Boost your intelligence? Take off your shoes. - <AUTHOR> http://joshwhiton.com/?p=1083 <comment><USER2> And then he stepped on glass, a rusty nail, got ring-worm, and several diseases that he doesn't know the names of yet. But he will.

That's how I think the story will end. Shoes were made to protect our feet and they've lasted for a reason.

I go barefoot whenever I can, but that doesn't include uncontrolled environments.

Also, I wonder if the shop owner would have let him in just having shown the shoes and shirt... The signs usually say you have to have them, not that you have to -wear- them. ;)

<comment><USER3> I wonder how the shop owner felt about him washing his feet in this bathroom.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> I recently (after my move to TLV) bought me a pair of these Vibram (five finger?) toe thingies. Yes, if you try them in the store and are used to ~30~ years of wearing regular shoes, they are 'funny' at first. What a surprise..

I still bought them, convinced myself that I'd give them a decent try and at least wear them on the awful hot beach or something if they suck completely.

I love them. I only wear regular shoes now on rare occasions. The first two days were a constant source of laughter and I tried to walk on every type of ground (and - stuff) I could find. Childish? Hell yes, but fun!

Now they are comfortable like no pair of shoes that I owned before. While having no proof I do believe that I walk more straight with them and you relearn to roll your foot instead of stomping around.

If anyone wants to try this experiment and thinks about shoes like this: Don't give up after 5 minutes in the shop..

<comment><USER5> Agreed. My story is similar, with a medical twist: years of chronic lower back pain disappeared once I stopped wearing "normal" shoes.

If Vibram ever makes a shiny black leather version, I won't have to wear anything else.

<comment><USER6> I use my vibrams primarily for running and have also found that my knee problems have almost completely vanished since I started running in them.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> Not sure if it boosts your intelligence; I am an avid barefoot walker. City streets, the woods; pretty much anything other than screaming-hot blacktop.

It feels good; your feet get accustomed to it pretty quickly. The OP mentioned his eyes were really needed to watch where his feet were going, but if he keeps up this habit this won't be the case near as much.

Small bits of broken glass or things like this will tear through most tender footed westerners, but just a few dozen miles over a few weeks barefoot will toughen up your feet very quickly so that gravel and tiny-sharp things won't bother you at all.

I just feel 'better' with barefeet. After the winter, and I can take my shoes off and rub them in the grass, after so little stimulation; it's nearly orgasmic.

Increased awareness with barefeet? Likely. Intelligence.. mm not so much.

<comment><USER3> I live in New York. About a month ago, I watched a barefoot guy try to walk through Hell's Kitchen. I looked away for about a minute, and when I glanced back, his friends were bringing him napkins to cover the huge bleeding gash in his foot.

Sure, he could have watched where he was going and made sure his soles were tough. I'd just rather minimize the chances of stepping on a sharp chunk of metal, or a syringe. I think I'm at my smartest when I'm not worrying about tetanus.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> I went running barefoot a few weeks ago. It was an amazing sensation and the best run I'd had in a long time. I went significantly faster too, which I suppose can be attributed to the lack of weight wearing shoes brings. It just felt awesome. That following week, I went running through the same course. Not over a quarter mile into it did I manage to step on a bee. The course I run on is grass and a little pebble-y. My foot is still recovering somewhat. Going barefoot is definitely something everyone should do once in a while. Makes you feel more human. Don't quite know how it made me more intelligent but running and exercise generally release endorphins which make you feel better so I suppose it's possible you could "feel" more intelligent after spending an afternoon barefooted.

<comment><USER9> Was it your first run barefooted? Did you get sore calves?

<comment><USER8> I've done sprints barefooted before for cross-country practice but yes. It was my first distance run barefooted. It definitely worked my muscles differently than when I ran with shoes.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> Funny the things we forget about... I wonder what other of our body parts are missing out on some extreme sensory experiences. What about our brain? Can we get this type of increased stimulation directly into our heads? I think perhaps video games did this job when they were new. New exciting activities can perhaps help (sky diving, racing a car, etc).

</comment><comment><USER11> "It was a little more like being barefoot than regular shoes but was way more like being in shoes than being barefooted."

I'm a big fan of VFFS (vibram five finger shoes) and I can attest that you can feel terrain changes through vibrams, this also means that you will watch where you step to avoid the occasional large rock, etc which can be extremely uncomfortable.

Barefoot shoes provide much of the positives highlighted in this article while dramatically reducing your exposure to the perils of walking barefoot, I'd recommend the author give them another chance.

<comment><USER12> I like the juxtaposition of these Vibram shoes as a fashion fad and the old Doc Martens boot fad (which seems about as opposite a direction as you can get, perhaps you could go all out and get steel toed but still)

My feeling is that we cut of sensory inputs as a defensive mechanism, fewer sensor inputs, more cycles to focus on our thinking. And yet when we're 'not' thinking we don't necessarily un-block those inputs. One of the engineers at NetApp was well known for walking around in socks all the time. I always attributed it to his scottish ancestry and not wanting to put excess wear on a perfectly good pair of shoes, but perhaps he was ahead of his tims in this foot thing :-)

<comment><USER10> How about steel-toed five fingered shoes?

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> Did this earlier this year: <http://www.onedaywithoutshoes.com/>

It's something to try every once in a while for a change of pace.

</comment><comment><USER14> All of this is nice, but as someone who has flat feet, walking without (orthotic enhanced) shoes on pavement for any extended period results in pain at the end of the day.

</comment><comment><USER15> > Hot pavement. Hmm… increasingly hot the longer I stand still.

Is this a case of mind over body? When on vacation, going barefoot to the beach, the short blacktop pavement crossings make me feel like I am burning my feet.</comment>


Morgan Stanley: Tesla is ready to 'dominate' the auto industry - <AUTHOR> http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/17/investing/tesla-upgrade-morgan-stanley/ <comment><USER2> The hypefest reaches epic proportions.

Tesla hasn't even _announced_ that they are entering this market, and they are now expected to dominate it! In 18 months, Tesla _might announce_ plans to enter Uber / Car Sharing (with potentially self driving technology). Then years after that, Tesla's biggest source of business will in fact be this market (that doesn't exist yet btw)

At which point, they will instantly dominate all of the competition. Because imagination and creativity is all you need

</comment><comment><USER3> The optimism in that article is astounding, and that's coming from a dyed-in- the-wool optimist. I think this is a classic case of a layman underestimating just how hard the technical problem of building a 100% autonomous car is. Tesla has some autonomous features, but the car still requires a human driver. Getting that last 5% of the problem solved for all the little, rare, unpredictable things that can happen in the real world is a really hard problem.

I agree that shared self-driving cars are the future, and at some point sooner rather than later they will likely be electric self-driving cars. But as to which company is going to dominate that space is not easy to predict, and a company like Tesla is the underdog in a ring with heavyweights like Google and Apple.

</comment><comment><USER4> Tesla isn't going to dominate the auto industry selling luxury cars. If they can create a car for "everyone" with a decent price (~$30,000) they might be able to gain traction. Toyota and GM (forgot VW Group!) aren't going anywhere but if they are challenged they might start innovating faster.

Electric cars will be the future and I cant wait for this to happen. No oil changes, belts, no pesky transmission to break and no exhaust.

</comment><comment><USER5> I don't know the automotive business, but it seems that this is an area where money really matters. Mercedes Benz and BMW are sure to be interested in this market and won't sit by idly while Tesla "outsmarts" them to a viable autonomous vehicle, but Apple and Google are investigating this market too and they have huge resources, financial and technical.

</comment><comment><USER6> It really sounds like MS is trying to justify their ownership/outlook on $TSLA. How many more times do they have to write this before it becomes true?</comment>


Is sexism really prevalent in Silicon Valley? - <AUTHOR> http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/is-silicon-valley-really-rife-with-sexism/20071 <comment><USER2> >"The Pao case also inspired the widely cited 'Elephant in the Valley' survey, which claimed 60 per cent of women in Silicon Valley had experienced sexual harassment, and 88 per cent had experienced unconscious bias. But this survey isn't all it seems. 'Unconscious bias' is, in part, defined as 'eye contact with male colleagues and not me'. Only 210 women took part in the survey — and it appears far from impartial. The survey was carried out by seven women working in the industry with the stated aim of proving the existence of sexism."

You can't deny that sexism exists. We have to work as individuals, as a society and as a species to end it. But absurd studies and surveys like that just hurt the cause and alienate people.

<comment><USER3> As an experienced researcher, I can assure you that the gender of the researcher is not relevant to the outcome if the study is posed in a neutral, unbiased form. Leading questions will get the results that are desired, so if you want to prove sexism exists, leading questions will get that result.

Now before I am tarred and feathered, I am making no judgment on whether sexism exists in SV or not as I am not a SV insider and have no first-hand knowledge. All I am saying is that typically when a survey is undertaken "with the stated aim of proving the existence of sexism" it is likely that it will be proven. A survey is only as good as the questionnaire and the outcome is only validated with an adequate sample size, valid measurement tool and unbiassed researcher(s).

