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by specialp 13y ago
I think people have the wrong idea viewing a home solely as an investment. It is indeed a form of investment that you get the benefit of living in. Sure if you look at the amount of money I put into a home vs the amount of money I could i
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by specialp 13y ago
Hurricane electric offers free dynDNS, free DNS, and also free IPv6 tunneling. https://dns.he.net/ You can even set up an IPv6 tunnel for a dynamic IP and have it update dynamically.
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by specialp 13y ago
We do have a CAPTCHA too before the block. Basically to get the block you have to really work hard at it. We also do not mind limited robot use for cases like downloading all papers given a search term or author but we do not want people d
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by specialp 13y ago
I work for a (non profit) journal publisher and we do indeed cut off robot downloading but not after one click of a link. We analyze traffic to determine robot downloads. I suspect though that the whole entire university did not get cut o
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by specialp 13y ago
For $299 I can sure buy a lot of lithium ion batteries. There are already many such products out there that are very cheap. 290w/h is 58000 mah at 5v. I can buy a 11,000 mah pack for 29.99 on Amazon and surprise it weighs 1/4 th
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Risks Abound as Reporters Play in Traffic(nytimes.com)
23 points by specialp 13y ago|4 comments
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by specialp 13y ago
Replication is indeed not as advertised and neither is sharding. MongoDB hands off a lot of important details of the replica failover to the drivers which implement them to varying degrees of quality. We had several instances where there
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by specialp 13y ago
I actually used to work as a mechanic at a bowling alley while in college. Bowling is still popular on Long Island where I live but I think the demise of huge money pro bowling comes from 2 different aspects: 1. There are less amateur bow
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Why can't there be a trap door under nuclear reactors in case of meltdown?(physics.stackexchange.com)
7 points by specialp 13y ago|0 comments
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by specialp 13y ago
The whole reason why Whatsapp is majorly successful is that it was the exact opposite of what Facebook is. People could download it, and then their address book was integrated. No ads, no mining your information, no signup. It was not succ
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by specialp 13y ago
Yahoo runs many services that have traffic that most start-ups here would die for. Number one finance site,number one news site, huge fantasy sports, Flickr, Delicious, significant search traffic. People on HN tend to dismiss them but we a
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by specialp 13y ago
Mutually agreeable would be something like this: Comcast-we provide access to 30 million residential customers for you to deliver content to. Level 3: We provide connectivity to Europe over our Apollo cable, connectivity to ..... on and o
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by specialp 13y ago
No it is not that. The internet is largely a collection of privately owned network that has interconnects where networks meet. At that meeting point you can either pay for transit on another network, or agree to settlement free peering if
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by specialp 13y ago
Cogent has had peering disputes not only with consumer ISPs like Comcast, but with nearly every other tier one provider out there. Cogent is known to provide very cheap bandwidth but on the flip side they are also known to not be a mutuall
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by specialp 13y ago
In NY it is a "violation" of the law for most traffic offenses. Technically you can be arrested for any traffic infraction but in practice they give you a ticket. Upon conviction you can be imprisoned for up to 15 days. With viol
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by specialp 13y ago
The reason why they make the news is due to the amount of people who did it wrong by hosting everything in US-EAST1 and not having the ability to deploy to another availability zone. Even data centers have outages that are much longer lasti
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by specialp 13y ago
It does happen to everyone including those hosting their own. What if your transit provider in your colo goes down? What if their UPS goes boom? That is why if you are hosting your own and will lose significant money on downtime you need
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by specialp 13y ago
Verizon may not purposely throttle content but they are certainly uncooperative because they want to be paid from the big bandwidth consumers. This is why Google is trying to make it more transparent to users who is to fault when you can b
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by specialp 13y ago
When I was at Stack Overflow's offices on a tour they said that most developers speak English, but they found that Brazil and Japan had much higher numbers of developers that only spoke their native language. This was about 6 months a
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by specialp 13y ago
I agree with that all as a FIOS customer but one thing that is burning me up is their refusal to CDN with YouTube and Netflix. There are times where YouTube is unusable even with 50Mbit connection. They also are fighting hard in court to h
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by specialp 13y ago
Google is never going to expand nationwide that is not their intent. Right now they cherry picked areas that are not nuts with regulation and have low cost of buildout while having high enough density for a good subscriber base. If the whol
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by specialp 13y ago
Yes my first thought. There is perpetual heavy traffic under there. George Washington bridge is the busiest in the world.
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by specialp 13y ago
While it is true that simple answers get a lot of credit, it is also true that most common questions have simple answers. Sure a bit of Googling may get you the answer but sometimes it takes an experienced user to find a Google answer. Ju
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by specialp 13y ago
It is indeed a marketing gimmick, but if it gets people to give more then that is a good thing. The article you posted is 100% right, and yes in an ideal world everyone would say well I do not need this gimmick, I am going to donate the mo
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by specialp 13y ago
I have been using MongoDB since the beta days but after many replica set/sharding bugs springing up, I am less inclined to use it. That was the major feature we used if for. Addressing this article: -Yes you can make aggregate results
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by specialp 13y ago
I believe one of their goals is to crowd source medical information and possibly sell the results. Right now they have a "23 and We" research program where you can voluntarily opt in. Even if you don't when you go on their s
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by specialp 13y ago
I posted that comment on NYT then submitted this article to HN. I used to work in the medical laboratory business before getting into software development. I do not think 23 and me is going to escape enforcement from the FDA. The comments t
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Anne Wojcicki Speaks Out About the F.D.A. Crackdown on 23andMe(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
36 points by specialp 13y ago|36 comments
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by specialp 13y ago
I have been following Jolla for a long time and have owned n900 and the N9. Yes until they actually sell a phone to a real customer it is not being sold. Vaporware is a bit of a strong word but they have come out with many announcements so
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by specialp 13y ago
That is very fast for something at a huge scale like Gmail. They had someone responsibly disclose the exploit so they fixed it quickly but not so quick as to destabilize Gmail by not properly testing/deploying. Making changes to softw

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