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by dbarlett 11y ago
What will rise up and be the new YC for unconnected 18 year olds? That's the idea behind the Thiel Fellowship [1]. [1] http://www.thielfellowship.org/apply/
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by dbarlett 11y ago
S3 Standard: "Designed for 99.99% availability over a given year" [1] Standard - IA: "Designed for 99.9% availability over a given year" [2] Glacier: "Retrieval jobs typically complete within 3-5 hours." [3] [1
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by dbarlett 11y ago
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10179140
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by dbarlett 11y ago
He also coined the Waffle House Index [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index
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by dbarlett 11y ago
I recently came across a z/VM manual with an unexpectedly humorous XEDIT tutorial: http://imgur.com/vUvY7B7
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by dbarlett 11y ago
Congratulations, you don't suffer from the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect [1]. [1] http://www.patheos.com/blogs/godandthemachine/2014/03/the-ge...
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by dbarlett 11y ago
Cross-Region Replication http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/crr.html
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by dbarlett 11y ago
The term dates back to 19th-century telegraphy [1]. 18 U.S. Code § 3127 [2] defines them specifically: the term “pen register” means a device or process which records or decodes dialing, routing, addressing, or signaling informati
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by dbarlett 11y ago
Mailing chicks via USPS [1] is legal and common: Some animals are mailable under proper conditions. See the specific instructions as noted for the following kinds of animals: * Live bees * Live, day-old poultry
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by dbarlett 11y ago
.an (Netherlands Antilles) is being phased out [1]: The .AN top-level domain for the Netherlands Antilles is no longer eligible for continued delegation, as it is no longer an ISO 3166-1 two-letter code. In accordance with the
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by dbarlett 11y ago
US Standard now provides read-after-write consistency when accessed through the Northern Virginia endpoint [1]. [1] http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#What_data_consistency_model_d...
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by dbarlett 11y ago
The FDIC has long recommended [1] mandatory vacation blocks as a fraud-detection tool: It is the FDIC's goal that all banks have a vacation policy which provides that active officers and employees be absent from their duties
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by dbarlett 11y ago
At a hackathon back in 2013, someone mentioned analyzing Medicare claim data to find impossible or improbable scenarios, like a doctor performing two lengthy procedures on the same day at hospitals 500 miles apart.
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by dbarlett 11y ago
Packet juggling http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/juggling_with_packets.txt
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by dbarlett 11y ago
I have a password file encrypted with key that has been split into five shares using Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme [1]. I printed out the shares, instructions, and file URL and hand delivered them to five trusted individuals in differ
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by dbarlett 11y ago
https://www.deadmansswitch.net/
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by dbarlett 11y ago
GitHub [1] and Bitbucket [2] do that. [1] https://help.github.com/articles/closing-issues-via-commit-m... [2] https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Resolve+i...
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by dbarlett 11y ago
telnet rainmaker.wunderground.com
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by dbarlett 12y ago
https://console.aws.amazon.com/machinelearning/home?region=u...
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by dbarlett 12y ago
One of the most commonly invoked takedowns of the ever-increasing and mind-blowing valuation levels the company has achieved — $40 billion at last count — is this: "Investors are valuing Uber as if it's big
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by dbarlett 12y ago
Etsy built a tool to log CA certs at their network perimeter [1]: During the two months we’ve had CAWatch in operation, we’ve seen only 61 unique CA certificates cross the wire. This accounts for slightly less than 29% of the
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by dbarlett 12y ago
Background on the current Grumman LLV (Long Life Vehicle): http://postalmuseum.si.edu/collections/object-spotlight/llv.... Working video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qahIvBF3d7g
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by dbarlett 12y ago
There's an old joke that AT&T was really a billing company that happened to offer phone service. You could say the same thing about AWS.
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by dbarlett 12y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908463
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by dbarlett 12y ago
This is a very slanted piece. Read the original Trac ticket [1] instead. Arciszewski's original patch wasn't merged because it was overly broad, lacked unit tests, and had whitespace problems. He also started emailing one of the l
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by dbarlett 12y ago
Some you've probably heard of: * Etsy https://www.etsy.com/about/ * Patagonia http://www.patagonia.com/us/patagonia.go?assetid=68413 * Seventh Generation http://www.seventhgenerati
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by dbarlett 12y ago
Not to be confused with the 23mm cannon fired from Salyut 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_3#On-board_gun
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by dbarlett 12y ago
"a $600 million computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Services for the Central Intelligence Agency over the past year will begin servicing all 17 agencies that make up the intelligence community." http://www.theatlant
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by dbarlett 12y ago
You can also configure HA NAT with an ICMP heartbeat: https://aws.amazon.com/articles/2781451301784570
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by dbarlett 12y ago
This is significantly more optimistic than Dropbox's zxcvbn [1]: Password hsimp zxcvbn qwER43@! 3 days 3 hours Tr0ub4dour&3 344 thousand years

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