skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't even solve the parent's use case: Using a fitbit dongle and a wired mouse (occasionally connecting a printer - though you can disconnect the mouse for that).

I have the same dilemma as the parent with my macbook pro. I have two USB ports - and three things I'd like to plug in: wired mouse, fitbit dongle, and a yubikey. The mouse and yubikey are mandatory so I sacrificed using the fitbit dongle versus requiring lugging around a USB hub everywhere.
Looks interesting... but for my use case I'd rather not deal with NFS, use a FUSE-based S3 mount and save 90%.
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My beef is not that you worked illegally in Thailand. It's the fact that you wrote this up, didn't mention the fact that it's not above aboard, which promotes others to emulate you without warning, and published under your own name which is foolish at best and could end up with you being deported at worse.

There's been around eight of these posts of 'Digital Nomads' working in Thailand and not one of them bothered to mention that they were breaking the law.
Your plausible options are rifles, predators, and poisons.

I'm all for reintroducing more predators, but suburban sprawlers tend to get upset when their pets get eaten regularly.
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There's no way to tell for sure if something like this is intentional or not. Also, waiting to fix it until a researcher makes it public may have been intentional.
A rubbish article. Avoid it. Staying safe from malware largely lies with you. Aren't we beyond just spouting best practices platitudes at this point? No? Why not?
NFS as a service on AWS. That is going to shake things up.
I liked this one a lot. What do you think of it? Really interesting to learn how the brain can be modelled.
I think what is especially interesting about this comment is that Wall St, which is on the East Coast, uses the internet in very different ways than Silicon Valley does, which on the West Coast. Both have ground to make up in this sense; Silicon Valley could be much more in tune with their East Coast counter parts...
Somewhat off topic: A lot of the people commenting in this thread seem like they have experience with illegal drugs. Please be careful with what you publish on the public Internet; you never know what the DEA is up to.

An HN post could lead them to your front door, and then parallel construction could cover the trail.
Ask HN: How do you securely delete locally, on a server, or in the cloud?
lose, not loose.
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Sure, I've been following hypersonic flight for at least a decade.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet

We'll get there eventually. Have the DoD spend $1 trillion on development over a decade and we'll get there faster.
There's a demo of the latest build at http://ainomma.azurewebsites.net/

Feedback would be welcome, pull requests would be awesome :)
> Do we even need monolithic financial entities in this day and age? Most transactions would be better handled by smaller, specialized and modern service companies. Banks are to financial startups what taxi driver unions are to Uber.

On the individual consumer-banking side, there is a strong case to be made that this is true.

However, as long as Fortune 100 companies and large pension funds exist, they're going to do massive transactions in the capital markets -- and you need similarly huge financial institutions to bookrun on these kinds of deals.

So in my view, it's likely that startups that can provide a more agile / fun / efficient / whatever experience stand poised to eat banks' lunch in some areas...but there is definitely a significant slice of the market that requires market-makers to be massively capitalized.
Is your comment intentionally dripping in irony? The government ceded their control over the financial system long ago. Ask yourself, how many senators and congressman handle strictly financial matters? Ask yourself, who primarily earns interest on all the loans people take out? Ask yourself, why was the federal income tax prohibited in the original constitution?
Windsor here. Our winter wasn't as bad as yours, but it was one of the worst we've ever gotten. My machines and monitors in my room keep the place nice and toasty, but in the summer, this place is unbearable. Just sitting causes you to break into a sweat.
Condescension aside, this post seems accurate.

Keeping your head down in SEA is really good advice.
At least the Linux NFS client made some big improvements in stability by the mid-2000s. FreeBSD took longer but I've heard they've fixed the kernel deadlocks as well.

The other interesting note is that they apparently only support NFSv4, which has some welcome improvements: it uses TCP over a single port, avoids the entire portmap/statd/lockd train-wreck, UTF-8 everywhere, etc. One of the more interesting ones is that it has referrals (think HTTP redirect) so one server doesn't have to handle every request from every client and you can do things like load-balancing. Clients are also assumed to be smarter so e.g. local caching is safe because the server can notify you about changes to open files rather than requiring the client to poll.
You can’t crank it up to the full resolution, but you wouldn’t want to anyway

There's software for that, and you can bet your bottom dollar I'll be doing it ;-)
Again, they can't simultaneously be in the "most sophisticated" class, and "idiotic."

Unless your assertion is "even the most sophisticated investors can be idiotic."

I'd say "idiotic" should be upgraded to "colossally idiotic." $40M earnings on $160B in 10 years?

