT? I don't know about you, but even $5/week doesn't sound completely unreasonable.

I don't know. But I pay $8.95 a month for Netflix, another $9 for Hulu Plus, another $9 for Spotify. I also get Amazon Prime for about $8/month and HN/reddit are free. It's not whether NYT is worth $35+/mo, it's whether I can derive $35/mo of utility from it.
Ask HN: Why IPsec isn't already the “norm”?
Or in other words, Why IPsec isn't the standard?
Whenever c.dll is loaded into memory patch the relevant poorly written function so that instead of calling getOSName() it calls getOSNameCompat().
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Huh?

Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWorks, Google sites, Google apps, AWS Marketplace, etc..

Going by what you said about most companies, most registered businesses in the world are likely just looking for a single dinky site with a mailbox pointing @theirbusiness.com, definitely no need for more than a shared server. Google, Wordpress, Github pages, Shopify, and dozens of others make this very simple to setup and use. You said Rackspace is the only large hosting provider that provides this across the board, that is not true and they aren't even in my top 10 if I was looking for a provider.

For a single website that gets less than 10 visits / day with 5 html pages I was just quoted $75/mo minimum by Rackspace with some server management on my part.
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Do you have data on reddit's downtime to backup your claim? https://twitter.com/redditstatus shows the last downtime was on April 9th, and that was scheduled.
This is great Dan! I've printed out your comment and will refer back to this.

Has having the free plan for W3Counter been beneficial and would you have it if you started again? I was strongly advised against having a free plan for my site (https://touchingbase.io) as people said it kill me on support time and dealing with people that wouldn't pay anyways. But it seems you've had a different experience.

For the declined credit card issue check out http://churnbuster.io which is solving this exact problem and using the data they have to build a finely tuned algorithm that sometimes goes against what you think would be logical.
Already outdated: the drag queens won, according to the linked Guardian article.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/01/victory-dr...
Many people I know that suffer from addictions have carried them through to their later life and continue to function as part of society and generally keep their habits to themselves. I do wonder if they have accounted for this in this study. I am not saying they are incorrect but it is just a thought. =D
That looks like an interesting story, I'll check it out.
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In terms of (a), why not build/host the cluster on your own gear?

For (b), how do you earn that trust other than continuing to try taking on customers and... well, supporting them?
Is bitbucket down or it's just me?
This article was originally posted almost a week ago.
I was with you until you put Vice in bed with Buzzfeed.

I agree that given the content is what you're looking for, the price really isn't that obscene. But the nickle and dime/piecemeal aspect of it is.
How would friends coordinate their simultaneous exit without being observed by the people they want to leave behind? Would you allow more than one group of friends to leave the same level, or do they first have to migrate to level 2, then immediately to level 3?
It wasn't relevant.

Damage from corexit would have be factored into initial concerns.
Or increase the opacity of the background gradient to make the text more distinct...
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bitbucket is down
People only checked for the 9 because 98 and 95 both start with 9 and it was easy to support both at the same time. Other versions can be more explicitly checked.
Looks like some problems out there http://status.bitbucket.org
I was on benzos for about 7 years myself before tapering off. I eventually tapered off. I think if you taper off at a slow enough pace you should be able to do it, though not without some discomfort. However, it doesn't have to be horrific as some people say if you don't go too fast. I used cannabis to help sleep during the taper. Never switched to Valium, but it all really depends on your body chemistry. My taper was rather rapid, but it was not too bad. Insomnia and some minor panic attacks were the worst of it. I definitely recommend checking out http://www.benzobuddies.org/ for information and support.

Regardless, without going through the withdrawal process, that is one addiction you will not grow out of as stopping suddenly can be quite dangerous.
Big problem with this. Particularly with dining plans, many of which don't refund at the end of the term/academic year and are required for the dorms. You want to be thrifty and only spend 600 or the 800 you had this spring? Too bad, you're going to have to splurge the last 200 somehow or you're not getting it back.
What does that even mean, "independent"? Independent of what? You just don't care about politics?
Try to imagine the same ad from Apple. With Surface Pro 3 and Nokia Lumia.

Not
Sorry, but from personal experience relocation is, indeed, a "shit sandwich", no matter how "generous" the relocation package.
Have you tried getting an allotment and digging it? All of it, two feet down? Working it from dawn to dusk with three short breaks?

Better still, hard manual labour on shifts in a factory where slacking off stops production and is therefore not possible? Maybe in a hazardous environment where you have to be alert to avoid getting burnt or injured by machinery.

