News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

biturd

Re:Startups Can’t Manufacture Like Apple Does (2014) on Saturday May 28, 2016 @05:56AM (#11791113)
Have you looked at Really Right Stuff and Kirk Enterprises, they are machining the parts you are making, basically a sick release plate. But they are now ubiquitous enough that I would hate to see yet another quick release style. Never been a fan of the large ManFrotto/Bogen style. Take a look at the two aforementioned, I think they take a cue from Arca/Swiss, and are some of the nicest designs in quick releases that I have seen.
If I read correctly, this was staged out on a single core user machine, then pushed out to an Amazon 16 core machine. Not the most powerful either, and no mention of any tuning. They mentioned looking to hit max scale out by simply adding more machines. Which is why they mention going from 20MG -> 100 -> 1000 not being an issue. In theory, wire speed is their limitation before they have to look at other methods. At 1000MB/s you could start chunking your data into result sets in advance, taking the time it takes a human to read the results visually as always being the bottleneck, and using that time to your advantage, to make the user think the app returns answers instantly all the time. I can't imagine 1000MB/s ever being too slow when you factor in their current dashboard and what it is returning. More complex dashboards and things certainly will need reworking.

Three large internet services share the same SMS short code

I just noticed, as I add SMS 2-factor authentication to my contacts.app to keep them tidy, that 2-factor authentication, which I am using for Facebook ( only on the web, I was tired of their 300 pound app ) and Yahoo!, as well as eBay, all use the same SMS short code for 2-factor authenticating me.Is this safe? This is a security feature, so I would assume you would not want other companies...

( Read More... | 1 comment | 2 points | on HN )
Re:The Mystery of When to Stop Antidepressants on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @02:03AM (#11243916)
I was totally unable to bypass it as well.
Re:The Mystery of When to Stop Antidepressants on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @02:01AM (#11243910)
side effects.
Re:The Mystery of When to Stop Antidepressants on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @02:01AM (#11243908)
Opiates will cure depression, stop it dead in it's tracks for a large majority of people. Good luck finding a Dr to help you down that road though. There is a reason people have an illicit drug of choice, and that is a good indicator of what anti-d's may work best for you.

Opiates, you are screwed, meth, there is Adderal or Ritalin, ( All these probably have had their names changed by now to something else ), if you like cocaine, then an SNRI may be better for you. Anxiety, ideally they lighten up and give you a benzodiazepine, more than likely you will get a med that was initially a smoking cessation medication.

Psychiatry is a black art, I really almost feel unless you are clinically depressed, schizophrenic, etc, if you are going to be a human medicine dart board, don't, be a human health dartboard. Exercise, diet, etc, but be insanely specific, insanely calculative in what you do if you choose the non-med way, as it is just as much a mystery as are the pills.

Re:The Mystery of When to Stop Antidepressants on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @01:53AM (#11243884)
Worse, keep in mind that pill, broke perfect in half, will not have equal amounts of the active or inactive ingredients in each side. Further, if it is a generic, it doesn't even have to have the same mg amount of the active ingredient, only within a margin of something like 90%, which is huge when dealing with these types of meds.
Re:The Mystery of When to Stop Antidepressants on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @01:50AM (#11243880)
Anyone who tells you anti-depressants are not habit forming is a rep for a pharma co. that has not been sued to change their stance on that statement yet.
Re:The Mystery of When to Stop Antidepressants on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @01:49AM (#11243877)
I suspect you need not go that slow. I am NOT a Dr., but have talked at length with mine about this. I won't go into specifics or detail as people need to talk to their Dr.s about these methods.

All meds have a half life, your taper rate will be based on that and your personal metabolism rate, which can and almost always is altered by the meds themselves.

Further confused that a huge percentage of people who suffer depression need no meds and instead need a thyroid test, and not just a "give blood and see where you were at that moment" test, but a real, pain in the butt, complicated test, which I suspect is why they don't give them as a first line test. I was blown away I was never offered one.

As you get down to the lower doses, it gets harder, some you will have to take to a compounding pharmacy, others you can crush and get a good scale and weigh out what milligram or microgram you need; others, if you feel safe doing so can be taken intranasaly via a Flonase sprayer depending on if the med is water soluble and what the mixed shelf life is, which can be hard data to get at times.

I can say there is no worse kick than Effexor, that is for damn sure, and that was only 2-3 weeks in. That had a permanent change on me for life, instilling a bit of timidness in me regarding certain things that happened as I was detoxing.

Good Luck, hope you get off them and manage to learn how to manage your life without them, that is exactly where I am as well. They work, but I don't like the fake happy feeling. They try to tell me that is what my normal is, and I am just not remembering my true normal, that I don't buy, I remember my youth before this all started.

Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux on Monday March 07, 2016 @08:49PM (#11243086)
Is this the same DB that backs the StackOverFlow/Exchange network of sites?
Re:Proselint on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:46PM (#11241987)
Thanks, I feel dumb and I feel it is dumb design. I should've known, and did figure it out eventually, but that won't pass the grandma test, and yes, it is a CLI tool, but so what. If a wanna be developer can't figure it out, the cli tool may have just as many different conventions from other cli tools as well.
And there is now going to be yet another misc 8 cent charge on my bill. Where is my 50 cent rebate for going paperless and saving them the stamp?
Apparently they did, for there mere reason of guilt by association and simple to avoid subpoena. You can't answer what you don't know.
Re:Proselint on Monday March 07, 2016 @06:28AM (#11238301)
Are you claiming you can paste in your own copy, and it will run against it? I see no text area in Chrome or Safari, what am I missing?
Re:Proselint on Monday March 07, 2016 @06:26AM (#11238295)
FYI, seems to work perfectly find in Safari on Mac OS X Desktop.
Re:Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case on Thursday February 25, 2016 @09:02PM (#11179383)
What about other large semi tech companies. Starting with Tesla, but GE, paypal, Asus, Linksys, Cisco, Sun, Bay Networks, Coca-Cola, IBM, FedEx, Starbucks, Procter and Gamble and all medical HIPAA institutions, schools and Universities, McDonalds, Disney, Pixar, Amex, Visa, MasterCard, Costco, Caterpillar, Target, Nike, UPS, USPS, Exxon, Pepsi, Samsung, AT&T, t_mobile, Verizon, Sprint, Oracle, General Mills, Wells Fargo, Investment banking companies, etc.

They all have a stake in tech, and they all would not like to have their tech backed up by a system, that anyone can get into if one person leaks it out. DMV, the police, all those poorly secured systems that are now basically a new RFC that is for publicly routable address space that everyone treats like private address space, but just insert your special gummy bear finger print copy, and bam, you are in.

Get all those companies behind this, and people will think the FBI are crooks and theives.

They actually nickname them "warrant dogs"
Re:Are ants capable of self recognition? [pdf] on Saturday January 16, 2016 @08:50PM (#10917912)
I am not a scientist of any field, but the above sort of made me think twice. They used a mirror. I would think, just by virtue of the ant seeing something in a mirror and being able to deduce "hey, that is me, there is something up with my swag here, I better freshen up a bit". That ant not only determined based on the looks of others, compared it to himself in a reflection, and made the decision it was wrong enough to attempt to remove it. Can I further think they can tell the difference from say, an "ant birthmark" and just paint? If so, I am pretty shocked at just how self aware they appear to be.
Re:Candy Japan 2015 Year in Review on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @08:33PM (#10748866)
I'm curious, why not use Stripe? I have heard nothing but good about them, and since you are willing to use Pay-Pal, I am assuming you are willing to use other 3rd party processors.

If you have your own merchant account and have implemented the code by hand or through a library, you pay all sorts of fees, sign up fee, fraud chargeback fees, percentage of charge, statement fee, monthly fee, etc. Both Strip and Square offer simple integrations, simpler than Pay-Pal IMHO, and I assume they have the capacity to deal with fraud better.

Re:LogMeIn acquires Lastpass on Friday October 09, 2015 @02:48PM (#10362443)
It's gotten a lot better, have you used the iOS9 app yet? Or I would imagine the Android app, their latest update on iOS is pretty good. While you are still using their app and spinning up a browser inside it, it doesn't feel that way anymore, and this is coming from someone suffering the pains of using this on an iPhone 4S.
Re:Show HN: Download any song without knowing its name on Thursday October 08, 2015 @03:57PM (#10355670)
After a bunch of mess getting it installed on Mac OS X, I get it to find a song, which is a bit of trouble in and of itself, and am then stuck with this error: sh: youtube-dl: command not found
Also, this does not look too good for level 3 either, at least, not at first glance and my understanding of how to interpret the results.

http://www.dslreports.com/routerwatch/ae-4-90.edge1.SanJose3...

Ask HN: Net Ops, what's a customer to do – years of packet loss at Level 3

This has literally been going on for over a year, I can tell Comcast, but it is like talking into a black hole.Traces from me, near always, look about like this: http://pastebin.com/81dvXj0vTwo offenders are always Level 3, always 60% loss or more:ae-4-90.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net te-11-0-2.edge4.Frankfurt1.level3.netThere is still ~4% loss on the first node outside my network. Even the IP...

( Read More... | 3 comments | 3 points | on HN )
as per the notes, I am forwarding this error message on:

404 Not Found The server can not find the requested page:

www.texturequalitypro.com/assets/files/content_files/TextureQualityPro_Large_Sample.jpg?w=250&border=5&txt=this+is+a+test&vib=20 (port 443) Please forward this error screen to www.texturequalitypro.com's WebMaster.

Apache/2.2.29 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.29 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at www.texturequalitypro.com Port 443

Re:Why Docker Is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @01:29PM (#9963141)
>Developing the public mental model of containers is integral to Docker’s success and they’re rightly terrified of damaging it.