As an aside and as an outsider looking it, if you read of a single e perience by one person you tuck it away; two, your ears perk up; three, your think there certainly could be something to the whispers; when you get to ten plus examples, you have to wonder how much more women are going to have to put up with before they are respected for their contributions, innovations, drive, etc. It does not take a team of researchers to prove things need to change.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> "If some women are experiencing sexist treatment or harassment in Silicon Valley, then of course that is an issue that must be addressed. But we should be careful before suggesting this amounts to an industry-wide problem when there isn't evidence to back it up." \- Sorry, what? There are literally oceans of evidence.</comment>


Ripple gives away 2000-4000 XRPs for GitHub users - <AUTHOR> https://giveaway.ripple.com/

<comment><USER2> NOT very impressed because of SSL errors on [https://www.ripple.com/](https://www.ripple.com/)</comment>


Intro to Monads (new chapter of Learn You a Haskell for Great Good) - <AUTHOR> http://learnyouahaskell.com/monads <comment><USER2> I read "Categories for the working mathematican" by Saunders Mac Lane and "The Typeclassopedia" by Brent Yorgey before I really understood monads.

If i just waited for this, it could have spared me all this reading ;-)

</comment><comment><USER3> Always loving bonus500's style. It's striking, though, how often guides to monads crop up on sites like HN. No matter how many introductions or "monads for idiots" type articles get written, it seems they're conceptually difficult enough to always need more ;-)

<comment><USER4> I'm one of the people who diligently reads each of these things on monads because I know I don't understand them yet. Right now, I at least understand some examples of monads (Maybe, IO, etc.) and why they're used, but the internals of how they work (and what "context" they carry) are still too fuzzy, even if I think I sorta understand the three monad laws (i.e. monads can bind and return values so you can get normal data in and out of them, as well a property reminiscent of function composition that allows them to be chained).

I think I may have to break down and read the O'Reilly book on Haskell (I've never looked for it, but I'm assuming one exists), because the tutorials all seem to use Haskell syntax nowadays and that keeps me from fully understanding many of the articles, even though I seem to be learning bits and pieces of Haskell each time I read one of these.

<comment><USER5> The O'Reilly book would be Real World Haskell: <http://book.realworldhaskell.org/>

It is very good, and expressly isn't a monad tutorial in the usual style, although they do get covered eventually of course (but from memory without any extra emphasis or allusions to difficulty, magic, etc).

<comment><USER6> I am working my way through RWH at the moment. Its biggest flaw is that you _have_ to work your way through it, in order. Don't care about reading barcodes? Tough, because you can't read the later chapter on Monads unless you grit your teeth.

The authors spend an awful lot of time showing you the wrong way (i.e. non- idiomatic) to do something and revealing with a flourish the Haskell way. Really you ought to just skip the first half of each chapter and not waste time learning techniques that you have to unlearn later. But you can't, because of the way it's all so intertwined.

Latest peeve - sometimes they talk about wrapping and unwrapping values, which is fine. But sometimes they talk about "peeling". What's that? Is it just another word for unwrap? Is it some special Haskell term? I don't know, I'm a beginner!

On page 369 of my copy there's code that fails to compile and in the session output in the book there are actual error messages from the compiler - but the following paragraph of text talks about it as if it was giving the "correct" results...

The only reason to read RWH is that there's a dearth of Haskell books so you make the best of it - but compared to say Learning Python or Programming Python also from O'Reilly it's really quite poor.

<comment><USER5> It has been a while since I've read it (as a rusty but not novice haskell programmer), but most of that does actually ring true. I do remember the error message now that you mention it! I assume the code was run automatically when the book was compiled.

There were a reasonable amount of typos and similar errors I seem to recall now actually, which is either surprising or perhaps revealing given that it was publicly reviewed.

That said, I still think it's a good book. I'm not that fussed by having to work through it; that's just how some books are constructed if they're not reference material, particularly when earlier chapters are pre-requisites. I take your point though.

As I said it has been a while, but I don't recall being perturbed by the non- idiomatic->idiom transition either. The numerous monad tutorials mentioned in other comments are a great example of how forcing a particular learning path on someone doesn't always work, but by the same token I believe it can be useful to gently show a common path from common naive code to idiom for example.

I'd still recommend it anyway, if just for the "real world" approach of the title.

<comment><USER7> <blockquote> There were a reasonable amount of typo and similar errors I seem to recall now actually, which is either surprising or perhaps revealing given that it was publicly reviewed.</blockquote>

A lot of people with Ph.D.s in Computer Science provided "comments" on the book, but did not necessarily review the whole book. Reviewing a book cover to cover takes time. I found a lot of academic mistakes in Real World Haskell, such as the fact they used the phrase "strong typing" which has pretty much been banned from academic programming language literature thanks to Benjamin Pierce's book Types and Programming Language, where Pierce says he reviewed tons of papers trying to decipher a common meaning for the phrase and couldn't. A better way to characterize a type system is by whether it is (a) sound (b) complete.

There were just too many examples in Real World Haskell where it could've been much better explained, especially considering the authors CVs.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Though I definitely didn't finish reading this, I couldn't help but remember Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby (<http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/>) - this is probably the prettiest Haskell learning resource writeup I've seen up to date :)

</comment><comment><USER9> I like how the author contrasts monads with applicative functors and demonstrates why monads are more powerful.

</comment><comment><USER10> Looking forward to his dead-tree book.</comment>


Show HN: MercuryPuzzle - Explore your skills - <AUTHOR> https://mercurypuzzle.com

<comment><AUTHOR> With MercuryPuzzle you can self-evaluate your skills and strengths and receive interesting job offers from companies you choose.

Today we launched into open bet and are thankful for every comment and feedback!

</comment><comment><USER2> nice idea</comment>


Bernie Sanders Campaign Is Disciplined for Breaching Hillary Clinton Data - <AUTHOR> http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/12/18/sanders-campaign-disciplined-for-breaching-clinton-data/?_r=0 <comment><USER2> another case of data insecurity "shoot the messenger"</comment>


Ask PG: Cost and effort of running Hacker News? - <AUTHOR>

In terms of servers and hardware, how much does it cost to keep hacker news up and running each month?
In terms of man hours, how much is needed to maintain and moderate hacker news? <comment><USER2> I think the server costs around $350/mo. I don't like to think how much time HN actually takes up, but when I was traveling recently I found that checking in for about 30 min a day was enough to keep things under control.

On a weekday we get about 350k pageviews from about 30k unique ip addrs.

<comment><USER3> Why do you need to check in every 30 minutes?

<comment><USER4> He said 30 minutes per day, not every 30 minutes.

<comment><USER3> Ah, well that explains it I guess :o)

<comment><USER4> Oh I don't know, perhaps it doesn't include the 4-projector basement monitoring screen in the basement, relaying real-time hits and anomalous voting patterns.

Ahem.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> From <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516108>

Only one server:

        Old: 2.4 GHz Pentium 4, 4 GB RAM, 32-bit FreeBSD 5.3.
        New: 3.0 GHz Core whatever, 12 GB RAM, 64-bit FreeBSD 7.1.

_PG: "The new server seems to be about 2x as fast. The frontpage renders for me in about 50 msec. But the site should seem more than 2x faster (for logged- in users) because many requests will terminate before being interrupted. There's now enough memory that we can fit all the links and comments in memory at once again. We should be good for another year or so."_ (traffic: <http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#15jan09>)

Not sure of how or where server is hosted or what else is used e.g. router/firewall/bandwidth/ups/utilities/etc., but if pg/rtm billed for time all other costs would be insignificant.

Maintainance:

A lot less than most people considering it's rtm and pg.

<comment><AUTHOR> So that brings the hardware costs to about 2000-$3000 per month?

As for man hours, can 2 guys in a basement with nothing else on their schedules maintain and moderate a site like HN?

<comment><USER6> I don't understand how that makes the hardware cost $2000-$3000 per month.

<comment><AUTHOR> Whoops, my bad. read that as 24 GB RAM instead of 12 GB RAM (which made me wonder why they would need so much memory)

The server should come out to a little over $1000 per month then?

<comment><USER6> I don't think so. You can build out that Linux box for just a few thousand total. Check out System76 if you don't want to build it.

<comment><USER7> I think he's referring to how much it would cost if you paid for a server like that through a hosting provider.

<comment><USER6> Well, he shouldn't call it hardware costs then :)

A hosting provider gives you lots of services too.

<comment><USER8> You could get similar services from a colocation company as well. You could purchase a fully decked 1U server for $2000, then pay $50 a month for colocation (that's what I'm doing).

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> If Hacker News is anything like my site, both of which basically need to serve up little bits of text to lots of people, then hosting is cheap.

I bet you could serve 20,000 people a day on an HN-like site for well under $1,000/month on AWS, assuming you are smart about caching and you don't thump the database with every request.

So, even if you were totally clueless about ads and just ran random ad sense, the thing would more than pay for itself.

It's incredibly cheap to run a site that doesn't need much bandwidth. Basically, if you are serving no pictures or media, you should be able to build a website at super-scale in your garage, or using some Cloud Service.

<comment><USER9> Is that realistic? Running random AdSense + 20,000 people a day = "more than" $1,000 a month?

<comment><USER6> Absolutely.

20,000 people a day is definitely worth 35 dollars per day. That would mean, if your ads were impression-based, your CPM of $1.75.

You pay $45 CPM for eyeballs on a site like backpacker.com, which actually has a tight audience, but you're gonna get $1.75 unless your site is just spam.

CPM means cost per thousand eyeballs. I'm talking about impressions here just to simplify things.

<comment><USER9> The reason I ask is that my site gets about 7,000 unique visitors a day. If 20,000 = $35 a day, 7,000 = $12.25 a day. I make about half that.

I don't recall seeing any articles on HN about advertising options (AdSense vs. AdBrite vs...) or optimization. (Though it's possible I've simply missed them.) Any good resources I should investigate?

<comment><USER6> What's your website?

<comment><USER9> <http://onlineslangdictionary.com/>

<comment><USER6> It does seem to me like "you're doing it wrong."