Seriously, put yourself through a few weeks in some industrial job and you will not have sleep problems after that.
Certainly reasonable to believe. Those countries were exploring literally any and all avenues to undermine the other.
So, I think that the article didn't strongly address what DevOps actually means. DevOps has come to mean a position on a team as opposed to an ideology like it is at the Google's of the world.

My team recently wrote a blog post about this: https://medium.com/@mustwin/postops-devops-7e44d2262385
Do you know what "startsWith" does? It checks if the string starts with a given string.

"Windows 9", "Windows 95", and "Windows 98" all start with "Windows 9".
"Windows 9" would have started causing confusion by the time Microsoft released patch version "Windows 9.5"
Whose city is it, exactly? And who isn't invited?
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Quote: " ... a breakthrough approach that provides the first objective, scientific diagnosis for depression."

Wait ... an "objective, scientific diagnosis" that doesn't identify the cause of the ailment? If I visited a doctor and she said, "You're running a fever, and your blood has cooties," I wouldn't think of that as the height of medical expertise, and it's certainly not science.

In science, we establish causes and then measure effects. This test measures effects. No one knows what causes depression, therapy is indistinguishable from the placebo effect, and existing medications have a terrible reputation.

This claim is way ahead of the evidence, evidence that in principle would identify the source of depression, offer an explanation to replace these many descriptions, and (at long last) craft a meaningful treatment.

EDIT: Okay, before you people downvote my completely accurate post, read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory

Quote: "Scientific theories are testable and make falsifiable predictions. They describe the causal elements responsible for a particular natural phenomenon, and are used to explain and predict aspects of the physical universe or specific areas of inquiry (e.g. electricity, chemistry, astronomy)."

Feel free to drop by the source and downvote it too, while you're banging your mouse in ignorance.
For a site that is simply some text and comments, they have a staggering amount of downtime and timeouts.

At reddit's scale, it doesn't matter what they're serving. The challeneges of serving that many pageviews are significant.
The pass-through would have to set up as a foundation that then issues grants to other non-profits. That isn't an easy process. I won't donate anything unless there's a tax advantage. The reason is that non-profits that are registered 501 3(c)'s have certain reporting requirements. If they aren't registered, there's little accountability.
From TFA:

... $5/hr on Amazon or less than $20k if you wanted to buy 6 servers outright.

I actually read the article...
They might be profitable, but they may not be the best use of that money - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
What are everyone's thoughts on pCells[1]?

[1] - https://youtube.com/watch?v=wGAnDQEQJ_s
the odd thing about the Herzog film though is that it includes a narration that casts the images into a kind of scifi story unrelated to Kuwait/Iraq, rather than a documentary. The filming is amazing though.
Why is it so necessary that Windows 9 be the next in the list? I mean, it's not a particularly standard list for user workstations: 3.1, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8.
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> Having posted this link, I feel bad for calling attention to a weak study when I'd only read the press release.

There's no need to feel bad about this. People here are pretty sophisticated about this topic and we welcome discussions of dubious science -- it tunes our skepticism. :)
Yeah... bit of a first world problem. If I'm reading it correctly: If somebody decides not to move they have three more months of work, followed by 3 more months of severance pay? That's half a year to get another job. Or start a company. Or whine - whatever floats your boat. No?
A good friend of mine has no sense of smell* - she's always been observed by people to be a picky eater with odd eating habits. Over time it all started to make sense. She clearly organizes things by taste bud taste and doesn't really like mixing flavors, e.g. anything with a sweet component she doesn't like unless it's a dessert, even if it's a subtle sweetness.

She can pick up on various ingredients, but she describes them in ways that are different from most people. For instance, garlic is a 'sweet' flavor to her. As with any lack of sense situation, it's difficult to really discuss with someone as the one person has absolutely no frame of reference, but from observation I've been able to see how things work.

One amusing anecdote was when we went over and she was making a cake. "What's that burning?" we asked. She had taken it out of the oven and put on a burner which was actually on. Well, the bottom half of the cake was burned to a crisp and she had no idea it was happening.

