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My own personal 2 cents: I arrived to San Francisco in 1998, so I was there when things peaked. I got paid more money than was good for me at the time, and getting a job was easy. Getting funding was even easier. I worked for an ASP at the time and on many projects. Some ideas were so silly it beggared belief how they had seven figures in funding and unsurprisingly most failed. But if you had an idea that included that word internet somewhere in the business plan - you got funded. If you could hold a mouse and do a "Hello World" you could get hired. I was also hooked up with one of the larger party organisers in town at the time, working on their web site and music streaming app (though it was all 'website' then, not apps), I was also producing music, playing big parties. I enjoyed myself fully.

So, geeks were given millions and felt like they had to impress the investors. So if the competition moved to a new office, they moved to even bigger ones. If the CEO was driving a Porsche, they got a Ferrari. So you could tell a tech startup was in a building by the multiple Porsches parked outside. The same principle applied after the crash - you could tell a tech startup is crashing due to the multiple people coming out with cardboard boxes. Every day another startup next to us did the cardboard box dance. Our turn came as well of course. My next job lasted 2 months as that company tanked as well, and as a new recruit I was first to be let go. Next company lasted a bit longer but at that time the city was changed. Before the crash I had to park my car at the other side of town and take a taxi to it when I needed it. After the crash I could park everywhere I wanted and at any time. After the crash I had periods between jobs that I couldn't find any work. At all, but I was lucky (and good enough) to ultimately get a good gig. During those dead periods though I had to leave the City which was probably the hardest thing for me as I really like San Francisco.

I don't regret a thing though. And I think the crash ultimately did good to the industry. It was too much before it happened. A strange gold rush with a total lack of common sense. The waves to follow are somewhat more sensible.
“…while helpful tools like grunt-autoprefixer will feel like magic, my personal experience with them has shown them not to be so perfect.”

Can the author elaborate?
So let me get this straight. The North Korean government publicly warns that the release of The Interview will cause dire consequences. Shortly before the release of the film, said dire consequences occur. The moment the movie is pulled, all of a sudden the consequences stop. Right, that doesn't sound like NK was involved at all.

The real question is: why are these "experts" - including some here on HN - taking such extreme and unfounded positions on this? I think it's quite likely that they didn't do the hacking themslves. Perhaps they paid members of Lulzsec to do this on their behalf. But to deny that NK is behind this is absurd and makes the whole security community look crazier than Kim Jong-Un.
That didn't take long. I think Australia just passed some surveillance laws and said they could also be used to spy on pirates. And now BBC is eager to use that surveillance state mechanism to punish "pirates" (I assume they mean people who watch their free videos from other locations, here?).
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In the acceptability section of that Wikipedia article, most style guides reject singular they usage.
Looking forward to using this once IE8 drops off the radar (never mind IE10). I considered using it with fallbacks, but deemed it to be not worthwhile since A) I had to limit flexbox to whatever the alternate scheme (display:table-cell in this case) could do, B) I was basically maintaining and debugging two separate layouts at that point.
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I like tangents on HN, too, and I like discussions. That wasn't my point. It was that the comment apparently misunderstood or didn't read the linked message.
More than anything, this study seems to illuminate something about the person/people who formed the hypothesis. I love it.
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Yet it seems that even you believe such a conspiracy theory to be ridiculous given that you are making this post from a throwaway account.
Amusingly, I think this demonstrates one of the problems with classic roguelike dungeon generation: single-tile corridors are rarely very interesting, and usually much less interesting than the rooms they connect.

To cop a quote from the OP itself:

"Fundamentally, games are about making decisions from a set of alternatives."

In a hallway, your alternatives are reduced to moving forward and moving backward. When confronted with enemies, you can choose from at most two to attack (ignoring AOE for a moment, since it's usually also strictly less interesting in narrow corridors, as the article mentions as well).

Instead of passageways, I prefer a technique I've seen in Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: start with an enormous open level (often in a more interesting shape than a square, such as a randomly-generated blob), and generate enclosed rooms within that level. At the limit, you can recursively partition the entire level until it's a series of small interconnected rooms, doing away with passageways altogether.
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please excuse my ignorance but may I ask why REST is too much compared to Thrift?
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You: http://google-search.github.io/#3000/Marco Polo Netflix 2014 Trailer

Voilaa, you just introduced someone to Google Search !!!

It's http://google-search.github.io/#DELAY_IN_MILLISECONDS/QUERY
Fair criticism is acceptable. But too often you see unhelpful comments like, "Why anyone would put themself through the hell that is writing PHP code is beyond me."
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As a side-note, she's also a male->female transgender. I'm not personally making any judgments here, but some people might consider her still a male, and thus not the highest paid female exec.