I don't know why you are showing adsense ads for dictionaries on your site. I can't imagine your audience is the sort that buys dictionaries. Given you are a slang dictionary, I imagine your users are young. And most young people get their dictionaries online.

It seems like such an oxymoron that you would have an ad to buy something printed on your dictionary website. Your ad sense literally show ads for a printed competitor to your site.

It seems to me you have your adsense set up wrong, or naively. If I go to a page and look up a word slang for a word like girlfriend, you should show me ads for dating! When I look something up in your dictionary, then you start to know who I am and you can show me relevant ads.

As it was, all I get is banners for online colleges and slang dictionaries and a Google ad for Ask.com.

You just need a bit better ads... I guess I was wrong about being able to put up random ads, but I think you could make more if you thought about it more.

<comment><USER10> I think he just needs to place the ads properly. Those link ads, in my experience, are wonderful.

<comment><USER9> Do you think the ads are improperly placed?

<comment><USER10> In my own opinion, yes. If I were the owner of the site, I would use a Link Ad just below the The Online Slang Dictionary with the same background color and white text color.

And I would add another Link Ad below Welcome to The Online Slang Dictionary this time with a white background.

Then I would remove the big vertical ad and place it in a box similar to the "Subscribe to updates" and "Bookmark or share" boxes and label it with maybe "Other Resources" -- after all Google text ads are relevant :P

Just my own 2 cents... :)

<comment><USER9> Thanks for the feedback!

I actually used to have the big vertical ad ("wide skyscraper") in the right sidebar (where the "Subscribe to updates" etc. boxes are) but it performed terribly. Putting it where it is now increased clickthroughs by something like 10x.

BTW, Google's AdSense terms "[prohibit] placing ads under misleading headings such as 'resources' or 'helpful links.'" [https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=...](https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=136881)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> <http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html> \- over 25,000 ips per day

<http://ycombinator.com/images/2yeartraffic.png> \- Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but does that image show 300,000 pageviews _per day_?

<comment><USER11> Sure looks like it to me - the peaks on the graph are too close together to be going by months.

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> If it were a very cool clustered, load-balanced setup with analog monitoring gauges set up in a nuclear bunker, then I'm guessing we would've heard about it by now :) So it's probably just your good old boring rack server.

Anyone else care for a guess ?

</comment><comment><USER13> What time zone is the hosting centre located in ? I always wondered about those posting times (x hours ago, y minutes ago, etc).

<comment><AUTHOR> Time zone doesn't matter. The clock starts from when you submitted an article or posted a comment and it's the same for everyone.

So if you submitted an article 10 min ago, it shows as being posted 10 min ago for you _and_ everyone else.</comment></comment>


Pgloader – migrate your data from any SQL database into PostgreSQL - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/dimitri/pgloader <comment><USER2> We've been using pgloader as part of our production workflows between RDBMS' for about a year now. Overall I am super impressed with the speed and reliability of it.

Some gotchas:

\- MySQL to Postgres needs some massaging for int-types. Pgloader will convert MySQL bigint to type "numeric" by default - which is a bit of overkill.

\- For issues like the above, they have a handy syntax for the pgloader template files which lets you do datatype casts on the fly. [1]

1 - [https://pgloader.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ref/mysql.html#mys...](https://pgloader.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ref/mysql.html#mysql- database-casting-rules)

<comment><AUTHOR> We're using it for migration from sqlite to postgres. Never found a more useful single line command.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> Pgloader is a great project, and I planned to use it for database migration of a small commercial product (from SQL Server).

Unfortunately, I never go it to work. Tried three different distros (Ubuntu / Debian / Amazon Linux). Sometimes installation would fail, other times it would crash on first run - even when following instructions to the letter.

When I finally got it to run, it could not connect to SQL Server, and no one on Github could help with my particular error message.

Ended up writing the migration code myself, which took only a few hours. The lesson: for a very simple migration, pgloader was actually overkill and a self-made solution did the job quicker.

</comment><comment><USER4> I've noticed recently that Postgres is really gaining in popularity, especially as a MySQL alternative. Why is that? Is it because of Oracle's involvement in MySQL or has Postgres really improved in performance?

<comment><USER5> Postgres has earned the reputation for doing thinking features through, rolling improvements out reliably, and is pretty committed to doing things right (tm). This has meant fewer/slower _hot_ features in the past, but solid when they arrive. It feels like they've pulled ahead in many features now. My favorite is all the indexing options.

It may be undeserved now, but MySQL had/has a reputation for a lot of sloppy work for good enough features or for performance. Mysql dropped MyISAM for InnoDB in an effort to undo some of that damage so it's hard for me to say they're not committed to quality now.

But reputations take time to rebuild.

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> Nice to see that it's

        Common Lisp 96.7%
        Makefile 1.9%
        Other 1.4%

</comment><comment><USER7> For those interested in learning more about PostreSQL, I'd recommend the book by the author of this tool[1]. It's bee a great resource for me. It's a great introduction to SQL with a focus on postgres.

(FWIW, it was called "Mastering PostgreSQL" when I bought it, but as far as I can tell, the site I linked is just an updated version).

1: [https://theartofpostgresql.com/](https://theartofpostgresql.com/)

</comment><comment><USER8> The author of this tool also appears to maintain a website[1] with information about migrating from MySQL to Postgres.

[1]: [http://mysqltopgsql.com/](http://mysqltopgsql.com/)</comment>


Leeflets - A free, minimal content management system - <AUTHOR> https://leeflets.com/

<comment><USER2> Leeflets looks interesting and I'm attempting to install. In Wordpress, I know to edit the wp-config file for login name and password, but I don't know what file(s) to edit for leeflets.

Very little documentation available (which is understandable).

Sorry to bring my support question here, but I thought the answer might help others who want to give Leeflets a try as well.

</comment><comment><USER3> Will we ever see a decent and beautiful CMS built on Node.js not PHP?

<comment><AUTHOR> Did you check : [http://calip.so/](http://calip.so/) ?</comment></comment>


The Death of File Systems by Jakob Nielsen, February 1996 - <AUTHOR> http://www.useit.com/papers/filedeath.html

<comment><USER2> My first thought reading the article was that his prediction in 1996 was wrong. Then I realized that most of my work now is on desktops, specifically related to development work on the command line. That's not a mainstream use- case. I build web applications ... and people who use the apps I build don't care about the underlying filesystem storage. They are interacting with a SQL database.

When I go into my Gmail account, I have filters set to label my email. I don't use folders there. Half of the documents I care about are on Google Docs, where I use search instead of a file browser. I don't use a filesystem metaphor on my non-jail-broken iPod Touch either, except maybe to access the apps.

With mobile web apps set to explode in 2011 -- Android is predicted to go to sub-$100 retail price, it means a lot of people's first experience of a personal computing device will not be a filesystem.</comment>


Grow VC Aims To Be The Kiva For Tech Startups - <AUTHOR> http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/15/grow-vc-aims-to-be-the-kiva-for-tech-startups/

<comment><USER2> Near-miss dupe of <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1126336> ?

Strange that you're showing 0 points, too...

<http://skitch.com/swombat/nim4h>

<comment><USER3> I upvoted this from 0 to 1 just to see if it would stick

<comment><USER2> I'm seeing 1 point now...

Interestingly, it's not updating on the front page... caching funnies perhaps:

<http://skitch.com/swombat/nimhj></comment></comment></comment>


19,000 UK credit card details posted on the Net ... and accessible on Google - <AUTHOR> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1165447/19-000-UK-credit-card-details-posted-Net--accessible-Google.html <comment><USER2> Is that the prosthetic finger from the guy who had a finger-flashdrive in an article a few days ago?

<comment><USER3> I think it is. I was too distracted by the photo to even read the article. Oh well..

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Excellent. This is great news. Once they are on the net, the cardholders are effectively safe because of fraud protection. The real danger is when you don't know your number has been stolen. Based on the headline, it doesn't appear the journalist who wrote this piece understands that. Sigh....

<comment><USER5> He works for the Daily Mail. It's a wonder he could even string sentences together let alone understand something as "complex" as that.

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> Overly sensational title (the original; gibsonf1 did the right thing using the original title)

I'm sure the same credit card details can be found with other search engines, but the title implies Google had something to do with it.

</comment><comment><USER7> That's better than them being traded in secret, right? The CC companies _know_ they're stolen and can immediately cancel them.

</comment><comment><USER8> I guess USB drives now come in a "creepy and finger-like" flavor.</comment>


The REPL for Hardware - <AUTHOR> https://www.feld.com/archives/2018/07/the-repl-for-hardware.html <comment><USER2> _I've decided that 3D printing is the REPL for Hardware._

That sounds so 2005. 3D printing is sometimes useful, but it's not magic. It's a prototyping process, far slower and far more expensive than high-volume methods of making things. Injection molding is so cheap. The former CEO of Autodesk, Carl Bass, thought 3D printing was going be a much bigger thing than it is. He thought every home would have one, because his daughter was printing dollhouse furniture. Didn't happen. He's gone now.

What this VC seems to be doing is buying up marginally successful 3D printing companies. That's OK; some of them were just going too slow due to lack of money. It's probably a good time to pick up some of the overenthusiastic ones that were going zombie.

Glowforge (formerly a Kickstarter) finally shipped, but they were too late. Now others have laser cutters in their $2500 price range. Laser engravers are now below $200 on Amazon. This might work out if tariffs prevent Chinese units from getting into the US.