* Well she thought she had 0% sense of smell until one day she was working in a city-wide open sewer pit in a third world country. She said that she detected something unpleasant there that she thinks was a smell. So it would seem that it's really a super-super-super-super poor sense of smell.
Ah so you're the mayor since it's "your city?" Or perhaps the dictator of SF?
Indeed this would also be a great solution and probably easier than dealing with compatibility issues one at a time.
Then you should pay them enough to afford the things you want them to have. I don't want lattes nor poetry, so if they want money from me they should do something I want them to do, not get the government to confiscate it from me and redistribute to themselves.
Exactly, not every charity is worthy. Some charity wasting my money on CO2 mitigation has a different value to me than a charity helping battered women escape abuse. ..as an example.
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That's what happened with me. I'm an ex-heroin addict, clean for two years as of August 30th, after being addicted for 7 years prior. I just had enough... Luckily, Australia has a great support network for my situation, and I can't thank Biala enough for their help. Now I'm kicking ass and taking names :)

My only disagreement is that I still think I'm recovering. I think I always will be, and I've accepted that. No rest for the wicked, I suppose. In addition, I took advantage of opiate replacement therapy, as cold-turkey was just too painful at the time (struggling with depression meant that the emotional side of withdrawals was dangerous for me). I'm finishing my taper in two months, after starting on 28mg of suboxone :)
I believe this is related and not just a coincidence: in watching "How to Start a Startup" [1], Sam Altman specifically points out his skepticism of remote founders and remote teams. I personally am in agreement.

Jump to 28:20 to hear the question/answer. Also note that Sam is the lead investor in the B Round of Reddit.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVfnkM44Urs&t=28m20s
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Edit: Last name 'Duncan'.
Added image here:

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> In science, we establish causes and then measure effects.

No, in science, we observe and measure phenomena, then form hypotheses about relations between them, then attempt to falsify those hypotheses, and then use the hypothesized relations which we have not yet falsified as a basis for inferring likely causes from observed effects and inferring likely effects from observed causes and inferring likely co-occurrences that are the results of common (and potentially unknown) causes from the other co-occurring phenomena.

"Establish causes and then measure effects" is not only wrong, its non-sense. To even be able to establish the likelihood of a causal relation you must first measure effects and the phenomenon hypothesized as the cause.
Conference organizers are well aware that best paper awards are not perfect predictors of importance or popularity. Many top conferences specifically introduced separate awards ("most influential", "test of time", etc.) granted e.g. 10 years after publication.
Yep, that too. I just seriously doubt this was the reason. Marketing and technology are only tenuously related, as we know :)
The assessment involved identifying distinct odours encased on the tips of felt-tip pens.

They don't discuss range, just accurate identification. I think I have lost some range over the years, but not accuracy. Up close I can identify smells fine.

But sometimes I'll make a cup off coffee, someone will remark how good it smells, and I can't smell it at all until I'm 30cm from the cup.
> Don't even get me started on the sports, it's an outrage how US schools have become sports franchises.

I graduated from a very large sports school (tOSU), and our sports program enables us have a relatively low in-state tuition. The 2010-2011 football season netted OSU 51.8 Million. 2011-2012: 48.7 Million. They also serve as a great way to get alumni to donate to their alma mater (in order to increase your odds of getting football tickets, you can donate). It is anything other than an outrage.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/sportsmoney/2011/05/31/a-close-l...
Herzog has this concept of the ecstatic truth, which means his documentaries are rarely as simple as they can seem; it's almost a third form of film.

I'm an unabashed fanboy, but in any event, Lessons Of Darkness is highly, highly recommended.
It would be great if the daily email included the amount being sent to today's charity. It would be a nice feeling to see this number go up over time.
There is also much less stuff to disambiguate. The only names you ever refer to at the moment are tables. Most databases get by just fine with no namespacing at all.
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Not only OSX but OSX 10.10

That are a lot of 10s.
If the NY Times would actually be objective and not a shill for a particular political party, then I might care.
Read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8395422

You could encounter such problems locally as well. I certainly have. Do not let such issues deter you. Just be aware that not all clients conduct themselves ethically. You need to protect yourself.
Reddit has never done anything to please investors and I doubt this is a start. Why is it so hard to believe that the company simply feels it is better to have the team physically together? This is not a controversial notion.
> It is _very_ difficult to accurate diagnose these disorders and then half the time people don't believe you anyway.

Fair enough. Which do you think is worse -- a false positive or a false negative? I ask because this diagnostic category has plenty of both.

I would want to be very sure about a depression diagnosis before assigning it, especially to young person with little life experience. These questionable diagnoses can change the direction of a person's life, possibly cause him to think of himself as permanently handicapped, brain-damaged, after a spell of the blues followed by a superficial diagnosis from a "professional".

Because of how little we know about depression, most diagnoses are in a gray area. It's not like there's a blood test -- and if you've read the posts in this thread, you know by now that there isn't a blood test, there's only a press release.