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Are you aware of any active microwave communication towers [0] that are open to the public?

[0] This means structures whose primary purpose to to act as a communication tower, rather than a tourist attraction (Eiffel Tower) or office building (er, every tall office building ever?).
If your data really is that valuable, any compensation promised by an SLA is likely to be meaningless.

Far better to use multiple redundant solutions, and although Nearline is only beta* it offers us an easy and cheap way to increase storage diversity.

*How long did we all rely on Gmail while it was beta?
> Can you think of any scientific reason to defend why that would be the case

Yes. Because they are girls. I don't know what deluded world, or ultra PC world, you live in where boys and girls are the same, or act the same.

The existence of girls that don't scream, and boys that do, despite no difference in nurture is the evidence that it's entirely nature.

It's not absolute "all girls scream", it's simply that more girls than boys do so - much more. And there is nothing whatsoever wrong with that, or with noticing that.

Embrace the differences!
>Everyone expressing such a view has been downvoted.

Which I think is really one of the worse sides of HN. The score of a comment should reflect whether that post has merrit and adds to the discussion, net whether it reflects the majority opinion.
My view is that you're better off adding this logic into your DNS server and using ECMP before adding yet another application into the stream of DNS packets.

If you want your individual servers to coordinate their attack profile, you can do that either in-band, or out-of-band.

We've never seen any benefit to anything besides affinity-based (src/dst/etc.) ECMP.
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I was going to watch the video, but gave up. Not only the scrolling is bad, but the FPS too.

Here is the free WordPress theme the site is based off for comparison: https://wordpress.org/themes/moesia/
Java Recursion Method
What about when you're not using the power adapter?

Even two USB ports on my MacBook "Pro" is too limited for my daily use case. I use a USB yubikey for multifactor auth with LastPass and it takes up one USB slot permanently. I prefer wired mice, so my mouse takes up the second USB port.

If I want to charge my phone, Fitbit or in the past Google Glass with the USB port, I have to unplug my mouse.

I would not buy the new MacBook as it's unusable for me unless I carry around a hub everywhere.
Surprised no one has yet mentioned LibreSSL, OpenBSD's fork which happened after the last major bug. http://www.libressl.org/
>That may very well be what makes technology and culture interesting to you.

Do you really prefer static, stagnating cultures to dynamic and inventive ones?
Wow, that's some extraordinary condescension.

They/them/their has been seeing broad adoption as a, y'know, actually gender-neutral pronoun, and it should be encouraged. I know some people prefer he/him/his but

a) many people think that reeks of implicit sexism

b) even ignoring a), elevating that to The One Correct English Way is ridiculous overreach
So you mean 25 grams of battery per watt of solar panels?
I'm not sure what Github's stated policy was, but it's clear from Julie Ann Horvath's description of how things operated there that quite a few of her co-workers were far from being fully-formed adults.
> Would you have rather the commenter have said 'their'?

Yes, of course.
But we're going to keep it around, aren't we? Because we can always add features but we can't really remove them. It feels like JS is getting cruftier. Would it be better if var already worked like let? Sure. Will JS be better with two slightly different ways of scoping a variable, one of which you really shouldn't use? Doesn't seem like it. One more thing to explain to newcomers.
The product is complete out of the box, just not complete for every use case. Even as a commercial editor my need for multiple ports decreases every year. Currently I work on broadcast spots with one client using one drive and dropbox. If I was on the print or web side I could get rid of that drive. I haven't used a thumbdrive in probably a year. Everything is dropbox or google drive if it's not large video files that require a raid. Two years ago I cut spots for Reebok on location using a 13" air, I have no doubt I could do the same with the new Macbook.

Now I wouldn't buy the new Macbook for my main editing rig, but I might buy it to use when traveling and consulting. I don't understand people complaining about a product that was obviously not designed for their use.
It peeves me somewhat just how consistently people talking about design for people who are not tech savvy invoke older people and more often women than men. "So easy your grandma/mom could use it" does convey a lot of information but only because I know about the cultural sexism and ageism that is being employed to make the point.