It's not a "3D Laser Printer", it's a 2 or 2.5D laser cutter for flat materials, like all the the other low-end machines. There are real 3D laser cutters.[1] Glowforge isn't one. Laser cutters are quite useful, but they're a tool, not magic. Also, despite what Glowforge says, they need a serious exhaust system.

This fund also bought Formlabs. Formlabs has a nice stereolithography 3D printer. It doesn't really matter what they charge for the printer, because the resin cartridges are $149/liter.

You want to change manufacturing, make injection molding dies as cheap and simple to make as printed circuit boards. Or a low-end laser cutter with enough power to cut light sheet metal.

[1] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NsM0-9_n3Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NsM0-9_n3Q)

<comment><USER3> Agreed. We are a hardware company (invest in us, Brad, we're raising). I banned 3D printers from the office, and we just gave away the ones we had this week. Why?

1\. Waste of engineer time fiddling about to get things to print right.

2\. Often people have to alter settings or material to suit a part, then we tend to never know what settings were actually used therefore we cannot replicate the same part reliably unless we add additional documentation/burden to the process.

3\. If the spec hasn't been sent out to a third party fabrication house then we aren't sure the spec is good. Using third party makes the spec de-facto validated and our interface to third parties standardized, thus supply chain becomes redundant.

4\. We get free upgrades as industry iterates, with no capital down. It's like cloud services for hardware, except safer because it's transaction oriented with no technical debt or dependencies tying us to running instances.

5\. If we need finishes, materials or processes that are expensive to acquire in a printer, instead of buying new gear or obsessing over integration we can just use a more expensive outsourced process.

6\. A 3D file is possible to duplicate, view and diff remotely, a custom made physical part with unknown settings/material isn't. I've actually lobbied Github to enhance visual diff for 3D files, and they're considering it internally.

Already we have used many processes: CNC machining, milling, laser cutting, sheet metal forming, thermoforming, 3D printing, injection molding, blow molding, various coatings/treatments, etc. Would hate to have to fork for all that hardware! Luckily, we don't. Also, we've just moved offices for the second time. It would cost many times more to move and we'd need many times more space if we had fabrication equipment in-house.

<comment><USER4> Comments 1 and 2 sound like you have only experienced hobbyist-grade printers and not high quality, easy-to-use, professional tools. Engineers can waste time fiddling and there are many things that make sense to outsource during development, but try a Form 2 and see if you still feel this way.

3 is actually an excellent suggestion. It's important to communicate with production suppliers early and often. But outsourcing early stage prototypes to prototype shops usually doesn't help that much (unless your final production volume is low)

4 and 5 are not true for low cost systems if you have even a small amount of printing and value the speed of your development team.

6\. Doing as much digitally/on paper as possible is also an excellent suggestion. Too many engineers rush to build stuff Simulation and other tools are constantly improving. But for full functional testing, ergonomics, industrial design, etc, there is still no substitute for physical prototypes.

Full disclosure: I work at Formlabs [https://formlabs.com/](https://formlabs.com/) and our mission is basically to solve all of these problems.

<comment><USER3> Re. 1/2\. If you send me a Form 2 for a few months or a discount code I'll be happy to give you detailed feedback. Otherwise, at USD$5000+postage it will take a good while outsourcing production for this to make sense. (Typical third party fabrication cost for us is around USD$30-100 per part or part-set delivered via courier.)

Re. 3. We typically use 3D printing to prototype for injection molding. We don't use it as a production process.

Re. 4/5\. Your comment makes the false assumption that iterating rapidly on a single component is the sole bottleneck for product design iteration, and thus that failing to optimize iteration speed amounts to bad management. While this is occasionally a requirement, in fact we mostly find there is substantial parallelization potential per module, meaning that even within a single assembly mechanical engineers can place an order and then move on to another part or concern. Also, nobody selling printers ever calculates for support removal and finishing time/space/tools/chemicals, noise, smell/indoor air pollution, human presence requirement in order to transfer parts to automated washing/curing units, or additional overhead and loss due to slack materials stock.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> For some interesting examples of what can be done with the Formlabs 3D printer, Ben Krasnow has a recent video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z8uPHL52Q0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z8uPHL52Q0)

<comment><USER6> That's really impressive. I'm always amazed at what people are able to do with 3d printers. The other day I read someone used his 3d printer as a plotter, and was working on getting it to write letters.

<comment><USER7> With stepper motors on 3 axes, most FDM printers are really overkill for 2D plotting. But it might be tricky to get a nice drawing, the standard slicer software that turns a design into g-code makes all kinds of interesting- looking choices for efficiency's sake. Evil Mad Scientist Labs make a nice robot for painting with watercolors[1], and the patterns the slicer it uses picks are odd to my eye, if sometimes fun.

[1] [https://watercolorbot.com/](https://watercolorbot.com/)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Just because something happens when you enter a command, this does not make a REPL. The original idea of a REPL was that one reads Lisp code as data, evaluates it and returns the result as Lisp data, which gets printed as such and stored as a side effect.

<comment><USER9> Agreed. A true hardware REPL would be incredibly wasteful, and you'd be throwing even more plastic waste away that would eventually end up in the oceans killing wildlife.

<comment><USER8> It would mean that the hardware material could be read and executed.

<comment><USER10> One can engrave QR codes with a lasercutter. I've used them to provide a link to where to download the source files, for making more or to integrated the design with other objects based on the CAD sources. This was primarily to be read by humans, but one can imagine the same structure readable by machines.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> Heh, I thought this was going to be about JTAG.

<comment><USER12> Same, at first.

And I'd have rather read something about openscad.

<comment><USER13> What is the Young's Modulus of an analogy?

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> I always think Forth when I think of REPLs and hardware

<comment><USER15> I still wish OpenFirmware caught on a bit more. Unfortunately it:

\- was supported by Sun and IBM \- had "Open" in the name

which is a great way to ensure that Intel never uses it.

<comment><USER16> One imagines it's hard to create a rent seeking racket on somebody else's open technology, too.</comment></comment></comment>


BritePic: Redefining The img Tag - <AUTHOR> http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/29/redefining-the-img-tag/ <comment><USER2> This looks like a terrible abuse of Flash. Why not just encode the parameters into the image URL and have it handled server-side?

I'm not just being an ideological purist here. I have two systems. One is pure 64-bit and thus simply can't run Flash, and the other uses Firefox's FlashBlock extension. If your site demands that I use Flash for something as simple as just viewing an image, you're going to give me a pretty lousy user experience. And of course, even those with no trouble running Flash are still prevented from easily being able to save an offline copy.

</comment><comment><USER3> Maybe if this particular image/flash hack doesn't work, at least they are innovating and trying out new products, keeping that startup mentality of throwing something against the wall and seeing if it sticks.</comment>


PhoneGap (Cordova) for iOS games - why not? why yes? - <AUTHOR>

<comment><USER2> I've used PhoneGap in the past and whilst it worked well enough for a basic CRUD-y app, I'm not so sure about games, especially given the webview is nobbled in comparison to the browser.

I'm toying with the idea of building a game I never got around to on my old Amiga and looked at Corono (<http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/>). Obviously no good for HTML games but it does look up to the job if you fancy switching to Lua.</comment>


Genetically modified microbes alert the immune system to cancer in mice - <AUTHOR> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/science/cancer-bacteria-immune-system.html <comment><USER2> This seems like a game-changing system, certainly for some tumours. I do wonder about the bacteria entering the wider environment though, but given it's a common bacteria I guess there's plenty of existing research in to that.

Makes me think of the studies showing how much of an effect your gut bacteria have on your health. Perhaps this could be harnessed to treat disease without the sledgehammers that are antibiotics.

Unfortunately I'm a software developer, not a biologist, so I know nothing about this. I'm sure smarter people are already working on it.

</comment><comment><USER3> > At some point in the future, we will use programmable bacteria for treatment

Will bacteria be "programmable" in the same way that a computer is?

Hard to believe so maybe that's not the right word for it.

If it will be then we will, in a way, be monkey patching natural selection's code.

Testing would also be a pain!

<comment><USER4> > Will bacteria be "programmable" in the same way that a computer is?

> Hard to believe so maybe that's not the right word for it.

They already are.

[https://media.ccc.de/v/24c3-2329-en- change_me](https://media.ccc.de/v/24c3-2329-en-change_me)

That's a video from 2007 talking about how high school student can program bacteria. It's gotten a couple orders of magnitude easier and cheaper in the past decade since that talk.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> In before "genetically modified microbes induce auto immune disease in cancer patients".

<comment><USER6> " _Please don 't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something._"

[https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Especially please don't do this when a thread is new. Threads are remarkably sensitive to initial conditions, and this is a kind of defacement.</comment></comment>


Did Apple just ban location based ads? Foursquare/Gowalla in trouble? - <AUTHOR> http://www.centernetworks.com/iphone-location-based-gps-ads

<comment><USER2> Coming up soon: all ad-supported iPhone apps will include some sort of "weather at your location" feature.

I also wonder if this is a way to strike at Google via AdMob...

</comment><comment><USER3> why will foursquare and gowalla in trouble. Apple's blog clearly says you cant get user location only for ads but if you are using it for other features you can get it and use it anyway you like.

</comment><comment><USER4> I don't think this is a huge deal. There's a difference between writing a location based app that happens to pass along your location information to your ad network when it requests an ad, and writing an app that has nothing to do with location, but pulling location data out of the GPS solely so you can get better targeted advertising rates. The latter may be considered wasteful use of the GPS.

I don't think this has any implications for Foursquare, Gowalla, or any of the other half dozen location based apps out there.