I guess you can all call me a moron or close to it, to this day, I don't know what a container is good for.

I'm reading this now: https://www.docker.com/whatisdocker

Is this server level, user level, both? Something else? I saw a Hacker Con video and someone was basically containerizing all their apps so that the underlying OS basically did nothing but run the hardware and containers.

Does this mean, one day, instead of monitoring my installs on Mac OS X to see what files were put where so when something breaks I can find those files? I could simply install to a container, my OS would not be touched, and I could delete the container and be back to a stable state?

Can you even get OS X to run on a container? Would it be a good idea or even feasible to install PhotoShop in a container, or not even possible, as that app tosses stuff all over my OS.

Or, is this more like a different way to do things, but it is still AWS and their AMI's or Digital Ocean or any of the others.

I feel I am completely falling behind and have no idea why I would need one of these. Hell, if I made an iOS app, I have no idea if there are Apple servers you pay them to use for stuff, or if you deploy your own servers, or you use something like AWS, and how does that scale on demand, do you have to build that into your s=infrastructure, or is there a "auto scale as demand dictates" checkbox?

Is AWS, Docker, all the rest, in the end, is this just like in the old days where I would have 42U of rack space, put in a DNS server, put in a few http servers, use this as round robin image load balancers, DB servers, backup DB servers, replication DB servers. And when I needed to grow for heavy demand for a day, that was an issue. I fail to see how you can scale based on demand when a database is involved.

Databases scare me, one thing never talked about... We have git for code, what about databases. How does a dev team work that out? If you need a new field, drop some data, alter a table, add an index, etc. How do you get what you have on your local machine in test out to live? How is every little database change tracked and rolled back if need be. How do the DBA guys communicate with the coders to make sure a name change to a table gets updated in the code. Is there git for postgres and others?

All this made sense to me 5 yeas ago when the cloud was called the internet and email, ftp, http, etc were all part of the "cloud" or as I call it "the internet". But now, things are confusing, wrapped up in terms like "cloud" that make no sense to me. I have been, as we all have been, using "the cloud" for over a decade, the first time I logged into a slip account and got on some gopher server or similar, that was cloud to me and I believe it still is. POP email is cloud, the internet is cloud. It is now just convoluted to the developer so end users understand something that really only developers need to understand. Am I making the same mistake with containers, and they are nothing special and have been around for ages like the cloud and it is just a buzzword now? Apple has sandboxing and something called containers in their OS, is this similar in principle?

Auto makers don't burden their end users with engine shop talk, nor dumb it down for them into simple terms, but we seem to with tech. This should be it's own post but I just kinda got on a roll, sorry.

Does box have a local drive filesystem like dropbox? It looked like you had to fire up an app every time you wanted to use it for every youtube video I was looking at.

Hesitant to install all these as tests since they seem to litter my system with some rather deep stuff, that not done right, can and will eventually cause you trouble.

Anyone know of a simple way to just mount Amazon S3 as a drive? Or is that not possible with the way they name folders having to be globally unique; unless that is only the top level, or in this case, the drive mount point name.

Ask HN: Experience with a paperless system for auto-downloading and bills

Hello, I have been looking at services that download my monthly bank, credit card, and other bills down automatically.I tried this 6 months ago, and it was no where near ready. Today, I learned of https://filethis.comIt supports most of the cloud storage please, but I am actively trying to move away from the cloud; Especially for financial data.I just went through all 400+ logins of mine,...

( Read More... | no comments | on HN )

Ask HN: Serious alternatives to dropbox that work like dropbox

I want to top using DropBox, they have the more horrible support, completely lie about bandwidth usage, and close accounts without reason.So I started looking for alternatives. So any of them work with the local drive on your computer philosophy? I don't want to fire up and app and move files into it. That takes too long. I would like something like DropBox, that charges a fair price, gives...

( Read More... | 5 comments | 3 points | on HN )

[Ask JM] Considering building my own DB, very specialized, and idea

I am a lowly developer, used to to back end web development and network management, then the internet changed and everyone has their own little piece the dev pie and my brain can't keep up.I have nn idea to make a database, a pure key value store, they key can be up to 63 characters, though possibly double that. The value can be up to 256 characteers. It will be redundant, load balanced, and...

( Read More... | no comments | on HN )
Maybe we are not born this way, and it is our life and work experiences that make our faces that way. There is the obvious, construction worker, out in the sun, their face it going to get weathered and a more "hard" looking individual will come out. And perhaps he got into construction as a result of somewhat challenging life, which made him frown all the time so he got frown lines, which makes a person look a certain way, even distrusting.

Many things can influence how we look. And from this article it seems the markers are very subtle. I would almost expect to see people getting minor cosmetic surgery, where some lines are removed, some accentuated, an eyebrow tuck here, an eye pull there, a lip push here, a wrinkle added there.

All these are minimal invasive compared to full on look altering cosmetic surgery. We just have to figure out what to polish and what to prematurely age and distress.

Older »