It's more of an interesting factoid than anything, though.
Works from Europe. Probably just overloaded. First I got a time-out, then the countdown page and now I get a "502 bad gateway" error.
Any thoughts on letting the rooms overlap sometimes, to generate dungeons that have non-rectangular rooms?
Use your Freelancer portfolio to get contract work with agencies. They tend to fancy themselves one stop shops for clients and you can capitalize on that.
Whoa buddy, let's take a step back. Are we even sure people fart more on planes. I have personally never noticed an increase in both producing and receiving such gases. And I think I would notice being packed in a sardine can with methane.
But it doesn't work in IE 9, right? Isn't that a big chunk of audience?
I am fairly certain this will raise the ire of many people, but as i am stuck watching TV news [1/10 do not recommend] i feel it must be discussed. The discussion in the mainstream appears to have moved past the 'if/maybe' stage and plowed directly into the 'wail/punish' stage. I am growing slowly yet certainly more livid as i a watch a lawyer for Sony laud the FBI's technical acuity as he states declaratively that this is a de facto assault on the US Gov't., the Economy, and the American way of life. I thought Sony was a Nipponese Corporation. I thought private property was the responsibility of the party that owns it. I am not trying to sound like a Truther loud mouth, but tis whole thing just screams False Flag. The way the US Govt is acting, you would think the power grid had been seriously compromised. Who, specifically has been harmed by this intrusion, and to what extent were they harmed?
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Why do you decided if I need to see proof? The US is not yet trying to prosecute NK. Of course the US won't prosecute NK for hacking some servers, but it is actively swaying the general opinion on NK. (Not that it was that good anyway)

If anything this is a reason for the US to increase spending by the NSA and make a nation wide firewall. takes off tinfoil hat
I sometimes find it hard to differentiate between analysis and drowning in my own mind. I seem to purposefully pick problems that have no answers, and if I feel myself getting close to an answer, I make a mess of it. It's either fear of learning that I have lost the ability to succeed, or fear of actually succeeding. I never thought anything in the world could break me that much. I thought I would die before that happened. But it's all useless to think about, on the other hand. I feel like I'm searching for an 'it', without knowing what 'it' is - without using the world's point of views, perspectives, or ideas to define the value of 'it'. I do not know what will happen when I find it, or whether I will ever find it. Maybe I already have it, and I just don't know it.
Nice app! How do you plan to handle the paypal's rate limit?
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Regarding downvoting when disagreeing here's what pg said a few years ago:

"I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing rudeness."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
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you have no right to question the question
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> It's solid security best practices to only install what you need, and leave the rest out.

You are installing only what you need. And running it in the mode you suggested, client only, will lead to no philosophically different a state than a all new client that does the same thing. Once you set it running as a privileged user it cannot be modified by other users. It will have been tested in your environment and signed off by your infosec team if that isn't you. How is that different from any other piece of software that has options you should never use?

Are you saying if your users use git that the 'bisect' command should be removed because they never need to use it?
> including some here on HN - taking such extreme and unfounded positions on this? I think it's quite likely that they didn't do the hacking themslves. Perhaps they paid members of Lulzsec to do this...

I'm struggling to see how you don't see the irony or hypocrisy in what you are saying.
I upvote when something is important, insightful, or interesting. Thought-out comments or ones that add real value to a discussion get one too.

Downvotes are carefully considered. Probably less than one a week. I reserve them only for comments that are either actively hostile to the community or demonstrably false. Even then, I think about it two or three times before clicking.
Implying no agreement or dissent, can you give another source besides RT? This station is dubious at best...
Thank you; people like you help change the status quo.

Anyone aware of any large sites using Flexbox that has non-tech users, e.g. Netflix or a major ecommerce site? I ask because I'd like to see any presentations or write-ups those guys may have written about their experience.
Its a tool for freelancers and agencies to make a certain bit of client communication better.

Other uses are plenty, but this one is my focus.
"North Korea’s alleged ability to hack into Sony Pictures Entertainment is extending Kim Jong Un’s reach far beyond the range of his missiles."

:-) those rockets did not really get far so .. exceeding that is quite easy i'd say
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Interesting take here: "Never attribute to malice what can be just as easily attributed to stupidity."