<comment><USER5> I guess. Rules like this just result in a game of whack-a-mole, especially when it directly impacts a developer's bottom line.

Every FB game has a "gifting" feature for the same reason, no matter how incongruous it is. The same will happen here: people will just add lightweight, potentially irrelevant features, that require location.

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> The ads worked just fine today. From my understanding of the article, neither company is in trouble.</comment>


Extroverts may have stronger immune systems - <AUTHOR> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530054.000-extroverts-may-have-stronger-immune-systems.html

<comment><USER2> The conscientious group ("introverts") had lower levels of inflammation, which is an immune response.

Inflammation can also be caused by stress.

It's a lot more plausible that the conscientious group is just less stressed.

The researchers likely invented the immune hypothesis in order to tie in with another study showing the same immune/extrovert link.

</comment><comment><USER3> So shake hands with more people, then lick your hands. What doesn't kill you will make you stronger.

</comment><comment><USER4> Our immune system is adaptive. I find it unbelievable that scientists can draw an un-flawed conclusion considering that our immune system learns over time with the number of exposures.

<comment><USER5> > our immune system learns over time with the number of exposures

> extroverts

QED</comment></comment>


Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth 'Crying In Rage' [in 1967] - <AUTHOR> http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/03/18/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage?ft=1&f=1026 <comment><USER2> This reminds me of an interview with former NASA astronaut (and current director of the Veteran Administration's National Center for Patient Safety) who related that most people don't realize that the astronauts who died in the Challenger accident didn't die in the explosion:

> There are still many people that don't understand that the crew of the > Challenger didn't die until they hit the water. They were all strapped into > their seats in a basically intact crew module; their hearts were still > beating when they hit the water. People think they were blown to > smithereens, but that's not what happened.

[http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/...](http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/06/28/risky- business-james-bagian-nasa-astronaut-turned-patient-safety-expert-on-being- wrong.aspx)

<comment><USER3> I forget where I learned this from, but the astronauts were also very likely to be unconscious very soon after the break up of the shuttle. They died when they hit the water, but they probably weren't conscious. Not that that makes it any better.

<comment><USER4> Some of them may have been conscious: "At least some of the astronauts were likely alive and briefly conscious after the breakup, as three of the four Personal Egress Air Packs (PEAPs) on the flight deck were found to have been activated. Investigators found their remaining unused air supply roughly consistent with the expected consumption during the 2 minute 45 second post- breakup trajectory."

Source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disast...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster#Cause_and_time_of_death)

<comment><USER5> It was mentioned in the MIT OCW 16.885/ESD35J lecture series that they were likely conscious briefly while still ascending, when they turned on those PEAPs, (after the shuttle had disintegrated); but they were later unconscious, because of the high altitude and low pressures the non-airtight cockpit was subjected to.

Source: [http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and- astronautics/16-8...](http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and- astronautics/16-885j-aircraft-systems-engineering-fall-2005/)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> This incident sounded familiar so I pulled my copy of James Bamford's _Puzzle Palace_ [1] (1982) and managed to find it on page 215:

"Another high-priority target for the signal chasers at Karamursel [Turkey] is the Soviet space program. On April 23, 1967, a number of analysts were routinely copying the return of Soyuz I, bringing Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov back from twenty-six hours in space, when problems suddenly developed on re-entry. Recalled one of the intercept operators:

'They couldn't get the chute that slowed his craft down in re-entry to work. They knew what the problem was for about two hours...and were fighting to correct it. It was all in Russian, of course, but we taped it and listened to it a couple of times afterward. Kosygin called him personally. They had a video-phone conversation. Kosygin was crying. He told him he was a hero and that he had made the greatest achievement in Russian history, that they were proud, and that he'd be remembered. The guy's wife got on too. They talked for a while. He told her how to handle their affairs and what to do with the kids. It was pretty awful. Toward the last few minutes he began falling apart, saying, "I don't want to die, you've got to do something." Then there was just a scream as he died. I guess he was incinerated.'"

[1] [http://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Palace-National-Intelligence- Or...](http://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Palace-National-Intelligence- Organization/dp/0140067485/)

</comment><comment><USER7> The bit about the translation is misleading. I speak russian.

The audio is very fuzzy, but I think at the end he says something that roughly translates to "the former cosmonaut is dead"

Before that he says something about the people, I can't make out anything about heat or temperature. Apparently the people on the ground couldn't either, which is why you hear "mission control" asking him to repeat himself. I couldn't make out the word they asked him to repeat either.

<comment><USER8> i am russian and i bothered to press the play button. what i heard was an obvious, poorly composed fake.

the calm and proud voice repeats about Komarov making the way to Comminism for the whole mankind [edit: apparently Komarov himself in official radio appeal]. this is intersected with some voices that could not be understood.

the way to communism mantra is obviously copy-pasted several times, some times partially, just to make some russian soudns, like this: "Komarov prokladyvaet put k Kommunizmu!" - "phshphs-bla!-bla!" - "-mmunizmu!" - pshshsh!blabla! - "prokladyvaet put k Kommunizmu!"

imagine how Russians watch movies where Hollywood tries to show something Russian, labels or written names. mostly it is just a meaningless set of letters. this is also looks like a bullshit that some CIA guys presented to their local Brezhnevs to justify their work

<comment><USER7> So you heard the part I couldn't make out.

I think I made out the entire thing, but I was fuzzy on the last word.

I hear: "K narodom nashe rodie, prakldavuyu chilvetchistvu put k Kommunizmu, bifshi cosmonaft umru?"

The first part translates roughly to: to the people of our homeland, I am laying the way for civilization to communism.

The last part to, this former cosmonaut is dead. But I could totally be mishearing that last bit (as the grammar doesn't really work if that is what he's saying).

<comment><USER8> well, i listened to it for the fourth time and hear the voice said:

'привет народам нашей родины, прокладывающей человечеству путь к коммунизму. летчик-космонавт Комаров'

'privet narodam nashey rodiny, prakladyvayushey chelavechestvu put k kamunizmu. lyotchik-kasmonavt Komarov'

which means 'greetings to the peoples of our motherland that makes the way to communism for the mankind. pilot-cosmonaut Komarov'

lyotchik-kosmonaut is russian cosmonauts' title.

well, first i thought it's some official radio speaker, now i admit that it's Komarov himself before or during the flight. nothing like crying.

and, this appeal is copy-pasted two times and one time pasted partially, '-munizmu', which indicates the fake.

the radio talk in between is illegible for me

<comment><USER7> Never mind you are totally right. Definitely nothing about crying or killed. He says his name very quickly which was throwing me off.

I don't know if its fake, to me it almost sounds like the the people on the radio are repeating what he is saying or asking him to repeat something, but one can be fairly confident that the people writing the article misunderstood what was being said.

<comment><USER8> > He says his name very quickly which was throwing me off.

surely i know that it's impossible to 'parse' words out of the speech without talking to language speakers all the time. when English speak i understand a half! actually I (as many Russians) appreciate that you know Russian and tried to understand what he was saying. i guess it's seldom for a native English- speaker to learn a language out of the list of Spanish and French :) Russian is the hardest of the wide spread Indo-European languages, i think, due to all it's flexes and stems, which you know ('umru'='i will die', etc), so you're cool :)

> the people writing the article misunderstood what was being said.

AND there _might_ be something in that illegible part of the compilation, deciphered with the special techniques. for the show it was complied with the clear part.

actually i dont know what would i cry in this situation, definitely wouldnt greet the nation etc :)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> This reminds me of my favorite conspiracy theory, The Lost Cosmonauts, which proposes that Yuri Gagarin was the first man to _survive_ space travel.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts>

<comment><USER10> There was a post somewhere - I can't find it now - which stated that the Soviets were to send a cosmonaut to Mars, knowing full well he'd just wander around and die with no way to come back. They had volunteers.

Then the Berlin wall fell and it ceased to be an important pursuit to conquer the stars.

<comment><USER11> Doubtful. Wouldn't be much of an achievement to be able to say: "Look, we put a man on the Mars and left him to die there", now would it?

<comment><USER12> I think it would be quite an accomplishment.

<comment><USER8> thank god our (Russian) leaders of that times didnt think the same :)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> This is a chilling story. But such is the plight of man setting out on new frontiers of exploration: from Francisco and Columbus setting out across the seas, to Earhart's one way flight, so too will man flounder in his trek through the stars.

Look: explorers of all elements -- land, air, sea -- undertake their endeavors to accomplish a singular goal: the discovery of the unknown. An uncertainty of one's destination brings with it, therefore, an uncertainty of one's success and therefore of one's survival. And this is a risk that all explorers knowingly and willingly undertake -- it is a condition precedent to being such a brave traveller.

Accordingly, I think to shed so dark and negative a light on the several tragedies during mankind's nascent years of exploration is to miss the point and indeed forsake the very thing for which those pioneers lived: the furthering of our race, the advancement of our species.

Rather than mourn the loss of our fellow adventurers in their quest into the unknown, we should instead celebrate them, not only for their accomplishments in life, but additionally and especially in death.

After all, but for their risks, but for their selfless ability to consciously put their lives on the line both for their countries -- and indeed for our species as a whole -- and, certainly, to satisfy their thirst for knowledge and discovery, we would still be travelling the European continent on horseback.

As indecent as it may sound, I am certain our great explorers would be disappointed to see us saddened by their loss, and that they would far rather their memories be praised with all the pomp and circumstance worthy of their triumphant accomplishments, failures and successes alike.