And in this article I think their ageism lead to a logical failure: they say the number of old people is growing, as if people are losing their abilities as they age (which is of course true but not really relevant to "have you chosen to learn to use computers"). Amusingly, they similtaensously make this logical error and acknowledge it by saying eventually all old people will be digital natives... But in the meantime the population is growing.
Wouldn't a `ReferenceError` make more sense?
> Imagine a Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

We've learned a lot during WWII and in the decades after, in matters of mass destruction. A modern Warsaw Ghetto would share the fate of Grozny: razed to the ground by artillery and air bombings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grozny#First_Chechen_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grozny#Second_Chechen_War

> deprived of the legal ability to own firearms

There are dozens of militias around the world, deprived of the _legal_ ability to own firearms. They own arms nonetheless. Plenty of arms. When push comes to shove and it's down to a struggle for survival, who cares about legal restrictions?!
> leading to a lot of the problems the US has with their police

I think it's a stretch to suggest that strong gun rights are what lead to police paranoia. Be reminded that many of the murders or other difficult-to-justify killings that have happened at the hands of police in the past decade have happened in cities where gun rights are essentially non-existent.
is THAT what it's called! I have a 1/30th scale model in our home. My grandfather calls it the Devil's Pitchfork :P
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That's not what I was referring to though. I was talking about how detecting the EURion constellation causes Photoshop and printers to not work.

I do not know how guns are manufactured, but from the comments in this and earlier discussions of the story, I assumed that there are parts with common characteristics.

As a result, and unless the resulting 3D models are too many, or if they would result in false positives with legitimate applications, you could require that 3D printers and CAD software refuse to work with them.

Based on the couple of comments below, however, it seems that my assumption that there is a sufficiently common part among firearms is wrong, so I'll leave further comments to the experts.
It was only about ten years ago that it was still considered an acceptable practice to require college students to write their SSN on every assignment and every other bit of paperwork they exchanged with the college. Things are getting better, just maybe not fast enough.
It's complete, but most people will want and need to buy some kind of adapter for their external drives or whatever.

Some of the anger seems to stem from confusion about what the new MacBook is. It's clearly a smaller version of the Air, not a replacement for the Pro.
Fair enough. In some important ways, I probably am an anarchist. I don't believe in smashing the state, but I do believe that the internet will inevitably provide peaceful replacements for the various components of state, and that this will be a joyous motion.
I'm not even sure it'd be "expensive to move". Are people _really_ considering using this (or Glacier/rsync.net/whatever) as their _only_ copy of their data? I can't imagine looking my boss/customers in the eye and saying "We're going to have multiple terabytes of mission critical business data, and it's all going to live _only_ on AWS/Google/Cloud-service-de-jour!"

If I lose my AWS Glacier stored data (or Amazon bump the prices intolerably), I'll upload it to a competitor _from my local copies_...

Admittedly, I've only had to deal with storage topping out in the tens of terabytes range, so I've never needed to go beyond a dozen or two consumer-grade drives to keep a pair of rsynced copies locally - but I think that same kind of techniques scale all the way out to building your own Backblaze style storage pod if needed.
"Presumably America’s companies are better run when the most talented executives put in a 50-year career than if they put in only 20 or 30."

Are we talking about the executives most talented at increasing shareholder profits, or executives most talented at improving people's lives? To put it another way, there's a lot of good reasons we put term limits on politicians, why are business executives different?
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Not everyone has had the same negative social experiences. I was very lucky to go to a school where being an outsider with nerdy interests was respected so long as you did it with passion, aspired to excellence, and were not afraid to show others what you found cool; and we were expected to have the same respect for the sportsmen, musicians, artists etc. In a sense we were all doing the same thing through different outlets. It's a culture I'm very proud to have been a part of and it produced some great people in many different fields. In contrast, in my programming niche, I frequently feel uncomfortable with the level of aggression and exclusion on display - every comment on a forum seems like you are exposing yourself to ridicule and judgement. Conversely, in pure maths forums, which I also participate in, the atmosphere is far more welcoming, open, patient and respectful of good work. I think the problem is that in computing it is far easier to be a dilettante and much harder to tell the difference. Yes, all communities will have their dicks, but responding with aggression and elitism pollutes the community for everyone and encourages hostile and collective responses from others: be sure that the dicks are a lot better at playing hardball and ganging up together than we are. Let's take some responsibility for creating communities we're proud to be a part of. Please.
Well, for newcomers we can either bring them up using `let` exclusively or the explanation of function scope can include a footnote on `let` versus `var`.
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This should probably be a rule on HN: no complaining about scroll hacking. (Although, sure, let us stipulate that it is awful.) Some threads would be cut by half.
First I saw mention of it, it seemed that they wanted to make a minimal OS that was very quick to boot - minimal in part because it was only the browser, or whatever.

Then soon after that SSDs happened and I stopped caring about boot times.
Everyday. Multiple times a day. Stove mostly, sometimes slow cooker. Oven 2 or 4 times a month. Microwave A LOT. Hardly rice cooker.
Not touchscreen related but monitors used to have dials for brightness/contrast control. But now we have these pain in the butt multi-function buttons that you gotta use to pull up the OSD, scroll through a bunch of menus and then finally you can adjust a setting.