I think there is much truth to your sentiment. My only qualm would be applying it universally. I am sure there is malice in the world that is masked as stupidity.
Just find a local web design agency, for example, and send them an email introducing yourself and asking for work. There's plenty of resources about this, shouldn't be a huge mystery.
That simply won't do for OP as he seems to want solely client only mode implementation of NTP. chrony supports both. He seems to think the authors of these daemons don't have his best interests at heart by adding functionality he doesn't want personally yet many other people will use.
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Run it in client only mode and it won't
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I upvote articles which interest me and I think I might want to read later, because they appear in "saved stories".

I also upvote stories I think that would interest others.

I rarely upvote or downvote comments.
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I have to admit I am a little careless with upvoting stories (I upvote a lot of stories). I upvote articles that seem to fit HN rules, generates curiosity for the audience, something critical to know (i get a lot of news from HN like sites being hacked etc), encourage a decent Show HN etc.

But I upvote comments selectively. I do this to try and ensure that my vote helps to get really good quality comments on top of the page. Of course, sometimes controversial comments get a lot of upvotes. I also upvote helpful comments including when someone adds a clickable link to a Show HN in comments etc. If I learn something new with a comment, I upvote it. I sometimes upvote comments that have been downvoted incorrectly.

I seldom downvote but when I do, those comments are one or more of these:

1) Blatant hate speech, personal attacks, racist remarks, sexist remarks etc. For these type of comments, I just downvote with no comments.

2) Irrelevant comment that has nothing to do with the topic being discussed. Comment that adds no value really and distracts from the main topic. For example, someone commenting like "NSA is coming for you" in a topic about "privacy" etc. Again, I don't add any comments for the downvote for these.

3) Factually incorrect information added as a comment. Sometimes, the commenter might not even know that they are providing false information while sometimes they don't care. In either case, I downvote those comments not because I am trying to prove them wrong but because incorrect information should be marked as such. But be careful with this. I said "factually incorrect" and not "opinionated". For these though, I always try to add a comment with an explanation.

4) Criticism that is not constructive. It is easy to say "you are so wrong" or "Why do we need another site builder" etc but it takes more to write a comment explaining how somone could have done something better.

It is tempting to hit the downvote arrow for things that you "disagree" with and I am sure most of us have been guilty of this (I have been) but we should watch out for this temptation.
I argued here that it may be NK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8765292

But I don't think I can agree with your comment. Whether the group in question is new or has a new moniker I don't think says anything about whether NK was behind this.

Because of the strange evolution of the case (first demanding ransom) it's pretty clear that the identities of the hackers have looked to be different groups with different goals. There is either collusion or there is a false flag:

A.) #GOP is a false flag operation for NK state controlled or sponsored attacks (this has been done before by other states - e.g. SEA)

B.) NK is a false flag used by #GOP for lulz or to confuse law enforcement/forensics (this has been done before by other hackers - e.g. Gary McKinnon)

C.) There is a real group #GOP active in the East (why we haven't heard of them) who either hacked Sony in isolation and then got NK support or was encouraged but not propositioned by NK to perform the compromise in the first place

My bets are currently on C, as the objective of the hack changed a week after ransom was not provided and because from what I can tell the tools that are purported to be state sponsored only appeared some time after the initial compromise and along with the change in demands.

Many good questions are raised by critics of the FBI's published evidence. That isn't outrage politics. I don't think that "from a rational perspective... obviously points to NK" - and I think you would have a lot of difficulty defending the case that you are the one with the access to the 'rational perspective'. (It's sophistry to speak in terms of authority like that, without providing an argument that stands on its own...)

Re: troops in Crimea. It most certainly was some of Putin's troops in support of East Ukrainian separatists. What isn't seen is the 'pro-West' (?) side admitting to the equivalent - NATO troops and supplies supporting West Ukrainian separatists. Or the conversation include the discussions about the European presence at the protests and riots, the aggressive financial deal that the EU knew could/would split the country, EU membership offer, and leaked audio plans to 'select' a pro-West Ukrainian presidential candidate. Russia isn't innocent and neither is the West. Neither is China for that matter. (This is realpolitik, we don't have the luxury of innocence.)

I'm glad you mention the fact that there is a global cyberwar. The types of operations seen in the global cyberwar thus far are for the most part very different from the kind we saw at SONY. Some of the stuff SEA did was similar in kind, but didn't see as much blatant destruction. I've read several global cyberpolicy recommendations and all of them recommend against the type of vicious and overtly destructive activity demonstrated by the SONY hacks (all of the papers I have read are about US cyberpolicy).
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That remark was mostly meant to be understood as a joke, but since you asked:

Depending on what you're doing, you can Google businesses that need help, get their contact details, and go to town. See a business with a busted site? Check for their contact details, call them up or email them, try to get a response, convince them of why they need you to build them a better site.