<comment><USER14> Nice rhetoric, but exploration looks like setting out westward with three fairly decent ships to see if you can find something - it doesn't look like giving a man a canoe and telling him to paddle that way, or else.

<comment><USER13> First, I am in no way justifying the inexcusable actions and decisions that lead to this tragic conclusion.*

But is it really that different to the early years of sea exploration? I mean let's face it: certain -- most? -- of the ships were known to be marginally seaworthy at best, and if it wasn't the ship that cost seamen their lives, it was surely the inadequate food, water, and supplies that precluded many from a safe return.

My point is that either way, many, many adventurers knowingly and willingly embarked on their journeys to an all but certain doom. That this particular and more recent seemingly forced excursion happend as recently as the 20th century and under the circumstances described of course renders it more palpably disturbing, I agree, but I would suggest it is different only in degree, not in kind.

Again- I'm in no way intending to minimize this tragedy or others like it.* I'm just suggesting that for the sake of these great explorers' memories, it is better to remember them fondly rather than wallow in melancholic nostalgia of their (indisputably) unjust loss.

* I understand this particular tragedy is unique in that the cosmonaut knew with virtual certainty that he was being sent to his death. My focus here is not whether he knew death was certain, but the greater context in which this certainty existed, i.e., the inherently dangerous activity of (space) exploration which is "inherently dangerous" precisely because such deaths are foreseeable and indeed statistically likely to occur, just or unjust alike.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> As posted at <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2342058> four hours ago.

</comment><comment><USER16> There is something touching in these stories. Not sure if it's something that these guys "did that no one knew about" or the "brotherhood" or ... but .. Something I think was brave.

I'm sure some people disagree, but I would have left a vodka glass on this guy's grave. For sure! Spasibo!

<comment><USER17> For me it is because he did it for his friend. If he didn't go, Gagarin would have been sent.

</comment></comment><comment><USER18> Just one comment , the book is not new but from 1998 . This is just softcover release.

</comment><comment><USER19> This analysis [1] pours cold water on the CIA's interpretation of Komarov's transmissions. It's an interesting read, regardless.

[1] <http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/Soyuz1Land/Soyanaly.htm>

</comment><comment><USER20> Be sure to click through to the Amazon page for this recording... for the cover art and "album title".

[http://www.amazon.com/Sojuz-Death-Komarov-During-Re- Entry/dp...](http://www.amazon.com/Sojuz-Death-Komarov-During-Re- Entry/dp/B002SHRCYU)

</comment><comment><USER21> It's the most link-batish title I've seen in weeks. Adding date would be appropriate.

<comment><USER22> I doubt many people are reading that title as breaking news!

<comment><USER21> Well, when I saw that title linked to npr.org my first though was that ISS return mission failed.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> Reminds me of the article I read about a couple Italian kids listening in on the Soviet's [lost] space missions:

<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2342986>

Not sure how much they sensationalized their efforts but quite interesting look into the history nonetheless.

<comment><USER24> this is a great story. whether it's fact or fiction, it's riveting

</comment></comment><comment><USER25> I know this is probably inappropriate, but I've googled his wife out of interest, to see if USSR took good care of her, this is what I've found [http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/valentina-Komarov/131556909...](http://en- gb.facebook.com/people/valentina-Komarov/1315569098)

<comment><USER26> In Soviet Russia, duckface does you!

</comment></comment><comment><USER27> Fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> and here's Ivanovich(middle name), in his rocketship, spinning helplessly up above the earth, and though his heart is splintered, all the girls of winter, are buried in their coats anonymous....

</comment><comment><USER28> This is on par with "Alien Autopsy" and 9/11 conspiracies. That said, it invokes the "crazy Russikies" stereotype, so it must be true.

<comment><USER29>
      > This is on par with "Alien Autopsy" and 9/11 conspiracies.

What is it about this that is so unbelievable? That there was political pressure from the top that this flight 'had to happen no matter what?'

      > That said, it invokes the "crazy Russikies" stereotype,
      > so it must be true.

What is the 'crazy Russikies [sic]' stereotype, and how does this invoke it?</comment></comment>


Mondialism.com – Towards a single government for planet Earth - <AUTHOR> http://www.mondialism.com <comment><USER2> And the number of the beast was six hundred and sixty-six.</comment>


Ask HN: Presumably you are now cloning Pokemon Go "with a twist"? - <AUTHOR> So of course your big new idea is to do something very much like Pokemon Go but with some difference or twist.<p>What's your clone plan? <comment><USER2> Well, a friend and I have been toying with an idea since quite a while before Pokemon Go released. Now we're looking at that idea with some chagrin, recognizing it would be seen as a copycat idea.

</comment><comment><USER3> I have a similar idea that I could easily share in a niche I could be considered an influencer. The problem is obviously I don't own any rights so I can't do nothing.</comment>


Mandrill Planned Downtime – email sent or scheduled during downtime will be lost - <AUTHOR> https://mailchimp.com/planned-mandrill-outage/ <comment><USER2> They probably need to finally upgrade those windows machines :p</comment>


Is it futile to un-Google? - <AUTHOR> http://tsangiotis.com/is-it-futile-to-un-google <comment><USER2> No it's not futile. Every little bit helps.

I switched from google search to duckduckgo. I still hit an occasional search on google but that's a percentile of the searches they got from me before that decision.

I host my own mail server. Yes I still have that gmail account for stuff that are not important enough to migrate and look it up from time to time but the majority of my personal email traffic now goes through my own server. They still get some of my mail if the recipient is a gmail account but guess what? It's not all of my mail.

I don't host files on Dropbox or the Google drive. I have my own owncloud server on the same box as the mail server.

I host my own jabber server for real time chat - mostly with my wife as a lot of people no longer use anything except google/facebook chats. I talk on IRC with tech friends/work, jabber for personal stuff and once in a blue moon I open up that g+ chat to check if someone wanted something from me.

I do my backups on tarsnap, feels great.

I run Linux for my work machine and OpenBSD for my private machine.

I do have an Android phone but I essentially stopped carrying it with me everywhere. I hate being a slave of the phone, no longer have a mobile data plan and I take the phone with me only when I really need to be reached.

Does Google know a lot about me? Yes. Are they still learning more from people I communicate with? Yes. The point is, they are getting less information. I already noticed a large quality drop in the accuracy of google searches/youtube recommendations for my account.

Side effect from all of this is that people in my close circle of friends tend to pick up some of the habits (duckduckgo & other small bits). You don't take down a giant with one stroke, you cut it up piece by piece.

<comment><USER3> Aren't you worried about your data security? Yep, you've great skills but in the end, ports are open and software needs to be trusted (although it cannot really be trusted). Should I really expose an ownCloud installation to the Internet?

<comment><USER2> Yes I am worried, and not extremely happy about ownCloud. I was thinking about limiting access to it to my home IP but that limits the usability of sharing a link to some pictures etc with friends.

Don't get me wrong. The whole setup is both a burden & a liability as suddenly I am responsible for stuff that was done for me (security upgrades, proper configuration, monitoring, backups). That's the price I decided to pay for the ability to learn and control my own privacy. I may wake up to a hacked server - that's true. On the other hand I could wakeup to Google banning my account, then what?

<comment><USER3> OK, thanks, I like your mindset!

I sometimes envy my friends who simply don't care because they don't know … and are happy as long as Gmail and iCloud are running.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> Approaching the "to google or not to google" question is impossible without stating your _casus belli_.

If you care about opsec, there are many reasons why you _would want_ to use google services: e.g. a hostile actor will have an extremely hard time stealing your emails from Gmail while there's a might higher chance you fucked up a config on your self-hosted setup. Usually, as always, it comes down to smart compartmentalization and using the right tool for the job.

Personally, the ethical perspective is a much stronger reason why to stray away from data behemoths like Google and Facebook. First of all I believe the "usefullness" of many of these services is over-exaggerated: Facebook noawadays is more of a brainwashing service to expose you to "content" that does nothing more than dull your mind and keep you mindlessly scrolling and endless stream of irrelevant advertisements. But even if this isn't the case for all online services, some come at a price I am personally not willing to pay.

We are entering an era of digital slavery where our entire lives are managed by data monopolies that are bound by no rules other than those they create for themselves. I don't care how convenient these commercial services are, if the price is giving up the sovereignty of my data, and the core liberties of my human existence. I make a conscious choice to not be part of this system, and we will all have to face this choice sooner or later.

For more on this topic, I highly suggest Aral Balkan's talk from re:publica this year [1].

[1] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh8supIUj6c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh8supIUj6c)

<comment><USER5> Useful to you != useful to others. That kind of generalization does no good.

These companies don't have billions of users because they produce nothing of value.

If that value exchange doesn't work for you, just stop using it. But these strange posts about "slavery" and "liberties" just seem out of place. It's a corporation, like any other. What are you expecting?

<comment><USER6> Your second sentence isn't strictly shown to be true. Heroin has millions of users, but would you argue it provides value to people's lives?

<comment><USER5> If you're going to bring it down to that kind of strange technicality then yes - those people are using it because it provides them value in whatever form.

It's not up to you to judge what that value is and whether you think it's good for them.

<comment><USER7> This is just playing games with microeconomic terms. However you choose to define "value", using heroin is self-destructive and usually (always?) irrational. If you choose to include that kind of behavior in your definition of value then the word loses most of its useful connotations.

<comment><USER5> No it doesn't - because that's the definition of "value". Anything beyond that is your subjective interpretation.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> I have a dream: I would like to have all the "cloud" services: Gmail, Dropbox, Google Docs, online photo gallery, video streaming, etc. And I would like to have them as downloadable software packages, so that I could buy my own domain, set up my MacMini as a server and have all of the above services hosted on the server I own and have full controll of. Do you think that's possible to do ?