So, what do you think?
Star Trek had an episode where two planets were fighting. All the attacks were carried out on a computer, then the computed casualties were rounded up and killed in real life. It saved actually damaging infrastructure and wasting resources to build real weapons. There was a human cost, but because war was no longer violent, the people preferred to keep fighting instead of looking for peace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
so... Anyone preparing OpenBSD to work on newer macbooks?
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stupidest idea ever.
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If the world could standardize on Logitech's wireless keyboard/mouse stuff, I'd be pretty happy. I've pretty much stuck to Logitech exclusively lately for my mice (I'm particularly fond of the M570, having been a fan of the similar Trackman Wheel), and I have several K570s (one Mac model for work, plus a couple others, including one in my living room for me to control an entertainment-center PC from my couch / coffee table).

I've found Logitech's implementation to - for whatever reason - be the best implementation of wireless peripheral communication I've ever encountered. No problems, no jumpiness, no nothing. It can't be that hard to build the equivalent to their dongle directly into, say, a laptop or tablet, can it?
Of course it's not a heavy lifter. It's actually faster than my Macbook Air 2011, which holds up pretty well for my usage. Compared to an iPad, with 8gb RAM and a much faster CPU, as well as a full OS, it's really much more powerful.
thanks, stupid autocorrect
I have to go with the idea that MOST people have no idea about security with their computers. Also most Apple people still say no bugs, no crashes and no viruses. Even when I point out every time something crashes on their Mac.
His only mention of Bitcoin:

Competitors are coming in the payments area.

You all have read about Bitcoin, merchants building their own networks, PayPal and PayPal look-alikes. Payments are a critical business for us – and we are quite good at it. But there is much for us to learn in terms of real-time systems, better encryption tech- niques, and reduction of costs and “pain points” for customers.
Hi! Yes, I should have clarified, that's exactly what the treaty was about. In the novel the "pilots" aren't given any command of the plane at all, it is computer controlled with the objectives transmitted from central command.

The pilot can play games or watch TV on the fighter's computer but can't send communications since the radio transmissions might help pinpoint its location. So it's a very boring job most of the time with occasional roller-coaster moments of terror.

My story tells what happens to one pilot whose plane is damaged during a sortie over Canada and the computer runs out of commands, causing her to suddenly have to control the aircraft.
S3fs filesystems are really slow. We tested around 10mb/s for file upload. Where it really struggles is when you have a lot of files in a folder. Try doing an 'ls' on a folder with hundreds of files to see it break.
I haven't actually entered a bank in years thanks in large part to software development. I think it's kind of 'fun' to take picture of a check and deposit it.
As I mentioned in a different comment, I don't think there's anything about yum/rpm that precludes doing this. Provided someone took the time to create a repository of relocatable rpm's, you could create a "yumbrew" script that does something like

yum-downloader --deps --destdir=~/.myrpms foo-1.3.3.7; rpm -U --prefix=~/.yumbrew/ --dbpath=~/.yumbrewdb ~/.myrpms/*

or whatever version of that would actually work. This has the added advantage that you don't have to compile the packages (although if you wanted to, you could make the script do that too..)
Everyone in the tech world, specifically the investors, has known this for a while. Marc Andreesen could have told this to Jamie Dimon ten years ago. "Software is eating the world" holds just as true today as it did when he first said it.

The problem is that "software is eating the world" only in the long term. It's easy to get behind the mantra when you're imagining software in an idealistic, abstract sense. After all, just look around you. Software is disrupting industries left and right. It's cheap, reproducible, and highly leveraged with low marginal cost. Software is more economically efficient than the incumbent operations of every industry it disrupts.

The financial industry is unlike any other industry software is "disrupting." The operations are irrevocably complex because they are inherently driven by human operators. Each year, more tech creeps in between the operators and the operations, and software gradually "eats" the industry. But bankers are not losing their jobs. Why would they? Software is more efficient, it makes them more money. It gives them more time to focus on improving other efficiencies. Bankers see software as a resource they can leverage just like anything else. The more it eats their industry, the more they feed it. As long as it continues making the bankers money, they will keep their own jobs. As long as they keep their jobs, they will keep leveraging their resources, which inevitably increases the complexity of the financial system.

The longer humans are in charge of the financial system, the more complicated it becomes. I see very little chance of humans relinquishing complete control of the system to algorithms. There is always a human, or group of humans, at the top -- that is the nature of politics and civilization. Perhaps the human has less input as technology improves, but politics still requires that human to occupy the seat at the top of the economy. Somebody needs to be responsible for the system. We cannot relinquish all control to the robots.
I'm not a vegetarian, but I don't think there's a logical inconsistency as clear as you're assuming. I'm well aware that in many instances, the condition farm animals are kept in is much worse than whatever problems I am describing with the act of hunting. At the same time, I'm not sure the very essence of being a farm animal necessitates a worse situation that hunting; there may be a regime, and associated cost, at which farm animals are not significantly worse off than their wild counterparts, and as long as their end is quick and painless, I'm not too adverse to that.