Same thing with volume controls, used to be dials now it's buttons. Maybe I just like dials.
Hi Matt, first I wanted to thank you for doing this. Cancer, and unfortunately the treatment for it, can be devastating. Anything we can do to improve that, is money well spent.

I had a few questions:

1) Does NotableLabs produce a standard pathological report for the oncologist before starting the tests? (I ask because in my experience that process can take weeks in a normal lab, so I wonder what's the feasibility of performing tests on a specimen after that long.)

2) Are there any challenges/differences when applying the drugs directly to the cells? Do the cells in a Petri dish behave differently from cells in the patient's body?

3) Out of curiosity, why did you choose brain tumors?
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It really seems to go in cycles. We've gone from flat UIs (think ncurses-based) to using texture and shadow (90's - mid 2000s), and now all the way back to flat again.

I'll never understand why these designer types think that discarding all of that context is a good thing.
There's LibreSSL: http://www.libressl.org/

But it's not in a more secure language.
Clicked link hoping to see a muzzle for babies. Was disappointed.
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Of course. But what about the people who are in a tough spot because of internal forces? Surely you don't think the woman in the first video fell pregnant a second time because of external forces?

Yes, some people do have the story of "got laid off after 35 years, company stole my pension, now I'm homeless", or "had a long, expensive medical emergency, now am homeless". You can pinpoint the external force. But this piece showed one thing in particular that was striking: it seems it's rarely one major event that plunges someone into a bad situation like these (consider that none of these videos had one "this is what happened" sound bite). It seems like it's the snowball effect of bad decision after bad decision.

What do we do with people who are in really tough spots because of the compounding behavior of bad decisions? "We invest in the educational system so kids learn how to avoid these spots" -- ok, great, but what do we do with THESE people, today?

Accepting the "external forces" thing is a slippery slope, because now somebody is the arbiter of You Did It To Yourself vs. It's Not Your Fault. Who can we trust with that position? Is it even moral to make that judgement? Was this whole comment satire on being the arbiter of justice?
I can't see me listing all the stuff I bought (not much!) for the kids on your site/app or whatever - this is increasingly an issue.

Perhaps you can sell a service to Walmart/Amazon/etc. whereby you maintain a list of recalled toys and then monitor their products (and eg Amazon marketplace) to make sure the toys're not being sold there?

Also supermarkets and other retailers have histories of goods purchased seems that there should be some way to use that to gather the ownership data rather than have users enter it themselves.
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Ask HN: My startup is failing, but my side project might be winning. Do I quit?
This is a throwaway account.

About 6 months ago, my startup I co-founded received $1M in seed funding. We raised the money on hype and a smooth talking co-founder. Previous to the funding, we had a bit of traction selling some tech to some large enterprises.

Fast forward to today, we've only had 1 more sale over the last 6 months, and the way our pricing is set up, we're making pennies per day. We have 2 total clients, and their contracts run out in May. These 2 clients net us about 30 users per week. We've considered pivots, but we can't agree on which pivot to go with. We are slated to make about $5,000 this entire year. Our runway gives us until December until the $1M runs out. We're not at each other's throats, but we know we are failing.

Over Christmas, I built a small side project on my own and launched it just to see if it would be a hit. 9 weeks have gone by, and it's shown steady growth. It's got 1500 active users, people who are logging in every day and spending about 7 minutes on the site per day. It's got well over 40k page views per week, growing about 20-40 users per day. Each user performs about 6 events per visit (event = upload a file, make a comment, upvote someone's file, make a listing, save for later). There's 1000+ listings with 100,000k+ uploaded files. It doesn't make any money, mostly because I have a moral issue with making money on the side while my main startup is doing so poorly. But I could very easily start adding subscriptions or premium features.

My dilemma: is this side project good enough to quit my own funded startup? I've already asked my co-founder if he would be interested in this pivot, and he said he wouldn't. Do I ride out my main startup while letting the side project grow on its own?

Does anyone have any experience or advice on how to quit your own startup?

I'm so damn confused.
Yes the cheap to replace wire end breaks easily. But the expensive-to-repair computer side port is solid. You're going to see a lot more expensive computer repairs with the USB-C charging port.
The joke is going to be on them.
Seems like they're trying to puff themselves up again; wonder what stupid thing they are up to now.
Past Discussion about Ocaml-TLS[1] also mentions Rust somewhere.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8005130
Crazy that Amazon don't have a report facility for product pages - like reporting inappropriate content (cf Google SERPS or eBay auctions).
Speculation: I suspect the way its going with storage and processing that they are pivoting it to be a contender with Air etc. The cloud storage thing is nice but it just doesn't really have a use case above a few GB of data. The cost of storage just keeps coming down and the price of bandwidth hasn't really moved in years.