<comment><USER9> There are some steps in that direction. Two projects I know of:

\- [https://sandstorm.io/](https://sandstorm.io/)

\- [http://maidsafe.net/](http://maidsafe.net/)

I think I've seen some other projects but forgot to bookmark them (or maybe I did but forgot to tag the bookmark...). Sorry.

Added: sadly, all those projects are about software packaging with a single- click installers. I haven't ever seen a project that'd strive to have installation and configuration recipes written in some configuration management language using literate programming techniques, so the recipe would act not as a mere set of instructions to the machine, but - _primarily_ \- as an article to the user, explaining what's going on, why it's so and where to tweak the knobs. Like those "set up your own server" blog posts on steroids, and with a "not interested in details, just do this" button slapped at the top.

<comment><USER10> I would add Cozy Cloud : [https://cozy.io/en/](https://cozy.io/en/)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> I switched from gmail to Fastmail ([http://www.fastmail.com](http://www.fastmail.com)) two years ago mostly because I don't want to feed the monster. Surprisingly, in many ways, the move was a step up in usability, I was prepared to scarify some comfort, but it turned out that I didn't had to.

Fastmail offers everything I need, great mail client, calander, contacts, notes, great app for both Android and iOS

I also got my family accounts on Fastmail, we ended up creating a family account so we can share folders, calenders, contacts etc.

yes, it costs money, but I think its worth it.

*) I'm not affiliated with Fastmail in anyway, just think the service provided is great.

<comment><USER12> So instead of Google, fastmail have all of your email. Big improvement ... I guess.

<comment><USER13> Fastmail doesn't peak into your emails like Google does with gmail. That is a big improvement.

<comment><USER14> How do you know?

<comment><USER15> He obviously doesn't know because he's wrong. Fastmail still analyzes mail for spam and indexes them for search, among other text processing.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> I kind of found a sweet spot where I'm using a European-based email service. I created my Google account with it, but I'm not really using it constantly (just to comment on YouTube videos now and then and use Google+ like once a week). I'm also using Google's Docs occasionally, but just to share the .pdf docs with people I interviewed to show them a preview of the article that is going to be public in a couple of days anyway. I'm using Facebook like once per week (I don't have it installed on my phone), I don't own any Apple products, I'm using OpenStreetMap instead of Google's Maps, I'm using DuckDuckGo instead of Google's search (and I love it). On my laptop, I'm using a Linux-based operating system. I'm perfectly happy. It's a perfect privacy/usability combination for me.

I changed a lot of my habits since Snowden came out and I am perfectly happy with it.

<comment><USER17> > I'm using OpenStreetMap instead of Google's Maps

Do you have anything that provides turn-by-turn navigation and live traffic?

<comment><USER18> You could try Here Maps, they've been bought by german car makers and doubt they need to mine data.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER19> A lot of people are recommending ownCloud.

After spending some time with ownCloud and pouring through it, I'll take the relatively superior safety, security, and privacy of Google. I encourage any doubters to examine the ownCloud source[1] and come to their own conclusions.

Migrate away from Google where you can, but do it in small steps with rational, informed decisions.

1\. To head off the obvious response of "Then submit patches, make it better!": That's akin to walking into a home fraught by fire and mentioning the pictures could use a little dusting.

<comment><USER20> I don't understand how you could possibly claim the Google Drive is in any way more secure than OwnCloud. Proprietary software hosted in the cloud is inherently unsafe, insecure, and not private. OwnCloud may not be the best piece of software, but it can be audited by anyone and hosted on computers that you trust. You have no idea if Google Drive is secure because it is impossible for you audit it.

<comment><USER21> I use OwnCloud but I'm hopeful a better version in something like Python emerges soon.

Have to agree with OP (who did audit the code as you suggest). PHP OwnCloud feels a bit like a janky duck taped mess. I'm always a bit surprised it works and it doesn't make me feel a whole lot more secure than using a provider like MS, Dropbox or Google. I just like running my own stuff which is why I use it.

<comment><USER22> _> I use OwnCloud but I'm hopeful a better version in something like Python emerges soon._

The web interface of Seafile ([https://github.com/haiwen/seafile](https://github.com/haiwen/seafile)) is written in Python/Django. The server is C, though.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> > _51% of his emails passed through Google servers_

I was playing with an idea of an "off-Google email delivery" for Gmail recipients. Basically they would get a short note saying that a reply to your email is available, please pick it up [here], with a link leading to a TLS'd page on a non-Google server. The same page would offer them an option of replying to the conversation right there if there's a need to do that.

I'm pretty sure this would piss the hell off some Gmail users, but that'd be exactly the point - to make them at least stop and consider that not everyone's a fan of passing all their communications through Google.

Is there anything like this out there?

<comment><USER24> sound like linkedin, fb or some other messaging platform and equally annoying. e.g. how do i search those messages or list them in threads and sent?

<comment><USER23> You can't. But then why did you assume that I'd be OK with you letting Google to index my replies?

<comment><USER25> Once you send an email to someone, that content is no longer yours. I understand why you might want it to be. But at its core, email is about sending content to another person, and giving them control of what they can do with that content. Ignoring etiquette, there is nothing stopping them from copying it, forwarding it, printing it, publishing it, etc. Indexing it for their own searches is hardly a bigger step beyond what they can already do with any email provider.

<comment><USER23> That was a rhetorical question. Sorry if it wasn't clear.

It was just to show that once you start talking about your own comfort and convenience, it wouldn't hurt to consider if you'd be getting these at the expense of other people. This has nothing to do with etiquette, and pretty much everything with basic egoism. "But how would I search" remark above is a good example of this. One's entitlement for comfortably searching their mail history ends where my entitlement for keeping my replies off Google's radar begins. It always works both ways.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER26> Here is a thought...

Email is supposedly a digital metaphor for snail mail. With snail mail, you receive a letter in your mailbox (which you check every other day), and you take the letter out, process it, and either store it somewhere safe or discard it (POP).

That is how email used to work. At some point things changed so you no longer regularly clear your mailbox, but you just open the letter, read it, and put it back in (IMAP).

Actually, you no longer get the mail in the mailbox. You call the post office and ask them to read the letter to you (webmail).

<comment><USER27> Interesting way to think about it, but before POP, I think the snail mail analogy would be something like: you'd drive to the post office (telnet/log in to the compute terminal), open your letter and read it. Then possibly put it back in your P.O. Box, or put it into a folder that's kept at the post office.

</comment></comment><comment><USER28> It's not futile to un-Google. Every little bit helps. It's not too difficult to use another search engine, to choose a smaller email provider, to set-up Thunderbird with Enigmail, to set-up Owncloud on a server and/or your own NAS.

</comment><comment><USER29> I run my own mail server, use GPG with Enigmail and I'm logged in to Wickr all day.

I also use Orbot, Text Secure and Red Phone on my Mobile.

The problem that I have is that despite talking up these to my peers, no one uses the secure channels. Even friends that created Wickr accounts message me on Facebook.

</comment><comment><USER30> i am probably repeating myself (but these topics repeat themselves too :))

If you are interested in switching away from Google, take a look at [https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign](https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign)

It is ansible playbook to setup most of the stuff you need daily (and extras on top) on own barebone dedicated/vp server. Super easy to get going. (not "Install" button like easy, but nowhere close to pains of setting up mail server, making sure antispam and dkim signing work, etc,etc,etc)

</comment><comment><USER31> Serious pursuit for a technical person probably winds up looking a lit like Stallman's lifestyle...though perhaps with less fame and public purpose.

</comment><comment><USER32> For those who don't google and use many of the 'big' services: Do you also not shop at large retail chains like Target or Walmart? Do you avoid Starbucks? They all collect the information you give them, sell it, analyze it, and figure out how to better get you to buy from them. I'm honestly curious if it's simply an issue about the collection of your data or if it's an issue of what data is collected.

<comment><USER33> The difference is that Tesco only knows about one aspect of my life: grocery shopping. I can handle that and contain the risk.

I don't use coffee shops but if I did they'd only know about my coffee preferences and work patterns.

Google, however, with search, Gmail and Now alone knows _everything_ about the lives of its users. And quite a lot about the lives of non-users with whom they communicate.

</comment></comment><comment><USER34> Question to anyone: how hard it would be to integrate pgp (or pgp-like) thing on browser level? would immediately solve all the headache. let's say:

Special UI for storing private/public pairs in a browser (private key never leaves the PC) special javascript commands (assume some standard here) to invoke native windows which can not be controlled via js. sign, type message, encrypt. confirm this specific message is actually signed by specific person (pretty trivial in terms of coding and bulletproof UI, except for "public identity storage" part which exceptionally hard).

Looks like very simple htmlsomething standard could overturn all the state of modern web privacy.

<comment><USER34> Someone (like gmail) can even do rich text editor for emails and stuff - without compromising security. let's say separate sandbox w/o internet and write access to cookies etc.

load scripts, css, images. show native window (clearly different than anything js can do) with that rich text editor inside. user types message in, system encrypts (and/or signs) the message. regular html page sees the result.

<comment><USER35> There is a Chrome extension that does something like that: [https://github.com/google/end-to-end](https://github.com/google/end-to-end)

Obligatory warning: it's in an alpha state according to the readme, so you shouldn't use it yet for real.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER36> Of course it's futile. The only thing that protects confidentiality is end-to- end zero-knowledge encryption performed in open source code audited by professional cryptographers, with a trusted system for distributing public keys. Using indie or European providers is just window dressing. Your emails will be in plaintext SMTP when they reach NSA fiber taps just like everyone else's.