Ideally though, I would like vat grown meat. To many, that sounds disgusting. To me, it sounds like a reproducible process that can eventually be perfected to give very specific types of meat as needed. Perfect steaks every time. It solves a lot of other problems at the same time, so bonus.

I'm aware that the previous, and my stance on hunting, is all very pie-in-the-sky. I still think it's a worthwhile discussion.
>many comments here are saying that people should just upgrade

I don't see a single comment in this thread that says that.
Thanks, we updated the title to something that's hopefully more accurate. We're open to suggestions for a better one.
I believe it is to be released Summer 2015. I've applied for the Preview though.
Random bugginess. When I came into office, plugged my machine into TB display (have one at home, so should be no issue), I got nothing but black. Could get a login prompt, and even closing lid kept backlight on. Only solution was a hard reboot.
You are the only person in this thread putting that reason forward. Overpopulation of deer is bad for the ecosystem as a whole, and it is widely agreed that their population needs to be kept in check.

If you truly care about the ethics of the situation, hunting should be vastly preferred as a means of obtaining food over the current status quo of factory farming. A quick death by bullet is far, far better than a life of squalor and misery followed by, far more frequently than we'd like to realize, an agonizing and slow death.
Sometimes slow is forgivable if things are fun. For example, I enjoy walking to the farmers' market, though it would be faster to order food for delivery. But I don't enjoy driving, parking, and picking packaged goods from a warehouse (Target), so I prefer to have my paper towels delivered.
You have to create a snapshot of the EBS volume and create a new (larger) volume from said snapshot to grow the volume. Yep, this resizes automatically.
There's a reason why raising farm animals is called husbandry. In a way, it can be a form of conservation vs. preservation. I worked on a small dairy and hay farm, it's a complex relationship, and the animals aren't treated like they are in a industrial farming operation.

In the deer example, as noted in the article, overpopulation strips forests down. Saplings get chewed down by starving deer, bark gets stripped from others, etc. The elimination of forage impacts other wildlife. By being "nice" to Bambi, you'll have a dead forest in 30-40 years, assuming a condo complex isn't dropped down from the sky.
This is a hole that exists because an Apple-written application needed a method to gain elevated access. This was done through unpublished APIs which, when used by another application in a similar way, also resulted in elevated access.

So, this was clearly intentional, because it's used by Apple directly. And it allows illicit access, because any program can use it to gain access.
CEO of ZeroCater here. Kudos on a nifty hack.

The minimums are less about our willingness and more about how willing our vendors are to deal with smaller orders. Our main concern is making sure enough restaurants are accessible that customers get the variety they need.

We are able to make exceptions in some cases though. Feel free to drop me a line (email in profile).
Finally! Seems like this should have been a product day one on AWS.
Another tech screwup
> Apple's model customer is one who upgrades often.

I don't know any tech company that doesn't have that idea of a model customer :)

To their credit, I can run the latest on a pretty old Mac Mini at home. It's not as fast as it used to be, but it is supported long after the form factor of the Mini has undergone big changes. I don't consider myself being squeezed to upgrade.
> Any general advice for a first timer?

1) Build a scorecard. Be clear on what it is that you need/want this person to do the next 12-36 months.

2) Basic screening criteria- Can they do the job? Will they do job? Can you live with them?

Know that there is a wooing aspect to this process. The candidate is also checking you and your company out for potential fit. It's likely they are talking to other employers. Pay close attention to their interests. (BTW, Do read their resume & bio beforehand). You might imagine these people as your peers, quite possibly even smarter and more capable than you. Show professional courtesy. If your market is hyper-competitive, same day decision cycles are often the norm.
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You can get MITM'd at every single switch or router your traffic passes through, not just one attacker. That includes your government, other governments, the company running the public wifi you're connected to, your ISP, everyone.

In fact, some of them would probably do it wholesale. If PRISM doesn't already have a google.com MITM-ready certificate, they sure as hell would once we dropped the CA trust system.

> and an expired certificate is still invalid.

>..for no good reason whatsoever.

For very good reason. The certificate system is built on trust, and as soon as the expiry point is reached that certificate and the identity it represents is no longer vouched for by the CA.
Yes. You set yourself up as a contractor and handle country specific taxes etc yourself. The book "Remote: Office Not Required"[1] has a lot of additional information, it's a great read.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Remote-Office-Required-Jason-Fried/dp/...
I was replying to a comment, and specifically the sentiment that it's a shame when people move in and the existing hunter population has a problem continuing to hunt. I did mention that I think there must be a better way to curb an animal population that shooting them.
You just need to have the ssl enabled for your site, you can usea self-signed certificate.