Cold call.
In all seriousness, can anyone provide a link to some articles that support the connection between North Korea and the hacking incident? I really want to read one.

At the time of this writing, every post in the thread is a vehement denial of the connection. On the one hand, it's the exact same way that I felt when I first heard the link being floated. Sony has enough enemies that it feels naive to just jump on their latest one. On the other hand, this thread also feels like every echo chamber I've ever visited. Where can I find a good opposing view?
According to the TF article Isohunt.to owners have denied a partnership with TPB and are just as clueless as us.

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-domain-back-online-wavin...
Simulators seem to be in the Oculus' wheel house at the moment. It's a coveted item in the iRacing community and I would imagine flight sims are the same.
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Getting a few errors, you probably are aware of due to HN traffic. But the error makes me wonder,

thirstyaffiliates-stats/thirstyaffiliates-stats.php

who are these thirsty affiliates you try to include?
This is a common problem with a lot of the online project sites. Elance is a horrific nightmare, with the management there abusing freelancers as part of their policy. It is literally a nightmare and a lot of people share your plight, myself included.
How do you square this with the fact that NK makes empty threats all of the time?
Without being rude, what sort of income is possible from those sites?
Never underestimate the usefulness of plausible deniability, one of the main advantages of cyber warfare. It doesn't even have to be cyber warfare. North Korea still denies that it was behind the 2010 sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean naval vessel. Conspiracy theorists still dispute the conclusion of an international inquiry that North Korean torpedoes were to blame. It's quite useful from the North Korean regime's point of view to sow that seed of doubt in the mind of the international audience and to encourage mistrust of official narratives.
They must have a very warped perspective of people.
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I don't upvote many articles. From time to time during the day I go through the "new" articles, and I'll upvote a few articles that I'd like to see on the front page. They usually relate to programming or general science topics.

I upvote comments that I think are strong contributions to the discussion. Simple enough. HN has enough quality participants that I often find several comments per article to upvote.

I tend to save my downvotes for comments that are overly snarky or pedantic, as I think we see a bit too many of those sorts of comments on HN, and I reward them with downvotes.
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Other that interesting stuff: stories and comments by known commenters, both parties on interesting discussions (so they think that some people aggree and continue talking).
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No, Group 1 describes users who are interested in your product but, for whatever reason, have not yet made the purchase. Maybe they're on the fence about whether they need it, or are deciding between two or three products. The purpose of the emails is to help tilt them over to making the decision to go ahead with the purchase.

Users in group 2 are never going to be interested enough to purchase the product. No email will convince them to. That's why whether you "spam" them or not (I would argue that it is not spam if you gave the site your email address with the understanding you may get emails from them) they are not going to purchase your product, so what difference does it make if they are annoyed by the emails?
Maybe you were tinking with your phone and didn't notice.
Everyone has the ability, but it's mostly just me who manages it.
The politico-medial complex told you that North Korea was the culprit. Believe it, immediately!
To apply something universally is idiotic and short sighed at best. No philosophy applies everywhere, and in every case. Only though understanding the events around you can you formulate a correct assessment.

This grew out of Enlightenment thinking in the 18th century. And its why our modern courts have such foundation on understanding the circumstances, evidence, etc. Also why we have "degrees" of murder.
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There is Ulam's Sprial for example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
Haven't those discussions been largely mixes of new people? I think it's fair for the people who didn't get a chance to weigh in the first time to have their own deliberation about it.
For those who don't wish to read all the news fluff to hear about a mathematical discovery:[1]

Abstract. We show that there exists pairs of consecutive primes less than x whose difference is larger than t(1+o(1))(log x)(log log x)(log log log log x)(log log log x)⁻² for any fixed t. This answers a well-known question of Erdős.

Their "key proposition", as stated, is:[2]

Proposition 5. Fix δ > 0. Let m < Uz⁻¹(log₂ x)⁻² be even and let Iₘ ⊆ [x/2, x] be an interval of at least δ|ℝₘ| log x.

Then for x > x₀ (δ, C_U) there exists a choice of residue classes aₙ (mod n) for each prime n ∈ Iₘ such that

p ∈ ℝₘ ⇒ p ≡ aₙ (mod n) for some prime n ∈ Iₘ.

[1]: Here is the paper linked: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.5110v1.pdf (strangely, while the news article mentions two papers, both links go to the same one in both the original and Wired articles ...).

[2]: I changed all instances of q to n in this so that I could type most of the subscripts, but any errors are mine.
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