Running your own server just shifts your trust from Google to DigitalOcean/Linode/AWS or your residential ISP (even less deserving).

I wish we would stop this navel-gazing about which providers to trust and FUCKING ADOPT GPG ALREADY. It's been, what, 15 years?

<comment><USER37> GPG sucks. I use it, I have a smartcard, I did subkeys, etc. I encrypt backups, I log with it to ssh. And it sucks. It sucks so bad, that I don't even know why I am doing it. There are just so many technical glitches, not to mention all the googling, FAQs, manuals that I had to bookmark and constantly refer to, to use it.

</comment></comment><comment><USER38> When the wiretapping scandals started to get more attention, I got really paranoid. I decided to go full gear into privacy mode and the end result was total frustration with poor tools and way more friction than necessary. Then I realized I'd like just _some_ of my stuff to be positively private and I didn't care much about the other 95%. So that's where I focus my attention, much like the author. If I had endless time and money, sure, I would love to have everything super private and secure, but I don't so.. a more pragmatic approach is needed.

</comment><comment><USER39> This fight for privacy reminds me Don Quixote's attack on windmills.

</comment><comment><USER40> No it's not futile.

I've done it (completely Google free). It's actually very easy to do and the comment about inferior UX is indicative of someone who hasn't seriously spent any time researching alternatives.

This article is just the author attemtping to justify to himself his unwillingness to do without Google services.

That's fine, if you want to use Google services you should be able to. Just don't pretend like everyone else is having the same difficulty moving away from them to make yourself feel better.

</comment><comment><USER41> Would a well designed campaign about GPG and how to use it help ? Has anyone ever tried that ?

The more the likes of lavaboom, whiteout or proton mail sprout up from the ground, the more I feel it'd be simpler to teach K9 and GPG to `people' than having them switch over a new service that might or might not survive the next 6 months. At least for E-mail.

<comment><USER28> Enigmail and p≡p are partnering together for developing Enigmail/p≡p [http://pep-project.org/2015-09/s1441611880](http://pep- project.org/2015-09/s1441611880)

</comment></comment><comment><USER42> If you are in the USA, everything you emailed six months ago is open for reading by any government agency without a warrant, without letting you know in any way.

(and if you are not in the usa, just assume it is realtime)

This is why everyone should probably have their own private email server locked down in their home. Postfix can be made pretty secure.

<comment><USER43> One of the nice things about running your own mail server is that _mail you send to other local users does not traverse the Internet_. It's just a local copy operation.

This, of course, requires that everyone use the hosted email client on that server, but it's worth remembering.

Personally, I (and everyone at rsync.net) just use (al)pine, so the hosted email client is very simple (and fast and efficient).

<comment><USER42> What's interesting is if you look at gmail headers, they do indeed route via public IPv6 back to themselves for gmail-to-gmail transactions.

Or at least they log the ipv6 route within their own datacenter, or between datacenters.

So that is up for argument if it is traveling via their own intranet or "the internet".

(at least google uses AES TLS, yahoo still uses RC4)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER44> Eventually one can:

      echo "address=/.google.com/127.0.0.1" >> /etc/dnsmasq.conf

(along with google's other domains)

Note this cant be done with standard /etc/hosts blocking since the hosts file does not support blocking subdomains unless they are explicit.

</comment><comment><USER45> Don't forget the supply side---consider blocking googlebot from crawling your non-commercial content.

A critical mass of google bot boycotters could help tip google search into becoming _so_ blatantly commercial that opinion leaders might finally consider alternatives.

</comment><comment><USER46> > _On the bright side, Snowden notes that the big software companies are doing > steps in the right direction._

I call BS on that.

What are the steps FB, Google, Apple etc have taken "in the right direction".

If anything it's only gonna get worse, what with expanding to the "Internet of Things" and such (not to mention future possible Google and Apple self-driving cars).

<comment><USER47> So, you would believe Snowden's statements on the bad, but not on the optimistic?

<comment><USER46> Yeah, I can be critical on what I believe and don't have to take anybody's word wholesale.

That sais, what I believe are the leaked documents, that haven't really been disputed and if anything were corroborated by tons of subsequent stories.

For the 'optimistic' stuff: Snowden doesn't have access to Google/Apple/FB etc, so what steps he says that they've taken since are the same stuff reported in the media that we too know.

And those steps are nothing to write home about. I see the same shit going on as usual -- only even more so.

<comment><USER47> Good points man. Sorry you feel that way. I'm an ever optimist.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER48> to fully un-Google is not easy, but sites like [http://www.keyamp.com/](http://www.keyamp.com/) can help you watch Youtube videos... these iptables rules can help you block Google (there is probably more efficient ways to write those rules too)...

#!/bin/sh

# /etc/init.d/firewall

IPT="/sbin/iptables"

IPT6="/sbin/ip6tables"

# Block Google

$IPT -A INPUT -s 22.214.171.124/20 -j DROP

$IPT -A INPUT -s 22.214.171.124/19 -j DROP

$IPT -A INPUT -s 184.108.40.206/20 -j DROP

$IPT -A INPUT -s 184.108.40.206/20 -j DROP

$IPT -A INPUT -s 184.108.40.206/18 -j DROP

$IPT -A INPUT -s 220.127.116.11/16 -j DROP

$IPT -A INPUT -s 184.108.40.206/21 -j DROP

$IPT -A INPUT -s 126.96.36.199/16 -j DROP

$IPT -A INPUT -s 126.96.36.199/20 -j DROP

$IPT -A INPUT -s 22.214.171.124/17 -j DROP

$IPT -A INPUT -s 188.8.131.52/19 -j DROP

$IPT -A INPUT -s 18.104.22.168/19 -j DROP

$IPT -A OUTPUT -d 220.127.116.11/20 -j DROP

$IPT -A OUTPUT -d 188.8.131.52/19 -j DROP

$IPT -A OUTPUT -d 220.127.116.11/20 -j DROP

$IPT -A OUTPUT -d 184.108.40.206/20 -j DROP

$IPT -A OUTPUT -d 22.214.171.124/18 -j DROP

$IPT -A OUTPUT -d 18.104.22.168/16 -j DROP

$IPT -A OUTPUT -d 184.108.40.206/21 -j DROP

$IPT -A OUTPUT -d 22.214.171.124/16 -j DROP

$IPT -A OUTPUT -d 18.104.22.168/20 -j DROP

$IPT -A OUTPUT -d 126.96.36.199/17 -j DROP

$IPT -A OUTPUT -d 184.108.40.206/19 -j DROP

$IPT -A OUTPUT -d 22.214.171.124/19 -j DROP

$IPT6 -A INPUT -s 2001:4860:4000::/36 -j DROP

$IPT6 -A INPUT -s 2404:6800:4000::/36 -j DROP

$IPT6 -A INPUT -s 2607:f8b0:4000::/36 -j DROP

$IPT6 -A INPUT -s 2800:3f0:4000::/36 -j DROP

$IPT6 -A INPUT -s 2a00:1450:4000::/36 -j DROP

$IPT6 -A INPUT -s 2c0f:fb50:4000::/36 -j DROP

$IPT6 -A OUTPUT -s 2001:4860:4000::/36 -j DROP

$IPT6 -A OUTPUT -s 2404:6800:4000::/36 -j DROP

$IPT6 -A OUTPUT -s 2607:f8b0:4000::/36 -j DROP

$IPT6 -A OUTPUT -s 2800:3f0:4000::/36 -j DROP

$IPT6 -A OUTPUT -s 2a00:1450:4000::/36 -j DROP

$IPT6 -A OUTPUT -s 2c0f:fb50:4000::/36 -j DROP

<comment><USER48> since I posted this, the proxy started to have issues with youtube... I really wish Google would get split up

</comment></comment><comment><USER49> good</comment>


[1986] Interview with Bill Gates - <AUTHOR> https://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/bill-gates-1986/ <comment><USER2> "GATES: Before I sit down to code something, most of the instructions have already run through my head. It's not all laid out perfectly, and I do find myself making changes, but all the good ideas have occurred to me before I actually write the program. And if there is a bug in the thing, I feel pretty bad, because if there's one bug, it says your mental simulation is imperfect. And once your mental simulation is imperfect, there might be thousands of bugs in the program. I really hate it when I watch some people program and I don't see them thinking."

"INTERVIEWER: Does accumulating experience through the years necessarily make programming easier? GATES: No. I think after the first three or four years, it's pretty cast in concrete whether you're a good programmer or not. ... There's no one at Microsoft who was just kind of mediocre for a couple of years, and then just out of the blue started optimizing everything in sight. I can talk to somebody about a program that he's written and know right away whether he's really a good programmer. If he's really good, he'll have everything at the tip of his tongue. ... To this day, I can go to the blackboard and write out huge slabs of source code from the Microsoft BASIC that I wrote ten years ago."

Think he still holds this sentiment today about what makes a good programmer?</comment>


Cost of moving from NY to SF - eBay Infographic - <AUTHOR> http://visual.ly/how-move

<comment><USER2> An infographic with eBay classifieds displayed prominently comes to the conclusion that it's cheaper to buy/sell on eBay than to move across country? Totally shocking

</sarcasm>

</comment><comment><USER3> Why did this need to be an infographic? The visuals lend nothing to the narrative and ends up being harder to digest!</comment>