And the enabled full ssl on Cloudflare.
All the hedge funds and banks are trying to run economics simulators. We are just much more aware of the limitations, and deal in probability distributions rather than concrete forecasts.
I've had some ok luck with the Who's hiring threads, but, what really bothered me was some of the practices from these companies.

One company, allowing remote work, sent me to do a personality inventory without even talking to me first -- which really bothered me. (They're still posting looking for DevOps and Developers in Indianapolis.)

One company scheduled an introduction phone call on the 25th of the month, and then didn't show up on time and attempted to reschedule on the 15th of the following month. (Apparently, they didn't understand "Hire fast, fire faster.")

Finally, one company wasn't up-front or honest about their salary expectations until after I had spent almost a month in their system -- even taking a week off of work to do one of their "trial weeks" only to discover that they were going to offer me approximately 50% less than what I was making now and that they had a standard 'formula' for salaries...things that if I would have known, I wouldn't have wasted their time (nor mine) going forward.

Don't get me wrong -- HN has brought me a lot of great things: context, opportunities, viewpoints, and friends. Unfortunately, the "Who is Hiring" has morphed into traditional HR -- where you send a resume and don't hear back anything from anyone, versus the near-immediate feedback that you would once get in 2012.
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> (i don't remember if it's bluetooth, but mouse makers hate using BT so probably not)

Most of the Apple ones are Bluetooth nowadays. The main issue is that you now have two things with battery lives instead of just one, but other than that, it might be a viable solution here.

Also, I believe Microsoft and Logitech make Bluetooth mice.
Very cool idea, fun name, practical interface. I like it.

Perhaps add a simple tagging system where users can add tags to hiring posts. That way you don't need to comb through every post and hopefully you crowdsource some helpful taxonomic data.
Most people take SV/WS as a geographical identity, starting a war between the two. However, rather than war, we've been seeing a confluence. WS is nothing but a group of workers, morality, tradition and culture.

Right now, WS is not being destroyed: it's merely being mixed into the SV. Either by bringing its top executives or fostering a 'brogrammer' culture, the similarity between the two are becoming clearer and clearer.
not everyone is in a place where they can use puppet or a similar orchestration system. Lot's of places are actually really scared of automation because they did it in the past and someone left without documenting something that caused some mayhem. I know, things like that can be avoided. And yes, all of the places that are gaining the benefits of scale are using lot's of automation...not everywhere is like that.

Things are better than they used to be, yes. But in lots of big businesses you wouldn't believe how slow processes are for all kinds of very valid sounding reasons. Don't get me wrong...its something that I'm personally working on changing everywhere that I can. I think everyone should be able to code, system admins should ALL be able to code in at least one language.
I wish AWS would be a little more technical in their product descriptions and announcements. If there was ever an audience that wants technical data about how this type of technology will scale and compares to existing technology like glusterfs it would be the AWS users. Instead the performance specifications are ".. and is designed to provide the throughput, IOPS, and low latency needed for a broad range of workloads." We know that NFS to a lot of nodes is hard, show us that this scales better or am I the testing team?
I think he was just talking about the people doing wordpress/joomla development, not locals in general.
For what it's worth, We've found that if you contact your account manager @ AWS, the preview access requests can be pushed through faster.
Why would you guess that? Because cygwin is nothing close to first class support. It has a lot of friction associated with its use. You're better off just running linux in a vm if you want posix on windows, and trust me plenty of people do that these days.
> I'm not sure how well reintroducing the predators would work, I'm sure there's some evidence to be found.

Are you suggesting that non-human predators cause less pain to deer than human hunters with guns? I highly doubt that is the case.
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I understand why they did it, though. It's either this (everyone supports NFS, even Windows) or get crucified for vendor lock-in. Just like Github did yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9343021), even when they released their product as an open standard with an open source reference implementation.
I bet there's some secret info that we don't get to know that would make this bizarre move make more sense. Maybe China is using this computer to crack military servers or something.
The problem with this viewpoint is that it's horribly ignorant, I'm sorry I mean no offense by that. It's just that if you are unfamiliar with farming and hunting it might be easy to draw those kind of conclusions. The fact is that almost universally hunting is a more ethical form of gathering meat than farming. There are certainly unethical hunters but far FAR more care deeply about the animals and there well being. By far the most committed and caring ecologists that I've meet, I've volunteered for over 10 years for various ecological causes, have mostly been hunters/fishermen.
Last I've read, there are dozens of plausible-sounding theories, and none of them hold up all that well under serious analysis, at least as far as explaining the whole rise and fall. Maybe some or all of them are a little true, maybe it's something nobody's thought of or figured out yet.