I think its in a transitory stage, can't really compete with the air yet but likely will in a couple of iterations (think android vs iphone, iphones were cheaper spec wise but android caught up and imo overtook iphones in only a couple of iterations.

I do agree there is still a use case for ssh'n into something else, but I also can't see the original use case working at this price point.
Not really. He just bought the template and customized it, and I imagine he wrote his own back-end as well. After all, it's just a bootstrap theme.
Would love to see a demo, if you have video how your service works, that would be awesome. i would not subscribe to something that I have no idea bout it. Video would be great
The technical staff making the page have a non-zero possibility of reading HN. They might eventually realize that people hate the scrolling experience, if every post mostly talks about the scrolling.
It's equivocation really, because what they want, at the most general level, is not to be homeless. But they're the worst people to ask input from, because if they knew how not to be homeless, they wouldn't be homeless.

So sure, have a conversation and find out where they want to be in their life, but it's madness to think they'll give you insight into how to fix what got them there.
Some of the APIs we use break often with Zapier (not Zapier's fault). It's easier to have direct integration and let the vendor deal with it.
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Nah.

You can deal with null-terminated strings.

You "just" have to be able to prove that all operations ensure a string remains postpended with a null, and doesn't get extended beyond the length of the underlying allocation.
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Well, realistically, manipulating people is what the entire advertising/marketing industry is based on to begin with, so that is hardly surprising.
I always say that Sutro tower is way more "San Francisco" than Coit Tower. Coit Tower is pretty much just a tourist destination whereas every time I'm traveling and get back to SF, I feel at home when I see that big antenna.
That is the reddest herring.

Any city in the US where gun rights are essentially non-existent is a few miles away from another city where they can get guns from, and nothing stops the guns from moving back in.

When guns are illegal in the country it becomes a lot more like trying to smuggle drugs over borders. It still happens, but not so casually.
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For me, it is simple design at its best. This article from 37signals in 2008 hits the nail on the head...

Why the Drudge Report is the one of the best designed sites on the web... https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1407-why-the-drudge-report-is...

HN submission... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9188663
If you did only one thing on a research paper, what was it?
6 nights a week, plus 3 lunches per week. Range, oven, circulator.
My friends all call it The Claw :P
That whole thread stands in stark contrast to ESR's recent "I'm more reasonable and responsible than RMS" narrative.
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I'm not arguing against change. Im arguing against change without accountability and performance metrics. This is what happens now in most cases. Tax payers are then left to guess if their indirect investments in technology are worth it.

I'm arguing against tech change blindly initiated by educrats who are easily suckered by sales pitches at conferences. This is also what is happening now with such a low barrier of entry to edtech market.
> Broadly making assumptions about everyone within a particular field is as bad if not worse than someone using an incorrect pronoun.

Not really, minorities have to face stuff like this on a more frequent basis. Gendered pronouns are more than incorrect and are harmful.

> Just as an aside; everyone has to deal with imbeciles in this field whether it be the pointy haired boss or just gross incompetence, it's not gender specific.

You can't just sweep away sexism under a rug.
MagSafe was great when laptops got 3-4 hours (or less) of battery life which required re-charging in hostile conditions. MagSafe3 is 8-10 hours of battery life. No one can possibly trip over your charger if it's not plugged in.
You do realise that first list shows 24 school shootings in Europe, since 1913, don't you?

24 in over one hundred years.

Here's the list for the US:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the...
Besides the other points people have made, there's another reason printing currency is different than guns.

You have to spend money somewhere for it to be useful. With guns, nobody has to accept being shot, they just are.

Another thing is there is no possible way this could be enforced before strong AI that can recognize a functioning gun somehow.
I don't consider myself to be a film buff, but this is probably the 4th time I've read an article on this scream, so I think it is becoming part of pop culture, more than an inside joke. That being the case, the decline is probably appropriate.
> respect the choice to prioritize readability

Well, sorta: http://invisible-island.net/lynx/lynx.html
Will this lead to a bubble there as well?
I think I like most of what this document proposes except for the following:

In strong code, accessing objects (strong or not) throws on missing properties.
New object properties have to be defined explicitly and cannot be removed
from strong objects.

To me, this seems to break a fundamental aspect of the language. I've found it very acceptable to be able to define an object literal property "on the fly." However, with strong mode trying to make the language friendlier to eventually being more statically typed, I see the necessity. It just boggles my dynamically typed mind :-)
It's in the Newsweek article, which discusses several posible biological mechanisms
for problems from fluoridation, complete with sources, many of which are direct links
to studies. Perhaps read it?

No need to be rude here. I was curious about what the mechanism would be - even the reference pointed out in the Newsweek article[1] doesn't propose a model for how fluoride might disrupt endocrine levels.

[1] http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11571&page=265